During the years of Prohibition, Long Island was bustling with bootleggers and rum runners, as the waterways provided easy passage for...

TBT - Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston was known for capturing the essence of beautiful spaces through her lens. The wealthy...

Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue - founded in 1908 by Henry Corwin - still exists today as the last remaining duck farm on LI. Sadly there...

The other day I had a letter addressed to Louisa Hargrave incorrectly placed in my PO Box. Turns out her box number is one digit off from...

I was always intrigued by lighthouse life – what the keepers and their families had to endure like isolation, drudgery, extreme weather,...

Shell fishing, specifically oystering, dates back to the mid 1600s on Long Island, really taking hold in the late 1800s. The industry has...

TBT - There’s something about summers on Shelter Island that is undeniably enchanting. Though I’ve never spent a night, we’ve cruised...

August 17, 1909 – The Arlington shipwreck turned into summer blockbuster entertainment for strolling pedestrians on the Long Beach...

TBT- The Jedediah Hawkins House, Jamesport. Captain Jedediah Hawkins was born in Stony Brook in 1837, and began his life at sea at a very...

This is a ferry arriving on Fire Island from Sayville, 1914. To think of the thousands we now transport a day a century later.

Good old-fashioned summer fun on LI. Pre-bathing suit era, which I believe was sometime after 1920 - unless you were in the Olympics.

Triumph and Tragedy Lead to the Birth of Long Island Motor Parkway The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race, tracking a 30-mile course through...

So interesting. Found this photo and brief piece about the tumultuous wave action at the Rockaway beaches and the installation of literal...

Long Island is rooted in potatoes - pun intended. Potato farming on LI dates back to the late 1800s, when Polish and Irish immigrants...

Love the marketing effort behind this embellished map of LI, issued by the LIRR in 1891 to promote real estate on the island. Definitely...

Long Island Motor Parkway, aka Long Island Expressway, 1908. Construction just underway.

The Butler’s Cellar Book, a ledger that records the storage and consumption of the estate’s wine and spirits, tells only part of the tale...

TBT - Came across this story about Roxey the Railroad dog…a cute little pup “adopted” by the Long Island railroad crew circa 1904. He...