02.14.2024 News Little-known story of Black Riverhead WWII soldier uncovered Years ago, James Pratt became fascinated with the history of the 366th Infantry Regiment—one soldier in particular—and began collecting as much information about the unit as he could. He...
01.12.2024 Community Holocaust survivor shares her story of horror and hope at Riverhead Middle School Four pebbles became a lifeline of hope for a young Marion Blumenthal Lazan during the Holocaust, one of the darkest periods in human history. Ms. Blumenthal Lazan was only...
05.29.2023 Community Guest Column: a war, a wound and two wonders This is the story of my husband, his war wound and two of the most amazing coincidences ever. In the spring of 1944, right out of high school in...
06.06.2019 Columns Wick Column: June 6, 1944 was an extraordinary day June 6, 1944, D-Day, is a day that fundamentally changed history and pointed America, and all of Europe, in an entirely new direction. World War II had gone on...
12.06.2018 North Fork History Project North Fork History Project: Greenport during World War II Cliff Utz Jr. remembers sitting in the back seat of a DeSoto as a 4-year-old on Dec. 7, 1941, when he first heard the news. The car was driving...
12.07.2016 Columns Russell Penny, killed at Pearl Harbor, was Suffolk’s first WWII casualty “The Secretary of War desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Russell M. Penny, was killed in action in defense of his country at Hickham Field,...
06.09.2014 Real Estate Spy house in Wading River helped trick Nazis before D-Day Midway through her speech at the Benson House in Wading River, Suffolk County Historical Society director Kathy Curran became overwhelmed with emotion. She stopped reading her prepared statements, and...
07.28.2013 News How a biologist found WWII-era explosives unearthed by Sandy Gardiners Point Island looked different to coastal biologist Curt Kessler as he walked around the remains of Fort Tyler, a relic of the Spanish-American War. As Mr. Kessler, a...
