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...
