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Ice Boating in Bellport, 1963  starstarstarstarstar
I took this picture during a fantastic winter in Bellport.

I was doing physics research at Brookhaven Laboratory. I eventually ended up as a professor ...

Can't Shake the Long Island Accent  starstarstarstarstar
I grew up on Long Island, and lived there for over 30 years. A few years ago I moved to the Midwest, where I am constantly asked about my accent. For some ...

Captain Eddy's  starstarstarstarstar
Wow, what memories that brings back. I grew up in North Seaford and moved away when I was in my twenties back in the late 70's.

One of my friends ...

Life on a Garvey  starstarstarstarstar
As kids growing up on the Great South Bay we lived amongst millionaires; our grandparents were slaves for them. Being from East Islip, Long Island we were ...

I Miss My Bay  starstarstarstarstar
I was born and raised in Bay Shore and I miss MY bay. I miss Sag Harbor, where my Dad’s family entered the US in the late 1890’s and where I still have ...

Montauk Bluff  starstarstarstarstar
The three of us drove slower and slower after two hours of driving East towards Montauk Point on Long Island. The fog was so dense we can see only a few ...

Wrath of the Momma Red Winged Blackbird  starstarstarstarstar
Levittown was a great place to grow up in the 60's on Long Island. (Later on we would move to Massapequa.)

I lived on a street called Clay Lane.
Part ...

Memories of Old Long Island  starstarstarstarstar
I became a Long Islander at Southside Hospital in Bayshore. My earliest memories are of living with my parents and grandparents on North Clinton Avenue,...

Are we doomed? (My Wedding story)  starstarstarstarstar
I have lived on Long Island my entire life (39 years) and have just recently relocated to GA. While I really do like where we are right now, it makes ...

Massapequa Memories  starstarstarstarstar
I graduated from Alfred G. Berner in Massapequa in 1975!!! Moved away from Long Island to another state and married.

I am happy where I live now...well....

Long Island Wedding to Remember  starstarstarstarstar
My favorite Long Island memory is my wedding day back in September, 2003. My wife and I got married in a little church in Westhampton Beach and had our ...

Proud of, and Missing Long Island  starstarstarstarstar
I have lived in 4 other states and two other countries but to this day I will never forget my hometown of Uniondale and growing up on Long Island. The ...

There's No PLace Like Home  starstarstarstarstar
After two years in California, I can truly say that Long Island will always be my home. It is a timeless place with pristine beauty like no other.

People ...

Love the Hudson Valley...But Miss Long Island  starstarstarstarstar
I grew up off St. Mark's Lane, in Islip and have a great affection for my childhood on Long Island.

I have since moved to the mid-Hudson Valley in order ...

Stranded Sailor  starstarstarstarstar
About 1933 I was cruising Huntington Bay in my Dad's Chris-Craft and noticed an old gray-haired man on the shore tugging on a rope which was attached to ...

That's Show Business  starstarstarstarstar
While going to college in the early 1950s, my summer employment was as a toll collector at Jones Beach State Park on the southern shore of Long Island,...

Howdy Long Islanders...  starstarstarstarstar
I was born and raised in West Islip. Spent lots of days (too many) cutting out of school and hitching over to Fire Island. I can just smell the coppertone ...

Top Mental Health Care for Children  starstar
Well this isn't exactly leisure but it's important and located on Long Island.

I'm sharing some information about what is, in my eyes, a top in-patient ...

Steamers  Not rated yet
I was born and brought up on Long Island and one of my fondest memories is a summertime feast of steamers and corn on the cob.

We'd pick up the steamers ...

Pat in Orlando FL  Not rated yet
I remember Zappa Land outside Berner High. Three Streams woods and building a camp fire in a group of 20 or more. Jones Beach was beautiful with the ...

Mark from oak beach  Not rated yet
I was the guy Bob Matherson hired when I was in jr. high to put those Save the Oak Beach Inn stickers on cars. First at OBI South (in Oak Beach) then at ...

Fishing  Not rated yet
I caught a 16 inch blue fish from a dock in Merrick NY using a snapper popper!

Long Island's Last Remaining Wilderness  Not rated yet
Growing up in the country in Maryland, I was a bit of a tomboy, spending many hours alone walking in the woods, exploring and daydreaming. When I arrived ...

Summers Revisited  Not rated yet
When looking at this website and listening to your lament about Labor Day and summer past, I choked up a bit, while thinking of ways to make summer last....

Visitor Stories/Favorites

Atlantique 2005 - A short story by Angela Rizzo using names of boats docked at Atlantique on Labor Day, 2005.

Ron Shaw shares his pictures and memories of Long Island

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