Where Old New York State Newspapers Live On
Our sojourn through the hallowed pages of the Suffolk County News from 1920 hit a speedbump this week when it turned out that no digital copy was available online. To […]
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Suffolk County News, May 14, 1920
We wade once again into the cool stream of the digital past to fish for items from the Suffolk County News of 1920. Today is Friday, May 14th in the […]
Suffolk County News, May 7, 1920
If this is Friday, than it must be 1920! We continue mining the seam of digitzed microfilm out of the New York State Historic Newspapers site, looking at the Suffolk […]
Suffolk County News, April 30, 1920
If it’s Friday and we’re still in self-isolation, then this is another edition of the Suffolk County News, give or take one hundred years. We’re reading through the newspaper as […]
Suffolk County News, April 23, 1920
The latest edition of last century’s Suffolk County News is here, for April 23rd, 1920. We continue easing our home isolation by reading what was going on in our region […]
Suffolk County News, April 16, 1920
We continue our trek through the local news of a century gone by. Today we read the Suffolk County News from April 16, 1920. We find stories of bootleggers, war-torn […]
Suffolk County News, April 9, 1920
We continue our journey through the past, reading our way through the Suffolk County News of one hundred years ago. Today we cover Friday, April 9, 1920. Cars are quickly […]
Suffolk County News, April 2, 1920
We’re using our home isolation to look back – reading issues of the Suffolk County News of 1920 week by week. For April 2, 1920: Al Smith, Fatty Arbuckle, and a cow […]
Suffolk County News, March 26, 1920
We’re using our home isolation to look back – reading issues of the Suffolk County News of 1920 week by week. They had quarantines back then too, it turns out, […]
We Bought a Newspaper
Mary Lou Cohalan and her husband bought the Suffolk County News along with three other couples in the late 1960s. Her resulting career as the first woman editor of […]
The South Side Signal Newspaper
Henry Livingston came to Babylon in 1869 and founded the South Side Signal. He made an immediate splash advocating for Babylon to split from the town of Huntington and went […]
Mother Newsday
Bob Keeler wrote the book on Newsday, a candid history detailing the origin story of Long Island’s original tabloid. Started in 1940 as the “toy” of Alicia Patterson, the paper […]
Out of Bayville, Endlessly Rocking
Bill Bleyer has a knack for finding history – or maybe it finds him. He had front row seats for Woodstock, did battle with Robert Moses, and got tear-gassed at […]
Some Would Even Say It Glows
We return to our conversation with investigative journalist Karl Grossman, picking up his career after the memorable fight against the Fire Island road in the 1960s. For a journalist, what […]
Battling Robert Moses
Karl Grossman has been an investigative reporter on Long Island since the early 1960s. Barely in his twenties, he cut his journalistic teeth at the Babylon Town Leader taking on […]
Warren McDowell and the Fire Island Tide
The summer of 1977 brought Star Wars, blackouts, and the first appearance of The Fire Island Tide. From that first 24-page Memorial Day edition, Warren McDowell’s dream grew to a […]