Tag: Cold Spring Harbor

Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics w Mark Torres

January 20, 2025
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Newspaper clipping with a black and white photograph of a man with a trim goatee.
Dr. Charles Davenport. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sep 5, 1930.

The science of genetics took a wrong turn in the early 20th century and it ran through Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. Here overlooking a former whaling port, Dr. Charles […]

We Were the Whalers

May 6, 2020
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Small glass bottle with an antique label advertising whale-based sewing machine oil
Northern Light Sperm Sewing Machine Oil from the bottle collection of Mark R. Smith.

We return today to the sea to consider the whale. More specifically, we talk with Brenna McCormick-Thompson of the Whaling Museum and Education Center in Cold Spring Harbor. Brenna is […]