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Northport Memories: We Remember the Last Days of '62

A special observance is planned for the 50 year anniversary of the Gwendoline Steers wreck off Eatons Neck.

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Northport Memories: When The Ice Man Was Cool

Texting, sexting, and why my mother used to say that air conditioning was the undoing of America.

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Northport Memories: The Only Thing We Have to Fear...

Thoughts of the boogie man were a world away on a beautiful fall day in 1950. That would change in an instant as we happened upon an old Main St. Victorian home.

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Northport Memories: The Newspaper

I raise my vanilla egg cream in a toast to the old timers who taught us simple values and the importance of paying it forward.

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Northport Memories: Homeless in the Hamptons

The year was 1962 and with spiritual reverence I recall that just for a weekend, we were “Homeless in the Hamptons.”

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Northport Memories: An Unlikely Gift

I was never thought of by my educators (or anyone) as brilliant, or even above average but in my own humble way I've come to realize that I am, after all...gifted.

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Northport Memories: The Northport Movies

The movie theater had raised me from “High Noon” to “Palm Springs Weekend” over 11 years-- when you are growing up in a little village like Northport, that is quite literally a lifetime.

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Northport Memories: Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet

Like Elvis so eloquently sang, "I smell T-r-o-u-b-l-e." And like any other red-blooded American male, I guess I created my share.

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Northport Memories: "The Gladiators"

All the guys wanted to be a Torque Master and all the girls wanted to be with one.

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Northport Memories: Three Feet

A leaky little boat and the hottest summer in memory.

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