One of the funnest parades is taking place this Saturday in Bellport on Main Street when the @bellport_chamber, #BellportVillage and #BellportFireDepartment kicks off the Easter Bonnet Crazy Hat Parade, led by the Bellport Antique Fire Truck and Easter Bunny at noon. Everyone marches over to the gazebo for prizes and the hats are as good […]
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#BellportVillage’s Environmental Committee set the stage for those who want to help the environment with its four speakers who recently spoke about the importance of native plants, what they do, how residents can aid nature by reducing their lawn space and how to nurture bees and birds with plants that encourage their survival. The one-hour […]
Uh oh! The Body mansion is rife with sinister doings. Warning. Pay attention. To who might do it, who will do it and, well, who did it. The fast-paced murder mystery, “Clue,” which debuted last Friday at @TheGateway, pushes out the laughs nonstop between people getting knocked off or about to be. Six guests invited […]
Hey theater fans! Catch the incomparable two-time Emmy award and Golden Globe winning actress #SallyStruthers and the ebullient @jamestaylorodom of “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” debuting “Clue” at @the_gateway in #Bellport starting this Friday, March 17 to April 15. This comedy murder mystery that takes place in an elegant, but creepy mansion has […]
Joseph Varsalona’s video of my book talk with Isabella Rossellini (#MyYearWiththeItalianGirl) at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society is now up on my website and is also a #YouTube video. Isabella did a wonderful, thoughtful interview, which I am grateful for, that encompasses the writing process, character development, how the book evolved and some of the locals […]
Applause for Legislator Dominick Thorne and Post-Morrow vice president Tom Williams for collaborating on the 14-acre Bianchi/Weiss Superfund Site in #EastPatchogue that is now preserved and will be maintained with a trail and native plantings by the Post-Morrow Foundation. This site will not be developed and improvements like a clean up, a new fence, a […]
Join book lovers and lovers of great food as #Brookhaven Free Library Director Jamie Papandrea interviews me about my book, “My Year With the Italian Girl,” at Butera’s Restaurant of #Sayville. #LindaLeuzzi #MyYearWithTheItalianGirl Available on @amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Year-Italian-Girl-Linda-Leuzzi/dp/B0B7XHN93Z
Ella B. McLean’s father, Noah Brown, was not a slave. He owned land. But her grandfather, Charles Brown, who had purchased property, first in southern #Augusta, Virginia, then over the mountain in 1896 in #Staunton, Virginia, was a former slave who had gained his freedom. Noah Brown drove Black students to school and laid the […]
It was an artists’ night. It was an honorees’ night. It was a night for everyone. The Of Colors A Creative Collaboration, co-founded in 2011 by Tracy Todd Hunter and Courtney Pure, blasted out a jubilant annual celebration showcasing gorgeous Black art from the Long Island Black Artist Association as well as spirited song and […]
Touring interesting celebrity museums from all over the country in your own home is an actuality via St. George Living History Productions. Headed by Medford resident Sal St. George and his son Darren, they started the initiative in 2020 when Covid hit as a way to keep museums alive. You can visit places like the […]