Editor, @ehstar The East Hampton Star. Co-Director, Plain Sight Project on slavery in the Northeast.
Amagansett, N.Y.
Joined October 2011
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“No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence.” — H.L. Menken
One by me. A close look at Lee Zeldin’s military records. easthamptonstar.com/governme…
filmguide.hamptonsfilmfest.o…. An important film — and national issue — tonight at 7:30. I’ll host a Q&A after the screening.
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Coming up: our co-directors, David Rattray and Donnamarie Barnes, Rev. Dr. Walter Thompson of Calvary Baptist Church, and Rabbi Josh Franklin in a discussion of slavery in the North. June 16 at 6 p.m.
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Several years ago, Bess Rattray flew home from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to see just exactly what her grandfather had brought back from Russia and kept, concealed, with such care since 1922.
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Reflecting on Long Island’s Slave-Owning Past – NBC New York nbcnewyork.com/black-history…
Listen to this one if you can.
New episode! This week we discuss #Thanksgiving in the time of COVID and what it means for the history of the holiday. Listen to Episode 256 now! @pastpunditry @NeilJYoung17 @nataliapetrzela podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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#NSLSII's HXN beamline can image materials down to 10 nanometers.
That’s so small that scientists can see nanomaterials within cell walls, such as the tomato plant cell shown here. go.usa.gov/x7dv4
Donnamarie Barnes and I are speaking about 180 years of slavery on Long Island and the Plain Sight Project on Sept. 10 via the East Hampton Library. eventbrite.com/e/plain-sight…
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Ruth Applehof, the former director of Guild Hall and one of my favorite people, has died of cancer. bit.ly/2UX16zb
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NY Gov. Cuomo has ordered a 100% stay-home order for nonessential workers and businesses. The order excludes pharmacies, grocery stores, and others. Evictions and foreclosures are suspended. The order will take effect on Sunday. Mandatory fines for businesses that do not comply.
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“I’ll be able to walk again,” my friend and fellow EMT Randy Hoffman said (He was paralyzed during a surgery in December). I believe he will and in the meantime we are raising money for him so he focus on getting back on the ambulance! bit.ly/2wAefp3
Another from me:
The Lost Freetown Cemetery.
The location of a burial ground believed to contain the remains of as many as 20 people, some of whom may have been formerly enslaved, has been lost. A single gravestone is a rare clue. easthamptonstar.com/villages…
New from me: Accounts by people of African heritage whose paths crossed Long Island at one time or another during slavery provide glimpses of what their lives were like. They tell a story of brutality, deprivation, and, above all, resistance. bit.ly/31YFQfy
Shem’s story is but one of the thousands that could have been told about people of African heritage in the North but who were scarcely noticed by the tellers of what passed for history. bit.ly/39xzqq4
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If white colonists built the towns that became colonies that became the United States, and if enslaved men, women, and children worked side by side with white colonists, then they too built the towns that became the colonies that became the United States. plainsightproject.org/
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The second in a three-part series after I sat down with Shelley Gilbert, the mother of Thomas Gilbert Jr., who is doing a 30-year term for murdering his father. facebook.com/taylor.k.vecsey…
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“The North never really owned up” for #slavery. - David Rattray, publisher, @EHStar to @AlecBaldwin @WNYC podcast “Here’s the Thing” On #Reparations “Oh hell yeah.”
Re-upping probably my favorite piece (of mine) from 2019.
On the Trail of East Hampton's Early War Dead
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