North Fork Works

Amy Folk, Southold Town historian, talks about the North Fork Project and its goal of naming all the town’s enslaved people, describing the process of finding the enslaved as well as their enslavers. (Broadcast during WPKN‘s Black History Month, February 1, 2023)

Denise Civiletti, journalist and founder of Riverhead Local, talks about starting and running a local digital newspaper as a family business in keeping with her values as a journalist. (WPKN November 2, 2022)

Diana (Dinni) Gordon, political scientist, Greenport resident talks about her book Village of Immigrants, Latinos in an Emerging America (Rutgers University Press, 2015), the story of Latino immigration to Greenport, NY and to small town America. (First broadcast on WPKN, April 6, 2016.  Produced by Tony Ernst.)

Farmer Abra Morawiec talks about the Good Shepherd Conservancy, what it takes to maintain a healthy and diverse poultry flock on her Feisty Acres farm and why “you have to eat them to save them.” (WPKN September 7, 2022) malwarebytes 3.1.2 serial

Beth Young, veteran reporter and owner-founder of East End Beacon news talks about how civic engagement is increasing on the North Fork as an antidote to the pressures of development. (WPKN June 6, 2022).

Fire chief Chip Bancroft talks about the Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) drill to be hosted by the Greenport Fire Department on Saturday, June 4 on the football field at Greenport High School, what it takes to produce an event of this size and its impact on everyone involved. (Broadcast on WPKN June 1, 2022)

Marine scientist Christopher Gobler holds the Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University explains the four “Horsemen of the Apocalypse” stressors affecting the waters and marine systems of Long Island’s bays as well as the Island’s human population. Then, Professor Gobler critically assesses […]

Garrett Cutler of Mattituck spends every day of the year exploring the woods and waters of the North Fork with his dog Gracie. He talks about what he observes and experiences in each season and how he mourns the prospect of losing it all to development. (Broadcast on WPKN radio on April 6, 2022.)

Amy Folk, historian of Southold Town on the North Fork of Long Island’s east end, talks about the North Fork Project and its goal of naming all the town’s enslaved people.  Folk describes the process of finding the enslaved as well as their enslavers, considers how Southold’s residents will respond to the project when it […]

As a special, I have selected four interviews from North Fork Works and Tidings, to honor and celebrate Black History Month: Amy Folk, Southold Town historian, one of the contributors on the North Fork Project’s goal to name all its enslaved people; author Mark Torres’ book documents North Fork’s migrant labor camps; Eleanor Morris Lingo, 95-year old […]

About Hazel

Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…

About Leafages

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Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.