Charity Robey
Feature Writer and Food Columnist at Shelter Island Reporter
Journalist at Freelance
Writer, editor, food columnist. Cooking, #foodhistory programs @CulinaryHistNY, baking & sourdough bread, farming & agricultural, fishing #shelterisland
Articles
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1 month ago |
northforker.com | Charity Robey
To walk into Freezer #2 at Long Island Ice & Fuel is to step away from the streets of downtown Riverhead and into the presence of a glacier. The temperature is somewhere between 17- and 25-degrees Fahrenheit and there is an astounding amount of ice stacked in the cavernous room. This 125-year-old company can store two million pounds of bagged ice at a time. Freezer Number Two holds about a day’s supply during the busy season.
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1 month ago |
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Charity Robey
June Shatken is the founder of Shelter Island’s newest arts organization, Shelter Island Arts Center (SIAC), where she wants to tap into a creative force of nature. “There’s some energy that happens when you’re in a group under the leadership of a qualified teacher,” she said.
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1 month ago |
northforker.com | Charity Robey
At the end of Main Street in Greenport, so close to the water that you could step out the door and into a boat, sits Preston’s Chandlery as it has for 145 years. While half the town shutters in the offseason, Preston’s is open all year long, every day of the week.
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2 months ago |
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Charity Robey
Benjamin Reyes grew up in Puebla, Mexico, and has been drinking the best hot chocolate since he was a baby. “My mother told me that I didn’t like milk from her breast, so I always had hot chocolate,” he said. “It was like mother’s milk to me.”Mr. Reyes makes his family recipe at Stars Café in the Heights. It’s truly a treat worthy of Valentine’s Day, made with love and chocolate.
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2 months ago |
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Charity Robey
Here’s another chapter in our continuing series looking at the daily lives of Island institutions. At 7:30 a.m. on a winter January morning, you could walk down the middle of Bridge Street without encountering a soul. But just up the way, the Shelter Island School is already a beehive of activity. There, a few hundred people of all ages gather to teach, to learn and to support the people teaching and learning. Here’s a day in the life of Shelter Island’s school on January 31, 2025.
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Charity’s Column: Sailing to Freedom #FrederickDouglass https://t.co/ZqwZo9EQuM via @thesuffolktimes
A Walk in the Woods: Art and nature converge at Sylvester Manor’s new sculpture exhibit https://t.co/ujDuRNKJkc via @northforker1
Daily Update: A Day in the Life: The Shelter Island Havens House Farmer’s Market https://t.co/OSerwVLd1i via @thesuffolktimes