The Long Island History Project
Chris KretzInterviews with historians, scholars, authors and anyone with a story to tell and a passion for this unique region of New York.
Episode 201: Isle of Ever w Jen Calonita
Mar 22 • 24m
Episode 197: Riverhead Stadium with Fabio Montella
Dec 23, 2024 • 28m
Episode 196: Dutch Language in New York with Kieran O'Keefe
Nov 18, 2024 • 31m
Episode 195: Dr. James R. Wright and Walt Whitman's Brain
Oct 21, 2024 • 36m
Episode 193: Associated Public Historians of New York State conference
Sep 18, 2024 • 32m
Episode 192: Broadway to Jones Beach w Richard Arnold Beattie
Jul 17, 2024 • 43m
Episode 191: The 1914 Freeport Murder Mystery w Woody Register
Jun 24, 2024 • 36m
Episode 190: Ralph Bunn, Long Island's Jackie Robinson w Fabio Montella
May 15, 2024 • 35m
Episode 189: Chubby Jackson and Freeport
May 1, 2024 • 45m
Episode 188: Benjamin Tallmadge with Richard Welch
Apr 15, 2024 • 45m
Episode 187: The Howard School with Dr. Tammy C. Owens
Mar 27, 2024 • 43m
Episode 186: In Levittown's Shadow with Tim Keogh
Feb 4, 2024 • 43m
Episode 185: Loyalists on Long Island with Brendon Burns
Jan 19, 2024 • 35m
Episode 183: Long Island Kansas with Carrie Cox
Dec 4, 2023 • 21m
Episode 182: Rockin History with Cindy Schwartz
Nov 6, 2023 • 36m
Episode 181: Our Hamptons with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon
Oct 9, 2023 • 45m
Episode 180: Larry Samuel and Making Long Island
Sep 24, 2023 • 44m
Episode 179: Edward Lieberman's Historic Tours
Aug 16, 2023 • 32m
Episode 178: The Arthur Murray Girls Baseball Team w Fabio Montella
Jul 27, 2023 • 39m
Episode 177: Richard Welch and The Gold Coast Elite in World War One
Jun 12, 2023 • 48m
Episode 176: How the Bayport Blue Point Phantoms Got Their Name
May 30, 2023 • 22m
Epiosde 175: Remember Liss with Claire Bellerjeau
May 15, 2023 • 58m
Episode 174: Al Smith with Dr. Robert Slayton
May 1, 2023 • 36m
Episode 173: Long Island Mill North Carolina
Apr 10, 2023 • 30m
Episode 172: The Lexington Steamship with Bill Bleyer
Mar 27, 2023 • 52m
Episode 171: Grumman Test Pilot Bruce Tuttle
Mar 16, 2023 • 41m
Episode 170: The Culper Spy Ring with Bill Bleyer
Feb 27, 2023 • 40m
Episode 169: Bellport Restoration with Victor Principe
Feb 6, 2023 • 38m
Episode 168: Bayport History with Rob Walch of Libsyn
Jan 23, 2023 • 36m
Episode 167: Raymond Buckland in Brentwood
Jan 9, 2023 • 32m
Episode 165: The Ferguson Brothers with Christopher Verga
Nov 21, 2022 • 41m
Episode 163: Drowned Meadow Cottage Museum with Mark Sternberg
Oct 24, 2022 • 41m
Episode 162: Gilgo Beach and Bottles with Mike Cavanaugh
Oct 10, 2022 • 34m
Episode 161: Betsy Gulotta and the Hempstead Plains
Sep 26, 2022 • 36m
Episode 160 William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas
Sep 12, 2022 • 43m
Episode 159: Long Island Beach Ohio
Jun 14, 2022 • 28m
Episode 158: Horrific Homicides by Thomas Stark
Apr 18, 2022 • 34m
Episode 157: Square Dancing with the Durlachers
Apr 6, 2022 • 25m
Episode 156: Dr. Thomas Dublin
Mar 27, 2022 • 35m
Episode 155: Marguerite Kearns, her Family, and the Suffrage Movement
Mar 21, 2022 • 33m
Episode 154: Brad Kolodny and the Jews of Long Island
Mar 1, 2022 • 36m
Lucinda Hemmick and the Southold Indian Museum
Dec 12, 2021 • 31m
Jay Levenson and the Southold Indian Museum
Dec 10, 2021 • 33m
Connie Currie and Joe Sikorski and the story of Telefunken
Nov 8, 2021 • 37m
Episode 149: Karen Rea and the Long Island (Maine) Historical Society
Oct 23, 2021 • 28m
Episode 148: Amanda Fairbanks and the Lost Boys of Montauk
Oct 1, 2021 • 32m
Episode 147: Frank Romeo and a Personal History of PTSD
Sep 13, 2021 • 57m
Episode 146: The Life of Philip Merkle with Bruce Seger
Aug 30, 2021 • 38m
Episode 145: Agent Orange on Long Island
Aug 15, 2021 • 34m
Episode 144: Joe Giannini and the Vietnam War
Jul 26, 2021 • 21m
Episode 143: Jack Parente and the Vietnam War
Jul 10, 2021 • 23m
Episode 142: Elizabeth Letts and The Eighty-Dollar Champion
Jun 28, 2021 • 32m
Episode 141: The Life of Marion Hollins
Jun 15, 2021 • 29m
Episode 140: The Life Story of Primo Fiore
Apr 27, 2021 • 24m
Episode 139: Restoring Thornhill's Pharmacy with Matthew La Piana
Apr 5, 2021 • 41m
Long Island Migrant Labor Camps
Mar 21, 2021 • 35m
Episode 135: The Glacier That Made Long Island
Feb 8, 2021 • 29m
Episode 134: Brentwood and Local Media
Jan 25, 2021 • 20m
Episode 133: Mickey Quinn and St John the Baptist High School
Dec 28, 2020 • 42m
Episode 132: Francis "Two Gun" Crowley with Jerry Aylward
Dec 14, 2020 • 37m
The Life of Mary L. Booth with Tricia Foley
Nov 23, 2020 • 41m
Episode 130: The Long Island Archaeologist
Nov 9, 2020 • 32m
Robert Ottone and Her Infernal Name
Oct 25, 2020 • 46m
Episode 128: Marian E. Lindberg and Scandal on Plum Island
Oct 11, 2020 • 38m
Episode 127: John Turner and the Preserve Plum Island Coalition
Sep 28, 2020 • 42m
Episode 126: The History Press
Sep 8, 2020 • 34m
Episode 125: Fabio Montella and the Riverhead Stadium
Aug 3, 2020 • 34m
Synagogues on Long Island
Jul 20, 2020 • 34m
Oakdale Preservation Award
Jun 12, 2020 • 24m
Episode 121: Fordham Mill Preservation Award
Jun 11, 2020 • 24m
Episode 120: Babylon Preservation Award
Jun 10, 2020 • 32m
Episode 119: Sea Cliff Preservation Award with Erinn McDonnell
Jun 9, 2020 • 30m
Preservation Awards: SANS Sag Harbor
Jun 8, 2020 • 32m
John Warren of the New York State Almanack
Jun 2, 2020 • 38m
Episode 116: Chuck Henry and New York State Historic Newspapers
May 22, 2020 • 32m
Episode 115: Kendra Gaylord and Someone Lived Here
May 17, 2020 • 33m
Suffolk County News, May 14, 1920
May 15, 2020 • 16m
Episode 113: Suffolk County News, May 7, 1920
May 8, 2020 • 11m
Episode 112: Long Island Whaling and Brenna McCormick-Thompson
May 6, 2020 • 34m
Episode 111: Suffolk County News, April 30, 1920
May 1, 2020 • 10m
Episode 110: Suffolk County News, April 23, 1920
Apr 24, 2020 • 10m
Episode 109: Living with the Pandemic
Apr 22, 2020 • 37m
Episode 108: Suffolk County News, April 17, 1920
Apr 17, 2020 • 10m
Episode 107: Long Island Freemasons with Ron Seifried
Apr 15, 2020 • 37m
Episode 106: The Suffolk County News for April 9, 1920
Apr 10, 2020 • 12m
Episode 105: The Suffolk County News for April 2, 1920
Apr 3, 2020 • 11m
Episode 104: Radium Girls with Erin Elizabeth Becker
Mar 29, 2020 • 35m
The News of the Day
Mar 28, 2020 • 10m
Episode 102: Harry Higbie and the Higbies of Higbie Lane
Feb 9, 2020 • 29m
Episode 101: Christopher Matthews and Historical Archaeology in Setauket
Jan 20, 2020 • 44m
Warren McDowell and How Fire Island Got Its Name
Dec 18, 2019 • 57m
Pottery on Long Island with Mark Smith
Dec 13, 2019 • 37m
Episode 98: Local Author Theresa Dodaro
Dec 5, 2019 • 48m
Episode 97: Jonathan Olly and Prohibition on Long Island
Nov 13, 2019 • 50m
Episode 96: Revisiting the Founding Era with Brentwood Library
Oct 14, 2019 • 26m
Remembering Gene Horton
Sep 2, 2019 • 14m
Elaine Kiesling Whitehouse, Writing Stories
Aug 23, 2019 • 45m
Episode 94: The Bayport Aerodrome with Bob Mott and Walter Winnicki
Jul 24, 2019 • 51m
David Morrison and the Long Island Rail Road
Jul 9, 2019 • 50m
Caroline Propersi-Grossman and the Actors Equity Strike of 1919
Jun 24, 2019 • 48m
Episode 91: Sarah Kautz and Long Island's Endangered Places
Jun 7, 2019 • 51m
Cynthia Shor and Walt Whitman's Birthplace
Mar 11, 2019 • 41m
Episode 88: Erin Elizabeth Becker and Modern Museums
Feb 25, 2019 • 41m
Episode 87: Clarence H. Robbins, Gentleman Jockey of Brooklyn
Feb 12, 2019 • 40m
Episode 86: Tom Edmonds of the Southampton History Museum
Jan 20, 2019 • 43m
Episode 85: Linda Metzger, Long Island Genealogist
Jan 7, 2019 • 40m
Evelyn Vollgraff, Danielle Campbell, and Lake Ronkonkoma.
Nov 20, 2018 • 39m
John Strong and America's Early Whalemen
Nov 4, 2018 • 51m
Episode 81: Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival
Oct 22, 2018 • 51m
Episode 80: Kerriann Flanagan Brosky
Oct 2, 2018 • 49m
Episode 79: Joe Mandanici and the 1974 Dowling College Fire
Sep 3, 2018 • 15m
Tom Rinelli and the Islip Town Fire and EMS Museum
Aug 16, 2018 • 44m
Episode 77: Southampton Summer
Jul 21, 2018 • 15m
Episode 76: Matthew Montelione and the Spirit Guild
Jul 16, 2018 • 35m
Episode 75: Anna Smith Strong with Margo Aceri and Danielle Campbell
Jun 25, 2018 • 42m
Natalie Naylor and Long Island's Notable Women
Jun 12, 2018 • 57m
PJ Novak and Postcards from Huntington
May 18, 2018 • 32m
Episode 72: Chris Vaccaro and the Long Island Ducks
May 1, 2018 • 45m
Washington's Spy Letters.
Apr 15, 2018 • 46m
Gil Bergen
Apr 6, 2018 • 35m
Mary Lou Cohalan and the Suffolk County News
Apr 3, 2018 • 48m
Episode 68: Chris Bodkin's Book of Sayville Chapter 3
Mar 20, 2018 • 20m
Episode 67: Chris Bodkin's Book of Sayville Chapter 2
Mar 18, 2018 • 23m
Episode 66: Chris Bodkin's Book of Sayville Chapter 1
Mar 16, 2018 • 23m
Episode 65: Learning to Drive on Long Island
Mar 5, 2018 • 5m
Episode 64 The South Side Signal Newspaper
Feb 26, 2018 • 46m
Antique Bottle Collecting
Feb 12, 2018 • 50m
Episode 62: Bert Seides and the Terry Ketcham Inn
Feb 8, 2018 • 44m
The History of Newsday
Jan 28, 2018 • 51m
Episode 60: Camp Upton with Suzanne Johnson and David Clemens
Jan 16, 2018 • 53m
Making Gatsby Great
Jan 2, 2018 • 42m
Episode 58: Longwood Stories with Melanie Cardone-Leathers
Dec 17, 2017 • 43m
Episode 57: Carol Gilliam and Roosevelt's Black Heritage Collection
Dec 4, 2017 • 34m
Episode 56: Bill Bleyer: Journalist and Long Island History Author
Nov 12, 2017 • 37m
Episode 55: The Cuban Giants of Long Island
Nov 2, 2017 • 34m
Episode 54: The Hurricane of 1938
Oct 25, 2017 • 19m
Episode 53: Endangered Historic Places
Oct 16, 2017 • 48m
Episode 52: Long Island History Project Message
Sep 25, 2017 • 1m
Episode 51: Jeremy Dennis: Long Island Indigenous Landscapes
Jul 12, 2017 • 46m
Episode 50: Sandi Brewster-walker and North Amityville
Jun 17, 2017 • 46m
Episode 49: Connie Currie on architect Isaac H. Green
May 17, 2017 • 1h 1m
Morton Pennypacker: Long Island Spy Hunter
Apr 5, 2017 • 45m
Jack Ellsworth Long Island's Big Band Man
Mar 22, 2017 • 48m
Episode 44: George Munkenbeck, Islip Town Historian
Mar 8, 2017 • 42m
Episode 43: Daniel Gezari on Science
Nov 23, 2016 • 21m
Episode 42: The Gezaris of Rocky Point
Nov 23, 2016 • 45m
Episode 41: Denis McGee and the LaSalle Military Academy
Nov 2, 2016 • 32m
Episode 40: Patchogue History with Mark Rothenberg
Oct 17, 2016 • 38m
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum
Sep 30, 2016 • 39m
The Puppet Guild of Long Island
Sep 19, 2016 • 50m
Episode 37: Bill and Pat Colson: The Art of Living
Sep 7, 2016 • 36m
Episode 36: The Long Island Suffrage Playbook
Jul 11, 2016 • 38m
Episode 35: The Jewish Community on Long Island
Jul 2, 2016 • 40m
Episode 34: Old Mansions Never Die
May 23, 2016 • 14m
Preserving Long Island with SPLIA
May 11, 2016 • 51m
Episode 32: Treading Clams
Apr 25, 2016 • 7m
Mile-a-Minute Murphy and Si Tanhauser
Apr 22, 2016 • 6m
A Babylonish Ditty
Apr 20, 2016 • 6m
Episode 29: Long Island Power Ballads
Apr 13, 2016 • 10m
Episode 28: Stories of Storm and Sea
Mar 23, 2016 • 31m
Episode 27: Some Would Even Say It Glows
Mar 10, 2016 • 26m
Episode 26: “My Kind of Conservationist”
Feb 24, 2016 • 46m
Episode 25: Battling Robert Moses
Feb 11, 2016 • 28m
A Neighborhood of History
Jan 29, 2016 • 32m
Behind the Camera with Thom Hoffman
Jan 11, 2016 • 36m
Peter Fox Cohalan Part II
Dec 17, 2015 • 35m
Holding Court with Peter Fox Cohalan
Dec 9, 2015 • 29m
Tales from the Shinnecock
Nov 18, 2015 • 31m
A Walk Through Time With the Shinnecock
Nov 3, 2015 • 30m
Off to See the Wizard: Bringing Tesla to the Screen
Oct 20, 2015 • 32m
Lightning Strikes: Saving the Wardenclyffe Lab in Shoreham
Oct 13, 2015 • 31m
Hooked on Tesla
Oct 6, 2015 • 28m
Tuning in to Ray Adell
Sep 8, 2015 • 31m
The Lost Lords of the Manor
Aug 26, 2015 • 29m
An Island of History Under Our Feet
Aug 3, 2015 • 23m
Being Teddy Roosevelt
Jun 25, 2015 • 47m
When Rocky Point was Radio Central
Jun 3, 2015 • 31m
The Truth Behind the Spies: Decoding AMC’s Turn
Jan 14, 2015 • 49m
The Sage of Blue Point
Nov 18, 2014 • 40m
Swimming with Dolphins and Alligators
Oct 8, 2014 • 41m
Life on the Air
Oct 8, 2014 • 48m
Sayville Musical Workshop
Oct 8, 2014 • 52m
Warren McDowell and the Fire Island Tide
Oct 8, 2014 • 32m
Moriches and the Terry-Ketcham Inn
Oct 8, 2014 • 26m
The Jaunty Major-General
Oct 7, 2014 • 42m
Racing the Island
Oct 7, 2014 • 38m
The Home Grown String Band
Oct 7, 2014 • 59m
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