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January 28, 2021

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State Sen. Mattera looks toward returning to normalcy

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM St. James resident Mario Mattera (R) started off the new year as a freshman senator in Albany, and he’s looking forward to getting back to business as usual in the 2nd District, which includes Smithtown and parts of Brookhaven and Huntington.

Fresh on the job

The state senator was sworn into office Jan. 5 by his wife, Terry, who is a notary with his daughters, Jessica and Jayme, on hand.

He said he is overwhelmed by the support of constituents who voted for him because he feels they trust he can get the job done.

“From Huntington to Smithtown to Brookhaven, I’m looking forward to doing whatever I need to do,” he said.

A former business agent with the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters with Plumbers Local #200 for more than four decades, the state senator will serve as the chief Republican on the Consumer Protection Committee, as well as the Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee. He has also been appointed as a member of the Labor and Transportation standing committees.

Mattera said he’s traveled to Albany and interacted with his fellow senators, which has been a little different than previous years where elected officials are practicing social distancing and wearing facial coverings.

Some legislators are even working remotely due to the pandemic.

“I’ve been up every week,” he said. “I feel it’s important. I need to get the feel of the chamber and meet people.”

COVID-19 vaccinations

Mattera said the biggest obstacle right now is getting life back to normal. He is currently pushing for pharmacies to be able to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. He and other legislators held a press conference in Hauppauge Jan. 14 calling out Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on the state’s failed vaccine rollout.

Mattera said even if the proper inventory of vaccines isn’t available, there needs to be a better rollout plan, which would include residents being able to get the vaccine in their own neighborhood instead of traveling to larger sites, such as at colleges, where he said many may feel uncomfortable.

“Let’s have a facility that our residents can go to that is local, and they’ll feel comfortable, just like with the flu shot,” he said. “There’s no reason why we can’t go to Walgreens or CVS and our local pharmacies where people feel comfortable.”

Mattera said his office has been helping veterans get the information they need to get the vaccine. He said the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been helpful and

Freshman state Sen. Mario Mattera is sworn into office by his wife, Terry, while his two daughters, Jessica and Jayme, look on in the Senate Chamber. Photo from Mattera’s office

applauded Fred Sganga, executive director of the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University, for ensuring veterans associated with the home are vaccinated.

“There’s no reason why veterans have to be sitting and worrying,” Mattera said, adding having chain pharmacies going into nursing homes was a good plan.

“We’ve always put the blame game on the federal government that there are not enough of the vaccines, but let’s have a plan in place when we do get it that’s more convenient for our residents and especially our seniors,” he said.

The state senator gave the example of New York City where many companies currently still have employees working from home which causes a ripple effect.

He said restaurants suffer as fewer people are ordering lunch from them and even breakfast and dinner.

“Now we realize that the most vibrant city in the world is in dire straits,” he said.

‘ Let’s have a facility that our residents can go to that is local, and they’ll feel comfortable, just like with the flu shot. ’

Schools

In addition to businesses reopening fully, Mattera said it’s also imperative for schools to once again offer five-day, in-person —Mario Mattera instruction. He said he feels Businesses students interacting with Mattera said he’s a their teachers and coaches is big supporter of small important. businesses and believes they can operate like “Our children are suffering from this,” he normal by following safety protocols closely. said, noting that his youngest daughter is a He believes business owners are capable of high school senior. enforcing COVID-19 health guidelines. He He added that at the same time it’s added Cuomo should have reopened New important for districts to keep an eye on York businesses deemed nonessential sooner infection rates to see if they are spiking. than he did.

“Safety is always first,” he said.

Infrastructure

Mattera is looking for his district to have the best treatment plants.

“We need to make sure that we have the state-of-the-art treatment plants that are put in place to protect our precious water supply for our future,” he said.

While there have been talks during the last few years in Smithtown over a proposed sewage treatment plant on the Gyrodyne property in St. James, Mattera said it’s important to look at plants for businesses along the Jericho Turnpike corridor also. He added it’s imperative that treatment plans replenish local aquifers and not dump into the Long Island Sound or ocean.

“That’s a problem, and that’s been a problem for a lot of counties like Nassau County,” he said.

“Nassau County did not plan for replenishing. It dumps into the Sound. It dumps out into the bay millions of gallons per day.”

He added improving the Route 110 corridor by replacing the main sewer line is another priority, and he is working with Town of Huntington Supervisor Chad Lupinacci (R) to secure the funds.

“Our infrastructure is really important for proper growth in the future,” he said.

Constituents can reach Mattera’s office by email at mattera@nysenate.gov or by phone at 631-361-2154.

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Education

Gelinas school streams own production of ‘HSM Jr.’ play

BY KIMBERLY BROWN DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM P. J. Gelinas Junior High School in Setauket will be putting a new twist on the Gelinas Theatre Company production of the play, “High School Musical Jr.” In efforts to comply with COVID-19 guidelines, Gelinas will be livestreaming the performance Feb. 5 and 6, giving everyone the opportunity to see the play from the comfort of their own home.

Despite the pandemic, the middle school has created innovative ways to keep students involved in after-school activities. Numerous modifications have been made for the students and teachers who participated in directing the play, in order to follow social-distancing rules.

In just a mere four weeks, the director of the play, Brendan Meier, coordinated the musical, to follow COVID-19 protocols. One upside was that the musical was prerecorded, so Meier was able to use the entire Gelinas school as the set and edit it together later. He explained how the process of making the new changes worked.

P. J. Gelinas Junior High School was transformed for the Gelinas Theatre Company production of the play “High School Musical Jr.” which will be streamed Feb. 5 and 6. Photo from Three Village Central School District

“In order to sing, we had to be 12 feet apart, so we had to record all of the audio separately and sync it up while doing all the dancing, where we had to be only 6 feet apart,” Meier said.

Ninth-grader Eve Rosengard, who stars

in the play as Sharpay Evans, explained how performing distanced choreographed dancing was challenging, as the students were not able to interact with each other as much as they’d like.

However, Rosengard stayed positive and was

not deterred by the obstacles.

“It’s really, really amazing how all the dances were super easy to learn but were still able to be done while 6 feet apart,” she said. “The school has been incredible with making this happen because none of us thought this was going to happen. It was really an incredible experience and I’m so thankful to be a part of it.”

Parents of the students were overjoyed Gelinas was able to make this production happen, especially after the abrupt cancelation of the play, “The Addams Family,” last March.

Eighth-grader Brian DeGorter, who also stars as Ryan Evans, said his parents couldn’t have been happier that he was once again able to participate in his favorite after-school activity.

“My parents were super excited about the show and they were really grateful,” DeGorter said. “I think they know that every time I walk through that building, I always have a giant smile on my face.”

For more information on viewing the play, visit www.showtix4u.com (search “Gelinas”) and www.threevillagecsd.org/gelinas. Tickets are $10 per device.

Game on! High-risk sports will resume in Suffolk County

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM High-risk sports such as basketball, wrestling and cheerleading can resume, days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) gave local health commissioners the green light to allow these sports to restart.

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“Testing is critical,” Bellone said.

New York State is expected to provide an initial allocation of 20,00 rapid tests and will look to provide more tests for schools to use each week.

Positive tests will result in a 10-day quarantine. Each coach is required to supply information to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services for an extensive contact tracing investigation.

The county issued several guidelines, including taking temperatures of players and coaches before practices and games, encouraging mask wearing whenever possible, enforcing social distances when studentathletes are not playing, minimizing equipment sharing, and requiring hand washing before and after practices and games as well as after sharing equipment.

The county also advised programs to play outdoors if possible and to use wellventilated spaces.

Through Bellone’s office, the county has created the Champion of the Community Pledge, which encourages athletes to take numerous safety measures.

After they read the pledge, students will be asked to sign it and give it to the school.

As a part of this agreement, students accept that if they don’t honor their pledge, they “would be failing to comply with a legitimate

school directive and pursuant to school and Section XI policies, students, faculty and staff will be subject to the appropriate accountability measures and disciplinary actions,” according to the pledge.

Athletes must stay safe, healthy and informed of COVID-19 updates, unite with team members and the community to have a memorable season, follow face mask, hygiene and social distancing guidelines, follow additional health and safety requirements, which may include testing and self-quarantining, operating in a healthy environment and completing daily declarations, lead by example and serve as a role model for team members and the community.

Boys and girls basketball, wrestling and competitive cheer will resume Feb. 1 and will conclude Feb. 27.

On average, more than 60,000 studentathletes participate in various high school sports during a normal school year.

Bellone also directed the Suffolk County Parks Department to work with Section XI to set up a fair process for districts to schedule cross-country meets in county parks.

Park sites that the county will make available for competition include West Hills County Park in Melville and Blydenburgh County Park in Smithtown.

The cross-country season will begin March 1.

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Village

Stony Brook field hospital partially dismantled

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The state’s field hospital set up on the Stony Brook University grounds earlier this year has looked a little different over the past few weeks.

At the end of April, five climate-controlled structures were completed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide SBU Hospital and other local medical centers with more beds due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents passing by the alternate care facility structures recently have noticed that they are roofless and the interior walls — used to create mini rooms — are now dismantled.

According to state officials, several temporary state field hospitals were prepared for the December winter storm, which included snow. Part of that prep work included emptying the structures of equipment and fixtures. At SBUH, the fabric tenting materials were also removed. However, the field hospital is not being dismantled completely in case it needs to be opened for patients. The 1,000-bed facility in Stony Brook has never been used.

According to state officials, all of the

components that were removed were inventoried and are ready for use wherever needed, whether in Stony Brook, on Long Island or across the state.

The hospital extension was slated for patients with health care issues outside of COVID-19 in order to free up bed space in the hospital and other local medical centers to treat patients with the virus. The final cost for the alternate care facility was some $155 million, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. All work done by USACE for the construction of alternate care facilities was funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency mission assignments to USACE. State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) said when the alternate care facilities were assembled little was known about the pandemic’s course.

“At the time that they were built, the hospitals in Queens had so many bodies that they were tying refrigeration trucks together in the parking lots, just to store the bodies,” he said, adding the hospitals couldn’t process and bury the bodies fast enough.

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basically made a decision,” he said. “I think they were informed by the seriousness of space limitations.”

He added early on no one knew that the infection rates would be down by the summer.

“The reality is that hindsight is 20/20,” Englebright said. “At that point in time, they did not have the benefit of knowing the scale,

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Stony Brook church hosts Native American Drumming program

All Souls Church Rectory, 5 Mill Pond Road, Stony Brook, hosts a Native American Drumming Meditation Jan. 28 from 7 to 8:45 p.m. Led by elder drummer, Ric Statler, drumming meditation seeks to integrate the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual parts of the human self, creating a state of wellbeing. Free. Call 631-655-7798 for further information.

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Civic association offers COVID-19 vaccination informational meeting

The Three Village Civic Association will be hosting an online informational meeting “COVID Vaccinations — what is the current plan?� Monday, Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.

Community members are invited to participate and hear from leading experts about how the vaccines work and the current plans for distributing and administering the vaccines to the public The civic forum will feature Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, who will discuss the science of the

vaccine followed by Deputy County Executive Vanessa Baird-Streeter and Suffolk County’s Director of Human Services Olga El-Sehamy, who will discuss how the vaccines will be distributed.

Those who would like to attend the online meeting must register in advance.

For more information on registering and to email questions for the panelists in advance email info@threevillagecivics.org.

The Three Village Civic Association online forum will be moderated by board member and Three Village Resident, Sotiria Everett.

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Teen organizes second food drive during pandemic Three Village resident Jake Shangold is currently collecting donations for Island Harvest, the Hauppauge-based food bank.

Last year, during the early months of the pandemic, Shangold raised more than $3,000 for the nonprofit.

While Shangold is collecting nonperishable goods from friends and neighbors, he also has set up a link for people to make monetary contributions.

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History Close at Hand

Three Village area filled with ship building history

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Following the end of the War of 1812, the shorelines of Stony Brook, East Setauket, Setauket, Old Field and Poquott (then part of East Setauket), became increasingly busy with economic activity — shipping, oystering, fishing and of course shipbuilding. In this period on Long Island, the maritime trades were second only in importance to agriculture.

Island communities, linked by the sea, regularly traded with each other — New York City, Long Island, New England, and foreign ports. Because roads were poor, it was natural to use the water for trade and transportation. As small 18th-century shore settlements became established villages with growing populations, coastwise traffic also increased. Sloops and schooners, the trucks of their day, carried cordwood and farm produce to cities and returned with needed supplies for residents, with ashes and manure for agriculture uses, and later with coal for the rubber factory on Chicken Hill and homes in the community.

In 1816, two sloops of 60 tons, the Mechanic and the Brilliant were built on the stream below the Setauket mill. In 1820, David Cleaves was building sloops along Shore Road in East Setauket.

In 1844, Nehemiah Hand began the first commercial shipyard in East Setauket at the corner of Shore Road and what is now Bayview Avenue, as he noted, “I laid down the first set of ways ever built in Setauket, for

A photo circa 1920, shows Setauket Harbor with a schooner and the George Hand carpenter shop, above. Below right, Nehemiah Hand (1814-1894) from “Munsell’s History of Suffolk County.” Below left, Schooner Commerce after conversion from a sloop (single mast) about 1860. Painting by New Zealand maritime artist Ron Druett.

repairs. Many said all they could against it, and I have found out by long experience that it is the character of old settlers generally to oppose all improvements. I soon got a vessel to rebuild, the Martha Ann, and before she was done I contracted with Captain Charles Tyler to build the sloop Commerce and to own onequarter of her when finished. She was 36 years old in October 1881, and is a good vessel yet, and has been very profitable to her owners.”

By the 1850s the Three Village area teamed with shipyards. The Hand, Bacon and Bayles yards along Shore Road in East Setauket employed hundreds of local people. Stony Brook, a small community, recorded 14 builders operating between 1835 and 1881, producing 76 vessels. Old Field’s only yard, Dickerson’s, produced 9 vessels between 1851 and 1856.

East Setauket shipyards and individuals built 81 vessels in 12 shipyards between 1844 and 1879. The total for the Setauket-Stony Brook area of 166 wooden sailing vessels does not include the many unreported vessels produced by the shipyards.

Most early construction was limited to sloops, with an occasional two-masted schooner or brig. Most of the trade was “coastwise,” along the North American coast and occasionally as far as South America, a route suitable for smaller vessels. Within a decade, as trade with foreign ports expanded, schooners were produced in greater numbers.

In addition, larger vessels including barks, brigs and full-rigged ships were built.

Nehemiah Hand noted in his autobiography the vessels he built between 1845 and his retirement in 1873. One built in 1853 shows his sense of humor. “I built the schooner Flying Eagle on my own account. I sold half of her to

Captain Benjamin Jones and others. I sent her to Constantinople in the time of the Crimean War, with a cargo of rum and pepper. I thought that would warm them up, and make them fight if anything would. We got $5,000 for carrying it. She was a good sailer, and paid her cost in the first four years.”

There is no doubt Hand was a tough, hard working and by his own account an honest, shipyard boss. When shipbuilding began in the early 1800s, the workday was sunrise to sunset, by 1860, ten hours labor per day was the rule in shipyards. Hand took his son George as a partner in 1863 and noted about two years later, “We were paying our men $4 for ten hours work, and they struck for the same pay and eight hours work. We refused to pay it.”

In “Down the Ways, the Wooden Ship Era in the Three Villages,” historian Bill Minuse wrote, “Hand was an energetic, ambitious man.

A response to that is this ditty about him, no longer fully understood ...”

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Many of the men who worked in the shipyards or sailed on the vessels had their homes in East Setauket, in the area now known as the Dyer’s Neck Historic District.

The number of families living there changed dramatically between 1850 and 1860 as the pace of shipbuilding activity increased. In 1850 (based partly on U.S. Census records) there were about 14 homes in the Dyer’s Neck area.

In 1860 there were 29 homes and 48 working men. Twenty of these were involved in shipyard work, 11 were boatmen and the remaining

17 held a variety of jobs. In1870, there were 55 homes in the Dyers Neck area with 17 men working in shipyards, 18 men involved on vessels and 39 listed with other work that included five women running boarding houses and six women running households.

More than 200 wooden sailing vessels were built in the Three Village area during the heydays of shipbuilding, providing livelihoods for workers, sailors, manufacturers and investors.

After iron-hulled ships, steam power and the railroad put shipbuilding of wooden sailing vessels out of business, many could be seen rotting along the shoreline. The shipyards went out of business or catered to yachting, a popular new leisure activity for Long Islanders and summer visitors.

Beverly C. Tyler is the Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-751-3730 or visit www.tvhs.org.

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Editorial

Get in line — if you can find it

You would think a global pandemic that has lasted nearly a year would have gotten New York more organized, right?

In the beginning, none of us had any idea what was going on with COVID-19. Every day was a new battle, and we had to evolve everything in our lives constantly.

That was OK. It was fair. The virus was new and we, as Americans, never experienced anything like this before. There was a learning curve.

Back in March, April and even into June, it was a little more understandable knowing that getting tested for the coronavirus was hard. We didn’t have enough testing, supplies or even gloves for the nurses and doctors to wear as they administered the swab.

Fine. But why is it almost February 2021 and we still have practically no organizational skills?

Why is it that New Yorkers are told one thing about testing and now vaccines, but when they try to take advantage of it, they’re denied?

We have co-workers, family members and friends who should be getting their vaccines. They’re in the most at-risk age group, they’re workers in a medical office but aren’t first responders, they’re out in the public, working as cashiers at grocery stores and big-box retailers taking money from people they don’t know.

Why can’t they get the vaccine yet?

Reports say that there isn’t enough available yet — and supplies, once again, are low.

We understand that. We understand that there are more than 7 million people on Long Island alone.

But what we don’t understand is why there’s little transparency, and contradicting reports. Why can some people get it and others cannot?

We have heard stories of some elderly people who cannot get an appointment at all, and no one is there to help them. We hear other stories that people waited in line for nearly five hours. Other stories say that they drove up to the site and were finished in 10 minutes.

We just want answers. We want a plan. We want a serious plan that will give us a play-by-play on what to do, what to expect and a timeline.

Curveballs will happen. We saw that a lot in 2020.

But clearly the federal, state and local governments did not have “to stay organized with anything related to COVID” on their New Year’s resolutions list.

This is not the time to go with the flow. Lives are at stake.

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Bipartisan approach is needed Following the 2000 election of President George W. Bush [R] over former Vice President Al Gore [D], there were bipartisan calls to address flaws highlighted by the electoral uncertainty in Florida’s voting system. After difficulties in Ohio during the 2004 Bush vs. John Kerry [D] contest, Democratic former President Jimmy Carter joined with Republican James Baker III in leading a commission looking for answers.

Democrats had lost two close presidential elections, one by the narrowest of margins.

It seemed, given the rising political temperatures, reviewing any possible electoral systems failings, with an eye toward taking corrective measures made common sense.

A bipartisan commission produced some 87 recommendations and presented them to Bush.

Yet, now in an election year marked by a killer pandemic, months of deadly destructive rioting and unprecedented voting changes made in key battleground states, members of Congress calling attention to those circumstances are told they’d better

be quiet. Discussing specific instances of problematic, last-minute switches in rules and procedures, or issues in counting ballots have Democrats threatening reprisals against any GOP elected officials, who dare voice the concerns of their constituents.

The other worldly irony of it all is Dems have politically attacked congressional Republicans with a passion and fury they never applied to ruthless rioters who looted private businesses, set stores ablaze, destroyed federal property, and assaulted and murdered law enforcement officers.

For example, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer [D-NY] and Congressman Jerry Nadler [D-NY10], two of the Democrat’s loudest scolds since the horrific, breach of the Capitol, were essentially silent and invisible while New York City residents, especially those living in Brooklyn and Manhattan, lived on the razor’s edge.

Nadler’s district suffered significant losses. The senator’s Brooklyn office was less than a half mile from one of the most sinister

plots against the NYPD. There, a 27-year-old woman threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a police cruiser occupied by four officers. The heinous attempt to kill or maim a quartet of New York’s Finest only failed because the device didn’t explode. Not even this moved Schumer to speak.

Rather than attempting to silence the speech of fellow lawmakers, Democrats might consider joining Republicans, and giving some form of a bipartisan CarterBaker approach a try.

If legislators are truly looking for solutions to unify an increasingly cynical public, it’s important to note that two states, Florida and Ohio, that were the focus of the 2004 commission both enjoyed extremely smooth sailing in the 2020 presidential election. Votes were counted and a winner declared within hours of their polls closing.

That would seem a worthy, common sense goal, easily embraced by both parties.

Jim Soviero East Setauket

I remember debating my father during the 1960 presidential election. I argued the country needed change and he countered that John Kennedy [D] was “too young and inexperienced, and the son of a bootlegger and financial swindler.” As we watched JFK’s inauguration, Pop said, “He is the president now and needs our respect and support to lead the country.”

I wish former President Donald Trump [R] had attended Joe Biden’s inauguration just as I had wished that 62 Democratic congressmen had not boycotted Trump’s inauguration four years ago.

It is always interesting during presidential transitions to watch and listen to both the president leaving office, and the one coming in. For example, Jimmy Carter [D] interrupted his inauguration speech in

1977 to shake hands with Gerald Ford [R] to thank him for “healing this land,” and four years later he waited anxiously for the call that never came on his watch: “Mr. President, the hostages are free.”

It seemed back in 2001 that Bill Clinton [D] had a tough time leaving the stage while the day clearly belonged to President George W. Bush [R]. Perhaps the most insightful remarks ever made at these times of transition were those of Richard Nixon [R] before he boarded the helicopter on the day Ford replaced him: “Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”

All our presidents have had their share of successes and failures: JFK had the Bay of Pigs and putting a man on the moon; Johnson [D] had Vietnam and the Civil Rights Act; Obama [D] had Benghazi and

the Affordable Care Act; Trump had energy economic growth and the pandemic.

As I reflect on the vitriol directed at Trump as he leaves office, it occurs to me many Americans may have fallen into the same trap that Nixon did. While Nixon knew from painful experience how hatred destroys judgment and reasoned debate, those wanting to persecute Trump and his supporters illustrate the wisdom of Nixon’s last words as president.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s [R] presence at Biden’s inauguration reminds us all of the wisdom of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Hail to the Chief; welcome President Biden [D] and God Bless America.

Dan Kerr Stony Brook

Like many small not-for-profits, the Three Village Historical Society has struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas in the past — from our beginnings — we were fortunate to be able to rely primarily on memberships, private donations and revenue from major events like our Candlelight House Tour — our biggest annual fundraiser. That model is not sustainable during the current pandemic.

The board of trustees has worked hard over the past 10 months in an attempt to reorganize and economize. During this time, we have developed more efficient processes, secured small grants, held fundraising

events, lobbied both the town and county for support, met with local sister organizations regarding collaborations and consulted with others about possible strategies.

Despite these efforts, like many other local businesses, we have a challenging 12 to 18 months ahead of us.

As of Jan. 22, day-to-day operations have been temporarily restricted. Programs will be suspended, and staff has been trimmed down.

We will maintain our phone, email and social media communications and will continue to provide monthly Zoom lectures. Our primary purpose at this point is to ensure the care, protection and integrity of our collections

and continue our online programming.

Please check our website (tvhs.org) and social media for announcements. We will continue to share updates throughout this period. While there is limited response by phone, we remain available to answer questions by email and work with you. We can be contacted by email at info@tvhs.org or by phone at 631-751-3730.

We are in this together and understand many local businesses and nonprofits are suffering. We thank you for your support and understanding. Buy local. Support local.

Stephen Healy, President Three Village Historical Society

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Opinion

Living in an allegorical world

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any years ago, Madonna, and the rest of us, were “Living in a Material World.”

Well, it seems to me that we are now living in an allegorical world.

You see, we’re on a boat that’s in rough seas. We are in the middle of a Corona storm, with howling winds that threaten to rip the sails off the masts.

At the same time, the boat has numerous leaks, while the waves from the right and D. None from the left crash of the above into the ship.

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF The modern day Montagues are blaming the waves from the left for causing the danger to our ship.

Without those waves, we would be able to

head off in a glorious direction toward a better sunset.

At the same time, the Capulets are shouting at the waves on the right, suggesting that they have interrupted the magnificent journey, making the ship spin and rock out of control.

Never a dull moment on that ship of ours, the former captain of the ship, who reluctantly removed his steely grip from the wheel, is facing an imminent investigation from a team comprised mostly of the Capulets, who have recruited a few members of the Montagues to engage in an extensive trial.

The majority of the Montagues have a Greek chorus that laments the terrible state of affairs and encourages the new captain, whom they don’t particularly like or trust, to make sure their way of life continues and their voices continue to be important in the search for Truth, Justice and the American Way. At the same time, the Capulets have lined up a group of people who are just as earnest and eager in their beliefs, urging the captain

to ensure the future safety of the ship and all its inhabitants.

Passing people buffeted about in life rafts, some Montagues urge the captain to move on and to focus resources and efforts on the people aboard the ship. Some Capulets, on the other hand, believe the people who built the ship in the first place were, at one time or another, adrift in life rafts themselves and would like to provide refuge and safety to these wayward travelers.

All the while, the Corona winds, which started our violently, calmed down quite a bit during the summer, and have increased in intensity following Thanksgiving and the December holidays, have increased in their intensity, tearing holes in the sails and threatening to pull at the seams of the stars and stripes.

Somewhere in the middle of the ship, people who don’t define themselves as either ardent Montagues or Capulets are tending to the wounded, preparing food for others, ensuring law and order, and making the kind

of shields that deflect the wind, protecting individuals and the group.

The howling wind has made it difficult for the Capulets and the Montagues to hear each other, but that hasn’t stopped either of them from pointing fingers or from blaming the other side for the condition of the waterlogged ship.

People on this American vessel have heard that ships from other nations have made it out of the storm and are enjoying calmer seas, with warm sunshine and gentle breezes.

Some day, hopefully before too long, people on both sides will figure out a way to work together, to patch the holes in the sails, to help each other and to help take the ship to calmer waters.

The Corona storm isn’t passing on its own and the residents of the ship need to pull in the same direction to maneuver to the familiar, calmer seas, where residents of the ship can, once again, enjoy peace, good health and prosperity.

Surviving all the way to the COVID-19 vaccine

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s they say in literature, it is the best of times and the worst of times. You could almost say it is also a tale of two cities.

Yes, the vaccine has now been developed and produced to counter the novel coronavirus. We will require two shots, whether we get the Moderna or the PfizerBioNTech brand, and there may even be a third possibility, one from Johnson & Johnson, that will only be a one shot deal. That’s the wonderful news.

Between Less than you and me wonderful is the

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF distribution thus far. Despite best intentions, it has been spotty and disorganized. Locations that are supposed to be vaccination sites have had to turn people away because they have run out of the vaccine or never received the shipment

to begin with. Getting an appointment, as opposed to standing optimistically for hours in a line, has become an exercise of pounding the keyboard of the computer or dialing on the phone for hours on end, looking for a slot with availability.

Just about everyone I know is being helped by their children and grandchildren in this frustrating pursuit of inoculation. Those who have received the shot are living in a different city from those who have not.

To complicate the already complicated situation, the wily virus is doing what viruses do: mutating ahead of the vaccines. So far, the pharmaceutical companies are saying that their products are effective against the new strains, perhaps a little less so against the variant from South Africa than the one from the United Kingdom.

Brazil has a variant as well. And while non-American citizens originating in those countries are, for the moment, banned from entering the United States, scientists know those mutations are already here, having arrived before the ban, from Britain and Brazil so far and most probably South Africa as well.

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Worse than potentially evading the vaccines is the increased degree of contagion those viruses already possess. The knowledge that scientists are already hard at work catching up to the newer strains is comforting. Such an adjustment could take six weeks, however, according to Moderna.

Or perhaps a third shot of the existing vaccine might work against the variant.

So while the vaccine may be the best of times, we still have to get there, and the worst is now upon us. Sooner or later, we hope sooner, we will get the logistics of distribution worked out, but most of us will not reach that point of inoculation until midsummer or fall at the earliest. Meanwhile more people will become ill, especially in the poorer nations unable to buy vaccines in large quantities. And with our global interactions, what pathogens exist elsewhere in the world will also come here with their new mutations.

So what can we do to help ourselves through these next few months?

Let’s remember that a simple handful of actions we already have taken can keep the

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viruses at bay. Washing our hands thoroughly, multiple times a day ( I practically bathe in hand lotion after all those washings); maintaining social distancing of at least 6 feet, preferably 15 feet, inside as well as outside; and wearing masks are effective defenses, if only we follow them. Working remotely and limiting travel have further contributed to containment.

On the subject of wearing masks, and at the risk of boring you with repetition because I wrote about this last week, I want to urge you to consider wearing two masks. Since the new strains are more contagious, meaning they can spread more readily, having a double barrier for them to pass through doubles our chances of escaping the disease.

The growing recommendation is to wear a surgical mask underneath and a cloth mask on top. I have tried it and find this no more uncomfortable than a single mask, and I am happier with the thought of being better protected. I throw away the surgical mask and wash the cloth one often to preserve its effectiveness, making for myself a sort of double-bagged wall.

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