Author: Hal Gordon Brown

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ted Comes, Henry Staab, and Colleen Driscoll-Caravella nailed it! Thanks, everyone for your comments, memories, and participation! Here is a nice article about Josephine Victoria (Martin) La Fountaine...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Today, we have a short video for you.   Sophia Bertsch, who will enter the 10th Grade at Sayville High School this year, interviews her father, Dr. James Bertsch,...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sayville History Splash & Quiz;   This lady graduated from Sayville High School and then taught for the Sayville School District for 48 years. Was that a misprint? No, she...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Child's identity not known at this time. The photo is courtesy of Mrs. Kathy La Capra. Thank you, Kathy![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sayville History Splash and quiz; Who is the Sayville High graduate named Miss New York State in 1968?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We wanted to share a sad post from Janet Donadio Cozza; "It is with deep and profound sadness that I am writing this post. Yesterday the world lost two...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Greater Sayville community is as tight-knit a community as there is. Meet the people who made it that way.   Each week, James Bertsch will interview a local...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Honoring the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives on behalf of our great nation on this Memorial Day.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" css=".vc_custom_1590252936582{background-color: #ddbaba !important;}"][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1590252813889{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}"][vc_column_text]"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."   – Martin Luther...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]That's right! We will send you a link to click-on, then show you around the website. Just have a camera and microphone enabled device or computer. Send me...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Courtesy Kathy La Capra, here is her great grandmother's house on the right. It is depicted with its wrap-around porch and big bay window. It was originally a...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]How do you like this "roaring twenties" dress and headband?   Our Sayville History Splash is courtesy of Kathy La Capra and here is the recipient of yesterday's 1917 Certificate...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have an interesting "Sayville History Splash" today! Provided courtesy of Kathy La Capra is a 1917 Certificate of Promotion to grade 2a. It was issued to Kathy's great-grandmother,...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Born November 25, 1910, Sayville. Died February 14, 2007 (aged 96) Warrensburg, New York. Photograph courtesy of Steven Wachlin, Class of 1966. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...