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History and Gardiner’s Bay Country Club (Credit:Reporter File Photo)
This summer season we can all celebrate a wonderful achievement for Shelter Island Gardiner’s Bay Country Club is 125 years old.
Although the club’s early history was a series of challenges, including fire, World Wars and the Great Depression, the club’s current position is one of strength and a future full of promise.
By the late 19th century, at the home of golf in Scotland’s St. Andrews, shepherds had been swinging their crooks at pebbles for over half a millennium. However, golf in America in 1896 was still in its infancy. Following golf’s journey across the Atlantic in the early 1890’s the growth of the game in America was slow. There were few golf professionals in the United States making clubs and balls, creating courses and giving lessons.
Cornelia Horsford (Credit: Shelter Island Historical Society)
The Shelter Island Historical Society is recognizing International Women’s Day on Monday, March 8, by remembering Cornelia Horsford (1861-1944), a woman who left lasting gifts to her community, as one of the founders of the Shelter Island Public Library and the Historical Society.
First observed in Europe in the early part of the 20th century, International Women’s Day was officially recognized by The United Nations for the first time in 1975 to highlight women’s contributions to society.
According to the Historical Society, Cornelia Horsford was an author and an adventurer, organizing archaeological expeditions to Iceland and Britain. Born in Cambridge, Mass. she spent a significant portion of her life at Sylvester Manor.
Working on Sylvester Manor’s windmill, as four sails are installed on the 19th century mill, one of the iconic sites of Shelter Island. (Credit: Adam Bundy)
The 19th-century windmill at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm is now at full sail all four of the wings of the Island’s most readily identifiable links to its agricultural past were installed this week.
Last year, a group of students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts focused their research on designing a modern wind energy system to augment the windmill’s future energy production potential.
The windmill, built in 1810 as a gristmill to grind grain into flour, had ceased operating in the mid-1900s, and its driveshaft had rotted. With its interior works otherwise in good condition, it’s now being restored to once again grind grain grown on and off the farm.
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