With more than 50 large-scale sculptures scattered atop picturesque fields, Lemon Fair Sculpture Park "is a hidden gem in Addison County," wrote one Seven Days reader. East Shoreham residents and art enthusiasts Frank and Elaine Ittleman first opened their property to the public in 2016 for free, self-guided tours along a mowed path — and they've continued to welcome visitors, in season, throughout the pandemic. One Vermonter summed up the experience: "Being able to walk with a friend outdoors amongst these giant art installations was a wonderful way to be able to socialize safely."
By Anthony Fillippleo
May 7, 2021
A woman in East Shoreham, New York, and her family were able to escape an early morning house fire thanks to their neighbors. Danielle Apryl had no idea flames were engulfing part of her home until a woman started banging on the door and yelling to alert them to the fire.
Thanks to the warning, Apryl was able to get her one-year-old son out safely and wake her wife and in-laws and their three dogs, who all made it out without injury. The mom credits her quick-thinking neighbor for saving her family and it turns out, it was a family effort. The neighbor - who wishes to remain anonymous - found out about the fire because her four-year-old son was playing outside when he saw the blaze break out and then shouted to his mom to “call the firemen!”
BRANDON â A good memory comes in handy when youâre older than 90 and have decided to write a book about your life.
âI have a photographic memory,â said Sanford Rouse, 92, of Neshobe House. âI can remember things back to when I was 5 years old.â
Which means that while Rouse remembers trudging a mile to a one-room schoolhouse in East Shoreham in 40 below zero temperatures, he also remembers when President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to get the United States out of the Great Depression.
âWe also had, back then, they called it the poor house. Nowadays they call it the food shelf,â Rouse said. âWe had commodities like canned peaches, cans of peanut butter, for everybody. At the time the Depression was going on, those were years we canât forget. It lives in your heart forever.â
PSEG Long Island to begin project in January to upgrade substations in East Shoreham, Riverside
PSEG Long Island will undertake a project to upgrade the transmission infrastructure that connects substations on the East End “in order to accommodate the growing demand in the area,” the energy company announced Monday.
The project, titled “Wildwood to Riverhead Conversion Project,” will be done over the next few months to upgrade equipment at the Wildwood Substation in East Shoreham and the Riverhead Substation in Riverside to increase the electricity capacity from 69kV to 138kV.
At the Wildwood Substation, three existing transmission poles will be removed and replaced with new riser poles of similar size and height. There will also be 900 feet of 138kV underground transmission line will be constructed from the substation to just east of LICLO Road. That underground cable will replace overhead wire where the three existing poles will be removed. The new riser p