In August 2014, the Klenawicus family, friends, pilots, then-Supervisor James Dougherty and members of the Shelter Island Historical Society, partnered with the Shelter Island Pilots Association to create a a new marker of historical events that have occurred at Klenawicus Field. (Credit: Beverlea Walz)
After Island historian Edward Shillingburg was asked to take part in a presentation at the Shelter Island Historical Society in August, a document in the Society’s archives surfaced on the history of the Klenawicus Airfield, and other early stories of Island aviation.
The Historical Society’s event later this summer is to consist of several people giving short reports on the Island’s preserved properties, and Mr. Shillingburg drew the Klenawicus straw. “The idea is to bring to the public’s attention the Island’s open space program,” Mr. Shillingburg said. “To answer questions of, ‘What are they?’ ‘Where are they?’”