Port Jefferson in New York

27 January 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Danfords Hotel & Marina © Iracaz/cc-by-sa-3.0

Danfords Hotel & Marina © Iracaz/cc-by-sa-3.0

Port Jefferson (informally known as “Port Jeff”) is an incorporated village in the town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. Officially known as the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson, the population was 7,962 as of the 2020 United States census.   read more…

East Hampton in New York

27 May 2022 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  12 minutes

Montauk Manor hotel © Beyond My Ken/cc-by-sa-4.0

Montauk Manor hotel © Beyond My Ken/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, United States, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York. At the time of the 2020 United States Census, it had a total population of 28,385. The town includes the village of East Hampton, as well as the hamlets of Montauk, Amagansett, Wainscott, and Springs. It also includes part of the incorporated village of Sag Harbor.   read more…

Montauk on Long Island

24 August 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Montauk Lighthouse National Historic Site © Anthony Montemurro/cc-by-sa-3.0

Montauk Lighthouse National Historic Site © Anthony Montemurro/cc-by-sa-3.0

Montauk is a census-designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet with the same name located in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. The population is at 3,300. Montauk is a major tourist destination and has six state parks. It is particularly famous for its fishing, claiming to have more world saltwater fishing records than any other port in the world. Located 20 miles (32 km) off the Connecticut coast, it is home to the largest commercial and recreational fishing fleet in New York state. Montauk is considered a beach resort, using its position at the tip of Long Island to promote itself as “The Living End” or “The Last Resort” and become one of the busiest tourist locations within the town of East Hampton. The small town is host to many restaurants, bed and breakfasts, and hotels, and is a popular vacation spot in the warm weather months. Such accommodations are rarer elsewhere in the Hamptons. Many of the Montauk hotels are only open April through November, some for shorter time periods, while a few serve fishermen and other customers year round, including the famed Gurney’s Inn.   read more…

Boston, the birthplace of America

13 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Downtown Skyline © Nelson48

Downtown Skyline © Nelson48

Boston is the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and its largest city, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It was named Boston by early settlers from Boston, Lincolnshire in England. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial “Capital of New England” for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper, covering 48.43 square miles (125.43 square km), had an estimated population of 625,087 in 2011 according to the U.S. Census, making it the 21st largest in the country. Boston is also the county seat of Suffolk County and anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.   read more…

The tall ship HMS Bounty

21 January 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Tall ships Reading Time:  7 minutes

Belfast Lough - Tall Ships 2009 © geograph.org.uk - Aubrey Dale

Belfast Lough – Tall Ships 2009 © geograph.org.uk – Aubrey Dale

Bounty (popularly HMS Bounty) was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1960. Her homeport was Greenport, Suffolk County on Long Island.   read more…

Ipswich in East Anglia

2 November 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Cornhill © geograph.org.uk - Michael Wade

Cornhill © geograph.org.uk – Michael Wade

Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe, Needham Market and Stowmarket in Suffolk and Harwich and Colchester in Essex.   read more…

The Hamptons on Long Island

8 August 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  5 minutes

Southampton - National Golf Links of America clubhouse © Americasroof

Southampton - National Golf Links of America clubhouse © Americasroof

The Hamptons may refer to several villages and hamlets in the towns of Southampton and East Hampton on the far east end of Suffolk County on Long Island, New York. These townships occupy the South Fork of Long Island, stretching into the Atlantic Ocean. The Hamptons form a popular seaside resort, one of the historical Summer Colonies of the American Northeast. They have some of the most expensive residential properties in the U.S.   read more…

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