Media

MEDIA (selected)
News and Press

Fire Island

Feature profile, Stony Brook University homepage:  “Archive of Achievements,” July 2-14, 2024.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240703013346/https://www.stonybrook.edu 

Heidi Sutton, “Culper Spy Day returns to the North Shore on September 7,” TBR NewsMedia, September 2, 2024. https://tbrnewsmedia.com/culper-spy-day-returns-to-the-north-shore-on-september-7

Feature profile in Stony Brook University Magazine, Liza N. Burby, “Archive of Achievements,” Spring 2024, 31-33.
https://mag.stonybrook.edu/archive-of-achievements

“Melville Library Celebrates 60 Years of Knowledge, Innovation and Community,” SBU News, January 31, 2024.
https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/melville-library-celebrates-60-years-of-knowledge-innovation-and-community/ 

“Book of the Month: Long Island Beaches,” Three Village History Society, January 12, 2024.
https://www.facebook.com/threevillagehistoricalsociety/posts/pfbid034weaEnyTCByZ7TmFPyX1gsekWqCu871LZ2mGjRTzxEGPnQXtrCvfQcVzvB6nSQMQl 

“SBUnique”: Art tour of Stony Brook University

  • Stony Brook University, “Brookology: Things to Do on Campus”

https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/brookology/on-campus 

Charles Henry Miller Collection

“Port Jefferson Volunteers Build Replica of Boat Used by Revolutionary War Spy Who Helped George Washington,” by Bart Jones, Newsday, May 30, 2023. https://archive.is/yRopV

Dan’s Papers Archive

“Three Village Historical Society celebrates their 43rd annual awards dinner,” Village Times Herald, June 8, 2023, https://tbrnewsmedia.com/three-village-historical-society-celebrates-their-43rd-annual-awards-dinner/ 

“How to Organize, Clean, and Maintain Cookbooks.” The New York Times (Wirecutter). Article by Michael Sullivan, April 21, 2022.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/how-to-organize-clean-and-maintain-cookbooks

“Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility.” Hanging Together: the OCLC Research Blog. Post by Jay Weitz, April 19, 2022.

https://hangingtogether.org/advancing-ideas-inclusion-diversity-equity-accessibility-2022-april-19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advancing-ideas-inclusion-diversity-equity-accessibility-2022-april-19

“The Culper Spy Letter: A New Discovery at the Long Island Museum.” Long Island Museum, 2021.
https://longislandmuseum.org/exhibition/the-culper-spy-letter-a-new-discovery-at-the-long-island-museum-2/ 

“Spying History: Newly Unearthed Letter Sheds Light on LI’s Culper Ring.” Newsday, March 29, 2021.

“SBU Libraries to Document Stony Brook’s Experience with COVID-19.” Times Beacon Record Newspapers. September 21, 2020.

“Stony Brook Celebrates Walt Whitman’s Legacy,” Stony Brook University News, May 22, 2019.
https://news.stonybrook.edu/long-island/stony-brook-celebrates-walt-whitmans-legacy/ 

“Culper Spy Day Festival in Setauket.” Newsday, September 10, 2018.

“Spy Day in Setauket: Communities Bring to Life the Patriots that Helped Washington Win the War.” Article by Jim Merritt. Newsday, September 10, 2018, 2.

“Following The Bouncing Ball: Tennis for Two…at The Strong!. The Strong: National Museum of Play, January 13, 2017.
https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/following-the-bouncing-ball-tennis-for-two-at-the-strong

“Stony Brook University gets Gardiner Foundation Grant,” Newsday, February 20, 2016.

“Gardiner Foundation Gift Aims to Foster Roots and Relevance of LI’s Place in U.S. History,” Stony Brook University News, February 9, 2016.
https://news.stonybrook.edu/alumni/gardiner-foundation-gift-aims-to-foster-roots-and-relevance-of-lis-place-in-us-history-2/ 

“Setauket Elementary Students Get Close-up History Lesson.” Article by Christine Sampson, September 13, 2011. 

“Collecting: Need a Chinese Recipe? Check Stony Brook.” Article by Vivian Toy. New York Times, July 9, 2006.

Television

Untitled series, Travel Channel, Discovery Communications: “Spies, George Washington, and the American Revolution.” Commentary and interview, 2017.

Mysteries of the Museum, season 21: “Spy from Setauket” (television). Travel Channel, Discovery Communications. Research and arrangements, 2017.

Long Island’s Hidden Past: “Special Collections, Stony Brook University Libraries.” Commentary and interview. News 12 Long Island, 2016.

Secrets from the Arsenal: “George Washington and the Culper Spy Ring.” Commentary and interview. America’s Heroes Channel, Discovery Communications (formerly The Military Channel) April 2014.

Segment on Special Collections at Stony Brook University about the acquisition of a 1779 George Washington letter. Commentary and interview. News 12, Long Island, 2010.

Films

Greetings from Fire Island, Long Island, New York. Commentary and interview on journalist and women’s rights activist Margaret Fuller. Documentary. Los Angeles: Pacific View Productions, 2012. (aired on PBS affiliates WLIW 21/WNET)

Conservation of Historical George Washington Letters (short film). Commentary and interview. The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, Stony Brook, NY, July-December 2014.

When Games Went Click: The Story of Tennis for Two (short film). Researcher. New York: The Vladar Company. 2013.

Rare Bird: The Rediscovery of a Lost Species on Bermuda. [Boston, Mass.]: WGBH Boston Video. Film credit and acknowledgement. 2009.

Podcasts

Long Island History Project: “Washington’s Spy Letters (podcast series). Commentary and interview. (2018)

Other Interviews

“Preserving History: An Interview with Director of Special Collections and University Archives Kristen Nyitray.” Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal, November 23, 2021.
https://you.stonybrook.edu/undergraduatehistoryjournal/2021/11/23/preserving-history-an-interview-with-director-of-special-collections-and-university-archives-kristen-nyitray/

“Finding the History of a Culture in Library Cookbook Collections.” Interview with Amy Rea for EveryLibrary, May 4, 2021. https://action.everylibrary.org/finding_the_history_of_a_culture_in_library_cookbook_collections

“Meet the Faculty.” Interview with Tearah Harrigan. Stony Brook University Libraries. October 29, 2020.