Frank Sorrentino has been a highly valued volunteer and friend to the LIC for close to five years; he has continuously transcribed valuable account books in the collection, and for the past four years has completed six account books and numerous loose documents of Robert Townsend, General George Washington’s chief spy out of New York. A retired insurance executive, Frank has developed expertise in colonial currencies, accounting practices, and respective histories to his important projects.

Steve Russell Boerner has been an archivist in the LIC for over ten years; his responsibilities include original Library of Congress cataloging of our vast collection, working collaboratively with Frank to enhance the transcriptions into readily findable tools, digitization, and helping patrons navigate our resources. As Steve has a background in land surveying, his area of specialization and interest is land and cartographic information.

EDWARD FASZCZEWSKI  In the late 1950s at the age of 12, Ed Faszczewski moved with his family to Plum Island, where his father was a lab supervisor at the animal disease research center. They were among the first civilian families to live on the government-owned island, located east of Orient Point. Join us for this fascinating first-person account. of life on mysterious Plum Island.

SUSAN L. SOLOMON, co-founder and CEO of The New York Stem Cell Foundation, is a longtime health care advocate, entrepreneur and lawyer. She received a New York Women of Excellent Award from the governor of New York in 2008 and a 2015 Living Landmark Honoree for establishing NYSCF.

PROF. CHIRSTOPHER J. GOBLER directs the Gobler Lab of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, where scientists conduct research in plankton ecology with special interest in the factors that promote the growth of organic and inorganic nutrients. The lab also focuses on harmful algal blooms as they manifest both locally and nationally.

SCOTT COWEN retired as  Tulane University’s 14th president in 2014 and was subsequently named Distinguished University Professor . During his tenure,Time named him one of the nation’s ten best college presidents. He led the university to a remarkable recovery after Hurricane Katrina flooded 70 percent of Tulane’s uptown campus.

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MIKE TRACEY is the East Hampton Village Police Captain and Emergency Preparedness Coordinator is a thirty-two year member of the East Hampton Village Police Department, where he currently serves as Executive Officer.  He drafted the village’s Emergency Operations plan.

PRESTON T. PHILLIPS is a noted local architect who from his Bridgehampton base has designed residential projects from the Hamptons to Palm Beach and Naples, Florida, to townhouses in New York City along with significant retail projects.Connoisseur magazine has called him “a man of his time.” House & Garden lauded the “resonant definition to an open space” he gave to a Manhattan loft. The Hamptons described him as a “visionary young architect.” His work has been featured in Southern Accents, Interior Design, Elle Decor, Dwell and Architectural Digest among other publications.

ELISABETH L. ROSENTHAL, M.D. is an award-winning New York Times senior writer who trained at Harvard and what is now NY-Presbyterian Hospital as a medical doctor. Her two-year-long series for the Times on health care costs,““Paying Till It Hurts,” inspired her current book project, to be published in 2017. Beats she has covered for the Times include health care, international environment, and a six-year stint as a foreign correspondent based in China. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford and also holds an M.A.  in English literature from Cambridge University, where she was a Marshall Scholar. 

ROBERT S. CHALONER has been president and CEO of Southampton Hospital since 2006, where he is actively engaged in stabilizing and rebuilding the hospital’s financial and operating performance, as well as reestablishing the hospital’s community reputation. In his current role, he chairs the CEO Council for the East End Health Alliance and is Co-Chair of the eHealth of Long Island Regional health Information Organization.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth with an M.S. and M.P.H from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from New York University. 

PATRICK HEALY is a New York Times reporter now covering the 2016 Presidential election campaign–his fourth. Previous assignments include Afghanistan, Iraq, and his groundbreaking coverage of  Broadway theater through the lens of culture and business.

KIM FIELD  is the author of Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers: The Evolution of the People’s Instrument, the premier book on the instrument’s history. He is also an accomplished performer, having shared stages with Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Cotton, Walter Horton, and other blues luminaries.

RANDY WEINSTEIN  is the co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Harmonica, one of the most popular harmonica instructional guides currently available. Randy has performed and recorded with jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson and the popular Americana/World Music confab Hazmat Modine.