Long Island’s well-being depends on a healthy environment, including healthy beaches, according to Kevin McAllister, who was the Peconic Baykeeper for 16 years and is the founder of Defend H20, a nonprofit organization that advocates for clean water. However, the beaches are in peril due to the rising sea levels associated with climate…

Her Southold studio, located at the boatyard at Port of Egypt Marine, is filled with containers of discarded lighters, balloons, straws, fishing tags and anything else that appears to no longer serve any purpose. Most of the items were found in beach cleanups on Long Island. For Ms. Roe, the garbage can be used to make sculptures of anything…

Never had Richard Doctorow thought his study of whaling history could involve postcards, stamps and a dodo bird. But ahead of the exhibition “Mailing Whaling,” the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum curator is, borderline, swimming in piles of the first two — and mulling over the third. This particular story begins in 1907, when two washed…

When Candace Hill Montgomery touches her fingers to the threads — carefully, energetically, sporadically or messily woven through her handmade loom — her mind slows down. But it does not quiet. She has countless hours of weaving ahead — her most recent collection, “Hills & Valleys,” on view starting Friday, May 24, at the Sag Harbor…