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North Fork Works

North Fork Works

By: Hazel Kahan WPKN
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 On North Fork Works, Hazel Kahan interviews her neighbors on the north fork of the East End of New York’s Long Island. Listen to their conversations about the local environment, overdevelopment and civic activism, all focused on saving what’s left.© 2026 Hazel Kahan, WPKN Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Beth Young reports on the state of the East End's five towns

    Beth Young reports on the state of the East End's five towns
    Jan 17 2026

    Beth Young reports on the state of the East End's five towns

    Beth Young, veteran reporter and founder-publisher of East End Beacon and eastendbeacon.com provides and update on the challenges facing the East End of Long Island as well as the many reason to celebrate its latest developments. (Broadcast on WPKN January 22, 2026)
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    30 mins
  • Shauna Scholl: being director of a public library in these changing times

    Shauna Scholl: being director of a public library in these changing times
    Nov 19 2025

    Shauna Scholl, executive director of Mattituck-Laurel Library on the North Fork of Long Island, talks about how these changing times have affected the challenges and gratifications of being a public librarian in a small town.
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    30 mins
  • Mark Torres: "Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood"

    Mark Torres: "Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood"
    Oct 9 2025

    Labor and employment attorney Mark A. Torres, tells the true and shameful story about the scores of Suffolk County migrant farm labor camps that housed hundreds of migrant workers on the North Fork and other of Long Island’s east end towns and villages between 1943 and 2000. The book chronicles the many aspects of this dark history including the human suffering of the camps’ inhabitants; the cause and effect of these camps; and the factors leading to their eventual decline. (WPKN, July 2021)
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    30 mins
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