by Jeanne Marie Merkel & Beth Young On an afternoon in late May, just after school let out, Shelter Island Middle and High School students embarked on a rare experience on the lawn of the neighboring Community Center — becoming the first students on the East End to build "seahorse hotels," an experimental new habitat| The Peconic Bathtub | On the Water, Between the Forks
Hurricane Sandy was a formative experience for many young people on the East End who experienced the floodwaters inundating the shoreline at a time when they might not have had the vocabulary to fully process what was happening. Over the past several months, 21 teenagers from five high schools on the South Fork with the| The Peconic Bathtub | On the Water, Between the Forks