North Fork Works

Jen Murray, North Fork resident and leading environmentalist, talks about her lifelong engagement with the natural world, as a chicken, pig and organic vegetable farmer and now as founder of Turtleback Conservation Center with its mission to protect endangered species and educate the public along with supporting citizen science projects. Jen also runs a youth nature camp for youth that offers archery and fencing training.  Photo: Piping Plover by Laura Helf
(Broadcast on WPKN July 23,2026)

North Fork resident, civic activist and leader Charlie Gueli talks about his book Fixing Federal Dysfunction: A Guide to Saving Democracy in which he urges citizens to inform themselves before casting their vote and provides ways in which voters can claim their rightful power by engaging in ongoing constructive dialogues with their representatives. (North Fork Works on WPKN, March 28. 2026)

Author and gerontologist Bonnie Stock talks to Hazel Kahan on North Fork Works about the novels and nonfiction book inspired by her career in the adult care industry. (WPKN April 23, 2026)

Eleanor Morris Lingo: 89-year old native of Southold tells us about being an African-American woman living and working through the 1940s, 50s, 60s—in Southold, Bridgeport, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Greenport–until the present day.(Produced by Tony Ernst and broadcast on WPKN on December 2, 2015). Ms. Lingo died at home in Southold, NY in June 22, 2025.  She was 99 years old.

Executive Director Minerva Perez talking about the Latino-focused nonprofit advocacy OLA of Eastern Long Island: its history, growth and presence on Long Island's east end.

Founded in 2014 by Tia Fulford, the nonprofit Butterfly Effect Project empowers young girls on the East End of Long Island and beyond to become a generation of strong, independent and successful women. (Broadcast on WPKN Feb. 27, 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)

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.

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)