South Fork
	Long Island's East End is splt into two forks formed by the receding Wisconsin Glacier. The Glacier was the creater of the ridge of hills across the center of Long Island like a spine. Glacier holes, formed by ice chunks, give us many of our lakes and ponds. Hamptons Info  The East End Runner The North Fork Page Riverhead east to Orient Point

About Long Island

It is indeed a long island from Manhattan to Montauk. While only 16 miles wide at it's widest point, Long Island is 150 miles long from the Brooklyn Bridge to Montauk Point. While Brooklyn was first settled by the Dutch for farm and grazing land for New Amsterdam, Southampton became the first English colony in New York State in 1640. (although Southold may have something to say about that) Long Island Running Pages

Before the Sunrise, Photo copyright Bob Beattie, March 2005