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New on Atlas Obscura: Freedomland U.S.A, Long-Lost Disneyland of the Bronx

by Kat LongArticles July 8, 2015March 5, 20160 comments

While reporting about the east Bronx for my Craft II class at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, I stumbled across the Facebook group for the East Bronx History Forum. The club advertised an upcoming lecture and slideshow about Freedomland U.S.A–the massive, now-demolished theme park in the Bronx once called the “Disneyland of the East.” …

New Article: Samuel Mudd’s Legacy on Smithsonianmag.com

by Kat LongArticles April 28, 20150 comments

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination–and inspired by my recent vacation to Florida–I contributed a feature to Smithsonianmag.com about the little-known legacy of Samuel Mudd. The infamous surgeon who set John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg was sentenced to life and condemned to the notorious army prison at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, a …

New Article: A Tour of the NYC Latke Festival

by Kat LongArticles December 18, 2014January 13, 20150 comments

Hot off the griddle, I wrote a fun feature about the food traditions–old and new–on display at the sixth annual Latke Festival in New York City. I think my favorite iteration was the simple potato pancake with homemade applesauce from The Commons, a new American restaurant in Chelsea. A crispy fried shell encased the creamy …

New Article: Cranberries for Thanksgiving in the Cape Cod Times

by Kat LongArticles November 12, 2014January 12, 20150 comments

Did you know that the very first cranberry recipe printed in an American cookbook was way back in 1796? Just in time for Thanksgiving, I had a food feature on the role of cranberries–one of only three cultivated fruits native to the United States–in the Cape Cod Times. Check it out here!

New Article on ScientificAmerican.com: Whaling logbooks reveal clues to climate change

by Kat LongArticles July 25, 20140 comments

My latest story, “250-Year-Old Eyewitness Accounts of Icier Arctic Attest to Loss of Sea Ice,” has just been posted on Scientific American‘s website. This marks my debut for the nation’s most prestigious science magazine! My story looks at ARCdoc, the research project based at the University of Sunderland, that data-mined old ships’ logbooks for weather …