Touring the Scully Estate in Islip
Photo credit: Yana Paskova | A crowd tours Scully Mansion at the Suffolk County Environmental Center in Islip. (May 19, 2012)
Peggy Mahoney, a docent and tour guide, walks into a turret-shaped room with large windows that offer an almost 360-degree panorama of pristine South Shore woods. "This was Happy's sleeping porch," she says, referring to the screened room where Hathaway Weekes Scully, the home's last private owner, used to nap on hot summer days.
Long Island's estates were once exclusive enclaves of the rich...
