With late autumn and winter holidays approaching, John Adams High School prepares to celebrate with the community. Beginning Dec. 5, our John Adams ceramics studio is hosting its annual winter holiday sale! Each item placed in the sale is handmade and glazed by a student or teacher. As a student, our classes have been working to aid in this sale, specifically by making festive trees! Students hand-craft trees small and tall, adding unique textures and clay-on-clay designs. Ms. year, each ceramics...

As secretary of the Student Government and the National Honor Society, co-captain of the Quiz Bowl team, copy editor for the yearbook, company member and principal soloist in the upcoming production of  “The Nutcracker” at the Southold Dance Theatre and a full International Baccalaureate (IB) candidate, senior Olivia Rosato is the definition of “she’s done it all.”    As her high school experience comes to an end, Olivia is beginning to consider what she would like to pursue,...

Contemporary folk is a genre that’s quite malleable to artists and their individual perceptions of its musicality. One artist in particular that takes advantage of this tensile genre is Jessica Pratt, a modern “freak” folk¹ singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Jessica Pratt is easily identified by her whimsical vocals and timeless acoustic melodies. She has, arguably, one of the most distinguishable and soulfully eerie voices of the century, though the qualities of which are...