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On the
Lookout
Originally
published in the Vital Signs section of Newsday, 11/25/01
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It may be too cold to hurry down to the beach
anymore, but visitors to www.mypointlookout.com are guaranteed a
good warm feeling if they go there online - particularly if
they've ever lived in Point Lookout. Or still do.
Julie McTernan and Barb Fiorillo, former residents who spend
summers there, launched the nonprofit site in May. "We both
love the town and thought it would be interesting to bring both
our perspectives to the site," said McTernan, 36, of
Manhattan.
The community may be only 12 blocks long with perhaps 800 houses,
she said, but its small-town feel has meant the world to McTernan
and Fiorillo, 39, of Malverne.
"People come together here in good times and bad, so we
wanted to try and figure out, with our technical expertise, how to
capture this online without ruining it," McTernan said.
Beyond the colorful beach chairs seen onscreen are links to recent
births and deaths, scheduled church dinners, civic meetings and
holiday parties - and a sense of home. Because both women have
worked in Web development jobs, building and maintaining the site
themselves was easy, McTernan said.
"What was hard was convincing people in Point Lookout it was
OK to let the world know our little town," she said.
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Copyright @ 2001 by Julie
McTernan and Barb
Fiorillo
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