East End Kisses
August 15, 2016 12:09 am
What are kisses in places like Manhattan compared to kisses in the Hamptons? They usually being amongst the trees, on... Read Story
Author Archives for allison
August 15, 2016 12:09 am
Sylvan Summers
August 15, 2016 12:00 am
My parents bought our summer home here in the Springs in 1997, when I was two. They bought the cozy... Read Story
Who Is Ms. East?
August 14, 2016 11:59 pm
May I dare ask thee: “Who are you, Ms. East?” “How did you come to be, Ms. East?” “What... Read Story
Biking from Southampton to Montauk
August 14, 2016 11:57 pm
The East End of Long Island is home to the oldest collection of historic windmills in the country. There are... Read Story
The Only Place That’s Ever Felt like Home
August 14, 2016 11:56 pm
If I were to squint I could see the paddleboats on Fort Pond. The sun lay heavy on the Sunday... Read Story
Foots’ Life Mattered
August 14, 2016 11:54 pm
SOUTHAMPTON / 1640 – 1969 “The Queen of American Watering Places…A perfect modern residential community and vacation-land rich in... Read Story
A Day in the Life
August 14, 2016 11:53 pm
You wake up at 5:30 as the sun shoots through your screen, egged on by an orchestra of birds and... Read Story
Magic In The Water
August 14, 2016 11:53 pm
Autumn on Long Island is cloudy and quiet. Warm and washed away. Everything is damp: the splintered wood of the... Read Story
The Transition
August 14, 2016 11:52 pm
As a Navy pilot for most of my adult life, I have flown over the Hamptons on numerous occasions but... Read Story
The boy in the woods
August 14, 2016 11:50 pm
My favorite picture of my brother Peter and I sits on my desk. The two of us are standing in... Read Story
Conspiracies of the East End
August 14, 2016 11:45 pm
Time travel experiments. Secret sex societies. A vortex on the south fork and a new world order on the north... Read Story
Shelter Island Safe
August 14, 2016 11:39 pm
Shelter Island gave me confidence and security in the way that only bare feet, unlocked doors, and unsupervised free play... Read Story
The Amistad in Ninevah
August 14, 2016 11:39 pm
When I first saw the Freedom Schooner Amistad, I thought it was a pirate ship—a driftwood revenant, assembled by... Read Story
Thank You Southampton
August 14, 2016 11:36 pm
From the top of an apple orchard in a nature preserve in my hometown of Easton, Connecticut, I catch a... Read Story
Nature Loves You, I Promise
August 14, 2016 11:34 pm
As a person who wants to believe in the things they cannot see, I fear, there is in no way... Read Story
Rose Petals
August 14, 2016 11:29 pm
I found love last year. It began in March, in Hampton Bays. I found a sister to connect to.... Read Story
The Tillinghasts of East End: A Tale of a Sea-Chest and Unhiding the Hidden
August 14, 2016 11:12 pm
When I was coming of age, my own unique bildungsroman in Sioux City, Iowa, my mother’s family talked about their... Read Story
March back to the Hamptons
August 14, 2016 11:11 pm
Under a blazing hot sun, thousands of prisoners of war, slowly walk with little hope to survive excruciating conditions, starvation... Read Story
Home of the Beautiful People
August 14, 2016 11:10 pm
I propped myself with all the pillows from both twin beds in my neighbor’s guestroom and my thumbs blazed across... Read Story
March back to the Hamptons
August 14, 2016 11:09 pm
Under a blazing hot sun, thousands of prisoners of war, slowly walk with little hope to survive excruciating conditions, starvation... Read Story
Finagle’s Law
August 14, 2016 11:04 pm
Finagle’s Law Like most folks, I’d never heard of “Finagle’s Law” before I learned the hard way that it’s... Read Story
Rented Memories
August 14, 2016 10:53 pm
I was so young that I don’t even remember the first year my family began renting a house in Bridgehampton.... Read Story
Southampton Fashion Week
August 14, 2016 10:44 pm
Wherever I go, the first thing I notice is what people are wearing. In New York City, there is so... Read Story
Buffalo to Bridgehampton and Beyond….
August 14, 2016 10:42 pm
Newly married with degrees in education, his in Industrial Arts and mine in Speech Pathology, we packed our Volkswagen... Read Story
THE Hamptons VS the Hamptons
August 14, 2016 10:40 pm
My family and I moved, from out of state, to the Hamptons in the fall of 2008. We had heard... Read Story
The Little Island Wanderer
August 14, 2016 10:34 pm
At twenty, an age when most young adults are trying to figure out who they are, my mother gave birth... Read Story
Where I Live (an excerpt)
August 14, 2016 10:30 pm
We returned to the tangle of place called home in 1994 – me, my husband and our young daughters. I... Read Story
The Little Island Wanderer
August 14, 2016 10:27 pm
At twenty, an age when most young adults are trying to figure out who they are, my mother gave birth... Read Story
Imitations in the Frames
August 14, 2016 10:24 pm
The walls in the hallway of our Noyac home are decorated with many windowed picture frames. Although the walls have... Read Story
Our Own Chickens For Sale
August 14, 2016 10:22 pm
“Do you know the two rules of chicken slaughter? The first is keep your mouth shut. The second, if you... Read Story
Unhamper our Hamptons
August 14, 2016 10:19 pm
Unhamper our Hamptons is my underlying mantra. Understand me, it is not a complaint, yet, an undertaking. Signage overload is... Read Story
Walking Dunes
August 14, 2016 10:18 pm
Moments into East Hampton Middle School’s August 1997 Orientation for Grade 6 & All New Students, my parents and I ascend... Read Story
Another Taste Of Espresso
August 14, 2016 10:15 pm
In the spring of 2015 I stood in front of my public speaking class and proudly announced, “The Last Drop... Read Story
A Summer Sunrise
August 14, 2016 9:55 pm
Fear and icy water swirled around me, crippling me, seeping into my bones and making my body shudder. A wave... Read Story
A Game I Used To Play
August 14, 2016 9:36 pm
There was a time in my life, perhaps in all of our lives, when the world stretched only as far... Read Story
The Ocean’s Rules
August 14, 2016 9:14 pm
Everyone has a different reason to flock to water’s edge. Your need to be near the ocean changes like the... Read Story
Is This Chicken for Sale?
August 14, 2016 9:12 pm
If you’ve worked for years on women’s lifestyle sites, as I have, you know that in late afternoon it all... Read Story
Of Many Lands
August 14, 2016 9:12 pm
In the sixth grade we were assigned to write poems introducing ourselves and Where We’re From. I turned in... Read Story
Scattered
August 14, 2016 9:09 pm
I was born in the water, an effortless passage of life. It was a relatively quick and uncomplicated event... Read Story
There’s Something About Mary’s
August 14, 2016 8:44 pm
It’s a summer tradition and a primary destination for many East End vacationers. The pastry department opens at 5am, and... Read Story
I HAD JUST…..
August 14, 2016 8:35 pm
It was Tuesday morning, not yet 10 AM. I was on the phone. It’s funny – more than two and... Read Story
Endless Love
August 14, 2016 8:29 pm
My father loved the Hamptons. One tranquil spot nestled between East Hampton and Amagansett in particular. Set back off a... Read Story
Lobster Special
August 14, 2016 8:18 pm
“What do you want for dinner?” My dad asks this of me daily whenever I’m out East for a visit.... Read Story
Busman’s Holiday
August 14, 2016 8:17 pm
Toilsome Lane. On most summer mornings, driving down route twenty-seven, I’d take a left down that menacingly named street and... Read Story
The Piano Lesson
August 14, 2016 8:16 pm
Bright dappled sunlight flooded the music room. White colonial shutters on open windows framed an unobstructed waterfront view overlooking... Read Story
Tide Lines
August 14, 2016 7:55 pm
The low grumble of our engine mingled with the herons’ melodic warble. Inside the boat, we were quiet. A foot... Read Story
And So It Goes!
August 14, 2016 7:52 pm
That August 22 was their eighteenth wedding anniversary. They had a lot to celebrate. It was their third wedding anniversary... Read Story
Stan the Man
August 14, 2016 7:42 pm
I live in Montauk because my parents fell in love with this place 45 years ago. They were looking for... Read Story
Save the Trees, Bring Back The Sky Disk
August 14, 2016 7:31 pm
Sometimes it seems like there’s a ‘spell’ over this part of the island. In the air, in the light, in... Read Story
Facing Facts
August 14, 2016 7:29 pm
Over twenty-five years ago, I met and fell in love with the man who would become my husband and father... Read Story
Reflection
August 14, 2016 6:41 pm
As a Russian émigré visiting Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor knowing who established American Ballet and who said: “By blood... Read Story
Facing the Water
August 14, 2016 6:27 pm
The pay stub was for 168.72 cents. It was lying near the futon he slept on, a good 15 feet... Read Story
East Hampton: That’s the Way It Was
August 14, 2016 5:32 pm
I was born in Southampton Hospital in l943 and went to live in East Hampton with my grandparents, George and... Read Story
Behind the Gates
August 14, 2016 5:30 pm
Since I was a child, I remember the many Sunday drives my family would take out to the east end... Read Story
My Very Brief Career
August 14, 2016 5:25 pm
If you knew me when I was a kid growing up on the south shore of Long Island, you’d... Read Story
One GIANT Quantum for Mankind
August 14, 2016 5:21 pm
In the summers of 1938 and 1939 Albert Einstein rented a cottage in Cutchogue. He liked to sail. Its so... Read Story
Buds and Vines
August 14, 2016 4:56 pm
We are married now—although last year at this time, we weren’t. We have a picnic, consisting of North Fork smoked... Read Story
The Benefit
August 14, 2016 4:55 pm
Through a friend of a friend I managed to score an invitation to a charity benefit. Or maybe it was... Read Story
Opioid’s Only Solution
August 14, 2016 4:36 pm
One day in 2008, Jordan Stierle was driving with his cousin and his cousin’s girlfriend to sell stolen videogames. As... Read Story
My MasterCard Commercial
August 14, 2016 4:02 pm
It was summer of 1984 and we had been coming to the Soundview Inn in Southold for a few... Read Story
A lady, her dog, and a Radio Flyer
August 14, 2016 3:42 pm
Driving down the streets in Pelham Manor these days, one might happen to see a rather unusual sight. Unusual, if... Read Story
A Dune Road Life
August 14, 2016 3:36 pm
My earliest memory of Dune Road was fear of its proximity to the sea, unseen, just over the dunes. Looking... Read Story
Town Harbor
August 14, 2016 3:35 pm
My tall son tells me the official term for a group of jellyfish is a smack. A pod of dolphins,... Read Story
The Walls of Jericho
August 14, 2016 3:29 pm
As I pulled up to the address on Jericho Lane, about the only expectation that I had was that I... Read Story
Diamond in the Sand
August 14, 2016 3:15 pm
His tragic death affected me more than it really should have. I didn’t know him, or anything about... Read Story
Brexit and Trump – A view from the Hamptons
August 14, 2016 2:45 pm
I met an Australian woman in the annex at LVIS the other day. If you have not yet stumbled upon... Read Story
Ride Along
August 14, 2016 2:31 pm
As I see it life is just one big ride along. The vehicle we choose determines our destiny perhaps just... Read Story
Comin’ About!
August 14, 2016 2:25 pm
“Ladies and gents of the jury… we’re here to indict the captain and his mate for abandonment, and the folly... Read Story
Sunday
August 14, 2016 2:03 pm
Daybreak. Sun rising. Sea rolling in, dashing out. Sand clumping between my toes. Smooth breeze blowing. Time to say... Read Story
Bad Manners In The Hamptons
August 14, 2016 1:37 pm
Early Sunday morning, the sky was perect blue, the singular scent of privet permeated the July air. So fleeting, yet... Read Story
Shinnecock Dynasty
August 14, 2016 1:37 pm
I did not realize I was in the presence of royalty when my mother introduced me to Princess Nowanda of... Read Story
I Can’t Write a Personal Essay
August 14, 2016 12:08 pm
In 2010, I attended my first writer’s conference at Stony Brook University and signed up for something called Personal... Read Story
One Golden Moment
August 14, 2016 12:08 pm
A lot of speculation has made about the unique and treasured light of the beautiful enclave we call the... Read Story
The White Gate
August 14, 2016 11:42 am
It’s no longer in the family but every once in a while I find myself taking a ride by the... Read Story
I Tied with the Mountain
August 14, 2016 8:49 am
“The Linda Glacier: While this is the most climbed route on Mount Cook, N.Z., it is also one of the... Read Story
All the Feels
August 14, 2016 12:36 am
It smelled like vanilla cream and fish parts. The minute the car doors opened, heat and sunlight flooded our bodies,... Read Story
Night I Could Not Forget
August 14, 2016 12:16 am
It’s like “magic in the making” every time I drive into East Hampton. My mind takes an “about change” photo... Read Story
A Love To Remember
August 13, 2016 11:48 pm
It was four summers ago. I was in Montauk on vacation with my family and my best friend, Alyssa. As... Read Story
Sag Harbor Summer
August 13, 2016 11:38 pm
It was the 80’s. The era of excess. Good music, big hair, short shorts, baggy shirts, rubber bracelets… the list... Read Story
We Don’t Go to Westhampton Anymore
August 13, 2016 11:36 pm
We don’t go to Westhampton Dunes anymore. We sold our little beach house a few years ago at my insistence.... Read Story
Unfixed, Transfixed, Transfigured
August 13, 2016 10:16 pm
We left home that day trying to relive a moment. The morning began with mom, waking calmly, and packing some... Read Story
Some Things I Remember
August 13, 2016 9:10 pm
I am in the backyard. I am six years old and my dad is painting a bunch of buoys so... Read Story
The Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Pedigree
August 13, 2016 8:20 pm
It’s no coincidence – though perhaps it can be considered a culinary manifest destiny – that the East End of... Read Story
Family Camps
August 13, 2016 6:35 pm
July 4th, 1961 I am a tubby, towheaded, seven-year-old girl perched on the edge of a wooden float on Great... Read Story
Garden in a bowl
August 13, 2016 6:28 pm
Late July is Gazpacho season on eastern Long Island. Farms and gardens are full of the essential ingredients: crisp cucumbers,... Read Story
The Seabird’s Cry
August 13, 2016 5:35 pm
The morning rain had stopped. Pools of quiet water covered broad swaths of road winding to the town dump. I... Read Story
Bridge to Tokyo
August 13, 2016 5:09 pm
Sag Harbor, a Hamptons village where you can still feel the breath of the old whaling town it used to... Read Story
Home Away From Home
August 13, 2016 2:19 pm
It seems as though it could never be the same, yet somehow it always is. I’ve never been on a... Read Story
“Sounds of Myself”
August 13, 2016 1:07 pm
(selected pieces from memoir of grieving) Widower On day #1, only a few hours after he dies, you realize that... Read Story
Releasing Butterflies and Dragonflies!!!
August 13, 2016 12:32 pm
Ah ….The sweaty, sweaty days of summer camp !!! The kids just called me “Miss GWENNNNNN!” They... Read Story
White Dunes in Rosetta Stone
August 13, 2016 11:23 am
Gripped with the sort of panic that seizes just about any man left alone with his kids, I take Dempsey’s... Read Story
A Place You’ll Never See
August 13, 2016 10:21 am
On Saturday, April 5, 2014, the writer Peter Matthiessen died at his home in Sagaponack where he had lived for... Read Story
When Fireflies Dance In The Hamptons
August 13, 2016 8:55 am
Summer nights in the Hamptons can be a surprisingly quiet, reflective time, especially when you live in an old sea... Read Story
The Stallion
August 13, 2016 8:22 am
The pills were red. And I had long since promised to never go higher than the trees. But the vibe... Read Story
The Summer of 1945—The Man of the House
August 12, 2016 10:51 pm
My story begins like a Horatio Alger novel. My grandfather, Percy Ticehurst Cuthbert (known as P.T.) was the son of... Read Story
Essay
August 12, 2016 10:25 pm
Moving to a new school and state can be challenging. As a daughter of the south, I assumed that there... Read Story
Seeking Solace and Soul Restoration in Sag
August 12, 2016 10:17 pm
After days of campaigning as a candidate for New York’s historic 13th Congressional seat, I was fried. I had to... Read Story
Sitting in Hamptons’ Traffic on a Tuesday Morning
August 12, 2016 7:42 pm
There are three different Hamptons. There is the locals’ Hamptons, the vacationers’ Hamptons, and finally, the commuter’s Hamptons. In case... Read Story
Wind-Swept Sands
August 12, 2016 7:29 pm
I awoke one morning to a resounding rumble somewhere in the distance, somewhere down. At first, it sounded familiar –... Read Story
East End Impact
August 12, 2016 7:07 pm
The Hamptons mean the world to me. For me, the East End of Long Island has been more than a... Read Story
