A New Glow
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Ever since life appeared on Earth, the sunset marked the day’s end. No light, no work, but humans figured out... Read Story
Author Archives for allison
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Cash Rules Everything Around Me
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
I am not well versed in economics, or business, or stock market lingo; I am competent in a variety of... Read Story
Baited—Hook, Line & Sinker
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The East End has me baited—hook, line, and sinker. Delivered by the tide and baptized by ocean spray, I am... Read Story
A Handful of Nothing but Sand
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
When I was young, my family had no base. My father was in finance and we spent most of our... Read Story
Amado
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
I used to play softball up at Maidstone Park with an eclectic group of men ranging in age from 20... Read Story
Sun, Sea, and Sound
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
You now understand why Shakespeare compared love to a summer’s day—because nothing in this world is truly more lovely, or... Read Story
Aboard the Shinnecock Star
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
There were those from south of the Highway and others who reside above the barrier, but it was the best... Read Story
Beach
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Imagine a beach, the exotic kind in Costa Rica or the Bahamas. It’s always warm, every day of the year.... Read Story
The Young Man and The Bay
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The sun had no business shining so brightly on the Shinnecock Bay Club. It was early, too early in fact,... Read Story
A Morning’s Reflection
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
I sit squashed in the shotgun seat of our small blue GMC pickup, my hulking brother’s beefy thigh and a... Read Story
Life of A Local
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
When most people hear the words “The Hamptons”, they immediately think of summer, the beach, parties, the expensive pricing of... Read Story
My Life on the East End (Well at least so far)
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Dear Reader, When is the last time you received a letter? You know one from an old friend,... Read Story
Grown Ups
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
One of my most vivid Shelter Island High School memories was this one time my classmates offered me a ride... Read Story
Kayaking Nightmare
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Each summer, I help teach kids how to write poetry at a camp on Shelter Island, New York. In this... Read Story
My Little Paradise
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Throughout the years I have noticed how we all long for more, but that longing does not always fulfil us.... Read Story
Home Is Where The Hamptons Are
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
I was born in a house that my father built. That’s not a rip off line from Richard Nixon either;... Read Story
White House, Red Flowers
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
There’s a white house on the corner of Woods Lane and Main. Marked by window boxes consistently stocked with red... Read Story
Plant Matter
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The thing most instantly striking as I was dropped, alone, along the overgrown field’s perimeter, was the absolute and unmitigated... Read Story
My Last Summer In The Hamptons
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
This summer in the Hamptons was fun filled with amazing activities, but was hard to enjoy. Usually people would... Read Story
The Montauk March
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
You need a car to do Montauk. It’s nine in the morning and Andy’s train will arrive any second. I... Read Story
Warfield Way
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Every summer before the house was sold, my mother’s side of the family would venture out east to Southampton, where... Read Story
Hereabouts
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Gambrel. That’s what it’s called. I would have never come to it in all my inflamed pre-dawn graduation party ramblings... Read Story
Pizza On Me
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Little rays of the hot July sun slipped lazily through the cracks of the blinds. I brought my fists up... Read Story
In My Place
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The French have a term they use called mise en place, which loosely translates to “put in place”. It’s one... Read Story
Reflections of Hog Creek
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The drive east to the house in Clearwater Beach always felt so long despite the fact that it never took... Read Story
Withstanding the Winds of Time: Beebe Windmill’s Journey Through Hamptons History
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Partially concealed behind a row of manicured hedges off of Bridgehampton’s Ocean Road is a peculiar little wrinkle in time:... Read Story
Sandy Roots
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
A clearing along the mountain trail emerges to reveal an open ledge, and I cannot help but briefly stop to... Read Story
Behind the Curtain: The Strange Reality of the Local
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
I wonder if it’s all an act. Watching people in “The Hamptons” as if they’re on a very long, expensive... Read Story
A Three-Story Memorial
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The phone rang and my mom picked it up. A look at her expressions told me that it must be... Read Story
Passengers
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
My first trip to the East End began at a bus stop during the early morning, far north near the... Read Story
How a Nice Jewish Boy Became a Long Island Redneck
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
I’m not sure when it was exactly, I think it was ten or eleven years ago, but I know it’s... Read Story
Busman’s Holiday
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
Most summer mornings I commute from Bridgehampton to East via the twenty-seven. On the outskirts of East Hampton, by the... Read Story
The First Breath of Summer
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The escape from Queens is always a nightmare. Sorry, let me repeat that. The lovely vacation time away from home... Read Story
The Bay
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
The wind whips my hair, smelling of salt and seaweed. The car bounces, then splashes through a puddle, spraying my... Read Story
Behind the Fence at Camp Hero
April 5, 2016 2:11 pm
I look out the window in the car catching glimpses of the ocean. We are on the long winding... Read Story
Coming Home
April 5, 2016 2:05 pm
“Mom, after I graduate college, I want us to live on Shelter,” I said, turning Beyonce’s latest hit up, as... Read Story
Back to the Shore
April 5, 2016 2:05 pm
“See that? The wave action that results from water hitting there erodes so much sand as to disrupt the major... Read Story
The Golden Days
April 5, 2016 2:04 pm
I once knew of very few things, but of those things I was sure. I knew that night was the... Read Story
A Night on the Town
April 5, 2016 2:03 pm
Like a driving storm, thousands of people descend upon the east end for the Fourth of July, causing the beaches,... Read Story
GREAT LESSONS LEARNED
April 5, 2016 4:12 am
In 1959, I was a young 20-year-old boy being discharged from the United States Coast Guard. I was already married... Read Story
The “Off-Season”
April 3, 2016 2:23 pm
“There’s a dead deer in the driveway,” I told my husband over the phone. What could he do really; he... Read Story
The Initiation
April 3, 2016 2:31 am
“There’s a dead deer in the driveway,” I told my husband over the phone. What could he do really, he... Read Story
Beach Walks
August 15, 2015 11:59 pm
I’m a walker. When I’m in the City I walk my dog to and around Central Park every morning –... Read Story
My East End Home
August 15, 2015 11:58 pm
I never had a house in the Hamptons. Nor have I ever resided in Riverhead. I don’t have a manor... Read Story
A Bike Ride to Montauk
August 15, 2015 11:57 pm
Upon meeting someone new, “where are you from?” will inevitably come up. I have always skirted around this question... Read Story
Once upon a house…
August 15, 2015 11:56 pm
Remarkable perhaps only to myself, I find that I have arrived at an age such that if you needed to... Read Story
How the Hamptons Saved My Life
August 15, 2015 11:49 pm
Hi! My name is Asta and I am a 12-year old wire-haired fox terrier. Do you have an owner? I... Read Story
Blue Water Sunrise
August 15, 2015 11:47 pm
As long as I can remember the East End has drawn me to it like a huge magnet. Its seaside... Read Story
From The East Side To The East End
August 15, 2015 11:47 pm
When my father moved from Manhattan’s Upper East Side to the East End of Long Island in the dead... Read Story
Adventures of a Hamptons Social Butterfly
August 15, 2015 11:46 pm
My birthday is around the corner. Birthdays often cause many to reflect on where one’s life is at the present... Read Story
The Day We “Dissed” Alec Baldwin (unintentionally, of course)
August 15, 2015 11:43 pm
It was a few days before Hurricane Sandy hit Long Island. My friend and I were on our way to... Read Story
Looking for Larry Rivers, 1993
August 15, 2015 11:42 pm
I had always wanted to meet Larry Rivers. Many years ago, at a party at Bob Abrams’ loft, I saw... Read Story
The Edge of the Earth
August 15, 2015 11:37 pm
I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and spent my formative years in Bay Ridge; moving to Long Island as a... Read Story
TO HAVE NEVER LOST AT ALL: The Legend of Long Island’s Greatest High School Basketball Team of the 20th Century / Part 1
August 15, 2015 11:35 pm
In the dead of winter amidst the dormant off season peculiar to high society’s most celebrated summer resort, sons of... Read Story
Some Nights At The Tidewater
August 15, 2015 11:33 pm
Nights pay out slow at the Tidewater. The little bar sits along an unloved stretch of Montauk Highway, a rattletrap... Read Story
The Box
August 15, 2015 11:22 pm
At age fifteen, I was troubled. With undiagnosed, flagrant bipolar disorder, I masked my distractedness with contempt. For anything or... Read Story
I Know the Churches by their Basements
August 15, 2015 11:19 pm
I once claimed that I never spend time in church. A friend heard me say this and said, yeah you... Read Story
A Tale of Two Hamlets In Song
August 15, 2015 11:18 pm
What on earth can Quogue, the crown jewel of the Un-Hamptons, have in common with the rural backwater of Nutbush,... Read Story
First Impressions
August 15, 2015 11:14 pm
“I’m spending next week in the Hamptons. Do you want to come?”, my host Tim asked me. It was late... Read Story
A Tale of Two Hamlets, In Song
August 15, 2015 11:13 pm
What on earth can Quogue, the crown jewel of the Un-Hamptons, have in common with the rural backwater of Nutbush,... Read Story
The Day the Sun Set on East Narrows
August 15, 2015 11:09 pm
Social Media is all consuming for those who don’t put time limits on contributions. But Instagram is one of those... Read Story
Garden in a Bowl
August 15, 2015 11:07 pm
It was the middle of August, 1971. I was seventeen and had enjoyed a classic East End day off from... Read Story
Hamptons Morning
August 15, 2015 11:05 pm
Paparazzi was in front of the building and before the doorman could open the door they began shooting . The... Read Story
Soldier Ride
August 15, 2015 11:04 pm
The story below is a 3 day window into the first of my two cycling trips across America for and with wounded soldiers.... Read Story
Coping Mechanism
August 15, 2015 11:01 pm
“You learn to lie a lot.” I let that comment sit for a moment, and noted in the next the... Read Story
I met my Dead Mother in Westhampton Beach
August 15, 2015 10:51 pm
Losing a parent is never easy. My mother passed unexpectedly. I was in my early 30’s pregnant with my first... Read Story
Night Vision
August 15, 2015 10:47 pm
All is stillness and silence when you step onto the beach. Until you stop and watch and listen. Then everything... Read Story
Out East
August 15, 2015 10:25 pm
I am not a good storyteller. I am not the life of the party. I am not that “guy” who... Read Story
The Tillinghasts of East End: A Tale of Unhiding the Hidden
August 15, 2015 10:17 pm
When I was coming of age, my own unique bildungsroman in Sioux City, Iowa, my mother’s family used to talk... Read Story
A Home On God’s Celestial Shore
August 15, 2015 9:56 pm
He saunters through the backyard while the adults talk about money. A fifteen-year-old boy greets, with courtly eyes, the trees... Read Story
What Sandy Gave us
August 15, 2015 9:48 pm
It was like this when the storm came. The birds evaporated into nothing. They had an aerial view of the... Read Story
Sesame Street Physics and Paper Tigers
August 15, 2015 9:47 pm
Sensing a great opportunity for the whole East End as well as for myself, I signed on to assist the... Read Story
Four Score
August 15, 2015 9:46 pm
Prelude It has been said: “The nature of youth is that you do not know much.” I knew very... Read Story
Finding Reggie
August 15, 2015 9:42 pm
The 4th of July parade in New Suffolk is a gloriously simple march each year. Observers unfold their chairs to... Read Story
Casting Flowers to the Sea
August 15, 2015 9:35 pm
My classmates and I grew up with the ocean. As children we learned to romp in the break and to... Read Story
A Petition for Long Island Secession
August 15, 2015 9:35 pm
I hate summer. Before you call me cynical, understand that my unwavering distaste comes from a sincere sense of loyalty... Read Story
Where the Light Lives
August 15, 2015 9:04 pm
You can see it most clearly in those places where sea, sky and land converge. Although “see” is not exactly... Read Story
Fagotto
August 15, 2015 8:54 pm
When I was in the fourth grade I started playing the bassoon. What better instrument for a shy, awkward girl... Read Story
Behind the Curtain: The Strange Reality of the Local
August 15, 2015 8:33 pm
I wonder if it’s all an act. Watching people in “The Hamptons” as if they’re on a very long, expensive... Read Story
Paradise on Gerard Drive
August 15, 2015 8:31 pm
When I took a subtle right from Fireplace Road onto Gerard Drive in Springs, I could feel the tension leave... Read Story
Undertow
August 15, 2015 8:29 pm
Too many instances of getting knocked off my feet and pulled under the waves have rendered me not a beach... Read Story
Gone Clamming
August 15, 2015 8:16 pm
It was mid-afternoon; the sweltering sun made Three Mile’s shallow green waters iridescent, creating twinkles so tremendous it seemed as... Read Story
Smith’s Creek
August 15, 2015 7:11 pm
That year, Michael invited us inside their house for the first time. He wanted to show us a Ninja Turtle... Read Story
Endless Summer
August 15, 2015 7:00 pm
I don’t remember the first time that I met Rick, but had I known how much our lives would intertwine... Read Story
375 Years of Southampton History Shot to Hell
August 15, 2015 6:23 pm
DISCLAIMER: In the normal course of my writing, I am usually compelled to issue a disclaimer at the end of... Read Story
Accidental Heroes – a reminiscence
August 15, 2015 6:16 pm
When I was 4-1/2 the family moved from Pittsburgh to Yonkers, NY. At 5:30 am on the day after we... Read Story
Hither Hills
August 15, 2015 6:14 pm
The tent was illuminated by the hissing Coleman lantern and two burner stove heating up the coffee. I was a... Read Story
Some Folks Like To Get Away, Take A Holiday From The Neighborhood
August 15, 2015 5:51 pm
I am not sure how the decision was made as to which restaurant we would dine one Saturday evening, whether... Read Story
Starfish Fix
August 15, 2015 5:38 pm
The fix is always in. It has to be. Somebody is always wanting something that they simply aren’t fixed to... Read Story
July 16, 2015
August 15, 2015 5:37 pm
A quote by Norman Mailer crossed my path today. I was in the bookstore in Sag Harbor, and a book... Read Story
Napeague of Summers Past
August 15, 2015 5:35 pm
As autumn light infiltrates the sky with the promise of the Perseid meteor showers and then September, my heart returns... Read Story
Underway: On Inheriting a Boat
August 15, 2015 5:28 pm
How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because... Read Story
The Book Of Shadows
August 15, 2015 5:08 pm
“Watchtowers of the East – We welcome you, the element of air, the use of intellect. Watchtowers of the South... Read Story
Chiquitita
August 15, 2015 4:47 pm
I caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye, on a beach in Europe no less.... Read Story
Summer Love
August 15, 2015 4:36 pm
Four is a wondrous age, a time when anything and everything is possible. I recollect passing half of... Read Story
Be-You-Tee-Full!
August 15, 2015 4:26 pm
They say that home is where you hang your hat. Although I may have hung my hat in Munich for... Read Story
Summer Renter
August 15, 2015 4:18 pm
You’re not the only one with a summer rental, reads the sign in the window of the J. Crew on... Read Story
Shamanista
August 15, 2015 3:03 pm
It was my best friend’s birthday and she threw herself quite a party at bar d.b.a. in the East Village.... Read Story
Flow
August 15, 2015 2:54 pm
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. —William Shakespeare On a steamy evening toward the end of August,... Read Story
New Suffolk Avenue and the ’67 Schwinn Transporter
August 15, 2015 2:50 pm
Ideas and images of youth: dreams and visions to perform, create, uncertainty, then eventually heading off to the big city... Read Story
