Nor’easter Part II/Montauk
August 12, 2015 1:33 pm
My chance to surf big waves came just a few days after a Nor’easter slammed Long Island. The sky was... Read Story
Author Archives for allison
August 12, 2015 1:33 pm
Nor’Easter Part I/Hampton Bays/Shinnecock
August 12, 2015 1:18 pm
A Nor’easter had been blowing for a few days now. I could hear it at night. It rattled the house... Read Story
Bill Sokolin 1930-2015 In Memoriam
August 12, 2015 12:40 pm
On July 25th, we sprinkled Bill’s ashes in Gardener’s Bay right off Montauk Point. lt was his wish to “buried’... Read Story
100 Miles
August 12, 2015 10:41 am
I am far too young, poor and good-looking to be retired, but, the truth is, I’ve always been... Read Story
Beach Glass
August 11, 2015 11:44 pm
My serenity. My relaxation. My Peconic. It’s amazing how when I concentrate really hard on finding that one particular item... Read Story
The Wahlers in Wainscott
August 11, 2015 10:33 pm
Elizabeth was adopted. Her older brother, Frederick, was too. Since I was nine, I figured their parents were as well.... Read Story
One Day
August 11, 2015 9:45 pm
I pictured the house, a traditional white clapboard with black shutters and one bowed window. It sat far enough from... Read Story
A Peconic Relationship
August 11, 2015 8:49 pm
We sat in the back of a self-help group for gay men trying to make sense of their bad habits.... Read Story
Out
August 11, 2015 6:58 pm
I never said I wanted to glide. I also did not count on digging myself out of an insurmountable hole... Read Story
Long Island Wines: Not Quite Napa But Getting There
August 11, 2015 4:56 pm
Dutch and English settlers in the 17th century battled over land rights in Lange Eylant ignoring the rights of the... Read Story
The Summer Place — A Reprise
August 11, 2015 4:51 pm
Looking forward to these months at the Summer house keeps me going all Winter. The physical conditions there are... Read Story
The Boat People
August 11, 2015 12:37 pm
Nestled on the end of the Island way past the who’s who, the old money, the grand McMansions and... Read Story
A Dog’s Story
August 11, 2015 11:11 am
My father was Charlie Mulligan, a gentle man with a soft heart and a love of family, fishing and trains.... Read Story
An Occasional Woman
August 11, 2015 11:04 am
“How many were there before me?” That was his question after our first time and I answered, guilelessly, “Four.” I... Read Story
Plein Air Fridge
August 11, 2015 10:33 am
We have a plein air fridge. A friend had an extra and they asked if we wanted it. Of course.... Read Story
The Hamptons Rose
August 11, 2015 10:02 am
When I stopped by, she was sitting in the sunroom in a bright peach cotton robe and her pink plaid... Read Story
Days of my Island life
August 10, 2015 10:28 pm
As a young girl growing up on long Island I have seen all the natures and wonders of the towns... Read Story
Camp Hero Montauk
August 10, 2015 9:02 pm
My family started going to Montauk for a week every summer in the late 1980s. I was a teenage girl... Read Story
40 Shore RoadNow
August 10, 2015 6:07 pm
Returning from a great summer at sleep away camp, I stilled looked forward to going out to Amagansett. Amagansett meant... Read Story
The House in Springs Has Vanished
August 10, 2015 5:55 pm
“Is that it?” I said, slowing down on Three Mile Harbor Road to glance at the street veering off towards... Read Story
Missing From Sag Harbor
August 10, 2015 4:29 pm
As I sit on a weathered bench in the center of this timeless village with my wife’s handbag, covered by... Read Story
Of Steinbeck and Sag Harbor
August 9, 2015 9:49 pm
In his introduction in the 1967 journal of the 5th annual Old Whaler‘s Festival in Sag Harbor, resident John Steinbeck... Read Story
Essay No. 10, From A Collection of Essays, “A Life Distilled”
August 9, 2015 9:25 pm
A consequence of a long life is ownership of a vast storeroom of memories. Subsequently, I have identified a subgroup... Read Story
The House on Potato Field Lane
August 9, 2015 5:28 pm
“Nothing lasts forever,” repeated my husband’s client, a former ad executive and all-round mensch. At that time in the opulent... Read Story
Moby-Sick
August 9, 2015 3:58 pm
Call me Ishmael. Call me captain. But don’t call me seasick. That’s more than I could say for most of... Read Story
Seals of Approval
August 9, 2015 3:22 pm
Unlike a lot of seals, who have managed to gain steady employment in circuses and aquariums, I have never tried... Read Story
The Royal Treatment
August 9, 2015 3:15 pm
Since the birth of the little princess, people around the world have been abuzz with excitement. I refer, of course,... Read Story
Pleasant Idling
August 9, 2015 2:55 pm
My wife Laura and I loved to visit the east end of Long Island when we were younger. Usually,... Read Story
Conscience Point
August 9, 2015 1:54 pm
Conscience- noun, an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of... Read Story
No Vacancy at the Neptune Motel
August 9, 2015 11:13 am
1.When did Montauk become a “No Vacancy” kind of town? The kind of town with traffic and forty-two taxis waiting... Read Story
Buried Cemeteries
August 9, 2015 10:31 am
Standing in front of the Green River Cemetery in Springs, I wondered to myself, could this be the place... Read Story
More than a Summer Escape
August 8, 2015 11:07 pm
My first trip to East Hampton lasted three hours longer than it should have. My mother drove the family... Read Story
A History of the World According to Gurney’s
August 8, 2015 10:28 pm
It was as if it were a moment frozen in time; a 16mm film looped to repeat itself over and... Read Story
Shadow Land
August 8, 2015 7:13 pm
I retreated to the eastern end of Long Island, to the south shore, a place where as a homebuilder,... Read Story
For the Love of the Ocean
August 8, 2015 12:15 pm
My son was six years old the first time he experienced the ocean. Although we lived only 23 miles from... Read Story
Old Memories
August 8, 2015 5:52 am
“Look at this traffic! I remember when you could walk down the middle of Noyac Road.” Mom can say that... Read Story
And in ‘The End’
August 7, 2015 8:10 pm
And in the end The love you take Is equal to The love you make. -The Beatles The word... Read Story
Ring Me
August 7, 2015 3:37 pm
Perhaps I was not meant to keep rings. For as long as I can remember, I have lost them. There... Read Story
The First Race
August 7, 2015 12:38 pm
Under 42 minutes. A 10K road race finish time achievable by few. The annual Shelter Island 10K run, now in... Read Story
Lloyd
August 7, 2015 10:14 am
Lloyd was a good-natured kid who went his own way as he grew up in Eastport in the 1930’s. Even... Read Story
No Man in Everyman’s Land
August 7, 2015 8:57 am
Though I don’t have a mailbox, my zip code is 11937. I live in one of the wealthiest parts of... Read Story
Not today, Hemingway
August 6, 2015 9:51 pm
“Call me Ishmael…..pretty cool way of life out here…..everyone just kind of does their own thing…..” Written by Matt Mackey... Read Story
From Mastic to Montauk
August 6, 2015 4:16 pm
My love for the east end of Long Island goes back as far as I can remember. My maternal grandfather,... Read Story
Silver Fox
August 6, 2015 3:42 pm
“Pete?” “Yes, lovey?” “A friend of mine wrote a play. It’s three nights only in the city, at least for... Read Story
Aimless, but Well-Intentioned, in the Hamptons
August 6, 2015 2:46 pm
A rare weekend alone stirred my slumbering sense of curiosity and adventure. I roused groggily from my self-imposed mid-summer “hibernation”... Read Story
Gone to the Dogs
August 6, 2015 11:27 am
In one of the more fashionable Long Island villages, some restaurants have been serving up cuisine on narrow outdoor... Read Story
Jim Davidson / Hampton Jitney
August 6, 2015 9:38 am
It was early May, 1984 and I reached for the handle to the door that would change my life. “The... Read Story
A Different Experience
August 5, 2015 9:45 pm
I have been coming to East Hampton since 1990. East Hampton impressed me the first time I got off the... Read Story
My Brother
August 5, 2015 9:30 pm
My brother means the world to me. We are constantly fighting over the little things and he is always getting... Read Story
Travels With My Aunt
August 5, 2015 1:19 pm
It was to be the very first summer since childhood in which I would not be indulging in every delectable... Read Story
My Favorite Professor Was A High School Teacher
August 5, 2015 1:41 am
The last time I saw Mr. Sieminski was in 2011. He was narrating his wickedly entertaining “Christmas Story” on the... Read Story
Blue Moon
August 4, 2015 10:06 pm
What are you going to be when you grow up? I think this was the most difficult question that... Read Story
Thankful
August 4, 2015 5:51 pm
Many years ago I was born again, not in a religious sense but in a medical one. A stranger had... Read Story
The Stephen’s Talkhouse Musical History
August 4, 2015 3:32 pm
Its storied history of hosting music legends and work with the local community have made The Stephen Talkhouse an Amagansett... Read Story
The Woman in the Bathroom
August 4, 2015 3:16 pm
For the first few weeks, bleary-eyed and half asleep as I wandered up the dock and into the marina bathroom... Read Story
The Funniest Bunny of Them All
August 4, 2015 2:30 pm
What do a convertible, a famous drag queen and the Hamptons have in common? Just about everything it turns out,... Read Story
Rosy-fingered Dawn at Louse Point
August 4, 2015 12:44 pm
During his period in Long Island De Kooning rode his bike daily to Louse Point where he observed the water.... Read Story
All Points East
August 4, 2015 11:41 am
Imagine you’re underwater. You’re suspended in total relaxation where the noise from the outside world can’t penetrate and air bubbles... Read Story
Where do you live?
August 3, 2015 5:09 pm
I want to start out by saying that I am not preoccupied with death. I am preoccupied with my obituary.... Read Story
The Mustard Seed
August 3, 2015 4:32 pm
Recently there was a reading in church from the New Testament about the tiny mustard seed outgrowing all other garden... Read Story
Utopia: A Peg on the Wall
August 3, 2015 3:29 pm
Despite what the movies depict, the life of an Architect is not necessarily a string of glamorous moments. If you... Read Story
Rita’s Stable
August 2, 2015 9:17 pm
“He is dying, Aphrodite; luxuriant Adonis is dying. What should we do? Beat your breasts, young maidens. And tear your... Read Story
The East End of Heaven
August 2, 2015 5:03 pm
I am not sure that there is a heaven but if one does exist I hope it has an east... Read Story
LifeCycle
August 2, 2015 3:51 pm
The sun goes in and out and I am relaxing for the first time this summer. It’s almost as if... Read Story
Corners
August 2, 2015 2:00 pm
In August 1998 I saved my money as a supervisor in a women’s homeless shelter in New York City to... Read Story
The Man in the Chef’s Hat
August 2, 2015 1:24 pm
While growing up during the Great Depression, my respite from the poverty that surrounded me was Saturday afternoons in the... Read Story
Reincarnations
August 2, 2015 9:11 am
In an earlier incarnation, during that opulently sensory, promise-laden, unchained time between college graduation and reality, I imagined for myself... Read Story
Spared
August 1, 2015 7:27 pm
This is the story of two men, two fathers. They didn’t grow up on the east end but they came... Read Story
1900….”A Moment in Time”
August 1, 2015 4:33 pm
The year 1900, a baby boy is born in Amagansett; on the north side of the Highway, just as you... Read Story
On Shores
July 31, 2015 11:01 pm
Perhaps this is your first time bringing a friend home from college, and it didn’t take much urging: Southampton Shores,... Read Story
Mapless in Suffolk
July 31, 2015 6:25 pm
Let me take this opportunity to thank the many residents of the Hamptons and Riverhead who gave me directions last... Read Story
Rufus and Rastus
July 31, 2015 3:36 pm
I’m not sure how old I was, but I was too young to attend school when my father bought two... Read Story
The Tail of Growing Up by the Sea
July 31, 2015 2:54 pm
I’ve had salty hair and sand underneath my fingernails every summer since age 0. My life has been a-mostly positive-... Read Story
C-Section, See-Section, My Sea-Section
July 31, 2015 11:48 am
One of my favorite poets Arthur Rimbaud wrote, “I’ve found it Eternity. It’s the sun mingled with the sea.” If... Read Story
Buster of Harrison Avenue
July 30, 2015 12:19 pm
We searched for a house in Montauk for more than a year. No luck there. The prices of the houses... Read Story
Going Home
July 30, 2015 12:00 pm
I had looked forward eagerly to lunch with my friend Anne, who was visiting Long Island from North Carolina. We... Read Story
For Shinnecock, With Love: A Glorious Youth, A Healing Journey
July 29, 2015 4:53 pm
Shinnecock Hills, the little beach and bluffs overlooking Peconic Bay, with Robins’ Island to the east, Shinnecock Canal to the... Read Story
On Shores
July 29, 2015 2:21 pm
Perhaps this is your first time bringing a friend home from college, and it didn’t take much urging: Southampton Shores,... Read Story
Giving Thanks in Marrakech
July 29, 2015 12:56 pm
My wanderlust will forever be the impetus for me to reach the four corners of the globe. With my sights... Read Story
Happy As A Clam!
July 29, 2015 12:34 pm
The adults living in the tightly knit New York City neighborhood in which I was raised had something in common... Read Story
Buttercup, Princess of the Springs
July 29, 2015 11:54 am
The biggest problem with not having a full-time home is having to buy the same things over and over again.... Read Story
Three Rights Make a Left
July 29, 2015 11:45 am
A fear of flying has caused me to wake in hysterics over vibrations from the slightest turbulence. I’ll look around... Read Story
House & History: A North Fork Version
July 29, 2015 9:51 am
An old joke that restorers tell goes like this: How do you make a small fortune? Start with a large... Read Story
Horse Love
July 28, 2015 1:30 pm
On January 17, 1991 the world changed. Operation Desert Storm began and I involuntarily became a horse owner. That first... Read Story
My MasterCard Commercial
July 28, 2015 12:11 pm
It was summer of 1984 and we had been coming to the Soundview Inn in Southold for a few years.... Read Story
The Fleeting Seconds of Forever
July 27, 2015 7:30 pm
A three-year-old girl’s tiny hand was encapsulated in the guided grip of a fragile old man beside her. They slowly... Read Story
Getting Gorgeous
July 27, 2015 9:14 am
The Hamptons are among the nation’s most gorgeous locales. The women living and vacationing here are equal to the landscape.... Read Story
Purple Glass and Other Treasures
July 26, 2015 2:49 pm
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway For the last 31... Read Story
Farther East
July 26, 2015 12:37 am
I’ll never fully understand the ambition that drove my father to build a beach house in the Hamptons. Dad was... Read Story
The Competition
July 25, 2015 9:39 pm
“I’m finished,” she shouts. “I have finished my essay and I am sending it off to Dan’s Papers.“ Once... Read Story
A Magical Place
July 25, 2015 8:35 pm
My grandmother became sick the winter I was in first grade. I knew it was serious. The adults all huddled... Read Story
Mr. Davis
July 25, 2015 12:30 am
Mr. Davis was growing into middle age… GOSH he was so successful. Big Money. Big Homes. Big Yacht. Big Helicopter.... Read Story
Forever Montauk
July 24, 2015 8:29 pm
Yeah! It’s finally summer and BEACH DAY SUNDAY! Hope Mom remembers my little pool, and my favorite towels. We wait... Read Story
Out and About in East Hampton
July 24, 2015 4:14 pm
It’s hard to remember, this far down the road, how i felt when i first realized what was happening with... Read Story
Paumanok Revisited
July 24, 2015 3:20 pm
I was 2,000 miles away in the bold sun and vast, blue skies of New Mexico when our family home... Read Story
Souvenir of Montauk
July 24, 2015 11:56 am
I do not know why we thought this was going to be so hilarious, but we did. We were... Read Story
The Phantom Albino Fawn
July 23, 2015 3:36 pm
A slight breeze blew in from the north on that clear, cold, early December morning as 120 deer hunters... Read Story
East Marion’s Captain
July 23, 2015 11:01 am
Part 1 On a crisp morning, before the fall met the winter, the kid named Michael stood on the... Read Story
The Skinny
July 22, 2015 5:58 pm
Ever since I can remember, I have enjoyed the harmless taboo of skinny dipping. As a teen growing up in... Read Story
Beach Birthday-Suit Bingo!
July 22, 2015 2:14 pm
Ever since I can remember, I have enjoyed the harmless taboo of skinny dipping. As a teen growing up in... Read Story
