Where is the ‘there there’ and who are ‘they’ anyhow?
July 22, 2015 2:05 pm
Ooooh la la The Hamptons. Aren’t you in with the chi-chi crowd, hob-nobbing with the rich and famous — the... Read Story
Author Archives for allison
July 22, 2015 2:05 pm
The Bee Mitzvah
July 22, 2015 1:58 pm
Another farm sold. The modest house and smattering of out buildings were now in the sights of a demolition... Read Story
A Father’s Gift
July 21, 2015 4:50 pm
I am where I want to be because the East End is pockmarked with so many fresh water lakes and... Read Story
Life on the bay
July 21, 2015 3:18 pm
In many not insignificant ways, I don’t live a very happy life, though I’m a happy person with an unwavering... Read Story
Scorched
July 21, 2015 12:08 pm
The Pine Barrens are green again. For many years, I passed that large patch of forestry west of Exit... Read Story
Captain Courageous- – -Spending the Night on Shinnecock Bay
July 20, 2015 2:11 pm
My story begins at the Shinnecock Inlet in Hampton Bays on my friend Lanny’s recently purchased 27 foot Chris... Read Story
Blue
July 20, 2015 11:21 am
There have been other waters. Once and again. But they were waters that promised more than could possibly be delivered,... Read Story
Cupid at the Privet Hedge
July 20, 2015 8:45 am
“Where’s East Hampton?” I asked a friend. “Somewhere out on the Island, I think. Why?” Having recently learned of East... Read Story
Aldo’s Chocolate Easter Bunny Raffle
July 20, 2015 7:30 am
I became seriously interested in chocolate 15 years ago when I competed in an Easter bunny raffle at Aldo’s Too,... Read Story
The East End of Heaven
July 18, 2015 7:28 pm
My Wife’s a Long Island girl, through and through. Born on the South Shore, she grew up as a... Read Story
Between Two Roads
July 17, 2015 5:03 pm
They rose like dark spires from the earth ––– the burial mounds of a forgotten civilization, tombs of forgotten kings... Read Story
Love … the Reason. Duty…the Excuse.
July 14, 2015 12:03 pm
I became a caregiver. Not out of choice, mind you, but out of a sense of duty and as... Read Story
Always Be The Water
July 14, 2015 8:35 am
Last weekend, while strolling along what I refer to as “the apron” – a beautiful stretch of beach in... Read Story
Quogue and Calamity
July 13, 2015 3:36 pm
New York City’s notorious “French Connection” case became a book, then a movie, and, in later years spawned a more... Read Story
My Sandbar
July 13, 2015 11:47 am
The sandbar was the same. Well probably not exactly as it appeared years ago, since tides change and years erode... Read Story
Amagansett’s Music Legend & East Hampton’s Virtuoso
July 12, 2015 4:39 pm
It was 8AM on Saturday August 11, 2012, and I was heading out to Amagansett from Chester NY. I’d made... Read Story
The Cabin In The Woods
July 11, 2015 10:27 pm
I never thought I’d share this story. My younger sister and I made a pact never to speak of it.... Read Story
World Wide Widowers Club
July 10, 2015 1:45 pm
In 2013, I joined a club called WWWC. It’s a very exclusive club as not everyone can join because there... Read Story
Dear Montauk: A Love Letter
July 10, 2015 11:24 am
Dear Montauk: For as long as I can remember I could not live without you. You were in my veins... Read Story
Saving Grace
July 9, 2015 5:41 pm
A perfectly placid day at the beach; it is the reason I live not far from the pristine shores of... Read Story
City Mom Versus East End Daughter
July 9, 2015 5:30 pm
Everyone loves the East End of Long Island. I observe the constant stream of tourists whizzing by me daily. They... Read Story
Car ride memories.
July 9, 2015 9:26 am
My earliest memories of the East End of Long Island come from day trips that I took with my family.... Read Story
Dad,Shells and me.
July 8, 2015 9:45 pm
There is so little time for fun or family in the life of a man who makes his living on... Read Story
Hampton Bays: Beloved Childhood Memories
July 8, 2015 3:49 pm
This past January I reached one of those milestone birthdays that come around every ten years. I celebrated with... Read Story
A Walk Around Cold Spring Pond
July 7, 2015 5:23 pm
One The first time I ever saw Annie, the sun was in my eyes. I’d just started my morning jog... Read Story
Losing my Dad, But gaining a Hamptons Home…
July 7, 2015 4:10 pm
I would NOT own a beautiful home at 50 Dune Road, Westhampton Beach if it was not for my father,... Read Story
Never Say Never
July 7, 2015 2:33 pm
The renovations were finished, the house was perfect, and I was never moving again. Our expanded ranch had a three... Read Story
Childhood
July 6, 2015 2:10 pm
Even after fifty years every time I go to Montauk I can still hear my mom’s voice. As my dad... Read Story
The Point
July 6, 2015 10:41 am
The boy raised the present over his head and brought it down hard against the stone counter, breaking it... Read Story
Back to the sea
July 5, 2015 9:08 pm
There was a time when going to the Hamptons was something that city people did only in the summer. My... Read Story
The Helen Keller House
July 5, 2015 8:56 pm
The East End of Long Island was home to the last summer Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller spent together. The... Read Story
The Album of ’76
July 5, 2015 6:58 pm
“Scenes from the Boardy Barn and our first house in the Hamptons. Also the Brooklyn guys and people we have... Read Story
Robins Island
July 1, 2015 2:56 pm
Sometimes a circle is the only way to go. For Dickie, Allen, and myself, getting up at 5AM to waterski... Read Story
Facebook Redux
July 1, 2015 2:22 pm
Facebook (FB) has revolutionized inter-personal relationships, and its worldwide appeal is built on its inherent ability to communicate an... Read Story
Beautiful Messes
June 30, 2015 11:54 am
Everything is beautiful but not everyone can see it. –Confucius Excuse the mess. We live here. –Unknown Making... Read Story
Shots in the Hamptons
June 30, 2015 11:08 am
For two summers in the late 90’s, I earned money being mistaken for a shot girl. Although I did not... Read Story
Tradition
June 30, 2015 6:52 am
The East End is enchanting. It’s like a siren that lures you in with its special song of sea, sun... Read Story
Looking for Einstein
June 28, 2015 12:31 pm
Many years ago, my husband Bob would tell visitors that Albert Einstein may have (or had, depending on the amount... Read Story
Helen’s House
June 27, 2015 6:46 pm
Helen’s house was not like any Hamptons houses I’d heard about or imagined. It wasn’t on or even a close... Read Story
Dream Home
June 26, 2015 7:50 pm
“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”... Read Story
Alive with Words
June 25, 2015 12:56 pm
I’ve been thinking about how poets become poets. My theory begins with Wordsworth’s lines about the child being father to... Read Story
The Last Bite of Childhood
June 24, 2015 10:28 pm
On Columbus Day Weekend on the East End of Long Island, after the sparkles dull and the beaches empty, fishermen... Read Story
Montauk
June 24, 2015 4:37 pm
The pond was tiny, at the base of the steep slope that separated our yard from theirs’. A spout on a... Read Story
My Hamptons
June 23, 2015 12:41 pm
It was the summer of ’73, and the Hamptons still felt exotic, exciting and new. I was a twenty-three year... Read Story
The Truth About The Good Life
June 21, 2015 5:47 pm
There’s a house on Main Street in Southampton that looks at the local CVS, where my grandfather lives. It’s old.... Read Story
Hamptons Snap Shot
June 19, 2015 7:37 pm
I suppose some might view it differently, but I’ve always been drawn to color and there’s certainly a lot of... Read Story
Jane Austen Haunts Montauk
June 19, 2015 1:05 pm
I have a bit of an obsession with Jane Austen. More of a love/ hate relationship really. We have nothing... Read Story
Music, Mesclun, Maracas
June 19, 2015 12:43 pm
What could mesclun greens possibly have to do with percussion instruments? In my town, there is a connection. I live... Read Story
Salty Dogs
June 17, 2015 12:54 pm
Two years after my last great summer in Montauk, I got married. My new bride, Linda, a San Diego native,... Read Story
One Glove, One Dollar
June 17, 2015 10:15 am
It was a morning of deep cold the day I was to meet Cindy who would be driving us back... Read Story
The Hard Crossing
June 17, 2015 9:01 am
Eastern Long Island has a fragile, unique and beautiful ecology. The pressure on that balance of nature is probably most... Read Story
Aunt Lil and Uncle Vinny
June 16, 2015 10:35 am
We were Brooklyn kids so Riis Park, the crowded, tired public beach, was our refuge. We’d arrive early and... Read Story
A Day at the Beach
June 15, 2015 2:15 pm
“Son, it’s your lucky day. Ever been to Gin Lane?” “In Chinatown?” I replied, guessing wildly and badly. “I see.... Read Story
An April Crossing
June 11, 2015 8:31 am
A voyage is a voyage is a voyage. And so whenever I board the ferry in New London, bound on... Read Story
It’s Rainin it’s Pourin the old…
June 10, 2015 5:30 pm
The strong, cool breeze coming through the opened window and the darkening room startle me. Jumping up quickly from the... Read Story
A Hardware Story
June 7, 2015 12:17 pm
The Orlowski True Value Hardware Company, where I’ve worked since the 9th grade, has stood on Love Lane, Mattituck’s main... Read Story
The Love of Your Life
June 3, 2015 9:34 pm
One sun-lit October morning several years ago, as my husband, two young grandchildren and I strolled along the shores of... Read Story
East End Affairs
June 3, 2015 8:45 pm
In late October of 1973, I would return to Montauk after six long months of travel to say goodbye to... Read Story
Reggae Stones
June 3, 2015 7:18 am
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson “Is it reggae night, Daddy?” Chloe asks bouncing lightly... Read Story
The Walker
June 2, 2015 4:30 pm
The boy walked slowly across the road, dragging his deerskin moccasins in the dust, more slowly than his mother could... Read Story
The Day of the Mollusk
June 2, 2015 2:14 pm
My first clam. It happened on a boat. In public. Until that blue sky day, off the far eastern coast... Read Story
Profile: an Artist
June 1, 2015 4:52 pm
When my parents first started talking about him, they whispered “he shot his shrink, do you think he will be... Read Story
A Stormy Reunion
June 1, 2015 12:28 pm
They sat silently, each pondering the startling events of the day. Jeannie clung to Greg, Don held Penny’s shivering hand.... Read Story
Kids Running Amok
May 30, 2015 1:38 pm
Warning: Helicopter parents may need smelling salts. Growing up on the East End in the fifties could be considered child... Read Story
