The American Hotel – The Real Story as Told by a Direct Descendant
July 27, 2017 7:54 pm
In the summer of 1876, a reunited United States prepared to celebrate the Centennial of its founding. Half a continent... Read Story
Author Archives for Dallas Cobb
July 27, 2017 7:54 pm
A Treasure in the Truest Sense
July 27, 2017 5:01 pm
The city was like a bubble of heat. Encapsulated by the large buildings and carbon dioxide, the scorching air stuck... Read Story
Shoes but No Laces – A Story of a Dog and his Man
July 27, 2017 4:46 pm
There is not a person dead or alive that loved and cared for his dog, more than uncle Slappy feared... Read Story
Dark Age Charter
July 27, 2017 4:12 pm
On a hot, humid summer Sunday afternoon in the small town of Southampton on Long Island, ceremonies were in full... Read Story
Point Positive
July 26, 2017 9:22 pm
The freshwater viciously pounded at my face and down my throat, leaving only millisecond intervals to gasp for air. The... Read Story
A Monster in Sag Harbor
July 26, 2017 6:20 pm
In the Fall of 2015, in Sag Harbor, I created a monster. Or, I should say, I helped create a... Read Story
Seeking Hampton Based Organically Grown Lover
July 26, 2017 4:13 pm
Seeking Hampton – Based Organically Grown Lover Do I want a date? Not really. Mostly, I just want to be... Read Story
Taking Temperatures
July 26, 2017 3:24 pm
My mother, Joanne: Creamy-white skin, dark brown, coarse, curly hair, bright, light-blue eyes. This is how she took temperatures: She’d... Read Story
Painless
July 25, 2017 1:11 pm
-Honoring a family member lost in WWII I 14, 1945. 1900 hours It has been twelve hours since I was... Read Story
The Windmill
July 25, 2017 10:27 am
The Windmill By Diane Strecker Amidst a sea of famous faces, it was the structure itself that mesmerized me most.... Read Story
Schubert on the Beach
July 24, 2017 11:36 pm
Schubert on the Beach I first met Schubert on the beach. He was a handsome fellow and had a lovely... Read Story
Long Lost Potato Farms
July 24, 2017 7:49 pm
Everyone has a story to tell and mine begins when I was 17 years old in 1971 when my father... Read Story
Where Have All the Big Bugs Gone?
July 24, 2017 6:27 pm
Growing up in East Quogue, with regular journeys to Southampton where many of my relatives lived, I spent countless summer... Read Story
In the Summer of Maris and Mantle
July 24, 2017 4:59 pm
A Bermuda high had parked over eastern Long Island producing a reliable stretch of clear, hot days. On the morning... Read Story
A Cancer Miracle in the Hamptons
July 24, 2017 3:34 pm
Summer in the Hamptons, the weather is beautiful, the sky is clear blue, hydrangeas are in full bloom, wild bunnies... Read Story
Pond Musings and a summer day
July 23, 2017 6:16 pm
I sit by the pond and seek sanctuary. That is after all what we created it for, this oasis of... Read Story
A Hampton Girl’s Trek to Love
July 22, 2017 4:12 pm
Life was very good in 1974. I was ten. The clothes were funky and colorful. Television sitcoms were funny, and... Read Story
Belly Bomb
July 22, 2017 2:33 pm
Birds chirping, sunshine streaming in, I awoke in a Southold loft with a huge lump on my stomach. I gingerly... Read Story
The Un-Hampton
July 22, 2017 11:26 am
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again And... Read Story
Sunrise Highway 2017- Hampton Folks
July 22, 2017 11:05 am
There is a road that takes me to a land, where many people roam. It’s quite exquisite, as you will... Read Story
Montauk and Magic
July 21, 2017 5:59 pm
It was the spring of 1947 and we had a new car, a shiny navy blue 1947 Ford V8 with... Read Story
Lessons from the Ocean
July 21, 2017 12:12 pm
The waves stirred violently in the distance, mustering up strength and height as they crept toward the shore, and rapidly... Read Story
Every Day Wonder Woman at the East End
July 20, 2017 9:48 pm
“You look like Wonder Woman they would say. “ I Do? Everyday Wonder Woman is simply me! Don’t get me... Read Story
In Memory of North Sea
July 20, 2017 6:45 pm
Our house was featured in an article entitled “A Return to the Hamptons,” by Joyce Cohen in the May 21,... Read Story
From Nightmare to Dream Come True
July 20, 2017 5:50 pm
It was an irritable day for me. I was stuck waiting in the car with the feeling of failing to... Read Story
Lessons from the Ocean
July 20, 2017 11:33 am
The waves stirred violently in the distance, mustering up strength and height as they crept toward the shore, and rapidly... Read Story
Lessons from the Ocean
July 20, 2017 11:25 am
The waves stirred violently in the distance, mustering up strength and height as they crept toward the shore, and rapidly... Read Story
Compass Points
July 20, 2017 2:38 am
It has never been my full time home, yet the East End will always be a true point on my... Read Story
Memories Last Forever
July 18, 2017 7:43 am
I sat on the dock in Greenport Village, watching the sun rise over Long Beach Bar Lighthouse. It was something... Read Story
Legs Good to Go:Larry River’s Legs and the East End
July 17, 2017 5:16 pm
Legs Good to Go: Larry Rivers’ Legs and the East End My mother has been insisting I write something, a... Read Story
The Boy and the Wagon
July 15, 2017 10:19 am
This fourth of July he missed the fireworks at the Devon beach, around the corner from our Amagansett home. We’ve... Read Story
A Bench at Fort Hill
July 14, 2017 7:41 pm
It took a long time for Walter Zimny to arrive at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. This is really a... Read Story
Hands Miles Away, Hearts Inches Away
July 13, 2017 5:01 pm
It was a sad day. My whole family was bummed, but I was the most heartbroken. My dearest friend had... Read Story
Playing Atlantic
July 13, 2017 4:00 pm
Almost twenty years ago, on a gray Sunday in June, my wife and I left East Hampton early in the... Read Story
Love Seventeen
July 13, 2017 9:55 am
I sat in the familiar grainy, soft sand of Quogue Village Beach, staring out into the expansive ocean, blue blanket... Read Story
The Loop
July 12, 2017 12:21 pm
As my adult daughter, Megan, and I were killing time before an appointment in Southampton Village recently, she suggested we... Read Story
AFTER THE STORM
July 12, 2017 11:35 am
September 22, 1938 — the day after the great hurricane – was perfect flying weather. Bright, benign, its fineness mocked... Read Story
My Friend Crystal
July 11, 2017 10:21 am
I was trying to remember when I first met Crystal and I decided that it must have been sometime in... Read Story
His Spirit Will Be Forever Present On The East End
July 10, 2017 2:46 pm
On March 15, 2015, a bright light that illuminated the lives of so many, was permanently extinguished when Steve Tarpinian... Read Story
Fishing for Beginners
July 7, 2017 3:03 pm
Every Montauk marina has a leader board showing the current standing of the largest fish of each kind... Read Story
Third House-guests
July 7, 2017 1:46 pm
We used to call them the bumps in the early ‘70s, the hills and dips on old Montauk Highway that... Read Story
Natural Beauty
July 7, 2017 12:52 pm
The street sign is named Central Blvd. On either side is nothing more than green woods littered with decaying, burgundy... Read Story
Where I Love
July 5, 2017 9:44 am
Where I Live We returned to the tangle of place called home in 1994 — me, my husband, and our... Read Story
The Prince’s Island
July 2, 2017 12:42 pm
On my way to Fishers Island, I had sailed beyond the Archipelago. In Buzzard Bay I had met Bill Kornblum,... Read Story
An East End Farm Family Story
July 1, 2017 10:09 am
In some ways, this farm family story is very much like the stories of many other families who came to... Read Story
Tit for Tat
June 29, 2017 4:20 pm
Her breasts preceded her. Not metaphorically, or by reputation, but actually. She walked through the door, and they entered the... Read Story
An Ocean Inside Me
June 29, 2017 6:33 am
Two weeks after Jamaica, I was back on the road again, Kerouac style, this time to Bar Harbor, Maine, in... Read Story
I Do. We will.
June 28, 2017 11:42 am
For ten years, we had been living happily in biblical sin. Neither of us had ever been married. One of... Read Story
The Spirits of Greenport
June 27, 2017 2:08 pm
The ‘citiots’ are coming. Having spotted a herd of fanny packs on the horizon, I sent a fistful of golden... Read Story
test from dennisw
June 27, 2017 1:35 pm
Washington (CNN)Tuesday is another critical day for the Senate health care bill as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President... Read Story
Ode To Paula
June 25, 2017 6:07 pm
On November 11, 2016, one of my closest friends, Paula, died in a fire. Paula was a generational friend —... Read Story
The Lady in the Elevator
June 24, 2017 4:49 pm
I was working in Manhattan at one of my first jobs as an adult. At 20, I thought I had... Read Story
A conversation at the kitchen table
June 9, 2017 12:55 pm
A Conversation at the Kitchen Table I recall a warm, humid, mid-July morning at my childhood home in the small... Read Story
Grey Gardens
June 8, 2017 4:29 pm
East Hampton August 1972 Satiated after lunch at The Royale Fish in Amagansett my husband, Albert, and I set out... Read Story
A Change in Status
June 6, 2017 7:07 pm
When you grow up in Suffolk County, you are in the shadows of both New York City to the West,... Read Story
Once Upon a Sand Dune
June 6, 2017 1:08 pm
Once Upon A Sand Dune by Joel Reitman June 5, 2017 I picked up my new Austin Mini Cooper S... Read Story
MY FAVORITE NIGHT
June 3, 2017 12:38 pm
It was a balmy Saturday afternoon in June 2010. I was driving out east on Sunrise Highway with my friend,... Read Story
Boots on Legs
June 2, 2017 8:32 am
“Nude is Rude and Cops Can’t Bare It” read the headline in the Southampton Press. The paper is spread out... Read Story
The Coat, Three Seagulls, and a Saying
June 2, 2017 8:23 am
Up on our dining room wall hangs a picture by William Wallace Tooker, the famed Algonquinist of Sag Harbor. Tooker... Read Story
The Refugee
May 17, 2017 11:12 am
My wife and I clanged our glasses together as we said a quick toast to our friends. We had opened... Read Story
Primitive Society
April 27, 2017 12:38 pm
Where Triton Lane in East Quogue meets Shinnecock Bay, a few local horseshoe crabs happen to be holding their semi-annual... Read Story
East End Dreams
April 25, 2017 5:11 pm
It is hard to remember the first time I went to the Hamptons. Well first I went to Montauk, I... Read Story
Daddy’s Girl
April 25, 2017 4:33 pm
I must have been four. It is one of my earliest recollections. We were very poor. My parents never had... Read Story
UFO Hamptons
April 22, 2017 6:38 pm
Flying saucers…UFOs…ETs…. Few topics are more likely to prompt raised eyebrows or outright derision. But it wasn’t always so. Back... Read Story
Love at First Sight
April 18, 2017 1:28 am
I had been looking for love, as most women do after divorce…online mostly, and yes, there are plenty of fish... Read Story
The Real Riches in the Hampton
March 18, 2017 3:32 pm
As I sat on the Hampton Jitney to Amagansett for the first time, I was so excited to experience all... Read Story
Sunday Funday
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
It’s 4:46 pm and now it’s time to make that decision whether or not I will do this. Normally I... Read Story
Montauk Moment
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Camping Out
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
I’d Do It All Again
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Opossum on my Shoulder
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
A Crack in the Roof
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Thank You Mr. Havens
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
From Where I Sit
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Knock, Knock: A Canvasser for the Obama Campaign Reflects Back
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Vroom..Vroom..Said, The Piano
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Ice Cream Sunday
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
He spoons his Rum Raisin, and I focus on how I can keep my Mint Chocolate Chip from spilling off... Read Story
City Mouse–Country House!
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Last June, my wife said to me that after living together for thirty-eight years in apartments it was time for... Read Story
Pavlov’s Dogs
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
PAVLOV’S DOGS BY Harry Lorayne All memory is based on what I call The Reminder Principle. How many... Read Story
Chapter 7: “Skimming Stones at Pebble Beach…”
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
CHAPTER 7 – “SKIMMING STONES AT PEBBLE BEACH…” “ …Every voice along the shoreline Standing still within time… … Bless... Read Story
Papa and Muz
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
One of the most successful restaurants my grandparents had operated was Casa Basso, located in Westhampton, Long Island, a popular... Read Story
Love … the Reason. Duty…the Excuse.
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Love … the Reason. Duty…the Excuse. By Bob Ghosio Sr. I became a caregiver. Not out of choice, mind you,... Read Story
The Geography Lesson
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
The Geography Lesson This is a story that goes way back—for me, anyway. It’s set in the 60s, when music... Read Story
Anybody Home?
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Anybody Home? My mom died when she was 89. My dad went on to live another ten years, passing at... Read Story
Celebrity Sightings
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS by Harvey Feinstein You know their faces from television. You’ve seen them in the movies or read about... Read Story
The Haunted House at Flying Point
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
A ruin of a house stands not far from Flying Point Beach. In a neighborhood of multi-million dollar homes it... Read Story
Town Employee Jackets
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Town Employee Jackets5 On Tuesday at the regular town board meeting in East Hampton, Supervisor Bill Wilkinson said he felt... Read Story
And Frank McCourt died…
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
The summer of 2009 will go down in memory as the summer when one famous person after the other died.... Read Story
Last Land Day
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Last Land Day When does the East End of Long Island run out of buildable land? Even this question is... Read Story
Full Circle
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Facebook . . . . … .. .. … .. .. … .. … . Search for people, places and... Read Story
Why I hate Pot Luck Dinners
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
My sister now a southern Lady suggested I write my views of the Pot luck dinner. She was amused by... Read Story
Shockwaves
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Shockwaves By Amy Katz Brooklyn Technical High School, Sept. 26, 2001 It’s been two weeks since the world fell. They... Read Story
Hurricane Sandy
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
HURRICANE SANDY – 10/29 TO 10/30/12 We had spent two days preparing for the storm – getting the lobster house... Read Story
The Training Grounds
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
The Training Grounds I was inside the den of the beast, the birth place of the ball of fury and... Read Story
The Camper from Hell
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
The Camper from Hell Camp Immaculata in Mattituck, with its woodsy cabins named after birds, chirped itself to death around... Read Story
Trade Winds Raise Red Flags in Cutchogue
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Holy Cow! My North Fork church’s pastor got traded from Cutchogue to Glen Head for a pastor to be named... Read Story
Long Island Sounds by Maria Molton
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
“Long Island Sounds” by Maria Molton I entered her on a hot August day in 2009 in Southampton, NY. As... Read Story
Where’s Walden?
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
There are incredibly beautiful views here on the East End that seem to have remained unchanged for, well, forever. The... Read Story
Long Island October
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Long Island October charles greiner For a great many of us here on Long Island, October is our favorite month.... Read Story
The Unexpected Hampton Getaway
May 28, 2014 9:12 am
Born and raised in Nassau County, to a family of very limited means, meant a horse was something only to... Read Story
