A Family Tradition
November 20, 2012 5:05 pm
A Family Tradition Michal T. Winter We have been going to Montauk since 1983. Back then my parents... Read Story
A Family Tradition Michal T. Winter We have been going to Montauk since 1983. Back then my parents... Read Story
A Day atGilgoBeach By Michael Grant I’ll never forget the summer of 1955 because that’s the year my brother... Read Story
Stoney Hill morning By Michael Townsend Morning was serene onStoney Hill Road. As I stepped onto the deck, the... Read Story
TWO THINGS AT ONCE By Michelle Murphy Yesterday I lost my American Express card. My husband tells... Read Story
Cedar Lawn By Michelle Thompson Maybe I should clean the headstone, I thought. There’s lots of moss on it.... Read Story
Coming Home By Missy Kurzweil It’s the summer of 2006. I’ve recently returned from a wonderfully mind-expanding... Read Story
MontgomeryJ. Granger Katy’s Tree When we walk by a tree in winter time, we take for granted... Read Story
Ditch Inside Out By Morgan Busch Presently, I am 17 years old and will be a senior atIslipHigh... Read Story
By Morgan Campbell It Had to be You Montauk, “It Had to be You…” Only your clear and... Read Story
My Seal By Morleen Novitt It was a cold afternoon in April. The last few days of my spring... Read Story
Boo Hoo to Yahoo! By Nanci E. La Garenne A perfect summer day in theHamptonsis the time to... Read Story
Me and Georgia O’Keefe by Nanci E. LaGarenne I discovered theEast Endof this beautifulIsland, not in summer, but one... Read Story
ParkingPass By Nell Klugman I learned to parallel park onPond LaneinSouthampton. “Learned” might be an incorrect term; I drove to... Read Story
Cut From The Land By Nicole Gates Anderson Standing beneath the hot July sun, only a few feet... Read Story
The Retreat of Simplicity By Nicole Wallace Faith, Love, Humility, Honesty, and Courage: When I was a child, these... Read Story
Oh Say Can You See? By: Pam Prince If Robert Frost mused, “Good fences make good neighbors,” then living... Read Story
The Overlooked, Infectious Memories of Eastern Long Island By Parker Ince The natural history of our area is largely written... Read Story
[1] [2] [3] BENJAMIN “ BENJI” PACIS (04/28/95-05/20/08) My Beloved German Shepherd By Patria Baradi Pacis It seems... Read Story
MONTAUK’S EDEN BARADI CELEBRATES HER 101ST BIRTHDAY A day of Lobsters, Boats, and Cake By Patria Baradi Pacis My... Read Story
Round Swamp Farm: Not Your Average Roadside Stand By Patricia Shelvin Three years ago I traded in my upstate weekend... Read Story
Tide Clock By Patricia Whitlock Stephanides Someone once told me, or perhaps I read it in a fairy-tale, that... Read Story
CHAPTER 4 – “MONTAUK, THE BEGINNING” By Paul Bikoff “Let the children remember the sun Let them dance let... Read Story
Jake Jake’s House in the Cat tails Jake and the Little House in the Cat Tails By Paula Cardozo... Read Story
As Time Goes By Peter Doyle A treasured family tradition on our annual “first drive of the year”... Read Story
ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFITY THOUSAND LEAVES By Phyllis Italiano It started…well, I guess you can say, it... Read Story
PROLOGUE, “WATER BABY” Fire Island in the day By Susan Israelson ... Read Story
Confessions of an Ocean Wife By Rachel Abrams The Internet introduced us, but the ocean will decide... Read Story
A Day with my Father (Or Why I Never Go Clamming) By Rachel Taplin My family has quite... Read Story
LeavingCubaand the house inEast Hampton Memoir by Rafael VG Rodriguez We were three children the youngest of which... Read Story
S. O. B. by Rameshwar Das Bill King, June Beckwith and I clambered over concrete drainage... Read Story
Time Traveling by Rebecca N. Suhrawardi of Manhattan and Westhampton I remember the scents of wild hyacinth in the... Read Story
To Question Purpose By Reid Paoletta In the winter months,WesthamptonBeachis courted by ghosts. Really. I welcome you to ride... Read Story
Gifts from the Dead By Renee Jacobs Our relationship grew increasingly more strained over the years. My mother... Read Story
THE TRUE CITY KIDS INVADE THE HAMPTONS By Rich Wilkie It is now over forty years since we... Read Story
The Day I Shot My Wife By Richard Bartel I had been married just a year and getting... Read Story
Sexy Winter Hamptonites By Richard Gambino There’s a group of beach beauties who like to... Read Story
World War II On The East End By Richard Gambino On May 6,... Read Story
Woody Herman – His Music was Relegated to the Cellar by Richard Grudens “They said it was noise” You’d... Read Story
Becoming Galileo By Richard M. Kostura (Aka Michael Galileo) Even living in an area that’s as populated with... Read Story
Winter in Springs By Richard M. Kostura Many people that visit theHamptonsthink about what it would be like to... Read Story
Livin’ La Vida Local By Richard Olsen Years ago, eating and drinking locally usually meant taking a walk to the... Read Story
A Brave New Wine World By Richard Olsen During the past year, discussions about the potential impact of “global... Read Story
LIFE’S A BEACH By Richard Scholer As a child I was luckier than most because I grew up poor.... Read Story
MY 45TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY By Richard Scholer Last week I turned 75 years old and today’s our 45th wedding... Read Story
Part of Spring Went Missing This Year… By Richard Sutton ©2012, All Rights Reserved by the Author Imagine a soft,... Read Story
“Magic Hour” by Rivalyn Zweig If photography is all about the light, then ‘Magic Hour’ is the ‘ultimate’ of... Read Story
The Angel Pë By Robert Mazon In my estimation Pë should’ve been dead by now, or almost so. But,... Read Story
Creature By Robert L. Fouch We chose mystery, my son and I. Wriggling beneath us in the shallow... Read Story
Better a Safe Than Sorry By Rosa Smith Prologue From Hampton Bays I like to ride... Read Story
Montauk-mania A long time ago, there were music videos on MTV, the ocean left enough beach that you burned... Read Story
Firsts by Ross Perlin In the end, it just happened. I loped around the diamond, circling my dad, pounding... Read Story
AMONG THE LAST By Russell Drumm For over three centuries, English settlers and their descendents fed themselves, bartered, and... Read Story
By Sally Walsch Coming out to the Hamptonsfrom a 4th floor walk-up in the Bronx was a journey of... Read Story
At one time, theShinnecockBay, thePeconicBay, Cold Spring Pond and the Ocean were all visible when standing at the top of... Read Story
JACK By Salvatore Tocci I didn’t know him for very long. In fact, we really didn’t spend that much... Read Story
Never Stop Drowning Samantha Olson All I can hear is the crash. It’s so familiar coupled with its... Read Story
Driving Ms. Joyce C. Sande Boritz Berger I had been a loyal fan of the renowned author, Joyce... Read Story
The Movie Extra Sande Boritz Berger If you know me, know me well, you’ve been privy to one of... Read Story
A Change of Heart Sandi Bloomberg When the ocean was coming too close... Read Story
Wildlife in theHamptons By Sandra Ramistella Wildlife in theHamptonscould refer to the masses who inundate our small part of... Read Story
Four Women By Sandra Lee Rufolo The news came via e-mail one spring day. My cousin notified me that... Read Story
The Waitress By Sandra Rufolo The ‘70s. The Golden Era in the Hamptons. Disco dancing, Harvey Wallbangers, Pernod and... Read Story
The Trouble With Maggie By Sara Bloom Maggie is a terrific dog. A perfect dog —... Read Story
Buried Memories By Sarah Bengal As a child, growing up amidst South fork farmlands, I remember waking up... Read Story
A Day in the Sun By Shannon Cox One cannot deny the beauty ofLong Island. It may be hidden,... Read Story
30 Elm Street By Sheila Guidera Elm Street, inSouthamptonVillage, is a beautiful residential street that runs North- ... Read Story
Paul McCartney and Me By Sherri Mandell In August2002, ayear after my 13 year old son, Koby was... Read Story
The First Stone By Steve Rideout The lichen have had 99 years to work on Howard’s stone though family cared... Read Story
The Wind By Steve Rideout To this day she can’t look at the picture without silently recharging the emotions her... Read Story
Zen in Quogue By Steven Paulumbo He is in my wife’s arms, a newborn, eyes sealed against the... Read Story
Buried Treasure By Susan Friedman Sometimes words and actions have a destiny that far surpasses our imagination. We never know... Read Story
THE SUMMER OF ’54 by Susan Pashman The Summer of 1954... Read Story
Home By Susan Smith Sometimes I wish I had come from a cute little town like Greenport –... Read Story
HamptonEquinox By Susan Worley Kaufman The end of summer hung heavy on the trees. I watched the leaves outside... Read Story
“We Loved the Nightlife” Then Now, Not So Much By Suzan Wyatt It was2:00 am. I had fallen asleep with... Read Story
Swans and Butterflies By Talia Carner It is a late summer day. Outside my window, the wetland is dotted... Read Story
You Fashion the Path Your Footsteps Have Trod By Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan Having been the Suffolk County Poet Laureate... Read Story
Imagine A Photograph In memory of my late father Jack O’Malley By Taylor O’Malley I wish that I... Read Story
Monk of the Month ByTerence Lane Location: Montauk Manor Resort and Condominium Date:October 31, 2009 Time of incident:11:02PM ... Read Story
Trying to Keep the Customers Satisfied By Terry Z. Lucas When you live in the Hamptons, Memorial Day Weekend... Read Story
LIFE DRAWING By Terry Staverman Although it’s been many years since the last time I’ve mixed up a palette of... Read Story
FOLLIES WITH HAMPTONS FAUNA By Terry Staverman-Schein In a scenario similar to the ritual migrations of some large land... Read Story
Sammy, ThatSag HarborRascal By Terry Sullivan Sammy was a nervy little rascal who wasn’t bothered by killing. Some said... Read Story
The Famous and the Forgotten By Thomas Renker I I wonder how many of us remember Friday the 13th... Read Story
We teased each other’s hair until it hurt. We’re going back to July 4th, 1980-something at The Stephen Talkhouse. ... Read Story
I am an electrophysiologist. I implant devices, perform electrophysiological studies, induce arrhythmias, and ablate left and right. I needed... Read Story
Scotty and Jimmy By Timothy Small A few summers ago, I had to figure out a way, besides waiting tables,... Read Story
We By Timothy Small A few years ago, I was atEgyptBeachinEast Hampton, off to the edge of where the blankets... Read Story
BERGER By Timothy Sommer Looking southeast, the early morning sky betrayed no sun, and the stars told their old... Read Story
Crack, snapple, pop. This was not the merry chorus of my morning cereal after it’s been drenched in milk. ... Read Story
The Field of an Angel By Tom Gabrielson Photo courtesy of Marie Arturi Albert Einstein once wrote, “The difference between... Read Story
I had my first taste of the East End in my twenties when a cousin of mine worked at... Read Story
When I was seven years old, my mother’s friend Truman gave me a fur snake. Truman was a... Read Story
History in the Making by Tracy Kaler In 2010, as I lounged on the deck of a... Read Story
I am fifteen years old and brushing my teeth in the ladies’ bathroom at Jones Beach State Park. It... Read Story
If there were such a thing as a National Garbage Dump Beauty Contest, I believe Montauk would take the... Read Story
This is a story about a bad day on Gardiners Bay aboard my fishing boat. In 1987, I bought... Read Story
My initial encounter with the birds had come several weeks earlier, while they were still chicks. The farm I... Read Story
Almost every little girl believes her father is a super-hero. Sadly, they out grow that feeling when they come... Read Story
Local Vision By Valeria Hartman On a warm July evening in Montauk, with the waves of theAtlanticrhythmically crashing against the... Read Story