A Ride Out East
May 28, 2014 9:12 amA Ride Out East By Jerry Giammatteo During the summer of 2008, I was laid up after surgery on a... Read Story
Categories for 2013 Literary Prize Submissions
On Lighthouses and Clarity
May 28, 2014 9:12 amIt took three solid weeks of endless frustration and sleepless nights for me to decide to try something new. I... Read Story
The Death of the Hamptons
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Death of the Hamptons “I heard the Hamptons were finished. Too much traffic. And the Restaurants are too crowded.... Read Story
I Have Dust
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMy name is Bernadette, I live ion the East End of Long Island and I Have Dust. The fine, dry... Read Story
The Walrus and The Rose
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Walrus and The Rose Joshua raised a stick of driftwood above his head. He let out a battle cry... Read Story
At The Beach, Life Was Different
May 28, 2014 9:12 amSeventy-two. There are seventy-two steps you must walk to get down to Cedar Beach from the neighborhood called the cliffs.... Read Story
Wreckless
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWRECKLESS by Nannette Porco We were a young, married couple with three children in the late 60’s. Back then, we... Read Story
Silence and Laughter
May 28, 2014 9:12 amCatherine was the good child: National Merit scholar; athlete; the child who’d unload the dishwasher without being asked. My brother... Read Story
Outsourceing the Elder Within
May 28, 2014 9:12 amOutsourcing the Elder Within I recently re-watched the movie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel after seeing a televised interview of... Read Story
Coming In or Going Out?
May 28, 2014 9:12 amComing In or Going Out? Before we get to the riddle of the day let me make it perfectly clear... Read Story
Pop Rocks & Space Invaders
May 28, 2014 9:12 amIt is the summer of 1978 and I am 12 years old in Tuma’s Bait and Tackle Shop in Montauk.... Read Story
Passing It On
May 28, 2014 9:12 amPASSING IT ON BY MEA TOWNSEND We swooped up the 1841 white Georgian house with black shutters, picket fence, large... Read Story
A Few Strawberries Short of a Belgian Waffle
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWe are all familiar with the seminal cultural study known as The Beverly Hillbillies, with its sitcom-centric interpretation of the... Read Story
Duke Zanesville’s Dog and Cat Art Gallery
May 28, 2014 9:12 amDuke Zanesville’s Dog and Cat Art Gallery By Duke Zanesville I came out to Long Island because my Brooklyn, New... Read Story
Lost Hampton Treasures
May 28, 2014 9:12 amLost Hampton Treasures by Charles Dyner 10 Arbor Ct. Livingston, NJ 07039 C: 201. 707-0991 charlesdyner@comcast.net Yesterday was a busy... Read Story
Montauk Local Eden Guevara Baradi Turns 100 Years Old
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMONTAUK LOCAL EDEN GUEVARA BARADI TURNS 100 YEARS OLD Huge Celebration Draws Four Generations To Celebrate Eden’s Birthday. She is... Read Story
Montauk: Miracles, Magical and Motivating
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMontauk: Miracles, Magical and Motivating I am sobbing while watching the news. They are tears of joy. John Aldridge, a... Read Story
Re-Education
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI got a hook shoved through my lip as a last hurrah in Oregon and then we sped three thousand... Read Story
Wildflowers of the East End
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI close my eyes and my mind drifts back to summers spent on Long Island. I can feel the warmth... Read Story
Week-end at Gurney’s
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWe met on my first day of high school, in 1958. I was waiting for the first of the three... Read Story
The Best Show In Town
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Best Show in Town It was another miraculous day along the gorgeous stretch of ocean just west of Hither... Read Story
Letting Go of the Chicken Lamp
May 28, 2014 9:12 amLetting Go of the Chicken Lamp by Sharon Burns The weather forecast didn’t look good. A major hurricane was predicted... Read Story
Sidewalk Sneakers
May 28, 2014 9:12 amSidewalk Sneakers II July 26, 2013 Joel Reitman PO Box 528 Peconic, New York 631-765-2321 I look down at my... Read Story
East Yesterday
May 28, 2014 9:12 amEast Yesterday. It must have been about five years ago, just after the birth of my son. He was fast... Read Story
The Game: Joseph Made His Move
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWhen I was a kid, I used to think he could move mountains with one flick of the wrist. That... Read Story
A Love Letter
May 28, 2014 9:12 amA Love Letter By Sara Bloom Dear reader, I’ve been thinking a lot about love lately, especially since Hurricane Sandy.... Read Story
The Church Ladies of the North Fork
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Church Ladies of the North Fork By Marie-Christine Cardalena This is a different kind of story. It is not... Read Story
Magdalena
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMagdalena Magdalena lived in a hotel in Amagansett, a big boxy structure with rows of rooms looking out over the... Read Story
The Searcher
May 28, 2014 9:12 am“I’ve been on Driveabout,” was Jeffrey’s way of explaining his reappearance in our lives that summer. “And I have Good... Read Story
To Mother, With Love
May 28, 2014 9:12 amTO MOTHER,WITH LOVE A Son’s Tribute for Eden Guevara Baradi Montauk Community Church, Montauk, NY, February 25, 2012 One cannot... Read Story
A Capful of Condoms and Other Summer Tales
May 28, 2014 9:12 amA Capful of Condoms and other Summer Tales By Sharon Burns The long awaited day had finally arrived. The car... Read Story
Maybe It’s Time To Go
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMAYBE IT’S TIME TO GO by Toinette Gay At the time of my birth, my dear father bought a 12... Read Story
The North Fork and Dreams of Glory
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe North Fork and Dreams of Glory By: Gordon Miller I recall that I was eight years old in 1948... Read Story
Anthony Parlato-The Gentle Giant
May 28, 2014 9:12 amAnthony Parlato-The Gentle Giant My family and I had moved to Manorville ten years ago from Massapequa, New York. My... Read Story
Sag Harbor Sundays
May 28, 2014 9:12 amSag Harbor Sundays by Lorraine Manzo Angeletti “If you could live anywhere in the world where would you choose to... Read Story
Thank You ARF
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThank You ARF By Sparky (a hopeful dreamer) Never in my life have I ever been to a shelter as... Read Story
Where We Go Wading
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWHERE WE GO WADING By B. C. Mazlin “I’ve seen the best of this place,” he said. My friend and... Read Story
The Summer Islands
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Summer Islands By Diane Strecker Thousands of years ago, beneath massive ice plates, the earth grinds and shifts and... Read Story
Main Street
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe first day I met Suzanne and the rest of the girls I never thought that they would adhere so... Read Story
On Absence and Black Flies
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI am sitting in your chair. You are not in it. It’s three in the afternoon, I’ve spent the past... Read Story
Blue Like the Island
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI am only alive on this island for however long the summertime blooms in that elegantly sultry way the season... Read Story
From the East End to The Hamptons
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI moved to East End in June 1987. It came to me in a dream. I knew no one here... Read Story
Ode to Bruce
May 28, 2014 9:12 amIt began as a simple end of the day trail ride, but quickly turned into an incident that we would... Read Story
The Drive East
May 28, 2014 9:12 amIt was Friday, July 19th and I could not wait to get out of the office. As I fidgeted my... Read Story
The Old Tree
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Old Tree By Michael Casper Along North Sea Mecox Rd. in Southampton, between David White’s Lane and Long Springs... Read Story
Aunt Connye’s
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMy family moved to Bellmore in 1959. For those of you who don’t know, Bellmore sits in between the Meadowbrook... Read Story
The Kodachrome Lobsterman of Montauk
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Rail is a fisherman’s bar and restaurant in Montauk – a village known as The End. It’s the last... Read Story
The East End~The Land I Love
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe East End~The Land I Love Written by Michelle Cioffi In 1990, I left Farmingdale, Long Island with a sparkling... Read Story
The Near Life Ending Attack
May 28, 2014 9:12 am“Mom, you need to come now, the doctors don’t think A.J. is going to make it through the night,” my... Read Story
Wedding Season
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI’m writing to you again, not because I told you I would, but because it allows me a distance from... Read Story
Mr. Wolfe, You Can Go Home Again
May 28, 2014 9:12 amAnother week has come and gone; it’s time for Mother’s bath. A practice, I must admit, that holds all the... Read Story
Clamshell Moons
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI have two clamshell moons hanging above my bed. Two remnants of sky that remind me every time I look... Read Story
Princess Heather Flower and the Land Grab
May 28, 2014 9:12 amPrincess Heather Flower and the Land Grab A True Story By Heather Miller I would like to say that my... Read Story
Sunrise, Sunset
May 28, 2014 9:12 amSunrise, Sunset by Edward J. Laskowski II As long as I can remember the East End has drawn me to... Read Story
Washed Up On The Rocks
May 28, 2014 9:12 amGrowing up on the East End, I was taught that Long Island looked like a fish. Brooklyn was its head,... Read Story
Sunday Afternoon Drive on Shelter Island
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWe drive down on the Ram Island causeway and my NYC friend points up to a large nest on top... Read Story
When You Least Expect It
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT It’s rare you find an irascible person who becomes less so with age. Tank Stark... Read Story
The Naked Kingdom
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Naked Kingdom, by Joe Carson I remember being ten and climbing through the narrow passages between the limbs of... Read Story
My 5K Attempt
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWhen I was a young boy I dreamed that I would one day I would travel far from home and... Read Story
The Porch
May 28, 2014 9:12 amBack and forth, back and forth. The breeze is making its way by smoothly touching my face and playing with... Read Story
The Snack Bar
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI. You are 14 years old and you work at the snack bar. You have pimples on your face and... Read Story
The Slant of Light
May 28, 2014 9:12 amC.D.Rawicz East Hampton. 07/31/13 The Slant of Light Once more, the phrase popularized by Theodore Roosevelt, “Walk softly and carry... Read Story
Healing Powers
May 28, 2014 9:12 amHealing Powers by Cara J. Damer For years I had heard of the magic, the peace, the tranquility experienced when... Read Story
Deep Summer
May 28, 2014 9:12 amDeep Summer: That familiar faint rolling echoed distantly in the back of my mind followed by a gentle, yet all... Read Story
Connections
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI came to the East End in stages, with family in summers that were almost exclusively centered around children. The... Read Story
A Tribute to Lola Eden Guevara Baradi
May 28, 2014 9:12 amA TRIBUTE TO LOLA EDEN GUEVARA BARADI BY CRISTINA SEDIGO The first time my friend, Pat asked me if I... Read Story
Stitches
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMy daughter does well in emergency rooms. She likes a captive audience. She knew what the people waiting in the... Read Story
An East End Adventure
May 28, 2014 9:12 amUpon arriving at the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Cemetery in Southampton on the most spectacular day in the... Read Story
Long Island Light
May 28, 2014 9:12 amA beaming, honey-haired girl about three years old sat down on the floor next to me in the brightly painted... Read Story
I Deal
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe beach club where I’ve worked for the last 12 summers is centered on a one-road thin, one-mile long isthmus... Read Story
Sunday Funday
May 28, 2014 9:12 amIt’s 4:46 pm and now it’s time to make that decision whether or not I will do this. Normally I... Read Story
Journey to the East (End)
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI came to know the Hamptons the old fashioned way, from the sea. I first laid eyes on the East... Read Story
Traditions
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe East End is enchanting. It’s like a siren that lures you in with its special song of sea, sun... Read Story
Horsey Tales from the Hamptons
May 28, 2014 9:12 am“Horsey Tales from the Hamptons” A friend moved out to the Hamptons. She had a farm there, and I was... Read Story
Dear Montauk
May 28, 2014 9:12 amDear Montauk: For as long as I can remember I could not live without you. You were in my veins... Read Story
Telling Time
May 28, 2014 9:12 am“I have to say, you have made a completely wrong decision. You don’t do that very often, but you did... Read Story
Once Upon A Time In The East
May 28, 2014 9:12 amIt was the loud, rhythmic, grinding sound of the geese flying south that woke me that November morning so long... Read Story
Sunlight in the Shadows (excerpt)
May 28, 2014 9:12 am“How the hell did this happen? Kate sat in the passenger section of the ferry holding her overnight case on... Read Story
Waiting for the Launch
May 28, 2014 9:12 amWaiting for the Launch By Joe Butera I was becoming annoyed with the long wait for the Yacht Club Tender... Read Story
Eastport – Back in the Day
May 28, 2014 9:12 amEastport – Back in the Day When you are ten years old, you have several best friends all at the... Read Story
Don’t take your mother to Woodstock
May 28, 2014 9:12 amDon’t take your mother to Woodstock By Donna Weinheim I needed my mother. I clung to her pantsuit. I followed... Read Story
A View From the Road
May 28, 2014 9:12 amA “Happy Shamrock Day” lawn sign. But it’s May, so why is it still lying in the grass? A newspaper... Read Story
Pine Haven
May 28, 2014 9:12 amPine Haven It’s not easy to believe in something you haven’t seen. Without ever experiencing the workings of a television,... Read Story
Dearest Jeannot
May 28, 2014 9:12 amDearest Jeannot: The sun has dried my tears. I am facing our favorite spot, which you will never get to... Read Story
Huck Fin of the North Fork
May 28, 2014 9:12 amTitle:“ Huck Finn Of The North Fork” Author: John M. Di Fazio II Towards the end of last summer, our... Read Story
A Visit To The Hamptons
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMy father was a holy man. Although he was not officially a rabbi, people flocked to him as if he... Read Story
Discovering Mattituck
May 28, 2014 9:12 amDISCOVERING MATTITUCK By Diane Jeffrey In 1951 the war was well behind us and at five years old I barely... Read Story
Oysterette
May 28, 2014 9:12 amOYSTERETTE When I reflect upon my childhood, I am overwhelmed with wonder. I was so lucky to be raised by... Read Story
Miss Adventure
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMiss Adventure It was an August morning in 1974 when I glanced through my bay window watching the fog lift... Read Story
Smacked
May 28, 2014 9:12 amIt is hard to describe that day. The day I buried my old friend, who could not stop injecting heroin... Read Story
Don’t look now….here he comes.
May 28, 2014 9:12 amDon’t Look Now….Here He Comes While on the ARF Garden Tour a few years ago, I noticed two young, fit... Read Story
The Memory Rock of Montauk Point
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Memory Rock of Montauk Point By Ken Giovanelli There was a keen sense of history in the air that... Read Story
Before I Forget
May 28, 2014 9:12 am“Before I Forget…” Dickens began: “I am born…”; Camus: “Mamam est morte…”; at my age, “Before I Forget..” makes more... Read Story
The Wild Fire
May 28, 2014 9:12 amThe Wild Fire The year I was born Tom Hanks was nominated best actor for his role in Forest Gump,... Read Story
Farewell Childhood
May 28, 2014 9:12 amFAREWELL CHILDHOOD My childhood was very different from my son’s! I grew up in the early sixties in the USSR.... Read Story
East End “John-John” Embraces Local Comfort Cuisine Stalwarts
May 28, 2014 9:12 amI am a child of the sixties. I was born early in that decade, on the same day as John... Read Story
A Vicarious Local
May 28, 2014 9:12 am“Eh . . . Southampton?” He had that old man stoop to his walk, but maneuvered easily enough between the... Read Story
It All Comes Back
May 28, 2014 9:12 amAt Least We Can Eat
May 28, 2014 9:12 amMy Italian grandmother on my mother’s side Angelina Basso (Muz) played a big part in raising and influencing me. Unfortunately,... Read Story
Cucumber
May 28, 2014 9:12 amCucumber Rhode Island Reds are a sturdy breed of chicken – reliable layers and never temperamental. My nine-year-old brother, Charlie... Read Story
