Hamptons Apocalypse Redux
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“The horror, the horror, the horror”, these words rumbling around in my head, are those from the lips of Colonel... Read Story
Categories for 2014 Literary Prize Submissions
The Fortune Cookie
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt is the perfect balmy evening after a long summer’s day. We have ordered take-out from Chen’s Garden and sit... Read Story
Little Plains
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmLittle Plains “Brawk!!!! Brawk! Brawk! Brawk!” I was sitting on a well worn beach towel in the middle of a... Read Story
Louise
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmDoug asks me “How did you lose yours?” I lean in closer as the diesel powering his sailboat made enough... Read Story
Talisman
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTalisman As we drove off the John Henry at Orient Point, the moist salt-scented, twilight air flew in the windows... Read Story
Mayday on Long Island
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI have just walked into my apartment after having been out an hour to run errands and I cannot stop... Read Story
The Beach Family
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Beach Family By Andrew Roth We were driving along Deerfield road to buy herbs for the flowerbed when the... Read Story
The Josiah Foster House Speaks…After 157 Years of Silence
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“Where I come from nobody knows and where I’m going everybody goes, the wind blows the sea flows . .... Read Story
Death and Cormaria
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThrough the eyes of an eight-year-old girl, Cormaria, hidden from Bay Street behind hedges and trees on the outskirts of... Read Story
Home at Last
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSchool is out. It is the end of June and we packed up the old cream colored Ford station wagon... Read Story
What Makes Us Whole
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWhat Makes Us Whole By Megan Bradley “Get up, we’re going to the beach.” I groaned in response to her... Read Story
Montauk’s Biggest Celebrity
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMontauk’s Biggest Celebrity Renee Jacobs July, 2014 No, it isn’t Paul Simon or Dick Cavett or Edward Albee although I... Read Story
Being Local
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmGrowing up on the North Shore of Long Island to me was divine; waterskiing, sailing in the bay, easy drives... Read Story
North Fork, South Fork, Stolen Fork
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“North Fork, South Fork, Stolen Fork” If Mike had let me steal the fork that innocently ended up in my... Read Story
Coming of Age–Any Age–on the Eastern End of Long Island
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmDon’t worry. This is isn’t going to be an essay about anyone’s first sex on the beach—drink or otherwise. And... Read Story
Growing Dreams on the North Shore
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMerrick to Northport wasn’t that far a move, but that wasn’t the only change. I never attended a public school... Read Story
No Man In Everyman’s Land
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmNo Man in Everyman’s Land As told by GJ Fischer (July, 2014) Though I don’t have a mailbox, my zip... Read Story
The Day in Question
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI don’t know how your mind works, but inside mine is a courtroom. On the most difficult nights, when sleep... Read Story
Transitions
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI have a recurring dream where I am forced to move out of my home, the one I have tended... Read Story
Rest Ashored on Long Island
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmHuman beings are remarkable self-preservationists, much to their credit (and their detriment). One skill I’ve prided myself in, whether it... Read Story
A Tale of Two Hamptons
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSerenity comes over me on Rt 27 as I cross over the Shinnecock canal on my way to my East... Read Story
A Portrait of a Lady
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmEden was a beautiful lady. Her skin was fair, her eyes dark brown. Her black hair was always up in... Read Story
When We Stared Up at the Moon
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWhen we stared up at the moon, it was a golden, delicious orb, hovering over black, rippling waves that churned... Read Story
Snapshots: 50 Years of east End Living
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSnapShots 50 Years of Living on the East End Did we start on shaky ground? As our bright yellow taxicab... Read Story
The Hamptons Street Names Review
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTHE HAMPTONS STREET NAME REVIEW. (3 pages; 946 words) By Charles Dyner 201. 707-0991 10 Arbor Ct. Livingston, NJ 07039... Read Story
Margarite’s Death
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMargarite’s Death It was a cloudy day which added to the family’s sadness. They were gathered at a cemetery in... Read Story
Small Potatoes
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSmall Potatoes by Selina Silecchia I grew up in Southampton, an Astoria, NY transplant, my first breath of Island air... Read Story
Montauk Break
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmAs I sit out on the deck of the room we have for the weekend at the Ocean Resort Inn... Read Story
Parrish Art Museum Moment: What’s In A Name?
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmDan’s Papers Story (final draft 7/21/14) PARRISH ART MUSEUM MOMENT: WHAT’S IN A NAME? By: Anthony Damian After a 37... Read Story
The Greenport Maritime Festival
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Greenport Maritime Festival by M. Christine Cardalena A young boy jumps into the still warm waters of summer. He... Read Story
A Weathervane in the East End
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe weathervane was a wrought iron horse fastened to the shingled gable of our garage facing Little Plains Road. It... Read Story
Anomaly
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI am hard to classify. A local, yes, but more so, if that is possible. To explain the how is... Read Story
Life Cycle
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmJune Planted in spring, firs squat roadside on Sound Avenue. When you drive past in June and see their Charlie-Brown... Read Story
Passion Space and Time
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmPassion, it’s such an interesting concept, how many ways it can show up in one’s life, a kaleidoscope of moments... Read Story
The Red Creek
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWho would have ever stopped and thought that Red Creek Road was home to an actual red creek? Well, maybe... Read Story
East End Home
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmDiscovering the East End was a happy accident back in 1979. My new husband and I lived in Manhattan and... Read Story
High Tide
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe summer of 1982 was coming to an end and I was about to turn sixteen years old. I was... Read Story
My Pickled Past
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe salty, sticky breeze barely blew through my grandparents’ house in the dead of a north fork summer. It was... Read Story
East, Love, and Lavender
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmOn the lavender farm of East Marion’s Lavender By the Bay, one gets the feeling of being lost. Despite the... Read Story
I’m Not From Texas
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmAs a good Long Island girl, I am bound to always listen to two mostly infallible Long Island natives: Billy... Read Story
Another Glistening Chance
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWe held our breath, carefully listening and looking around the plane with stunned stares. It was a moment before reality... Read Story
Magnolia Drive
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmBack home, we’d spend warm breezy nights at the beach. We’d make our way down narrow roads lined by small... Read Story
Acclimatize
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmAcclimatize Become accustom to a new climate or new conditions. As taken from the Oxford English Dictionary. We came in... Read Story
Treasures in a Green Cottage
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTreasures in a Green Cottage Tucked in among the newly built mansions you will still find strings of cottages right... Read Story
July Third
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI’m facing the open armpit of a man built like a champion surfer. His forearms are thick and he flexes... Read Story
A Shoebox in Westhampton
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmImpractical. Foolish. Dangerous. One can only imagine the sarcasm-laced verbiage directed at anyone who wanted to construct a shoebox cabin... Read Story
Clams Casino
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmFor all of my short existence, every summer, my family and I had made the drive from New York City... Read Story
House Interrupted
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt was an intense, warm embrace. The house wrapped its arms around me as I opened the door. It had... Read Story
Planes, trains and busses! This is a tue story
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmGo big or go home I always say. Recently one of my nephews and his girlfriend came to visit for... Read Story
Maestra
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMaestra The Prius bounced from pothole to pothole like a pinball, causing a dust storm. As Joy pulled up to... Read Story
Sunset over Kahuna
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe click of joining pins in my crutches under pressure with every stride joined the uproar of flip-flops and wet... Read Story
Hope in the Hamptons
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMy name is Justine Faeth and I wrote the book, “Chat Love”. I was born and raised in Long Island,... Read Story
Vignettes of an Island
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmEvery small town has its own folklore, and the east end of long island is in essence a collection of... Read Story
Dune Road Dreams
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTwo Thousand and Nine was Robin Stringer’s year. It started off with a travel writing trip to Las Vegas. A... Read Story
Kiddie Coasters and Calamari
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmRed and yellow flashed and swirled in the empty field at Gabreski Airport. It was probably not a good idea... Read Story
Not forgotten in thought
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmAs a youth, I was always fascinated in great detail with the civil war and the time period of the... Read Story
Sunshine In The House
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmAdvantage: Sunshine Even in New York City, before the leaves began to fall, you were nervous about your plans for... Read Story
Under The Rainbow
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmUnder the Rainbow, By Joe Carson Somewhere over the rainbow way up high There’s a land that I heard of... Read Story
Breeze Weaver
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmAh… the Hamptons…What is it about the Hamptons that continues to draw people from all over the world, returning each... Read Story
The Gift
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIn the days before the internet and all the benefits of personal computers, when international phone calls were expensive propositions,... Read Story
The Water
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt’s mind-boggling how your life can change in an instant. One moment you are gliding through your life without a... Read Story
Life. In stasis.
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmBy: Deidre Dare When we were freshmen in high school, my friend Shari and I, two nice Jewish girls from... Read Story
The Breadth of Air Out There
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“You were born blue,” my mother explains. She has told the story of me, her most difficult pregnancy and birth,... Read Story
Marital Blitz
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“They’re down at Turtle’s!” hollered a gruff voice seldom used to exude excitement. Suddenly most of the rods vanished from... Read Story
The Colors
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Colors A blue and white striped boatneck shirt peeking out behind a billowy white scarf. Dark shaded aviator sunglasses.... Read Story
Gratitude in the Land of Indulgence
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSpring is a season of rebirth. This thought runs through my mind as I hoist my straw beach tote out... Read Story
My Dilly Dally On Main Street in Southampton – A Lesson To Us All
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMY DILLY DALLY ON MAIN STREET IN SOUTHAMPTON- A LESSON TO US ALL © 2014 Laurence Stuart Warshaw -1-212-365-4895 Main... Read Story
Looking up is different than looking down
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIs it possible to experience the same joy in this hospital bed as I experience looking up at the new... Read Story
A Birthday Missed
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt was either 15 or 16 days that passed from the time I saw my mother in ICU to the... Read Story
Magic in the Air
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMagic in the Air A reminiscence by Dave Moir As I reflect on the past, it’s not so much melancholy... Read Story
The Secret Beach
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Secret Beach Rosemary McKinley There are beach people and there are mountain people as I have observed over the... Read Story
A Memorable Day
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Montauk train leaves for New York four times a day, carrying vacationers and day-trippers on their journey home. The... Read Story
Mayor of Georgica Beach
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI began coming out to the Hamptons after I graduated Cornell thanks to a classmate who had a family home... Read Story
The Life and Times of Miss Muffet: A Love Letter to the Hamptons
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Life and Times of Miss Muffet: A Love Letter to the Hamptons Once upon a time there was Brooklyn.... Read Story
Going Up Street
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThere were city kids and there were local kids and we played together during summers on the North Fork. There... Read Story
How a Hotdog Changed My Life
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmProust had his Madeleines, Wimpy his hamburgers, but my moment of culinary epiphany involved a hotdog that made my earth... Read Story
Honeysuckle Memories
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmHoneysuckle. I smelled it before I saw the bush. I was walking on a street in my neighborhood in Springs... Read Story
Mom, Memories, and Me
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMom, Memories, and Me By Stacy Hoff Ever since I was old enough to say the word “beach” my mother... Read Story
Montauk, N.Y. “It’s a Wonderful Vacation”
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmFor the previous ten years my family and I have vacationed every summer in Montauk. Together we enjoyed five glorious... Read Story
What’s Kept
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt was the middle of my tenth grade year. My first time attending high school, and not just any high... Read Story
Boy Scouts, The Cross Island Ferry and the Scent of Lavender
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSince the summer of 2008, my wife Laura, son Scott and I have engaged in an early July ritual. On... Read Story
IEDS, Burn Pits, Sandstorms: The Etiologic Mechanisms of Iraq Afghanistan War Lung Injury (IAW-LI)
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWhen I still had no grey hair, my clinic comprised elderly, white, male Long Island veterans in wheelchairs with oxygen–with... Read Story
Hamptons Hunters – Beach Blanket BBQ
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmFinally the invitation arrived; the coveted sunset beach BBQ dinner invitation. The hosts chose a friendly email over Evite or... Read Story
Life’s A Beach
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm7/7/14 LIFE’S A BEACH (final)1445 words As a child I was luckier than most because I grew up poor. Invariably... Read Story
A Lifetime of Sundays
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt was the only house we could agree on and as it turned out, one of the few things in... Read Story
The Middle Weight Champion of the World Started Me on my Journey to the East End
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI was thirteen years old and part of a gang that was something out of Oliver Twist. We were petty... Read Story
Time
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTIME Benjamin Franklin observed: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” I would... Read Story
Paddling the Peconic
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmPaddling the Peconic School’s out, Summer barely begun – a time of joy for young adolescents everywhere – except for... Read Story
Whimsy Waters
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmFrom our guesstimated calculations based on experience and encounters, my magical stuffed bear, Silkworm, and I have concluded there are... Read Story
Peg Murray-An East End Treasure
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmPEG MURRAY-AN EAST END TREASURE BY BARBARA ANNE KIRSHNER Her eyes scanned the dark, cavernous theatre and settled on the... Read Story
Take the Road less Traveled…please
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTake the Road Less Traveled…please By Frank Vespe After I dropped off my daughter Elizabeth at LIU Post Monday morning,... Read Story
The Family Toilsome
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Family Toilsome In the fall of 1965, when I was seven, my dad up and quit his editing job... Read Story
A Perfect Day
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI raised my face to soak in the warm rays and inhale the fragrance of freshly cut grass and slightly... Read Story
Anna
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTechnically, she never quite became my mother-in-law, but that never stopped me from thinking of her that way. Multiple sclerosis... Read Story
Just Because Two People Fell In Love
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWhen we were young, when our life together was just beginning, we would drive out to what felt like the... Read Story
The God of second Chances
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTHE GOD OF SECOND CHANCES The God I believe in is a god of second chances. – Bill Clinton, 42nd... Read Story
Space Cadet
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMort Gordon 254 East. 68th St New York, NY 10065 (212) 861 1246 45 Box Tree Rd PO-1201 Quogue, NY... Read Story
My “Hamptons,” A Story of Loss and Love
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMy “Hamptons,” A Story of Love and Loss By T.W. McDermott When I first heard someone talk about a Hampton,... Read Story
Corn-fusion
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmDay had barely broken when I got myself out of bed, chugged a cup of coffee, grabbed a banana and... Read Story
The Acorn Diary
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Acorn Diary About eighty years ago, a builder purchased a pie-shaped slice of land densely covered by towering oaks... Read Story
