An Early Rescue
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI sit at a table outside the Golden Pear in Southampton condemned to remember the sweet, doomed voice of Mrs.... Read Story
Categories for 2014 Literary Prize Submissions
The Mozzarella Man and the Red Horse
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmFrom my earliest childhood in Naples, Italy I have been a chef! At nine years of age I was cooking... Read Story
Hampton Dreams of A California Horsegirl
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“This is a backyard pony show compared to the Hampton Classic.” Katie said to me as we rode into the... Read Story
Moon Walk
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“Moon Walk “ by: Matthew Ryan The era of the1960s started with the torch being passed to a youthful and... Read Story
How the Sound Soothed my Soul
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe moment she sprang from her vanity stool, the group of nine year olds turned and stared. Then there was... Read Story
Casey Goes to the Hamptons
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmAll year Casey waits for our summer trip to the Hamptons. It’s fall and we have a long time to... Read Story
Ducks
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI love ducks. Beginning with growing up in Riverside, California, and loving to watch and feed the ducks at a... Read Story
I Live Every Day Like it was my last and dont give a f**k
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI always have, lived every day like it was my last. Always meaning as far back as I can remember,... Read Story
Turn Back the Waves of Time
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTURNING BACK THE WAVES OF TIME by Claire Michaels Coming here was like going back in a time machine for... Read Story
The Georgica Rental and the Snake
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTHE GEORGICA RENTAL AND THE SNAKE Some women will pay any price to enjoy a summer rental in the Hamptons,... Read Story
Southold, The summer of ’88
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSouthold the Summer of ’88 by Jeanette Marinese The first exciting thing that happened that first summer in our summer... Read Story
Anything Might Happen
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmGina Mulley once spent two straight weeks sitting by the Peconic River in Riverhead. It was 1978, the ink was... Read Story
Forward to the Past
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmLegend has it that my parents were looking for Nantucket within 2-3 hours of Manhattan. They drove east in 1951,... Read Story
Day Trips and Day Dreams
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmHairy-headed cows. The Montauk Lighthouse. Tall grasses along paths that lead to a sandy beach. Clean, neat appearances of eye-catching... Read Story
Growing Together on Long Island
June 1, 2000 3:00 pm“Growing Together on Long Island” Written by: Lydia Speizio Fifty- two years and counting, with a husband of thirty years... Read Story
On Adding Value in Sag Harbor
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI love my house. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it on the HREO website in... Read Story
Sailing the Winds of the Sag Harbor Spirit
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSailing the Winds of the Sag Harbor Spirit Sarah Miller July 2014 “I know you.” “I get that a lot.... Read Story
Water People
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWater People We really knew that we were “water people” when my husband’s company was making a move to Dallas.... Read Story
Tilling of the Heart
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmTilling of the Heart By Lisa McEnany I am a farmer’s granddaughter. Childhood was a magical time, weekends filled with... Read Story
The Tree’s Promise
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Tree’s Promise Written by Emma Bonn The brush is thick in this area. Tall oak trees outline the paved... Read Story
Don’t hurry to see Eastern Long Island
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThere’s been a lot of talk lately about how great Eastern Long Island is and how one simply MUST experience... Read Story
Heirloom
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMy family bought the land on which to build our home during the mid-20th century. It was an era when... Read Story
Memory Days
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI pushed my bare feet into the pebbles of the unfamiliar beach and wiggled my tiny toes deeper to plant... Read Story
From Los Angeles California to The East End of Long Island
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmHaving lived in Los Angeles since the age of fifteen and pursuing a acting career all of my adult life... Read Story
Inhaling Required
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt’s a sixteen hour car ride from Mount Prospect, Illinois to Bridgehampton, New York and the longest amount of time... Read Story
Abigail
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmHere Lyes y Body of Abigail Jeʃʃup Daughter of Mr . Iʃaac & Mrs. Sarah Jeʃʃup Who Decd. In Novmbr... Read Story
The Peace in My Spirit
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Peace in My Spirit By Romilda Rivera The peace within me is the privilege of being able to go... Read Story
The Point
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Point The boy raised the present over his head and slammed it against the stone counter, breaking it in... Read Story
Shadow
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmShadow My husband and I love our get aways to the North Fork of Long Island. It’s a lovely hour... Read Story
To the end, and back
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe first time I made the journey was on the train, one of three Irish girls with pale skin and... Read Story
The Misadventures of Johnny Driver: An Introduction
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmIt was June of 2007. Summer school was cancelled that year, so John needed to find some work, and fast!... Read Story
Magnesium
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmMagnesium S.C. Megale This is dedicated to my family – old and young – and the metamorphosis of themselves for... Read Story
Time Gap
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmEmily, my closest friend and old roommate in Manhattan, has a family home on Shelter Island. In the summer, before... Read Story
Bugging Out in the Hamptons
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSomething has been bugging me in the Hamptons. It has nothing to do with the long waits for tables at... Read Story
The Life of Things to the East: Lines Composed 119 Miles West of Montauk Lighthouse. July 13, 2014
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Life of Things to the East: Lines Composed 119 Miles West of Montauk Lighthouse. July 13, 2014 These beauteous... Read Story
A House Is Not A Lover
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSome people may say that a house is not a lover, but in this case it was. Some people might... Read Story
Pen Craig
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmPen Craig Pen Craig is a 20 acre estate located in the incorporate village of Quogue in East Long Island,... Read Story
Let Me Drive
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmEvery damn time. I’d get out and run my errand, and when I came back, he’d be sitting in the... Read Story
Driving Out
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe seemingly endless fuselage of the station wagon held row after row of sticky vinyl bench seats, and whatever passed... Read Story
Skipping Time
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmSKIPPING TIME Why is it always seemingly brightest right before the very next Full Moon? That’s especially true during December,... Read Story
Holy Cow, Water!
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI was a Mid Western transplant. I’d never been to the Hampton’s, and I didn’t know how to drive. My... Read Story
Entertaining Grace
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI’d always been dramatic, but I really wasn’t sure we were going to make it back East with my mother... Read Story
The Ultimate Party
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Ultimate Party By Scott “Scotto” Savitt During my long successful career as an event producer, I have had the... Read Story
A Place to Love
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe first time, I came for love. I was 22 and it was for a single weekend to a tall,... Read Story
Pine Haven, a love note
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmPine Haven: a love letter It’s not easy to believe in something you haven’t seen. Without ever experiencing the workings... Read Story
The New Exceptional
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThere were once exceptional people among us out here. They had all made a fortune, sure, and were probably scoundrels... Read Story
The Gift of the Gull
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Gift of the Gull A courageous whaling of hunger penetrated my ears as I tried to reenter the slumber... Read Story
Pine Haven, a love leter
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmPine Haven: a love letter It’s not easy to believe in something you haven’t seen. Without ever experiencing the workings... Read Story
Waves on the Peconic Bay
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmWaves on the Peconic Bay As long as I can remember my family and I would vacation to Southampton on... Read Story
The Kathy Club
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe Kathy Club Sometimes you’re just in the right place at the right time. Sometimes you get lucky. Twenty-five years... Read Story
The Miracle Man
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe stars were elegiac. That I listened to their light, to find a light I could return, I was buried... Read Story
The House on South Main Street
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmThe thing that comes to mind when I think about my grandmother’s house on South Main Street is the light... Read Story
Roses and Rocks
June 1, 2000 3:00 pmI was never afraid of the bees. They were my intimates as a child, familiars developed over the long hours... Read Story
