It’s Rainin it’s Pourin the old…
June 10, 2015 5:30 pmThe strong, cool breeze coming through the opened window and the darkening room startle me. Jumping up quickly from the... Read Story
Categories for 2015 Literary Prize Submissions
The Love of Your Life
June 3, 2015 9:34 pmOne sun-lit October morning several years ago, as my husband, two young grandchildren and I strolled along the shores of... Read Story
East End Affairs
June 3, 2015 8:45 pmIn late October of 1973, I would return to Montauk after six long months of travel to say goodbye to... Read Story
Reggae Stones
June 3, 2015 7:18 amNature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson “Is it reggae night, Daddy?” Chloe asks bouncing lightly... Read Story
The Walker
June 2, 2015 4:30 pmThe boy walked slowly across the road, dragging his deerskin moccasins in the dust, more slowly than his mother could... Read Story
The Day of the Mollusk
June 2, 2015 2:14 pmMy first clam. It happened on a boat. In public. Until that blue sky day, off the far eastern coast... Read Story
Profile: an Artist
June 1, 2015 4:52 pmWhen my parents first started talking about him, they whispered “he shot his shrink, do you think he will be... Read Story
A Stormy Reunion
June 1, 2015 12:28 pmThey sat silently, each pondering the startling events of the day. Jeannie clung to Greg, Don held Penny’s shivering hand.... Read Story
Kids Running Amok
May 30, 2015 1:38 pmWarning: Helicopter parents may need smelling salts. Growing up on the East End in the fifties could be considered child... Read Story
Ghosts of Shopkeepers Past
May 20, 2015 10:28 amOutside, golden forsythias bloom and an early spring breeze carries a pungent stench of fresh mulch and fertilizer. The long... Read Story
Mystery at Tiana Bay
May 15, 2015 6:35 pmOur family traveled out to Hampton Bays for decade’s. This is where we spent our vacation’s on Tiana Bay. We... Read Story
The Kidnapped People’s Survivors Group
May 11, 2015 7:18 pmIt may be one of the earliest concepts learned in the practice of psychotherapy…that people do better when they are... Read Story
Walking Tall: Stephen Talkhouse and the Montauketts
April 30, 2015 8:56 amI have driven past The Stephen Talkhouse nightclub and bar in Amagansett many times in the five years I’ve lived... Read Story
The Red Light on Irene
April 22, 2015 6:45 pmFaggot, that is what I saw at 12 years old across the street. It was a gay male who dressed... Read Story
Wampum’s Spirituality
April 22, 2015 6:36 pmThe manufacture of wampum was isolated to the Atlantic shore tribes from Rhode Island to Virginia, but its discovery by... Read Story
Yoga Memories
April 22, 2015 6:32 pmWhen my daughter asked me to join her meditation and yoga class in a vineyard in Bridgehampton last summer, I... Read Story
Money and Politics in the Hamptons
April 20, 2015 4:40 pmThe crystal, deep blue waters; those wonderful celebrities we hear so much about roaming the streets of Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton,... Read Story
Growing Old in the Hamptons
April 18, 2015 8:39 pmMarion Darden, an 84-year-old woman of color, and I, a 96-year-old white woman, live a few doors away from each... Read Story
The Rite of Summer Passage: Camp
April 3, 2015 1:05 pmAt the tender age of four years old my parents lured me into my first summer day camp experience. It... Read Story
The Goldenrods
March 16, 2015 6:52 pmIt was the summer of “Star Wars,” it was the summer of Sam and it was the last summer for... Read Story
Thornton Wilder in the Westhampton Beach High School Cafeteria
March 16, 2015 2:26 pmIt was a mid-March Friday night in 1995. In beach towns, early spring is a strange time, full of expectation... Read Story
My Polish Grandmother
March 14, 2015 3:20 pmIn the heart of what is still called Polishtown in Riverhead stands St. Isadore’s Roman Catholic Church. It was the... Read Story
Prologue
March 3, 2015 12:19 pmDriving home the night before Thanksgiving, I see a view my schedule rarely allows. The California sky turns to night... Read Story
I’m An Indian Too!?
February 16, 2015 3:42 pmThe following is a true story about a tale of two Indian chiefs, a few corporate chiefs, and the long... Read Story
