Who Is Ms. East?
August 14, 2016 11:59 pmMay I dare ask thee: “Who are you, Ms. East?” “How did you come to be, Ms. East?” “What... Read Story
Categories for 2016 Literary Prize Submissions
Biking from Southampton to Montauk
August 14, 2016 11:57 pmThe East End of Long Island is home to the oldest collection of historic windmills in the country. There are... Read Story
Foots’ Life Mattered
August 14, 2016 11:54 pmSOUTHAMPTON / 1640 – 1969 “The Queen of American Watering Places…A perfect modern residential community and vacation-land rich in... Read Story
Magic In The Water
August 14, 2016 11:53 pmAutumn on Long Island is cloudy and quiet. Warm and washed away. Everything is damp: the splintered wood of the... Read Story
The Transition
August 14, 2016 11:52 pmAs a Navy pilot for most of my adult life, I have flown over the Hamptons on numerous occasions but... Read Story
Conspiracies of the East End
August 14, 2016 11:45 pmTime travel experiments. Secret sex societies. A vortex on the south fork and a new world order on the north... Read Story
Shelter Island Safe
August 14, 2016 11:39 pmShelter Island gave me confidence and security in the way that only bare feet, unlocked doors, and unsupervised free play... Read Story
Thank You Southampton
August 14, 2016 11:36 pmFrom the top of an apple orchard in a nature preserve in my hometown of Easton, Connecticut, I catch a... Read Story
The Tillinghasts of East End: A Tale of a Sea-Chest and Unhiding the Hidden
August 14, 2016 11:12 pmWhen I was coming of age, my own unique bildungsroman in Sioux City, Iowa, my mother’s family talked about their... Read Story
March back to the Hamptons
August 14, 2016 11:11 pmUnder a blazing hot sun, thousands of prisoners of war, slowly walk with little hope to survive excruciating conditions, starvation... Read Story
Home of the Beautiful People
August 14, 2016 11:10 pmI propped myself with all the pillows from both twin beds in my neighbor’s guestroom and my thumbs blazed across... Read Story
Finagle’s Law
August 14, 2016 11:04 pmFinagle’s Law Like most folks, I’d never heard of “Finagle’s Law” before I learned the hard way that it’s... Read Story
Buffalo to Bridgehampton and Beyond….
August 14, 2016 10:42 pmNewly married with degrees in education, his in Industrial Arts and mine in Speech Pathology, we packed our Volkswagen... Read Story
THE Hamptons VS the Hamptons
August 14, 2016 10:40 pmMy family and I moved, from out of state, to the Hamptons in the fall of 2008. We had heard... Read Story
The Little Island Wanderer
August 14, 2016 10:34 pmAt twenty, an age when most young adults are trying to figure out who they are, my mother gave birth... Read Story
Where I Live (an excerpt)
August 14, 2016 10:30 pmWe returned to the tangle of place called home in 1994 – me, my husband and our young daughters. I... Read Story
Unhamper our Hamptons
August 14, 2016 10:19 pmUnhamper our Hamptons is my underlying mantra. Understand me, it is not a complaint, yet, an undertaking. Signage overload is... Read Story
Walking Dunes
August 14, 2016 10:18 pmMoments into East Hampton Middle School’s August 1997 Orientation for Grade 6 & All New Students, my parents and I ascend... Read Story
A Game I Used To Play
August 14, 2016 9:36 pmThere was a time in my life, perhaps in all of our lives, when the world stretched only as far... Read Story
The Ocean’s Rules
August 14, 2016 9:14 pmEveryone has a different reason to flock to water’s edge. Your need to be near the ocean changes like the... Read Story
Is This Chicken for Sale?
August 14, 2016 9:12 pmIf you’ve worked for years on women’s lifestyle sites, as I have, you know that in late afternoon it all... Read Story
There’s Something About Mary’s
August 14, 2016 8:44 pmIt’s a summer tradition and a primary destination for many East End vacationers. The pastry department opens at 5am, and... Read Story
I HAD JUST…..
August 14, 2016 8:35 pmIt was Tuesday morning, not yet 10 AM. I was on the phone. It’s funny – more than two and... Read Story
Endless Love
August 14, 2016 8:29 pmMy father loved the Hamptons. One tranquil spot nestled between East Hampton and Amagansett in particular. Set back off a... Read Story
Lobster Special
August 14, 2016 8:18 pm“What do you want for dinner?” My dad asks this of me daily whenever I’m out East for a visit.... Read Story
The Piano Lesson
August 14, 2016 8:16 pmBright dappled sunlight flooded the music room. White colonial shutters on open windows framed an unobstructed waterfront view overlooking... Read Story
Tide Lines
August 14, 2016 7:55 pmThe low grumble of our engine mingled with the herons’ melodic warble. Inside the boat, we were quiet. A foot... Read Story
And So It Goes!
August 14, 2016 7:52 pmThat August 22 was their eighteenth wedding anniversary. They had a lot to celebrate. It was their third wedding anniversary... Read Story
Stan the Man
August 14, 2016 7:42 pmI live in Montauk because my parents fell in love with this place 45 years ago. They were looking for... Read Story
Save the Trees, Bring Back The Sky Disk
August 14, 2016 7:31 pmSometimes it seems like there’s a ‘spell’ over this part of the island. In the air, in the light, in... Read Story
Facing Facts
August 14, 2016 7:29 pmOver twenty-five years ago, I met and fell in love with the man who would become my husband and father... Read Story
Reflection
August 14, 2016 6:41 pmAs a Russian émigré visiting Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor knowing who established American Ballet and who said: “By blood... Read Story
Facing the Water
August 14, 2016 6:27 pmThe pay stub was for 168.72 cents. It was lying near the futon he slept on, a good 15 feet... Read Story
East Hampton: That’s the Way It Was
August 14, 2016 5:32 pmI was born in Southampton Hospital in l943 and went to live in East Hampton with my grandparents, George and... Read Story
Behind the Gates
August 14, 2016 5:30 pmSince I was a child, I remember the many Sunday drives my family would take out to the east end... Read Story
My Very Brief Career
August 14, 2016 5:25 pmIf you knew me when I was a kid growing up on the south shore of Long Island, you’d... Read Story
One GIANT Quantum for Mankind
August 14, 2016 5:21 pmIn the summers of 1938 and 1939 Albert Einstein rented a cottage in Cutchogue. He liked to sail. Its so... Read Story
Buds and Vines
August 14, 2016 4:56 pmWe are married now—although last year at this time, we weren’t. We have a picnic, consisting of North Fork smoked... Read Story
My MasterCard Commercial
August 14, 2016 4:02 pmIt was summer of 1984 and we had been coming to the Soundview Inn in Southold for a few... Read Story
A lady, her dog, and a Radio Flyer
August 14, 2016 3:42 pmDriving down the streets in Pelham Manor these days, one might happen to see a rather unusual sight. Unusual, if... Read Story
A Dune Road Life
August 14, 2016 3:36 pmMy earliest memory of Dune Road was fear of its proximity to the sea, unseen, just over the dunes. Looking... Read Story
Town Harbor
August 14, 2016 3:35 pmMy tall son tells me the official term for a group of jellyfish is a smack. A pod of dolphins,... Read Story
The Walls of Jericho
August 14, 2016 3:29 pmAs I pulled up to the address on Jericho Lane, about the only expectation that I had was that I... Read Story
Diamond in the Sand
August 14, 2016 3:15 pmHis tragic death affected me more than it really should have. I didn’t know him, or anything about... Read Story
Brexit and Trump – A view from the Hamptons
August 14, 2016 2:45 pmI met an Australian woman in the annex at LVIS the other day. If you have not yet stumbled upon... Read Story
Ride Along
August 14, 2016 2:31 pmAs I see it life is just one big ride along. The vehicle we choose determines our destiny perhaps just... Read Story
Comin’ About!
August 14, 2016 2:25 pm“Ladies and gents of the jury… we’re here to indict the captain and his mate for abandonment, and the folly... Read Story
Sunday
August 14, 2016 2:03 pmDaybreak. Sun rising. Sea rolling in, dashing out. Sand clumping between my toes. Smooth breeze blowing. Time to say... Read Story
Bad Manners In The Hamptons
August 14, 2016 1:37 pmEarly Sunday morning, the sky was perect blue, the singular scent of privet permeated the July air. So fleeting, yet... Read Story
Shinnecock Dynasty
August 14, 2016 1:37 pmI did not realize I was in the presence of royalty when my mother introduced me to Princess Nowanda of... Read Story
I Can’t Write a Personal Essay
August 14, 2016 12:08 pmIn 2010, I attended my first writer’s conference at Stony Brook University and signed up for something called Personal... Read Story
One Golden Moment
August 14, 2016 12:08 pmA lot of speculation has made about the unique and treasured light of the beautiful enclave we call the... Read Story
The White Gate
August 14, 2016 11:42 amIt’s no longer in the family but every once in a while I find myself taking a ride by the... Read Story
I Tied with the Mountain
August 14, 2016 8:49 am“The Linda Glacier: While this is the most climbed route on Mount Cook, N.Z., it is also one of the... Read Story
All the Feels
August 14, 2016 12:36 amIt smelled like vanilla cream and fish parts. The minute the car doors opened, heat and sunlight flooded our bodies,... Read Story
Night I Could Not Forget
August 14, 2016 12:16 amIt’s like “magic in the making” every time I drive into East Hampton. My mind takes an “about change” photo... Read Story
Sag Harbor Summer
August 13, 2016 11:38 pmIt was the 80’s. The era of excess. Good music, big hair, short shorts, baggy shirts, rubber bracelets… the list... Read Story
We Don’t Go to Westhampton Anymore
August 13, 2016 11:36 pmWe don’t go to Westhampton Dunes anymore. We sold our little beach house a few years ago at my insistence.... Read Story
Unfixed, Transfixed, Transfigured
August 13, 2016 10:16 pmWe left home that day trying to relive a moment. The morning began with mom, waking calmly, and packing some... Read Story
The Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Pedigree
August 13, 2016 8:20 pmIt’s no coincidence – though perhaps it can be considered a culinary manifest destiny – that the East End of... Read Story
Family Camps
August 13, 2016 6:35 pmJuly 4th, 1961 I am a tubby, towheaded, seven-year-old girl perched on the edge of a wooden float on Great... Read Story
Garden in a bowl
August 13, 2016 6:28 pmLate July is Gazpacho season on eastern Long Island. Farms and gardens are full of the essential ingredients: crisp cucumbers,... Read Story
The Seabird’s Cry
August 13, 2016 5:35 pmThe morning rain had stopped. Pools of quiet water covered broad swaths of road winding to the town dump. I... Read Story
Bridge to Tokyo
August 13, 2016 5:09 pmSag Harbor, a Hamptons village where you can still feel the breath of the old whaling town it used to... Read Story
Home Away From Home
August 13, 2016 2:19 pmIt seems as though it could never be the same, yet somehow it always is. I’ve never been on a... Read Story
“Sounds of Myself”
August 13, 2016 1:07 pm(selected pieces from memoir of grieving) Widower On day #1, only a few hours after he dies, you realize that... Read Story
Releasing Butterflies and Dragonflies!!!
August 13, 2016 12:32 pmAh ….The sweaty, sweaty days of summer camp !!! The kids just called me “Miss GWENNNNNN!” They... Read Story
White Dunes in Rosetta Stone
August 13, 2016 11:23 amGripped with the sort of panic that seizes just about any man left alone with his kids, I take Dempsey’s... Read Story
A Place You’ll Never See
August 13, 2016 10:21 amOn Saturday, April 5, 2014, the writer Peter Matthiessen died at his home in Sagaponack where he had lived for... Read Story
When Fireflies Dance In The Hamptons
August 13, 2016 8:55 amSummer nights in the Hamptons can be a surprisingly quiet, reflective time, especially when you live in an old sea... Read Story
The Stallion
August 13, 2016 8:22 amThe pills were red. And I had long since promised to never go higher than the trees. But the vibe... Read Story
The Summer of 1945—The Man of the House
August 12, 2016 10:51 pmMy story begins like a Horatio Alger novel. My grandfather, Percy Ticehurst Cuthbert (known as P.T.) was the son of... Read Story
Seeking Solace and Soul Restoration in Sag
August 12, 2016 10:17 pmAfter days of campaigning as a candidate for New York’s historic 13th Congressional seat, I was fried. I had to... Read Story
The Hamptons, being 50 and Hillary Clinton
August 12, 2016 6:38 pm‘The Hamptons’ has been an important part of mine and my family’s life, for the past 7 years, even more... Read Story
B.E.A.s on the Bay
August 12, 2016 6:24 pmFor most of the seventies, my parents, Bev and Erik, drove to their buddy’s bungalow on the bay for a... Read Story
Up In Smoke – A Reminiscence
August 12, 2016 6:23 pmHe made a pass, pounced at the Bridgehampton drive-in on 27, while watching “The Sting”. The screen seemed hung from... Read Story
Home
August 12, 2016 4:44 pmIn the beginning, I was a summer girl. Barefoot and blueberry lipped I sang my way through soft dunes and... Read Story
Smug Lilies
August 12, 2016 3:57 pmLike most people and their dreams, I abandoned mine. Although I once nearly succeeded in convincing the entire eighth grade... Read Story
On “Golden” Pond
August 12, 2016 3:34 pmGlitter and gold—so some gifts come wrapped. Artfully dressed to impress on the outside, declaring a king’s ransom on the... Read Story
Family Legend: The Loris’ East Hampton Hotel and Lucky Luciano
August 12, 2016 3:13 pmRunning from my family’s hotel on Newtown Lane, I headed toward our back lot. Mama was on my tail. Even... Read Story
Losing Montauk’s History
August 12, 2016 2:54 pmStanding on top of rubble—cement blocks, slabs of wood, a pile of bricks, shingles, and mounds of dirt, I... Read Story
Rarefied Air
August 12, 2016 2:31 pmThe excitement builds even before we exit off Montauk Highway at Town Pond. We lower the windows the better to... Read Story
When I Grew Up
August 12, 2016 12:15 pmWednesday afternoon I am driving home from another meeting, the same I have every week, down the same road home.... Read Story
A Few Words For Peace
August 12, 2016 12:01 pmIn this election year it is of paramount importance that the torch is passed peacefully to the next White House... Read Story
Kismet and the Twin Forks
August 12, 2016 11:11 amThe “Twin Forks” refers to the two east ends of Long Island. It is a moniker whose credit is as... Read Story
Long Island Longing
August 12, 2016 10:19 am“My parents moved the family to Staten Island just a month after I was born,” my co-worker Frank was telling... Read Story
“To Have, Hold, Possess, and Enjoy as their Proper Estate”: The Hidden History of Native American Slavery on the East End
August 12, 2016 10:14 amIn March of 1678, James Loper of East Hampton returned from a business trip to New England with a belated... Read Story
Bringing in the Net
August 12, 2016 9:02 amHere on the Eastern End of Long Island lies a small town called Quogue. In the past scholars and others... Read Story
Loser on the bay?
August 12, 2016 7:34 amLoser? Last year, I entered the Dan’s Papers literary contest and no, I wasn’t one of the winners, (surprise!). Nonetheless,... Read Story
Camelot: Our Shangri-La With A Blue Screen Door
August 11, 2016 11:55 pmIt’s not easy to believe in something you haven’t seen. Without ever experiencing the workings of a television set or... Read Story
The Day of the Tide Pool
August 11, 2016 10:45 pmWe spotted the ocean, at the head of the trail Where are we going, so far away And somebody told... Read Story
Lasata and Fettuccine
August 11, 2016 10:34 pm“What is The Most Beautiful Thing In The World?” Jackie asked. “Peace!” answered her little sister. “Nope, Lasata”, said... Read Story
A Map Of My Heart
August 11, 2016 9:29 pmLiving on Long Island is essentially an affair of the heart. We fall in love with the place, despite all... Read Story
How Did We Get Here?
August 11, 2016 8:33 pmAs I glanced around at the smiling faces of my family sitting in beach chairs amidst bonfires and underneath... Read Story
Taking It All In
August 11, 2016 8:11 pmGrowing up on the North Fork of Long Island, little did I know that my teenage years, the most important... Read Story
“Ice Cream, Anyone?”
August 11, 2016 6:27 pmThere are milestones in every child’s development, from walking, to first words, to pedaling a bicycle, to school readiness. Along... Read Story
East End on the Weekend
August 11, 2016 6:27 pmI was his pal. Peter Jennings’ pal, that is. When my late grandparents lived in Bridgehampton, I would frequently... Read Story
I’ll Always Come Back
August 11, 2016 5:24 pmThe salt always stings before it heals. I stood where the waves broke, even though I knew better, and I... Read Story
Seasons in Springs
August 11, 2016 5:15 pmThe East End is a refuge for imaginative people. It’s a place where the outside world evaporates, liberating your mind... Read Story
A Tree Grows in Hampton Bays
August 11, 2016 5:07 pmWithin weeks of our daughter’s birth 30 years ago, I turned to my husband and announced, “It’s time to look... Read Story
