Lou Reed: From The East Village To The East End
August 11, 2016 4:59 pmWith Halloween four days away, Lou Reed died on a Sunday morning on Long Island. How’s that for timing? And... Read Story
Categories for 2016 Literary Prize Submissions
“From Mogadiscio To Montauk”
August 11, 2016 3:59 pmNow that the summer crowds are gone, I can finally hear the ocean’s roar from my front porch in Montauk.... Read Story
H.S.F.
August 11, 2016 3:49 pmProbably the coldness of that day was magnified by the wind in the cemetery. It was blowing with light snow flakes... Read Story
Where is the Island of Misfit Humans?
August 11, 2016 2:15 pmThere is a children’s Christmas story about an island, “the Island of Misfit Toys”, where broken or lost toys go.... Read Story
The Flight of the Woodcock
August 11, 2016 2:10 pmPoxabogue Park is a patch of wild land near Bridgehampton. An embankment along the north edge of the park carries... Read Story
The Lady Orpheus
August 11, 2016 2:09 pmIt’s another perfect day in the, once sleepy, fishing village of Montauk. After the long hazy drive through Southampton... Read Story
Shadow Land
August 11, 2016 2:00 pmI needed to get my hands on a serious weapon and lots of ammunition or retreat to the eastern end... Read Story
Bar Story
August 11, 2016 1:57 pmI run a bar called the Stephen Talkhouse. Back in the late 1970s, before I owned it, I happened to... Read Story
Creative Odds
August 11, 2016 1:51 pmThe sky was a vibrant baby blue over Shinnecock Hills. A tall scrub pine tree reached skyward as if to... Read Story
Ode to Center Moriches: The UnHampton
August 11, 2016 1:41 pmSomewhere, nowhere, to the west of Westhampton sits a quiet little town that keeps to itself. It’s unsung, it’s unnoticed... Read Story
Working with Wampum
August 11, 2016 11:48 amWhen I was growing up we lived in Southampton Village, and being a adventuresome boy with a good bicycle, I... Read Story
Montauk: From Beginning to The End
August 11, 2016 11:44 am2016-We’re in Montauk again to celebrate. This time it’s my wife’s birthday and Father’s Day. We leave the Grice house... Read Story
Listen to the Indians
August 11, 2016 11:27 amSome residents of the Hamptons can trace their local history back to the 1640’s; almost 400 years. The question is,... Read Story
Copulating Crabs
August 11, 2016 11:25 amI wasn’t sure what to expect. Staying up till midnight with a house full of kids just to get a... Read Story
The Girl in the Woods
August 11, 2016 9:17 amShe was only eleven-years old when she died in November of 1724. According to the ancient tombstone in the... Read Story
Beacon Of Light
August 11, 2016 8:54 amYellow tea cups peacefully dried in the vintage kitchen, while Ma plugged in the transistor radio that late morning. Static... Read Story
Pillstorm
August 11, 2016 1:41 amRoughly two decades ago a medical protocol called the “5th Vital Sign” – that of determining the level of pain... Read Story
Detours And Distractions
August 10, 2016 11:17 pmOn a brutally hot day in July, my feet usurp control of my bike and send me peddling in the... Read Story
Leisurama, the Ready Getaway
August 10, 2016 10:27 pm“All I want is a one room house,” I recall my mom telling my dad as we drove once again... Read Story
The One Two Summers Ago
August 10, 2016 10:11 pmAll I’m saying is that summer is overrated. I’ve felt that way all my life, even today, living with a... Read Story
She Would Have Liked It Here
August 10, 2016 9:49 pmShe would have liked it here. She would have liked the calmness of the bay and the loud calls of... Read Story
Pit Water
August 10, 2016 8:57 pmI had water on my mind. When you mine sand for fifty years, you’re bound to hit water. That’s not... Read Story
The Judith C
August 10, 2016 5:02 pm“Hold on!” dad said, in a calm but urgent sort of way. I took my right hand off the reel... Read Story
Hamptons Ninja
August 10, 2016 2:58 pmLast weekend we were at a local Hamptons hang having dinner and the TV in the restaurant was tuned to... Read Story
Mr Wolfe You Can Go Home Again
August 10, 2016 2:30 pmAnother week has come and gone; it’s time for Mother’s bath. A practice, I must admit, that holds all the... Read Story
The Waters of Long Island
August 10, 2016 2:04 pmLong Island’s East End is like any other body of land surrounded by water. Yes? Well, not really. We can... Read Story
Take Me to the Old Ball Game or the Hamptons
August 10, 2016 1:56 pmYES, I SLEPT WITH THE MAN THAT NAMED “THE HAMPTONS”, There are only two conditions that exist on the planet,... Read Story
To America across the Atlantic
August 10, 2016 11:38 amI embarked for America on the RMS Queen Mary on Thursday, August 12, 1965 from Southampton, England. This was not... Read Story
Memories of A Lost Paradise
August 10, 2016 11:10 amOnce upon a time…Sorry for the cliché, but even more perturbing is that I was there at that time. Anyway,... Read Story
Tales From The Dog House: “In The Bleak Midwinter”
August 10, 2016 10:34 amI wake, in a penetrating dark, to slobbering kisses from carefree Scot, the Greenport Labrador who’s staying at The Dog... Read Story
Two Gobblers from the East End
August 10, 2016 12:03 amA few years ago my husband and I spent an early spring weekend on the East End of Long Island,... Read Story
Hampton Hedges
August 9, 2016 5:19 pm“Those are Hampton Hedges.” My mom would say that as we passed by the tall green Privet hedges on Potunk... Read Story
If You Miss the Ladder, Just Swim to the Basin
August 9, 2016 2:32 pmUncle George said, “If you miss the ladder, just swim to the basin.” He said that so we wouldn’t be... Read Story
Single Piston
August 9, 2016 11:55 amLouse Point seems named unfairly. No doubt there was a good – meaning, plain – reason for it: the shape... Read Story
The Bullies of Montauk
August 9, 2016 11:40 amI’ll have to use the cop-out Hollywood uses when a true story has to be embellished to make it... Read Story
Out East adventures
August 8, 2016 9:22 pmHere we ware are late 70’s life is great when your a young teenager and your best friends mom is... Read Story
An essay about colors
August 8, 2016 8:41 pmColors are all around us we just never consciously think about it.Take it as a simple fact of life.Probably don’t... Read Story
true north.
August 8, 2016 3:23 pmNo. No no no no noooooo. My heart sinks as I hear the dull ping of metal upon wood. Instinctively... Read Story
Remembrances of a Field Trip to the East End
August 8, 2016 12:23 pmIt seems so long ago now that my third-grade teacher Catherine Lawrence took our class of twenty-one students from St.... Read Story
So Much Good
August 8, 2016 12:21 pm“All the good the past hast had, remains to make our own time glad.” WHITTIER My father, Saviour Cauchi, had... Read Story
Long Island Sounds by Maria Molton
August 8, 2016 11:59 amI entered her on a hot August day in 2009 in Southampton, NY. As the glass-paneled doors opened, I could... Read Story
C-Section, See-Section, My Sea-Section by Maria Molton
August 8, 2016 11:51 amOne of my favorite poets Arthur Rimbaud wrote, “I’ve found it Eternity. It’s the sun mingled with the sea.” If... Read Story
Chevy Impala Driving Instructions
August 8, 2016 11:18 amDuring the summer of 1971 my Westhampton neighbor Jeanne Sullivan and I were hell bent on learning to drive. We... Read Story
The Strangeness of Birds
August 8, 2016 10:03 amThe fences started it all. A few years ago, I started seeing large swatches of beach roped off to protect... Read Story
Montauk Murder Mystery
August 7, 2016 11:23 pmThough months after 9/11, the smell of burnt metal and plastic still lingered in the moist, thick air of Chinatown... Read Story
The Goldenrods
August 7, 2016 10:09 pmIt was the summer of “Star Wars,” it was the summer of the Son of Sam and it was the... Read Story
757
August 7, 2016 8:36 pmI made a plan that i almost forgot about. I was going to live at Westhampton during the summer and... Read Story
Hail Mary, Suicide Squeeze, a Little Christie Brinkley, Please
August 7, 2016 5:00 pm“Why do you need all of that, all of that?” he gestured angrily at her two suitcases and sputtered out... Read Story
Celebrity and the Hamptons (revised)
August 7, 2016 3:00 pmI have been working in the Hamptons since 2011. My job brings me to many beautiful estates with sprawling lawns... Read Story
My Day with Mom in the Hamptons
August 7, 2016 2:54 pmWhen I started working in the Hamptons in 2011, I was surprised how much the south fork had changed. My... Read Story
Remembering Jack
August 6, 2016 10:13 pmHe lay there. Or, more accurately, there he lies. Supinely displayed, softly defined and bluely lit. The crags and folds... Read Story
Jack
August 6, 2016 9:16 pmHe lay there. Or, more accurately, there he lies. Supinely displayed, softly defined and bluely lit. The crags and folds... Read Story
The Moriches: A Romance
August 6, 2016 4:48 pmJust past Mastic and the Shirleys, lined with creeks, coves and the bay, we discovered the Moriches. It was Memorial... Read Story
A Girl, a Car, the Hamptons: What could go wrong?
August 6, 2016 2:49 pmWhile generally considered a smart person (double Ivies, high SAT scores, Advanced Placement everything), I am totally useless when it... Read Story
Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point
August 6, 2016 10:35 amDuring his period in Long Island De Kooning rode his bike daily to Louse Point where he observed the water.... Read Story
The Ocean as Healer
August 5, 2016 9:40 pmI don’t know how this story will end, but this much I know – sometimes life leads us far away... Read Story
The B&B
August 5, 2016 2:16 pmIt was a Saturday morning in October, several years ago, when we were headed to the North Fork to celebrate... Read Story
The House Built on Good Ground
August 5, 2016 12:46 pmDriving across the George Washington Bridge, on the upper level… to the Cross Bronx Expressway …to the Throgs Neck Bridge…... Read Story
The Long Island Express
August 4, 2016 9:47 pmLong before Superstorm Sandy hit the New York area, a hurricane of great magnitude struck the east end of Long... Read Story
The Summer of the Old Salt
August 4, 2016 2:02 pmOn the day my brother Jimmy graduated from Villanova University one of the friends he made while in college, John... Read Story
The Lonely Garden
August 4, 2016 11:55 am“How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?” ... Read Story
The Hunt
August 4, 2016 10:12 amWe relocated from Levittown to Stony Brook because of me. I’m eleven. In Levittown I hung out with the wrong... Read Story
The Matterhorn Comes To Hampton Bays
August 3, 2016 11:01 pmThe Ponquoque bridge is a 2,812 foot taffy span stretching and arching doggie down over the Shinnecock Bay connecting Hampton... Read Story
Lionhead Rock
August 3, 2016 10:12 pmOut in the water, to the right, is a rock in the shape of a lion’s head. It rests its... Read Story
It’s Spring on Ponquogue Beach
August 3, 2016 8:52 pmBreathless, restless, hand-in-hand we race to water’s edge to dance in the foam of a leftover wave. Tempting fate or... Read Story
Welcome to Jeans Town
August 3, 2016 1:00 pm“The color is wrong,” said the man behind the heavy glass window. “But—all the website said was green sweats,” I... Read Story
Finding My Self in the East End
August 3, 2016 12:44 pmIt was 30-30 with two more points left to go to win the match in the finals of the women’s... Read Story
My First Montauk
August 3, 2016 11:44 amThe Iron Wind was making good headway through Plum Gut and the winds and tide were in our favor. The... Read Story
My First Experience
August 2, 2016 10:40 pmNo i don’t have a childhood memory of growing up on East end of Long Island.Why? Because i was thirty... Read Story
Surfing
August 2, 2016 4:01 pmCharlie and I drove sleepily through the town of Montauk. It was just after dawn, mid-week in August and we... Read Story
Bonacker Ghosts
August 2, 2016 3:34 pmSometimes, in the pre-dawn light of a cold November morning, at a beach near Amagansett, the ghosts come back... Read Story
Montauk’s Muse
August 2, 2016 3:07 pm“Move one bead over. Count your sacrifice. And then, keep going.” Light a candle. Say a prayer . . .... Read Story
Sag Harbor- Sunrise and Sunset
August 2, 2016 8:14 amThis is a story about a community, about a people, and, importantly, about a slice of American history as experienced... Read Story
Edges Like Sea Glass
August 1, 2016 5:36 pmIf there be any doubt as to the restorative powers of the sea, one need only spend a day on... Read Story
Just a Groom
August 1, 2016 3:43 pmIn the sea of brown, I spotted my ten-year-old daughter Ava. She moved rhythmically atop her pony, Mirage, with her... Read Story
Float Hopes
August 1, 2016 2:29 pmA boat represents escape. It provides the opportunity to escape the possibilities of life on earth. Not only that,... Read Story
December 6th, 2006
August 1, 2016 12:19 pmI was heading east on Sunrise Highway with the wind in my hair, the warm sun upon my face and... Read Story
Speed
August 1, 2016 9:09 amOne day your 69, the next you’re 70. What’s the difference? Damned if I know but my pending birthday has... Read Story
Juddy
July 31, 2016 8:40 pmThe odor hit me as if I had just walked into a sliding glass door. Ammonia! I nearly fainted. I... Read Story
Coping With Cancer
July 31, 2016 6:52 pmI had cancer. Twice. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma both times. I have been in remission for over a year now. I go... Read Story
Wedding Guest
July 31, 2016 2:43 pmI had never been to the Hamptons before. I had heard that the traffic was unbearable on weekends, but I... Read Story
Say Goodbye East Hampton
July 30, 2016 10:51 pmIt was the sight of the trees growing down towards the sand at the water’s edge that drew me to... Read Story
Beer
July 29, 2016 4:59 pmIn the year of 1963 I was a 15 year old kid spending my summers in Wading River ,Long Island... Read Story
Boating Adventures
July 29, 2016 3:36 pmAs young newlyweds, my husband and I loved the simple ocean views, swooping gulls, and colorful kites on Ditch Plains... Read Story
A Bird’s-Eye View
July 29, 2016 1:02 pm“Hey look,” the man pointed frantically to the sky, “a bald eagle!” I looked incredulously up at the pinkish sky,... Read Story
The Dawning
July 28, 2016 2:04 pmI will be leaving soon. But for now I am enjoying the sensation of my head on this cool pillow. ... Read Story
The Boy From Texas
July 28, 2016 1:09 pmIt was May,2016 and a young man was coming to visit. He was from Texas and leaving behind 100* weather. ... Read Story
Storm Surge
July 28, 2016 12:35 pmMy daughter, Sara, ordinarily a late sleeper tugs me out of bed for an early morning walk on the beach.... Read Story
Clambake
July 27, 2016 7:07 pmOne beautiful summer afternoon, Joan and I were invited to a clambake on Shelter Island. Our friends had a wonderful... Read Story
Returns of the Day
July 26, 2016 7:00 am“Blue and green or yellow and orange?” “Huh?” “Blue and green or yellow and orange. Which do you like?”... Read Story
A Home in the Hamptons
July 25, 2016 4:36 pmWe have in have a grey house with white trim like many other Hampton homes, but this house is unlike... Read Story
Crossing the Shinnecock
July 22, 2016 10:12 pm“Are you serious? There’s traffic out east? It’s 11:30 on a Tuesday morning!” It was a bright but chilly day... Read Story
I have no time for eastern Long Island
July 22, 2016 5:43 pmReally. I don’t. Why? Well, to me, the East End is in a time warp. It has no... Read Story
One O’Cat
July 21, 2016 1:18 pmGood old house. Sealed up with everything that made last weekend fun and life palatable for another week. Love-hate is... Read Story
The Snow Book
July 20, 2016 12:04 pmBilly observed many things from the passenger seat of his family’s minivan. The trees, poles, and motorcars flashed like objects... Read Story
The Big Fish
July 19, 2016 3:18 pmMy mind couldn’t keep up with how fast my life was changing, nor could my stomach keep up with the... Read Story
For Better or For Republican….a bipartison love affair
July 19, 2016 10:47 amFor Better or For Republican……a bipartisan love affair Relocating often with my husband in the military, and experiencing a myriad... Read Story
The Indian Giver
July 19, 2016 9:42 amIf the Hamptons has a heart, then the Jitney is its bloodline. It keeps that muscle pulsing with a steady... Read Story
Busted
July 18, 2016 5:09 pmThe dump closed at 4 PM on the dot every Sunday. If I was late, I had three choices: 1)... Read Story
Montauk
July 18, 2016 3:15 pmAfter attending the 8:30 Sunday Mass in Montauk’s St. Therese of Lisieux Church, my husband and I drove to Ditch... Read Story
