They Moved Robins Island
July 18, 2016 11:19 amHank Henze grew up, grew a family, and grew gracefully older on Peconic Bay. Approaching 89, we were able to... Read Story
Categories for 2016 Literary Prize Submissions
End Games
July 18, 2016 8:07 amThe east end is lousy with artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and printmakers dot the landscape literally and figuratively along both... Read Story
All Bucolic
July 16, 2016 5:26 pmI was ready to get away from the hustle and bustle of Boston and relax in the deep south of... Read Story
The Musician’s Guitar
July 15, 2016 3:08 pmThe Musician and the Carpenter are two of the most interesting people I have ever known. They met on the... Read Story
This Sand is My Land
July 15, 2016 3:06 pmI suppose I should declare that I am from New Jersey. Yep, a Jersey girl. Most lifelong, New Jersey residents,... Read Story
Golf Balls and Gloria
July 13, 2016 9:32 amDaddy, look…there…I see one! Perched high up on the shoulders of my father, I had a perfect view down through... Read Story
Ups and Downs
July 11, 2016 9:19 pm“No way – I don’t know how to ride a horse.” The year was 2000. I was 34 years old... Read Story
Water Torture
July 10, 2016 9:33 amIt’s time to alert the public about the pain inflicted every year on a vulnerable segment of the population. It... Read Story
Resilient-SEA
July 9, 2016 2:35 pmResilience; the ability to become strong, healthy or successful again after something bad happens, to recover from or adjust... Read Story
Crazy About the Hamptons
July 7, 2016 9:43 am“Are you crazy or something? He’ll never move full-time to the Hamptons! He’s a city boy – cement runs... Read Story
Hey Jude the Rescue Dog
July 6, 2016 12:50 pmIt began with our first Golden Retriever, Camille, in the summer of 1970 when we rented the next-to-last house on... Read Story
Martha’s Doll
July 6, 2016 11:22 amARF Thrift shop. Water Mill. I didn’t see her right away. She was sitting on a shelf in the back... Read Story
Last Trip to Montauk
July 1, 2016 5:00 pmI love living on the North Fork. I love the quiet, the farms, and especially the wineries. I sometimes... Read Story
Be Careful What You Say
July 1, 2016 12:32 pmI used to work at Macy’s in Hampton Bays until last week, I quit, I couldn’t take it anymore. I... Read Story
The East End Autumn’s Passage
June 28, 2016 9:47 pmMany years ago, I belonged to a Boy Scout troop that was selected to participate in a forest conservation program... Read Story
Deer Dad
June 26, 2016 7:05 pmDeer Dad, There are so many stories I want to tell you, things I want to say, but there never... Read Story
Amber, the Media Star and Hamptons Socialite
June 22, 2016 9:47 amOur Pomeranian Amber was a media star and a socialite. And her career started all because her Daddy was hungry.... Read Story
Shinnecock Spirit
June 20, 2016 7:56 pmShinnecock Inlet is my place of solitude. I find myself there whenever I’m stressed, want a drive that’s not too... Read Story
From Mulberry to Bayberry – Lessons of The Fishman
June 20, 2016 12:41 pm“Oooo wahhh, oooo wahh! Oooo wahhh, oooo wahh! Oooo wahhh, ooo wahh!!! Why do foo-ools fall in luh-huv?!” Frankie Lymon,... Read Story
Not Waxing Poetic; just waxing
June 15, 2016 2:53 pmTwo years post-separating from my husband of thirty years I find myself in the bathroom with my adult daughter.... Read Story
Keep Looking
June 14, 2016 6:40 pmEvery weekend in the early 70s my Mom, Ellie, and stepfather, Jim , drove out to South Hampton looking to... Read Story
Legacy of Corruption
June 11, 2016 7:46 amDisclaimer- this is a true story of events of my life. I have left out the names of persons who... Read Story
Our Goose Story
June 8, 2016 2:24 pmThe Canadian goose was majestically circling the small pond on our property. I was riveted. “A goose!” I said to... Read Story
Jitney Journal
June 5, 2016 10:12 pmIt was lightly misting on Lexington Avenue when I arrived at the Jitney stop and I had not brought an... Read Story
Coco
June 3, 2016 1:14 pmCoco Peretti was our guest in Springs for about a week last August. She arrived with a neat bundle of... Read Story
More Than Halfway There
June 1, 2016 10:11 amBack then, Rushmore was the movie, our friends came in droves and we turned the pool to 90 without thinking... Read Story
Stargazer
May 31, 2016 5:37 pm“He is dying, Aphrodite; luxuriant Adonis is dying. What should we do? Beat your breasts, young maidens. And tear your... Read Story
Celebrity and the Hamptons
May 31, 2016 3:02 amI have been working in the Hamptons since 2011. My job brings me to many beautiful estates with sprawling lawns... Read Story
I’m From New Jersey
May 30, 2016 11:37 amMy wife Harriet was about to leave the store where she rents space from Lydia of Lydia’s Antiques in Greenport... Read Story
First Memories of Summer
May 28, 2016 5:31 amMy childhood was spent in a cape house on Goose Creek in Southold. I lived under the barnacle-covered dock, in... Read Story
Mobile Home Memories
May 24, 2016 11:05 pmI had spoken to my Mom the night before and asked her if she and my Dad were okay and... Read Story
A Fifty Year Love Affair
May 23, 2016 12:07 pmWe first visited East Hampton in the Spring of 1964 as weekend guests of Ben and Judy Heller at their... Read Story
A Hamptons Story
May 22, 2016 7:42 pmI will always remember the first time I met Paul Hansen. I had been living in Sag Harbor for three... Read Story
Out of State
May 22, 2016 3:06 pmLong Island’s East End and Topeka, Kansas could seemingly not be further apart. Under most circumstances, these two contrasting places... Read Story
A Piece of Dirt
May 21, 2016 1:27 pmOur family has always been islanders, initially inhabitants of the emerald one from which my parents emigrated. My mother, born... Read Story
Greenport: A Small Town, but Our Own
May 20, 2016 12:15 pmThis is a small port, but our own. From its humble beginnings as a fishing village, to its rum-running days,... Read Story
East Wind
May 6, 2016 12:11 pmDoug was a screamer, but not that I can say in bed, only when on his boat, racing under sail,... Read Story
Hanging with Dad
April 26, 2016 10:21 amIt was late spring in the tiny eastern Long Island hamlet of Center Moriches. The rains had awakened the sleeping... Read Story
Heading East or: Napeague by Numbers
April 10, 2016 9:09 pmI’ll never fully understand the ambition that drove my father to build a beach house in the Hamptons. Dad was... Read Story
Oil Spill in the Hamptons
April 10, 2016 8:55 amJuly 13th, 2007 should have been a beautiful day. The weather was but, without warning, invisible thick and dreadful... Read Story
GREAT LESSONS LEARNED
April 5, 2016 4:12 amIn 1959, I was a young 20-year-old boy being discharged from the United States Coast Guard. I was already married... Read Story
The “Off-Season”
April 3, 2016 2:23 pm“There’s a dead deer in the driveway,” I told my husband over the phone. What could he do really; he... Read Story
The Initiation
April 3, 2016 2:31 am“There’s a dead deer in the driveway,” I told my husband over the phone. What could he do really, he... Read Story
