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We were stopped in traffic on the way to Sag Harbor a few weeks ago when a car pulled up alongside.
“Hey,” the driver shouted. “Do you want to sell that car?”
“I might,” I said, startled. Actually I’d been thinking on and off for a year or so of selling my much-loved little Recreational Action Vehicle (longspeak for the Toyota RAV4).
“What year is it?” he wanted to know.
After eight childhood summers at her famous parents’ house in East Hampton, the Broadway lyricist Amanda Green went off to Camp Chimney Corners in Massachusetts, where she was homesick every single day.
“I would write home and say, ‘Come get me!’ ” she said. “But after I was cast as Maria [in ‘West Side Story’], that was the last time they heard from me.”
Dr. Ethel Person, a noted psychoanalytic theoretician who lectured internationally on human sexuality and gender identity, died on Oct. 16 at her home in Manhattan. She was 77.
Monday’s monthly meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee saw an unusually small turnout, only nine people including the chairman, Kieran Brew; the vice chairwoman, Sheila Okin, and the committee’s liaison from the East Hampton Town Board, Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, who began the brief session with an upbeat report on Eli Zabar’s Farmers Market.
