Author Information

Isabel Carmichael
Writer, Calendar Editor

ic@ehstar.com

Articles by this author:

  • Relay: Home Again
    I think of the 24 years since I moved full time to the South Fork as a coming home of sorts . . . the first one in 1993, the second one more recent.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • A Landscaper Becomes a Farmer
    Imagine a farm that starts at 85 feet across, narrows to 50 feet, and goes back far enough to fill a total of 1.4 acres. Sort of like an extra-skinny railroad flat in New York City, or a much attenuated flag-lot oasis.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • An Original on Hook Pond
    An East Hampton house with views of Hook Pond from almost every room is nestled on a preserved 1.78-acre site with 328 feet of pond frontage. Designed by the dean of local architects, Alfred Scheffer, and reconfigured so that it now flows into four sections, the house was built in the mid-1950s for the Right Rev. Austin Pardue, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, and his wife, Dorothy Klotz Pardue, a former nationally ranked tennis player. The Bishop’s Cottage, a one-room building he used as a writing studio, is still there.
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  • Johnny Appleseed, the Fireplace Farmer
    Fireplace Farm, where Paul Hamilton grows produce and flowers and keeps bees and chickens, is a rural place right near Gardiner’s Bay, with hardly any houses to be seen.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • Stylist Takes On ‘Vintage’ Clothing Shop
    Suzi Wilson, who worked as a personal stylist at J. Crew in East Hampton for 12 years, has moved to What Goes Around Comes Around, a shop also on Main Street that carries what it calls vintage women’s clothing, where she will be the personal stylist and general manager.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • Starting Came Naturally to Her
    Carissa Waechter’s new shop in East Hampton is the inevitable culmination of something she has been cooking up for quite a while. Carissa’s Breads have been popular at South Fork farmers markets, and now she will bake and sell not only breads but also cakes, pastries, croissants, and pies and jams made with fruit from local farms.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • Just How Big Is Rita’s Jersey Black Giant?
    A contest is on to see who can guess the weight of Rudy the rooster, a Jersey Black Giant who is large even for the breed. Rudy lives at Rita’s Stables on West Lake Drive in Montauk.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • Town ‘Worked Hard to Buy’
    After a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday evening to inaugurate Amagansett’s new privy in the parking lot behind Main Street, members of the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee repaired to the American Legion Hall for their monthly meeting.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • Speak, Memory: Voices of the Past Echo at Library
    The Long Island Collection at the East Hampton Library is a repository of some 100,000 historical treasures.
    By: Isabel Carmichael
  • Hidden in Sag Harbor
    Not every old house that gets snapped up on the South Fork is razed to make way for a bigger one. Especially not in Sag Harbor, and especially not the house Alex Matthiessen bought in 2002.
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