A warning about recreational beachfront being washed out to sea from 75 years ago, while back in 1997 Martha Stewart was in top form.
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On Call: What Defines an Emergency?Many people often wonder when they should make the decision to call 911 or go to an emergency room if they are sick or injured. What precisely constitutes an emergency?
On The Wing: Song of the SparrowThe white-throated sparrow’s song “is a lament,” George Gladden wrote, “a lament which is wistful and ineffably plaintive, but in which there is no despair, only sweet hopefulness.”
A Land Rover for a CauseHamptons Community Outreach, a nonprofit group that helps economically disadvantaged people obtain food, emergency house repairs, and other support, is a recipient of a new Land Rover donated by the Southampton Village dealership in the company’s Above and Beyond Service Awards.
Great Backyard Bird Count Is This WeekendThis weekend is the 25th anniversary of the Great Backyard Bird Count. To participate, you spend a minimum of 15 minutes counting birds, and afterward report what you see to the number-cracking scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Item of the Week: Cousin Nicoll’s Snowstorm VisitTwo hundred and two years ago, Sarah Frances Dering of Shelter Island wrote her paternal first cousin Elizabeth (Eliza) Packer Gardiner in New York City about a perilous, snowy trip by sleigh.
On the Wing: Our ‘Genius of Wooded Shores’Lucky for us, if the ponds remain unfrozen, kingfishers are fairly common around the East End during the winter months.
Tops in Love Letters to GansettFeb 17, 2022
The winners of the Amagansett Village Improvement Society’s “Love Letters to Amagansett” essay-writing contest were announced on the society’s website on Monday, Valentine’s Day.
Push to Preserve Ab-Ex ‘Sanctuary’ in SpringsMuch may depend, however, on an assessment of the condition of the site’s four structures, commissioned by the town and to be issued this week. Its author, the consulting engineer Drew Bennett, has said that “there are some things of concern” in his report.
The Way It Was for February 17, 2022Feb 17, 2022
The Star was “well spoken of everywhere” 125 years ago, 50 people were injured in a L.I.R.R. derailment 75 years ago, and one Orrin Pilkey sounded the alarm on beach erosion and the folly of hard structures to prevent it back in 1997.
Washington Didn’t Sleep Here, but Some Presidents DidMonday marks the federal holiday originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington’s birthday on the 22nd of February. It wasn’t until 1971 that it officially became known as Presidents Day, when it was included in the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, and moved to the third Monday in February, as an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers. Perhaps it’s time to take a historical jaunt and commemorate the South Fork’s ties with many sitting POTUSes over the years.
