On the morning of May 27 a heavy sigh of relief was palpable along the well-worn docks of Montauk Harbor. Despite a dense blanket of fog that blended into the placid, dark water, there was a buzz and banter that had not been heard for many months.
New openings, new specials and family meals for take out, and new vendors from the city are in the mix this week.
Birdhouses, the work of Michael Cinque, the owner of Amagansett Wine and Spirits, have popped up in recent weeks. “Making sawdust is really what I do,” he said recently. “Occasionally, we get birdhouses out of them.”
A postcard shows a group of men lining up at Camp Upton in Yaphank to receive their new uniforms and start training as soldiers during World War I.
In spite of a shady backyard and miserable soil in Sag Harbor, the chives and parsley return first. They can be snipped constantly to add to salads, roast birds, baked potatoes, any vegetable dish, egg salads, and grilled fish.
“How often do we put masks on to deal with certain things in our life, and how often do we take them off and feel vulnerable?” said Charity Joy Robinson, who taught the dance last Thursday on the lawn at the North Sea Community House for a small, socially-distanced group of students.
The driver of a sport utility vehicle that crashed into Edouard Dejoux’s porch on Sunday afternoon told police that he had been drinking all day before the accident.
Gail Baranello's Moving Through dance therapy class on isolation is being taught online during the shutdown.
Someone called police from the Egypt Beach parking lot on the afternoon of May 26 to complain about “an old man doing yoga and blocking access to the beach.”
To avoid student fatigue, as well as to avoid pushing teachers' obligations past their original teaching contracts, many local school districts are ending school earlier than planned.
