The Mast-Head: In Plainer Sight
A television news producer called the other day to ask about the Plain Sight Project, a joint effort to identify and document the enslaved people who lived on the East End from 1640 to 1830.
The Shipwreck Rose: Days of Beer and Roses
I think we need to talk about the depressing lack of a bar here in East Hampton.
Gristmill: College Reckoning
Families’ captive straits paired with their desperate hopes for their children had one professor comparing the cost of college to Big Pharma’s gouging of the ill.
Point of View: Let’s See It Whole
The 1776 Commission’s “patriotic education” report apparently thinks we’ve been making too much of the country’s sins and too little of its virtues in our history courses.
Guestwords: Staging
It is easy enough to absent myself for apartment showings. Would that I could take the furniture with me. Since it must remain in all its dated glory, a stager will come in to “freshen it up.” But there are consequences.
Recorded Deeds 01.28.21
The week's real estate transfers.
A Photographer's Field Notes From the Inauguration
Lori Hawkins has covered the inauguration before. Whether or not to wear a flak jacket was not something those occasions required her to consider.
Montauk Skate Park Expansion Gains Traction
A plan is in the works to renovate and expand the Montauk skate park, designed in 1999 by the late skateboarding legend Andy Kessler. To fund the project, East Hampton Town has $50,000 in hand from one donor and is applying for a $25,000 grant from the Skatepark Project in California.
As Suffolk Okays High-Risk Sports, Some Schools Remain Cautious
Following the big new this week that "high-risk" sports, namely boys and girls basketball, wrestling, and competitive cheerleading, could begin a foreshortened season on Monday, South Fork school districts grappled with whether that was in their students' best interests.