The Mast-Head: The Granola Project
One of the things that was supposed to get us through the Covid-19 lockdowns was learning something new.
The Shipwreck Rose: How Are You?
Do you want to know what year people stopped smiling and saying “hello” as they passed one another on the sidewalks of East Hampton? That would be the year of our Lord 1994.
Gristmill: Mission: Upstate
A storm’s merely glancing blow leaves a parent free to focus on a daughter’s wrenching departure for college.
Point of View: Let’s Build Our Nation
Perhaps the calamitous end to the endless war in Afghanistan will finally persuade us that a liberal democracy cannot be grafted through force of arms onto other societies.
Guestwords: White Whale Memories
I remember vividly the first Moby-Dick Marathon reading at my bookshop in Sag Harbor. Some 38 years ago — June 16, 1983, to be exact.
Recorded Deeds 08.26.21
New real estate transfers.
Threat of Sea Level Rise Is Even Greater
The threat of sea level rise is greater than that presented in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's own dire reports on climate change, a renowned and controversial scientist told a small group in Sagaponack last week, but similarly divisive proposals to combat anthropogenic climate change would be both safe and effective, he said.
Travel Plaza, Hotel on the Horizon
With economic development and sustainability as the goal, members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation have voted in support of two major projects: a resort and hotel slated for the nation's Westwoods property south of the highway in Hampton Bays, and a travel plaza and gas station on land it owns nearby on the westbound side of Sunrise Highway.