Gristmill: Music Man
Stephen Sondheim on the good, the bad, and the unheard.
Recorded Deeds 12.16.21
The latest raft of real estate transfers, Montauk to Southampton Village.
Point of View: It Takes Effort to Be Effortless
Yes, “play looser” is good advice, good advice in general, I’d say.
J Brooke
An essayist whose work has been published in Electric Lit, The Normal School, and The Fiddlehead, J Brooke (they/e) are the winner of Columbia Journal's 2020 Nonfiction Award, maintain an extensive collection of rare cigar boxes, and once dined alone with Bob Dylan. Brooke is the former nonfiction editor of The Stonecoast Review and is visiting faculty at University of Southern Maine's M.F.A. program. The property in Sag Harbor they share with their spouse, Beatrice, was originally stolen from Algonquian-speaking Native Americans. Brooke's misspent youth was spent in advertising.
Guestwords: Buy/Don’t Buy My House
Bottom line? We want our house loved and enjoyed the way we loved and enjoyed it.
The Way It Was for December 16
The Star in the days of yore . . .
Plush Llama Up for Grabs in Annual Star Raffle
Does anything say 'happy holidays' like a large, plush llama?
Letters to the Editor for December 16, 2021
New comments from readers.
After Tree Theft, Anonymous 'Elves' Come to Kiwanis Club's Rescue
The Christmas spirit is alive and well in East Hampton, though for a couple of days the Kiwanis Club wasn’t quite certain of that after discovering the theft of 60 to 70 trees from their charity sale in Amagansett.
Wreath for a Family’s Lost Soldier
Capt. Walter R. Elflein Jr., a decorated reconnaissance pilot, will be honored with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 63 years after being lost at sea during a training mission, an honor due in part to the efforts initiated by his only granddaughter, Madison Elflein, a junior at East Hampton High School.