Letters to the Editor: 09.26.96
Stark And Beautiful
Glasgow, Mont.
September 17, 1996
Dear Star -
Mother Hubbard made it to Montana, only to be confronted with the dreaded word "snow" in the places I want to go. I was warned - but I shall press on.
The ferocious winds on the plains really pushed the motor home around - especially in North Dakota. The country is so stark and so beautiful. I am taking Route 2. I saw a herd of buffalo on the Fort Pick Indian Reservation.
I took the Trans-Canada highway into Minnesota and saw a moose, a timber wolf, and a large fox. Unfortunately, all these animals had not looked both ways and were kind of spread out. But the moose was still huge.
I've had my share of mishaps but have learned extensively and expensively from all my mistakes. The people I have met have gone out of their way to help me, and I'm finding the very best this country has to offer, which is ostensibly what my quest is about.
For example, a retired school-teacher, Naomi Gibbs, traveling solo for 39 years all over the U.S. in her vintage motor home doing folkloric storytelling combined with sand painting, ventriloquism, and her balding Pomeranian, Toby, who wears costumes and plays different creatures in her stories. So many characters in this lifestyle.
If I can get to Kalispell or Flathead Lake I'll stay there a week to rest the truck which I've lovingly named Tortuga and have my daughter, Sarah, send me my mail. After Kalispell I drop south and see everything there is to see until I end up in Baja, Calif., with the whales. You'll hear from me before then. If anyone wants to contact me, get hold of Sarah.
I miss her, and my animals, and, of course, my babies who I normally take care of in the winter. But I'll be back for camp in '97 so we'll have a good time then. I also miss my beautiful town, my bay, and my ocean, but I'll be back before you know it. Nothing can compare to the beauty I came from.
Love to all,
JUDY HUBBARD
(Mother Hubbard)
Fate's Other Plans
Springs
September 22, 1996
To The Editor:
The scene William Traybert describes in his letter to the Sept. 19 issue of The Star is quite accurate. I am the woman in the bathing cap, and the bird was a tern, but the story is a sad one.
While I was swimming in to Landing Lane, I saw a crow repeatedly dive-bombing into the watery grasses. Being used to observing egrets and herons in that locale, I was surprised by the crow. In a matter of seconds there were six crows and they appeared to be attacking something in the wetlands.
Then I saw a flash of white - a tip of a wing, perhaps - and, sensing a tragedy, I swam over there on the double. The crows left and I was met by a crippled tern. He couldn't talk, couldn't fly - but I was determined to save the poor thing from torturous death by those waiting crows.
Urging him into the water and swimming him across to safety was the only option. It was then that Mr. Traybert must have gotten his binoculars out. I did, as he observed, swim the bird across, sometimes giving him a little push toward shore.
Sometimes, when he started to drift out into the bay, saying, "No . . . in . . . in . . . toward shore." Crazy perhaps - but it worked - we landed. The tern was put in a cat carrier and turned over to the exceptional skills of Helen at the wildlife rehabilitation center at the East Hampton Veterinary Group.
For three days Helen put every effort into saving that one little life, but sadly fate had other plans. Our comfort could only be that he died in peace, not slowly pecked to death by a flock of crows.
We must really appreciate a community that offers us a wildlife rehabilitation center with a caring and knowledgeable staff. Not every story ends happily, but they are there and they are trying.
Sincerely,
EMILY COBB
Who Is Michael?
Montauk
September 20, 1996
To The Editor,
Montauk's Michaelmas daisies are in their glory. The 29th of September is the Feast Day of Michael the Archangel and the daisies never fail to bloom at the end of September.
Archangels are no invention of fantasy or folklore. They have been with us since biblical times and across the centuries. Michael is the guardian of the Jewish people and has long figured prominently in the Christian tradition.
Many times, when in need or trouble, we call upon our guardian angel for protection. Michael is the patron of servicemen, firemen, policemen, and, of course, our Montauk daisies.
GERALDINE MANZARE
Enclosed Dog Runs
Springs
September 19, 1995
To The Editor:
I read the "Dog Liberation Day" [editorial] with a bit of dismay. The problem with dogs on the beach is that the first thing they do, at any time of the year, when they get out of the car is defecate in the 300-foot zone right in front of the parking lot. This is the area everyone has to transverse to and from the beach.
Unfortunately, most dog owners do not clean up after their dogs, as is evidenced by the truly large number of piles to be seen on any given day in the fall and spring. Needless to say I find stepping on waste very distasteful. The real problem is that this is the area where all the children play!
I love dogs. But I am really concerned about the health hazard their waste poses to my 14-month-old son and his buddies who play on the beach year round. I don't think it is the parents who should have to haul the kids way off to the side beyond the doody zone.
As everyone knows, kids dig in the sand, so burying doesn't help much. The problem, of course, is that kids put things in their mouths, and parents cannot always be close enough to prevent that from happening. This is such a horrible thought it is hard to imagine. We should not wait for this to happen to come up with a solution.
Enclosed dog runs, or at the least fenced corridors (beach fencing that blends with what is already there), to the area 300 feet away from the "kids zone" should be in place year round.
KRAE VAN SICKLE
Out Of Context
Montauk
August 8, 1996
To The Editor:
Last week, a letter appeared in The Star by Richard Adler of the Montauk Shores trailer park at Ditch Plain attacking comments I made regarding the mobile home community as "hurtful and mean-spirited." Unfortunately, Mr. Adler was not present at the deliberation in which the comments were made. Had he been, he would certainly realize how grossly out of context the comments have been taken.
The Montauk Shores Condominium Association approached the Zoning Board of Appeals for a natural resources special permit to allow the placement of "marine mattresses" along the beach in front of the park. These plastic and rock structures were designed to protect the beach from erosion due to the large volume of water draining onto the beach from the trailer park.
Several board members felt that the structures could cause additional erosion problems, would interfere with pedestrian use of the beach, and would tarnish the scenic beauty of the area. These members felt that the drainage from the park should not be going directly onto the beach and that a more comprehensive solution should be found. I weighed out these concerns - as well as the need to address the immediate problem of the drainage. I considered the financial hardships associated with costlier measures. I supported a five-year temporary permit to allow the marine mattresses.
It is ironic that Mr. Adler is attacking me, one of the two members who supported the application. The Star's article to which Mr. Adler referred did not recount the entire discussion. Taken out of their proper context, I can understand how my words were misconstrued. My comments were simple and I am not retracting them. Instead, I will just place them in the context in which they belong.
"The park is a planning disaster." - The park arguably violates the principles of sound planning. The Federal Emergency Management Association has determined the park to be located in a high velocity flood zone. It is unwise to place temporary structures, such as mobile homes, in areas prone to rapid flooding.
Additionally, many of the trailers are precariously close to the eroding bluff. Public health and safety is paramount in planning considerations. Many of the trailers border a large wetland system to the east. The town recognizes the importance of protecting wetland systems and has established a 100-foot minimum setback to do so.
The density of homes is twice that allowable for the area, under current zoning requirements. High density leads to increased environmental impacts including contamination caused by runoff and septic effluent. These problems are exacerbated by the impermeable clay soils upon which the trailer complex rests.
Lastly, the park creates planning coordination problems because it is not owned by a single entity - but instead consists of nearly 200 individual property owners.
"The park shouldn't be there, but it is." - From an environmental standpoint, to place so many homes so close to the ocean and so close to fragile wetlands is a poor idea. Today, you would not be able to lawfully construct such a trailer park. Nonetheless, I realize that the park has existed there for many years. I have made acquaintance with many of its residents. I applaud the efforts of the Montauk Shores community to improve the property through the years, and indeed, they have been very successful. The grounds are nicely maintained, and they have managed to solve many of their problems.
In my comments, I was beseeching the board not to penalize the park because of all the problems it has due to the symptoms of past overdevelopment (i.e., inadequate mechanisms to cope with drainage) and instead to sympathize with the homeowners in an effort to help alleviate their current problem.
I hope this letter serves to clarify my remarks. I certainly did not intend to offend any of the good people of the trailer park. I remain sympathetic to the needs of the mobile home community, and I will be happy to meet with representatives of the association to discuss this or any other matter further.
JAY SCHNEIDERMAN
Chairman
Zoning Board of Appeals
East Hampton Town Much Misunderstanding
East Hampton
August 11, 1996
Dear Helen:
I was astonished by Joyce and Nelson Kissam's letter of July 29 [The Star, Aug. 8] supporting the proposed move of the A&P from the center of East Hampton Village to the former Stern's site on the Montauk Highway: It is quite an achievement to have squeezed so much misunderstanding of the realities of town planning and traffic, not to mention such misreading of the history of East Hampton, into a mere 10 paragraphs.
The basic premise of their letter seems to be that the natural course of development and progress is really pretty good, and that it is both foolish and unrealistic to fight it. We have bad traffic, the Kissams tell us, because the so-called bypass highway was never built, implying that if the expressway had been built, we would all be spending the summer in tranquil, traffic-free villages.
The simple fact is that we have heavy traffic because we, like every other desirable oceanfront community, have an enormous summer population. Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Nantucket, and the Jersey Shore are no different. Would our situation have been better with an expressway? Every study of traffic dynamics ever made - anywhere, so far as I know - has concluded exactly the opposite. New roads do not satisfy existing traffic demand; they create new demand.
It is nothing but fantasy to think that the bypass road would have served only the existing volume of cars and thereby solved our traffic problem. What it would have done, instead, is bring even more cars. Every such road always has, and there is no reason to think that the laws of traffic dynamics would be different in East Hampton from the rest of the world.
The Kissams then bring in various other situations that have turned out to be not so bad as critics have feared, as a way of arguing that the fuss over the A&P is also wrongheaded: the East Hampton Post Office, Amagansett Square, and the Bridgehampton mall. All three are different from each other and different from the A&P; putting them together proves nothing and only confuses the complex issues here.
I agree that Amagansett Square was widely feared and has turned out to be quite benign, but what of it? It is nothing like the proposed A&P; if anything, its modesty more resembles the tone and feeling of the old Stern's store, which was designed to prove that commerce could coexist with a rural setting. Paradoxically, the success of Amagansett Square argues the very opposite of the Kissams' point; it is evidence for keeping the Stern's site as a modest development, not for turning it into a 24-hour superstore of a scale more fitting to Sayville or Islip.
As to the Bridgehampton mall, the best even the Kissams can manage to say is that "somehow we have managed to survive." Not exactly high praise. Is that all we want for East Hampton - that it "somehow manages to survive"? Bridgehampton can do what it pleases; I would like to think that we aim for something better here. In East Hampton, we know that short-term convenience is often worth sacrificing for long-term benefits - and, indeed, we know that if we are not willing to give up something in short-term convenience, we may destroy the very thing we cherish.
Yet the Kissams seem to believe that we will give up nothing. They state with assurance that if the A&P is built, "the rural quality of the Montauk Highway will not be spoiled, nor will it cause worse traffic than what we now have on Newtown Lane." Huh? By whose measure? I'd love to see the evidence for this assertion. No urban planner I know will agree with it. All professional expertise suggests that the exact opposite of their assertion is true, that traffic will also grow worse, and that the rural quality of this section of East Hampton will be destroyed forever.
That is what, in the end, is so troubling about their letter: its unfettered belief in the values of "progress," its certainty that natural growth would bring prosperity, ease, and convenience while preserving what we cherish, if only we would stop complaining and let it happen. Sorry, but there is no free lunch here. Laissez-faire will not give us the town we want, unless the town we want resembles the Sunrise Highway in Hempstead. Towns, like gardens, need to be cultivated, not allowed to grow wild.
No one pretends that this is an easy problem, or that the A&P's present situation on Newtown Lane is ideal. It is not. But destroying a rural site that had once represented a national model for sensitive commercial development is no solution. All it will do is push East Hampton one more step toward a kind of suburban sprawl that may be what the Kissams seek, but is what most of us came to East Hampton to get away from.
Sincerely,
PAUL GOLDBERGER
Mr. Goldberger is the chief cultural correspondent for The New York Times. Ed.
No Information
East Hampton
August 6, 1996
To The Editor,
As a longtime resident of Settlers Landing, I have been observing the activity connected with the laying of the pipe for the Landfall project. Each week I have eagerly looked at The Star, hoping to learn more about the project and, in particular, whether residents of other Northwest communities would be able to participate in the project. Each week I have been disappointed to find no coverage of the project.
I depend on The Star for community information, and I become concerned when such a visible and important issue as the Landfall project gets no coverage.
Last week I contacted the East Hampton Water Authority and was told politely but firmly that no information concerning the Landfall project would be available for three months.
Is there some reason why no press coverage is being given to the project? If there is no blackout on information, can The Star run an article which will give in good newspaper parlance the who, what, when, where, and why of this situation?
JOHN GANLY
The Star has covered this subject extensively. Our most recent story, in last week's edition, noted that construction had begun and that the town had borrowed $1.9 million to pay for it. Ed.
Another Chance At Life
Springs
August 6, 1996
Dear Editor,
Our department was recently called to the home of a young woman who was in cardiac arrest. Upon my arrival, it was very encouraging to see that the much-needed care of this victim was already put into play by East Hampton Town Police Officer Steven Grabowski.
I believe that because of his quick actions and exceptional professionalism, this woman now has another chance at life. Officer Grabowski should be commended for a job well done.
Very truly yours,
CHRISTINE M. FITHIAN
EMT3-CC
Springs Fire Department
Ambulance
Nothing But Disdain
Amagansett
August 5 ,1996
Dear Mrs. Rattray:
Don't know if these panoramic photos of Kure Beach, N.C., will reproduce. If so, I hope your readers will look at them every time they think the East Hampton Zoning Board is too stringent. This is the third and most unattractive resort of North Carolina's barrier islands I have visited. Are people blind, or does the area just have the best publicity campaign in America?
Attending a wedding in July at Kure Beach, I thought I was at Coney Island in the 1940s. Tiny bungalows crammed cheek by jowl, honky-tonk boardwalks, a residence jammed between a souvenir shop and a surf shop. Not a tree in sight.
22 Knowing that the Outer Banks looked very much like East Hampton at one time, I came away with nothing but disdain for humankind - thinking, we are the most foul creatures inhabiting the planet.
Some people refer to East Hampton as "the land of no." Don't consider that statement a pejorative; empirically, as we all well know, it is easy, and amazingly quick, to destroy - but difficult to protect and preserve.
Sincerely,
JULIA C. NASH
This Important Show
Sag Harbor
August 12, 1996
Dear Helen,
My congratulations to Phyllis Braff on her splendid exhibition of work by Surrealists and their colleagues. The show she has organized for Guild Hall Museum makes a major contribution to our understanding of the regional art community's history and development and brings together an outstanding group of relevant pieces.
One historical detail was overlooked, however - not in the exhibition itself, but in Henry Korn's catalogue introduction. When I became consultant curator of Guild Hall Museum in 1982, I proposed the exhibition to the then director, Annabelle Hebert, who enthusiastically approved it. In 1983, we applied successfully for a planning grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. I researched the show and scheduled it for 1985; a national tour was also planned.
For various reasons, primarily financial, the show was postponed and eventually relegated to a pending status familiar to all museum curators. As two subsequent directors told me, some day we'll get the implementation grant. Thanks to Phyllis2s scholarly reputation, additional planning funds were awarded by the N.Y.S.C.A., and the National Education Association came through with enough support to pay for crucial loans from Europe, as well as other key components of the show.
220 I am delighted to see my original idea so beautifully realized and urge all your readers not to miss this important show.
Sincerely,
HELEN A. HARRISON
Things Are Hopping
East Hampton
August 12, 1996
Dear Helen:
Things over on Gingerbread Lane Extension are really hopping at this point. Even Ben Franklin would have been impressed with the cheer that was raised by the workers last Friday when the electricity was turned on in the building. This week the water should begin to run, and we can finish installing the bathrooms.
And speaking of running, this year the Learning Center (East Hampton Day Care) is the recipient of the funds from the Great Bonac Foot Race to be held on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2. This will be the 19th year for the race, and the proceeds will be especially important to add to our building fund since we still need about $200,000 to complete the project.
Applications for the race can be obtained by calling us here at the center (324-5560). Many thanks.
Sincerely,
H. DAVID WILT
Administrative Director
East Hampton Day Care Center
Dear Mrs. Rattray,
Ten years have passed since the East Hampton High School class of 1986 graduated and moved on to their adult lives. In order to celebrate all of our accomplishments since then, we are planning a reunion - to be held on Saturday, Oct. 12. The party will be held at the James Lane Cafe in East Hampton, and the cost per person is $65. We would like to inform any member of the class who has not been contacted regarding the reunion to please notify Nancy Miller, by mail at 32 McGuirk Street, East Hampton, or by phone at 324-5984.
Unfortunately, there are quite a few members of the class that we have been unable to contact. We hope that this letter will help us locate a few more people. Following is a list of the people who we know for certain have not received the reunion information: Tracy Adams, Frank Bickley, Stephen Dean, Kristina Drolet, Charlotte Eichhorn, Annette Greene, Erica Hyman, Carlson Jacobs, Kristina Lear, Antwoine Petty, Marie Pharaoh, Novella Pharaoh, Denise Reid, Lisa Reatherford, Robert Rogers, John Scerbo, Henry Schuck, Geoffrey Selhorst, and Anthony Steinberg.
The reunion committee looks forward to seeing all the members of the class of 1986 at the James Lane Cafe in October!
Very truly yours,
NANCY MILLER McMULLAN
Not A Good Location
Sag Harbor
August 9, 1996
To The Editor,
I am writing as one of the concerned neighbors of the skateboard park scheduled to be built on Montauk Avenue in Sag Harbor. We are a very small, quiet neighborhood and feel it is not a good location for the park. There will be too much noise and traffic for such a small street.
I am not against the children having a skateboard park. Under the proper conditions, it is a good outlet for their unleashed energy. I think it belongs in Mashashimuet Park. This park was given to the children of Sag Harbor for their use. I understand the park does not want them.
I hope next year when the budget is being voted on, the people of Sag Harbor will vote no for additional funding for the park. If they are not helping our children and are catering to special interest groups, they do not deserve the taxpayers' support since the park is not being used as it was intended to be.
Sincerely,
KATHLEEN A. SCHWESTKA
An Old, Effective Trick
Montauk
August 6, 1996
To The Editor:
It was quite disturbing to receive a phone call from a former member of the League of Women Voters and to hear that the so-called "debate" between the pros and cons of incorporating Montauk was a farce. It was all planned to favor the town and the Coalition Against Incorporation. Strangely, the league was referred to as the League of Women Vipers.
Telephone conversations between the Town Supervisor and the league were frequent, and a format was devised to allow two speakers from each group to answer questions submitted in writing. The questions were to be chosen at random, but, the caller said, the questions would be "screened" to prevent duplication. An old, but effective trick to favor one side or the other.
The league did not provide for any debate, and the pros and cons - especially the cons - did not have to prove any of their statements. The pros proved their statements with a budget. Not so the cons.
In future letters to the editor, each budget item will be addressed by the committee. The proposed village budget is a composite of 22 successful villages.
DONALD T. FOLEY
Peconic County
Albany
August 6, 1996
Dear Mrs. Rattray,
The movement to create Peconic County has been forging ahead for nearly two years now, due in large part to the efforts of several hundred average, hard-working citizens. They have done research, attended meetings, spoken to civic groups, and even traveled to Albany to achieve their goal of creating a new county. In this space of time, they have accomplished a lot.
A highly professional feasibility study which has stood up to intense scrutiny has been completed, which shows that county property taxes would be cut by 50 percent if the new county were created. A successful lobby-day in Albany was held, which significantly increased awareness and good will in Albany for Peconic County. A not-for-profit group, known as Peconic County Now, has been created to educate the public about Peconic County. A brochure, bumper sticker, pins, and other items have been made to promote the idea.
Further, a citizens speakers bureau is being created, and a charter committee is hard at work to write a draft constitution for the new county. It has been my honor as an elected official to work with such dedicated and involved members of our community.
Despite this hard work and the fact that Peconic County has been shown to be both feasible and desirable, legislative efforts to create the new county have been blocked by one man: the Speaker of the Assembly. Regardless of the Speaker's political motivation, the fact is that he alone has prevented the democratic process of self-determination from moving forward.
I have been asked by both elected officials and Peconic County volunteers if there is some way to have a local advisory referendum on the issue of Peconic County to demonstrate to the Speaker of the Assembly the importance of this issue to the East End. Important to the continued momentum of the Peconic County movement is the need to allow the public to voice its opinion on the work that has been completed to date.
In short, advocates of Peconic County believe that only the collective voice of the East End, in the form of a referendum, can succeed in moving the Speaker to action. In essence, the theory is that where the people lead the leader will follow.
Such a referendum is possible. It is in the hands of our town boards, and time is short. They must authorize a referendum by Sept. 5 and must have begun the process by Aug. 13.
Some would argue that we will just make Albany angry by having our own referendum this November. But, after several attempts and years of talk and no action on Peconic County by the Albany political leadership, we have no place to go but up. Second, if a community which does its homework on a new county - and then asks its own citizens for input in a referendum before returning the issue to Albany - makes the Albany leadership angry, then there is more broken in Albany than the state budget process, which produced the latest budget in the history of the United States.
We should not waste the two years of dedicated work by our citizen volunteers. We should not let Albany politics-as-usual discourage us. We should leave no stone unturned on this issue. We should return to Albany next January armed with the results of a five-town referendum on Peconic County. Let the people be heard. Put Peconic County on the ballot this November.
Sincerely yours,
FRED W. THIELE JR.
Member of Assembly
Stop Its Reactors
East Hampton
June 28, 1996
Dear Helen Rattray,
I recently made use of your letters to the editor to describe why the Methodist Church awarded my nonprofit Radiation and Public Health Project a pilot grant to undertake independent clinical surveys of the radioactivity in the water, fish, wildlife, and humans in Suffolk County.
Such radioactivity and the extraordinary high local male and female cancer rates are an issue in the ongoing, billion-dollar lawsuit against the Brookhaven National Laboratory brought by families living near the lab.
The Channel 11 newscast of Friday, July 12, included an interview with one of the plaintiffs - Randy Snell of Manorville, and his 4-year-old daughter, who has just been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer of the throat and tongue. As an epidemiologist, I have calculated that the probability that this would be due to chance or genetic factors is infinitesimal.
I have the permission of Channel 11 to show this news clip, which is as moving as those portraying the plight of the children of Chernobyl, at a series of East End private, fund-raising cocktail parties. I can now report the receipt of four matching grants from the Samuel Rubin Foundation, the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, the Friedson Family Fund, and the Alida Brill and Stephen Scheuer Foundation, all from concerned East End families. I, along with Bill Smith of Fish Unlimited and Dr. Helen Caldicott, will be available to describe our detailed plans at such private parties over the next three months.
While Brookhaven officials have accused me of having a "hidden agenda," I can declare that our ultimate goal is to stop Brookhaven from operating its reactors, which are discharging radioactive waste into the Peconic River. We want to force Brookhaven to use its annual $400 million budget to start cleaning up its waste and to develop sorely needed, safe, and inexpensive solar energy sources to an area that, because of the $5 billion Shoreham debacle, has the nation's highest electric power rates.
I would welcome calls from interested parties in the form of faxed messages to 324-5070.
JAY M. GOULD
Plant A Tree
Sag Harbor
August 4, 1996
To The Editor,
If you don't like the weather - plant a tree.
Plant a lot of trees. Help your neighbors plant trees. See that your community plants trees; insist on a tree canopy over every parking lot and highway. Pass ordinances that require trees taller than the buildings built under them. Preserve forests. Prohibit buildings in woodlands. Eliminate clear cutting in Maine, Oregon, and South America.
So how do we bring the sun back to the Hamptons? What is the connection between trees and the weather? It is as simple as the element carbon. Trees are reservoirs of carbon. Forests are huge reservoirs of carbon. Civilization has spent the last 200 years taking the natural carbon reservoirs of coal, oil, gas, and trees, oxygenating the carbon, and putting it into the atmosphere where weather is made.
Global warming is the result of loading the atmosphere with carbon. Wind is the atmosphere trying to keep a stable air temperature by pushing warm air to where cold air is. The result is unusual weather, the unthinkable - a cool, rainy, Hamptons summer.
While we are busy planting trees to pull the carbon out of the atmosphere, we should be equally busy seeing to it that no more carbon gets into the atmosphere. So bike, walk, and Rollerblade to actually get places. Open the windows and unplug the air-conditioning, we don't need it this summer, anyway. Invest in renewable energy and methane cars. Reduce, reuse, and recycle; creating new houses, cars, and clothes uses more energy than reusing, recycling, and renovating.
80 This is not a far-out theory. Scientists worldwide link deforestation with climate change. In his book "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore recognizes the importance of reforestation.
So plant a tree, and return the sun to the Hamptons.
JUDY ROYLANCE