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Point of View: What the Word Saoirse Means

I was delighted to tell Mary the other day what I’d learned, to wit, that the Gaelic word saoirse “means freedom . . . the freedom to be and to express yourself.”

Mar 31, 2022
The Mast-Head: First of the Year

The osprey’s success story.

Mar 31, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Twinkies and Trix

The world of 1970s snackitude was fully encompassing, a total sensory experience of taste, texture, aroma, sound, and vision.

Mar 24, 2022
Point of View: Getting Back Into the Flow

Asked by an interviewer recently if I could describe the two Covid years in one word, I replied, “Constraint.”

Mar 24, 2022
The Mast-Head: ‘Don’t Eff It to Death’

It was one of those little moments when something someone casually says can change your trajectory for good.

Mar 24, 2022
Gristmill: Thank You for Having Me

When expressions of thanks are unfailingly met with more thanks . . .

Mar 24, 2022
The Mast-Head: Missing in the Letters

For the first time in my memory, we have not a single letter to the editor about East Hampton Airport.

Mar 17, 2022
Point of View: Coming Out of Cocoons

We went to the Sag Harbor Cinema recently, and in leaving I said to Mary that we’d never again have to go to New York City.

Mar 17, 2022
Gristmill: Rage Rover

Sag Harbor’s mayor alludes to a stigma on wheels.

Mar 17, 2022
Gristmill: Bad News

Personality-driven commentary and ingratiating displays of concern in place of reporting is exactly what the father of the 24-hour news cycle, Ted Turner, did not want.

Mar 10, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: The Deep End

Do teenagers still pool-hop at strangers’ homes in the best ZIP codes? I hope they do.

Mar 10, 2022
Point of View: Mocker of the Sport

You would think that Vladimir Putin would have chosen a sport other than judo, “the gentle way.” 

Mar 10, 2022
The Mast-Head: Plain Sight Points

In the coming weeks, work on an initial set of five bronze bricks bearing the names of enslaved people will begin.

Mar 10, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Roaring In

We feel that March is the true start of the year, just as it’s obvious that February is the year’s gruesome and grizzled end.

Mar 3, 2022
Point of View: Buoying Prospect

The benefits of bilingual education, especially on Long Island, are obvious.

Mar 3, 2022
The Mast-Head: Hawkish Thoughts

Big birds of prey seem to be all around, and my perch in the dunes off Cranberry Hole Road is a decent enough place to see them.

Mar 3, 2022
Gristmill: Doppelgangers

The challenges of a nightly reading habit.

Mar 3, 2022
Point of View: It’s Good to Have Avatars

Yes, Virginia, you can always improve.

Feb 24, 2022
The Mast-Head: Systemic Blindness

Tom Edmonds of the Southampton History Museum and Victoria Berger of the Suffolk County Historical Society have been suspended for featuring Ku Klux Klan-related material and programming.

Feb 24, 2022
Gristmill: Slip Sliding Away

The weirdness of the Beijing Winter Olympics was perfectly mirrored by the intricacies and dead zones of NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

Feb 24, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Deadly Sins

Thoughts from the Grand Velas resort on whether there are two kinds of people in this world: package-vacation people and independent-travel people.

Feb 24, 2022
Gristmill: Talking to Coltrane

Two essential graphic novels on the occasion of Black History Month.

Feb 17, 2022
A vintage typewriter-cleaning kit from the midcentury office The Shipwreck Rose: Desk Set

The news keeps reporting studies that conclude remote work is more productive work, but those studies are clearly incorrect.

Feb 17, 2022
Point of View: Encore! Encore!

Continuing in the same vein as last week, more excerpts from “Five Characters in Search of an Editor,” read 50 years ago at Guild Hall.

Feb 17, 2022
The Mast-Head: East Hampton’s Enslaved

Four years ago when a few of us began looking into early East Hampton’s relationship with slavery, we were met with a cocked head and some variation of “We don’t have anything about slavery.”

Feb 17, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Country Social

Facebook is more interesting in Nova Scotia.

Feb 10, 2022
Point of View: Crypt Yields Antic Script

It’s funny, but when you’re looking for something, something else, something that you had given up looking for years ago, turns up.

Feb 10, 2022
The Mast-Head: East Hampton’s Enslavers

Black History Month has been busy here in recent years, since The Star and the East Hampton Library began looking into the history of slavery in earnest in the summer of 2017.

Feb 10, 2022
Gristmill: No Free Lunch

This sounds cheap, but I’d like to protest the disappearance of soup and sandwiches at the mobile New York Blood Center drives.

Feb 10, 2022
Point of View: Finding Warmth in Winter Days

Rather than kind acts, it’s the failures to act kindly that I tend to remember.

Feb 3, 2022