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Gristmill: Praise Be

Two nights in a fully outfitted Episcopal chapel turned Airbnb lodging: creepy or restful?

Oct 9, 2025
Guestwords: House Proud

I knew this would be no ordinary house. As a neighborhood kid, I saw Julian and Barbara Neski’s 1964 modernist masterpiece on Terbell Lane develop, and got to know the owners, Sy and Ronnie Chalif.

Oct 9, 2025
Is Your Reporter a Robot?

Freelance writers are turning in stories to weekly newspapers composed in the dulcet tones and smooth rhythms of ChatGPT-generated text. Here are some tips to detecting it.

Oct 9, 2025
Shifting Narrative on Trump ‘Hellscape’

Democrats have begun winning the messaging battle, shifting attention from military deployments intended to rile up protests in blue-state cities to highlight the White House’s made-up narrative that the country is going to hell.

Oct 9, 2025
The Mast-Head: Vague Sources

Before it was called Easthampton or East Hampton, the tiny colonial town way out on the eastern part of Long Island was known as Maidstone. Supposedly. Proof is scant.

Oct 9, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: Class of 2053

At some point over the summer I passed over an invisible boundary line and began looking ahead to that golden day when I will become a grandmother.

Oct 9, 2025
Americans on the Enemies List

The fast slide toward a post-constitutional dictatorship was on display Tuesday as the president and defense secretary addressed a perhaps unprecedented gathering of the nation’s top military leaders.

Oct 2, 2025
Gristmill: Eco-Fiction Rising

Jeff VanderMeer redeems an entire literary genre. Make that several.

Oct 2, 2025
Guestwords: Unhating the Yankees

A lifelong Red Sox fan says the enemy Yankees made him a better loser. You might say even a good-will ambassador.

Oct 2, 2025
Peoples’ History at the Maidstone Club

On Oct. 18, the L.V.I.S. landmarks committee will host a fund-raising lunch at the Maidstone Club, and speaking will be Allison McGovern, an anthropological archaeologist who will share insights from the Mapping Memories of Freetown Project and the Freetown Neighborhood Cultural Resources Survey.

Oct 2, 2025
The Mast-Head: Rotten Branches

Each intense storm provides a tree-pruning service. We are overdue for another.

Oct 2, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: King of Curmudgeons

A curmudgeon may be someone who hates change when change is for the worse, hates trendiness, but a curmudgeon is also someone who plays a useful role as cultural watchdog.

Oct 2, 2025
Gristmill: Raise a Glass

Remembering Peter Walsh and Coogan’s, his storied Washington Heights bar, at the resurrected Potato Hampton 5K in Bridgehampton.

Sep 25, 2025
Guestwords: Working It Out

Afflicted by tennis elbow, tennis shoulder, and tennis groin, I didn't know from physical therapy. I always hated gyms and their scary steel machines. Not anymore.

Sep 25, 2025
How to Stay Healthy

It is becoming increasingly obvious that staying healthy means listening to the advice of the president and R.F.K. Jr. and then doing exactly the opposite.

Sep 25, 2025
The Mast-Head: Hard Aground

There is a saying among sailors that there is no shame in running aground because it happens to every one of us eventually.

Sep 25, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: Little Monsters

I’m childishly optimistic that this will be the year that Halloween trick-or-treaters return to my front door.

Sep 25, 2025
Your Neighbors May Be Hungry

Here are some suggestions for what you might drop off at a food pantry collection point this fall.

Sep 25, 2025
Gristmill: Cooper’s Cave

In James Fenimore Cooper’s steps, Glens Falls to Sag Harbor.

Sep 18, 2025
Guestwords: Ideology and Allegiance

What the sorcerer Simon Magus’s cynical and self-aggrandizing quest for power can teach us today.

Sep 18, 2025
Murder at Sea

By no stretch of the law are the targeted killings of supposed Venezuelan mariners by members of the United States military justifiable.

Sep 18, 2025
The Mast-Head: On This Side of the Sound

Cerberus, my 1979 Cape Dory sloop, has made the crossing from Connecticut.

Sep 18, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: Remains of the Day

September brings a distinct change in the inner weather, too. “Bittersweet” would be the apt word for this moment on the Julian calendar between Labor Day and Columbus Day.

Sep 18, 2025
Time to Pivot on Senior Center

The design of the planned East Hampton Town senior citizens center, or Center for Modern Aging, on Abraham’s Path never did sit right.

Sep 18, 2025
Gristmill: The Great Ape

Gorilla Grodd lives.

Sep 11, 2025
Guestwords: Tumbleweeds at Two Mile

The best kind of beach day.

Sep 11, 2025
Save the Buoys

In an apparent attempt to save money, the United States Coast Guard has proposed making Long Island and New England coastal waters less safe.

Sep 11, 2025
Take on Traffic Now

East Hampton Town needs a traffic commission.

Sep 11, 2025
The Mast-Head: King Clam

The town trustees’ clam contest is a lovely event. But where do the giants come from?

Sep 11, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: Sad Disco

Last week I came across something new and interesting on Facebook for the first time in years.

Sep 11, 2025