125 Years Ago - 1897
From The East Hampton Star, April 23
Among trial jurors drawn last Saturday to serve at a trial term of the county court opening Monday, May 3d, were James E. Gay of East Hampton and George S. Schellinger of Amagansett.
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The morning service at the Presbyterian church on Easter Sunday was largely attended. The pulpit was handsomely decorated with lilies, and Rev. Mr. Stokes preached an appropriate sermon. A ladies’ quartet from the Parker Concert Company rendered a fine selection. Mr. Stokes preached another sermon appropriate to the day in the evening, which was listened to by a large congregation.
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The entertainment given by Mr. Parker and his singing class in Clinton Hall last Saturday evening was attended by a full house. The selections by Mr. Parker’s company and the songs by the class were highly enjoyable.
100 Years Ago - 1922
From The East Hampton Star, April 21
The village board held a very busy semi-monthly meeting at Village Clerk Dayton’s office Tuesday night.
A delegation of members of the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society, including Mrs. S.C. Grimshaw, Mrs. John W. Hand, and Mrs. William Edwards, addressed the board relative to improving and beautifying the village green. Mrs. Hand, chairman of the committee, told the board that the society was willing and desired to continue their work on this attractive part of the village.
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The Long Island duck growers, it seems, are cooks that cannot stand their own broth, for when they met in annual session at Eastport Saturday they had a turkey dinner at “John Duck’s.” Too many ducks all the year for these men to enjoy them when they want a feast, is the explanation for dining on turkey.
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“Suburban Long Island, the Sunrise Homeland” is the title of a book that will make its first public appearance at the “Own Your Own Home” exposition, to be held at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Manhattan, from April 22 to April 30, inclusive.
This book fills a long-felt want on the part of thousands of city residents, as well as persons in different parts of the United States, who may be regarded as prospective Long Island homeseekers.
75 Years Ago - 1947
From The East Hampton Star, April 24
Maj.-Gen. Norman Thomas Kirk, surgeon-general of the Army, whose term will expire on May 31, will make his home at Montauk, where he recently purchased property. General Kirk has been preparing the former Tuthill House as his home upon his retirement. The house was recently purchased from Mrs. E. Tuthill, who for years kept it famous as Tuthill House, a fine resort place on a hill overlooking Fort Pond Bay and affording an excellent view of the bay, Long Island Sound, and the ocean.
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The East Hampton High School’s Music Department, under direction of Kenneth G. Stowell and Mrs. Betty Barlow Schulte, presented its annual spring concert on Saturday night at Guild Hall, for benefit of the Junior Class. Miss Mary Ann Milligan played the piano throughout. It was a really notable performance. The music department has stressed voice recently, and the results as shown in the chorus numbers were really remarkable.
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A covered-dish supper and meeting for the ladies of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will be held at 6:30 on Tuesday evening, April 29. Mrs. Rollin D. Graham of Hampton Bays, formerly of New York City, will be the speaker of the evening. Mrs. Graham was for many years in charge of the Diocesan Branch of the Church Mission of Help; she is now on its Board of Directors. She is a charming and vital speaker; she will tell of the work of the Church Mission of Help, illustrating with personal experiences.
50 Years Ago - 1972
From The East Hampton Star, April 20
A meeting of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk, held Saturday at the Montauk Fire House and attended by 100 members, was addressed by Herbert Eames, past president, and John Collins, president, of the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association.
Mr. Collins stressed the concern of his group with what he called growing pollution in Lake Montauk, especially in Coonfoot Cove, the area around the fishing docks.
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Grey Gardens, the East Hampton home of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie, was inspected once again Tuesday afternoon. Participating were Sydney Beckwith, head of the housing and sanitation division of the County Health Department; Richard Sandstrom, an inspector; Mrs. Frances Kalish, a public health nurse; and Richard LeVesconte, a detective from the Village Police Department. Since last fall, the Beales and their home have received considerable publicity.
The Health Department had apparently given the Beales until April 18 to eliminate all health code violations within their house. Asked what the department would do if all were not eliminated, Mr. Beckwith replied that it would “take whatever steps are appropriate.” He declined to speculate as to what these steps might be.
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Three East Hampton organizations will sue East Hampton Town if it persists in a request that the State Department of Environmental Conservation spray gypsy moth larvae aerially with Sevin.
Mrs. Jean Craig, a member of the Springs Improvement Society, said yesterday that the SIS, the Amagansett Residents’ Association, and the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association, totaling several hundred members, were resolved to seek an injunction to prevent aerial spraying with Sevin of 3,650 acres here if the Town Board does not withdraw its request of the State made at the April 7 Board meeting.
25 Years Ago - 1997
From The East Hampton Star, April 24
Renovation and construction plans, summer rentals, and the suitability of prospective tenants. Sounds like a real estate broker’s springtime agenda?
Actually, it was the Amagansett School Board and the district’s long-range facilities planning committee that dabbled in the real estate business last week as it settled on an expansion plan that if approved will add five classrooms to the crowded school and agreed on a tenant and a price for a summer rental of the district-owned Miankoma Lane house.
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The Sanctuary, 340 acres of Montauk moorlands with a checkered past, has been acquired by the Nature Conservancy for $4.18 million and will be sold again Tuesday as parkland to New York State, for the same amount. The conservancy’s payment to the property’s corporate owner will be divvied up in a deal to rid investors of their unwitting ties to the Colombo crime family.
The state’s purchase of the Sanctuary means that nearly all of Montauk Point, broadly speaking, will remain green in perpetuity, from the lighthouse to the western boundary of Montauk County Park on the north and to the Sanctuary’s western boundary, the old Montauk Highway, on the south.
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With summer traffic almost backed up to the Manorville exit on the Long Island Expressway, you’d expect last-minute renters to be cutting each other off at the front door of real estate offices as if they were in the Reutershan parking lot on the Fourth of July weekend.
But they are not, and that may spell disappointment for Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Ordinary-Ranch-House-With-Pool, who have been hoping to cash in on the annual summer rental bonanza.
