125 Years Ago 1898
From The East Hampton Star, July 1
It is to be regretted that no bicycle path has been made on the lane leading to the beach from Ocean avenue. Of course riding on the sidewalk is a thing of the past and it appears that bicyclists going to the beach will have a hard road to travel.
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Will Carlton in his poem The Festival of Praise says:
“Care for the future all you can.
Then let it do its worst!”
From the philosopher’s standpoint this is a beautiful sentiment. The practical man exclaims, What must I do? No possible preparation for the future can exceed in value a Business Education obtained at the New London Business College. Book-keeping, Penmanship, Shorthand, Typewriting and Telegraphy. Write R.A. Brubeck, Principal, for a copy of catalogue.
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Mademoiselle Breitsprecher, one of Newport’s teachers, has arrived here for the summer and will have some spare hours for pupils in French, German, drawing and music.
Reference, Mrs. Wm. E. Wheelock.
100 Years Ago 1923
From The East Hampton Star, June 29
That the Ladies of East Hampton are not only capable of managing their own homes, and along with this conduct such a wonderful civic organization as the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society, but are also capable of operating a summer hotel such as the Maidstone Inn, was proved to the entire satisfaction of everyone last Friday.
Through the courtesy and generosity of Ralph C. Frood, manager of the Inn, the management was transferred from his broad shoulders for one whole day to the shoulders of Village Improvement Society members. And it was working shoulder to shoulder throughout the day that made the affair the great success that it was.
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There seems to have been a run on lima bean seed here as well as in the neighboring villages, as the merchants have been obliged to re-order several times and still the supply is short.
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The Senior Class of 1923, made up of fifteen members, held its graduating exercises and class day at the High School building Monday evening. Each member had sent out nearly twenty-five invitations and there was quite a large representation of relatives and friends present.
Commencement exercises began last Sunday night when the ‘23 class and the members of the board of education accepted the invitation from Rev. N.W. Harkness to attend the evening service at the Presbyterian church, when he preached the baccalaureate sermon.
75 Years Ago 1948
From The East Hampton Star, July 1
Tickets for the Old Fashioned Clambake which will be the highlight of Springs Day in the tercentenary celebration of East Hampton Township may be obtained from Mrs. Madeleine Elliff at the Village Clerk’s office. The Clambake will take place on Saturday, July 10, at 1:30 p.m. at Low Hollow, northwest of Mrs. A.M. Purcell’s Fire Place Lodge. The way will be marked with arrows; the turn just beyond Sir Angus Fletcher’s house will be taken, as far as the former Field house; there you turn toward the shore.
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After weeks of discouraging cold and rain, Saturday, June 26, came in warm and sunny and windless for the “Cavalcade of East Hampton History” written and directed by Mrs. Warren Whipple and her six lieutenants from the Guild Hall players — Robert Reutershan, Jack Williams, Ellen Reutershan, Drew Lawrie, Laura Ebell, and Mary Liza Flannery. Nothing could have been lovelier than the Village Green as a setting for the spectacle in which some five hundred East Hampton people took part.
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Mildred Dilling, the world famous harpist, will present the first of the programs in the Sunday Vesper Musicale Series at the Presbyterian Church on July 11th at 4:30 p.m. This series of Vesper Musicales is a part of the Church’s program in connection with the 300th anniversary celebration. The public is cordially invited to hear these programs and no admission charge or free-will offering is solicited. The programs will be solely of music and no service will be held in connection with them.
50 Years Ago 1973
From The East Hampton Star, June 28
A new group, “East Hampton Property Rights, Inc.,” is being formed here to take positions on legislation affecting the value of its members’ lands.
The Association’s vice president, Darrell A. Weaver Jr., a surveyor, said this week that the organization grew primarily out of dissatisfaction expressed last April during a clamorous Town Planning Board hearing on whether to require 100-foot buffer strips along 59 local roads, the buffer strips to serve in place of the traditional reserved area lots in subdivisions.
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Local bicycle buffs are in for a big week, which will start off Monday with an East Hampton Cycle Club ride at 6 p.m., leaving from the East Hampton Village Green flagpole. It will be a two-group ride, at touring and open paces.
The main event will be the Amagansett-Montauk run on July 4, which has been moved ahead from 9 to 8 a.m., to avoid excess heat and traffic.
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A State commission formed in 1969 and directed “to determine the long-range water supply needs of the metropolitan area including New York City and eight suburban counties, evaluate available water resources and facilities, develop specific alternatives both technical and managerial to meet needs, and make recommendations based on needs, cost, administration, and environmental impact” has completed what is described as its “basic foundation work.”
This work includes the finding that, while the rest of southeastern New York, given the available water supply, will have by the year 2020 a “deficit” of between 711 and 997 million gallons a day, “Suffolk county will meet projected 2020 needs locally.”
25 Years Ago 1998
From The East Hampton Star, July 2
Neighbors of Thomas D. Mottola Jr. said they quietly bit their tongues last fall when the record industry mogul transformed one of the most prominent buildings on North Haven — the carriage house on Ferry Road just over the bridge from Sag Harbor that was once part of the Joseph Fahys estate — into yet another rambling Hamptons mansion.
But now that Mr. Mottola, the chief executive of Sony Records, wants to build a 233-foot-long dock that would jut into the bay and allow him to moor Jet Skis, cigarette boats, and maybe even a seaplane, they have gone public in an effort to halt the project.
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For the second year in a row, Southampton Hospital has held an annual meeting without providing a final accounting of the year’s financial happenings, either to its board or to the public.
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Joanne McCormick and her 16-year-old daughter, Kelly, drove from Jamesport to Montauk last Thursday night, parked their van in the Gurney’s Inn lot, and slept there until a little before 6 a.m.
It wasn’t for the good surf. Or concert tickets. Or even to see the sunrise over the Atlantic. They came, along with hundreds of Montauk residents and vacationers, to be on national television.
“My daughter wants to be an actress,” Mrs. McCormick explained. Kelly heard ABC was filming “Good Morning, America” in Montauk from 7 to 9 a.m., audience wanted, and begged her mom to go.
