125 Years Ago 1898
From The East Hampton Star, July 22
A sewing society has been organized to meet at the Maidstone Club Tuesday afternoons at three o’clock to make garments for the wounded soldiers. All interested in the work, either residents of East Hampton or summer visitors, are urged to come. A subscription fee of one dollar is asked to pay for necessary materials. Money can be sent to Mrs. Wm. Moore Carson, or she will receive it at the meeting.
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The Catholic Club of East Hampton will give their first dance of the season at Clinton Hall next Thursday evening. As our genial friend John Flannery is in charge of the affair, we predict it will be an enjoyable success.
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The Ladies’ Village Improvement society scored the greatest financial success in its history with the fair which closed last night.
The reason for this is that it had a larger assortment of articles on sale at the booths and that the fair was better attended than ever before.
The gross receipts for the two days were $891.02. The society will clear about $850.
100 Years Ago 1923
From The East Hampton Star, July 20
With the end of the Ernest Shipman-Star Beauty Contest just ahead, the past week has shown a greater enthusiasm than any other since the start of the contest. The last week shows great increase in the total number of votes, as well as changes in the standing of some of the contestants. There is still time for those who have been falling behind in the voting, if they start working at once and continue until the final day.
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Over 200 members and guests of the Long Island Press Association, Long Island Railroad Company surgeons, Executive Committee of the Long Island Association and official staff of the Long Island Railroad Company attended the Boost Long Island dinner held at the Hotel Cliffton at Patchogue Monday, July 16.
The Long Island Press Association held its meeting in the morning, at which several important matters were talked over.
At 2 o’clock the 200 members and guests were served with luncheon.
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We know that shipbuilding was extensively an enterprise in the part of Sag Harbor located in East Hampton town, in the last years of the 18th and first years of the 19th centuries.
Captain Prior had a shipyard in 1795.
Tradition says ocean-going vessels were built as early as 1780 (probably before) and the term ocean-going as applied is taken to mean vessels that could make offshore voyages, rather than the coastal trips of the small sloops. These coastwise sloops had been built in very early times.
75 Years Ago 1948
From The East Hampton Star, July 22
On Saturday, July 24th, Amagansett will stage its part in the 300th Anniversary celebration of East Hampton Town. Rear Admiral Edward H. Smith, commander of the entire 3rd Coast Guard District, will arrive on Saturday with Mrs. Smith to review proceedings as guests of the Tercentenary Committee.
The lead-off event in the program, which culminates months of preparation, will be a parade depicting Amagansett “past and present.” The parade will start at 1 p.m. from the Village Green, proceed along Main Street to Indian Wells Highway, and thence to the ocean beach.
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On Sunday at Hampton Bays the East Hampton Bonackers won their fourth straight game with a 3-1 win. The game was won in the first with Frankie Jewels’ home run, scoring Frankie Libert, who was on with a single. Hampton Bays scored their run in the seventh.
Bonac put over another run in the 6th when Court Schenck hit a two-bagger, Shep Frood scoring from second.
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When Mrs. Morris Justad of Montauk started her daily round of collecting eggs from her 16 white leghorns yesterday, she had no warning that this was to be different from any other day. And when she came to “Timmie,” and her hand encountered a large-surfaced object, she was probably a bit disappointed to think the hen was sitting on a rock. But when she withdrew the object, “Yusa nom,” phonetic spelling — ask your Scandinavian friends what it means — “what an egg!” When weighed, it was over one-quarter of a pound — a beautiful large white egg.
50 Years Ago 1973
From The East Hampton Star, July 19
Twice last week East Hampton Town Councilman Henry A. Mund Jr. detailed alternatives for preserving open space — including his controversial proposal that would trade as much as 150 per cent increased density for 75 per cent open space — to local citizens organizations.
As expected, the citizens organizations, in this case the Sag Harbor Conservationists, the Citizens’ Planning Alliance, the Springs Improvement Society, and the Amagansett Residents’ Association, continued to oppose Mr. Mund’s plan, first aired by him last September.
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Montauk
The second in a series of free concerts will be given at Gosman’s Dock on Sunday, July 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. The performing artist will be Richie Havens. Guests have been asked to bring their own chairs or pillows.
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Sex in “Alice in Wonderland”? Incredible. But the Manhattan Project, a theater group out of the New York University School of the Arts, has injected sex into the famous children’s classic, at least symbolically.
This can be gazed upon with amazement this week at the John Drew Theater of Guild Hall, where “Alice” opened Monday night.
The Manhattan Project to some will recall shades of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and an earlier project of the same name. Never fear, this Manhattan Project is considerably quieter and funnier than the atom bomb.
25 Years Ago 1998
From The East Hampton Star, July 23
Upon a time a farm was a farm, be it a dairy farm, a potato farm, or a horse farm. But as the amount of open space and available farmland on the South Fork decreases from year to year, people like David Eagan and Mary Ann McCaffrey of Wainscott are finding that a farm by any other name may not sound as sweet, especially to the neighbors.
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Everyone, it seems, is talking about President William Jefferson Clinton’s fund-raising visit next weekend to East Hampton, and anticipating the arrival of an extensive entourage of Secret Service agents, national press, White House staff, and Democratic Party organizers with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.
“In one breath, they’re happy to see the President is coming here, and in the next they’re concerned the streets may be closed down,” said Marina Van, the executive director of the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce. “I’m hearing some grumbles and groans, but I think most people will be trying really hard to get a glimpse of the President, don’t you?”
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A recent decision by the East Hampton Village Board not to participate in lighting two multipurpose fields at the John Marshall Elementary School has prompted Charlie Whitmore, of the Old Montauk Athletic Club, Chris Tracey, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, and Town Councilman Len Bernard, the Town Board member responsible for overseeing parks and recreation needs, to call for the creation of a large, lighted multisport park here.
