THE TASTE OF HISTORY

A DAY IN SPRINGS
Not since 1948, for East Hampton 300th birthday, has the hamlet of Springs held such an all-inclusive celebration of its talents and attractions as will be offered on Sept. 12, a Saturday.

What's In A Name?
HICKS ISLAND

Burgoyne Is Taken!
Excerpted from Judge Hedges's 250th anniversary commemorative address to the people of East Hampton, Aug. 24, 1899. (The town marked the bicentquinquagenary a year too late, subsequent to a historian's error earlier in the century.) The house where the conversation he relates took place is, of course, the Mulford House, now owned by the East Hampton Historical Society.

Vanished Places

BROWN GINGHAM AND WRECK SHOES
One of the most famous ships to strike the rocks near the Montauk Lighthouse did so during the time my great-grandmother was living there. It was the George Appold, which she described as a "large freight steamer." The reason it was to become legendary in East Hampton was due to the nature of its cargo: bolts of brown gingham and calico, shoes, and 10 barrels of New England rum.