What's In A Name?
CHATFIELD'S HILL

HER FATHER'S SEAL
When [John Howard Payne] was nearly 50 and writing to his sister-in-law from Georgia, where he was furthering the interests of the Cherokees, who were being forced to cede their territory and faced removal, he referred to himself as "a staid East Hamptoner." The last papers Payne prepared for the Cherokees were, he wrote in 1838 to his brother Thatcher, "sealed with the seal given me by Aunt Esther - her father's seal."

THE TASTE OF HISTORY
The first East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society cookbook "took it for granted that housewives would bake yeast bread," a later generation of cooks noted in the 70th anniversary edition.

HOW THE JEWISH CENTER CAME TO BE
From an address given on Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 21, 1998.

Vanished Places