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By Janis Hewitt on
3/8/2010 10:07 AM
I think I’m one of the few people out here at the Point who is not looking forward to winter’s end. I get a lot done in winter, but mostly I read. And I still have a stack left to go before the rigors of the season take over. Only other readers will understand this.
I have friends who have called me this winter from places afar to taunt me with their sunny days, restaurant dinners, and warm nights. “Are you jealous?” they’d ask.
“Yes,” I’d say to appease them, but I was lying. This is the first year in a long time that my husband and I didn’t take a vacation in February like the rest of Montauk. Since autumn, we’ve been so busy that we just wanted to stay home and enjoy the quiet of winter.
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/26/2010 11:29 AM
I was going to write this morning about the signs of spring that are starting to show up out here at the Point. The songbirds have begun singing a different tune and little sprigs of green are pushing through the muddy ground. I even detected the scent of spring recently on a walk in the woods. But lo and behold, we woke this morning to a cover of snow – again!
I love snow, but even I’ve had it. I had a terrible experience this winter while driving in snow. And let me just tell you that Jesus loves me, yes he does – otherwise, I might be dead or maimed from it.
I was returning from an overnight visit with my brother and his wife in Bronxville, N.Y. with my mother, my sister, and her two children in my Jeep. We w ...
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/10/2010 12:01 PM
I still feel like a little kid when snow is in the forecast. When I wake in the middle of the night to hit the bathroom, I peek out my window to see if it’s started falling yet. In the morning I open my eyes in anticipation, for you can always tell if it snowed in the night; with curtains still drawn, the room is brighter.
After coffee, I usually walk Jack (the whack) around the neighborhood peering through the snow covered woods, looking for picture-worthy shots. When it snows out here at the point, as it is right now, everything is quieter, muffled by a blanket of cold, sparkly crystals. Outside, sprigs of potted plants and tree branches look like baked goods covered in confectionary sugar. A buried car looks like a wooly mammoth from the ice age. The only intrusion is the snow plow flying up ...
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/4/2010 8:31 AM
I’ve decided to become a pop culture warrior. And not just because I thought it about it hard this morning over my coffee, but because – and I swear this is true - only an hour later I read my horoscope and it said: “You may be a spear-carrying culture warrior.”
I’m sorry folks, but someone has to do it. Our world is truly going to hell! I’m no prude by any means, but whatever happened to morals? They’re kind of what keep us all somewhat honest and kind to each other. And besides, it’s a bit boring right now out here at the point.
I started thinking about pop culture when I read that Michael Vick now has a television reality show. I read it twice to make sure what I was reading was true. Not only was Michael Vick – the dog torturer – signed on with the Ea ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
1/21/2010 10:56 AM
Up until a week ago my favorite movie of all time was “On Golden Pond” with Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda. It was one of the few movies I could watch several times over and always find something new in it, whether it be a piece of scenery, which was spectacularly woody, or a catchy phrase.
For years after seeing the movie, my husband and I quoted from it often, and imitated Ms. Hepburn’s call for loons to gather near her lakeside home.
Last week, though, I trekked across Napeague Stretch on a very cold night to see “It’s Complicated” with a girlfriend at the movie theater in East Hampton and had a good hearty laugh! I will see it again; it’s that good, and that complicated.
First we stopped at Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett for a delicious burger and a beer. It ...
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By Janis Hewitt on
1/9/2010 11:20 AM
When the wind howls in Montauk, as it did for several of the last days of 2009 and the first few days of 2010, it makes itself known. Out here at the Point, it swirled through the trees, branches swayed and snapped, and things went bump in the night.
I live in an area near the Montauk Lighthouse that is somewhat in a hollow. The wind sweeps through, making loud sounds that could be taped for a horror movie soundtrack. It’s a small neighborhood, so anything that is loose on a neighbor’s house flaps about loudly. On the overhang of my front deck, something bangs noisily whenever it blows. My husband and I have tried for years with no luck to figure it out where it’s coming from. It’s just one of those weird things that can’t be explained.
At the Lighthouse, Brian Pope, the assistant site manager, told me the wind speed recorder registered gusts up to 60 mi ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
12/24/2009 1:33 PM
Out here at the point, we know how to decorate for Christmas. Of course, we’re hoping to attract visitors with our artistic touch, but no one has spared any change with their decorating this year.
I was recently in Manhattan to see the holiday lights, including the tree at Rockefeller Center, which always looks smaller in person than it does in television, and in St. Augustine, Florida, a place known for its holiday madness.
In this month’s issue of Coastal Living magazine, St. Augustine is featured. The article says that city crews begin stringing up more than 2 million white lights at over 100 locations last summer. A city ordinance limits the lights to white or clear bulbs in the historic district. At streetlights giant starfish, jellyfish, clam shells, and seahorses are outlined in white lights. It’s actually very pretty.
But over near the beach area, it’s willy-nilly, an ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
11/30/2009 10:31 AM
Finally, there’s a chill in the air out here at the Point. That’s how it should be at Thanksgiving. Who wants to polish silver, dust off the good dishes and prepare the wine goblets in warm weather? I expect a brisk wind blowing outside my windows and leaves blowing through the air while a fire rages in the wood burner.
There’s nothing like a cool, crisp walk in the woods to contemplate what we are thankful for. Two weeks ago, a stiff northeaster helped the trees shed the last of their leaves, although some, in shades of rust and gold, are still hanging in there. The storm was said to erode a portion of the beach at Soundview and break through a bulkhead, but I haven’t yet made it over there to see.
The day after the holiday another gale-force wind swept through Montauk, and many of the outdoor holiday festivities and autumn fishing trips had to be canceled.
I’m glad it waited because Thanksgiving is one of my favorite ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
10/12/2009 9:34 AM
It used to be that Labor Day marked the end of the season out here at the Point. But now the season has been stretched through the Fall Festival sponsored by the Montauk Chamber of Commerce on Columbus Day weekend. This year brought thousands of people to the fair and a lot of them brought their dogs.
My dog, Jack the Whack, who was nicknamed that by a neighbor because he is so whacked, cannot go out in public, except in secluded places where there are no other dogs. It being Montauk, however, and the land of the canine, that’s often hard.
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
9/24/2009 10:51 AM
I love that women still participate in the tradition of wedding and baby showers -- and Montauk women are very good at it! We’ve had some fun over the years gathering at each other’s houses or in each other’s restaurants, as is often the case in Montauk. It’s such a nice gesture when a group sends off one of its own loaded with gifts to get started on her newest adventure, whether it is a marriage or a child.
I’ve recently had the experience of attending several showers -- okay, it may have been too many, especially on several consecutive Saturdays in summer – but I was still happy to do it, and was proud to be a part of this age-old tradition of women taking care of each other.
When I had my first child, I was shocked at how many gifts I received, most from people in Montauk who I har ...
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Janis Hewitt |
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6/6/2009 6:30 AM |
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| At the Point |
By Janis Hewitt on
3/8/2010 10:07 AM
I think I’m one of the few people out here at the Point who is not looking forward to winter’s end. I get a lot done in winter, but mostly I read. And I still have a stack left to go before the rigors of the season take over. Only other readers will understand this.
I have friends who have called me this winter from places afar to taunt me with their sunny days, restaurant dinners, and warm nights. “Are you jealous?” they’d ask.
“Yes,” I’d say to appease them, but I was lying. This is the first year in a long time that my husband and I didn’t take a vacation in February like the rest of Montauk. Since autumn, we’ve been so busy that we just wanted to stay home and enjoy the quiet of winter.
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/26/2010 11:29 AM
I was going to write this morning about the signs of spring that are starting to show up out here at the Point. The songbirds have begun singing a different tune and little sprigs of green are pushing through the muddy ground. I even detected the scent of spring recently on a walk in the woods. But lo and behold, we woke this morning to a cover of snow – again!
I love snow, but even I’ve had it. I had a terrible experience this winter while driving in snow. And let me just tell you that Jesus loves me, yes he does – otherwise, I might be dead or maimed from it.
I was returning from an overnight visit with my brother and his wife in Bronxville, N.Y. with my mother, my sister, and her two children in my Jeep. We w ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/10/2010 12:01 PM
I still feel like a little kid when snow is in the forecast. When I wake in the middle of the night to hit the bathroom, I peek out my window to see if it’s started falling yet. In the morning I open my eyes in anticipation, for you can always tell if it snowed in the night; with curtains still drawn, the room is brighter.
After coffee, I usually walk Jack (the whack) around the neighborhood peering through the snow covered woods, looking for picture-worthy shots. When it snows out here at the point, as it is right now, everything is quieter, muffled by a blanket of cold, sparkly crystals. Outside, sprigs of potted plants and tree branches look like baked goods covered in confectionary sugar. A buried car looks like a wooly mammoth from the ice age. The only intrusion is the snow plow flying up ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/4/2010 8:31 AM
I’ve decided to become a pop culture warrior. And not just because I thought it about it hard this morning over my coffee, but because – and I swear this is true - only an hour later I read my horoscope and it said: “You may be a spear-carrying culture warrior.”
I’m sorry folks, but someone has to do it. Our world is truly going to hell! I’m no prude by any means, but whatever happened to morals? They’re kind of what keep us all somewhat honest and kind to each other. And besides, it’s a bit boring right now out here at the point.
I started thinking about pop culture when I read that Michael Vick now has a television reality show. I read it twice to make sure what I was reading was true. Not only was Michael Vick – the dog torturer – signed on with the Ea ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
1/21/2010 10:56 AM
Up until a week ago my favorite movie of all time was “On Golden Pond” with Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda. It was one of the few movies I could watch several times over and always find something new in it, whether it be a piece of scenery, which was spectacularly woody, or a catchy phrase.
For years after seeing the movie, my husband and I quoted from it often, and imitated Ms. Hepburn’s call for loons to gather near her lakeside home.
Last week, though, I trekked across Napeague Stretch on a very cold night to see “It’s Complicated” with a girlfriend at the movie theater in East Hampton and had a good hearty laugh! I will see it again; it’s that good, and that complicated.
First we stopped at Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett for a delicious burger and a beer. It ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
1/9/2010 11:20 AM
When the wind howls in Montauk, as it did for several of the last days of 2009 and the first few days of 2010, it makes itself known. Out here at the Point, it swirled through the trees, branches swayed and snapped, and things went bump in the night.
I live in an area near the Montauk Lighthouse that is somewhat in a hollow. The wind sweeps through, making loud sounds that could be taped for a horror movie soundtrack. It’s a small neighborhood, so anything that is loose on a neighbor’s house flaps about loudly. On the overhang of my front deck, something bangs noisily whenever it blows. My husband and I have tried for years with no luck to figure it out where it’s coming from. It’s just one of those weird things that can’t be explained.
At the Lighthouse, Brian Pope, the assistant site manager, told me the wind speed recorder registered gusts up to 60 mi ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
12/24/2009 1:33 PM
Out here at the point, we know how to decorate for Christmas. Of course, we’re hoping to attract visitors with our artistic touch, but no one has spared any change with their decorating this year.
I was recently in Manhattan to see the holiday lights, including the tree at Rockefeller Center, which always looks smaller in person than it does in television, and in St. Augustine, Florida, a place known for its holiday madness.
In this month’s issue of Coastal Living magazine, St. Augustine is featured. The article says that city crews begin stringing up more than 2 million white lights at over 100 locations last summer. A city ordinance limits the lights to white or clear bulbs in the historic district. At streetlights giant starfish, jellyfish, clam shells, and seahorses are outlined in white lights. It’s actually very pretty.
But over near the beach area, it’s willy-nilly, an ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
11/30/2009 10:31 AM
Finally, there’s a chill in the air out here at the Point. That’s how it should be at Thanksgiving. Who wants to polish silver, dust off the good dishes and prepare the wine goblets in warm weather? I expect a brisk wind blowing outside my windows and leaves blowing through the air while a fire rages in the wood burner.
There’s nothing like a cool, crisp walk in the woods to contemplate what we are thankful for. Two weeks ago, a stiff northeaster helped the trees shed the last of their leaves, although some, in shades of rust and gold, are still hanging in there. The storm was said to erode a portion of the beach at Soundview and break through a bulkhead, but I haven’t yet made it over there to see.
The day after the holiday another gale-force wind swept through Montauk, and many of the outdoor holiday festivities and autumn fishing trips had to be canceled.
I’m glad it waited because Thanksgiving is one of my favorite ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
10/12/2009 9:34 AM
It used to be that Labor Day marked the end of the season out here at the Point. But now the season has been stretched through the Fall Festival sponsored by the Montauk Chamber of Commerce on Columbus Day weekend. This year brought thousands of people to the fair and a lot of them brought their dogs.
My dog, Jack the Whack, who was nicknamed that by a neighbor because he is so whacked, cannot go out in public, except in secluded places where there are no other dogs. It being Montauk, however, and the land of the canine, that’s often hard.
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
9/24/2009 10:51 AM
I love that women still participate in the tradition of wedding and baby showers -- and Montauk women are very good at it! We’ve had some fun over the years gathering at each other’s houses or in each other’s restaurants, as is often the case in Montauk. It’s such a nice gesture when a group sends off one of its own loaded with gifts to get started on her newest adventure, whether it is a marriage or a child.
I’ve recently had the experience of attending several showers -- okay, it may have been too many, especially on several consecutive Saturdays in summer – but I was still happy to do it, and was proud to be a part of this age-old tradition of women taking care of each other.
When I had my first child, I was shocked at how many gifts I received, most from people in Montauk who I har ...
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By Janis Hewitt on
3/8/2010 10:07 AM
I think I’m one of the few people out here at the Point who is not looking forward to winter’s end. I get a lot done in winter, but mostly I read. And I still have a stack left to go before the rigors of the season take over. Only other readers will understand this.
I have friends who have called me this winter from places afar to taunt me with their sunny days, restaurant dinners, and warm nights. “Are you jealous?” they’d ask.
“Yes,” I’d say to appease them, but I was lying. This is the first year in a long time that my husband and I didn’t take a vacation in February like the rest of Montauk. Since autumn, we’ve been so busy that we just wanted to stay home and enjoy the quiet of winter.
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/26/2010 11:29 AM
I was going to write this morning about the signs of spring that are starting to show up out here at the Point. The songbirds have begun singing a different tune and little sprigs of green are pushing through the muddy ground. I even detected the scent of spring recently on a walk in the woods. But lo and behold, we woke this morning to a cover of snow – again!
I love snow, but even I’ve had it. I had a terrible experience this winter while driving in snow. And let me just tell you that Jesus loves me, yes he does – otherwise, I might be dead or maimed from it.
I was returning from an overnight visit with my brother and his wife in Bronxville, N.Y. with my mother, my sister, and her two children in my Jeep. We w ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/10/2010 12:01 PM
I still feel like a little kid when snow is in the forecast. When I wake in the middle of the night to hit the bathroom, I peek out my window to see if it’s started falling yet. In the morning I open my eyes in anticipation, for you can always tell if it snowed in the night; with curtains still drawn, the room is brighter.
After coffee, I usually walk Jack (the whack) around the neighborhood peering through the snow covered woods, looking for picture-worthy shots. When it snows out here at the point, as it is right now, everything is quieter, muffled by a blanket of cold, sparkly crystals. Outside, sprigs of potted plants and tree branches look like baked goods covered in confectionary sugar. A buried car looks like a wooly mammoth from the ice age. The only intrusion is the snow plow flying up ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
2/4/2010 8:31 AM
I’ve decided to become a pop culture warrior. And not just because I thought it about it hard this morning over my coffee, but because – and I swear this is true - only an hour later I read my horoscope and it said: “You may be a spear-carrying culture warrior.”
I’m sorry folks, but someone has to do it. Our world is truly going to hell! I’m no prude by any means, but whatever happened to morals? They’re kind of what keep us all somewhat honest and kind to each other. And besides, it’s a bit boring right now out here at the point.
I started thinking about pop culture when I read that Michael Vick now has a television reality show. I read it twice to make sure what I was reading was true. Not only was Michael Vick – the dog torturer – signed on with the Ea ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
1/21/2010 10:56 AM
Up until a week ago my favorite movie of all time was “On Golden Pond” with Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda. It was one of the few movies I could watch several times over and always find something new in it, whether it be a piece of scenery, which was spectacularly woody, or a catchy phrase.
For years after seeing the movie, my husband and I quoted from it often, and imitated Ms. Hepburn’s call for loons to gather near her lakeside home.
Last week, though, I trekked across Napeague Stretch on a very cold night to see “It’s Complicated” with a girlfriend at the movie theater in East Hampton and had a good hearty laugh! I will see it again; it’s that good, and that complicated.
First we stopped at Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett for a delicious burger and a beer. It ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
1/9/2010 11:20 AM
When the wind howls in Montauk, as it did for several of the last days of 2009 and the first few days of 2010, it makes itself known. Out here at the Point, it swirled through the trees, branches swayed and snapped, and things went bump in the night.
I live in an area near the Montauk Lighthouse that is somewhat in a hollow. The wind sweeps through, making loud sounds that could be taped for a horror movie soundtrack. It’s a small neighborhood, so anything that is loose on a neighbor’s house flaps about loudly. On the overhang of my front deck, something bangs noisily whenever it blows. My husband and I have tried for years with no luck to figure it out where it’s coming from. It’s just one of those weird things that can’t be explained.
At the Lighthouse, Brian Pope, the assistant site manager, told me the wind speed recorder registered gusts up to 60 mi ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
12/24/2009 1:33 PM
Out here at the point, we know how to decorate for Christmas. Of course, we’re hoping to attract visitors with our artistic touch, but no one has spared any change with their decorating this year.
I was recently in Manhattan to see the holiday lights, including the tree at Rockefeller Center, which always looks smaller in person than it does in television, and in St. Augustine, Florida, a place known for its holiday madness.
In this month’s issue of Coastal Living magazine, St. Augustine is featured. The article says that city crews begin stringing up more than 2 million white lights at over 100 locations last summer. A city ordinance limits the lights to white or clear bulbs in the historic district. At streetlights giant starfish, jellyfish, clam shells, and seahorses are outlined in white lights. It’s actually very pretty.
But over near the beach area, it’s willy-nilly, an ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
11/30/2009 10:31 AM
Finally, there’s a chill in the air out here at the Point. That’s how it should be at Thanksgiving. Who wants to polish silver, dust off the good dishes and prepare the wine goblets in warm weather? I expect a brisk wind blowing outside my windows and leaves blowing through the air while a fire rages in the wood burner.
There’s nothing like a cool, crisp walk in the woods to contemplate what we are thankful for. Two weeks ago, a stiff northeaster helped the trees shed the last of their leaves, although some, in shades of rust and gold, are still hanging in there. The storm was said to erode a portion of the beach at Soundview and break through a bulkhead, but I haven’t yet made it over there to see.
The day after the holiday another gale-force wind swept through Montauk, and many of the outdoor holiday festivities and autumn fishing trips had to be canceled.
I’m glad it waited because Thanksgiving is one of my favorite ...
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
10/12/2009 9:34 AM
It used to be that Labor Day marked the end of the season out here at the Point. But now the season has been stretched through the Fall Festival sponsored by the Montauk Chamber of Commerce on Columbus Day weekend. This year brought thousands of people to the fair and a lot of them brought their dogs.
My dog, Jack the Whack, who was nicknamed that by a neighbor because he is so whacked, cannot go out in public, except in secluded places where there are no other dogs. It being Montauk, however, and the land of the canine, that’s often hard.
Read More »
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By Janis Hewitt on
9/24/2009 10:51 AM
I love that women still participate in the tradition of wedding and baby showers -- and Montauk women are very good at it! We’ve had some fun over the years gathering at each other’s houses or in each other’s restaurants, as is often the case in Montauk. It’s such a nice gesture when a group sends off one of its own loaded with gifts to get started on her newest adventure, whether it is a marriage or a child.
I’ve recently had the experience of attending several showers -- okay, it may have been too many, especially on several consecutive Saturdays in summer – but I was still happy to do it, and was proud to be a part of this age-old tradition of women taking care of each other.
When I had my first child, I was shocked at how many gifts I received, most from people in Montauk who I har ...
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