The Art Scene: 08.15.19
New shows at Ille Arts, Eric Firestone Gallery, Fireplace Project, Ashawagh Hall, Madoo Conservancy, and many more
Bits and Pieces: 08.15.19
A sake of Jack Larsen's personal collection, a Jersey Boy at Bay Street, Brazilian jazz at the Parrish, and more
Summer Means Sunfish
Let’s all raise a glass to the Sunfish, that nearly ubiquitous icon of the American shoreline, a single-sail fiberglass boat that has glided, bounced, carried young love, and, often, flipped across lakes, harbors, and bays since the early 1950s.
A Shoe Lover’s Shoe Sale
The annual Shoe-Inn warehouse sale will start Tuesday and run daily through Monday, and again from Wednesday, Aug. 21, through Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. at the American Legion post in Amagansett.
A Drive Calls for Food and Household Donations
New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. is hosting a food drive for the month of August, teaming up with Island Harvest, a hunger-relief organization, to collect food for those in need. Items collected on the South Fork will go to the Bridgehampton and Southampton food pantries.
Music All Over Montauk This Week
Music for Montauk will kick off its summer series of outdoor concerts Thursday with “Brahms Gypsy Dances,” passionate quartet songs, accompanied by piano and strings, under a tent at Third House at Montauk County Park.
On Aug. 17 the selection will be Bach’s most festive Cantata No. 51, featuring strings, trumpet, keyboard, and vocals, with the operatic star Rachelle Durkin and trumpeter C.J. Camerieri. Both concerts, at 6:30 p.m., are free and family friendly. Concertgoers are encouraged to take picnics, chairs, and blankets.
Crash Closes Road Between East Hampton and Sag Harbor
An alleged drunken driver hit an electric utility pole on Route 114 in East Hampton Saturday morning, closing a portion of the main thoroughfare between Sag Harbor Village and East Hampton for several hours.
As Trump Woos Donors, Protesters Gather Nearby
While donors prepared to greet President Trump at Sandcastle, Joe Farrell's 17,000-square-foot house in Bridgehampton, and at a Southampton event hosted by Stephen and Kara Ross later in the afternoon, more than 100 people gathered on the Water Mill Green for a peaceful protest organized by the Progressive East End Reformers.
The Town Paper
East Hampton Village, 8:30 A.M. — Patricia ‘Pat’ Ryan makes her way down Dayton Lane, gently tugging on the thin red leash of her 14-year-old Cocker Spaniel, Lucy, who trots happily beside her. It’s a bright June morning and she is on her way to pick up a copy of The East Hampton Star, as he has every Thursday for almost fifty years.