The Lineup: 10.24.19
Flag football wraps it up at Herrick, while Bonac girls tennis storms the playoffs and the cross-country teams hit Sunken Meadow for the divisional meet Tuesday.
Nature Notes: Greetings From Utopia
I wake up, look out the window, and instead of Noyac Bay and North Haven beyond, I’m looking at the Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Cruz Island looming up in the background. One day it’s one view, the next day another. Three thousand miles apart, but the water is blue, the sky cloudy, the country one and the same.
Tour of Preserves Sunday
The Accabonac Protection Committee and the East Hampton Nature Preserve Committee will hold a tour of three nature preserves off Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs on Sunday afternoon. Led by Zachary Cohen, the chairman of the Nature Preserve Committee, and Andy Gaites, the town's principal environmental analyst, the tour is designed to enhance knowledge of the Accabonac watershed.
On the Water: Gearing Up for Scallops
The season for harvesting scallops in state waters commences at sunrise on Nov. 4. If you are a bit curious, sunrise will commence at 6:23 a.m.
New Season of Met Opera at Guild Hall
A new season of The Met: Live in HD, with performances of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and “Tosca,” Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten,” Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman,” and Handel’s “Agrippina,” among others, kicked off Saturday at Guild Hall with Puccini’s opera “Turandot.”
Guild Hall's AbEx Treasures
Guild Hall’s two fall exhibitions, “Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections From the Permanent Collection” and “Joyce Kubat: My People,” will open on Saturday and continue through Dec. 30.
Hellhound of the Baskervilles
The Hampton Theatre Company will launch its season with “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery" on Thursday. The play weaves elements of farce with theatrical ingenuity and a touch of drama.
Opinion: The Camera Obscura or Not
MM Fine Art in Southampton has a refreshing show of photography up through the weekend. Composed of many East End artists, the exhibition is a brew of thoughtful vistas and beach scenes, figure studies that often have a twist, interiors, and some experimental or more conceptual works.
Trump: Law and Disorder
James Zirin prosecutes the case against Trump by picking apart a pattern of behavior — contentious real estate dealings, legendary unpaid debts, the unsuccessful casino gamble in Atlantic City, the Trump University fraud, and boorish misogyny.
Round Swamp Lester's Bonac Clam Chowder
If you’re feeling inspired to make your own chowder, here is a recipe found in several locations. Saveur magazine published it in 2007 and credited it to the 1898 edition of the L.V.I.S. cookbook. Round Swamp Farm has the identical recipe on its website and defines it as a Lester family recipe.