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The Shipwreck Rose: In the Dark

It was at Theater 80 that I received my education in Barbara Stanwyck and Greer Garson.

Apr 7, 2022
Gristmill: Have Songbook, Will Travel

Word from sunny Florida raises hopes for a revived piano circuit.

Mar 31, 2022
Point of View: What the Word Saoirse Means

I was delighted to tell Mary the other day what I’d learned, to wit, that the Gaelic word saoirse “means freedom . . . the freedom to be and to express yourself.”

Mar 31, 2022
The Mast-Head: First of the Year

The osprey’s success story.

Mar 31, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Mariupol, 1922

Recollections of an ancestor's relief work in Mariupol, Ukraine, a century ago.

Mar 31, 2022
Gristmill: Thank You for Having Me

When expressions of thanks are unfailingly met with more thanks . . .

Mar 24, 2022
Point of View: Getting Back Into the Flow

Asked by an interviewer recently if I could describe the two Covid years in one word, I replied, “Constraint.”

Mar 24, 2022
The Mast-Head: ‘Don’t Eff It to Death’

It was one of those little moments when something someone casually says can change your trajectory for good.

Mar 24, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Twinkies and Trix

The world of 1970s snackitude was fully encompassing, a total sensory experience of taste, texture, aroma, sound, and vision.

Mar 24, 2022
Gristmill: Rage Rover

Sag Harbor’s mayor alludes to a stigma on wheels.

Mar 17, 2022
Point of View: Coming Out of Cocoons

We went to the Sag Harbor Cinema recently, and in leaving I said to Mary that we’d never again have to go to New York City.

Mar 17, 2022
The Mast-Head: Missing in the Letters

For the first time in my memory, we have not a single letter to the editor about East Hampton Airport.

Mar 17, 2022
Gristmill: Bad News

Personality-driven commentary and ingratiating displays of concern in place of reporting is exactly what the father of the 24-hour news cycle, Ted Turner, did not want.

Mar 10, 2022
Point of View: Mocker of the Sport

You would think that Vladimir Putin would have chosen a sport other than judo, “the gentle way.” 

Mar 10, 2022
The Mast-Head: Plain Sight Points

In the coming weeks, work on an initial set of five bronze bricks bearing the names of enslaved people will begin.

Mar 10, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: The Deep End

Do teenagers still pool-hop at strangers’ homes in the best ZIP codes? I hope they do.

Mar 10, 2022
Gristmill: Doppelgangers

The challenges of a nightly reading habit.

Mar 3, 2022
Point of View: Buoying Prospect

The benefits of bilingual education, especially on Long Island, are obvious.

Mar 3, 2022
The Mast-Head: Hawkish Thoughts

Big birds of prey seem to be all around, and my perch in the dunes off Cranberry Hole Road is a decent enough place to see them.

Mar 3, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Roaring In

We feel that March is the true start of the year, just as it’s obvious that February is the year’s gruesome and grizzled end.

Mar 3, 2022
Gristmill: Slip Sliding Away

The weirdness of the Beijing Winter Olympics was perfectly mirrored by the intricacies and dead zones of NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

Feb 24, 2022
Point of View: It’s Good to Have Avatars

Yes, Virginia, you can always improve.

Feb 24, 2022
The Mast-Head: Systemic Blindness

Tom Edmonds of the Southampton History Museum and Victoria Berger of the Suffolk County Historical Society have been suspended for featuring Ku Klux Klan-related material and programming.

Feb 24, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Deadly Sins

Thoughts from the Grand Velas resort on whether there are two kinds of people in this world: package-vacation people and independent-travel people.

Feb 24, 2022
Gristmill: Talking to Coltrane

Two essential graphic novels on the occasion of Black History Month.

Feb 17, 2022
Point of View: Encore! Encore!

Continuing in the same vein as last week, more excerpts from “Five Characters in Search of an Editor,” read 50 years ago at Guild Hall.

Feb 17, 2022
The Mast-Head: East Hampton’s Enslaved

Four years ago when a few of us began looking into early East Hampton’s relationship with slavery, we were met with a cocked head and some variation of “We don’t have anything about slavery.”

Feb 17, 2022
A vintage typewriter-cleaning kit from the midcentury office The Shipwreck Rose: Desk Set

The news keeps reporting studies that conclude remote work is more productive work, but those studies are clearly incorrect.

Feb 17, 2022
Gristmill: No Free Lunch

This sounds cheap, but I’d like to protest the disappearance of soup and sandwiches at the mobile New York Blood Center drives.

Feb 10, 2022
Point of View: Crypt Yields Antic Script

It’s funny, but when you’re looking for something, something else, something that you had given up looking for years ago, turns up.

Feb 10, 2022