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The Mast-Head: On an Empty Bay

For all the boats kept around here, most are idle most of the time.

Sep 15, 2022
Gristmill: Backyard Buzz

The unexpected appearance of hummingbirds has been a highlight of the summer.

Sep 8, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Moody Street

When I navigated off the interstate, I knew exactly where the graveyard would be with Kerouac’s grave.

Sep 8, 2022
Point of View: Still an Experiment

One of the major thrusts in our founding documents, as I understand them, was to shield this democratic republic from autocracy.

Sep 8, 2022
The Mast-Head: ‘Chigger’ Time Again

Avoiding the leaf litter and damp grass where up to a thousand or more tick larvae lurk is the best strategy this time of the year.

Sep 8, 2022
Point of View: What Cicero Said

Where meanness, which surfaces every now and then, comes from I don’t know.

Sep 1, 2022
The Mast-Head: On the Flight Path

Step outside of the East Hampton Star building on Main Street on a summer day and there is a very high probability that a private jet will be overhead.

Sep 1, 2022
Gristmill: Batter Up

The D.H. comes to the National League, and no one misses the old ways.

Sep 1, 2022
A cultural aversion to commercialized vistas — a near-universal dislike of unnecessary signs — goes back a century in East Hampton. The Ladies Village Improvement Society led the charge against billboards, playbills, neon, and other forms of visual clutter.East Hampton Star archive The Shipwreck Rose: The Signless Town

We’re going to get petty this week, reader. Let’s get trifling. Let’s talk about signage.

Sep 1, 2022
Gristmill: Parting Ways

Shades of Jimmy Carter, the part of my hair suddenly switched sides.

Aug 25, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: The Spumanti Talking

And now for the budget portion of our Italian vacation.

Aug 25, 2022
Point of View: Truth Shall Set Us Free

I must say, in retrospect, that if the coronavirus were still raging, Authors Night would have been a good place to catch it.

Aug 25, 2022