Surf Shop to Close

Lars Svanberg, the owner of Main Beach Surf and Sport, a fixture in Wainscott for 32 years, has announced he will be closing the store in late August, when the lease is up, and looking for a new East End location. Starting on Saturday, the store will hold a summer-long moving sale with 20 percent off all clothing.

Applesauce
Montauk
June 17, 2019

Dear David, 

Kathleen Mulcahy, a challenger mounting her first bid for Sag Harbor mayor, pulled off a major upset Tuesday, unseating the two-term incumbent, Sandra Schroeder, with 489 votes to Ms. Schroeder's 197.

The weather was about as good as it’s ever been at the Shelter Island 10K Saturday, bright with a fortifying wind out of the southwest, a good day for the 1,000-plus finishers.

Two coaches, Bill Herzog and Kathy McGeehan, two individual athletes, Emily Hren and Nicole Fierro, and the 1965-66 boys basketball and 1993 field hockey teams are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame at homecoming on Oct. 5.

Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton High School's best indoor and outdoor runner, and Rebecca Kuperschmid, number-one on the girls tennis team and a softball stalwart, were cited during a senior awards ceremony on June 12 at the Clubhouse. 

Bonac high school games will be live-streamed come the fall, and the Pierson (Sag Harbor) baseball team's postseason run ends in the semifinals of the state tourney.

Lots of slow-pitch softball and men's 7-on-7 soccer in the week ahead.

There certainly have been a lot of headlines about tension between the United States and China of late. Trade and tariff warfare have captured most of the attention, and it appears that this ongoing squabble is not about to end anytime soon.

Whippoorwills were once common throughout the woods of Southampton and East Hampton, especially in Wainscott, which is the center of the South Fork’s oak and pitch pine forest.

Bill O’Connell, a pianist who lives in Montauk and Rockland County, is one of very few non-Latinos to make significant contributions to the Latin jazz movement.

The question that came to mind over and over again while watching “Maiden,” the first SummerDocs offering of the 2019 season, was “Can this really be 1989?” 

 “G.E. Smith’s Portraits,” now in its fourth iteration, was conceived in 2015 and produced by Taylor Barton as a series of intimate evenings featuring actors, painters, and fellow musicians. Its first concert of the year will feature Loudon Wainwright III and John Wesley Harding at Guild Hall.

The latest gallery arrival on Amagansett's Main Street is ARC Fine Art, an import from Connecticut with ties to the region. Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, its proprietor, has been coming to East Hampton for many years and showing art informally on the East End in pop-up spaces. She has decided to formalize that relationship.

There is a sense of tangible danger in recent years on the South Fork. This peril does not derive from a murder or a slew of rip currents, although those are sobering in their own right. This precariousness stems from a material loss that carries a metaphysical threat, a loss of identity.

Strawberry season this year has been wonderful despite the rain. So far I have sampled berries from Open Minded Organics in Bridgehampton (no spray!), Pike’s in Sagaponack, and from the Mattituck Strawberry Festival.

“One Night in Central Park,” a two-hour examination of the Central Park jogger, made extensive use of courtroom drawings by Marilyn Church, now they are in an opera about the case playing in Southern California.

“Safe Space,” a new play by Alan Fox having its world premiere at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor next week, explores the detonation of issues related to identity politics, racism, and political correctness on the campus of an elite American university.

Fancy picnic baskets, Southampton's Cheese Shoppe gets a rebrand, a Hamptons chef dinner benefit, and dinner at Wolffer

New installations of Lawrence Weiner and Stephen Talasnik at LongHouse and new shows at Ille, Rental, White Room, Ashawagh, Estia, Keyes, and Markel.