Hook Pond is jammed with carp. The other evening one of the kids and I pulled over near the Dunemere Lane bridge to watch groups of the nearly leg-long fish breaking the surface of the water. 

I’ve been looking a little longingly lately at accounts in Newsday of playoff games, in baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, and softball, wondering if the day will come when East Hampton teams will be in them again. Baseball used to be, boys lacrosse used to be, girls lacrosse too, and softball, of course, used to be.

Time travel. It’s one of the great, impossible things we sci-fi nerds dream about doing. And I recently figured out how to do it.

Make no mistake, the Hudson Valley is beautiful territory. I’ll match the sunsets we see from our deck with the best Santa Fe has to offer. But touting the region as “the Hamptons North,” as The New York Times did? That’s a covered bridge too far.

The owners of Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton are hoping to build pitching and batting cages and two large food prep buildings on a vacant two-plus-acre lot on West Drive, near the farm.  

The East Hampton Chamber of Commerce and the East Hampton Aviation Association will hold a mixer from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the airport’s main terminal. Steven Ringel, the chamber’s executive director, will provide an update on pending projects such as the Aug. 17 East Hampton Village summer fair. 

Very Pleasant
East Hampton
June 10, 2019

Dear David:

This past weekend I rediscovered that it can actually be fun, relaxing, and a friendly experience when an East End town is crowded with vacationers. 

Ryan Fowkes and Ava Engstrom, East Hampton High School’s top long-distance runners, are to have their names engraved on the John F. Conner Cup for having won, by handy margins, the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Montauk Mile Sunday. 

Of the running legends coming to Shelter Island this weekend, a list headed by Joan Benoit-Samuelson and Bill Rodgers, two of them, Benji Durden and Kyle Heffner, who made the Olympic marathon team to nowhere in 1980, will be on The Rock for the first time.

The Robert J. Aaron Memorial Triathlon in Montauk Saturday was won by Matthew Connelly of New York City, who made sure this time to go out first on the 10K run, the final leg of the event, content to let the pace car lead the way.

East Hampton High's spring sports awards, plus a local competitor in Pitch, Hit & Run at Citi Field.

There’s a whole lotta slow-pitch in the week ahead, plus some men’s 7-on-7 soccer, too.

Gold is alluring to just about anyone and will always be categorized as a very precious metal, valued at its market price on the commodities trading floor. Gold is golden. It’s a given. 

Another week, another step toward summer. Sunday was pleasant, and I took a ride into Wainscott south of East Hampton Airport and explored the woods and shoulders, hoping for a lupine or two. I did find several wildflowers blooming, but not a single lupine, nor the remnants of any bird’s-foot violets, which would have been blooming several weeks ago.

For 35 years, Andrew Visconti has been the American correspondent for an Italian news syndicate. But now he is turning his energies to writing a memoir and wants to help others pursue the same goal.

Sam Green’s most recent project, “A Thousand Thoughts,” a collaboration with the Kronos Quartet at Guild Hall on June 21, blends live music and narration with archival footage and interviews such prominent artists as Philip Glass.

The exhibition title “Go Figure” at the Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton has multiple meanings, which suits an exhibition that exuberantly presents a plethora of ways to address the genre of figurative art.

Have you ever tasted freshly picked asparagus? I mean, picked within hours of being hand harvested? It is remarkably sweet. Asparagus is similar to corn in that, once picked, it will use its sugars to survive.

The season for asparagus won’t last much longer out here, so consider some of these cooking methods that you haven’t tried before. Or do as the northern Europeans do to celebrate the first harbingers of spring, build a whole meal around asparagus.

Renting to the rich for the summer that old family house with the great views? In order to send your kid to college, or simply afford it here? Judy Blundell's first novel for adults explores the way we live now on the East End.