That compound-fractured tennis racket I have had as a reminder in my office may actually be a thing of the past.

Oct. 22, 1962: I was ordained to ministry in the Presbyterian Church, and President Kennedy addressed the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

From memories of Joe O’Connell and Kent Feuerring to divisions over Lee Zeldin, it’s the week in reader comment.

The day in 1922 when Alfred E. Smith came in for some praise, a 1972 effort to organize South Fork farm workers, and more ripped from the pages of The Star.

The first half of Saturday morning’s high school football game here belonged to Harborfields, which led 28-0 at the halftime break. But the second half was pretty much East Hampton’s, which led Joe McKee, Bonac’s head coach, to say after the 34-14 loss that while he was proud of his players he wondered why they hadn’t played with the same verve in the first half as they had in the second.

Last week, East Hampton High’s boys soccer team won the program’s first league championship since 2014, and the boys cross-country team won the varsity B race at an invitational meet at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

Pickup games open to all in the  world’s fastest sport, badminton, have begun to be played again on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 at the Amagansett School, and will be through May.

While the fishing for striped bass has been strong in Montauk, it was out of my reach, so I decided to take advantage of the sunny and windless conditions on Saturday morning for the opening of blackfish season in waters outside Long Island Sound.

A nightmare on Sherrill Road: Billy Field, one of the most creative, enthusiastic, scarily talented Halloween decorators, will not be decking out his East Hampton home this Oct. 31 — or ever after. He's selling and moving to North Carolina, but will act as Demon of Décor for Guild Hall's Community Social and Spooky Silent Dance Party on Saturday at LTV studios in Wainscott

Park Place Wines and Liquors in East Hampton is offering a number of classes for the fall. In small groups of participants, the store's wine experts will explore different regions and styles of wine to help customers expand their oenophile horizons.

After screening an episode of "Gutsy," her series about courageous women, Chelsea Clinton sat down for a conversation with Donna Karan about parenting and growing up in the public eye at the Hamptons Film Festival.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's fall series will launch with a concert by the Calidore String Quartet and continue with Schubert in November and a Holiday concert in December.

For her new tapestries, now at the Drawing Room, Laurie Lambrecht prints photographs of iconic paintings on linen, cuts the images into strips, and weaves them into colorful abstractions that may or may not hint at their sources.

The Hampton Theatre Company's next production, "Over the River and Through the Woods," is an inter-generational comedy that had a long Broadway run.

Foxy Grandpa will bring country energy to the Masonic Temple, and the Jam Session returns as well.

Guild Hall will keep the circus tent motif and balloon chandelier in its John Drew Theater, but other changes are afoot, inside and out.

Spurred by opposition to a large-scale development proposed for downtown Sag Harbor, Save Sag Harbor and a group of residents filed suit against the village on Friday in an effort to annul parts of its affordable housing legislation passed by the village board in June. 

Guitars are front and center at The Church, with Carlos Barrios, a guitar maker, speaking on Friday, and the guitarist G.E. Smith on Saturday

Julia Scotti will headline Comedy Club at Bay Street Theater, with a comedic assist from Anita Wise

"St. Kilda," a tale of supernatural horror steeped in Scottish folklore, will be presented by the Neo-Political Cowgirls and LTV. Studios at the Wainscott venue next Thursday evening.