Playing Major League Baseball might have been my dream come true. Or my death sentence.

The 42nd Infantry Division Band of the New York Army National Guard will perform at the Montauk Lighthouse on Monday at 2 p.m. The 90-minute show will feature a 28-piece band performing jazz, rock, and patriotic songs.

The presidential game is not over, many Americans being frightfully capable of being fooled twice. That the economy is rolling along is nice, though you do wonder how much people are making and how many jobs they are working.

East End home sales in the second quarter were at an eight-year low, according to a report from the Douglas Elliman agency.

The Beach Butler, a business that seeks to make going to the beach stress-free by providing shuttle service as well as chairs, umbrellas, tables, and cabana hoods, has opened a South Fork branch.

The prices listed here have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

Vital to All
East Hampton
July 26, 2019

Dear David:

The Sag Harbor course of Jordan’s Run, a 5K in memory of Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter, who lost his life in saving those of 150 fellow servicemen in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2008, took its 448 participants by Pierson High School, from which he’d graduated, across the bridge to North Haven named after him, and along Oakland Cemetery, where he is buried.

At dawn on Aug. 10, a Paddlers 4 Humanity fleet of 50 or so paddleboarders and kayakers is to set forth for Block Island from the foot of the Montauk Lighthouse, and it goes without saying that the roughly 18-mile crossing is challenging.

East Hampton Soccer Fever and Maidstone Market played to 1-1 ties in two games in the 7-on-7 league’s regular season, but in the playoff final at East Hampton’s Herrick Park last week, it was all Maidstone.

Town and village ocean lifeguard squads from East Hampton to as far as Jones Beach gathered at Main Beach last Thursday to compete in the 33rd annual Main Beach Ocean Lifeguard Tournament.

Bonac's 11-and-under softballers take third place upstate, and an East Hampton paddler embarks on a 25-mile race around Manhattan on Saturday.

It's Travis Field benefit softball tourney time, while a benefit paddle happens at Havens Beach on Saturday. And don't forget the junior lifeguarding competition at Indian Wells this weekend.

“I don’t like art that is like somebody else’s stuff,” said Candace Hill Montgomery during a conversation in her Bridgehampton backyard. “I have a real hatred of things that are not original. Does it reference somebody else’s work? That’s fine. But not when it’s basically a copy.”

The dead adult humpback whale towed to the Montauk ocean beach last week is just one of several humpbacks that we have been reading about this year in the local newspapers. There have been many sightings offshore and even in Great South Bay and other estuarine water bodies.

On the drive east to Montauk early Friday morning, pale pink hues of the developing sunrise could be seen over the sand dunes alongside the Napeague stretch. Would the fish be on the chew? Only time would tell.

Although Helen Frankenthaler spent some of her formative years as an artist in Springs and East Hampton, she developed a more lasting relationship with Provincetown, Mass., during her marriage to Robert Motherwell. The decade she kept a summer studio there had a profound impact on her work.

The Watermill Center showed off an eclectic installment on Saturday night at the center’s annual benefit and auction, an "enchanted forest and performance art extravaganza" that featured works by more than 30 international artists. This year’s event was titled Tabula Rasa, or “clean slate,” a theme centered on evoking a mind-set absent of preconceived ideas.

Six pianists gathered last week to talk about their experiences participating in Pianofest, a summer festival that offers concentrated study to a small group of auditioned and very talented young artists, who live for four weeks in a large house in East Hampton and present concerts to the public in venues in Southampton, East Hampton, and Westhampton Beach.

With “American Moonshot,” Douglas Brinkley has written a magisterial history of the space age and an affectionate valentine to those brave astronauts who flew to the moon, the politicians who dealt with the art of the possible, and above all to John F. Kennedy. He'll be at Authors Night in Amagansett on Aug. 10.