Long Island Restaurant Week is back, with South Fork options at Fresno, Nick and Toni's, LDV @ the Maidstone, the Palm, Bistro Ete, Calissa, Page, the Bridgehampton Inn, and Shippy's.

Gian Carlo Feleppa performs at Guild Hall, preserving artifacts on Shelter Island, Glam Jam and Mind Open shows at the Masonic Temple, poetry grant, and a garden pests workshop.

A membership initiative from Almond and L&W Market, wine master classes at Sparkling Pointe, and frozen takeout options from Loaves and Fishes.

The tide was high at Robin Hood’s Bay, waves licking the cobbled slipway, inching towards the village’s tumbling, smuggler-y streets. Boots swapped for sandals, I stood daringly close to the water’s edge, part hoping the steel-blue sea would engulf my sore but triumphant toes. I’d made it. Walked across northern England, coast to coast. All in, about 200 miles. Three national parks. Lakes, fells, dales, moors, some flat bits in between, market towns, valley-tucked villages, numerous pubs, plentiful pints.