As if to underscore the validity of her words, Greta Thunberg twice interrupted her remarks to call for heat-related medical attention for one of the youthful mass gathered under the late-summer sun in Manhattan's Battery Park on Friday afternoon, the 16-year-old climate activist's appearance the culmination of the Youth Climate Strike that drew tens of thousands of students, some of them from East Hampton.
The wide-open desert of Arizona, where the prized 100-year-old saguaro cactuses grow wild among rattlesnakes and roadrunners, used to be dotted with dozens of dude ranches. Families would escape the cold of the winter here for an active week of riding horses, hiking, exploring, swimming, learning rope tricks, and drinking cowboy coffee.
A 20-year-old man driving drunk crashed his car into two buildings in Springs and came to rest in between them just after midnight on Friday. He was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he is listed in critical condition.
Tie dye, pom-poms, trivia, Big Truck Day at the Children's Museum, even a birding club for ages 8 to 18; there's a lot for kids to do on the South Fork this week.
