Item of the Week: Portrait of Julius Dayton Parsons
Julius Dayton Parsons, who once ran the Springs General Store, posed for this formal portrait sometime in the 1860s or 1870s, judging from the background and props.
The Way It Was for May 1, 2025
Four submarines mysteriously appeared off Montauk, and a driver in a 24-hour endurance race at the county airport in Westhampton Beach was stopped in his tracks by, yes, a deer collision. And that’s just 1950.
Letters to the Editor for May 1, 2025
The tributes to Helen S. Rattray roll in.
Opposition Makes for Better Government
Setting aside nostalgia for the days when local politics didn’t divide so starkly into blue and red camps, the fact is that single-party rule is simply a bad way to make important decisions.