Autumn has its music too, Keats said, though it’s not all that melancholic at the moment to my mind because, with 11 high school teams to cover, I must be nimble.

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One hundred years ago, Thomas Moran, eminent painter, prepared to leave East Hampton. Seventy-five years ago, deep-sea fishing enthusiasts hailed the Shinnecock Inlet, “that priceless gift of the hurricane of 1938 to Long Island.” And more.