There is one tradition of Thanksgiving that I miss even a decade later. My good friend Wayne Clinch of Montauk used to organize consecutive fishing charters on the Friday and Saturday after Turkey Day.

Kathy Masterson, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, gives a rundown of the fast approaching winter sports season, which looks promising given the turnouts for the high school’s half-dozen teams.

A small army of 30 was working to transform the Buckskill Tennis Club into the Buckskill Winter Club last week, the plan being that a regulation-size ice rink overlying four Har-Tru courts there will be up and running on Thanksgiving Day.