The opening of scallop season in state waters is Nov. 3. In town trustee waters the date is Nov. 9. But the harvest may not be very good.

In Suffolk County, early voting runs from Saturday to Nov. 2, locally at Windmill Village on Accabonac Road.

Research and memories are the underpinnings of Robert Hefner's bacykard orchard in Amagansett.

This turn-of-the-20th-century photo shows the James Huntting house in the village in its original majesty, ghosts or no.