A lot of people are keeping an eye out, but from all that I've seen and heard so far this summer, the water clarity in the creeks, estuaries, harbors, and bays has been rather good.

Before the Cedar Island Lighthouse was built, whaling ships and vessels risked hidden hazards on their way into Sag Harbor, and a local captain, Joshua Penny, maintained stake lights to guide them safely past Cedar Island.

The late John Giorno’s memoir of “poetry, sex, art, death, and enlightenment” shows him as a man very much in the middle of the New York art scene’s 1960s and ’70s heyday.