Plant fanciers interested in unusual flora will want to stop by Wittendale's Florist in East Hampton, where the rare large bloom of a corpse flower is currently filling the greenhouse with its distinctively pungent odor.
In 1955, a 14-year-old babysitter was abducted from a summer house and raped by a masked stranger. Bizarrely, an intruder by the same description returned days later to the same house, terrifying a second babysitter. Despite a vast manhunt, the case went cold. But not long ago, a witness who grew up haunted by what she saw returned to East Hampton seeking answers.
A minor traffic accident occurring midafternoon on Friday led to drunken-driving charges against a 50-year-old Southampton man whose breath test, according to East Hampton Town police, produced a reading just short of the level that would have required a trip to the hospital.
With its open vistas of brown furrows, then low green plants dotted with white flowers running in parallel lines to the horizon, Bridgehampton used to be famous not for movie stars and mansions, but for potatoes. Today, the Wesnofske clan holds on against all odds: a squeeze on farmable land, the increasing difficulty of getting to market, and the deeper question of who will carry on.
