There are scholar-athletes and then there are scholar-athletes. Benson Edman, an East Hampton High School senior who effectively swept the athletic and academic awards given out here recently to the class of 2025, is probably as good an example of the term as you can find.
For the first time in its 46-year history, Saturday’s Shelter Island 10K was won by a local runner, Ryan Fowkes, a 24-year-old East Hamptoner and Virginia Tech grad student who is making a name for himself nationally in long-distance running. The race’s female competitors were topped by Penelope Greene of Noyac, a SUNY Geneseo all-American, who finished seventh over all in the field of 800-plus.
When the back nine holes at the South Fork Country Club were new, and so was kite surfing.
A 22-year-old parking attendant at Sagg Main Beach was flashed, threatened, cajoled, and offered bribes for beach access back in 2000. And more from the Hamptons wars, summertime and otherwise.
