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Point of View: An Office You Can Get Into

“You threw out my picture?” Mary asked when I told her my office’s walls were now bare, the floors were bare, the desk was bare.

Apr 11, 2024
The Mast-Head: Underwater in Nashville

There was plenty of screaming during my short trip to Nashville last weekend. I had not understood how Music City U.S.A. had become Partytown U.S.A.

Apr 11, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: Children of the Corn

The eclipse on Monday brought back memories of an eclipse in the 1970s, when I was at “hippie school,” the Hampton Day School in the potato fields of Bridgehampton.

Apr 11, 2024
For the Birds

Spring is here, and as our attention refocuses out of doors, this is a good moment to take a breath and consider the poor birds.

Apr 4, 2024
Gristmill: Dunkin’ or Nuttin’

Just one more Dunkin’ Donuts franchise here would make it right.

Apr 4, 2024
Guestwords: Did You Feel That?

Taiwan just got rocked, 30 years ago it was Northridge, California, and it could happen here. What’s it like to ride out the big one?

Apr 4, 2024
Hope for Plum Island

While Plum Island remains vulnerable to a sale under the terms of a 2008 act of Congress, we should look to Camp Hero as an example.

Apr 4, 2024
Point of View: Clearing Out the Detritus

One person’s detritus is another’s precious possession.

Apr 4, 2024
The Mast-Head: Cars on the Beach

Seeing a photograph of a rusted car frame tumbling from a dune recently reminded me of a devastating northeaster 62 years ago.

Apr 4, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: Risen Indeed

Is it sacrilegious to nose-poke at church on Easter Sunday?

Apr 4, 2024
Gristmill: Permission to Kick Back

Second-guessing the first exercise outing of spring.

Mar 28, 2024
Guestwords: Our Own Backyards

As we are bombarded with information detailing catastrophic environmental degradation around the world, it often seems we live in a bubble here on the East End.

Mar 28, 2024
Looking to Congress to Save Democracy

The stakes are unusually high in a Democratic Party contest for a congressional candidate for New York District 1. Voting in the primary is June 25.

Mar 28, 2024
Point of View: Always Be Sniffing

I rather like noxious fumes, having grown up in the ’50s in Pittsburgh.

Mar 28, 2024
The Mast-Head: The Importance of Things

A massive deaccession after the office furnace blew up has prompted a bit of soul searching of the Marie Kondo sort.

Mar 28, 2024
The Real Issue in a Fight Over Paint

Rowdy Hall has settled its beef with the town over the paint on its facade, but this should not put to rest the question of what is appropriate and who gets to say so when it comes to land use and redevelopment.

Mar 28, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: Egypt Close

Whenever someone talks about “a more innocent time” and the faraway days of childhood happiness, my mind drifts to the house on Egypt Close where my friends Katy and Jenny Paxton lived.

Mar 28, 2024
Bumpy Business

Why did several speed bumps get placed on Highway Behind the Pond, of all places?

Mar 21, 2024
Gristmill: The Grand Hotel

Montauk on steroids: A stroll down the immense concrete boardwalk-slash-sea wall at Virginia Beach.

Mar 21, 2024
Guestwords: The Yalie on the Bus

On an Audubon expedition into the American Southwest with busload of college kids in the early 1990s, among them was a young John Avlon, now running for Congress.

Mar 21, 2024
Nice Park

The new plan for Herrick Park looks a lot like the old park plan put forward in 2019 by the previous village administration. 

Mar 21, 2024
Point of View: Be Visionary and Vigilant

You almost wish that the Ottoman Empire had remained intact.

Mar 21, 2024
The Mast-Head: Buried and Forgotten

All is well at the wind farm cable landing spot in Wainscott.

Mar 21, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: Rad Trad

I’d wanted to see Monticello since I was a teenager.

Mar 21, 2024
Worrisome Number

About 275 acres of land on 182 parcels are undeveloped along Springs-Fireplace Road.

Mar 21, 2024
Gristmill: Hard Up Down South

Keeping up with the chickens on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Mar 14, 2024
Guestwords: American Apathy

This is not the time to bury our heads in the sand or in our electronic devices.

Mar 14, 2024
Minding the Trees

Thank heaven for the Ladies Village Improvement Society.

Mar 14, 2024
Ocean’s Warning

The stressed global environment has to be addressed — for whales, dolphins, and everything else on Earth.

Mar 14, 2024
Point of View: Humble Pie Day

Today is Pi Day, reminding me that I know nothing of mathematics.

Mar 14, 2024