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A few fun (and perhaps frightening) facts and figures about democracy — politics, patriotism, and civic participation — on the South Fork.

Across America, community is built around the simple act of getting a fade or flat top — and stories among men are shared as freely as the clippings of hair that fall after the snip, snip of the scissors. On the South Fork, the professionals who cut hair have tales of their own to tell.

Sagaponack Farm Distillery's Gin and juice — their own American gin with a splash of tart rhubarb and sweet currant — is the perfect midsummer cocktail.

Red Horse Market, on the highway at the fringe of East Hampton Village, has seen various incarnations and owners since the 1990s. Now, it's thriving like never before and even expanding to Southampton — driven by one Latino family's resilience, vision, and hard work.

We're spoiled for choice when it comes to ice cream shops. Thoroughly sampling each option can feel like wading through a sea of crumbled-up Heath bars, so we're here to do the hard work of creating a guide for you.

Bruce Collins was a pilot and co-captain on a bunker steamer and shrimp trawlers in the 1950s. He took a camera. The images he created of a lost working-man's life along the eastern and southern coastline are not just invaluable as social history, but stunning in their artistic merit.

When Julie Reyes Taubman and her husband, Bobby Taubman, purchased a five-acre parcel of land facing the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Two Mile Hollow Road in East Hampton in 2005, they knew only one thing about the house that they would build there: They wanted it to look nothing like the traditionally-styled gabled houses covered in shingles which for the last couple of decades had been popping up all over the Hamptons.

The cooler is stocked with Topo Chico and watermelon slices. The umbrella is staked deep into the sand, and you've settled into your sling chair. Now all you need's a good read. Here's our suggestion of a dozen set right here on the South Fork.

From fishing equipment to cassette-tape converters — karaoke machines to clown-shaped cake pans — East End libraries are lending more than just books.

A uniquely American art form fills the air this month and into September, as Hamptons JazzFest returns. But what casual listeners may not know is just how rich the jazz legacy is here.

We hold the following truths to be self-evident and the following rights, for the residents of the South Fork, to be inalienable.

The Wainwrights’ roots run deep on the East End of Long Island. “On my father’s side,” the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright says, “my family has been in East Hampton for 100 years or something. I have many second and third cousins who live out here.”

The photorealistic swimmer serenely swanning on our red, white, and blue cover is by Elise Remender, an artist who shows her sunshine-soaked paintings — with an old-school-Hollywood Technicolor filter — at the White Room Gallery in East Hampton.

The images from Nat Ward's four-summer informal residency at Ditch Plain resulted not just in a recent exhibition at Second House Museum, but also in a book of photographs, both titled DITCH: MONTAUK, NY 11954.

Meet Anita Fagan: former pharmacy clerk, James Dean fan, and outsider artist.

Edward Tyler Huntting Jr. of Huntting Lane, East Hampton, grew up playing tennis at the Maidstone Club. He was tall and handsome, graduated from East Hampton High School in 1952, and was a Theta Chi fraternity man at Bucknell University. He was a veteran who did two stints in the Army, then worked as an executive salesman on the road between Chicago and San Francisco. He had an acerbic wit. In the 1950s, he was reportedly voted “Number One Bachelor of Chicago.”

Two beloved East End businesses have come together on a collaboration that is sure to be a very chill hit this summer: a specialty cinnamon-doughnut-spiked coffee ice cream, combining Dreesen’s Famous Donuts with John’s Drive-In’s ice cream.

Amanda Green, daughter of a legendary Broadway family and part-timer in Springs, has a hit of her own right now with "Mr. Saturday Night," starring Billy Crystal.