125 Years Ago 1897
From The East Hampton Star, November 12
The young people will give a dance in Clinton Hall on Thanksgiving night. The committee of arrangements is already at work preparing for the event, which, it is expected, will be a big affair in every particular.
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John W. Hand broke ground on Huntting lane yesterday for a new house which he will have built this winter. The design for the building was drawn by J.G. Thorp, the architect, and George A. Eldredge has the contract for the building. It will be a large house with forty foot front, piazzas on front and east sides, and will be fitted with all modern conveniences, such as hot and cold water, bath, butler’s pantry, etc. Mr. Hand expects to have his house ready to offer for rent next spring.
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The menhaden season practically closed last Saturday for the present year. Several of the factories are still running, but they also expect to close up by the last of the present week. During the past week the owners have lost heavily owing to the scarcity of menhaden.
100 Years Ago 1922
From The East Hampton Star, November 10
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith has been elected Governor of New York State by one of the greatest majorities ever given a candidate in an “off year,” winning over his opponent, Governor Miller, by more than 400,000 majority.
Senator Calder, who was up for re-election, lost out by 275,000 to his opponent, Dr. Royal S. Copeland.
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The electors in East Hampton village at the special election held in Odd Fellows’ Hall, Monday, favored the proposition to buy from Jeremiah Dominy the tract of land at the north end of Main street at the junction of Amagansett road, by a vote of 77 to 54. The reason for the village acquiring this piece of property is to establish a memorial park in honor of the soldiers and sailors of East Hampton who have participated in, not only the World War, but any war in which America has participated.
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An entertainment of unusual interest to the East Hampton and Amagansett public is booked for November 17, at Miankoma Hall, at which time Miss Solveig Hornbeck of New York and Southampton, and formerly of this village, will give an exhibition of Greek dancing. This announcement is hailed with joy by Miss Hornbeck’s many friends, who have been waiting for an opportunity to see her again.
Miss Hornbeck has appeared before at Miankoma Hall.
75 Years Ago 1947
From The East Hampton Star, November 13
A high mass will be celebrated Friday morning at 10 o’clock in St. Philomena’s R.C. Church for Pvt. Robert J. Hudson Jr., who died of wounds received in Germany on November 30, 1944, and whose body was returned to East Hampton yesterday from the cemetery in Belgium. His parents went to New York this week and returned on the train yesterday morning with the military escort sent by the United States government to escort the body of their son to East Hampton. His is the first body of an East Hampton man of World War II brought home from overseas.
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Yesterday morning’s northwest blow, although it did not exceed 60 to 70 miles an hour, did more damage to some sections of East Hampton’s waterfront than the 1938 hurricane did. On the south shore, the ocean beach, there was no property damage, although the sea was very rough. But on the north side the high northwest wind, coming on top of the tide (high tide at 8:30 a.m. yesterday) made things very bad.
At Promised Land, the Edwards Brothers docks were hit, 50 or 60 ft. of them, and a bulkhead was broken. The Preston dock repair men, seven of them, had been at Promised Land working for two months with a pile driver and repair machinery and had put everything into good shape. They were about ready to leave when the storm came.
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The Fellowship meeting at the Presbyterian Church last night took the form of a covered-dish supper, followed by reports from the church representatives who attended the International Sunday School Convention at Grinnell, the National Westminster Convention, the Junior High Camp at Minden and the Young People’s Conference at Pinebrook.
50 Years Ago 1972
From The East Hampton Star, November 9
While East Hampton Town’s Supervisor Eugene E. Lester Jr. presses forward with a proposal that a three-year water-resources management survey be undertaken for the South Fork, the release this week of an eight-page report prepared by Thomas Thorsen, East Hampton Town Planner, for the Town Board last February on data already available on this vital resource offers a dismal forecast of what that three-year study is likely to show.
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To the surprise of almost no one, President Richard Nixon swept East Hampton Town in Tuesday’s voting, carrying all of the 11 Election Districts by substantial margins. Unofficial tabulations showed the East Hampton vote as Nixon 2,441; Senator George McGovern, 2,304. The turnout — better than 6,745 persons voted — far exceeded anything seen in previous Presidential elections here, but was moderate in view of the local registration. Some 9,792 persons were eligible to vote in East Hampton.
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East Hampton
The “Deli-Maven,” a New York-style delicatessen with butcher-block table seating for 60 customers and a menu that will include “53 overstuffed sandwiches” in addition to a variety of hot meals, promises to be open in East Hampton in three weeks. Local delicatessen mavens can take heart, their long wait since the shop was first announced last January is about over.
25 Years Ago 1997
From The East Hampton Star, November 13
Drivers irked by slowdowns caused by recent road construction just west of East Hampton Village: Get ready — this is only the beginning.
Details have begun to surface about the rest of next year’s long-awaited $5 million State Department of Transportation repair of Route 27 leading into and through East Hampton Town.
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A $29.5 million Federal civil rights lawsuit alleging “political and personal favoritism” was filed on Nov. 5 by Sound Aircraft Services, one of two fixed-base operators at East Hampton Town Airport, along with Shoreline Aviation and Action Airlines, associated charter companies.
The suit names the Town of East Hampton, the Town Board as a whole, and its Republican board members, both as officials and as individuals, as defendants. It also names the airport’s other fixed-base operator, Myers Aero Services, and Myers Aero Fuel, along with Ben Krupinski individually and two of his companies, Aviation Resources and East Hampton Airlines.
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Calling it “the best . . . short-term, low-cost solution to a perennial crisis,” William D. Akin, the president of Concerned Citizens of Montauk, reluctantly offered his group’s endorsement of a Suffolk County Water Authority pipeline extension that will bring water from East Hampton to Montauk.
C.C.O.M. has often spoken out against the water main extension in the past, expressing some of the concerns that have been raised frequently by town officials.
