125 Years Ago - 1897
From The East Hampton Star, July 30
Clinton Cycle Club is making arrangements to give another dramatic entertainment, in the near future, under the direction of Mr. Frank Lyman. The cast will contain a dozen or more persons and will be made up largely of home talent, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman taking the two leading parts.
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Another good article this week for “incorporation.” Some good points are brought out by the writer, who, by the way, is a prominent business man of East Hampton. Let us have more of the same sort — and of the other sort, too, if there really is any opposition.
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The committee who have in charge the work of spraying the trees request persons to examine their elm trees and if found infested with worms or beetles, to notify at once any one of the following committee: Mrs. Stafford Tillinghast, Mrs. Henry D. Hedges, Mrs. J.D. Hedges.
100 Years Ago - 1922
From The East Hampton Star, July 28
By an overwhelming vote of 255 to 96, a majority of 159, almost three to one, Sag Harbor taxpayers, at the special election last Tuesday, decided to keep the village on the map by authorizing the board of trustees to expend $50,000 for a permanent concrete pavement the whole length of Main street.
Omitting two spoiled and two missing ballots, 362 ballots were cast of which eight were blank and three void on this, the road proposition.
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When the White Star liner Adriatic arrived recently from a tour of Mediterranean ports there was on board one Percival M. Fielding, a retired Army captain of London, and Tazidah the beautiful, said a recent issue of the New York Tribune.
It was in the hills of Afghanistan that the captain first met Tazidah. She was chasing a gazelle over the snow-covered hills. Her red hair streamed behind her in the breeze. Her easy grace attracted the attention of the captain.
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On Wednesday morning Mrs. Wallace Reid’s large music room was filled to capacity with a representative audience of the summer colony, to greet Miss Eleanor Markell for her fourth talk on “Spain of Today,” which concludes the series of lectures.
Miss Markell spoke on the three great living painters of Spain and cleverly illustrated her points with lantern slide productions of their works, which she made in Spain last summer.
75 Years Ago - 1947
From The East Hampton Star, July 31
One of the most colorful events on the Guild Hall calendar will take place Friday and Saturday, August 1 and 2, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., when the works of artists of eastern Long Island will be displayed in the annual Outdoor Clothesline Exhibition in front of Guild Hall.
Both artists and lay members of Guild Hall are cooperating with the chairman of the art committee, Edward Moran, to make this year’s show, which will be a benefit for Guild Hall.
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Mrs. Juan T. Trippe, general chairman for this year’s Ladies’ Village Improvement Society fair held on the Village Green on Friday, July 25, reports that receipts are more than $10,000; but until all bills are in the exact figure cannot be determined. More details will be given at next Monday’s meeting of the society, to be held at the home of Miss Sarah D. Gardiner. Friday was a beautiful day after several rainy ones; the Green never looked lovelier. With flags flying, gaily colored booths, the gray replica of an old East Hampton windmill as a centerpiece, and small boats giving boat-rides on Town Pond, it presented a memorable picture.
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Tennis week at the Maidstone Club opened yesterday afternoon with singles matches, in the annual tournament for the gold cups offered in the William H. Woodin tournament. Many previous winners of the tournament, which was started in 1926, and members of the British Wightman Cup team are competing. Mrs. Virginia Kovacs of Oakland, Calif., the second-seeded American, defeated Miss Sylvia Knowles of Newport, R.I., yesterday by 6-3, 6-1.
50 Years Ago - 1972
From The East Hampton Star, July 27
The East End Branch of the Nature Conservancy announced the addition of about 35 acres to its roll of some 25 sanctuaries on the South Fork last Saturday at a board meeting during which the local chapter was praised by the national organization’s science director. The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit organization operating nationwide which solicits gifts of land for preservation in a natural state.
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The sweet smell of industrial germicide filled the Beale home at Apaquogue Road, East Hampton, Tuesday morning as workmen made repairs to the 28-room mansion from which Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie, have been threatened with eviction by the Suffolk County Health Department.
The work did not proceed smoothly on several occasions. There were interruptions by Mrs. Beale, whose voice was heard from above, and by Miss Beale, who would descend the staircase to argue over procedures.
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The East Hampton Town Board will hold a public hearing on Aug. 18 at 10:45 a.m. to consider proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance designed, according to Councilman Henry A. Mund Jr., to “isolate” gravel-mining operations in the Town. If the changes, recommended by Mr. Mund at Friday’s board meeting, are approved, the three commercial-industrial heavy zones in which no mining is at present occurring will become commercial-industrial zones, in which no mining is allowed.
25 Years Ago - 1997
From The East Hampton Star, July 31
The filming of “Deep Impact,” Stephen Spielberg’s latest movie — a comet heading toward Earth causes chaos of Hollywood proportions for a cast of big-name stars — is having a deep impact of its own on the western end of Napeague. A convoy of trucks, trailers, and portable toilets and a horde of stars, crew, and extras moved in Tuesday morning and could remain through tomorrow.
“I feel like I’m living in the Holland Tunnel,” said Stanley Fein, who has a summer house on the corner of Sandcastle Drive and Castle Court. Mr. Fein said the trucks parked along Sandcastle all day Tuesday were blowing diesel fumes in his direction, leaving an oil slick on his swimming pool.
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Round and round and round she goes . . . the East Hampton Village Shuttle, that is. The question at summer’s midpoint is: Has the village’s $30,000 investment paid off?
Some observers have noted plenty of empty seats as the white vehicle makes its daily rounds from the Lumber Lane lot through the business district and back. But Larry Cantwell, the Village Administrator, said this week that ridership was on the rise and he was encouraged.
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The mother of the young landscaper involved in a May 21 confrontation with Martha Stewart and the East Hampton Village Chief of Police both expressed surprise and displeasure this week following Suffolk County District Attorney James M. Catterson Jr.’s announcement that no criminal charges would be filed against Ms. Stewart.
Matthew Munnich had told police the homemaking authority backed her car into him that night, pinning him against a gate and bruising him after finding him and his crew working on Harry Macklowe’s next-door property.
