125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, November 16
Over $100,000 worth of new work will be under way on Shelter Island during this next winter and spring. It is said that not for twenty years past has there been such a demand for laborers in that section, and as there are not enough mechanics and laborers there, the contractors will have to look outside to be accommodated.
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A.A. Roy, of East Hampton, and Mrs. Longstreet, of New York, niece of Gen. Longstreet, were married in New York on Monday, Nov. 12. Mr. and Mrs. Roy arrived here on Tuesday. Although it was pretty short notice, a band of serenaders were on hand in the evening, and Mr. Roy had to come forth with cigars.
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Amagansett
Vernon M. Davis, a summer resident of this place, has accepted the presidency of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which Elbridge T. Gerry resigned this week, and he will assume the duties of that office on January 1. Mr. Gerry will continue to act as counsel for the society.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, November 13
To one who has visited Montauk during the last years of the World War, when the Montauk Naval Air Station was at the height of its activity, it would seem that several of the large seaplanes and dirigibles had returned, such is the humming noise emitted from the exhaust of the twelve or fifteen tractors at work on the new highway leading from the Montauk Inn to and around Great Pond, or Montauk Lake, as the new owners have christened it.
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The advance sale of tickets for the musical revue "In the Blue Room," which will be presented for the benefit of the Masonic Club of East Hampton, in the Auditorium of the East Hampton High School, on Friday evening, November 13th, is the greatest of any amateur theatrical event of the season.
"In the Blue Room" promises to far surpass the production of "A Night at Club Revue," which scored a big hit for the club entertainers on May 29th, last.
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Cattle from the Montauk grazing lands were driven off after the annual round-up November 2. The custom of pasturing cattle at Montauk dates back to early days of settlement, and East Hampton is one of the earliest settled towns of Long Island, 1648.
With the development of Montauk into the recreational resort of Montauk City, as outlined by Carl Graham Fisher, it is improbable that cattle will hereafter be sent to Montauk for grazing.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, November 16
Representative W. Kingsland Macy, Suffolk Republican Chairman, failed again yesterday, as the re-canvass of Suffolk County votes continued, to make any progress toward reducing the 129-vote margin by which he apparently was defeated for re-election by Ernest Greenwood, Democratic-Liberal candidate for Congress in the First District.
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A gift of inestimable value to residents of East Hampton, summer visitors, and future generations of nature-lovers here is expected in the near future from Mrs. Lorenzo E. Woodhouse, who with her family has already been responsible for the building of the East Hampton Free Library in 1912, the restoration of Clinton Academy in 1921, the building of Guild Hall in 1931 (in this she was joined by scores of public-spirited citizens, but the major cost and the inspiration for East Hampton's beautiful community center was her own); the building-on of the Cloister and Red Room at the Library that same year. This new gift from Mrs. Woodhouse, who has spent very little time in East Hampton of recent years, but did come this month for a very brief stay at 1770 House, is three parcels of land between David, Huntting, Egypt and Fithian Lanes, for a permanent "Bird Sanctuary and Nature Trail of East Hampton."
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The children of all the churches in East Hampton: St. Luke's Episcopal, the First Presbyterian, St. Philomena's R.C. and the Methodist Churches, will bring canned goods and non-perishable food with them to church this Sunday, November 19th. It will all be collected and then distributed by the Community Council of East Hampton to needy and undernourished children of our community for Thanksgiving.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, November 13
The head of the County's Migrant Affairs Council said yesterday that his life has been threatened, his wife possibly shot at, and a bounty offered for anyone who would kill him as the direct result of recent raids on East End migrant worker camps that uncovered a variety of health and labor law violations.
Suffolk migrant affairs coordinator, Lawrence G. Stewart of Westhampton Beach, said he had learned from a migrant worker informant on Oct. 31 that a crew chief at one East End camp had offered his workers a $500 bounty to anyone who would "do Stewart in."
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The Montauk Village Association has spent some $50,000 over the past several years on the "beautification" project of lining six blocks along Montauk's Main Street with beds of gravel, shrubbery, and small trees; but many merchants along the three blocks lined so far do not like the gravel, because children throw it about, litter and dog droppings tend to become mixed with it, and pedestrians, especially women with high-heeled shoes, have trouble walking on it. Now the Association has found a possible solution. It proposes to glue the gravel down.
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The East Hampton Town Board will meet at 3 this afternoon in Town Hall to adopt the 1976 Town budget. When the Board's preliminary budget was considered at a lengthy hearing Oct. 30, it amounted to $3,736,022 and would have raised Town taxes by 69 cents per $100 of assessed value for property owners outside the two Villages and 39 cents for those within them. The preliminary budget was a revision of Supervisor Judith Hope's "tentative" budget, which would have raised taxes by 39 and 22 cents.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, November 16
Citing a townwide housing crisis and a bipartisan commitment to address the problem, the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday unveiled plans to condemn property for two affordable housing projects.
The town has targeted 32 acres east of Steven Hand's Path, north of Blue Jay Way, and south of Towhee Trail in East Hampton, which it has named Green Hollow Woods.
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Like their parents at home and people nationwide, students in Tim Rood's Advanced Placement government and politics classes at East Hampton High School were paying close attention this week to the unfolding drama in one of the most contested presidential elections in the history of the United States. And, like their parents and people nationwide, opinion was divided.
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Doctors who give flu shots might take a cue from an Election Day quip and order next year's supply early and often.
On the East End, as nationwide, vaccine deliveries are running about two months late because one of the three flu strains — the Panama A — took longer than expected to culture this year; the other strains are New Caledonia A and Yamanashi B.
