125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, November 23
A dance will be given in Clinton Hall on Thanksgiving night. The East Hampton orchestra will furnish music. The affair will be under the auspices of the old committee.
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W.S. Williams and family will eat Thanksgiving dinner at the ancestral home in Rutland, Vt. At this home gathering, besides Mr. Williams and his wife and six children, will be his brother with his wife and six children. Together with the observance of Thanksgiving day, the family will join the father and mother in celebrating their golden wedding.
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Architect Thomas Nash, for whom A.O. Jones is building a cottage on Lee avenue, was in town yesterday to see what progress had been made on the building. He expressed himself highly pleased with the work and drew from his pocket a bank note and instructed Mr. Jones to treat all hands at work on the job.
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The odoriferous odors of New York stable manure are now wafted about the village by fickle winds, but we notice the people whose lawns it covers are about one hundred miles from being "on the spot."
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, November 23
W. Edward Boughton Jr., who cut his journalistic teeth as a boy on the East Hampton Star when it was owned by his grandmother, the late Mrs. Edward S. Boughton and edited by his father, the late Welby E. Boughton, has made two whirlwind tours of Europe within the past year on business for Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. He returned late last month from a 17-day trip on the Constellation "Star of Ohio" with a group of newspaper people and other notables. The purpose of the trip was to inaugurate TWA's new service to Frankfurt and London.
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Miss Phyllis Goodmund, lyric soprano, of the Juilliard School of Music pleased members of the Guild Hall Music Club and their guests in the first in the series of "live" programs to be featured by the club this winter. Joan Rothman Brill (Mrs. Robert Brill) of East Hampton was the accompanist.
Miss Goodmund, a petite blonde, with a warm sensitive voice, emphasized numbers by French and German composers in her program. Included were Lully, Chausson, Faure, Debussy, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. The French seemed particularly suitable to her voice and she gave splendid interpretations of such numbers as "Amour d'antan" by Chausson, "Green" and "Aurore" by Faure, and "C" by Poulenc.
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Rev. Paul T. Bahner of the First Presbyterian Church will preach on "When Jesus Gave Thanks" at the Village Service to be held in St. Luke's Church on Thanksgiving Day at 10 a.m.
The Rev. Samuel Davis will conduct the service and the Rev. Nat R. Griswold, pastor of the Methodist Church, will lead in the selection of Psalms and reading the Scripture. The choir will sing "O Lord, How Manifold Are Thy Works."
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, November 20
As a color photo of a Vietnamese family of ten was passed around the Rectory meeting room, about 20 members of East Hampton's Most Holy Trinity Parish planned exuberantly for the expected arrival of these refugees whom they would sponsor.
Cecelia Rios, an energetic young woman from the Rockville Centre Diocese, who would act as go-between, spent much of that night, Wednesday, Nov. 12, reassuring the Parish's "justice and peace committee," which had no doubts about commitment, that it was well prepared to act as a sponsor.
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How many migrations must a migrant make before a migrant may be considered migratory?
None at all, says Legislator Mildred Steinberg (Democrat of East Setauket), because migrant workers are people and it is insulting to refer to them as "migratory," a word which, she insists, applies only to birds.
Thus the Legislature last Friday bowed to Ms. Steinberg's sense of grammatical decorum and approved unanimously a resolution that officially, if somewhat belatedly, changed the name of the County Migratory Affairs Council to the Migrant Affairs Council.
"I've been pointing out to them since I took office two years ago that the Council's name was ungrammatical," Ms. Steinberg said following the vote on the resolution. The Legislator added that the badgering of her colleagues on this point included bringing in her own dictionary to Legislative meetings.
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The fragile spark of football spirit reappeared on Saturday, as fast as it had vanished the week before, to inspire the East Hampton High School varsity team to a surprising 12 to 6 victory over Greenport. Coach Richard Cooney was carried off the field.
East Hampton Town was sued Friday by a group of groupers and landlords who charge that its new group-rental ordinance violates their Constitutional rights "to the equal protection of the laws, to freedom of travel and to freedom of association."
The ordinance says that no more than one family may rent a house at a time and defines family as either a natural family or no more than four unrelated adults. An earlier version allowed no more than three adults in an unrelated "family" but allowed their head, called a proprietor-tenant, in turn to rent rooms to four more.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, November 23
The East Hampton Town Board announced last Thursday that it plans to buy a 40.9-acre oceanfront tract near the Lobster Roll restaurant on Napeague in Amagansett for $8.4 million from the South Flora Land Development Company.
The town would develop part of the property as a "low-key" ocean beach and protect the rest as a nature preserve, according to Councilman Job Potter. Besides being "valuable primary duneland," the beach along the property is part of the town's "most productive piping plover nesting area," he said.
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Driving east from Montauk on the way to Montauk Point, a sign alerts travelers to Shadmoor, the brand-new 99-acre state park on oceanfront land that had been slated for subdivision.
Just down the road, before Old Montauk Highway branches to the right and Deep Hollow Ranch to the left, is another stretch of undeveloped land. Its 122 acres contain freshwater ponds, wetlands, marshes, meadows, and forest -- a range of habitats "remarkable for this region," according to an environmental report -- with hills sloping toward 1,128 feet of cliffs above the Atlantic.
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A group of East Hampton citizens has called for Lee E. Koppelman to curb work on the town's comprehensive plan until members of grassroots committees are named and begin work.
At the same time, the town board this week hired a planner to "facilitate" the public's involvement in the plan, including organizing as many as three public forums at meetings of each of 18 subcommittees.
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The Beach Plum Park subdivision on Napeague in Amagansett stands alone as the only development in East Hampton Town where swimming pools are banned outright, Richard Mathew, the attorney for the developer, told the town board last Thursday.
Mr. Mathew was appearing on behalf of Napeague Oceanfront Estates Inc. in an effort to get the town board to lift that restriction, which was required by the planning board when the subdivision was approved in 1989.
