125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, July 13
Driving to Montauk is not now so much in vogue as before the advent of the railroad. Then large parties were frequently seen leaving the village for the long but pleasant drive over the beaches and hills to Montauk. Those who make the trip at this season of the year find the laurel, with which the woods abound, in full bloom.
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Frank Tillinghast’s milk wagon horse ran away on Tuesday, starting from near Van Scoy & Dayton’s store and making a quick run to the stable on the Bridge Hampton Road. He kept the wagon right side up until he entered the yard, when it overturned, and the horse became satisfied and stopped. No damage.
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The highest temperature the water at the bathing beach has reached this season is 68 degrees, which temperature was recorded on July 7. The highest air temperature was 78 degrees, that figure being recorded on the 9th and 10th.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, July 10
Fourth of July, that great National holiday, is past. It was a lively weekend in East Hampton. The number of out-of-town guests entertained in the village has never been equalled, every available lodging quarter being taken. The hotels were brim full. The restaurants were taxed to their utmost to appease the appetites of their hungry guests. Nearly every home entertained out-of-town guests. In order to fill the wants of their patrons the groceries and markets had to keep open until Saturday noon.
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One of the gala social events of the mid-summer season at East Hampton will be the annual village fair to be given on the village green, Friday afternoon, July 24. This annual event is given for the benefit of the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society.
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The boys and girls in East Hampton are all excited over the contest now in progress at the East Hampton Pharmacy. The pharmacy window is filled with eighty prizes which prove a great delight to the eyes of the youngsters. Among the prizes on view at the pharmacy are the following: a bicycle, scooter, baseball outfit, swings, wrist watch, roller coaster, wagon, trapeze, camera, tennis rackets, etc.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, July 13
This Saturday evening, July 15th, at 8:30, Maurice Eisenberg and Tsuya Matsuki will give a program of cello and piano music at Miankoma, Miss Matsuki’s music studio in Amagansett.
Mr. Eisenberg was among the first internationally known cellists to be re-engaged in Europe after the war. He divides his time between the two continents, and tours each season both in America and abroad. Early in his studentship, he attracted the interest of Pablo Casals, who took him then as his only pupil.
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The East Hampton Airport is really busy this summer. Mel Lamb, who leases the Airport from the Town of East Hampton, has three planes which are constantly in the air — two Bonanzas and a twin-engined Beechcraft. Mr. Lamb is just back from a very complete air tour of the West Indies in the Beechcraft, with a party. He often flies Washington notables, such as Senators Brewster and Bridges, and Democratic Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick.
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Eva Le Gallienne, one of America’s most distinguished actresses, will bring her talents to head an all-Broadway cast of 23 at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton for the week of July 17. Miss Le Gallienne will play the part of the teacher in Emlyn Williams’s stirring drama “The Corn Is Green,” the story of a schoolma’am who attempts to shape the rough genius of a Welsh coal miner in the pattern of her own high ideals.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, July 10
Two of the East End’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote and Peter Matthiessen, who are neighbors in Sagaponack, will read from their own fiction on Sunday, July 20, in the second of a series of readings being presented by the East Hampton Historical Society in connection with the Bicentennial. The series is being sponsored by Poets and Writers, Inc.
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An all-Republican Town Board met last week for the first time since the Democratic victories of 1973. Supervisor Judith Hope was home sick, and Councilman Eamon McDonough’s car had broken down. The Three Republicans, under the temporary supervision of Councilman Richard White, ordered a police car sent to fetch Mr. McDonough and proceeded with various town business, most of it very routine.
The half dozen or so vocal environmentalists who frequent Town meetings did not appear this time, perhaps because the meeting happened on Thursday instead of the customary Friday, which was a national holiday, or because it happened in the Town parks building in Amagansett instead of the Town Hall, where the Town Court convenes on Thursdays.
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“We are going to lose the finest piece of water in Long Island if they don’t do something about it,” warned Henry Sierp of the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association just before the Town Trustees met Tuesday night.
The “they” involved were the East Hampton Trustees themselves, and the piece of water was Napeague Harbor, whose bottomland the Trustees control.
The threat is that out-of-State pleasure boats anchoring overnight there, illegally according to the Trustees, pollute the relatively unspoiled water with human waste and the paper and plastic jetsam of casual cruising.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, July 13
Frustrated with what they called the intentional delay by East Hampton and Southampton Town officials in protecting groundwater and watershed lands, State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has joined a coalition to take the process out of their hands.
A South Fork Drinking Water Protection Act is to be placed on November’s ballot, he said, which will give the power to the people.
If approved, the act would place 4,500 acres in both towns in a “watershed protection zone” and force the towns to create comprehensive management plans within six months to protect surface waters that flow into the bays and harbors as well as replenish groundwater reserves.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is campaigning for United States Senate, will meet voters in East Hampton tomorrow.
Mrs. Clinton is expected to arrive at the East Hampton Senior Citizens Center on Springs-Fireplace Road at about noon, stop off at the East Hampton Day Care Center, and, time permitting, tour the East Hampton Housing Authority’s Accabonac affordable apartment complex.
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Friday’s news that the West Nile virus had killed four more crows in New York State, two of them in Suffolk County, put new perspective on Suffolk’s aggressive mosquito-control program, which returned to East Hampton last week — and probably will be back.
The virus was isolated in one crow from West Babylon and another from Lindenhurst — and in one each in Rockland and Westchester Counties, Kristine Smith, a State Health Department spokeswoman, said. Yesterday, the Health Department confirmed yet another bird dead from West Nile, a red-tailed hawk in Pound Ridge, Westchester.
That brings to nine the total confirmed bird deaths from the West Nile virus this year in New York. One more has been confirmed in New Jersey.
