125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, July 27
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Hawthorn, of Montclair, N.J., and Mr. and Mrs. Sulzer, of Philadelphia, rode through Long Island on their wheels this week, going to Montauk Point. They stopped in East Hampton Wednesday night. They said wheeling the entire length of the island was fine.
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Quite a little excitement was caused at the beach on Thursday morning, when a half dozen or more bathers got beyond their depth and had to be helped to shore. The surf was heavy and there was a strong undertow.
Mrs. P.S. Clapp, Miss Cornelia Lee, Miss Marion Eidlitz, Miss Phyllis deKay, Miss Marjorie Rice and Miss Antoinette Erhardt were in a group just outside of the breakers, when it was discovered by several of the bathers that they were in trouble and needed help. Surfmen Edwards and Barnes had been watching them and at once ran into the water to go to the rescue. John Drew and his brother-in-law, who were in the water, also quickly reached the young women, and aided Edwards and Barnes in getting the endangered bathers through the breakers.
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George Grimshaw, a special detective of the New York City detective force, was in town Sunday, visiting his parents at Wainscott and his brothers and sister in this place. Mr. Grimshaw has been twelve years a policeman and two years a detective in New York.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, July 24
The boys from Mattituck may know a whole lot about raisin' cauliflower and pickles, but when it comes to raisin' 'taters and playing baseball, they are like the proverbial egg in coffee, that settles it. They came over here last Saturday with a big "fleet," fully expecting to scuttle the good old ship "Bonac," but, thanks to that good old right wing of Commodore Leddy, they were turned around and sent home looking cheaper than a pair of skates in Hades.
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Workmen have been at Montauk this week installing two wells and pumping stations on the State Park property on the Highlands and at the Point. The well at the Point has been completed, while that at the Highlands is under construction. Campers, when the work is entirely completed, will be furnished with ample water supply. As it is at present, they have to tramp or ride to the nearest house or garage and either beg or borrow or steal their water supply. Often it is a great inconvenience to the owner.
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A new traffic regulation affecting traffic on Main street will be given a tryout directly. At a meeting of the village board Tuesday night, it was decided that this new method of directing traffic should be given a thorough try-out as to its practicability, before any ordinance is adopted.
In the future there will be no turning against traffic on Main street, between Huntting lane and Newtown lane.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, July 27
Commander Ben F. Tyler of East Hampton Town Post No. 419, American Legion, has announced that the post's new headquarters and recreation center is under construction at Amagansett on the corner of Montauk Highway and Abraham's Path. Present construction includes only a part of a larger building for which the post already has plans. When completed the new headquarters will have an auditorium 44 by 100 feet, and an office, kitchen, lavatories, and cloak room in addition.
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The Star received on Tuesday a letter from Rev. Francis Kinsler, in Korea. It was written July 16, and dated Presbyterian Mission, with an Army number.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Rattray:
Now that Korea is really on the map I thought that I might write a few lines telling of my experience here since the outbreak of the war.
Of course we had been well aware of the danger even before we returned to Korea in 1948. But our whole mission had relaxed somewhat, and we were actually having our annual Mission meeting at a new seaside resort (because the inn there was the only place big enough to accommodate us all) on the west coast, when word suddenly reached us at 11 p.m. Sunday night, June 25, that Northern forces had invaded South Korea.
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The East Hampton Airport is as busy a place these days as you will find on eastern Long Island. Planes come and go and celebrities are not hard to find. This week's prize attraction was Hedy Lamarr, in person, who has been the guest here of Mrs. Paul Scheerer.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, July 24
The State Education Department's just-released report on the troubled Bridgehampton School is at once both flattering to the school's personnel and fatalistic about the upper school's chances for survival, as might have been expected.
The professional educators generously praise the kindergarten-through-12th-grade school's faculty, administration, and School Board, but warn in effect that all the good teaching in the world won't make up for a "segregated situation" and the inevitable dearth of diversified programs that a small enrollment means.
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East Hampton Village is planning to sue the County Health Department, which wants it to build rest rooms at Two Mile Hollow and Wiborg's beaches. The village's position, in effect, is that rest rooms are none of its business.
The Village is also suing the Sea Spray Inn, complaining that the Inn is renting parking spaces on its property next to Main Beach, in violation of zoning, and seeking to make it stop.
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The East Hampton Teachers' Association, in a one-page "negotiations bulletin" being circulated this week, has labeled the "attitude" of the School Board toward current contract negotiations as "arrogant, negative, and high-handed."
The Association charged in its broadside that representatives of the Board came to a recent State-mediated fact-finding session "completely unprepared. They offered no facts, no figures, no documentation." The charge was denied by Board members.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, July 27
The house on Fresh Pond Road in Amagansett might have been Main Beach on a 100-degree August weekend, the way cars kept pulling up in front, disgorging passengers, and driving off in search of the nearest parking spot, a quarter-mile or so down the road.
The one-bedroom house, on a landscaped private acre opposite the South Fork Country Club golf course, was to be auctioned off to the highest bidder at 11 a.m. the next day, Monday. In all, according to the auctioneer, David Maltz, more than 500 people came by to take a look on the two Sundays it was open for inspection.
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Larry Penny said on Monday that if we have a big rain followed by hot weather, "we're going to have a lot of breeding of problematic mosquitoes."
We're having the big rain.
Yesterday, Mr. Penny, East Hampton Town's natural resources director, reported this season's first "fresh" dead crow, retrieved from the former Sherrill Farm in East Hampton, and the first dead blue jay, from Glade Avenue in Springs. Both were being sent to Suffolk County Health Services for West Nile virus testing.
