125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, September 14
A party of seven or eight young men from this village will go to Montauk Point on Tuesday next to camp out for a week. Among the party will be Howard Hedges, Gardner Osborn, Charles Everest, Joseph Flannery, John Flannery, Alex Dayton, John Dayton, George Schenck, Daniel Huntting and Harry McDowell.
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The beach afforded a fine opportunity for fast wheeling on Wednesday. At low tide Ernest Muchmore rode from the bathing beach to the Napeague life saving station in fifteen minutes, coasting a large part of the distance.
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Over $500 has been subscribed to date to the fund for the erection of the new M.E. church edifice. This amount together with the proceeds from the sale of the old Amagansett M.E. church property provides for over $1,500 toward the new edifice. Plans for the latter have already been placed in the hands of one of the builders of the village for estimate.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, September 11
Rain was made king on Labor Day on eastern Long Island, as well as the western end. Thousands of residents and their out-of-town guests, who had planned all sorts of amusements for the holiday, were forced to remain indoors, play cards, read, dance and seek other harmless amusements. But there was this satisfaction for everybody, all were treated alike.
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The first horse show held on the grounds of the new East Hampton Riding Club last Friday afternoon was a great success, both socially and financially. It was for the benefit of the East Hampton Settlement House and the East Hampton Gun Club and about $1,700 was realized.
The committee worked very hard to make this, their first show, the most successful ever staged on Long Island, and are to be congratulated on their efforts. It is expected that it will be an annual affair. Great enthusiasm was shown and many expressions of delight and approval of the new ring and grounds were heard on every side.
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A very beautiful and finished series of tableaux were given at the Maidstone Club last Friday evening, interspersed with Scotch and Irish songs by Mr. Allen-Allen, accompanied by Roger McGregor at the piano.
The tableaux were composed and arranged by Percy Moran, who has given East Hampton many a delightful evening in the past.
The youth and beauty of East Hampton were well represented and all the cast entered into the spirit of the pictures with real feeling.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, September 14
East Hampton Township made hasty preparations for a hurricane’s visit on Monday afternoon and evening, but the storm passed by without doing more damage than the usual equinoctial gale due just about now. The hurricane swept up the Atlantic Coast and came nearer the beach at Nantucket Island and outer Cape Cod than eastern Long Island.
Rain-bearing northeast winds blowing about 50 miles an hour in gusts caused storm warnings to be put up at Stephen Palmer’s Maidstone boatyard at Three Mile Harbor Monday night, but the dock and boats there received no damage.
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A Planning Board has been appointed by the Village Board here to function similarly to other Planning Boards in villages, towns and cities. First and most important item on their agenda is to plan and work out ways and means of relieving East Hampton’s No. 1 problem — congestion and inconvenience and lack of free parking space.
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The eighth annual United States Atlantic tuna tournament ended last Friday, with the Sheepshead Bay Tuna Club winners for the second time in the history of this contest. The three fish taken by the club during the second day of the event gave the club a point score of 750, a margin of 79 points over the nearest competitor, the N.Y.A.C. Anglers.
The Sheepshead Bay Club now matches the Brielle Marlin and Tuna Club in having two legs on the New Jersey Governor’s plaque and the Hensler Challenge Trophy, which will be retired by the club with three victories.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, September 11
On the eve of the opening Monday of State waters for the legal harvesting of scallops, the consensus of baymen is that 1974 was a bonanza year, 1976 probably will be and 1975 is not.
The most optimistic appraisal came from Herbert Eames, vice president of the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association and vice president and manager of the newly founded East Hampton Sea Food Producers Cooperative. He said the “word was out that there were some” scallops around Robins Island, off Towd Point in Southampton. However, he cautioned that until baymen actually venture out into State waters and dredge up the bivalve mollusks, no one can actually know.
“Not super,” pronounced Stuart Vorpahl of Stuart’s Fish Market.
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The tides will be low and the kites will be high Monday when the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s sandcastle and kite flying contests will take place at Hither Hills State Park.
Architects and builders of all ages are invited to do-it-themselves, sites and materials provided by the damp sand of ebb tide, beginning at 10 a.m., with judging for first and second prizes scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
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The best protection East Hampton Town residents had against flooding in the hurricanes of 1934, ’54, and ’60 was high ground.
But over the last few hurricane-free years, they’ve had the option of buying subsidized flood insurance for their property under an emergency Federal program passed by Congress in 1969.
Now with cold and warm fronts squabbling in the Caribbean and many an old-timer grimly predicting another big blow over his morning coffee, East Hampton is casting a weather eye on joining the regular Federal flood insurance program — with its doubled coverage.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, September 14
Regina Seltzer, an environmental attorney, librarian, and grandmother who turned 71 last week, may have scored an upset victory over Representative Michael P. Forbes of Quogue in the First Congressional District Democratic primary on Tuesday, overturning predictions of party leaders from Washington to East Hampton.
An unofficial 39-vote margin out of 11,611 ballots cast appeared to have won the former Brookhaven Town councilwoman, who lives in Bellport, the Democratic nomination in the November election.
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The South Fork has been fertile ground this year for one of the new century’s newest technologies, high-speed Internet access — which while certainly not on everyone’s wish list, is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow to a great many computer-savvy Americans who want it and cannot get it.
That it is available at all here is mainly because of Cablevision, though Verizon (until recently Bell Atlantic) offers it as well.
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The Republican majority on the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday made it clear that it is going to dig in its heels and oppose a petition drive that would force East Hampton and Southampton Towns to put a drinking water protection referendum on the November ballot.
The Save South Fork Water Now coalition has delivered petitions to both towns containing over 3,500 signatures.
