125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, October 25
Frank Heinricks will open a dancing class in Odd Fellows’ Hall, Saturday, November 2.
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Under the management of Ivan C. Byram, the Sag Harbor Entertainers will present Gilbert & Sullivan’s famous comic opera “H.M.S. Pinafore” at Clinton Hall on Thursday evening, October 31.
The company sang the opera in Sag Harbor last spring with great success, and is now billed to give it in Greenport on Monday evening, in Sag Harbor on Wednesday night and in Clinton Hall on Thursday night.
The chorus will contain forty voices.
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During these autumn days one of the prettiest and most comfortable bicycle trips that can be taken in this vicinity is to Three Mile Harbor. A good hard path leads through the woods all the way.
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The steamer Orient, plying between Sag Harbor and New London, discontinued her trips for the season yesterday.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, October 22
The regular winter schedule of the Long Island Railroad Company went into effect Wednesday and, on account of the Montauk Development, there was quite a shake-up among the employees. The Railroad Co. has made Montauk the terminal for certain trains, that is, certain trains will lay up there overnight, and as soon as round house and car sheds are constructed, it will, no doubt, rob Amagansett of its terminal advantages.
It is the intention of the Company, it is said, to have this change made on the spring timetable. As a result of this change Conductor Cunningham is shifted from the Sag Harbor branch to the 6:49 out of here in the morning. Conductor Hudson now pilots the Scoot around to Greenport. Conductor Phillips will do the entire work on the Sag Harbor run.
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Montauk Notes
“Junior” Duryea, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Duryea, entertained a number of his small friends on Monday afternoon from 3 to 5, in celebration of his fifth birthday.
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East Hampton will be given some very fine basketball games this season if the plans of Edwin C. Halsey Post, No. 700, American Legion, go through without a hitch. Last year, it will be remembered, the basketball games at the School auditorium drew large and enthusiastic crowds when the Sag Harbor team played here. This season it is possible that this same team will play here every week, from Thanksgiving Day until the month of March.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, October 25
The Coast Guard in Washington on Oct. 19 placed the blame on the missing captain-owner for the capsizing Sept. 1 of the fishing boat Pelican off Montauk Point with a loss of forty-five lives.
An official report by a Coast Guard marine board of investigation said the owner, Edward H. Carroll, of 198 Giffords Lane, Great Kills, Staten Island, had been guilty of “gross and criminal negligence” in putting out to sea with sixty-four persons in a vessel capable of carrying no more than thirty with safety.
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An unusual exhibition will open in the Woodhouse Gallery at Guild Hall on Oct. 29, to continue there through Nov. 10.
One hundred and fifty items from the Pennypacker Long Island Historical Collection are being assembled this week by Morton Pennypacker and the East Hampton Free Library staff. These are books and documents largely featuring East Hampton and the rest of Long Island as they were 100 years ago, with special emphasis on the attractions of Long Island resort towns and villages. One hundred years of railroads will be illustrated by booklets put out by the Long Island Railroad during the railroad’s early years, and by booklets published by the different communities more recently.
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“Are you there, Cynthia?”
With these words from her teacher, another school day was about to begin for 12-year-old Cynthia Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Cook of Springs-Fireplace Road, Springs.
Cynthia’s school room this year is her bedroom at home, where she has been confined since last June after undergoing a second operation for scoliosis, or curvature of the spine. She is recovering nicely but will remain in a cast for some time.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, October 21
The components of the man-made portion of the East Hampton Village environment and the development of guidelines for all future changes in that environment will apparently be the subject of a $20,000 study sponsored by the Group for America’s South Fork, prepared by the Collins-DuTot Partnership of Philadelphia, Pa., and supported, in part, by the Village, the State Council on the Arts, and the East Hampton Ladies’ Village Improvement Society.
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The East Hampton Town Board, at its meeting last Friday, set Nov. 3 at 3:30 p.m. as the date and time for a public hearing, to be held in Town Hall, on the preliminary budget for 1977.
Departmental hearings on Supervisor Eugene Haas’s tentative budget of $3,782,622 were to have ended yesterday afternoon, but assessed valuation figures for the various districts are not expected until the end of the month.
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The first phase of the national swine-flu vaccination program will begin Wednesday, Oct. 27, at the East Hampton Methodist Church on Pantigo Road. The initial inoculations will be only for those who are 65 and over, and for “high-risk” individuals at least 18 years old, individuals with heart, kidney, or lung diseases, or metabolic disorders such as diabetes.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, October 25
If terrorists attack the United States again — and if they find targets on the East End — Suffolk County may be among the best prepared in the nation to deal with the ensuing emergency, about 50 East Hamptoners were told Monday evening.
For nearly three years, Richard McGowin of Montauk, who heads East Hampton Town’s emergency preparedness team, and Bruce Bates of Springs, its deputy coordinator, have been training emergency personnel here as part of the Suffolk County Terrorist Response Task Force.
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It was late one fall night, about 10 years ago, when a young man from New Jersey, one of three who had checked into the Montauk Manor on a golf package, awoke in his room to find an American Indian man in feathers standing at the end of his bed. Stirred from sleep by his screams, the other two saw the vision and then — poof — the man was gone.
In more recent years, a manor guest, dressed only in a towel, ran to the front desk and reported that, while showering in his fourth-floor room, he had seen a man peering down at him from a heating vent. Upon inspection, however, nothing was found.
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All the candidates for East Hampton Town Board, two Republicans and two Democrats, view with concern the prospect of a growing population. But they differ on how to enhance the town’s infrastructure while at the same time safeguarding its distinctive qualities, including its environment.
In an interview recently with The Star’s editorial staff, the in-the-works comprehensive plan, the community’s changing social fabric, and the operations of the town board itself all came in for scrutiny.
