125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, November 1
The rapid growth of the northwest side of our village is almost phenomenal, and at the present rate there will soon be a small city north of the railroad track. Eight new houses have gone up within a radius of an eighth of a mile during the past three months.
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Ex-Judge Henry P. Hedges returned this week from New Haven, where he went to witness the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of his alma mater. Although more than 85 years of age, he enjoyed the trip and the exercises, and appears none the worse for the strain. Judge Hedges was the oldest Yale graduate present, in point of years, and together with T.S. Gold of Cornwall, Conn., represented the class of ’38. There were no other representatives between ’38 and ’44.
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One day last week, the menhaden steamer Sterling, with Captain W.C. Bartlett, of Greenport, took 1,050 barrels of fish at one haul of the purse net off East Hampton. It was said to be the largest catch of the season made by any of the American Fisheries Company steamers.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, October 29
The $30,000 Town Hall site issue is dead; at least for the present, unless the unforeseen happens.
The special meeting, advertised in last week’s Star to be held on the 10th day of November and for the purpose of voting upon the proposition of raising by tax the sum of $30,000 for the purchase of a tract of real property to be used as a site for a municipal building for this town, will not be held on November 10, according to action taken by members of the Town Board on Wednesday evening, October 27.
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Through the courtesy of J. Edward Gay Jr., our feature “Twenty-Five Years Ago in the Star” was able to continue without a pause this week. That number was missing from the Star files, and Mr. Gay, who owns a bound volume of the Star for the year 1901, loaned it to us.
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The board of health clinic under the supervision of Dr. David Edwards will start giving the toxin-antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria next Tuesday morning, at 9 o’clock, at the East Hampton High School. At the same hour on Wednesday morning it will be given in the schoolhouse at Amagansett, and on Thursday morning at Springs. It is especially desired that children under school age, from six months onward, be brought to this clinic, and all other children up to the age of fifteen years, who have not taken the inoculation, should be brought. Inoculations will be given next Friday at Montauk.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, November 1
The exhibition of items from the Pennypacker Long Island Historical Collection, which opened in Guild Hall on Monday, to continue through Nov. 10, had an addition in the form of a gift, early this week, of a large painting of the Montauk Indian Steve Talkhouse by Charles Dana Hunt. The painting has been given to the library by Dr. Edwin Huntington of Ossining, N.Y., of the Huntington family that lived for many years in the house now owned by Mrs. Thomas Robinson on Main Street. Dr. Huntington and other members of his family are staying at 1770 House this week.
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Joseph Liss, distinguished radio and television writer who makes his summer home in Springs, will be guest speaker at the next meeting of the Guild Hall Players on Monday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m.
Mr. Liss will discuss the writing and production of TV scripts. He is well equipped to cover this since he writes plays for both the Philco Playhouse and Studio One, two of television’s highest ranking programs. His most recent play, “The Spur” (about John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin), was presented on the Philco program in October.
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East Hampton’s most enjoyable Hallowe’en season in many a year was marked this week by East Hampton High School students’ artwork on store windows in the business section, by a costume parade, bonfire and community singing, all winding up with a dance for High School people. All adults seemed to like the gay pictures painted with care, in contrast to the messy soap or wax scribbling of other years, and the young people evidently had a fine time.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, October 28
Mrs. Lorelle Fallon has returned from a Sept. 27 to Oct. 9 trip to India under the auspices of the Indian government. Mrs. Fallon, who works at the East Hampton Travel Agency, was one of a group of 20 Americans and many from other nations participating in “Operation Aurangabad,” including a visit to the city of that name, east of Bombay, and a look at the Buddhist “Wall Paintings of Ajanta.”
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They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, are likely to come back with a tale to tell. Robert Haberman of Centerport, who spent the summer of 1973 in these waters with his big charter sailing sharpie, Commodore Munroe, and who was responsible for the visit to Montauk in July of the 150-foot barkentine Erawan, is back from a voyage aboard the latter with the story, although he has not yet figured it all out.
The Erawan, which was visited by 5,500 East Enders and visitors while she lay at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory at Montauk, is now at the bottom of the Strait of Canso, between Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island.
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Montauk
The Montauk Cooperative Nursery School is looking for used tricycles of any size. If you have one in your garage, please call Mrs. Dorothy Carew, Duryea Avenue.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, November 1
If ever there was a supervisor contest to challenge traditional party perceptions, this would be it.
The three-way race for East Hampton Town supervisor pits the incumbent, Jay H. Schneiderman, who has Republican backing, against a Democrat, David Gruber, and an independent, William E. McGintee. But it is hardly as simple as that.
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Plans for a Connecticut to South Fork ferry are brewing again, and like last time East Hampton Town appears to be the last to know.
The proposal is being nurtured by the Citizens for a South Fork Ferry, a Shelter Island group peeved at the seasonal influx of “bridge traffic,” which they say is diminishing their quality of life. Together with a similar Southold organization and County Legislator Michael Caracciolo, whose district covers the North Fork and Shelter Island, the group has reopened discussions with the Cross Sound Ferry, which has been seeking a South Fork terminal for years.
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A spate of fast and furious advertising has marked East Hampton Town’s 2001 political season, peaking this week in advance of Tuesday’s election.
Beginning last spring, Republican and Democratic hopefuls in the races for town supervisor and town board let loose a barrage of newspaper, radio, television, and direct mail messages aimed as much at personalities as at politics.
