125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, January 18
Osborne's pair of white horses, while standing in front of the stable on Wednesday morning, started off without waiting to be harnessed and ran to the railroad station. As they passed through Main street, Isaac Meyer's horse, which was standing in front of the clothing store, saw them pass and started to join in the sport, but Samuel Jacoby, being swift of foot, overtook the horse at the corner of Newtown lane and stopped it by speaking to it. So the whole thing was really a tame affair.
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Charles Mott has had his snow plows improved so that they will make wider paths through deep snow. In times of peace prepare for war is his motto.
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On Thursday evening next the Ladies Village Improvement society will give a Salmagundi party in Clinton Hall. Tables will be provided for card games and crokinole, and refreshments will be served. Admission will be twenty-five cents and the members of the society are selling the tickets. It will be an opportunity for a pleasant social evening and the proceeds will be used toward the various village improvements being carried on by the society.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, January 15
In order to get at the truth of several rumors floating about town of late, regarding the closing or change of operation of the Independent Wireless Co. plant here, a representative of the Star interviewed Ralph Vanegas, manager, on Tuesday. One of the rumors was that the local radio station was going to be closed. This Mr. Vanegas emphatically denied.
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One of the most interesting real estate deals of this week is the sale of the onetime Van Scoy property on the corner of Newtown lane, opposite the Post Office. It was sold by Mrs. Helen Roarick of Waverly, New York, formerly Miss Helen Osborne; and by Nelson C. Osborne acting as guardian for his two nephews, Edward Osborne and Thaddeus Osborne, both minors, to W.F.E. White. The selling price is said by principals in the transaction to be "considerably over $60,000."
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George Lee, who is spending the winter at the Maidstone Arms, agrees with the ex-Kaiser and various other famous men of affairs that woodchopping is the ideal exercise. Mr. Lee, who has been one of our summer residents off and on for many years, and who could, if he liked, spend the cold months in Florida, California, the Riviera, Egypt or any other place that took his fancy, chooses instead to brave the breezes of the Atlantic coast.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, January 18
Letter From Paris
The Communist-organized demonstration against General Eisenhower's visit here stopped traffic around the Champs-Elysees for a few hours, but failed to go off with the explosion they had planned. Apparently even the French Communists of long standing, who are usually only too happy to stir up a strike or a mob protest at the drop of a hat, have longer memories than their leaders expected.
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Wishing to cooperate in every way possible to make pleasant the stay of service men stationed in this area, Guild Hall has offered the use of its galleries and theatre for entertainment of the men whenever the dates do not conflict with the already scheduled affairs.
The first of such events will take place tomorrow evening when the Air Force will present a review in the John Drew Theatre. The Guild Hall Players are cooperating by contributing various acts to the review.
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Summer Colony
Miss Emma Mills is chairman of the Dinner Committee for the fourth annual dinner of the Poetry Society of America, to be held at Sherry's, New York, on January 24. John Hall Wheelock of New York and East Hampton is one of the speakers and guests of honor. Gold medals and the annual $2,000 poetry awards will be presented, and annual Poetry Society prize poems will be read and awards made.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, January 15
An arraignment, postponed from Monday afternoon, was scheduled to be held in East Hampton Town Justice Court this morning of Milton Miller Jr. of Springs on charges stemming from a dispute that occurred while he was scalloping on Lake Montauk Jan. 2.
Mr. Miller has been charged with assault in the third degree and harassment by Michael Stio of West Lake Drive, Montauk. The incident has drawn the interest of the Town Baymen's Association, which is concerned about protecting the right to scallop in waters where underwater lands are private, rather than public property.
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At their organizational meeting in Town Hall Tuesday night, a full membership of East Hampton Town Trustees reappointed Kenneth Yardley of Sag Harbor as their clerk for the coming year, resolved to create a new post of assistant clerk, and appointed Trustee Stanley Jacobs to that position. Two new Trustees, John R. Steck of Montauk and Scott R. Bennett of East Hampton, assumed their seats on the Board for the first time and participated with interest and enthusiasm.
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Montauk
The Montauk Air Force Station Wives Club held a meeting last Thursday at the NCO Club. Connie Wolverton presided at the business meeting; a rummage sale, to be held the early part of March, was the main topic of discussion. Three new members, Sandy Hockenberry, Ruthann Fritz, and Alberta Ross were welcomed.
The club will hold a "Moonlight Scotch-Doubles Bowling party" on Thursday, Jan. 22, at the Base alleys.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, January 18
The electricity of political celebrity came to East Hampton on Tuesday in the person of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, whom Courtney Ross Holst had invited here to help her Ross School and Institute celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
From 1 p.m. until after 9, with little time between three scheduled events, Dr. King's civil rights protege preached his message to some 1,500 people, young and old, of color and white, richer and poorer.
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Until just a few years ago, Esteban Vicente, one of the last of the first generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist painters, could be seen walking into Bridgehampton from his house on Montauk Highway every morning in season to buy the newspaper.
You could set your watch by him, so regular was he in his habits. After he had read the paper, he was just as methodic in turning to his work. Either in his Bridgehampton studio, a barn he had converted in 1960, or in his studio on West 42nd Street in Manhattan, until his final illness he had reportedly never missed a day of painting in the past 40 years.
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Frustrated drivers who have inched their way east along Montauk Highway through the gauntlets of Bridgehampton, Wainscott, and East Hampton may have reason to believe that they're free and clear once they've reached the eastern edge of Amagansett, heading for the Napeague stretch.
But if several ideas for development on Amagansett properties practically cheek by jowl come to pass, there may be yet another traffic noose to pass through on the East End's major route.
