125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, June 7
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has reversed the order of the County Court, and denied the application for the laying out of a highway from Georgica Pond. The application was opposed by W.H.S. Wood, the owner of the land across which the proposed road was laid out.
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The band concert on the South End green last Tuesday evening was a success. There were fully five hundred people around the green to hear the music. It was the first outdoor concert given by the East Hampton band, and the manner in which the selections were rendered brought forth praise and applause from the listeners. The band was organized only a little over a year ago, and has been under the constant instruction of Prof. Koerner, of Patchogue.
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The sewer district for this village has been laid out by the committee and a petition will be circulated next week among the property owners within the district for signatures. Before the district can be established the petition must be signed by two-thirds of the property owners within its limits.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, June 4
Memorial Day plans of Edwin C. Halsey Post, No. 700, of the American Legion, were not hampered in the least by the unusual rain that did its best to spoil the program for this day. The regular memorial services of this post were held on Monday morning at the Legion rooms, after which the members held the services at the cemeteries where the veterans are buried. Graves were decorated with flags and Edwin C. Halsey Post ribbons, and with poppy wreaths.
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“Soak Hides,” near J.T. Gardiner’s boat house, Three Mile Harbor, is again yielding up a rich harvest to the archaeologist.
Foster H. Saville, staff worker with the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, arrived here again ten days ago, and during the past week has been rewarded with some of the most important finds in all his experience.
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The annual Ladies’ Night and Dance which will be given by the Lions Club on Wednesday at the Maidstone Inn promises to be one of the big things of the year in East Hampton. Judging from the sale of tickets there will be at least one hundred couples present, and it has been found necessary to turn some people down for tickets because accommodations had not been arranged for a larger crowd. Practically every Lion will attend and in addition most of the members have taken an extra ticket for some friend. Members from Southampton and Riverhead are expected to attend in a body, which will materially swell the attendance.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, June 7
Harry Bruno of New York and Montauk, president of the Lotos Club of New York and pioneer aviation and public relations counsel, was awarded the Cross of Lorraine of France at a dinner held at the club, at 5 E. 66th St., last night. The presentation was made by His Excellency Roger Garreau, French Ambassador to the United Nations, who in a brief address said that Mr. Bruno’s contribution to the development of aviation and the profession of public relations during the past forty years included many important aids to French aviators and to France’s airplane industry.
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Photographers from all over Long Island were represented at the annual East Hampton Photographic Exhibition which opened on Friday at Guild Hall. This competition, sponsored this year, as it was last, by the Guild Hall Camera Club, was judged by Ray Prohaska, Tom Funk and W.M. Zogbaum. There will also be a popular vote on the pictures.
A special exhibit, “East Hampton Through a Camera,” prepared by the Guild Hall Camera Club, is hung in the Woodhouse gallery.
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The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society held its June meeting on Monday afternoon at the Hedges Inn, with Mrs. Helen Smith Roy and Miss Marie H. Schultz as hostesses. Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe presided; reports were read by Mrs. Norman Quarty and Mrs. Nelson C. Osborne, secretary and treasurer.
Mrs. H. Allen Wordle reported for the Tree Committee. East Hampton’s trees are in fine condition this spring, she said, due to the close cooperation of Mayor Judson L. Banister, Highway Superintendent Edward M. Baker and the L.V.I.S. The Mayor, she said, is an ex-officio member of the Tree Committee and attends at least one meeting a year; his watchfulness and interest are vital factors in tree work here.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, June 3
“They’re here, they’re here!” it is said Milton Fromm cried one Memorial Day weekend a few seasons back as visitors began arriving in Amagansett in a non-stop parade of cars. So saying, he walked behind the counter of his bakery-restaurant and stayed there for most of the rest of the season.
They came back last weekend, creating a pageant of denim and bright colors as they strolled down Main Street. They looked happy to be there.
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Some 30 Federal agents descended upon Gurney’s Inn (some literally, by helicopter) at 6:05 a.m. Friday, broke down two doors, and arrested 17 male and six female employees as illegal immigrants. The busboys, maids, waiters and waitresses, dishwashers, and others were mostly from South America, and some said they were earning as little as 97 cents an hour, plus tips.
The proprietor of the Inn, Nick Monte, was not charged. It is not illegal to hire aliens.
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Commencement ceremonies were held Sunday at Southampton College, with the playwright Edward Albee of Montauk addressing the 250 degree recipients and their guests. He received an honorary doctorate as did Betty Parsons of gallery fame and Dr. Robert Mayer White of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, June 7
A meeting arranged by Republican East Hampton Town Councilwoman Diana Weir to, as she explained, “work out some of the bumps in the process” for town planning board applicants, turned into a political hot potato on Tuesday when suspicions about motivation and concern over whether the meeting should have been more public were voiced at a town board work session.
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From September to May, Christine Sinon works as a critical-care nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital, a trauma center in Tampa, Fla.
But from June through August, Florida’s off-season, she brings her expertise to the South Fork, working 12-hour shifts, standard for the nation’s 2.7 million registered nurses, in Southampton Hospital’s emergency room.
During a break on Monday morning, she said she preferred to schedule her hours when there is a lot of action, meaning on weekends. Besides, she said, only half kidding, “It’s safer in here” than out on the roads.
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“There just seems to be no relief,” said Kristin Welsch of Hand Lane in Amagansett, from the sinus headaches and cold symptoms she and many others have been experiencing. Though it is “much easier for people to convince themselves they have a cold,” said Ms. Welsch, the fact is, allergy flare-ups are at hand.
