125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, September 27
The King’s Daughters sent a large box of flowers to the Fruit and Flower Mission this week. Most of the flowers were picked by the little children in our Union school, who thoroughly enjoy sending them to the sick little ones in the crowded city.
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East Hampton is represented in the New York State exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition by a show of fine peaches from John W. Hand’s Quaker Oak fruit farm. Mr. Hand has just received word from F.E. Dawley, assistant superintendent of the state exhibit, saying that his exhibit of peaches has been given an award, and that his was the only one entered from this section of the state.
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Several new houses have been erected at the upper end of Newtown lane during the past few months, and that section is getting quite thickly settled. Among those who have built homes in that locality are William H. Conklin, George Smith, Charles Jackson, William Conrad and John Fordham. The latter’s house is on Cooper’s lane, near Newtown lane.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, September 24
Everything, as usual, from a fish factory to a magnificent country estate, or a “boom lot,” with factories, oyster lands, farms, country clubs, etc., is included in the list of properties that are being advertised by County Treasurer Shepherd M. Scudder to be sold on October 29 for unpaid taxes.
It takes more than sixteen ordinary newspaper pages, set in fine type, to describe the several thousands of parcels on which the owners failed to pay their 1925 taxes, and unless they are paid between now and the commencement of the sale there will be numerous fine properties to be picked for the proverbial song.
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The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society has been very pleased, lately, to receive inquiries from Newport concerning the anti-billboard campaign waged so successfully here this season. This follows the interest shown by our sister summer resort, Southampton, in that same campaign. At the last meeting of the Southampton Village Improvement Association, Mrs. Norman Barns, chairman of the Sign Committee, was asked to speak on that work here.
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Captain John Penney was the guest of honor at a birthday party given Tuesday, at the home of his brother, Remington King. It was the veteran whaler’s ninety-second birthday, and his immediate family gathered around at this party to pay their respects to the captain, still hale and hearty in spite of his age. Everything that goes to make a successful birthday party was prepared for him: a full course dinner, birthday cake and cigars.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, September 27
Chief Red Thunder Cloud and his troupe were in South Glens Falls, N.Y., Sept. 20, giving a performance for the school. Robert Horton, formerly of Amagansett, is the principal.
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The Suffolk Board of Supervisors on Monday asked the responsible state and federal agencies to “give instant attention and action” to the development of the county’s three ocean inlets and not permit the project to be delayed and hampered “by those whose interests are entirely foreign” to the improvement of these vital marine gateways in the barrier beach.
While the resolution sponsored by Supervisor Stephen F. Meschutt of Southampton did not name names, it was made plain that both the board and the citizens’ committees fighting for the stabilization of the Moriches and Shinnecock Inlets and the dredging of Fire Island Inlet believe that the man primarily responsible for the holdup in federal-state financial participation is Robert Moses, president of the Long Island State Park Commission.
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James Reynolds, artist, set designer and author, will speak informally at Guild Hall’s Evening at Home, Monday, October 1st, at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Dorothy Quick Mayer will be hostess.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, September 23
The East Hampton Town election campaign got going in earnest last week with the primaries over and, despite the two-to-one ratio of Republicans to Democrats among registered voters, the candidates and the parties seemed more evenly matched than usual. An off-year on the regular Town election calendar, the races are unusual in themselves for the fact that two officials with mixed political backgrounds who were appointed by the Republican majority on the East Hampton Town Board last winter will seek election.
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Thomas Jefferson and Katharine Hepburn will star at Guild Hall during its next two weeks of cultural activities while registration for five fall classes, daytime and evening, begins. In addition, a costume design slide/talk show is planned, as well as a SoHo studio tour, both for the second week in October.
Ms. Hepburn won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in “The Lion in Winter”; the film will be shown at the John Drew Theater of Guild Hall Saturday at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
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The Concerned Citizens of Montauk will sponsor an “all-Suffolk citizens’ environmental conference” on Saturday, Oct. 23, at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory in Montauk. More than 1,000 delegates, representing environmental groups from Huntington to the tips of the North and South Forks, are expected to attend and will be addressed by Congressman Otis G. Pike, Perry B. Duryea Jr., State Minority Assembly Leader, County Legislator Joyce Burland, and Peter Berle, State Commissioner of Environmental Conservation.
Nobel Laureate George Wald, an eminent Harvard biologist, will deliver the principal address, on the ecological problems confronting America during the Bicentennial.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, September 27
Forsan Hussein, a Palestinian Israeli, has awakened every day since Sept. 11 “with a need to scream with apology because those people — terrorists — degraded humanity.”
“I feel ashamed and disgusted that they are associated with Arabs and Islam,” Mr. Hussein told a full congregation at East Hampton’s Jewish Center of the Hamptons Friday evening. Had it not been for some fortuitous early training, he said, he might have been one of those terrorists.
Young, handsome, and articulate, Mr. Hussein is the product of a 12-year-long effort called the Abraham Fund, a nonprofit organization that promotes coexistence between Israel’s Arabs, who make up 20 percent of the country’s population, and its Jews.
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The Amagansett School District has been educating the hamlet’s children since 1813, and in its current building since 1936. On Friday afternoon, just as rain and gray skies gave way to sunshine, the school’s prekindergartners through sixth graders filed into the gym to listen as parents, grandparents, teachers, and district officials rededicated the renovated, expanded school building.
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This weekend brings a popular event that makes visitors to Bridgehampton feel as if they have fallen into a time warp. Wherever they look they see classic sports cars of the past —Bentleys, Mercedeses, Porsches, MGs, Fiats, Austin-Healeys, Mercers. . . .
The Bridge Hampton Historical Society’s Sportscar Rallye and Classic Car Tour gets under way tomorrow from 4 to 8 p.m., when motorists arriving the first day can check their cars in. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in a tent on the grounds of the society’s Corwith House.
