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Chowder, Family Fun, and Pirates in Montauk

Heading east? You'll have your choice of activities in Montauk from the Montauk Chamber of Commerce’s Fall Festival to an open house at the firehouse and two days of extra fun at the Montauk Lighthouse.

Oct 5, 2023
The Way It Was for October 5, 2023

From a jaunty new bike path in 1898 to a 100-year-old discussion of the origin of the name “Accabonac,” and more from the Star of yesteryear.

Oct 5, 2023
Item of the Week: Turning Over the Culloden Cannon, 1974

This photo shows Carlton Davidson, left, with his wife, Helen, accepting a receipt from Edwin L. Sherrill Jr. of the East Hampton Town Marine Museum for the donation of a 6,000-pound cannon from the Culloden shipwreck.

Oct 5, 2023
Could Sag Harbor Be the World’s Next ‘Blue Zone’?

What do Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia in Italy, Ikaria in Greece, Nicoya in Costa Rica, and Loma Linda in California have in common? They are considered by some health experts to be “blue zones” — places where people are living longer lives with fewer health troubles than in the rest of the world. Dr. David Luu thinks Sag Harbor Village is going to be on that list someday soon.

Oct 5, 2023
It’s Time Again for ARF’s Stroll to the Sea

An event that many dog owners look forward to all year, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Stroll to the Sea dog walk, will happen on Sunday morning starting at the East Hampton Historical Society’s Mulford Farm at 9. This will be ARF’s 30th Stroll to the Sea, and the two-mile walk will go from the farm to Main Beach and back. 

Oct 5, 2023
They Were Married in Rainboots Surrounded by Friends

Mansell Ambrose married her longtime beau, Henry Beveridge, on Saturday afternoon at 4:30 in the gardens of Villa des Amis in Bridgehampton.

Oct 5, 2023
A Bad Year for Piping Plovers

It was a bad year to be a piping plover in East Hampton. In fact, the worst since at least 2008. While 32 pairs of plovers made East Hampton Town beaches their summer homes, only seven of those pairs were successful in fledging 15 young. Plovers in Southampton Town had a more successful summer.

Oct 5, 2023
Tank Rumbles On From East Hampton V.F.W. Post

A 60-ton, combat-ready tank that occupied a prominent location at the Everit Albert Herter V.F.W. Post 550 at the entrance to East Hampton Village was removed last week after a nearly 30-year residence. 

Sep 28, 2023
A Petition for Goats at Montauk Preserve

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has started a petition in support of a project the group pitched to the East Hampton Town Board that would see goats used to remove invasive vegetation in a portion of the roughly 40-acre Arthur Benson Preserve. As of Wednesday morning, it had 210 signatures.

Sep 28, 2023
The Way It Was for September 28, 2023

Behold, the Edison Projectoscope! And much more from the Star of yore.

Sep 28, 2023
A History Festival at Mulford Farm This Weekend

The grounds of Mulford Farm on James Lane will be host to Revolutionary War re-enactors, costumed interpreters, games, music, historical craft demonstrations, and more on Sunday when the East Hampton Historical Society has a free family history festival celebrating the town’s 375th anniversary.

Sep 28, 2023
Item of the Week: The Orion, Wrecked Off Montauk, 1815

On Sept. 24, 1815, Abraham M. Smith of East Hampton wrote Henry Packer Dering (1762-1822), Sag Harbor’s customs collector, with news of a shipwreck the day before at Montauk, a brig from Russia carrying hemp and iron.

Sep 28, 2023