Inside the Circus
by Peter Hamilton Travis

This month, shouldn’t we all take just a moment from adding a fresh polish to our highly polarized sunglasses (Summer’s glint & glimmer out here can be unbearable!) to remember those sad, unfortunates who are Hard of Memorializing: Those who forget to remember. Look, even though Oprah’s humble little [...]

The Sands of Time

By Richard Gambino

Back when Latin was the language of learning, scholars made a distinction between natura naturata, nature at any given moment (a “snapshot” of nature), and natura naturans, nature in motion, as it always is, even when we don’t perceive it to be so.
As I walk our ocean beaches today, I [...]

By Jim Marquardt

Village’s first newspaper was deep into politics.
Sag Harbor should be proud — Frothingham’s Long Island Herald, published in the village from 1791 to 1798, was the first newspaper on Long Island and, during its run, the only newspaper. According to Steven Coleman, writing in the Long Island Historical Journal (LIHJ), the [...]

Prospective buyers look and look and look. Then the criteria changes when they find what they say they want.

Buyer: No, it has to be near the ocean.
Broker: But you said you didn’t need to be near the ocean.
Buyer: This only has three bedrooms.
Broker: You said three bedrooms was all you needed.
Buyer: Well, my sister- in- [...]

By Richard Gambino
Last summer, I stepped out of my house and saw a praying mantis, not hiding camouflaged in leaves as they usually are, but out in the open, sitting in the sun on a limb. He tuned his head (yes, they can do that), looked me right in the eye with his two big [...]

by Jim Marquardt

There’s so much controversy flying around about education and teaching that we found it fascinating to read an old issue of the Long Island Forum which carried an article describing colonial era schools. According to the writer, Nathaniel A. Howell, Southampton instituted the first school on Long Island in 1642, two years after [...]

By Christine Bellini
Serendipity would have it, the very week Brian Boyhan, editor and publisher of this very newspaper, The Sag Harbor Express, asked me to write a column “on the media,” I was interviewed by “the media” in my capacity as neighbor and all-around opinion monger, on what my thoughts were concerning the Village Zoning [...]

by Richard Gambino
Some things came together for me this winter. The catalyst for it was an unlikely occurrence. One day, my wife and I looked out a window of our home and saw, very nearby, a deer. Nothing unusual. We have deer near our home every day, and some sleep nearby every night. The one [...]

By Julie Penny

Ten years ago, in this very column, I wrote:
“Without knowing it, Sag Harbor is a poster child for ‘smart growth.’ Why? Because it’s a pedestrian-friendly community where you don’t have to go gallivanting all over town to get things done. It’s a place where the essentials for daily living, and then some, can [...]

We came to Sag Harbor 15 years ago after a very long haul in Greenwich Village. We’d spent several summers on Shelter Island, hopping over to Sag just to browse the town, hunt antiques or catch a slice of pie at the Paradise when it was a luncheonette. Sag gradually grew on us and, one [...]