By Christine Bellini For those of us who have lived on The East End for the better part of our lives, we consider ourselves well initiated to the hurly-burly wrath of hurricane, nor’easter and rouge storm. Yet, before I draw comparisons that only the comfort of electricity, heat, a roof over my head and a [...]

Inside the Circus Am I alone in feeling as though someone — with a heart of umber and gold — cued Autumn on a dime? After enduring a summer that beheld all the balmy temperateness of a plasma arc welder, I think it’s safe to say the majority of East Enders handled it all with [...]

by Jim Marquardt “Out here I get the old sense of peace and wholeness…and it seems to be getting into my work. I approach the table every morning with a sense of joy,” from a note to his publisher in 1956. “I grow into this countryside with a lichen grip,” in a letter to friend [...]

We’re going away with the family. Six of us traveling to Venice. Not an easy place to get in and out of. A hotel for all of us is way too expensive, so we get in touch with Home Away, which the NY Times says is one of the best sites on which to find [...]

By Christine Bellini Brace yourselves folks as we enter even more dubious times than we first imagined. A brief whirl around the broadcast dial and you will draw some dire conclusions about the mental aptitude and intellectual curiosity of your fellow countrymen and women as we willingly consume the daily dribble that makes up the [...]

By Peter Hamilton Travis I have a horrific secret that’s common knowledge to anyone who knows me: Getting out of the house to — anywhere — in a timely manner is something I wrassle with daily (You wrestle an opponent — you wrassle a reticulated python). It usually starts with me straining to recall where [...]

By Jim Marquardt According to Mark Twain, “Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.” In fact, last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine ran an article about weather that quoted a specialist who headed the National Hurricane Center during Katrina. He said, “Uncertainty is the fundamental component of weather prediction.” One supercomputer [...]

By Christine Bellini It may have been the Matt Lauer cover story in Hampton’s Magazine’s season opener, uncovering his penchant for cleaning up debris from neighborhood back roads, a garbage bag in his rubber glove clad hand and pre-teen daughter in tow, that tipped the scales for me. Kudos to Lauer for his civic duty [...]

by Jim Marquardt In June 1942, a U-boat landed German saboteurs on the beach in Amagansett. Their mission — blow up U.S. aluminum plants and transportation hubs. Another group of saboteurs came ashore in Florida. Only six months at war, America was reeling from defeats in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. Fortunately, the vaunted German [...]

by Hope Harris What do you think is happening in real estate?” I asked an owner/ manager of an East Hampton agency recently. “Is it going up, down, what?” “It’s going sideways”, he said. Two weeks ago there was a frantic flurry of activity. This week it’s as if the phone lines have been cut. [...]