By Anetta Nowosielska
As far as my childhood memories can take me, the issue of schooling was anything but complicated (this is back in the Middle Ages when Ronald Reagan was on his second presidency.) My neighborhood was home to several impressive looking academic buildings that required a uniform, phys ed gear, and hallway passes. I [...]

Helen A. Harrison

Every two years the Whitney Museum of American Art fills its galleries with what’s billed as a survey of current trends, including work by established and emerging artists. This is a show that’s routinely scorned by the critics, but not this time around. Encouraged by Roberta Smith’s rave review in The New York [...]

by Lauren Chatman
Because it felt like July last week, I almost expected the farm stands to be up and running, stocked with vegetables I’m used to eating when the temperature climbs into the 80s. I searched far and wide for something local to no avail. Okay, I took a drive to Betty and Dale’s on [...]

Now that I have gathered every variety of hellebore on the East End of Long Island into my hot little hands, my focus is turning to some of the other early spring bloomers popping up in the garden and at the garden centers. It appears that my forget-me-nots have disappeared due to over-energetic edging, so [...]

By Christine Bellini
Coming of journalistic age in the late 1970s, I was lucky to have caught the tail end of an era punctuated by the rhythm of manual typewriters being hammered on by gruff throated news editors who held firm to the tenets of brevity, wry cynicism and an unwritten code upholding journalistic honor.
As young [...]

By Anetta Nowosielska

Adam Cohen plans on making the Hamptons his home base this summer. Why should you care? Check out Leonard Cohen’s son’s latest album ‘Like a Man,’ and find out why this is good news for any music lover.

AN: Let’s talk about ‘Like a Man.’ How did this record come about?
AC: Songs on this [...]

No Tears
Mother didn’t like him. We married anyway. She never got over her deep-seated prejudice. Now she’s dead and we don’t miss her.

-D.R. Lewis

Thanks to the efforts of a few egg-loving citizens, it became legal in late July to keep up to 6 chickens per half-acre in our village backyards. I have no desire to add chicken-keeping to my list of chores (walking a miniature poodle three times a day is all that I can handle), but I [...]

Buddy, a caramel colored, loving, silly dachshund in backyard Tuesday.
Enters large Red fox.
I chase.
Buddy’s face reflects…”Whoa… What just happened“

- Audrey Gaul

by Paige Patterson
It’s been spring for ages, and I’m jonesing for new plants!
Well the snowdrops are up, the hellebores are in full bloom, my witch hazel has been going for a couple of months now, I have two prunus mume, Japanese flowering apricots, in full on pink riots of open flowers and there’s a magnolia [...]