Dan’s Papers November 18, 2011 danshamptons.com Page 30
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I ask him about his home in Wainscott. “I use to rent up the road,” he explained, “and Bill Higgins built this house, sort of 80’s modern with this big room for parties, it was like the after-hours party place….After he passed away it became available. I bought it from his estate. Then afterwards it seemed everyone had a story about it,” he said. Smiling, he continued, uttering an unprintable remark about the
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high-spirited activity that had taken place here. Then he continued, “It has a Jacuzzi in the greenhouse—it’s a real timepiece. This leather chair,” he said, indicating the chair he sat in, “and a lot of the furniture came with the house.” There is lots of tasteful and iconic art on the walls, many originals, and no doubt there are a few more large parties in this
home’s future. For now, however, Steven Gaines, with his big black dog always nearby, is taking a break after the election effort. But it’s only a short pause because there are surely great things ahead for this gifted man of words. The community itself is his muse. And he’s here to stay.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLORENCE ANIMISON Florence Animison, who provides the voice of the Hampton Subway as she announces “watch out for the closing doors,” or “Arriving Amagansett,” as appropriate, turns 31 next Thursday and we are having a surprise party for her in the cafeteria at headquarters on Thursday next. Everyone wants to hear her sing “Happy Birthday to Me.”
COMMISSIONER ASPINALL’S MESSAGE As we do every year at Thanksgiving, Hampton Subway will be giving away free turkeys to the poor at the token booths on all the platforms. The program will begin November 18 and last for a week. If you want one and you’re poor, all you have to do is come down to the platform of the station nearest you, tell the token clerk that and she will give you a turkey.
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Mischa Bouvier, baritone. * * * Sue Vinski’s, 2011 winner of Dan’sPapers Best of the Best Waitress, debut with her party band Suzy on the Rocks was such a hit last week, they’re returning to Page 63 in Sag Harbor this Saturday for another show.
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or proceed at normal speed as they approached the Water Mill station. “He’d been telling us about once a month that he’d lost a flag out there in the tunnel,” said Chief Flagman Foreman Bill Spud after the arrest. “Apparently he was just accumulating them. It was a pretty valuable collection he was selling. It was 244 flags. He had an asking price of $850 for the lot of them.”
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On Sunday night at Nick & Toni’s in East Hampton, a table of co-stars of the former Television drama “Brothers & Sisters” dined together, Patty Wettig, Ken Olin and Ron Rivkin. While Alec Baldwin dined in the next room with Hilaria Thomas and made a point to stop by the table of actors for a quick
* * * The Choral Society of the Hamptons annual concert on December 4 at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church will feature soloists Rada Hastings, soprano, Suzanne Schwing, mezzo-soprano, Nils Neubert, tenor and
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