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such a raise that it was beyond the ability of the farmers to come up with it. There was a meeting at Town Hall about this, a pretty wild meeting. At that meeting, the wife of one of the farmers threw a plucked chicken at the town supervisor. Somebody told me this. I wrote about it. The day after it came out, at an editorial meeting the paper, Elaine Benson said read it and I was wrong. She had been at the meeting.” Everyone was listening very carefully. “She said it had not been a plucked chicken. She’d had a stuffed duck on a wooden stand. She had walked it up to the dais and placed it in front of the town supervisor, and she told him that she wanted him to keep it there forever as a reminder of what this Town was all about. “I wouldn’t have it. I told her no, it was a
plucked chicken, and she threw it. It was a better story as a plucked chicken. And that was the beginning of the Dan Rattiner Plucked Chicken School of Journalism.” We walked the rest of the way to the tee. The way it works in golf is that whoever had the best score on the previous hole gets to go first. “You’re up,” I said to Dennis. * * * Dennis asked if I would write this story. I told him I would if he would put this video on Facebook or You-Tube as “Hoaxing Dan.” As for the documentary, see the preview of King of the Hamptons at the Heart of the Hamptons Gala on June 20 at Hayground School in Bridgehampton. Watch for the full film at film festivals.
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Shinnecocks to have the casino at Belmont Park in that county. You can make a very good case that this would provide the greatest financial impact for the Shinnecocks than anywhere else. But it is just a start. Next, I suppose, we shall hear from Mayor Bloomberg offering to locate the casino in the Javitts Center, or atop the Empire State Building. And maybe we will hear from the Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy that no, the casino should be an integral part of the proposed development of Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach. Gumbs spearheaded this effort on behalf of his tribe. He is a young man, one of the sons of Harriet Gumbs, who is one of the most revered tribal elders in the tribe. There are three current tribal leaders to be sure, and all praise should go to Chairperson Randy King and current Trustees Frederick Bess and Gordell Wright, too. Years ago, Harriet once called me to ask if I could hire this very special son of hers, perhaps as a Dan’s Papers delivery boy. He was about 17 at the time and he worked diligently at that job for two summers between stints at Adelphi on his way to a degree in accounting. There certainly does not seem to be anything but good that will come from the Shinnecocks having a casino in a highly populated area near the city, which has a highway traffic situation already in place. The Shinnecocks, the proud, but poor, orphaned nation on a 750-acre peninsula sticking out into Shinnecock Bay with Southampton on one side and Hampton Bays on the other, will be able to afford all sorts of things, not the least of which will be fine health care and clinics, proper education and various other projects that they have long been denied. And yet, they will also be able to continue to observe their tribal traditions — something that their determination to do has up until now denied them credit, welfare and many U. S. government social services available to all other private citizens.
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