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All Over Now Dear Editor, The campaign is over and congratulation to David Lys on his victory and the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee. The civility that I insist on is my campaign hallmark and we (David Lys and I) brought to this campaign should be a model for all.

I believe that there is no room in our community for hate, intolerance, and divisiveness.

Our form of government has developed into a two-party system with the executive and legislative elected traditionally belonging to one party or the other. In most cases, the government is balanced between Majority and Minority political party members. In short, the Majority rules and the Minority brings balance and alternative views to influence the final decision. The Minority party also acts as an early warning system and counterbalance should there be improprieties or irregularities.

History has shown that when a one-party majority or a supermajority has total control government becomes less responsive to citizens, it has a tendency to stifle free thinking, is more inclined to malfeasance and, at times, corruption and diminished transparency.

East Hampton now has elected a supermajority 5-0 Democratic Committee controlled town board. All appointed town government officials are Democratic Committee members, sympathizers or ideologically invested beliefs. Unlike county, city, state, and federal governments where there are Minority party elected leaders to fulfill the critical Minority party check and balance, East Hampton does not have that. The East Hampton Democratic Committee controls all facets of East Hampton Town government.

Our local newspapers and media outlets, now more than ever, must shoulder the great trust given them in the Constitution. They now must be the conduit for unbiased journalism and discovery.

Without a minority party to sit in behind closed doors, attend the closed executive session and be an objective voice, we all — every citizen regardless of political affiliation — are at a disadvantage. The press alone has the resources to be at every meeting and report on every consideration and decision while residents go about earning a living to support and feed their families.

In closing, the opinion by British historian and moralist Lord Acton, expressed in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887 has yet to be disproven: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

At the level of state government I operate in, no one understands more than I the intensity of financial and political pressure that can be cast upon elected official and political appointees. In a community such as ours with great wealth that is a mecca for the rich and famous, there will be with most certainly tremendous financial and political

pressures. One has only to look as far as the Deepwater Wind Proposal with its political, financial, environmental implications on federal, state, and local levels.

Best wishes to David and the entire East Hampton Town, and God’s blessing for a successful and fruitful 2019. ​ Manny Vilar

Cross Endorsements Dear Rick, Running for the State Supreme Court is a fixed game.

In 2018, Newsday’s editorial page complained of an “ideologically bankrupt” process which “fooled the voters” with a game of “three card monte” in electing judges. In 2018, the Conservative Party worked a deal with the Democratic Party to put three Conservative Party members in the four open State Supreme Court positions on the Democratic Party ballot on Long Island. These same candidates would also appear on the Conservative and Independence Party ballots for Supreme Court, but those ballot lines would be down the ballot and unnoticed by most Democratic Party voters. There would be no disclosure on the Democratic ballot line that three of their four endorsed candidates for State Supreme Court held Conservative Party registration. In return, the Conservatives and Independence Party endorsed a Democratic Party candidate for the lucrative Suffolk Surrogate Court opening.

I expected Newsday’s editorial board to repeat the “bullet vote” recommendation they had made in the 2017 Supreme Court race. In that 2017 judicial election, Newsday advocated for the voter to vote for just two of the judicial candidates, those solely on the Republican line, to combat the evils of the Democratic Party cross endorsement deals.

Rather than using the monies the campaign had raised to trumpet a Newsday editorial laying out the corrupt cross endorsement deal for Supreme Court (which was, after all, part and parcel of the “highly political” endorsement deal for the Surrogate election), I was left to create a social media effort to penetrate the million voters going to the polls on Long Island unaware they were being deceived.

On Election Day, I was brought back to our local reality. An email from an East End resident indicated that the large sign placed on a supporter’s property on Noyac Road allegedly trespassed on her property, as it was “two feet into her property.” She demanded it be removed immediately. She indicated she had voted for the Democratic candidate for Supreme Court.

I responded by email I would have it moved, and it was moved. I wondered to myself, however, if she had any idea that she had voted for three Conservative Party members for Supreme Court.

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News & Opinion Grumman Property Goes For $40 Million Historic land deal expected to bring jobs to the region

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

The largest piece of undeveloped land on Long Island available for purchase is about to be sold. On Wednesday, November 7, before a packed house, Riverhead Town designated the potential buyer, Calverton Aviation and Technology as “qualified and eligible” to buy the former Grumman site, which has been renamed Enterprise Park Calverton, or EPCAL, for $40 million.

The company has only put up $500,000 so far, and it can withdraw from the deal up until 90 days from now and get a complete refund or it can ask for another 90-day period to perform its due diligence.

The controversial proposal passed by the slimmest of margins. Councilman James Wooten, Councilwoman Jodi Giglio, and Councilman Tim Hubbard voted yes. Supervisor Laura JensSmith and Councilwoman Catherine Kent voted against it. The Riverhead Community Development Agency signed off on the deal as well.

“I came along late in the process.

They have a vision, but it makes me uneasy,” Jens-Smith said on Friday.

She was elected to office last year after much of the legwork on the project had already been done. “The vision was to develop and lease the property to high tech aviation companies,” she added. But the buyer was not required to reveal the names of any potential tenants and will not have to reserve any of the space.

The latest saga began in 2015 when Luminati Aerospace purchased a lot on the Grumman runway from Skydive Long Island amid much fanfare. Its president, Daniel Preston, announced plans to develop solar powered aircraft for a major internet company.

There had been many other deals

discussed over the years, and some of the proposed uses were every bit as ambitious — and fantastical — as Luminati’s.

One developer, the Florida-based Palm Beach Polo, proposed building a polo center on the undeveloped land.

Another developer submitted a proposal for two golf courses and about 100 residences on 500 acres.

In 2008, Riverhead Resorts broached the idea of building a $2 billion resort complex that would feature a 35-story indoor ski mountain.

“Developers envision a gleaming playland rising over bucolic Pine Barrens from a Cold War airfield where the Navy once tested fighter jets for Top Gun pilots,” wrote Frank Eltman for the Associated Press.

Nevertheless, the Luminati deal harkened back to the notion that the former Grumman site would once again be a cutting-edge aerospace center.

“Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined reintroducing the aviation and defense industry back to EPCAL to this extent,” then Town Supervisor Sean Walter told Newsday.

“The Luminati deal will recreate Long Island’s glorious past with the defense and aviation industries and once again positively transform the regional Long Island economy.”

But chinks in the armor began to appear. Preston’s bio had holes in it.

So too did his explanations about how he was going to fund the $40 million purchase.

At a press conference on June 27, 2017, Riverhead Town supervisor candidate Jens-Smith and Kent, a town board candidate at the time, expressed doubt about the deal.

In December 2017, a stop-work

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order concerning violations at the 338,000-square-foot Plant Six building was issued.

Though the Republican majority of the Riverhead Town Board — particularly Walter — still publicly supported Luminati, behind the scenes, the mutiny had begun in earnest.

The final straw appeared to come when it was revealed Preston’s former company, Atair Aerospace Inc., had sued Preston in 2009. Court papers reveal Preston was fired from Atair after allegedly producing forged documents in an attempt to get a pay raise.

But Preston proved to be resilient and determined and after lining up a temporary pledge for operational cash, he cut a deal with Don Ghermezian. Triple Five Real Estate One, LLC, a division of the Ghermezian family’s Triple Five World Wide are the developers of the Mall of America in Minnesota and the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada.

Calverton Aviation and Technology is a limited liability company formed

by Luminati Aerospace and an affiliate of Triple Five Group for the purpose of buying the site. Triple Five Real Estate

One holds a 75 percent stake in CAT and has full reign over the project.

The Triple Five representatives Stuart Bienenstock and Justin Ghermezian attended the meeting but did not speak.

While Triple Five did not reveal any specifics, Jens-Smith said it is an urban renewal parcel not suitable for housing of any kind. Triple Five can divide it commercially any number of ways, the supervisor said. “They can partially develop it and sell it,” JensSmith noted. “They could flip it. My job, the town board’s job, is to hold Triple Five accountable. This is their creative vision.”

Each board member furnished a written opinion for the record. Hubbard said he asked for and reviewed confidential material that leads him to believe the buyer is bonafide.

Giglio was criticized for meeting privately with CAT after a definitive agreement had been reached between the town board and the buyer, but she was cleared of any wrongdoing by the town’s ethics committee. She said she has become convinced the deal will bring jobs and revenue to the town.

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The Hills in East Quogue, pictured in a rendering made by the developer, may have to be redrawn again.

Discovery Seeks Approval For East Quogue Project A golf course and 119 luxury homes need Zoning Board Ok

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No matter how many years it takes, no matter how many assorted municipal boards mull the plan over, and no matter how many variations of the plans are ultimately drawn up, one thing seems a certainty: There is going to be 100-plus luxury homes built in East Quogue on nearly 600 acres.

It would be the largest development in the modern history of the hamlet.

There have been nearly three years of spills and chills, charges and counter charges, legal threats, and altercations. The next milestone will occur on Thursday, November 15, at the Southampton Zoning Board of Appeals regular meeting. At that time the board will vote, with no further comment, on the latest reiteration.

In an earlier version, Discovery Land Company sought to create a Planned Development District that would incorporate the golf course and luxury homes into it. The applicant needed a super majority of the town board, but did not get it.

Discovery then turned to the planning board to seek approval for a Planned Residential District for the newly named The Lewis Road Planned Residential Development, which treats the golf course as an amenity for the property owners — it would not be open to the public.

A new wrinkle developed in June.

The planning board decided Chief Building Inspector Michael Benincasa should make the determination after Anthony Trezza of Discovery opined

the planning board probably didn’t have jurisdiction. Benincasa, though, had to recuse himself: He had already voiced his opinion at a public hearing.

That put the application in the hands of the ZBA.

Carolyn Zenk, a Southampton attorney with a long history in planning and zoning matters and a former town board member, represents private interests. Her client is worried about the groundwater and the negative effects development — especially a golf course — will bring.

She called the current plan “grossly misleading.” Further, she said, “Golf courses don’t belong in the Pine Barrens.” Discovery, and its attorney Wayne Braun, argued that recreational uses like tennis and golf routinely take place in private subdivisions. The developer also pointed out that several golf courses have been built in residential zones in Southampton. Numerous homeowners also have one or more golf holes on their property to practice on. Zenk said it is clear cut: “All unlisted uses are prohibited,” she said, and noted golf courses are not a permitted use anywhere in the town code.

Adam Grossman, the chair of the ZBA, noted that Discovery is already suing the town over the PDD. Both sides in the PRD application have vowed to take legal action should they not approve of the pending ZBA decision.

“Let’s just say there is a strong possibility there will be litigation,” Grossman said. Discovery is already suing the town over the PDD denial as well.

But there is more — yet another Discovery proposal lurks, this one to go to the planning board without a golf course option, although in addition to

legal action, the company will reportedly pursue other options: to buy a nearby golf course.

Ironically, the best chance to minimize damage to the aquifer and postpose nitrogen loading to the nearby bays has probably come and gone.

During the PDD hearing process, Discovery was going to purchase 33 additional acres of land at the headwaters of Weesuck Creek and preserve it.

The owner, Carolyn Parlato, said she plans to develop it, adding more septic flow into the ground. Discovery also offered an aid/incentive package to the East Quogue School District that included a significant upgrade in the septic system.

East Quogue school district officials voiced their support for The Hills to no avail.

Mark Hissey, a representative for Discovery, warned the company wasn’t required to do any of the upgrades it volunteered.

“We’re going to end up with a subdivision that is worse,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said at the time.

Richard Amper, the executive director of the Long Island Pine Barrens, is opposed to any sort of development and would like to see the town purchase the property. So would the newest Southampton Town Board member, Tommy John Schiavoni, whose “no” vote helped sink the PDD application.

But Hissey said his company will never sell the land to the town, and a perusal of its business model indicated the company is a very successful development company, and East Quogue fits nicely into its portfolio.

According to its offering page, Discovery Land Company, founded in 1994 by Michael Meldman, specializes in building luxury residential private club communities and resorts throughout North America. There are more than 20 world-class projects in the portfolio. “Our communities are distinct with their own architectural styles, world-class amenities, and high levels of service. There are Discovery developments in Mexico, the Bahamas, Hawaii, and many other luxury markets. Many of its clients buy one or more homes and travel seasonally.

Discovery is rumored to be preparing for any contingency. The company is reportedly in contract to buy a golf course nearby and already owns the Dune Deck in Westhampton. If Discovery can find a marina to buy, it can offer potential homeowners in East Quogue a boating, dining, and golf experience without building a golf course on its Pressey Road property.

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Schneiderman Waiting For Absentee Ballots SH supervisor says county comptroller victory still possible

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

Jay Schneiderman. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Nearly a week after an Election Day that saw little in the way of local surprises, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman was not ready to throw in the towel in his bid to unseat incumbent Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy.

With 484,757 votes cast, Schneiderman, a Democrat who also ran on the Working Families and Women’s Equality lines, trailed the Republican Kennedy by only 8623 votes. Although Kennedy, who also had the backing of the Independence, Conservative, and Reform parties declared victory the night of the vote, Schneiderman said he would not formally concede until the nearly 30,000 absentee ballots are counted.

“If everyone votes along party lines, I’ll probably still be down at the end of the day,” Schneiderman said, “but I still think those votes deserve to be counted.”

Schneiderman said there were about 3000 more ballots from registered Democrats than there were ballots from registered Republicans and Conservatives. The wild card, he said, may be the thousands of ballots from unaffiliated voters.

With the Suffolk County Board of Elections office closed for the Veterans Day holiday on Monday, the results may not be known until Wednesday, November 14.

Other races ended as expected.

Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin successfully held off the challenge of Democratic challenger Perry Gershon to win his third term in Washington by a comfortable margin of 52.5 percent to 46.5 percent. Kate Browning, running on the Women’s Equality line, accounted for the remaining one percent of the vote.

In East Hampton, Democratic incumbent David Lys, who had to first survive a primary challenge from David Gruber, rolled over his Republican opponent Manny Vilar by a 69-to-31 margin. Lys, who was appointed to complete the term of current East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, will have to run yet once again next year.

Short of a miracle finish in his county race, Schneiderman will also be up for reelection at the town level next year. Assuming he does end up on the short end of the ledger in the comptroller’s race, this would be the first election he has lost after two terms as East

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Hampton Town Supervisor and another 12 years as a Suffolk County legislator.

“It was an uphill battle from the start,” Schneiderman said. “Kennedy was the incumbent and there were a lot of minor parties at work.”

Although Schneiderman won six of 10 towns and outpolled Kennedy among Democratic and Republican voters, it was Kennedy’s support from the Conservative, Independence, and Reform parties that apparently carried the day.

“It’s still a win-win,” said Schneiderman. “I finished within striking distance and proved I could be competitive in a countywide race. He rejected the notion that he was buoyed by a “blue wave” of Democratic voting in Suffolk County, pointing to Zeldin’s easy win and the narrow victories of Governor Andrew Cuomo and other Democrats on the statewide ballot.

Schneiderman, who had been a longtime member of the Independence Party before jumping to the Democratic side last year, lost the endorsement of party boss Frank McKay. That proved crucial, as Kennedy picked up nearly 6500 votes on the Independence line. Had those votes

“It was an uphill battle from the start,” Schneiderman said. “Kennedy was the incumbent and there were a lot of minor parties at work.”

East Hampton Town has announced it is continuing the Solarize East Hampton campaign beyond the original signup deadline of October 31.

The program is designed to make solar power systems more affordable for home and business owners.

In the program, GreenLogic Energy, a local company that was chosen as the campaign’s designated installer, provides solar panel systems for a discount to those who sign up. Any resident who chooses to sign up for this program will be guided by GreenLogic Energy through the process, from free consultations, to site assessments, to cost estimates.

This campaign is part of the

Energize East Hampton program, which is a renewable energy initiative that was launched in May. The program works to help lower energy bills and energy consumption with the communitywide goal of attaining 100-percent renewable energy for the town.

In addition to community contributions, Energize East Hampton has been made possible with the support of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s NY-Sun initiative.

For more information and signup applications, visit www.EnergizeEH. org/solar or head over to the East Hampton Town Natural Resources Department at 300 Pantigo Place, Suite 107, East Hampton.

gone to Schneiderman, he would be waiting for the counting of the absentee ballots with about a 4300vote lead instead of a deficit of twice that size.

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Veterans enter the Bridgehampton School gymnasium at the beginning of Friday’s program. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

Thank You For Your Service Bridgehampton School hosts annual Veterans Day program

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The Bridgehampton School rolled out the red carpet on Friday, November 9, as it invited four veterans of the Vietnam War and an airman who is on active duty with the Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing at Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach to its annual Veterans Day celebration.

To the accompaniment of the school band, which played several lively marches, the veterans were each given a white rose and escorted into the packed gymnasium, where the school choir sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” and a bagpiper and drummer performed “America The Beautiful” and “Shenandoah.”

“The servicemen being honored today come from all walks of life, but they share several fundamental qualities,” said principal Michael Miller, citing their desire to serve their country and dedication to duty as he introduced the guests.

Airman First Class Bailey Sullivan of the 106th Rescue Wing was joined by four representatives of the Everit Albert Herter VFW Post 550 in East Hampton: Ken Dodge, a former Navy corpsman; Jerry Hodgens, who served in the Marines; and two Army veterans, James Lubetkin and Gerard Denkus.

After a short presentation on the history of Veterans Day, which replaced Armistice Day marking the end of World War I on November 11, 1918 — 100

years ago — Airman Sullivan showed a brief video describing the 106th Rescue Wing’s mission, which ranges from rescuing soldiers and pilots behind enemy lines to providing evacuation aid during hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Elementary school students presented the men with thank-you cards and asked them questions about their service.

Asked if they were scared while in combat, Hodgens replied, “Yes, very scared, but not all of the time.”

“If I said I wasn’t scared, I’d be lying,” said Denkus, who saw action during the fierce fighting of the Tet offensive during Vietnam. Lubetkin added that being “surrounded by people you trust” helps ease the tension.

Sullivan said he joined the service because of his desire to serve his country. The 106th Rescue Wing “is all about saving lives,” he said, describing his pride in helping the victims of Hurricane Florence, which devastated parts of the Carolinas earlier this year.

The others agreed that service to their country motivated their decision to enlist, although Denkus said he was drafted during Vietnam. “I got a letter from President Johnson that said, ‘Welcome. Report to your recruiting center,’” he recalled.

Dodge, who enjoyed a long career as a physician’s assistant in East Hampton, said he had always had an interest in emergency medicine, which helped direct him to the Navy, where he was deployed with the Marines.

“I’m a Marine; that’s different than a soldier,” Hodgens said. “I joined the Marine Corps because the Marine Corps is the best.”

“I joined because I felt it was the right thing to do,” said Lubetkin, who added he was influenced by President John F. Kennedy, who famously urged Americans to “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” in his inaugural address.

The men agreed that their military service changed their lives. “The most important way is it made me grow up,” said Dodge. Denkus said the biggest difference was in the level of discipline required. “It turned boys into men — quickly,” he said.

Lubetkin said his service “gave me an appreciation for this country that is much deeper than if I had not served,” and Hodgens said his service had given him a greater appreciation for the freedom Americans enjoy. “That is something most of you have no real idea of because you have never been without it, but there are a lot of people in the world who don’t have the freedom we have,” said Hodgens.

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Honoring Heroes Photos by Justin Meinken The John Marshall Elementary School gymnasium was filled to capacity on Friday, November 9, with students and teachers who were more than happy to meet some of our nation’s heroes. Veterans from all branches of services were invited to join the students in celebrating their service, from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. Whether they were present or overseas, active or retired, living or deceased, no veteran was forgotten.

In one voice, the students sang their praises and shook the hands of each of the service men and women.

The students thanked them all and they concluded the morning ceremony with joined hands to remember the men and women who are fighting for the nation right now.

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Green Efforts Reverse Usage Trend Town’s sustainable projects, code changes conserve electricity

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Although PSEG-Long Island has projected that Southampton's electricity demand will continue to grow, the latest statistic show that it has leveled off over the last five years. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town

Southampton Town is reversing a long trend of increasing the amount of electricity it consumes.

From 2015 to 2017, total kilowatt hours decreased by just under three percent, according to data from PSEG — Long Island.

“This is due to you,” Lynn Arthur, a member of the town's Sustainability Committee, told the town board on Thursday, November 8. “You guys have the policies that you’ve approved, the programs that you’ve funded — this is the result, this is a tangible result. We should be celebrating. This is awesome.”

Several town code changes and outreach projects have led to the decline in electricity demand as Southampton works to become 100 percent renewable by 2025.

Some of the ventures that have limited demand include the town’s LED lighting project, free solarization evaluations, and the Home Energy Ratings System mandates. New code guidelines require that new construc-

tion over 4500 square feet must propose a practicable plan for alternative methods of energy conservation.

Through its programs and code changes, and as a result of being part of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority benchmark program, the town can see the reported trend, which shows kilowatt hours decreased from 724,875,753 to 709,688,061 from 2015 to 2017.

Assistant Town Planning Director Janice Scherer said more homeowners are considering putting in geothermal heating systems in place of traditional oil burners.

“We’re fortunate that we live in a community where our commitment to the concept of sustainability and principals of sustainability is pretty widespread,” Deputy Supervisor Frank Zappone said. While attending a program on solarization sponsored by the Nature Conservancy and others at Farmingdale State College just over a week ago, Zappone said those representing other municipalities were interested in hearing

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about the town’s projects, and asked to see a copy of its resolution to become 100 percent renewable, and the Home Energy Rating System mandates.

Even though the town saw 1000 to 1500 new houses built over the past three years, the load continues to trend down. That’s because with new construction has come demolitions, other homeowners have worked to become more energy efficient, and undeveloped lots have been preserved through the town’s Community Preservation Fund. Zappone said the key goal moving forward is to decrease peak demand.

“That’s where the rubber meets the road,” he said.

Peak demand periods are important because the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG — Long Island, which manages the grid for it, are required to be able to provide enough power to meet those peak demands, which typically occur on hot, summer afternoons when air conditioners and pool pumps are being used heavily. To

be able to meet the demands during those periods, PSEG runs a number of small, “peaker” generators that typically rely on fossil fuels to operate. LIPA has also sought to beef up its transmission lines to meet a projected future demand that may no longer be there, some critics say.

Southampton has achieved Climate Smart Community bronze level, and is on the path to become the third municipality in the state to achieve silver status. Director of Municipal Works Christine Fetten said the town has even more opportunities to do good work going forward, like in the redevelopment of the Hampton Bays Jackson Avenue campus, greening up compost sites, and through replacing the HVAC system at Town Hall.

“We have an opportunity to lead by example,” Fetton said. “Not only are these projects energy efficient, but they’re cost-saving. We have a very exciting future in front of us. We can make a positive and huge dent in this area.”

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petitions that would have placed David Gruber on the ballot. At stake was one seat on the East Hampton Town Board, a seat that had been temporarily filled when David Lys was appointed pending the November election.

As it turned out, the GOP challenge was upheld, Gruber was not allowed to run on the Independence line, and Lys easily bested Manny Vilar, the Republican candidate in last week’s election, even though Lys was technically a Republican at the time.

He had already indicated he was switching parties.

Larsen and Vilar joined the suit to remove Gruber from the Independence Party ballot because Larsen’s wife Lisa is an Independence Party member and former candidate who disagreed with the choice of Gruber to begin with. Vilar hoped to get the Independence Party nod should Gruber be removed, though in the end the party did not endorse any candidate.

Parisi is charging he was never paid for his time representing the local GOP in the appeal process. He said not only is the GOP liable, but also individuals from the party who were involved, like Larsen and Vilar, the result of a State Supreme Court ruling Rove v Thornburgh.

Meanwhile Parisi, has other

Chairman said party hopes to settle shortly

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

If it were a movie it would be called, “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.”

The East Hampton Town Republicans haven’t won an election in years, were roundly criticized a few years back for taking huge donations from helicopter companies, suffered the ignominy of having their only viable local candidate bail out and join the opposing party, and face a bleak future because the town Democrats hold a 2-1 edge in affiliated voters.

Oh yes, and they are getting sued over a ballot petition challenge they initiated.

“I wouldn’t say we are being sued,” said Amos Goodman, the chairman of the East Hampton Town GOP, whose tenure as party head is tenuous at best at this juncture.

“They are being sued,” countered Guy Parisi, the attorney involved in the matter. The Independent has obtained a copy of the suit. On October 23 in State Supreme Court in Westchester County, Parisi sued Goodman, Gerard Larsen, and Manny Vilar for $9454.70 plus expenses.

Before the primary, the local GOP challenged the Independence Party, charging it had faulty signatures on

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The local GOP challenged the Independence Party, charging it had faulty signatures on petitions. problems to worry about — he’s been hit with a federal indictment for allegedly trying to siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars from the estate of a deceased Mount Vernon man.

“We had a sleazy lawyer who padded his hours and now wants his money.

We are dealing with it,” Goodman said.

“Sleazy? I have emails from him.

He said in the newspaper he was perfectly happy with my work,” said Parisi.

The series of missteps and poor results at the polls have Goodman rethinking his position as party head.

“I’m not a masochist. I don’t want to be a piñata,” he said.

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A Hero’s Welcome Photos by Justin Meinken and Stephen J. Kotz Veterans Day parades were held in East Hampton and Sag Harbor villages on Sunday, November 11, the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, which ended World War I in 1918.

In East Hampton, veterans marched from Newtown Lane to the memorial at Hook Mill on North Main Street. After a short ceremony there, the veterans marched up North Main Street to the new memorial at the East Hamp-

ton Emergency Services Building. The memorial was dedicated to Pvt. William Patrick Flynn, an East Hampton Village resident who was killed in Vietnam.

In Sag Harbor, veterans marched from the Civil War Monument at Main and Madison Streets to the American Legion on Bay Street, where there was a short ceremony at which U.S. Army Sergeant Max Yardley gave the keynote address.

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For The Love Of The Hike Blazing trails with James Daniels

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Growing up in East Moriches, James Daniels developed a love for hiking and the outdoors. This fascination would eventually lead Daniels to write, The Must See Hiking Destinations of Long Island. The book is currently the bestseller at Hallock State Park Preserve and it is also selling in Orient Beach State Park, Fire Island Lighthouse, BookHampton, The Big Duck, St. James General Store, Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, The Ketcham Inn, Burton’s Bookstore, and Connetquot State Park.

But here’s the kicker: Daniels is only 14.

Yup, he’s currently in ninth grade at Westhampton Beach High School

and he became a published author as a freshman.

“Ever since I was young,” said Daniels, “we would take our dog, Candee, to find new places to hike.

We started out with the well-known parks, but after a while we started to find lesser known parks that were just as good, if not better than the popular ones.”

Using the Google Earth app, Daniels would look for signs of trails peeking through the trees in the Pine Barrens. “Sometimes they turned out to be great and sometimes they were overgrown and ended right away,” he said.

Through trial and error, he found dozens of trails from Schultz Road, Old

High school student and published author, James Daniels. Independent/Courtesy James Daniels

Riverhead Road, County Road 51, and other roads throughout the area that lead to “hidden wonders” deep inside the Pine Barrens.

“For example,” he said, “Bald Hill in Riverhead is only 295 feet tall but offers a view all the way to Peconic Bay. Some other great hikes are to the numerous coastal plains in Manorville and Flanders, the globally rare dwarf pines of Westhampton, and many more. After a while, I started searching

for more hikes but I could not find any more information than what we already knew. So, I decided to start working on a rough draft of The Must See Hiking Destinations of Long Island when I was 12 to let people know about the hidden gems throughout the area,” he said.

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Editorial Moving Forward

Another bitter election has come and gone.

Despite a concerted effort to unseat Congressman Lee Zeldin by Democratic newcomer Perry Gershon, the Republican incumbent easily won his third term, even if his margin of victory was narrower than predicted.

As is the norm in these times, the campaign was a nasty one, with both sides freely slinging barbs that are much too numerous — and often exaggerated — for us to bother to try to list them.

Zeldin now returns to the hyper-partisan atmosphere of Washington, but for the first time as a member of the minority party. Although he has co-sponsored some bills with Democrats, but never on truly contentious issues, and broken with the Republican leadership on some occasions — most notably last year’s GOP tax overhaul that will have disastrous consequences for many of his constituents — Zeldin has too often been content to make excuses for President Donald Trump, whose cruel rhetoric and pathological need to lie have further divided the country.

With the presidency and a solid majority in the Senate, Republicans still hold the upper hand. But that doesn’t mean they should continue to try to govern as though the Democratic Party — which again outpolled the GOP nationally — doesn’t exist.

Americans of both political persuasions want Congress to work for them.

Despite what the National Rifle Association would have us believe, 90 percent of Americans want some kind of sensible gun control. Despite frustration with Obamacare, Americans say they want a healthcare system that takes care of them, not their insurance companies, when they get sick. And most Americans want reasonable environmental protections in place that don’t hamstring business, but don’t favor industrial polluters, either.

A polite and soft-spoken man, Zeldin has often said he is willing and able to reach across the political aisle to compromise. Never would there be a more appropriate time to do so.

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Did anything surprise you during last week’s election?

Ruth Greenbaum What surprised me was very personal.

I have six children and none of them seemed interested in elections until this year. They were actually excited about it. I’d hear them discussing it a lot with each other and with their friends. They feel involved now.

Adam Friedman Zeldin’s win surprised me. He ran such a misleading campaign. He told people to have absentee ballots postmarked the day after the election.

My ballot said, “may require additional postage,” suggesting some was already on it. The post office said it wasn’t. Zeldin knew precisely what postage was required. Designed to mislead.

Leah Matalon I thought Beto might have won. And we lost a couple of Senate seats. But they may still be in contention. And Stacy Abrams in Georgia was a disappointment. Especially when she lost to such a monster. He withheld voting rights from over 50,000 people.

Jennifer Mulligan I would have hoped Gillum in Florida would have won and I thought Stacy Abrams might have won. It surprised me she did not. And I was hoping Zeldin might lose. But he did not.

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These works of art will be on display at the Peconic Crossing Gallery. Independent/Courtesy East End Arts

North Fork News Compiled by Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Peconic Crossing Gallery The grand opening of East End Arts’ Peconic Crossing Gallery at 11 West Main Street in Riverhead will begin at 11 AM on Monday, November 19.

The gallery’s introductory exhibit will feature artworks by longtime painter Gina Gilmour. Many are expected to attend the opening, but take note that the gallery will be open by appointment only. For additional information on the grand opening, call 631-727-0900 or visit www.eastendarts.org.

Riverhead Blood Drive The Peconic Bay Medical Center has rescheduled its blood drive to Tuesday, November 27. The blood drive will be held in conference rooms A, B, and C on the hospital’s second floor. The hospital will also host its annual Caregivers Retreat on Tuesday, November 20, from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. Call 631-5486395 to register for both events and call

631-548-6804 for more information.

Mattituck-Laurel Library The Mattituck-Laurel Library is hosting several new events this week. On Wednesday, November 14, there will be a class in video editing and creating YouTube videos starting at 5 PM. All seventh through twelfth graders will get to create their own movie free of charge.

This week’s free movie will be Christopher Robin (Rated PG) and it will begin at 1:30 PM on Friday, November 16.

On Tuesday, November 20, the Friends of the Library will meet at 9:30 AM. A Health Insurance Counseling seminar will be held on Tuesday, November 20, from 1:30 to 3 PM. Although the seminar is free, you can make an appointment by calling the circulation desk. For a full event list,

go to www.mattlibrary.org or call the library directly at 631-298-4134.

Wellness Center Ribbon Cutting The Riverhead Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Healing Points Acupuncture and Wellness Center at 11 AM on Friday, November 16.

The center is located at 750 Roanoke Avenue, Suite D, in Riverhead.

The wellness center will be headed

by Dr. Michelle Lona, a doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine with over 18 years of experience. For additional information, visit www. riverheadchamber.com.

Riverhead Holiday Light Show The Riverhead Town Board and BOLD Broadcasting have announced that the first annual Riverhead Holiday Light Show is scheduled to open Friday, November 16, at 5 PM with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, November 15, at 4:30 PM.

The light show will feature dozens of displays, some of which are over three stories tall and 100 feet long. All attendees should expect to take about 20 to 25 minutes to drive through the show in its entirety. Carload tickets are on sale for $23 online at www.RiverheadLightShow.com and tickets can also be purchased at the entrance. Contact BOLD Broadcasting’s East Hampton office at 631-201-5050 for more information.

RHS Student Earns Scholarship

East End Arts awarded its annual Frances Ligon Memorial Scholarship to Riverhead High School freshman student, Orangielee Wilkinson. Wilkinson is a strong student with an affinity for music, specifically the cello. By 2013, the promising student did more than play, she created music.

Beyond music, Wilkinson is very active both academically and on the tennis court. She is a member of Peer Leadership, Brookhaven National Lab, the Community Awareness Program against drugs, and the Step program at Suffolk Community College. Her dream is that all of her efforts will land her a desk at Rice University in Texas.

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A Greenport woman arrived home on Wednesday, November 7, only to find a strange man standing in her living room, Southold Town Police reported.

The startled woman called police but the man was in no hurry. When police arrived, he was standing outside.

Anthony Chance, 38, of East Marion was standing in front of the house and allegedly admitted that he had gone inside the house without permission.

The victim noticed her checkbook and $200 were missing, she told police. A subsequent search turned up the items in Chance's possession, police said. That was good enough for a felony count of burglary in the second degree.

In other news, John Tuthill of Greenport was arrested on Monday, November 5, for driving while intoxicated. Southold Town Police said he was spotted driving across double lines at about 8:15 AM on Route 25 in Jamesport. He did not fare well when police initiated routine sobriety tests.

Mynor Depazjavier of Cutchogue was arrested for DWI in the wee hours of Saturday morning, November 3, on Route 48 in Peconic, police said.

Southold Fire A fire on Jasmine Lane in Southold injured two people, one seriously.

A woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Medical Center after suffering burns from a fire that sparked in her Southold home on October 31.

The fire started shortly after 11 AM and firefighters from the Southold, Greenport, and Cutchogue fire departments all responded to the scene.

One cat perished but two others made it out, though they have yet to be recovered.

Teens Still Missing Riverhead Town Police are asking the public’s help as investigators continue to search for two teenaged girls missing from Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch since October 27.

Riverhead Town Police are asking the public’s help as investigators continue to search for two teenaged girls missing from Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch since October 27. Independent/RTPD

Police said Desiray Meislohn, 14, and Erika Swanson, 16, left the ranch’s facility on Sound Avenue in Riverhead on their own and no foul play is suspected. Teens living at the facility have left on their own accord in the past.

Police are urging anyone with information to call 631-727-4500. Calls will be kept confidential.

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Arts & Entertainment Blue It! Mural Comes To Guild Hall Artist Aubrey Roemer brings awareness of our waterways

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Textile and mural artist, Aubrey Roemer, the 2018 Guild Hall Education Corridor Artist, presents her mural project Blue It! from Friday, November 16, through February 25. Roemer came out to the East End in 2014 for a winter escape and fell in love with Montauk.

She painted “Leviathan,” portraits of 200 people which were shown in a set of installations throughout the summer and fall of 2014.

Roemer lives in Brooklyn and is studying for her master's degree at Pratt Institute. Roemer’s exhibits bring light to social and environmental issues. Her project at Guild Hall, a 30foot mural, examines the health issues of the waterways surrounding the East End.

Did you always want to become an artist?

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Blue It!

You have global projects that focus on key issues. What are some initiatives you’re involved in?

Continued From Page B-1. lightning and I was compelled to do it. I knew for sure by the time I was in kindergarten. I’d wake up anticipating my turn at the easel and paints during recess, with the expectancy of Christmas Eve.

How do you choose the media you work with?

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That’s an evolving situation. A lot of my work is project based. From project to project, I try to use materials that make sense. I’m attracted to upcycling and recycling.

I started off as a painter. I’ve progressed, into adulthood, becoming more involved with photography and photographic processes. More interception with painting and mural art. A lot of my work is done on a large, mural like scale generally. I try to subvert it from just using the traditional material to give it a second life or another purpose. Fabric in all its iterations is a wonderful vehicle for and metaphor for the human condition. Use it in my work, generally upcycled linens. Rather than being trash, or even if it’s not trash, like a protest banner.

It’s good for people to be aware of all communities. Right now, we have enough issues within our own country, so a lot of my work has been bringing awareness to local issues. Although I’ve done a lot of working on issues outside of this country, initially a lot of it was hoping to gain awareness, personally.

Art isn’t the only form of awareness. There’s a balance between institutional art and social practice, which is a line I dance on. The decision you make as a consumer not only affects your direct environment but has impact all over the planet. Your clothes, your food, your planet. It’s just good to be aware of intricate global nature.

Learning broadly about any social, political, or economic issue makes you a better person and produces empathy.

How does the human condition inspire you? Is it inherently a positive or negative force?

I think it’s wonderful to celebrate humanity as a whole. The good part of

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humanity is that a community comes together. Christmas, birthdays election days, they come together to make beautiful things. That’s the promise.

There is no end of terrible things about the human condition but I try to stay optimistic. I’m not getting out alive.

What do you want to bring awareness to with your art?

Classic pollution and littering in general. I think a lot of people don’t realize that ocean pollution comes from land.

Once it’s in the ocean, it’s almost impossible to retract it because it keeps getting broken down and gets ingested by these animals that we then consume ourselves. So, in essence, we’re poisoning ourselves. It’s very troublesome.

I also like to make beautiful things.

How did you come up with the mural project Blue It!?

I’m a huge cyclist. I cycle to and from school all the time. There is so much pollution, it’s crazy. Baby toys, coffee cups, alcohol bottles, syringes. I thought to myself, what if I started printing all of these things that I find?

And then [curator] Casey Delane approached me about doing a project

Are there any other foundations you’ve worked with on the East End? For this project I worked with Surfrider. I volunteered with Camp SoulGrow, then Hayground and East End Cares, and Paddlers For Humanity.

What issues do you feel are most pressing for Americans?

What issue isn’t? I hope for us to come together and remember what this country was founded on. We were founded on freedom of individual rights, to do and love and choose as we wish. We really should look at that history and the full history of this country.

Guild Hall is located 158 Main Street in East Hampton. See more from Roemer at www.aubreyroemer.net or visit www.guildhall.org.

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Great Gatsby At Bay Street The Jazz Age revisited in Sag Harbor

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Way before the post-grad anti-social angst of Benjamin Braddock, prior to the rebellious teenage nihilism of Holden Caulfield, there was Nick Carraway — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original outsider, who arrives to spend the summer in the fictional Long Island town of West Egg after returning from the Great War.

It is through Nick’s eyes — or Fitzgerald’s — that the audience gets to experience the callow and careless mega-wealthy socialite wave of the precrash 1920s, and those left in its wake, in Bay Street’s production of The Great Gatsby, part of the “Literature Live!” series that every November brings a classic novel to the stage. Past productions have included To Kill A Mockingbird, The Crucible, Diary of Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men, Death of a Salesman, and other high school required reading, compressed to a 90-minute, no intermission production which seeks to engage schools with daytime performances (over 30,000 students have been to the productions over the past decade), along with more mature patrons in the evening.

As a refresher for those a bit past

high school age, Fitzgerald’s story, adapted for the stage by Simon Levy and directed by Joe Minutillo, follows Carraway’s association with Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who live in the posh East Egg across the bay. Tom is a college acquaintance and Daisy is a distant cousin of Nick's. Jordan Baker (well played by Alexandra Kopko), a professional but immoral female golfer, is Daisy’s confidante and a love interest for Nick (whose questionable sexuality is left out in this shortened version), but it is Nick’s West Egg opulent neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who is at the epicenter of the story.

Consumed by his obsession with Daisy — with whom he had a brief but intense encounter before going off to war — Gatsby has created an illusory world of endless orgastic parties only with the hopes that Daisy will come to one of them. Nick is eventually engineered into bringing Gatsby and Daisy back together again. Theirs is a love based on memory and passion. Tom has his woman, Myrtle, who is married to George Wilson, a poor and lackluster garage owner, and that affair is based

on Tom’s status, money, and power.

And that is the crux of The Great Gatsby, the levels of wealth and what it can buy. Can it buy love? Happiness?

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It’s Gatsby’s “extraordinary gift for hope” that attracts Nick, whose father told him not to be critical of others in the famed first lines of the book. And it is Nick who finally stands up for scruples and honesty at the end, although it affects nothing but his own battered morale.

The production at Bay Street is very good. Stephanie Vertichio’s choreography captures little snippets of Jazz Age Charleston-ing couples. Sara Carolynn Kennedy plays Daisy with more of the character’s cynicism up front and center, rather than the justabout-to-crack “sad and lovely” Daisy most often associated with the schizophrenic Zelda Fitzgerald, allegedly the

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basis for Mrs. Buchanan. There is more of a lightness in Daisy and Tom’s relationship; Tom (wonderfully portrayed

by Dan Fenaughty) swoops her up in his arms, carries her around the room, a choice that makes Gatsby’s fantasy that Daisy has loved only him for all these years more obviously a fantasy.

Charlie Westfal as Gatsby does an admirable job, friendly, affable, and honest with Nick — a fellow veteran — but cagey and mysterious about his work and money, and clearly obsessed with Daisy. He eventually wins Nick over, even though he represents everything that Nick was brought up to scorn. Amanda Kristin Nichols plays Myrtle as such a forlorn and doomed character — so eager to join the upper set, to be a Jazz Age baby, but with a noteworthy Lawn Guyland accent that will make the audience smile. Chauncy Thomas, no stranger to “Literature Live!”, plays George Wilson with just the right modicum of desperation. But it is John Kroft as Carraway who is the hub of this Gatsby, a man who starts out as a bystander, mulling over his father’s advice to not judge others who have not had his “advantages” (which in Nick’s case amounts to wealth of character over money) but ends up cursing out the “rich, careless people” who treat the rest of humanity as chess pieces.

There were parts missing of course; there always are when a work must be snipped for school audiences.

The billboard eyes of Eckleburg, the oculist, representative of more illusion, loom over Mike Billings’s set throughout the show, but the symbolism is only briefly touched upon. However, all in all, Minutillo’s production of The Great Gatsby manages to capture the essence of Fitzgerald’s tale of outer trappings and inner longings, as we are all borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby runs through November 25. For tickets and information, visit www.baystreet.org.

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is wider-spread. Each Simple Vodka bottle provides 20 meals to those in need in the United States, equating to one meal per cocktial. Since its inception in 2017, Simple has donated over 400,000 meals to local and national hunger relief efforts.

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— Opening: Wednesday, November 14, 4 to 6 PM The Lyceum Gallery, Riverhead

— The fall Eastern Campus Student Art Exhibit highlights exceptional work created by Suffolk County Community College students in the applied arts programs on the college’s Eastern Campus in Riverhead.

— Wednesday, November 14, at 8 PM Nick & Toni's East Hampton — A Fall Ladies Night benefiting the Children’s Museum of the East End will be held in East Hampton, presented by The Shed. Enjoy wines, hors d’oeuvres, prizes, and a silent auction. Tickets start at $40 in advance and $45 at the door. Contact Lara Sweeney at lara@ cmee.org or call 631-537-8250.

— Thursday, November 15, at 8 PM Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett — Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will host a live performance on Thursday, November 15, of The Rime, a one-hour, one-man show based on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

— Friday, November 16, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com — The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents the 1970s band Foghat. The band's hits include "Slow Ride," "Drivin' Wheel," and "I Just Want to Make Love to You."

End East Food Drive To Fight Hunger The Independent teams up with Simple Vodka

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Now through November 28, The Independent is teaming up with Simple Vodka to host an East End Food Drive by collecting non-perishable items.

With the help of three drop-off locations in East Hampton — The Palm, Warren Tricomi, and The Independent office — all items will be delivered to food pantries across the East End.

According to www.feedingamerica. org, there were more than 41 million food insecure people in the United States in 2016, or 12.9 percent, down from 48 million in 2014. Of those numbers, based on the 2016 census, there were 2.3 million New Yorkers with food insecurities, nearly 83,000 of them in Suffolk County.

The East End is no exception and food

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East End Food drivE! This holiday season, The Independent and Simple Vodka have teamed up to host an East End food drive.

Help us feed tHose in need on the east end this holiday season

We are collecting non-perishable food items now through November 28. These items will be delivered to local food pantries across the East End. Drop Off Locations: The Palm, East Hampton Warren Tricomi, East Hampton The Independent Newspaper, East Hampton If your business would like to participate, please email jessica@indyeastend.com.

Simple Vodka’s mission is to fight hunger in America. With every bottle, 20 meals are provided to those in need through direct support of local and national hunger relief organizations. www.simplevodka.co. Questions? Call The Independent at (631) 324-2500.

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Andy Warhol Retrospective At The Whitney ‘From A To B And Back Again’ jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

Andy Warhol's portrait of Debbie Harry.

I was too young to have experienced Andy Warhol’s New York, but the idea of it has always fascinated me.

It was a time before banks took over the neighborhood restaurants, and nightclubs weren’t just for those willing to drop $10,000 on a night out.

I’m still proud to live in Manhattan, and, like Warhol, I prefer to live uptown and vacation downtown, but that’s mostly because downtown apartments are like four times the price.

When I heard The Whitney was curating an Andy Warhol retrospective, “Andy Warhol—From A To B And Back Again,” I knew I had to see it. There have been countless Warhol exhibits, but this is the first Warhol retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989.

Few artists are as instantly recognizable as Warhol, who died in 1987. Warhol is the most inventive, influential, and important American artist of his time. For nearly two decades, the pop artist spent

time at his summer home in Montauk, the Eothen estate. It was a place where Warhol’s famous friends could go to relax. It was also the site of inspiration for the artist’s sunset series.

The exhibit is organized by Senior Curator Donna De Salvo, along with Christie Mitchell, senior curatorial assistant, and Mark Loiacono, curatorial research associate.

“I’ve always felt lucky that I met Warhol,” said De Salvo during the exhibit’s press opening on Tuesday, November 6. “Nothing beats working directly with the artist.” She also stated that Warhol “inspired a lifetime interest in American art” for her.

Alice Pratt Brown Director Adam Winberg stated during a press preview that the exhibit is “one of the most complex undertakings in our history.”

The show includes more than 300 works. He opined that Warhol’s work is more relevant today than ever before

stating right now is “the selfie generation where everyone is the star of their own photograph or movie.”

Warhol promoted a collection of people known as Warhol superstars, and coined the widely-used expression “15 minutes of fame.” The retrospective introduces Warhol to the 21st Century.

As an artist, Warhol experimented with non-traditional art-making techniques. He understood the growing power of images in contemporary life and helped to expand the role of the artist in society.

Curating the exhibit was no easy feat, carefully selecting works that would best represent the artist. As De Salvo described, “I guess Andy was really right when he said ‘success was a job in New York.’”

The Whitney has also released a Warhol video series. It’s a series of short videos that take a fresh look at the artist, to create a new kind of por-

trait and understand his current relevance.

“Warhol really investigated the fundamental nature of what an image is,” said De Salvo during one of the films.

Why Warhol now? That is the central question explored in the three-part series. The films include interviews on the subject with notable artists, cultural producers, and influencers.

“Andy’s work was so generous because it let us just appreciate everything around us as vital information, something worth contemplating,” said artist Jeff Koons, one of the artists interviewed. Koons joins Deborah Kass, Andy Cohen, and more in the films.

“Warhol was a myth when he was alive, and he’s even more of a myth now,” said De Salvo.

The series can be viewed on The Whitney’s YouTube channel. The exhibit at The Whitney runs through March 31.

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East End Arts Celebrates Gospel The 32nd Concert Series benefits scholarship fund

By Nicole Teitler

East End Arts presents its 32nd Annual Harvest Gospel Concert Series this weekend, with the proceeds benefiting its scholarship fund. The fund provides local artistic children with growth opportunities.

The concerts will be held on Friday, November 16, and Saturday, November 17, at the Mattituck Presbyterian Church and the Friendship Baptist Church in Flanders. Both performances begin at 8 PM. There is a suggested

Sweet Charities

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Fall Ladies Night A Fall Ladies Night benefiting the Children’s Museum of the East End will be held on Wednesday, November 14, from 6 to 8 PM at Nick & Toni’s in East Hampton, presented by The Shed. Enjoy wines, hors d’oeuvres, prizes, and a silent auction. Tickets start at $40 in advance and $45 at the door. Contact Lara Sweeney at lara@cmee.org or call 631-537-8250.

Steak And Cigar Dinner The East End Disability Associates presents a steak and cigar dinner on Thursday, November 15, at 7 PM at

Hotel Indigo’s Bistro 72 in Riverhead.

The event includes dinner and a cigar.

The cost is $150 per person. Visit www. weblink.donorperfect.com/steakandcigardinner.

Girls Night Out Gurney’s Montauk presents its annual Girls Night Out benefit on Friday, November 16, at 7 PM. The event benefits The Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Southampton Hospital. Enjoy wine and cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, raffles, spa pampering, dancing, psychic readings, and more. Tickets start at $45.

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$10 donation.

The concert series is open to all.

Shawn Hirst, the new Executive Director for East End Arts, said, “We are very proud to be celebrating our 32nd anniversary of the Harvest Gospel Concert series. I am looking forward to being a part of this wonderful tradition. This longstanding concert series is a testament to our community’s commitment to the arts. It is an honor to have Reverend Maryanne McElroy leading the choir since its inception in 1986.”

EEA is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 1972, dedicated to serving the art community of Eastern Long Island. Based in Riverhead, it has become a catalyst for the cultural and economic revival of the ever-growing community. Annually, the organiza-

tion executes 22 annual gallery exhibits across three locations, more than 150 educational programs, private music instruction, as well as 15 events. It also provides professional development resources and aids in the promotion of local artists of all types through community initiatives.

The Arts School gains accreditation through its membership to the National Guild of Community Arts Education and is a founding School Candidate for the Royal Conservatory Music Development program.

East End Arts is located at 133 East Main Street in Riverhead. The School of the Arts is located down the street at 141 East Main Street in Riverhead. Call 631-727-0900 for more information or visit www.eastendarts.org.

Pavé The Way Trunk Show

Ugly Sweater Party

A special holiday trunk show featuring Pavé The Way jewelry by Joan Hornig will be held on Thursday, November 29, from 1 to 4 PM at Parrish Memorial Hall in Southampton. One hundred percent of profits from each purchase directly benefit your choice of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, The Ellen Hermanson Breast Center, or The Regional Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center. To RSVP email kellie.pettit@ stonybrookmedicine.edu.

The Southampton History Museum presents “Hearthside Cheer: An Ugly Sweater Party!” on Saturday, December 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at Rogers Mansion in Southampton. There will be food, drinks, music, and surprises.

Make sure you wear your ugliest, most original holiday sweater to celebrate the pleasures of the holiday season at the Gilded Age Rogers Mansion. The cost is $65 in advance and $85 day of, or $35 in advance and $45 day of for those ages 21 to 35. Visit www.southamptonhistory.org.

Maureen’s Haven Maureen’s Haven homeless outreach will host its winter benefit on Saturday, December 1, from 6 to 9 PM at Seasons of Southampton. The event is being held to raise awareness of East End homelessness. The event will include wine, small bites, dancing, and auction items. Tickets are $50 per person. Visit www.winterbenefit.brownpapertickets.com.

Topping Rose Dinner The fourth annual Holiday Dinner at Topping Rose House to benefit the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center will be held on Saturday, December 8, at 6:30 PM. Meet Chef Jean-Georges and experience a threecourse dinner with cocktails and wine.

Tickets start at $200. Visit www.bhccrc.org for more info and tickets.

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November 14, 2018

Sand In My Shoes

By Denis Hamill

Locked And Loaded For Gun Control denishamill@gmail.com

This time it was 12 shot dead in a college bar in Thousand Oaks, California.

Freshly re-elected Congressman Lee Zeldin with a proud 100-percent rating from the National Rifle Association can send .9mm caliber thoughts and prayers to match the bullets fired into those lost souls of the Borderline bar.

Two weeks before, it was 11 slaughtered in a Pittsburgh synagogue with an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon of war to whose families Zeldin could send .223/5.56mm caliber thoughts and prayers from the East End to take with them with the gun smoke to eternity.

A few days before that it was two black people shot at a Kentucky supermarket by a white supremacist. A few days after the Shabbos shootings came an armed “incel” — a guy who selfidentified as an involuntary celibate, or in plain English a guy who couldn’t get laid — sublimating his misogynistic sexual dysfunction into shooting six women in a yoga studio in Tallahassee, leaving two women who tried to fight back with fists, feet, and a broom murdered in their blood-soaked yoga outfits.

Send them your thoughts and prayers, Congressman Zeldin, as you send thank you notes to the NRA for the campaign contributions for which you exchanged your soul.

All those shootings and killings came in the lead-up to the midterm elections when Donald J. Trump, our Bigot in Chief, who fearmongered about a “caravan” of “invaders” consisting of women and children from Latin America — the tired and the poor

and the terrified — who trudged north for the mirage of the American dream obscured by the gun smoke of 307 mass shootings in Trump’s America in 311 days. But as Election Day neared Trump tried to tell the electorate that they should fear 3000 refugees fleeing gang violence, dire poverty, and political mayhem. He told the country those refugees were carrying their infants and children to kill us with smallpox, Ebola, leprosy, MS-13 hit teams, and jihadist suicide bombers.

Trump’s message was amplified 24/7 by Fox News, right wing radio, and the Alt Right sicko net.

After the 11 Jews were slaughtered on Shabbos, Trump blamed the synagogue for not having armed rabbis to protest the flock and flew to an Illinois pep rally telling his adoring cultist rabble that the news conference about 11 murders in the rain had given him a bad hair day. He later tweeted that the wallto-wall TV news coverage of the synagogue slaughter had interrupted the news cycle about the “caravan” which stymied the Republican momentum.

Shalom.

The subsequent fear mongering and historic lying by the president of the United States did not work.

The Democrats rode a blue wave across the nation winning over 30 seats and control of the House of Representatives, 333 state legislative seats, and seven governorships.

Lee Zeldin was reelected on the East End which means he now can continue his local work for which he has received a 9-percent rating by environmentalists as the waters of the Hamp-

tons continue to be polluted. With the House soon to be controlled by Democrats, Zeldin will be about as effective in bringing home the bacon as a belch in a hurricane.

When I awakened on Thursday morning, November 8, there was recounting going on in Georgia and Florida and news of 12 shot dead in a Californian college bar.

It happened on Wednesday night, what the kids call Hump Day, that point in the middle of the week when the call of the wild riots in the percolating blood of youth, summoning them to watering holes across the nation. I have a kid in a college town upstate who frequents places like the Borderline, where young people pack in with fake IDs to meet someone to share beers, laughter, and if they are lucky a little bit of romance.

It gave me the absolute horrors that out in Thousand Oaks, which I knew from working in California as a reporter, someone had just walked in and started killed people.

With a gun.

I texted my kid just to beckon a reply. I wanted a reminder he was okay, especially when I started seeing the interviews with the parents whose kids left the Borderline in body bags. One father was so distraught that he gazed at the heavens telling his son that he loved him. A mother told the cameras she did not want thoughts and prayers.

“I want gun control,” she shouted, a comment her child would never see or hear.

Doctors in the emergency room also voiced their outrage at the rampant gun violence in America. And the disgusting NRA spokesperson with more nerve than a decayed tooth tweeted, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane.”

That clown has a future fateful date in the line of fire with St. Karma.

I hope it’s him and not his kid in a college bar.

I covered the killings of babies in Sandy Hook in 2012 for 10 straight days leading up to Christmas. I knew that if those tiny coffins, the size of toy chests, did not change the minds of cheap politicians, nothing would.

The good news in the Democratic blue wave was that for every Lee Zeldin with a 100-percent NRA rating there are now Democratic representatives locked and loaded for gun control; many women, and mothers like Georgia’s Lucy McBath, whose son was murdered by a gun nut for playing his car radio too loud.

In his inaugural speech Donald Trump, who ran with $25 million of NRA blood money, said he would put an end to “this American carnage.” He

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So far this year alone there have been 307 mass shootings in Donald Trump’s America.

And the holidays haven’t even started yet. Talk about a war on Christmas.

Many mass shootings thoughts and prayers to come…

I texted my kid just to beckon a reply. I wanted a reminder he was okay, especially when I started seeing the interviews with the parents whose kids left the Borderline in body bags.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Letter To A Teenage Daughter It will get better, be strong kissandtellhb@gmail.com

One of our treasures is blossoming young women, yet there is an alarming increase in both suicides and suicidal thoughts in girls. There are so many forces shaping these divine bits of female clay including the pressure from social media, bullying, and everything brought up by the #MeToo movement.

How can we help form them so when they come through the fire they will not crack? There’s so much I would like to say to them, so here goes: It will get better. I promise. While you may be experiencing the worst thing in your life, and I do not mean to diminish that in any way, life is long and you will be able to put it in perspective.

When you survive teenage angst, that is laying the foundation to make you stronger to face whatever comes next.

Life is full of good times and bad times.

Realizing change is inevitable gives you better balance to surf the emotional waves.

Your looks will change. You will lose that 10 pounds and you will gain it back. You will have a good hair day, then a bad hair day. You will put on

an amazing outfit. Then you will be a fashion don’t. For as much as you may beat yourself up, your older self will look back and say Oh my gosh, if only I had realized then how pretty I was. Enjoy your neck.

Being a sexual being is amazing.

There is so much shame girls face. No wonder you want to keep everything private. Here is the truth. Sex is a natural and yummy part of romantic love, and it is your gift to give, so make sure that person is worthy of it. Be educated and safe. You are in charge of your body, not anyone else. Alcohol is not your friend in this department. Even if you meet Prince Charming, give him your number and go home. If he is not interested in coffee with you the next morning, then his crown is clearly cardboard.

Find your happy place. Find small things in your control which bring you pleasure and make them a daily practice.

Don’t take your freedom for granted. You are too young to remember a time when women did not have the

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Words matter. Do not date the high school jock who speaks disparagingly about girls. Do not vote for a president who says it’s okay to grab women by the p**sy. Do not listen to songs with misogynistic lyrics. This is not just boy talk. This is not okay, period. There are plenty of boys and men who respect women. Choose them.

Bet on health instead of beauty.

Women are brutally judged on their looks, there is no denying it. But feeling good is your best path to looking good. Don’t be thin, be strong. Instead of spending a ton of money on makeup and beauty products, invest in nutritious food and exercise that creates gorgeous hair, skin, and toning from the inside out. Instead of hating your body, treat it well and reap the rewards.

Be a good friend — boys will come and go but a good girlfriend can last a lifetime.

Turn off your phone. Addiction to your phone is one of the most potent and dangerous addictions you will face.

It is not reality. Social media is a highly manipulated effort for kids to try to prove that their life is better than yours.

They are not. They just have a better Snapchat filter.

Find a hero — a singer, a writer, a creative person whose stories, lyrics, or actions speak to you. Every generation has its voice. Add yours to it.

Being free from pain is different from being dead. You can’t take back being dead. Being a pretty corpse is no consolation prize.

High school is hell. I can tell you that many of the most successful people I know were tortured in high school.

And some of the most popular kids in high school had their moment in the sun as teenagers and it was all downhill from there.

Get really, really, angry. Scream.

Cry. Punch the pillow. Pour out all of your feelings. Don’t let it turn inward.

Get an imaginary love. Send yourself a flower, write a card to yourself, even text yourself something sweet.

(Okay, I don’t know how to do that.)

Find one adult to trust — it doesn’t have to be a parent or a teacher. Your truths might be too painful to admit to them. I get that. I truly believe most of us adult women would be nothing but honored to have a teenage girl’s trust and honest questions and opportunity to help. Remember . . . we were you not too long ago. We are made from the same clay.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Foliage Freaks If you’ve seen one dead leaf, you’ve seen them all rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Regular readers know I anxiously suffer through this time of the year, for it is the time when I am confronted with the chore of clearing leaves from my yard and thus putting my life in danger.

The thing that really galls me is these smelly, rotting, pest infested piles are somehow viewed in a mostly favorable light by society.

“From bright yellows to vibrant reds, the leaves transform, showing their rich and vibrant hues . . .” This quote comes from the Foliage Network. Yes, believe it or not, there is a Foliage Network.

Let me digress here. What kind of depraved human being, what sort of lonely perverted malcontent, what manner of catatonic loser watches this network?

I can offer rare insight, because in the prime of my manhood I took on the foliage beast, wrestled with it, and though scarred and wounded, I made it back to tell the tale.

My girlfriend at the time, armed with the Fall Foliage Prediction Map (yes, really), planned a weeklong vacation for us.

First of all, a word about vacation: I enjoy going to very expensive hotels, getting room service, and watching pay TV. I live in New York. I saw the Empire State building — once. I saw the Statue of Liberty — from the ferry. I saw the Eiffel Tower on TV — I didn’t feel the need to ogle it for a week.

Even though my family is from Sag Harbor, I’ve only been in the Whaling

Museum once. The back-story is I met a gorgeous babe in the bar a night earlier and she had her heart set on going to the museum. Though I insisted Baron’s Cove Inn would be a far better place to visit, she opted for the museum. Go figure.

Put another way, I fervently believe if you’ve seen one dead leaf you’ve seen them all.

Acadia National Park in Maine is the Graceland of foliage freaks. That’s where we were headed — Acadia.

On our journey to Maine, we stopped at a dozen places marked on the foliage map. People — and there were dozens — followed the same route. They had cameras and binoculars and weird hats and they stared incessantly into the sky. I felt like a bird watcher. Every once in a while I’d say something like, “I declare, I believe I’ve sighted a Yellow Bellied Prune Finch!

Oh in yonder Northern sky, a threeclawed Warbling Free Bird!”

Let’s face it, I was bored, plus I didn’t fit in with the others so, like a petulant child not allowed in the activity room, I’d try to disrupt others. “Oh look a gaggle of dead leaves!” I’d exclaim. No one would answer. “Oh, it’s a brace of them!” I’d persist. Nothing.

Finally, I’d go sit in the car and listen to music (talk about being a savage, we didn’t even have Sirius then.)

The funny thing was when we got home from the vacation from hell our yard was filled — and I mean filled — with leaves. People need to understand this is where mold and mildew fester, ticks spend the winter, opossum bed down, and rats plot ratty things.

“You’ll have to get rid of them,” my girlfriend informed me.

“I’m not done looking at them,” I answered with a straight face. “There’s a whole cackle of 'em out there.”

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I do have to admit, though, that deep down, there is one place I’ve always yearned to go, some place I feel would heal my shattered soul. I would drive down the middle of Beale and out Elvis Presley Drive and and I would ask, “Excuse me, did Elvis ever rake those leaves over there? Did Elvis ever take too many pills and pass out in that pile?”

I do believe I would be received in Graceland.

Rick Murphy is a six-time winner of the New York Press Association Best Column award as well as the winner of first place awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Suburban Newspaper Association of America and a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.

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Blowing in the Wind

by Danielle Leef at Southampton Artist Association's Fall Art Show.

Gallery Events

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Student Art Exhibit

Fall Art Show

Opening: Wednesday, November 14, 4 to 6 PM The Lyceum Gallery, Riverhead

Closing: Friday, November 16, 4 to 6 PM Levitas Center for the Arts Southampton

The fall Eastern Campus Student Art Exhibit highlighting exceptional work created by Suffolk County Community College students in the applied arts programs on the college’s Eastern Campus in Riverhead will be up through December 15. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, November 14, from 4 to 6 PM.

On display in The Lyceum Gallery will be more than 60 student works in a variety of media and sizes created in photography, graphic design, computer art, and interior design courses. The exhibit provides prospective students with a unique opportunity to see the high proficiency attained by students in Suffolk’s Eastern Campus art department.

The Southampton Artists Association Fall Art Show features photography, paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The show will run through November 18 at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center. A closing reception will be held on Friday, November 16, from 4 to 6 PM.

Peconic Bay Impressionists Old Orchard Farm Store, Orient Peconic Bay Impressionists and Vintage Long Island Paintings host an

art show at Old Orchard Farm Store in Orient. The show features are by Caroline Bell, Julia Wickham, Rachel Beebe, Elliott Alva Brooks, Franklin Glover Brooks, William Steeple Davis, George Hallock, Joseph Beckwith Hartranft, Clara Moore Howard, Whitney Hubbard, Helen Kroeger, Otto Kurth, and Alvert Latham. The show will run through December 1.

Indigenous Histories Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton The Madelle Hegeler Semerjian Gallery presents a solo exhibition of old and new works featuring Shinnecock artist and photographer Jeremy Dennis. The “Indigenous Histories: Ubiquitous Inquiries” show will run through November 30 at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. The exhibition will feature a selection from Dennis’s work “On This Site,” a collection of site-specific indigenous histories represented by landscape photography and “Stories,” oral stories and legends represented using portrait digital photography.

Intrigue William Ris Gallery, Jamesport The William Ris Gallery in Jamesport presents “Intrigue” featuring the artwork of five printmakers — Dan Welden, Chris Ann Ambery, Annie Wildey, Justin Greenwald, and Lorena Salcedo Watson — as well as sculpture by Jonathan Pearlman, through November 18.

The innovative and highly evolved printmaking artwork featured in the show skirts the perimeters of the abstract and actual, of fantasy and reality.

Promised Land Remembered Amagansett Library “Promised Land Remembered,” organized by The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, has landed at the Amagansett Library and be on display through November 30. The show consists of early tempera on paper paintings by Mabel D’Amico dating circa 1939 through the 1940s, accompanied by a brief historical narrative about Promised Land.

Promised Land is illustrated with selected period photographs including Mabel’s own found in the D’Amico Archive.

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Southampton Arts Center presents Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, a special screening for Native American Heritage Month.

Hamptons Farms will host live music

by Brian Dyer every Friday from 5 to 8 PM.

Stephen Talkhouse All singing, all dancing? Readings, stagings, and slams? We can’t print it if we don’t know about it. Send your entertainment events to nicole@indyeastend.com

by Thursday at noon.

Dance The Nutcracker Saturday, November 17, at 2 PM & 7 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents The Nutcracker, presented by the American Ballet Studio.

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Looking For Oum Kulthum Friday, November 16, at 6 PM wwwparrishart.org Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents a film and talk by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari.

Broadway Danny Rose Friday, November 16, at 6:30 PM www.easthamptonlibrary.org East Hampton Library presents Food Schmooze and a Film, with Broadway Danny Rose.

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Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will host a live performance on Thursday, November 15, at 8 PM, of The Rime, a one-hour, one-man show based on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. On Saturday, November 17, there will be a performance by Klyph Black & Rumor Has It at 8 PM followed by Nicolls Road at 10 PM. Wednesday, November 21, will be the Nancy Atlas Project at 8 PM and Hello Brooklyn at 10 PM.

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Wednesday, November 21 at 6 PM www.townlinebbq.com Townline BBQ in Sagaponack presents The Last Waltz by Jimmy Lawler and friends.

Union Cantina in Southampton presents The Jam Session every Thursday with a concert at 7 PM followed by a jam session.

Friday, November 16, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents the 1970s band Foghat.

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That Motown Band Thursday, November 15, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents That Motown Band with proceeds benefitting The Butterfly Effect Project.

Theater The Great Gatsby Now through November 25 www.baystreet.org Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents its “Literature Live!” production of The Great Gatsby, running through November 25.

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Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents a business member workshop and networking event with guest speaker Emil Everett.

BookHampton Friday, November 16, at 4 PM Saturday, November 17, at 4 PM www.bookhampton.com

BookHampton in East Hampton presents John Tepper Marlin, PhD, author of Oxford College Arms on Friday and Wendy Goodman and Stephen Drucker on Saturday.

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Trivia Night Photos by Richard Lewin A spirit of camaraderie, not competition, was in the air at Neighborhood House on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton on the evening of Saturday, November 10, as the East Hampton Rotary Club held its annual “Trivia Night� fundraiser to benefit local food pantries.

Trivia emcee Paul Johnson asked the locally themed trivia questions.

EH Rotary Club President Shawn Miller collected the answer sheets for the final judging. According to Rotary Executive Secretary Denise DiPaolo, half of the proceeds from the 50/50 raffle, which was won this time by Alex Prime, will benefit local food pantries.

Fall Art Show Photos by Richard Lewin On Friday evening, November 9, the Southampton Artists Association held the opening reception for its Fall Art Show at Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center on Pond Lane. Thirty-five local artists showed more than 125 works in all media, including oil, acrylic, mixed media, drawing, and sculpture. Dom Lamontanaro, participating artist and SAA president, and other officers and artists were in attendance.

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Rip Tide $ink or $wim Photos by Nicole Teitler The Rip Tide contest finale was held on Saturday, November 10, from 3 to 6 PM at Southampton Arts Center. The Spur and I-hamptons held the contest to give grants to start-up businesses.

Finalists included Culiraw, Sproutbox, Sweet Vineyards Biscotti, Peddle Share, and Wick & Wine Candle Co. At the event, which was held at Southampton Arts Center, the top five finalists presented their business concepts to a panel of expert judges for a shot at up to $30,000 in prize money. Wick & Wine was the overall winner of the competition, with Peddle Share the runner up.

Parrish Art Museum Photos by Bridget LeRoy The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill celebrates its sixth year with several new exhibits, including large works by David Salle based on the Sistine Chapel. Salle offered a short talk to the crowd on Saturday night, November 10.

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Reporting From Broadway: The Ferryman Gives Nod To War And Peace Social unrest portrayed through family conflict

By Isa Goldberg

Watching a novel unfold in the mind’s eye is a thrilling experience to have sitting in a Broadway theater. Especially, when the story unfolding is a contemporary drama, not based on a novel.

Such is the case with Jez Butterworth’s new play, The Ferryman.

Brilliantly helmed by Sam Mendes, the production imported from London, has the span of an epic work, and the universality of appeal such as

we find in War and Peace. The story, set in the midst of IRA protests, marked by the 1981 hunger strike, is told through the lives of the Carney family, all three generations, living on the farm that Seamus and Quinn’s father built.

Like Tolstoy’s novel, romance sets the conflict in motion. In the first scene set in the Carney home (designed by Rob Howell), Michael, portrayed by the handsome, charismatic Paddy Con-

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sidine, and Caitlin, played with quiet intensity by Laura Donnelly, are listening to The Rolling Stones, dancing with abandon, and talking through the night. It looks like a plum marriage, until we finally realize, much later in the first Act, that Caitlin is Seamus’s widow and Quinn’s brother-in-law.

Chaste as that relationship may be, it’s a glaring situation, with Quinn’s wife, Mary (Genevieve O’Reilly) suffering the inexplicable ailment that comes from being cast aside. The civil war that tears at the seams of social order is symbolized through this family conflict, through tensions that sprang up after Seamus’s murder, as if sibling rivalry set brother against brother.

Narratively, Seamus’s murder is the point of an IRA cover up. That plot wraps around the central action, the celebration of the harvest. And in the background, Margaret Thatcher, speaking on the radio, refers to the hunger strikers as “criminals.”

This picture of England, a country run amok by philistines, where its citizens are dispossessed, is Butterworth’s terrain. In his earlier work, Jerusalem, with Mark Rylance on Broadway, he explored similar themes. But where Jerusalem was hermetic in so many ways, The Ferryman is accessible, embracing

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With a large ensemble, nearly two dozen actors, the ongoing life at the farm feels buoyant and celebratory.

Fortunately, the tediousness of their rural lives is interrupted by the unusual appearance of a goose running from its fate, a rabbit popping out of a pocket, kids acting out, and songs we love to hear. It’s consistently engrossing.

Aunt Maggie Far Away (Fionnula Flanagan) wakes from her dementia now and then to impart beautiful pearls of wisdom, as well as some exposition.

And smoker Aunt Patricia (Dearbhla Molloy) remarks bitterly about the inhumanity of life for the Irish. Throughout, Uncle Patrick Carney (Mark Lambert) demonstrates a gift for gab that comes with that territory.

As the life of the party, the kids are fascinating — each of them a distinct, three-dimensional character, from the show-off, not yet adolescent, nicknamed Cleopatra, a sassy Matilda Lawler, to Caitlin’s troubled son, Oison, a frightening Rob Malone.

Butterworth’s drama is so artfully plotted that it all falls into place irrevocably.

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Dining Michaels’ Diverse Menu Doesn’t Break The Bank Chef DeLoera’s cuisine influenced by his travels

By Hannah Selinger

Even among East Hampton residents, Michaels’ Maidstone Bar & Restaurant, the family-owned eatery that has served the Springs community for over four decades, remains a tightly held secret.

To be clear: This is not a celebrityrich Hamptons haunt, frequented only by summer hob-nobbers. It’s a yearround, reliable, and somewhat casual destination, designed to offer a respite from an area that can feel, at times, both unaffordable and unwelcoming.

On the expansive menu, diners will find appetizers galore, including “crabby clams” (top neck clams stuffed with blue crab meat, smoked chili, and aioli), Southeast Asia steamed mussels (lemongrass, ginger, cilantro, mint, red curry paste, and coconut milk), and a “symphony” of foie gras and diver scallops (with toasted brioche, red winepoached plums, and a grape reduction).

Entrées are similarly diverse. Enjoy, for instance, jerk-seasoned pork tenderloin, with mango glaze, turmeric rice, fried plantains, and pineapple salsa; seared Long Island duck breast,

served with a leg confit, Chinese barbecue sauce, and an apple-pineapple slaw; or grilled peppercorn-crusted Montauk tuna with garlic-roasted potatoes, spinach, and a brandy-peppercorn sauce.

But one of the true gems of Michaels’ at Maidstone lies on the beverage side of things. The restaurant, small and convivial as it is, boasts an incredibly broad wine-by-the-glass program, with a wide array of selections available. Prices are inoffensive (one can still find a glass for $9), and most major international winemaking regions are represented. While the wine list does not boast, say, the pedigree of some of the more spendy spots in town, one can still find — for somewhere between a fortune and a song — vintages that go back well over a decade. Call it inspirational, or, to use another word, a lodestar.

Michaels’ at Maidstone has not always operated under the same ownership. The most recent turnover involves chef-owner Luis DeLoera, who bought the restaurant a decade ago, in

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2008. Prior to the takeover, the restaurant had seen six owners and had been in a bit of a rut. DeLoera acquired the restaurant after a successful career built both in Manhattan and Chicago, where he had worked in a casino restaurant managed by Park Place Entertainment. Seeing the restaurant for sale on a trip out east, he acted, and swiftly.

DeLoera began his culinary career in Naples, Italy, where he worked in a high school cafeteria. With a nod to his own travels — DeLoera has cooked everywhere from Spain to Australia — he changes his menu with frequency, inflecting his food with ethnic details (his menu of late leans heavily toward Asian flavors). And although some menu items are in it for the long haul, including the perennially popular spring salad of greens, avocados, tomatoes, smoked bacon, gorgonzola, hard-boiled eggs, and a mustard dressing — a take on the Cobb — other items are always up for

revision.

Now, about that name? DeLoera opted to keep it, in homage to the space’s history. The history of the name is as complex as the history of the restaurant, it seems, and is attributed to an owner, named Michael, of course, who had owned the restaurant sometime around its inception. When DeLoera purchased the restaurant in 2008, however, the name had been changed to The Fat Flounder, in itself a hat-tip to the restaurant’s name from way back in the early 1970s. Still, the space has operated under the name “Michaels’” for the majority of its long East Hampton life.

The restaurant is, in a sense, an updating of history, a space that has grown with time to incorporate new culinary ideas, and ideals. And yet, Michaels’ at Maidstone still captures the essence of the Springs community. It’s a place to live, not a place to be seen, and most of its residents like that just fine.

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Thanksgiving Made Easy Ditch the kitchen for these ready to order meals

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This Thanksgiving, don’t let the stress of cooking gobble up all of your holiday spirit. Let the professionals take care

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of the things in the kitchen as you put on those stretchy pants and prepare for a feast with friends and family. From dining out to ordering in, take a look at our round-up of places for your turkey feast.

L&W Market in Bridgehampton offers a special catering menu. Menu items include tuna stuffed peppers at $15.99 a pint, a quart of lobster bisque for $20, and a quart of pumpkin soup at $14. The center of it all, turkeys are priced at $7.50 per pound and a pint of classic gravy at $10.99. Enjoy $14.99 Almond classic mac and cheese, crois-

sant/celery/sage stuffing with sausage at $12.99 a quart, and rosemary roasted potatoes, also $12.99. End the night with $10 each pot de cremes. For a full list of items, visit www.landwmarket. com. All orders must be placed over the phone, 631-537-1123, or in person at L&W Market or Almond Restaurant,

by Sunday, November 18, at 6 PM. Pickups will be Wednesday, November 21, between 2 and 6 PM or Thanksgiving Day 9 AM to noon.

Claude’s Restaurant at Southampton Inn will provide guests with Executive Chef James Carpenter’s threecourse traditional meal, include his award-winning desserts. Priced at $40 per adult and $25 per child, seating is from 1 to 6 PM. Call 631-283-6500 for reservations or visit www.southamptoninn.com.

Jean-Georges at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton will have a special Thanksgiving Day menu with appetizer options including crispy salmon sushi, sautéed bay scallops, and foie gras brulee. Delight in entrees of roasted organic turkey, rack of lamb, pepper crusted NY Strip, and more. Top it all off with options of warm chocolate cake, pumpkin cheesecake, or ice cream. For a full menu, visit www.toppingrosehouse.com or make a reservation on Open Table.

Round Swamp Farm in Bridgehampton and East Hampton is providing items worth salivating over. Turkeys start at $77.99, with sides of gravy at $13.99, cranberry at $15.99, apple stuffing, $12.99, potatoes, sweet and buttery, $16.99, with muffin options at $16.50. Craving seasonal sensations? glazed delicate squash is $14.99, autumn harvest, $15.99, and pecan pie, $32.99. Orders are being accepted

through Saturday, November 17, and can be picked up at any of their markets during Thanksgiving week. Check out a full list of items at www.roundswampfarm.com.

1770 House in East Hampton presents a Thanksgiving Day Feast from 2 to 8 PM with a three-course prix-fixe meal by Executive Chef Michael Rozzi and wines selected by Wine Director Michael Cohen. Starters will include spicy Montauk fluke tartare, organic mushroom risotto, shaved Brussels sprouts, lobster bisque, and caramelized Peconic Bay scallops. An organic Amish turkey with all the traditional fixings will be prepared, in addition to a Scottish salmon option, and apple cider cured Berkshire pork chop. Fill your stomach to the brim with coconut and semolina cake, 1770 House’s signature sticky date cake, or a pumpkin creme brulee. Tickets are $95 per person with an option for children 12 years of age and under for a $40 twocourse meal. Call 631-324-1770 or visit www.1770house.com.

Insatiable Eats Catering is providing the East End with a Farm-To-Feast Thanksgiving, featuring all North and South Fork, non-GMO ingredients.

Deviled eggs, prosciutto bites, caramelized onion and gruyere tartlets, and leek and potato soup, are some of the insatiable starters. Have your turkey traditionally roasted or opt for English or Great American style (fresh turkey orders to be placed before November 19). Want to switch up your cranberry sauce? Try some cranberry-candy orange relish. Fill yourself with vegetarian, quinoa, or duck stuffing and add truffled mashed potatoes. Finish your meal with any one of Briermere’s classic pies. For a full list and to place your orders, visit www.insatiableeats.com or call 631-377-3353.

The Preston House & Hotel in Riverhead celebrates its first Thanksgiving with a three-course prix fixe menu for $45 per person, $21 for children. Executive Chef Matty Boudreau presents classic menu items, such as brioche stuffing, green beans, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, and local apple pie.

Hours will be 12:30 to 6:30 PM. Call 631-775-1550 or visit www.theprestonhousenahdhotel.com.

Jamesport Manor Inn in Jamesport is seating from noon to 7 PM on Thanksgiving Day with a $60 per person, $30 for children under 12, prixfixe menu. Executive Chef Jeff Russell serves up items including a roasted pumpkin bisque, herb turkey roulade, vanilla scented roast loin of pork, port wine braised short ribs, and pumpkin caramel cheesecake. Visit www.jamesportmanor.com for a full menu or make a reservation on Open Table.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Stuffed Turkey Breast With An Apple Pear Glaze & Candied Pecans Ingredients (serves 6) 2 whole turkey breasts (roughly 2 lbs each) 2 c shaved sweet potato 2 large leeks (bottoms washed and cut across into half moons) 1/2 c dried cranberries 1 c apple juice Juice of 1/2 a lemon 1 oz bourbon 1/4 granulated sugar 3 Tbsp butter melted 2 Tbsp olive oil 1/4 c chopped sage 1/4 c chopped parsley 2 Granny Smith apples (diced); reserve scraps to make sauce 2 Anjou pears (diced); reserve scraps for sauce

3/4 c pecans 1 egg white 1 tsp cinnamon 2 Tbsp brown sugar 1 tsp curry powder 1 tsp Old Bay seasoning 1 tsp paprika Salt and black pepper to your liking

Directions Start by heating your oven to 350 degrees. Deglaze a hot pan with the bourbon to burn off the alcohol. When the bourbon is reduced by half, add the sugar and apple juice.

Heat that mixture until the sugar is dissolved. Soak the cranberries for 10 minutes while you sauté the shaved sweet potatoes and leeks in a table-

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spoon of olive oil, just until they are soft and translucent.

Meanwhile, between two sheets of plastic wrap, gently pound the turkey breasts until they have an even thickness, about an inch. Season the turkey breast, drain, and reserve the liquid used to rehydrate the cranberries.

At this point you will want to have the butcher’s twine handy. Stuff the pounded breasts with the sweet potato, leek, herb, and cranberry filling. Do not over stuff the breast. Roll and truss each turkey breast.

In a couple of hot sauté pans, sear the skin with a mixture of olive oil and butter over medium high heat to brown the skin.

Place them in the oven for 25 minutes remembering to rotate half way

through the cooking process.

Once the turkey is in the oven you can gently heat the liquid reserved from earlier from the leftover scraps from dicing your fruit.

Once the fruit is cooked and soft, purée the mixture to make a sauce and fold in the diced fruit. Keep warm to serve.

Toss the pecans in the spice mix, and then add the egg white. Mix everything together in a bowl and spread the coated nuts evenly across a sheet tray lined with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 for seven minutes and remove to allow time to cool.

When the turkey comes out of the oven snip away the twine and slice into 1.5-inch thick medallions. Coat with the warm sauce and finish by crumbling the candied pecans over the dish.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Chef Harold Moore Meatless Meatball Parmesan

By Zachary Weiss

Who: Chef Harold Moore

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Chef Moore’s Guest-Worthy Recipe:

Why? “It’s the perfect dish to make for guests because it appeals to even the pickiest of eaters. The Japanese eggplant, cauliflower, and peppers create a delicious, hearty base, and the sauce is perfect for dipping toasts, topping off the soulwarming dish.”

Ingredients: 5 Japanese eggplant 1/2 head cauliflower 1 red bell pepper 1 yellow bell pepper .2 oz fresh oregano leaves .2 oz fresh basil leaves .35 oz fresh Italian parsley leaves 2 c cooked farro 2 c cooked quinoa 3 c panko breadcrumbs .5 oz salt .35 oz garlic powder .35 oz onion powder .07 oz ground black pepper 2 c extra virgin olive oil

Directions: Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Peel and stem eggplant, deseed

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and stem bell peppers.

Cut all vegetables from first group of ingredients into golf ball size pieces, toss in half of the olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast all the vegetables until golden brown (about 15 to 20 minutes).

Once cooked, pull out of the oven and let come to room temperature.

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until it comes together and vegetables are about the size of course ground meat. Form it into desired size balls and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Once cooked, let cool to room temperature.

Place veggie meatballs into a cast iron serving pan with tomato sauce, top with shredded mozzarella then freshly grated parmesan cheese and place back in the oven until golden brown.

Garnish with fresh basil and serve hot.

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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Alice Houseknecht A Montauk philanthropist reaches out to her community

By Valerie Bando-Meinken valerie@indyeastend.com

Above: The original East Deck Motel

Top right: The Watson Family with Bud Collyer on “Beat the Clock� in 1960

Bottom left: Fred Houseknecht and Myriam Cox at their wedding in 1947

Photos: Courtesy of Alice Houseknecht

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n the 1950s, my dad was a New York City firefighter. He wasn’t a fisherman or a hunter but he loved to explore and go to new areas,” explained Alice Houseknecht, the former proprietor of East Deck Motel in Montauk.

“When my dad came to Montauk for the first time and found Hither Hills, he fell in love with Montauk. He purchased a secondhand army tent and army cots and brought all of us out here. We would spend a couple of weeks at Hither Hills camping with the ice-cold showers, barbecues, and square dances.”

One of nine children of Alice and George Watson, Houseknecht recalled, “We lived on Staten Island and it would take us the better part of a day to get to Montauk. There was no Southern State Parkway or Long Island Expressway or Sunrise Highway. It was just Route 25A. From Staten Island you had to take a ferry over to Brooklyn because there was no Verrazzano Bridge at that time. We’d be piled in the car and would constantly be asking, ‘Are we there yet?’”

“It was the simple times; swimming in the ocean, playing on the playground which just had a few swings and a couple of slides and the square dances on Saturday nights that hold some of my favorite memories as a child. I fell in love when I was five years old at the first square dance I ever went to. I fell in love with Tommy Buckles. I still remember his name, but I never saw him again. I guess it was one of those onenight flings,” she said with a hearty laugh.

“For several years, we continued to come out as a family and would camp at Hither Hills until, in 1957, my grandfather built a little summer bungalow down in the harbor area. We would share it with our cousins.

My father brought the army cots and we lined them up in the living room of the little cottage. For a child, it was more fun than you could imagine. We knew the next day we would be going down to the beach and then down to the harbor to wait for the fishing boats to come in. Often you could buy a big cod fish for a dollar or two and bring it home and have enough food to feed your entire family,” Houseknecht said. “Montauk holds a lot of near and dear memories for me.”

With a smile, Houseknecht recalls when she was 10 years old and her family was selected to be on the popular TV show “Beat the Clock.” “My father practiced every night. He did most of the games and answered the questions. We won a whole bunch of stuff.

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We won a car, cases of food. It was fantastic!”

“When I was older and in high school, I would still come to Montauk with my family and I would get a job. It was easy to find work. I started off working in the kitchen at the Shagwong Restaurant as a dessert girl. It was perfect because I could save a lot of money and when I went back I’d have money to buy my school uniforms and still have some spending money throughout the school year. I did this throughout high school and college and then for a while after I graduated from college. I had studied to be a teacher but there was a surplus of teachers and there were no teaching jobs,” Houseknecht explained. She graduated in 1974 from Hunter College in Manhattan.

“Without a teaching job, I went to work at my brother’s restaurant, The Dock, and then applied to TWA as a flight attendant,” she said. “I was sent for training and graduated from the academy in 1975.”

Houseknecht flew domestically usually from John F. Kennedy International Airport. During one of her visits to Montauk in 1976, she met her husband Steve. A Montauk native, his father had been a corporal in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Camp Hero in 1946.

Taken by Montauk’s beauty, he remained there and started his own building company in 1952. He built the first motel in Montauk, The Maisonettes.

“Steve’s grandparents, Sam and Bea Cox owned and operated the East Deck Motel. As Steve’s grandparents grew older, they relied upon him to keep up with the motel’s maintenance and hospitality.”

“On my days off from TWA,” Houseknecht explained, “I would be involved with the motel. It was just like working with the airlines. It was like an airplane without wings,” she said with a smile. “It’s the exact same thing. There are customers and they need things.

It was just hospitality, and it just came so naturally to me. My husband would deal with the maintenance and I would deal with the customers, and it worked out.”

However, Houseknecht revisited her calling to be a teacher, and studied for her master’s degree at Southampton College. Just before completing the program, she was hired by Montauk School as a first-grade teacher. She taught at Montauk for 10 years and recalls, “First graders are really delightful because they want

With a smile, Houseknecht recalls when she was 10 years old and her family was selected to be on the popular TV show “Beat the Clock.” “My father practiced every night.” to please and they want you to love them and they love you in return. They’re just so innocent. I loved teaching, but my husband died and after he passed away I was doing both; teaching and taking care of the East Deck. I had to make a difficult decision. Should I give up teaching or give up the family business?”

With new and different marketing ideas, Houseknecht said she went into the motel business “full throttle.” She brought new life to the East Deck and attracted a more upscale clientele to the motel. But when Hurricane Sandy hit Long Island, the motel sustained a large amount of damage. In 2013, she sold the motel and set up her own 501 (C) (3), The Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation.

A philanthropist at heart, Houseknecht now devotes her time to helping others. She is the director of the Montauk Food Pantry and works with organizations like The Carter Center and The Family Service League.

Her foundation supports the Montauk Historical Society, Music for Montauk, the Montauk Village Association, the Montauk Playhouse Community Center, Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, The Retreat, Southampton Hospital, East End Hospice, Suicide Prevention, and several other local organizations.

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Riverhead Nine students in the Riverhead Central School District were selected by the New York State Band Directors Association to perform with, or serve as alternates for, the 2019 NYSBDA Honor Bands. Selection of these talented students was based on an application process that included their scores from the New York State School Music Association Solo Evaluation Festival and their music teachers’ recommendations.

A committee of band directors chose six Riverhead High School band students from a pool of more than 400 applicants. They include Quinn Bailey, Lydia Bilsk, Olivia Bozuhoski, Lauren Enos, Ainsley Hipp, and Brady Wells.

High school students Laura Allen and Riley Wendt were named as alternates.

From Riverhead Middle School, Bryan Enos was chosen from an applicant pool of approximately 250. He is one of 106 students selected to perform with the NYSBDA Middle School Honor Concert Band. The district extends its congratulations to each of these student-musicians.

Bridgehampton Four Bridgehampton students recently attended the Hampton Bays Bullying Prevention Summit. Sixth-grader Sarah Kapon, seventh-grader Helio Paucar, sixth-grader Aiyanna Spears, and eighth-grader Ryeasia Walker will serve in leadership roles and help enhance awareness and provide hope and alternatives as members of the newly formed antibullying committee at the school.

Springs The annual Turkey Trot will be held on Monday, November 19. Monetary donations can be made and will go towards the PTA’s swim program. More information is on the school website.

Students in grades six to eight are participating in “Inclusion Club.” The

club meets once a week and pairs junior high students with special needs students to do activities together such as scavenger hunts in the school, board games, and arts and crafts.

The Community Outreach Committee is sponsoring an annual Thanksgiving food drive to provide Thanksgiving Day meals for those in need in our community. They will be collecting donations of canned and dry goods until Friday, November 16.

The entire fourth grade started doing “essay boot camp.” The fourth grade teachers gave students dog tags and decorated the hallway with army decorations and inflatable tires. Students had to go through an obstacle course to get to their classrooms.

Hampton Bays Jennifer Alvarez, a Hampton Bays High School graduate, was one of more than 700 students who volunteered on Buffalo State’s annual Bengals Dare to Care Day on September 15, 2018.

Students volunteered at a variety of community organizations as part of Buffalo State’s commitment to community engagement. Hampton Bays students enrolled in the district’s life skills program recently gained real-life experience through two hands-on field trips.

Middle and high school students took part in a free workshop with Alvaro Restrepo and his dance troupe, El Colegio del Cuerpo.

Restrepo and his dance troupe, El Colegio del Cuerpo, on October 26.

Held courtesy of the Parrish Art Museum and the Watermill Center, the workshop offered students an opportunity to engage with the performers in therapeutic dance and movement. The entertainers also mesmerized the students with a performance that focused on the arts and culture of Colombia.

Moving from the stage to the barn, on November 1, high school students

Hampton Bays High School students recently visited Spirit’s Promise Horse Rescue. Pictured is student Aldiana Brbutovic. Independent/Courtesy HB School District

spent a day at Spirit’s Promise Horse Rescue where they learned how to clean stables, groom and exercise horses, and collect eggs from chicken coops. The visit allowed the students to build upon their vocational experiences and skills.

Tuckahoe All students in grades prekindergarten to eight participated in the National Mix it Up Lunch Day on October 25.

The main goal of Mix It Up Lunch Day is all about getting students to sit with someone new, and helping them engage in positive conversations. Lunch tables were decorated so students knew where to sit and there were starter questions that led to “a-ha!” moments for students to share. It was a fun way to meet new friends.

Westhampton About a year ago, Westhampton Beach High School junior Jocelyn McNamara was on the hunt for something extra

to do in her spare time when a family friend introduced her to Brazilian jiu jitsu. She immediately fell in love with it, and on November 3, she shared that love by coordinating a self-defense class for her peers. To bring her idea to fruition, McNamara gained approval from school officials and enlisted Greg Melita, owner of Hamptons Jiu Jitsu, to teach a free, three-hour self-defense class at her school. The class saw a good turnout, with 22 juniors and seniors learning how to escape wrist grabs, headlocks, chokes, grabs from behind, and pins against the wall. It was such a success that McNamara hopes to organize a second session.

“It was a lot of fun,” said McNamara, who said she always leaves her jiu jitsu class with a smile. “As soon as I started taking classes, I knew I had found my fit.” Aside from building her skills in jiu jitsu, McNamara runs track and belongs to her school’s chamber choir. She is also an All-State singer.

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Quality & Craftsmanship For Any Style Pape Construction works on homes from modern to historic

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Quality And Craftsmanship For Any Style Pape Construction works on homes from modern to historic

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

& Best Living Room, and End Magazine’s Best Non-Residential Project award, for its work on BookHampton.

Working primarily on the East End, Pape’s favorite areas include Southampton Village (Pape spent six years on the Southampton Planning Commission), Sag Harbor, and Sagaponack. Pape Construction’s projects range from 3000 to 13,000 square feet. Attention to detail is key for this company, from client needs to design demands, and all excess materials are donated or recycled when possible.

How does your team approach renovating homes in a historic district?

Phil Pape built his first house in Southampton in 1999, later forming Pape Construction to include in-house estimating, project management, and site supervision. Pape Construction has worked on a variety of designs across

modern, traditional, and historical styles, from new homes to historical restorations. Since 2017, the company has been included on Luxe Magazine's Contractor's Gold List, won End Magazine's award for Best Mid-Sized House

We understand the importance of maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the historic homes we renovate.

We strive to honor each home’s history by matching its original craftsmanship.

Additionally, the goal usually is to make structural modifications and incorpo-

rate energy efficiency where possible.

In the end, the homes maintain their charm and quirkiness while allowing for a modern living experience that will last for another hundred years.

Some clients want a modern design in conjunction with a home that may be in a historic district. We enjoy working on projects that find a balance between different styles, so the home’s feeling remains harmonious while remaining deferential to the historic portion of the home.

What are some of your sustainable practices?

We are always enthusiastic about utilizing sustainable and recycled materials whenever appropriate, and are dedicated to building the most efficient homes possible. As a part of a total social responsibility effort, we limit waste, recycle when possible, and donate excess materials.

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What is the process of partnering up for projects?

Every project is different, but much of it is by word of mouth. The ultimate compliment happens when a previous client recommends us to a friend which gives us opportunities to meet and work with new architects and designers. Once we develop a relationship with the architect, they invite us to bid their future projects.

What is Pape Construction’s style?

We have worked on a broad spectrum of architectural styles. Whether modern or traditional, our mission is to be an exceptional residential builder that values quality and craftsmanship for any style. We always love to be challenged.

How involved are you in the design process?

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Some of our clients will come to us with basic plans with very little in the way of finish detailing. In those cases, we enjoy collaborating with the homeowner, drawing from our experience and making suggestions. Of course, we also work from very detailed plans where we are expected to step up if/when site situations arise.

Besides entire building projects, do you also handle remodels?

We’ve handled anything from small renovations to new homes in excess of 10,000 square feet. Being a small builder means we take on fewer projects, no matter what the size. We don’t exceed our band width, which in turn gives our clients our full attention.

What’s your favorite part of a new project?

Meeting new people and beginning the collaboration process is always fun.

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Working on new architectural details and watching them come together is an exciting process for us.

Many members of our team are boaters.

Living on the East End surrounded by water is really paradise.

When you’re not creating beautiful homes, what do you and/or your team do for fun?

Pape Construction is located at 60 Millstone Road in Water Mill. Call 631204-5044 or email phil@papeconstruction.com.

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After a successful career modeling overseas, Sherwood Mockridge returned to Long Island and founded a professional fitness training business where she does private training for clients in the Westhampton, Quogue, and Remsenburg areas. Her love of “making people feel good inside and out” is one of the many things that drew her to real estate. Her family owns a marine construction company; Sherwood Mockridge and her husband are property managers as well, giving her a specialized insight into all aspects of waterfront home ownership. Her organizational skills have served her well in banking, real estate, as well as a senior staff member at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Sports

Westhampton running back Jaden AlfanoStJohn rushes ahead of a swarm of Kings Park opponents. Independent/ Gordon M. Grant

Westhampton Wins Rain-Soaked Battle Hurricanes reach second straight Suffolk county championship game

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The rain may have dampened the evening for some, but it was exactly what Westhampton Beach’s football team was hoping for.

The top-seeded Hurricanes’ threeheaded monster got down and dirty and weathered the storm to topple Kings Park 33-9 in the Suffolk County Division III semifinals November 9. The running back trio of Jaden AlfanoStJohn, Liam McIntyre, and Tyler Nolan totaled 331 yards and four touchdowns in Westhampton's 22nd straight win.

“Kings Park is a great team — has a great offense — and throws the ball really well, so we were hoping some rain and wind would come down,” said McIntyre, a senior. “I think people are starting to realize Westhampton’s legit; they’re still on the map.”

McIntyre gained 131 yards on 25 carries, made 11 tackles, had an interception, and scored two touchdowns in the win.

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Tuckers Take First LIC Title Since 2016 Mattituck tops East Rockaway in three sets to reach state tourney

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

For the 12th time this season, Mattituck’s girls volleyball team shut out its opponent, but this time, a Long Island Class C title came with it.

The Tuckers took the win over East Rockaway 25-14, 25-22, 25-23 at Farmingdale State College Sunday, November 11. Mattituck, which scored its first LIC title since 2016, will play in the state semifinals at Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls Saturday, November 17.

Outside hitter Viki Harkin led the team with 16 kills and three aces. While Mattituck has struggled during matches to maintain its energy, the team was able to put forth a stronger showing this time around, especially compared

to the Suffolk County final, when Mattituck let Pierson/Bridgehampton (16-2) back into the game after being up two sets to none, before ultimately winning with a decisive fifth.

Brooke DeGuilio (18 assists, four kills) kept East Rockaway (13-3) within striking distance through the second and third set, like when East Rockaway scored five straight points to tie the third set at 17. But a strong defensive effort by libero Jordan Osler sparked several rallies. Miranda Hedges (eight assists) and Ashley Young (six assists) split the effort in setting up the offense, and Jillian Gaffga and Charlotte Keil took turns swinging.

Outside hitter Viki Harkin had 16 kills and three aces in Mattituck’s Long Island championship win. Independent/Desirée Keegan

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Westhampton running back Liam McIntyre breaks away from a would-be tackler and bounces outside. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

Bryan Schaumloffel. “If we ever know we need something, we’re going to give Liam the ball, he’s going to run hard, and he’s going to punish people for four quarters.”

Westhampton (10-0) got off to a slow start in the first half. McIntyre scored the Hurricanes’ first touchdown on a three-yard run in the first quarter to give his team a 7-6 lead. But a 37-yard field goal by Dylan Squilllacioti gave Kings Park the lead heading into halftime.

It was the first time since Westhampton’s season-opener that the team trailed heading into the locker room.

“There were some nerves,” McIntyre said. “I took the seniors into the back of the locker room and told them we weren’t going to let this be our last game.

And we came out firing.”

The Hurricanes stormed out of the gate to receive the kickoff for the second half. Two plays into a five-play drive, Nolan, a senior, jetted down the left sideline for 60 yards, and junior running back AlfanoStJohn capped the drive with a five-

yard touchdown run to give Westhampton the lead for good.

AlfanoStJohn scored two touchdowns and finished with 90 yards on 13 carries.

“We pounded the ball — played physical and tempered the weather,” said AlfanoStJohn. “The offensive line opened holes up for me and I made my cuts.”

“We know we can run down other teams as long as we play our game,” said Nolan, who carried the ball 13 times for 110 yards. “They might be able to hang with us for the first and second quarter, but we weather the storm and get them every time.”

Westhampton will face No. 2 Half Hollow Hills West in the Suffolk County final Saturday, November 17, at Stony Brook University at 4 PM.

McIntyre said it’s just the next step in the team’s goal of proving last year wasn’t a fluke.

“People said we wouldn’t do this, we wouldn’t do that — we just wanted to have a great season and make our own legacy,” McIntyre said. “We’re excited to be back, but I think a lot more of the excitement comes from facing adversity.”

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Westhampton’s Lindsay Andreopolous, Belle Smith, Juliette Seeglier, Cortina Green, and Amber Troutman celebrate a point in the second set. Independent/ Desirée Keegan

Westhampton Stymied

By Kings Park Hurricanes make breakthrough despite 3-1 county final loss

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

For the first time in the five times Westhampton Beach’s girls volleyball team has lost to Kings Park in the Suffolk County finals, the team did something it hadn’t been able to do before — win a set.

The Hurricanes (12-4) have kept some sets close in years past against the eight-straight county title winners, and did so again Thursday, November 8 when they fell 3-1 at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood. After two close sets, which they lost by scores of 26-24 and 25-22, the Hurricanes won the third by a 25-21 tally before Kings Park rebounded in the fourth, 25-16, to clinch the match.

Kings Park (15-3) made several service errors and miscues in the third set, and juniors Amber Troutman and Michelle Kryl’s block put Westhampton up 20-15 out of a Kingsmen timeout.

Seniors Cortina Green and Juliette Seeglier and junior Belle Smith made big saves during a long volley that gave the Hurricanes a 23-17 lead, and Kings Park grabbed the next on a delayed reaction before Westhampton made

it game point. The Kingsmen took the next four points, a couple on some unlucky bounces after blocks, before a hit outside back court gave the Hurricanes their first set win, 25-21.

“Not only do they get here every year, but they come ready to play every year,” said Smith (41 digs, three aces and two kills) of Kings Park. “We get a little nervous each time, but then remember that in here, the net is the same height, the court is the same size. Once you’re here a few times, that starts to click for you. After a few years, you’re sick of losing, and you come here and you fight harder and you want it more.”

Head coach Lenny Zaloga liked the way his libero threw herself all over the court for the ball, even though a few of her passes weren’t as tight to the net as he would have liked.

“It’s great to have her, but sometimes we rely too much on her, so we don’t go for balls that we should, because we think she’s going to get them,” he said of his All-State player who made her fifth county appearance as a junior, is the No. 2 lacrosse recruit in

the country, and is an All-County basketball player. “But I’ll still take her,” he said, laughing.

There’s a reason the Hurricanes make it to the county finals every year, and it’s having girls step up to fill the shoes of quality players lost to graduation, like the girls did this year at center, middle blocker, and outside hitter.

“Juliette stepped up and took over Shannon Hewlett’s spot, and that’s what you hope to see,” Zaloga said. “After the year that Cortina Green had last year, you’d hope she wants to continue to get better, and she did. Hopefully, next year someone will take over for them.”

Green finished with a team-high 13 kills, 14 digs, three aces, and two blocks. Seeglier had six kills, 16 digs, and an ace.

“There was never a time when they let up, so we always had to be on our toes,” Seeglier said. “There were some times we let up a little bit, but we always caught ourselves.”

Junior Amber Troutman added 18

assists, five digs, four aces, two kills, and a block in the loss, and sophomore Ella Donneson had two blocks. Because Westhampton didn’t spend a lot of time practicing blocking, especially since losing junior Marley Merrihew at the beginning of the season with an injury, many of the attempts resulted in unlucky touches that slammed out of bounds or dropped on the Hurricanes’ side of the net.

“The last four years we didn’t play well. This year we played well and they beat us, so I’m not that upset about it,” Zaloga said. “We didn’t play poorly, they just outplayed us, and that’s what happens.”

Smith said winning the third set is encouraging, calling it “baby steps.”

“It’s tough going out with a loss, but no one expected us to make it this far,” Seeglier said. “I’m incredibly proud that we got here and we put up a good fight. Maybe next year it’ll be two, maybe three,” she added smiling, “Who knows?”

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Brierleys, Bonackers Will Take On States Four East Hampton swimmers compete in four events this weekend

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

East Hampton’s 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relay quartet of Oona Foulser, Sophia Swanson, Julia Brierley, and Jane Brierley with head coach Craig Brierley after smashing records in both relays at the Suffolk County championships at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood November 3. Independent/Courtesy Craig Brierley

Eighth-grader Jane Brierley admits she had no aspiration of joining the swim team until a friend of hers said it’d be fun if the two of them joined together.

Making the varsity team after suffering a shoulder injury this past summer, she was unsure of how competitive she’d be. She was also worried about being younger and smaller than the rest of the girls. But despite all her skepticism and doubt, the East Hampton swim team newcomer is heading to the state championship to compete in three different events this weekend.

“At the beginning of the season I was still out of shape from my injury — it was kind of scary,” she said.

“But it’s actually been kind of fun, it’s competitive. I love it now.”

Brierley will take part in the 100yard breast stroke, and the Bonackers’ 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays.

“Their effort, dedication, and the fact that we can keep it fun, no matter how difficult the sport is, is how they’ve gotten to where they are now,” said head coach Craig Brierley. “They were motivated all season — they had aspirations — and there are a select

few that have moved onto the highest point.”

The coach’s daughter Julia, a junior, who is not related to Jane, is also on the relay teams. At the Suffolk County championship, both broke previous personal bests for East Hampton to help the girls move up in the seeding.

Almost every girl who competed actually broke personal best times.

“So much of it is mental and their belief, and I think they stepped up at an important competition,” the coach said.

The 200 freestyle relay finished second in 1 minute, 40.12 seconds, and the 200 medley came in third with a time of 1:49.53. Julia Brierley said she’s excited to head to states after just missing the chance to last season.

“We were pretty successful this year,” she said. “We all had a lot of fun, and that’s what it’s all about. All of our hard work led up to this.”

The junior is in the first leg in the medley and third in the freestyle. She said before getting into the water she listens to music and does a few leg and arm warmups, but tries not to think about

the magnitude of the competition.

“I went in and I was super excited to swim,” Brierley said. “I was having so much fun. All our friends and family were cheering us on. It was a great atmosphere.”

Her teammate said the environment motivated the Bonackers.

“The pressure and the atmosphere help you swim faster,” Jane Brierley said. “There’s a whole different energy than normal varsity meets. It’s very competitive.”

The eighth-grader placed fifth in the breast stroke at the county championship in 1:07.79. She also came in 10th in the 50-yard freestyle, saying she was disappointed after slipping off the block, which added a second to her overall time. She touched the wall in 25.77 seconds. Julia Brierley placed 11th in 1:12.51. The junior also came in eighth in the 100 backstroke in 1:01.37.

Taking the second leg, swimming the breast stroke, in both relays, Jane Brierley took off following her teammate’s start in the freestyle. She said she just kept repeating to herself: "Swim faster. Go. Don't screw this up."

“I didn’t think I was going to make states,” she said. “I’m excited. The whole county is like one team now.”

Junior Sophia Swanson will also be competing in the relays and the 100 butterfly after placing fourth in 59.35 seconds.

“It was a good season,” she said.

“We swam really fast. We haven’t made states for our two relays in years. We dropped a lot of time. We’re motivated.

We want to not only compete but compete at a higher level.”

Senior Oona Foulser, the Bonackers’ co-captain, is the last member of the relay. She also placed 11th in the 100 freestyle in 57.17 seconds. Camryn Hatch placed 13th in 57.75 seconds.

“Before they made the state cut I told them I think they can do it, what matters is what they think,” coach Brierley said. “We’re going to wind them up again this weekend and see what they have left. I’m sure they could do more. It’s now on them and what they believe.”

The state championships will be held at Ithaca College November 16 and 17 beginning at 8 AM.

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Trifecta Of Good Things Suzy Whaley named PGA president; Kutcher and Westwood win bobthevoiceofgolf@gmail.com

History was made last week when the largest sports organization in the country, the Professional Golfers Association of America, held its annual meeting in Palm Springs, CA, and elected its first female president.

The PGA came about after Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, a wealthy New York department store owner, invited a group of influential people to lunch. Francis Ouimet and Walter Hagen, two of the biggest names in golf, were among those invited. In the early days, professional golfers were held in the same regard as caddies — more working class than golfmembership class. In fact, golf pros were not even allowed in most clubhouses.

The primary mission of that organizational luncheon was to determine how the golf professionals could help Wanamaker sell more golf balls in his store and the PGA of America was formed.

Since its inception in 1916, there have been 40 presidents of the 29,000-member PGA of America and all have been men . . . until now. The 41st President of the PGA of America is PGA Master Professional from Connecticut, Suzy Whaley.

I met Suzy several years ago after she won the Connecticut PGA Championship. That victory earned the winner a spot in the 2003 Greater Hartford Open on the PGA Tour.

I must say I was very impressed at

our first meeting. Suzy presented herself as a highly talented golf professional who had a million-dollar smile and was a sheer delight to interview. Over the years, I have had numerous opportunities to spend more time with Suzy and, quite frankly, with each visit, my admiration has grown higher.

Now that Whaley is President of the PGA, I foresee the members making huge strides to grow the game, to understand it from a different perspective. I reached out to Southampton resident and longtime PGA member Bob Joyce for his reaction on Whaley rising to the top of his organization. He said, “I have known Suzy for several years and she is a very good player.” Joyce went on to say “Suzy is a great role model for all golf professionals and especially junior golfers” and Bob wished Suzy the very best as she assumes her role as the first female President of the PGA of America.

Whaley will have a lot on her plate as the PGA runs or oversees two of the biggest professional golf events on the calendar, The PGA Championship to be held in 2019 at Bethpage in May, and of course, the Ryder Cup, which will be held in 2020 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. In addition, the PGA hosts many other tournaments for their members and encourages juniors to take up the game and play in the PGA Junior League.

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Speaking of going in the right direction, that is exactly what Lee Westwood did this past weekend. The 45-year-old Englishman who was playing in the European Tour’s Nedbank Challenge in South Africa fired a brilliant final round.

After an eagle and six birdies with no bogies, he notched up his 24th European

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Tour win and his first since 2014.

Meanwhile down on the Mexican Riviera, 40-year-old Matt Kutcher, who had played in 89 events spanning four years without a win, came out on top.

Oddly enough, Matt’s regular caddie, John Wood, had a conflict and couldn’t make the trip after Matt entered the Mayakoba Golf Classic at the last moment. David Giral Ortiz, better known as “El Tucan,” the El Camaleon Golf Course caddie coordinator who lives in Playa Del Carmen, came to the rescue and after Matt’s win, walked away with somewhere in the range of two million pesos.

What a week for both of them!

So, Whaley, Westwood, and Kutcher all good people, all involved in good things. I like it when good things happen to good people.

Riverhead Swimmer In County Meet Middle-schooler is one of youngest to be invited to compete

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Riverhead Middle School seventhgrader Brooke Davies competed against some of the best swimmers in the county at the independent Suffolk County championship, held at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood on November 3.

According to her adviser and health teacher, Lindsay Lindenbaum, Davies may be one of the youngest in Riverhead Central School District history to have earned such an invitation. She qualified for the 100-meter backstroke.

Davies has been swimming competitively for several years and regularly swims with the Sachem Swim Club under coach Mary Fleckenstein.

Riverhead Middle School seventh-grader Brooke Davies competed at the Suffolk County individual championship swim meet November 3. Independent/ Courtesy Riverhead Central School District

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Flotation Device For Serenity Therapeutic sensory deprivation tanks now available in Water Mill nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily

Flotation therapy, also known as sensory deprivation tanks, are typically perceived one of two ways: a blissful escape or a claustrophobic nightmare.

Immersing oneself into an eight-byfour foot space of salt water, with the option of no light or sound? It can sound jarring at first. However, despite how you choose to mentally enter the experience, I guarantee you’ll leave it more relaxed than a five-star massage.

Float tanks are few and far between on Long Island. Up until now, the easternmost location has been Patchogue and Riverhead — a shocking realization, considering the therapy’s proven benefits. According to the Epsom Salt Council, those benefits include softened skin, lower blood pressure, a reduction in hyperactivity and heart problems, the removal of toxins, and the formation of proteins needed in joints and brain tissue. Float therapy

also aids in stress management and sleep, muscle soreness, and reduces pain and swelling.

With a soft opening on Monday, November 12, Hamptons Float brings the much sought-after experience to the East End with a Water Mill location. There are four rooms with float tanks, each separated from a communal room by two doors, guaranteeing a complete soundproof space. Each of the tank rooms contain a towel, fulllength robe, shampoo, conditioner, and body wash, a bench, ear plugs, and cut ointment. The tanks themselves contain 1000 pounds of medical grade Epsom salt, with naturally occurring magnesium sulfate, in water kept at 93.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

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The thick, soundproof doors took me from the outer, naturally-lit communal area to an open room showing neon blue numbers one through four, and then into my personal sensory deprivation room.

When I was informed it was a 90-minute session, the thought initially startled me. An hour and a half with nothing but my thoughts and floating like a buoy? Are they crazy? Will I go crazy? Although I had the option to extend or shorten my time, I decided to give the recommended amount a try.

Luckily, I was a bit sleepy already and saw it as, if anything, an opportunity to take a nap.

Prior to entering the tank nude (recommended form), I washed my hair and body to rid any outside elements, patted my face dry to reduce any dripping (which can lead to face touching — not something salty hands should do), and stepped into the tank. For those who like customizing the experience, choose one of several colors to light the tank (red, green, purple, disco, or none at all). I placed a head float under my neck, observed the pure water spray and towel on the side (in the event I wanted to touch my eyes), and sank into my own blue lagoon. Light music, similar to that at a spa, played for eight minutes as I began my descent into an altered state of mind.

Whether it was my initial fatigue or the actual need to disconnect from the everyday world, I drifted into a peaceful state in relatively no time at all. Of course, since there are no clocks on the walls, I can’t say for certain how long it took to reach a complete absence of stress, but I awoke to spa music in the final eight minutes of my float as though no time had passed.

I stepped out of the tank, washed my hair and body, dried off, and walked into the “powder room” to blow dry my hair. There’s also a

Flotation therapy, also known as sensory deprivation tanks, are typically perceived one of two ways: a blissful escape or a claustrophobic nightmare. sauna room with additional shower, to extend the experience.

Ninety minutes of floating put me into a state of mind that would otherwise have taken hours of practice. I felt relieved of my perceived worries, upper shoulder tension had vanished, and I was even talking in a softer, calmer manner. Days later, I still find myself in that same state of mind, a rare occurrence as a woman on the go! It was as though I floated my way into serenity.

Introductory floats at Hamptons Float are $45. There is a 30-minute turnover time between sessions, allowing a full cleaning of the tanks.

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