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Trump’s Desertion Dear Editor, After President Erdogan of Turkey spoke to President Trump, an inept decision was made by Trump to pull our military forces from northern Syria. This allowed Turkey to invade and attack the Kurds.

Syrian Kurds have been loyal allies of U.S. armed forces since 2015 when they helped to clear ISIS from Syria at a significant cost to themselves. The Turkish invasion and displacement of the Kurds has allowed some ISIS prisoners to escape from prisons guarded by the Kurds, and it appears ISIS could make a comeback in Syria.

Trump’s desertion of the Kurds led to the signing of a defense pact between the Kurds and President Assad of Syria. Now Syrian, Iranian, and Russian military forces occupy northern Syria.

Trump abandoned the Kurds thereby creating additional instability in the Middle East, and he enhanced Syrian and Russian status in the region.

Other U.S. allies around the world are questioning the trustworthiness of the U.S. under Trump, who tweets uninformed and irrational foreign policy based on his lack of knowledge. Trump threatens our national security by creating problems in the world, which have

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BOO! Dear Bridget, Good afternoon and Happy Halloween! Thank you for another wonderful edition of the “Boo! Short and Scary Contest.” Right now, I have some very happy sixth graders as I sent them all home with a copy of their stories. My classes were so thrilled to listen to all the entries too.

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Hooray For Halloween Dear Editor, HOORAY! To the parents that spoke up concerning the Halloween Parade route change for Southampton Elementary School’s Costume Parade on October 31, 2019, that has been going on for many, many decades, without incident to my knowledge!

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News & Opinion DWI Charged After Fatal Montauk Crash Community grieves, raises money for struck bicyclist’s family

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

Lisa Rooney, being led into East Hampton Town Justice Court, is facing a single charge of drunken driving, though charges may be added. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

The family and friends of the 28-yearold bicyclist John James Usma-Quintero allegedly struck and killed by a drunk driver in Montauk are calling for justice as they prepare to return his ashes to his Colombia homeland.

Currently, the driver of the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado, Lisa Rooney, 30, of Montauk, who allegedly struck and killed the victim in the October 30 incident, is charged with a single count of first-time misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana said during Rooney’s arraignment October 31 that there is a great degree of likelihood the charges Rooney is facing could be elevated to the felony level.

Rooney is the daughter of a New York State Supreme Court Justice, Bruna DiBiase, who was in the courtroom October 31 during Rooney’s arraignment. DiBiase sits in criminal courts in New York City.

Usma-Quintero had been riding his bicycle up a steep hill on Flamingo Avenue as the sun was setting at the time of his death. Usma-Quintero was headed north to his apartment at Lyckie’s from his job at 7-Eleven in downtown Montauk. Flamingo Avenue is the main road between downtown and the dock area, has a very wide shoul-

der, and bicyclists are a common sight.

At 6:03 PM, East Hampton Town police say Rooney, headed toward her home in Culloden Shores, veered onto the shoulder, striking UsmaQuintero, and possibly dragging him some distance. The truck, registered to Rooney’s business, Girltauk, did not stop moving along the shoulder, according to police, until it plowed into a guardrail almost 100 yards from where Usma-Quintero was struck with enough force that the rail was ripped from the stanchions. The vehicle was impounded by police as part of the investigation.

Suffolk County prosecutor Jamie Greenwood said during the arraignment that police, who were on scene almost immediately, had interviewed witnesses to the incident. Rooney, police said, admitted being the driver of the pickup.

“I don’t know what happened,” she allegedly told police. “I swerved to avoid a car who was in the middle of the road, and I hit the guardrail.”

She said she did not know she had hit Usma-Quintero until police asked her about the bicyclist. “Is he OK?” she asked police.

Usma-Quintero’s bicycle was described by police as having been “de-

molished” by the impact of the pickup.

According to the incident report, Usma-Quintero suffered a major chest injury and was “severely bleeding.” His physical condition was listed by the arresting officer as “apparent death.”

Montauk volunteer ambulance crew members attempted to revive him, but Usma-Quintero was pronounced dead on arrival at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

The incident report specifically cites alcohol as the leading contributing factor in the crash. Police said that, at the scene, Rooney’s speech was slurred, there was a strong odor of alcohol, and that she failed field sobriety tests.

After being placed under arrest, Rooney told police she was not hurt, and was taken to police headquarters, where she allegedly refused to take a breath test. Instead, police obtained a judicial warrant, and she was required to submit to having blood drawn, which is standard in cases involving DWI charges following an accident with a fatality. That blood work will be tested by Suffolk County forensic experts to determine what substances, if any, and what quantity, were in Rooney’s system at the time blood was drawn.

Back in Montauk, East Hampton Town detectives sealed off the crime scene, and, working with Suffolk County crime lab technicians, meticulously documented the visible evidence of the crash.

Less than 24 hours after his death, a cross had been staked in the ground where Usma-Quintero was struck, topped with bouquets of flowers and a baseball cap. The 28-year-old, who has two daughters in Colombia, arrived in Montauk in April on a work visa. He had been planning on going home soon to see his children, his aunt Mercedes Giaraldo said after Rooney’s arraignment, where she was released on $1000 bail. Usma-Quintero shared an apartment with his aunt.

“A thousand dollars to get out after killing somebody? It doesn’t make sense,” Giaraldo said through a friend, who was translating, after Rooney’s arraignment.

Rana explained before setting bail that her hands have been essentially tied on the matter by the New York State Legislature, which has eliminated bail entirely for drunken driving cases — even those involving death.

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Attempted Murder Charge For Flanders Woman Popular manager of East Hampton CVS indicted on four felonies

By T.E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

Patchita Tennant, the popular manager at the East Hampton CVS on Pantigo Road, who is accused by police of shooting her boyfriend the evening of September 5, has been indicted by a grand jury on four felony charges, including attempted murder, according to online court records.

A grand jury handed down the sealed indictment October 31. Along with attempted murder, Tennant was charged with assault with a weapon with intent to cause serious injury, criminal use of a firearm in the first degree, and assault with a weapon with

an intent to cause injury. She faces five to 25 years in prison if convicted of just one of the three most serious charges.

The indictment will be unsealed in the Riverside county courtroom of Justice John Collins November 14.

Tennant, 42, has been free since September 10, when her family secured her release with a $500,000 bond.

Tennant is alleged to have shot her boyfriend, Andrew Silas Mitchell, three times with a .38-caliber revolver during an argument inside their Flanders home. The couple had jointly purchased the house in 2015. Two of the

shots hit Mitchell in the chest, collapsing his lungs. The third struck him in the arm.

Mitchell was hospitalized, survived the shooting, and reportedly identified Tennant as his assailant.

The couple have a three-yearold daughter. The whereabouts of the child, unknown to the police immediately after the alleged shooting, while Tennant was still at-large, caused the Southampton Town police to issue an Amber Alert. That was cancelled when it was learned Tennant had dropped the child off with a relative.

Accompanied by her attorney, Tennant turned herself in at Southampton Town police headquarters September 6.

The charges indicate the grand jury did not believe the child was in the house at the time of the shooting.

Tennant’s lawyer, Austin Manghan, argued during her initial arraignment in Southampton Town Justice Court September 7 that his client was an abused woman, and was struggling with Mitchell over the gun when it went off. He said that Mitchell was also the owner of the weapon.

Numerous supporters, both coworkers and family members, have told the media Manghan is right in his argument, saying that they have witnessed

Patchita Tennant may get five to 25 years in prison if convicted on any of the three most serious charges she’s facing. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

bruises on Tennant in the past.

The prosecution stated during that initial arraignment that Tennant was holding the gun at the time of the shooting, and told Mitchell, “I’m going to kill you, and I am going to kill myself.”

Calls to Manghan went unanswered. Tennant has not returned to work at CVS since her arrest, according to an employee who answered the phone there Sunday.

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The East Hampton Town Board members unanimously approved a resolution last week that is a major step toward marrying the town’s current overhaul of its emergency communications system with AT&T’s installation of a 160-foot cell phone tower on the old brush dump in Northwest Woods, where construction recently began on a new substation for the East Hampton Fire Department.

The marriage with AT&T, according to federal court documents, is the result of a settlement between the town and the telecom giant, which had sued in federal court in early 2018 to be allowed to install cell antennas near the top of the wind turbine at Iacono Farm on Long Lane.

The terms of the agreement between the town and AT&T appear to entirely favor the latter. The agreement, filed October 24, is on file in the eastern district of New York’s federal courthouse in Central Islip.

The agreement reads, in part, “The Town, and its boards, agencies, departments, and instrumentalities shall accord AT&T all reasonable cooperation and assistance, including access to the brush dump, necessary to facilitate AT&T’s submission of the materials . . . and to permit AT&T to construct the brush dump facility.”

If the town should obstruct the project in any way, through any of its agencies, such as by making a positive declaration under the state’s Environmental Quality Review Act, the agreement states AT&T will then have the right to go back to Iacono Farm and install the antennas they originally wanted, without any interference.

The original Iacono Farm proposal ran into stiff opposition during site-plan review before the East Hampton Town Planning Board, which required a SEQRA review to be done by AT&T. The planning board eventually rejected the AT&T application.

AT&T maintained then, and now, that the town, under federal law, had no right to stop them from installing communication antennas at the site. The Town of East Hampton, and Chief Judge Dora Irizarry of the eastern district, all agree that AT&T had it right. The agreement between the two sides states that if AT&T finds that there is any governmental obstruction of any kind to the brush dump antenna, the court will find that the town “shall be deemed to have granted all variances, permits, and approvals necessary for construction of the Iacono Farm facility, and AT&T shall be authorized to construct the Iacono Farm facility.”

While the two sides negotiated this deal, the one person left in the dark was Anthony Iacono. Despite the fact that his farm’s name is the subject of the settlement, he said neither side ever contacted him about it. The town's lead attorney, John Jilnicki, was not available for comment earlier this week.

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One of the potentially two Shinnecock Indian Nation gas stations is being proposed to be built along Sunrise Highway near the site of one of the nation’s billboard monuments. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Gas Station Plans In Shinnecock’s Future The tribe also passes resolutions to explore gaming proposals

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The Shinnecock Indian Nation has formed Eastern Woods Petroleum with plans to build two gas stations on tribal land by next summer.

One would be a rest-stop-style facility near its billboard-style sign, dubbed by members of the Shinnecock as a monument, on the tribe’s Westwoods property along Sunrise Highway. The other is proposed along Montauk Highway, on the nation’s Shinnecock Neck territory.

The tribe formed the company to begin planning, investment, and other work related to the stations, which will be fully owned by the Shinnecock, Tribal Council Chairman Bryan Polite said. Trustees have previously voted to ban any individual members from opening a gas station.

It’s part of the Shinnecock Nation’s ongoing efforts to generate revenue. The 61-foot-tall billboards, one of which is operational, on the south side of the highway between exits 65 and 66 in Hampton Bays, could reportedly generate in the millions of dollars each year, the tribe previously said in a statement.

“Our community has suffered greatly over the last several decades due to a lack of resources,” a spokesperson for the Shinnecock Nation’s Council of Trustees said in a letter sub-

mitted to the town. “Now, we have the opportunity to generate revenue and have access to the same standard of living as our much wealthier neighbors.”

That project is still the subject of a state court battle involving the Department of Transportation, which cited a potential safety hazard should the billboard fall onto the state rightof-way during an emergency. The topic has drawn national attention, even being the subject of an episode of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”

Town officials also objected, although Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman has said publicly he supports the gas stations, adding that while it is the nation’s land and can do with it what it wishes, he thinks it’d not only be a benefit to the tribe, but to locals and visitors.

When asked whether the state would object to a Shinnecock gas station on Sunrise Highway, an official at the Department of Transportation said, “We have not been notified by the Shinnecock Nation of any plans to erect a new facility on Sunrise Highway.”

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Honoring Veterans Events and tributes around the East End Compiled by Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Hampton Bays Honors Local Vietnam Vet In continuing its mission to take history out of the textbooks by honoring a local veteran each month of the school year, the Hampton Bays School District paid tribute to U.S. Navy veteran Timothy Fennelly of Hampton Bays by flying an American flag in his honor throughout the month of October.

“The district is proud to honor Mr. Fennelly for his bravery and service to the United States,” said Superintendent of Schools Lars Clemensen.

Fennelly was recognized at a ceremony October 18 at Hampton Bays Elementary School, where middle school students in the district read his biography. The event culminated with the raising of the flag on the school’s flagpole.

Fennelly was born in June 1946 in Dearborn, MI, and raised in Detroit. He recalls listening to Motown music from a young age as he grew up in a bustling household with seven brothers and one sister. In July 1964, just after graduating from Lincoln Park High School and deciding that his calling was to serve his country, he followed two of his brothers into the Navy.

In January 1965, Fennelly was assigned to the USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883), a refurbished Gearing class destroyer in the Boston Shipyard. The ship’s first assignment was to be the flagship for destroyer squadron anti-submarine operations (DESRON). Fennelly

went from trying to serve on U.S. submarines to tracking and destroying enemy subs.

Fennelly returned from Vietnam in June 1967 and was honorably discharged from the Navy as an E-5 the following April. While visiting a shipmate from Riverhead shortly after returning from Vietnam, he met his first wife, Elizabeth, a Hampton Bays resident, and chose to stay in Hampton Bays rather than return to Michigan.

Upon arriving home, Fennelly joined the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, where he rose to the rank of sergeant as a park ranger. In 1972, he joined the ranks of the Southampton Police Department, where he served for 20 years before retiring as a detective. In his retirement, he started his own security company, which he ran for 37 years.

Fennelly married his second wife, Susan, in 2000. He has three sons, one daughter, and six grandchildren, and he is an active member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion, as well as the Rotary Club of Hampton Bays.

Atkins Is Westhampton’s Hometown Hero In gratitude of his service and sacrifice, the Westhampton Free Library paid tribute to Matthew Atkins, a U.S. Army veteran, at a ceremony on October 26 as part of its Hometown Heroes initiative.

“It is so important to honor our lo-

WWII Army veteran Louis Merola, 93, with Navy veteran Joe Taranto, 88, who served in the Korean War. Independent/Courtesy Honor Flight Long Island

cal veterans,” said Westhampton Free Library director Danielle Waskiewicz.

“They made many sacrifices and deserve to be thanked.”

According to Atkins, he wasn’t quite a model student when growing up in Riverhead, admitting, “I was a ruthless teenager.” However, he graduated high school in 1999 and stayed local while deciding what he wanted to do in life.

His first inclination was to join the U.S. Air Force, but because he wore glasses, the job he really wanted — fixing planes mid-flight — was not going to pan out. Instead, he opted for the Army.

In May 2001, Atkins entered basic training at Fort Knox in Kentucky. From there, he was sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning school. He graduated in November that year and enjoyed two weeks’ leave before being sent to a duty station in Heidelberg, Germany.

While in Germany, Atkins served with a United States/European Command Unit in the motor pool that included civilians. There, he gained additional skills while cross training with the mechanics.

His time in Germany was cut short when, in March 2003, he received orders to go to Iraq and serve in a command unit.

“I knew that I would be sent to Iraq,” he said. “I just didn’t know I would be taken from my unit.”

While awaiting orders, Atkins spent a month in Kuwait. “We were told we couldn’t make phone calls, even though we were allowed,” he said of that time.

“My mom was worried and called the Red Cross,” and they were able to reach him.

Two weeks later, and after two chemical attacks, Atkins received orders to head into Iraq. He made the 28-hour drive into Baghdad without wearing his full Kevlar gear. Just before leaving for Iraq, he had hit his head and needed stiches and bandages, which prevented his helmet from fitting properly.

“I wasn’t even in Iraq yet and was already injured,” he said, “but I drove with one eye open and one closed.”

In Baghdad, Atkins found himself stationed at one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces that the U.S. Marines had previously cleared out. What started as a small camp when he arrived turned into a full enterprise by the time he left.

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classes will rotate to each room so all students will see and meet each hero and hear their stories.

water. “Being in the motor pool, we were able to go out for supplies,” he said. “By luck, we came across a water cooler and reconned it.”

He remained in Iraq for six months making numerous runs for supplies and parts before coming to the end of his tour. He arrived back on European soil in November 2003 for debriefing and was back home in the U.S. on March 11, 2004.

Atkins holds several accommodations from his service, including three Army Achievement Medals, a National Service Defense Medal, an Army Service Ribbon, and an Overseas Service Ribbon.

He was also selected in 2002 to serve on funeral detail in Belgium for World War II soldiers, an experience he said he will never forget.

Back home, Atkins landed a job at Mendenhall Fuel continuing the same work he had been doing in the Army. Atkins and his wife, Becky, reside in East Quogue with their adopted daughter, Alora, whom they fostered along with a number of other children over the years.

He is also a volunteer firefighter with the East Quogue Fire Department.

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Westhampton Beach High School In honor of Veterans Day, Westhampton Beach High School has invited local veterans to speak to its U.S. History students on Friday, November 8, from 7:30 AM to 1:30 PM. This allows students to learn history from those who lived it.

Roanoke Elementary School In honor of Veterans Day, third-grade students at Riverhead’s Roanoke Avenue Elementary School will host their third annual Salute to Heroes on Friday, November 8, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM. Three local veterans will visit each third-grade classroom where they will share their stories with students about their experiences in the military. The third-grade

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On Monday, November 11, the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation will hold its annual flag ceremony in honor of our veterans at 240 Edgemere Street, Montauk.

The ceremony will begin at 10 AM at the Suzanne Koch Gosman Flagpole Garden and will feature the raising of the flag by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and patriotic music, featuring local musician and WWII veteran Pat DeRosa.

Refreshments will be served following the ceremony in the Senior Nutrition Center dining room. Veterans, as well as the entire community, are invited to attend this ceremony.

To learn more about the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation, visit www.montaukplayhouse.org.

Southampton Village Parade The Commission on Veterans Patriotic Events will hold a short parade in honor of Veterans Day on Monday, November 11, at 11 AM, with a service immediately following in Agawam Park. Kevin Flike, a Green Beret wounded in the line of duty, will be the speaker.

Flike enlisted in the Army after colUnited States Army veteran Matthew Atkins, here with his family, was honored on October 26. Independent/ lege graduation, and after two years of inCourtesy Westhampton Free Library tense training in the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center (Special Forces Qualisurgeries, thousands of hours of physical reunion of 50 Long Island WWII and fication Course), he earned the Green therapy, and over 40 inches of scars, his Korean War veterans who were flown to Beret. In April of 2009, he was assigned to Washington, D.C. on September 21 for a health is progressing rapidly. the First Special Forces Group (Airborne)

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Town Joins Suit To Take Down Poles East Hampton cites safety and aesthetic concerns

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com If you think East Hamptoners have come to grips with the oversized utility poles installed by PSEG in the past, think again. A move to force PSEG to bury the lines and remove the poles has been sparked, yet again. East Hampton Town has joined a legal suit to make it happen.

Long Island Businesses for Responsible Energy hired Steve Mintz, founding partner of Mintz & Gold LLP, along with partner Peter Guirguis in 2017 to take legal action in what it termed “Long Island Businesses for Responsible Energy’s David and Goliath fight against defendants, PSEG-LI and LIPA” with the goal of removing the 276 toxic poles along the 6.2-mile route from East Hampton to Amagansett, burying the high-tension lines, and re-

mediating the soil around the poles.

Last week, Long Island Businesses for Responsible Energy announced East Hampton is now officially seeking to join the fight as a plaintiff. The most recently-filed memo of late requests that the court grant class certification asserting a claim of fraud on behalf of the town, and violations by PSEG and LIPA of the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. “The poles are ladened with pentachlorophenol and have contaminated East Hampton’s air, soil, and groundwater, destroying the aesthetic beauty of its residential areas, devaluing its homes, and creating a situation that negatively effects the health of its residents and its environment,” according

East Hampton Town has joined a lawsuit seeking to force LIPA/PSEG to bury power lines and remove the oversized utility poles running east from the Old Stone Highway substation, down Town Lane, and through East Hampton Village. Independent/James J. Mackin

to Long Island Businesses for Responsible Energy. Pentachlorophenol is an organochlorine compound used as a pesticide and disinfectant.

“We hope the town’s decision to join this fight will help convince PSEGLI and LIPA to stop poisoning our land and water resources,” Helene Forst, of East Hampton, and chairwoman of Long Island Businesses for Responsible Energy, said in a press release.

The Town Lane route may come into play if or when Eversource/Ørsted lands a cable carrying power for its South Fork Wind Farm onto land. If the landing occurs in Montauk, the cable may work its way to the Amagansett

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Bridgehampton FD Pancake Breakfast Photos by Tom Kochie It was hot pancakes and warm smiles on a chilly Sunday morning, November 3, when the Bridgehampton Fire Department hosted its fundraising breakfast.

From chief to volunteers, all hands were on deck to serve the public, who came out to support the local firefighters.

Kiwanis Family Fun Day Photos by Richard Lewin Not only did the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton keep to its motto of “serving the children of the world,� Sunday, November 3, at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett, but it also served up a full day of family fun. Bouncy houses and slides, face painting, a magician, picnic food and drink, live music, free rides on the Polar Express train, and plenty more created a carnival atmosphere for all.

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News & Opinion

November 6, 2019

LIPA CEO Reveals Wind Power Rates

energy costs three times as much now as it did then, and that wind will likely follow suit. “We have the added benefit of injecting it where we really need it.”

Simon Kinsella, a Wainscott resident who sued to force the state and LIPA to reveal the contracted cost for the wind power, said the numbers Falcone and LIPA used to generate the cost are faulty.

“We are constantly looking to purchase more,” Falcone said. “You do not want bidders to know” what rates you are willing to accept.

Kinsella said an accurate contract valuation is $24.6/kWh assuming an average inflation rate of two percent.

“LIPA’s valuation of $14.1/kWh relies on a fictional inflation rate of 6.5 percent for the next 20 years,” he said.

“LIPA’s claim is grossly undervalued.”

Falcone countered, “The adjusted rate for inflation is just a way of comparing apples to apples. It’s the same rate New York State Energy Research and Development Authority uses, levelized and recalculated.”

A more pertinent number, Falcone said, is the average cost the wind power will add to the typical ratepayer’s bill, which he said is between $1.39 and $1.57 per month. Ratepayers across the entire PSEG grid share the cost, not just East Hampton users.

Confirms a new landing site for cable is being discussed

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com Tom Falcone, the CEO of Long Island Power Authority, defended the price his company will pay for wind power from the South Fork Wind Farm should that project indeed become a reality.

In an exclusive one-on-one with The Independent Thursday, November 1, Falcone said rates will fall as LIPA acquires more and more offshore power, thus offsetting the relatively high price agreed upon for the farm.

He also acknowledged the parent companies of the project — Eversource Energy and Ørsted, formerly Deepwater Wind — have a third location under consideration to land the cable that will bring the power ashore from the wind turbines 35 miles out.

The Independent has revealed preliminary plans to abandon Beach Lane

in Wainscott as a landing site, and relocate another alternative in Hither Hills further east of another wind farm being considered in the same area. The cable would then run first to the Long Island Rail Road right-of-way, and then to the recently-expanded PSEG facility in Amagansett on Old Stone Road.

Eventually the line would make its way to the Wainscott substation.

Falcone’s mission was clearly to promote the $14.1 per kilowatt hour rate. He says LIPA will pay for the wind power. Some critics say it’s too high of a cost, while others question how the amount was derived and charge it is inaccurate.

“The 2015 request for proposal presented a need to buy clean, renewable energy,” Falcone said, adding solar

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Tom Falcone with The Independent’s Executive Editor Rick Murphy in August 2018 at its East Hampton office. Independent/Justin Meinken

LIPA is positioned to react to changes in the offshore wind market as they develop, Falcone said. For example, a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management review on a proposed Martha’s Vineyard wind farm has hit a snag because of its impact on the nearby fishery.

“It’s hard to predict if the review will take longer,” Falcone said, but added it was something LIPA couldn’t control.

Ørsted has never publicly revealed a third location to make landfall with the cable from the offshore wind turContinued On Page 32.

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Police Teacher Resigns After Drug Charges Southampton earth science educator arrested for possession

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Southampton earth science teacher Michael Treco, 29, of Sea Cliff, resigned last month following his second

arrest on drug possession charges.

On October 4, state police in Greenwich, NY arrested Treco for

Man On Lawn Mower Charged With DWI Shelter Island stop also led to resisting arrest charge

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To be charged for driving while intoxicated, police must determine that a defendant was intoxicated while operating a motor vehicle. New York law defines motor vehicle as any vehicle

propelled by any power other than muscular power. That, apparently, includes a riding lawn mower.

The Shelter Island Police Department reported receiving a call Hallow-

allegedly possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, and marijuana.

A state trooper observed the defendant traveling south on state Route 29 with a broken brake light shortly after 10 PM, and upon pulling him over to address him about the problem, allegedly could smell marijuana coming from the interior of the car.

A probable-cause search of the vehicle revealed that Treco was in possession of approximately 10 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms, one gram of cocaine, and five grams of marijuana, police said.

Treco was taken into custody and transported to the state trooper station in Greenwich for processing, and transported to Washington County Jail for centralized arraignment. He was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a B felony; fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a D felony; and second-degree unlawful possession of marijuana, a

violation.

“Please be assured that students in those earth science classes are in great hands during this transition process,” read an email to parents signed by Southampton Principal Dr. Brian Zahn, Assistant Principal Susan Wright, and Dean of Students Sara Smith. “Although a mid-year teacher change is not ideal, we will continue to go to great lengths to ensure that our students are in the best learning environment possible.”

According to state police operating in the Town of Livingston — in Columbia County, NY — Treco was also pulled over January 16, 2015, for allegedly talking on his cellphone while driving. A subsequent search of his vehicle allegedly found marijuana, cocaine, and a club-like object. The controlled substance and criminal possession of a weapon charges were both misdemeanors, and possession of marijuana, a violation. He was released with tickets for Livingston Town Court.

een night tipping them off to James Lenzer, 58, an island resident, riding a lawn mower down Route 114 on the north side of the Island “in an intoxicated condition.” Police say Lenzer had an open container of alcohol with him when officers approached him on his mower.

It was determined that Lenzer was drunk and an officer tried to place Lenzer under arrest, but he resisted being handcuffed before being taken into custody, according to police.

Lenzer was charged with driving while intoxicated, as well as resisting arrest, and was taken to police headquarters, where he refused a breath test. Because of that refusal, his license was suspended for the next year during his arraignment in Shelter Island justice court the next morning, pending a separate hearing

NY law defines motor vehicle as any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power. at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Both criminal charges are at the misdemeanor level. Lenzer was also charged with a violation for having an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle. He was released without bail after being arraigned November 1.

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November 6, 2019

EH Village Police Nab Alleged Drug Dealer

The Village of East Hampton police, acting after a 15-year-old suffered a nearfatal drug overdose on Halloween night, participated in the arrest of the individual two days later whom they say sold the youth the unspecified narcotic. The identity and location of the drug dealer was not given in the brief press release the police issued November 2. Police records indicate that there were no arrests in the village this past week.

Village detectives announced the arrest on Saturday, November 2, after in-

vestigating alongside the East End Drug Task Force, a special unit run out of the district attorney’s office.

Police received the 911 call at about 7:30 the night of Thursday, October 31.

It is not clear from a statement released by village police after the arrest if Narcan, a drug that is frequently used to save overdose victims, was administered. The statement says the youth was taken first to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, then was transferred to Stony Brook University Hospital.

day, was driving a 2018 Mercedes Benz headed east entering the downtown area of Montauk on Main Street doing 51 mph in a 30-mph zone, leading to a traffic stop and his arrest, police said. Campbell, a Manhattan resident, allegedly took a breath test that produced a reading of .15.

Both were held overnight, arraigned the next morning, and released without bail. On Saturday night, Robert Kressler, 48, of Rye, was driving a 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe headed east on Montauk Highway when he was pulled over for swerving across lane lines, police said.

Kressler’s legal situation is complicated by the fact that he has multiple suspensions on his license, involving failing to respond to traffic summonses, in Manhattan and Rye, leading to a felony charge

of unlicensed driving.

East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana warned him during his Sunday morning arraignment that she would not be able to issue a hardship license that would allow him to drive to and from work, “until I know your stops have been lifted,” she said. Kressler said he would get to work on the suspensions right away, and Rana released him without bail.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested Michele VanNostran, 29, of Philadephia, Halloween night for alleged drunken driving. Police said she was headed south on Hampton Street without turning on the headlights of the 2002 Mercedes she was driving. She was held overnight and released the next morning without bail.

rived on-scene he did not hit the dog, but officers said they noticed a dent on Moran’s front bumper license plate.

Things then went from bad to worse for the driver. Moran was administered and allegedly failed roadside sobriety tests, police said. He was charged with misdemeanor DWI and leaving the scene of an accident and held for arraignment.

Southold police also reported the arrest of James Ahrem, 56, of Central Islip, on a DWI charge the next day. Police said he was spotted weaving through traffic on Route 25 in Southold, and upon questioning, police ascertained he had been drinking. He was also charged with failure to stay in his lane.

A Riverhead woman was arrested October 27 after Riverhead Town police said they found drugs in her car during a traffic stop. Sophonia Reeder, 50, allegedly ran a stop sign at the corner of Marcy and Osborn avenues around 11:30 AM. Police said they spotted several small white rocks that appeared to be crack cocaine in the center console of her vehicle. A field test of one of the granules tested positive. Reeder was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, both misdemeanors. She was processed at the station and released. She will answer the charges in justice court later this month.

Arrest follows two-day investigation following near-fatal teen OD

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

DWI Charged In EH And Sag Harbor Speeding tickets followed by arrests

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Misdemeanor DWI charges brought Friday night against Enrique FernandezAlcocer, 44, of Sag Harbor, were raised to the aggravated level because, East Hampton Town police said, a breath test at the station produced a reading of .18 — more than double New York’s legal limit. Driv-

ing a 2018 Chevrolet Silverado pickup on Cedar Street near Fieldview Lane, police said they pulled Fernandez-Alcocer over November 1 for moving at 48 miles per hour in a 30-mph zone.

Also Friday night, Larry Campbell II, who was celebrating his 58th birth-

Greenport Man Hits Dog Police said he drove away after incident

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com A Greenport man who said he went out to buy cigars instead found himself behind bars after allegedly hitting a dog while he was drinking and driving November 1.

Christopher Lewis Moran, 65, of Greenport, was driving on Third Street in the village Friday afternoon when the

incident allegedly occurred. A bystander told police he heard a thump and turned around to see Moran driving his vehicle away, leaving an injured dog in his wake.

The witness told police he saw the driver pull into a Third Street driveway, where he followed to confront him. Moran told Southold Town police that ar-

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Editorial

J U ST A S K I N G

By Karen Fredericks

Boo Who?

The Enemy Within The news that potentially fatal doses of heroin laced with fentanyl are deliberately given to users has hit particularly hard as of late, because it happened hereabouts. But law enforcement agents have been reporting on the phenomena for a couple of years now nationwide.

The dealers may want to test the potency, for example, to arrive at the proper mixture, and use addicts as guinea pigs. They may deliberately sell or even give the fatal mixture to users they suspect may someday testify in court against them. This type of dastardly conduct should obviously be punished severely. It is deliberate, premediated murder.

The dealers on the street aren’t the only murderers: the manufacturers and distributors are equally guilty. Just last week 45 pounds of fentanyl was seized in Ohio — enough to kill “the entire population of Ohio many times over,” one official said. Earlier in the year, 254 pounds were seized in Arizona, hidden on a truck near the Mexican border. While the drugs seized were produced illegally, fentanyl is manufactured and approved for treating severe pain, typically advanced cancer pain. It is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and most often applied as a slow-release patch.

But only four percent of the drug seized on the street is legal. “The most common distribution medium is via the U.S. Postal Service,” the Treasury Department said in a recent statement. The most frequent origin point: China.

And, yes, the southwest border is “another major conduit for fentanyl.” Customs and Borders Protection agents are woefully undermanned, and even their dogs “were not trained to detect fentanyl at any ports of entry, including in the mail, until 2017.”

Congress has pushed for better control of incoming mail from China but the U.S. Postal Service has pushed back because it doesn’t have the manpower. President Trump ordered packages from China simply sent back if they are suspicious in nature.

But the biggest danger comes from a predictable source. “For years, some drug companies were fined for repeatedly ignoring warnings from the DEA to shut down suspicious sales of hundreds of millions of pills, while they racked up billions of dollars in sales,” the Washington Post reported. These drug companies augment their effort to combat more stringent control by donating “millions of dollars” to elected officials in Washington. It’s a bipartisan effort: Congressmen and senators from both parties split over $9 million in legal donations this year according to OpenSecrets.org.

We all need to come to grips with this sad fact. It’s not one corrupt politician you are railing against and trying to unseat. It’s not your political party trying to do what’s best for the people. It is a corrupt system, and all of them feed from the same trough.

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Arts & Entertainment Emma Walton Hamilton: ‘That’s Life!’

Jennifer Edwards, Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton, and Chris Lemmon in a publicity shot for “That's Life!”

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Hollywood royalty graces Bay Street

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

“You mean you want to talk to just me?” asked Emma Walton Hamilton, the co-founder of the Bay Street Theater, bestselling author, and director of the Children’s Lit Fellows and Young Artists and Writers Project at Stony Brook Southampton University. “No one ever wants to talk to just me.”

She was joking, of course — and, full disclosure, Hamilton and I have been step-sisters for over half a century — but since pairing up with her mother, Julie Andrews, as a writing duo that have produced dozens of bestsellers, TV shows, plays, and more, Hamilton, a Sag Harbor resident, has willingly taken a back seat to her mother’s more internationally famous name.

“I hid behind ‘Walton’ growing up,” she said. Her father is Tony Walton, the famed designer/director, who for years was a Sag Harbor resident with his second wife, Gen LeRoy-Walton. “I went to a lot of different schools, and I always wanted the other kids to get to know me for me — to be my friend because they liked me — before they found out about my mom. It was a race!” she said with a smile.

“Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years,” Andrews’s second autobiographical tome, co-written with Hamilton, has just hit the stands, as we used to say, and Bay Street Theater and

the Sag Harbor Cinema will be joining forces to host a benefit screening of Blake Edwards’s “That’s Life!” (1986) on Sunday, November 10, which stars Julie Andrews, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Edwards, Chris Lemmon . . . and Emma Walton Hamilton. It was a family affair, with Edwards and Andrews married for quite some time, and a blending of their children, and Jack Lemmon’s as well, to portray — surprise, surprise — a dysfunctional Hollywood family.

Even Hamilton’s dog, Chutney, is in the movie.

It’s a deeply personal movie, one that, Hamilton believes, Edwards wrote and filmed as an amends to his family for his often-challenging behavior due to depression, chronic pain, and addiction issues, all of which is chronicled in “Home Work.”

“The book ends with ‘That’s Life!’” Hamilton said. “It’s the last film that Blake and Mom did together.”

And there are parts of the film that seem prescient to Hamilton now. “This was way before Mom’s throat issues,

but that’s a big part of the storyline in the movie. My boyfriend in the film is named ‘Steve,’” — director Stephen Hamilton is Emma’s longtime husband — “and Jordan Christopher plays the doctor.” Sybil Christopher, who was married to Jordan, co-founded Bay Street with Hamilton.

“It’s just all around so weird,” she said. “It really shows the connection of everything.”

But wait, there’s more. Edwards had chosen to film “That’s Life!” in a John Cassavetes fashion, mostly adlibbed. Hamilton was already living in New York, pursuing the life of an actress, “but I chose to be a saxophone player instead for the film,” she said, laughing. “So, I had to learn to play the sax for the movie.”

The sax that Hamilton blows in the film, by the way, was picked up by the Hamiltons’ son, Sam, who played it all the way through Ross School.

“My kids had never seen it before,” Hamilton said of a recent screening of “That’s Life!” in New York City.

“That was an amazing experience. Sitting there, watching it with Hope, and Sam, who is now 23, the same age I was when we filmed the movie. And for him to see himself so clearly in me,” she is silent for a moment. “It was profound.”

And as for hiding behind the name Walton, Hamilton remembers when that changed for her. “I was attending Marianne Williamson’s lectures in the city, and we became friends,” she said.

In fact, Williamson officiated at the Hamiltons’ wedding at Old Whalers’ Church on May 11, 1991.

“And Marianne said to me, way back when, ‘Your mother is Hollywood royalty. And you are a princess.’ It literally changed everything about the way I felt in a nanosecond. I suddenly saw I had a responsibility to live up to somehow, that I could wear the mantel and stand by my mother’s side.”

The screening on Sunday will begin at 3 PM, followed by a Q&A with Andrews and Hamilton, and a book signing. For tickets, visit www.baystreet.org.

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‘Very Ralph’ Susan Lacy presents HBO documentary on the life of Ralph Lauren

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

It’s fair to say that Ralph Lauren, the man and the fashion empire, are staples in the East End community. It’s the East End where the fashion icon runs Main Street retail, with shops in East Hampton and Southampton. He’s lived in Montauk for decades and it’s not rare to see him driving around in a convertible on a summer day.

“Very Ralph” is the first documentary portrait of the fashion icon.

The film is directed and produced by Emmy award-winning Susan Lacy, a Sag Harbor resident. Lacy, well known for her insightful documentaries, most recently directed HBO’s “Jane Fonda in Five Acts” and “Spielberg.” She is also on the cinema board for the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center.

Lauren recently celebrated 50

years as a designer with an elaborate fashion show he dubbed Ralph’s Club, which created a theatrical art-deco experience to showcase his collection.

It’s perfect timing for “Very Ralph,” as he continues to lead one of the world’s most widely recognized clothing brands. His collection is more popular than ever. It’s a time of everything Ralph: coffee shops, restaurants, retail.

With an uncanny ability to turn his dreams into reality, Lauren has built a multi-billion-dollar, global powerhouse out of his aspirations, becoming a living embodiment of the American Dream.

“Very Ralph” debuts on Tuesday, November 12, at 9 PM, exclusively on HBO. The feature-length film reveals the man behind the icon and the cre-

ation of one of the most successful brands in fashion history. The world will be watching, and the East End and NYC will be front and center.

The film depicts the designer's life and work. Lauren speaks candidly in extensive interviews about his childhood, his five-decade-long marriage, the early days of his company, his response to criticism, his inventive multipage ad campaigns, and his pioneering vision which includes many firsts.

Lauren was the first designer to create and market a complete lifestyle brand and expand into home furnishings. He was one of the first to promote diversity on the runway and in advertising. And he was the first to create immersive retail environments that transformed the shopping experience.

The film also features archives from 50 years of the fashion brand, as well as intimate, revealing interviews with Lauren’s family, long-standing colleagues, and admirers, including Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, André Leon Talley, Hillary Clinton, Robin Givhan, Jason Wu, Naomi Campbell, Martha Stewart, Calvin Klein, Tyson Beckford, Tina Brown, Diane von Furstenberg, Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Friedman, and Paul Goldberger.

The Independent caught up with Lacy to discuss the making of “Very Ralph.”

What inspired you to create the documentary ‘Very Ralph’?

Since creating “American Masters” and producing films about America’s leading creative artists in all fields — literature, music, visual arts, dance, photography, media, etc. — I always wanted to produce a film about a fashion designer and the opportunity never came up. But the person I always felt would be the most appropriate was Ralph Lauren. As someone says in the film, if America had a national designer, it would be Ralph.

So, when I made the move to HBO from PBS about six years ago, after producing and directing films about Steven Spielberg and Jane Fonda, Richard Plepler (former head of HBO) asked me if I would like to make a film about Ralph. I jumped at the opportunity.

You and Ralph Lauren are both embedded in the East End community.

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influence in the film?

Ralph has a beautiful place in Montauk (my favorite of all his houses) and the film reveals the grounds and the house, but also how much the beach and the simpler life of the East End affected Ralph. He has been going out there since his kids were small, and it is where he was able to spend family time away from the pressures of work and the city. The images of him driving his kids on the beach in his vintage Jeep are priceless.

What is your relationship with Ralph Lauren? How did you meet?

I didn’t know Ralph prior to making this film, and we both felt a need to meet before making a commitment to each other. My first meeting with him was in his office, and we connected immediately. I can’t really say why or how, except I think we saw in each other empathy, a certain kind of gentleness and kindness, and it was very easy to talk to each other. He is a very private man, but he opened up to me that day in ways that surprised me. As did I to him.

From that moment, we built a re-

lationship of trust and sharing. He is somewhat uneasy having his life and work documented. Like most of us, he prefers the images of his younger self, but he was game and went with it. Seeing this 80-year-old man go to the office every day and still be as passionate and devoted to excellence as he was when he was initially building his business, was pretty inspiring.

Why is this the ideal time to release a documentary on Ralph Lauren?

Ralph is far from finished, but it made sense to make a thorough film about this very complex man and his brand around the celebration of the 50th anniversary of his company.

Any behind the scenes stories while filming?

The only one which comes to mind is when I interviewed Kanye West in Los Angeles. Despite being a huge admirer of Ralph’s, I think he was somewhat hesitant about doing the interview.

But, when he realized I was not going for the easy soundbite, but wanted to genuinely understand what drew him

to Ralph’s clothes and Ralph himself, he did a wonderful interview, and it went way beyond the time he had allotted.

He was building a house at the time, so when the interview was over, instead of disappearing, he insisted on taking me and Jessica Levin, one of the film’s producers and a close friend, to see the house under construction. I was absolutely gob-smacked at how big all the rooms were, including a closet that was as big as most people’s living rooms.

In any case, he showed us around like a proud homeowner and then took us back to the studio where our car was.

What do you hope viewers will take away from this film?

It sounds corny, but I think the film shows that no matter where you come from, a strong vision, hard work, and perseverance can take you from nowhere to the top of the mountain.

Ralph had dreams of a life he wanted, which he saw in the movies. Ultimately, he embodied those dreams and turned them into his life and a brand which has spoken to the dreams of millions of people — for 50 years!

“Seeing this 80-year-old man go to the office every day and still be as passionate and devoted to excellence as he was when he was initially building his business, was pretty inspiring.” — Susan Lacy

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Tabling Time At Rosie’s Special evenings of storytelling jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze Some evenings are special. They stand out. For me, Tabling Time on Halloween night was one of those evenings. The Independent started its Indy Storytelling series at the beginning of October at Rosie’s in Amagansett and it’s been quite the memorable experience.

On each consecutive Thursday in October, guests joined us in sharing stories about a variety of topics including love, sacrifice, wisdom, and birth and rebirth. Special guest storytellers have included many friends of The Independent like Georgia Warner, Lynn Blue, Monte Farber, Angela LaGreca, Christine Prydatko, Dawn Watson, Alec Sokolow, Fred Raimondo, Minerva Perez, and Bill Goldstein. And Indy’s Heather

At Rosie's with Kara Hoblin, Taylor Berry, and Bridget LeRoy. Independent/Wil Weiss

Buchanan, Bridget LeRoy, and Ty Wenzel have shared too as special guests.

I was lucky to attend three out of the five dinners and loved every moment. Not to mention the food at Rosie’s is exceptional. Hats off to chefs Leo Mamaril and Josh Cohen.

The fitting theme on Halloween night was Death/Fear. For me, my two biggest fears are death and public speaking. So, when people asked if I’d be telling a story, I had to explain that I was just there as a spectator and joked, “This is my biggest fear!” It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of a room and talk about topics that are close to your heart. I appreciate every one of the stories told over the past month.

I love stories and I love to tell them on paper, where I can (depending on how close I am to deadline) take the time to make them exactly what I want the world to read. Sharing isn’t a problem for me, but I always fear that my mind would go blank if I tried to get up in front of the crowd and recall one of my life’s events, with no paper to read from.

Special guests who discussed Death/Fear included Matt Raynor, Kara Hoblin, Taylor Berry, and Gianna Volpe. Each of their stories was heartfelt and told perfectly. Like many of the storytelling nights this month, Halloween was one for the books. We left with the feeling of “Wow, I’ve really witnessed something real, filled with raw

emotion.” It brought on all of the feels: tears, laughs, joy, heartache. Additional guests, inspired by the evening, continued to share throughout the night.

There’s no doubt that the stories shared during Tabling Time last month will stay with listeners for a long time to come.

There’s something special about hearing stories from strangers and friends (and strangers who become friends). It’s a safe space for people to open up and share. And I’ll muster up the courage to share one of these nights.

Two things I know I can’t escape in this life: death and public speaking.

The Independent will continue Indy Storytelling. The next theme, just in time for Thanksgiving, will be Gratitude.

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Alex Vignoli: Mixing It Up Inspired by his photographer father

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Southampton resident, commercial and fine art photographer Alex Vignoli has created visual artwork for more than two decades. His art has landed him in more than 50 exhibitions, alongside working with various businesses in both the United States and Brazil, and his talents have made their way into collections spanning 15 nations. Indy caught up with him.

World Gymnaestrada (largest general gymnastics exhibition) in Vienna, in the summer of 1965. He photographed and learned more about group performances. He returned back to Brazil with seven cameras, over 800 slides and a projector, films, and pictures.

Your father took photographs. Tell me about him and how he inspired you.

The first inspirational moment was watching my father show the slides and telling the stories about his experiences, his friends, places that he visited, dangerous missions in the war zone, and fun circumstances. He was a good storyteller with his pictures.

I lost my father, mother, and sister in a car accident in 1986. I think photography and stories of life experiences are part of the healing process. One of my first visits back to Brazil, I brought my father’s pictures and slides. Since then, I have been scanning and restoring them and sharing with my family on the holidays and birthdays. This is my way of giving back and being thankful to my incredible family. Preserving our history brings us together. It makes us stronger.

My father was my first inspiration to being a photographer. He was in the military, an athlete, a teacher of law, and dedicated father of six kids. Photography was a sporadic hobby, but his pictures made a significant impact on me. I think the biggest photographic moment was capturing his experiences while he was in the Brazilian Army as a peacekeeper in the Middle East. He was part of the 16th Brazilian Battalion on the United Nations’ first international mission.

I got my name as Alexandre because my father was in Alexandria, Egypt. While he was there, he photographed moments of the military events, some of his patrolling missions, integration with other militaries from allies, and sports practicing. Before he left for the U.N. mission, he was awarded as the best athlete student in the Brazilian Army School of Physical Education. Because of that, he went to see the

What was the first unforgettable moment?

Your sculptures focus on print materials — books, magazines, etc. Why is that?

I started to work at my brother’s visual communication studio before I entered college in the same field. We produced a lot of printed materials for our cli-

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ents and ourselves. It blew my mind the transformation of the creative process from our ideas to a paper. With that, I found my love for paper. Fast forward to now, almost 15 years, I got a large number of books from my former boss.

I tried to sell and donate them. Nobody wants them except my brother, who had his studio gallery in Sag Harbor in the Main Street.

So, we started to collaborate, producing a few mixed media sculptures of paint over books with my prints on canvas showing pictures. We did only one exhibition for our collaboration at his gallery (it was a blast!), and we sold 80 percent of the pieces. The past five years, my goal was to create visual stories in a series using the lines and details of the books. For the first series, I thought something in high contrast, black and white, clean and light. I did the very first piece with the white telephone book. Oddly, it is now my best-

selling image on prints.

Describe your process. Is it the same across all media?

The expression needs a strategy. For a series of artworks, I have a list of things to produce, follow the right amount of information about the subject, such as notes, make sketches, see my photos, clippings, movies, and so on. I take little breaks to be in silence; it helps to concentrate and opens a box of the infinite canvas. Just a kick for inspiration.

Sketch pads are still nearby. During the production time, the music is essential to keep up the pace. I apply the same across all mediums.

Vignoli will be exhibiting in Miami again during the Art Basel Miami for the third consecutive year. See more of his work at www.alexvignoli.com.

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iCAROS: Meaningful Mealtime An artists’ table dinner presented by The Watermill Center

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An evening to celebrate the year-round community is set for Saturday, November 9, from 6:30 to 10:30 PM at The Watermill Center. iCaros, an inaugural artists’ table dinner presented by Roger Ferris + Partners, will include guests of creatives, growers, innovators, and producers. The event combines the deep-rooted histories across the East End of food and art.

Carlos Soto, an alum to The Watermill Center, curates the evening, which will include locally sourced dishes. Based in New York City, Soto has performed on notable stages at Columbia University and the Guggenheim Museum, and internationally at Kampnagel Hamburg, Pace Gallery, Palais de Tokyo, and others. In addition to the Center, he’s been artist-in-residence at

the Willem de Kooning Studio, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and New York Live Arts.

Since 2018, Soto has collaborated with the American Modern Opera Company and director Zack Winokur and designed “The Black Clown” at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival. In 2020, he’s set to join Stephen Sondheim’s “Sundays in the Park with George” at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the staging of Händel’s “Messiah” at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg.

Lynsey Peisinger, a 2019 Watermill Center artist-in-residence, will direct a performance experience during the dining hours. Peisinger’s accolades include co-directing the Mile-Long Opera with Elizabeth Diller, which gath-

ered 1000 singers to perform on The High Line in New York City. Her CV includes SESC Pompeia in Sao Paulo, Robert Wilson’s second annual Berlin Benefit, Hyeres Fashion and Photography Festival, and others. Since 2011, she’s continued to oversee the performances of Marina Abramovic’s works and is the assistant director on Robert Wilson’s “Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter” and “The Old Woman.”

This isn’t the first artistic dining experience for The Watermill Center.

In 1992, the center began the tradition of food and art conversation with its international summer program — a chance to unwind between performance rehearsals and build new relationships with international artists.

Now, it’s back in season with a new set of guests.

“At Watermill, the most important memories are of the meals that separate the day into acts,” said Soto.

“Mealtimes are moments for discussion, introductions, sharing, and rare moments of frivolity, where we are truly a community before breaking off to our respective activities throughout the day. We laugh together and are uncomfortable together — but feeling uncomfortable amplifies an experience in the same way wine makes the meal all the more delicious and memorable.”

Funds will support Watermill’s efforts between the artists-in-residence and year-round community. The Watermill Center is located at 39 Watermill Towd Road in Water Mill. Tickets and further information are available at www.watermillcenter.org, or call 631726-4628.

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COMEDY Marlon Wayans The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead welcomes Marlon Wayans to the stage on Friday, November 8, at 8 PM. Grab tickets at www.suffolktheater.com.

Jonathan Van Ness The Paramount Theater in Huntington presents Jonathan Van Ness on Saturday, November 9, with two shows: 8 PM and 10:30 PM. Head to www.paramountny.com.

FILM Saw Sag Harbor Cinema presents “Saw,” a screening of shorts, on Friday, November 8, at 6 PM at Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. Head to www.sagharborcinema.org.

Guild Hall Guild Hall in East Hampton will screen “National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Friday, November 8, at 7 PM; and The Met: Live in HD — Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” on Saturday, November 9, at 1 PM. Visit www. guildhall.org to learn more.

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oir of my Hollywood Years” on Sunday, November 10, at 3 PM, in partnership with the Sag Harbor Cinema. Head to www.baystreet.org.

WORDS Writers Speak Stony Brook Southampton presents Writers Speak on Wednesday, November 6, at 6:30 PM with an MFA Faculty reading. Visit www.stonybrook.edu.

Quiz Night Townline BBQ in Sagaponack hosts Quiz Night every Wednesday at 7 PM with a $10 participation fee. See www. townlinebbq.com.

Tina Jones, Matthew Conlon, Duncan Hazard, Ben Schnickel in "Baskerville." Independent/Tom Kochie

Great Passages Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents Great Passages: Dramatic Readings of Powerful Words on Tuesday, November 12, at 7:30 PM. Head to www.baystreet.org.

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Book & Bottle The Suffolk County Historical Society Museum in Riverhead presents “History of Jews on Long Island’s East End” with Karl Grossman on Thursday, November 7, at 6 PM. Grab tickets at www.suffolkcountyhistoricalsociety. org.

Your First Telescope Custer Observatory in Southold will have a discussion on buying your first telescope on Saturday, November 9, at 7 PM. Learn more at www.custerobservatory.org.

Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will screen “Maiden” Friday, November 8, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, November 10, at 4 PM. Get tickets at www.whbpac.org.

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The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons presents a lecture on the essence of flower photography with Ian Ross on Sunday, November 10, at 2 PM. Learn more at www.hahgarden.org.

Stony Brook Southampton presents Selected Shorts, a tribute to David Rakoff, on Saturday, November 9, at 7:30 PM. Visit www.stonybrook.edu.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will act out Ken Ludwig’s “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery” through November 10. Grab tickets at www.hamptontheatre.org.

MUSIC Jam Session Radio Listen in on Peconic Public Broadcasting on 88.3 FM every Wednesday from 7 to 8 PM for The Jam Session Radio Hour. Go to www.peconicpublicboadcasting.org.

Spearhead The Paramount Theater in Huntington hosts Michael Franti and Spearhead on Wednesday, November 6, at 8 PM; Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes on Thursday, November 7, at 8 PM; Lucia Micarelli on Friday, November 8, at 8 PM; and The Allman Betts Band on Sunday, November 10, at 7 PM. Head to www.paramountny.com.

Jazz Night The Jam Session presents Jazz Night at

Ed’s Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Go to www. thejamsession.org for details.

Nina Et Cetera Townline BBQ in Sagaponack will have live music every Friday from 6 PM to 9 PM. This Friday, November 8, will be Nina Et Cetera. See www.townlinebbq. com.

Masonic Music The Masonic Music Series continues on Friday, November 8, with Yori Johnson, and a celebration of Job Potter’s 71st birthday with the Potter/Tekulsky Band on Saturday, November 9, at the Wamponamon Lodge in Sag Harbor at 8 PM. Visit www.masonicmusicseries. com.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett jams out to Lynn Blue Band and Karl Dion Dixon on Friday, November 8, at 8 PM followed by Wandering Time at 10 PM. Then, on November 9 at 8 PM, will be Second Shift, followed by Request Line Band at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

Kara Huber Southampton Cultural Center’s Rising Star Piano Series presents Pianofest distinguished artist Kara Huber on Saturday, November 9, at 6 PM. Get tickets at www.scc-arts.org.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

My Single Swan Swooning over tailfeather kissandtellhb@gmail.com I am very concerned about my single swan. He sadly paddles around Otter Pond all by himself. Aren’t swans supposed to mate for life?

I mean I am concerned about a lot of things: Is the calorie count for the frozen pizza for the whole thing or just one slice? Is this lack of intelligent and respectful discourse from the leader of the free world going to be the new norm? What is going to happen to Kate from “This is Us”? How can we help young girls know they are amazing and beautiful and strong? Is there anywhere open to eat dinner in the off season of the Hamptons on a Tuesday night?

Can I use mint dental floss to tie a leg of lamb? Should I be concerned about side boob?

But when I look out my window each morning and each evening, and I see that single swan slowly gliding on that still water in silence, a bit of my heart breaks.

The reason swans are monogamous is not that they make a meaningful origami tinfoil wrap for restaurant leftovers. Apparently, by sticking together year after year and raising clutches of cygnets, they learn from their successes and failure over time to produce and protect the highest number of healthy offspring. This is better than Dr. Spock (the baby book author, not “Star Trek”). Also, there is teamwork where, unlike other waterfowl, the male helps incubate the eggs, allowing the female to feed (unless of

course it is the dreaded Tuesday night) and gain back the weight she lost laying the eggs. The swan divorce rate is only about four percent and is usually a result of a bad breeding season or nest failure (soon to be a fixer-upper show on HGTV). It is only the Australian black swans that are regularly unfaithful, with one in seven eggs not belonging to her swan spouse. Do we learn nothing from the movies?

Swans are one of the few waterfowl to exhibit such monogamy. Male mallard ducks, on the other hand, are dicks. These ducks are a love ‘em and leave ‘em sort where the female is left to rear the ducklings alone.

So why, you might ask, am I assuming this emotionally evolved single swan is a male? After the death of a partner, most female swans will venture out to join a new flock, while males tend to remain in their breeding territory hoping to attract a passing female.

Voila! Inspiration! I will bring my single swan to the American Hotel on a Friday night, flock full of birds of a feather, age-appropriate females.

I am also assuming that he is unhappy and hasn’t had any luck on Bumble, when maybe he’s thrilled to not have to pick up his molting feathers and can belch and scratch and watch ESPN with no nagging wife. Maybe find

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Still, I find myself wandering down to the edge of the water and looking at him longingly. Maybe in my own fantasy, Otter Pond is Swan Lake. He is the prince that is a swan by day and a man by night, and the spell can only be broken by a woman who will promise to love him forever. He may kiss me deeply and declare me his new mate for life. Or he may just hiss and reject my organic swan food and crap on my lawn.

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I am also assuming that he is unhappy and hasn’t had any luck on Bumble.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

All The Facts Ma’am A young reporter gets tested rmurphy@indyeastend.com Stephanie Apstein is a good, young sports reporter, good enough to be a staff writer for Sports Illustrated. She has a master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.

Roberto Osuna, 24, is a pitcher for the Houston Astros. He dropped out of school at age 12 to pursue his passion, baseball. Osuna became the first player born in 1995 to make the major leagues.

It didn’t take him long to accumulate baggage that would place what could be a lucrative career in jeopardy.

He had two children by two different women by the end of 2017, including a three-year-old with Alejandra Román Cota.

On May 8, 2018, “after a night of drinking,” he was arrested after a

“physical altercation” with his now exgirlfriend Cota.

Cota, who appears to be as young or younger than Osuna (her age wasn’t given) exited Toronto almost immediately, returning to Mexico. She never came back and the Toronto courts were forced to drop assault and domestic violence charges against Osuna.

But Major League Baseball carried out its own intensive investigation — those who govern professional sports were forced to begin taking a harder look at these things after the football player Ray Rice cold-cocked his wife on an elevator, knocking her out. He almost got away with it.

Osuna was found to be culpable and suspended by MLB for 75 games.

His ability to close out games, his youth, and the fact he was sitting on a huge paycheck still made him a valuable commodity. One could also assume that fact weighed large on the mother of their child and her refusal to testify against him.

The Astros stunned the baseball world by trading for Osuna while he was in the midst of his suspension. It clearly sent a signal: You can beat your spouse if you pitch well enough. The team issued a statement: “We feel like the Houston Astros and the city of Houston will provide Roberto with an environment that will enable him to get a fresh start and get back to focusing on pitching and hopefully help us win going forward.” In other words, hopefully he doesn’t know any women around here to smack around.

Two weeks ago, Houston won the National League pennant. In the raucous, exuberant clubhouse celebration that followed, liquor flowed and euphoria reigned.

Stephanie Apstein was there covering the game, standing in a small group of reporters, taking it all in. She had written a piece for Sports Illustrated after the trade. “[When teams] acquire players with reprehensible pasts for less than market rate and concede they will have to pay a price in public trust. But when the bill comes due, teams act like they, not the people their actions wounded, are the aggrieved party.”

Assistant general manager Brandon Taubman, a Cornell graduate, suddenly turned on a group of three female reporters in the clubhouse, including one wearing a purple domestic-violence awareness bracelet, and yelled,

half a dozen times, “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so f------ glad we got Osuna!”

The funny thing is, Osuna pitched poorly.

The words cut like razors. The man was saying he would do it all over again — let Osuna’s wife absorb a good beating in return for winning a baseball game. Extrapolating, he might well have been saying, “I wouldn’t give a crap if he killed her as long as he won the game!”

Apstein, in prose, reported on the incident, matter-of-factly and in measured words. Taubman had ranted, forcing the women to cower. The outburst was offensive and frightening enough that another Houston staffer apologized.

It would have ended there but the Astros, still giddy, needed to punish the woman reporter who told it like it was, needed to reiterate where domestic violence issues rest on the scale of importance: at or near the bottom.

The Astros in a press release denied Taubman’s outburst had happened, calling the article “misleading” and saying that the magazine had attempted “to fabricate a story where one does not exist.”

But maybe some things have finally changed. This time, spectators, including men and perhaps even (gasp!) players backed up the female reporter.

Taubman was summarily fired.

The next week the Astros, after taking a three-to-two game lead, lost the seventh and deciding World Series game. Osuna stunk up the joint.

The Astros would have been better off without him. They didn’t need to play baseball games to figure that out.

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Advanced tickets are $75 for general admission and $50 for those 35 years and younger. Visit www.southamptonhistory.org.

Chowdah Chowdown A Chowdah Chowdown to benefit the missions of Share The Harvest Farm

and Springs Food Pantry to help feed local families, will be held on Saturday, November 9, from 1 to 4 PM, at Springs Tavern. Participating chefs and businesses include A Kitchen for Liam, Chef Pete Ambrose, Breadzilla, The Clubhouse, East End Food Institute, E.H. Sportsmen’s Alliance, One Stop Market, SALT, Smokin’ Wolf BBQ, Springs Fire Department, Springs General Store, Springs Tavern, Stuart’s Seafood, and more. The cost is $20. Tickets can be purchased at the door or at www.sharetheharvestfarm.org/events.

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Seven Do-Not-Miss Events This Holiday Season

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Oyster Farming, Stein’s Way

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An Animal Lover’s Guide To Long Island

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A look at the Peeko process

Take a walk on the wild side

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Comfort Food To Uncover In The Hamptons Keep your belly warm this winter

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South Shore’s Sayville

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South Fork Downtowns Come Alive In The Off-Season The Hamptons are more than just a summer destination

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The Independent is proud to bring you this special section, created in collaboration with Discover Long Island.

For us, Long Island is home. And we love to share its hidden gems and well-known attractions. While we know that our many beaches bring a mad rush of tourism during the summer season, the fall and winter also have much to offer. From holiday events and shopping to our world-class dining, there’s something for every visitor, as well as spectacular deals during the colder months.

Inside, I’ve listed suggestions on where to take a staycaytion on the East End. Our hotels and inns are second to none. Cozy up next to a fire with a glass of local wine from one of our many vineyards and enjoy your stay. I’ve also created a list of do-not-miss events for the holiday season. It includes everything from the Santa Parade in East Hampton to the Charles Dickens Festival in Port Jefferson.

Discover the many wonders of Islip’s hamlet of Sayville in Bridget LeRoy’s article. It’s a special hamlet and a perfect place to shop locally.

LeRoy takes you on a tour, highlighting what the area has to offer. Like she says, it’s a “nice place to wander around.”

Nicole Teitler has highlighted festive events across the island as well as a list of local retailers on the East End. Also take a look at Teitler’s experience at Youngs Farm in Old Brookville.

Long Island is known for great oysters. Amanda Bourne’s article on Peeko Oysters highlights the process of the North Fork farm with owner Pete Stein.

East End Taste’s Vanessa Gordon has created an animal lover’s guide to Long Island. From the South Fork Natural History Museum to the Long Island Aquarium, there’s sure to be something for every animal lover. She has also highlighted comfort food on the East End to keep diners’ hearts and bellies full during the colder months.

Remember to enjoy all of the moments while you discover Long Island.

JESSICA MACKIN-CIPRO Executive Editor

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Take A Staycation You’re inn for a treat

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

The Baker House 1650

The Baker House 1650 in East Hampton is a boutique award-winning Hamptons inn offering casual luxury with a “home away from home” feel.

For breakfast, the inn offers farm fresh local eggs, crepes, fresh juices, and more. The onsite spa includes an endless swimming pool, a sauna, steam shower, and Jacuzzi tub.

Currently, The Baker House is offering a wine experience. Arrive to a bottle of wine along with meat and cheese board, delivered to your room. There is round-trip transportation to Wölffer Estate, where guests will receive a tour of the vineyard. There’s also a $100 dining credit toward a restaurant in town. Guests receive a late checkout of 1 PM. It’s a two-night minimum and prices start at $1357. The special runs through November 17. The Baker House 1650 is open year-round. Visit www.bakerhouse1650. com.

Gurney’s Resorts

Why leave the East End to take a vacation? It’s the perfect time of year for a staycation. Traffic is minimal and the rates are a steal compared to what you’ll find during the summer. Wine, dine, and stay at some of these wonderful accommodations.

Gurney’s Resorts, which includes two iconic waterfront properties in Montauk, is offering the Falling for Montauk weekend package, which includes a weekend stay where guest can enjoy rosé upon arrival, $150 in resort credit, and late checkout of 2 PM. The deal is valid Friday and Saturday through November 30.

Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina opened in May; the new Montauk resort is home to the largest marina in the Hamptons. The property features preeminent guest accommodations. The centerpiece restaurant, Showfish, focuses on seasonality and sustainability and sources the majority of its menu directly from local farmers and fishermen.

The resort also encompasses the first-ever Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream hotel shop.

Gurney’s Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa is a Hamptons icon and the only year-round resort in Montauk. Situated on Montauk’s most pristine stretch of oceanfront real estate with direct access to a 2000-foot private sand beach, Gurney’s Montauk also boasts an acclaimed Seawater Spa, renowned for its healing treatments and ocean-fed, indoor seawater pool, the only pool of its kind in North America. Visit www.gurneysresorts. com.

Southampton Inn The Southampton Inn is classic, unassuming, and charming. At the Southampton Inn, you’re just minutes or steps away from Coopers Beach (voted one of the best in the country), historical sites, shops, hikes, museums, and the theater. Perfect for a family meal or celebration, the Inn’s restaurant, Claude’s, serves a signature breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday, dinner Wednesday through Saturday, and award-winning brunch on the weekends.

The Inn offers the personal attention of a B&B with the services of a hotel. The 90 guest rooms, all with slightly different décor, offer individual temperature control, sparkling tiled bathrooms, refrigerators, and complimentary Wi-Fi. For those chilly months, the Inn’s fireplace and old Steinway piano create a winter oasis for your off-season getaway to explore.

The Inn’s Thanksgiving package for two includes an overnight room and Thanksgiving feast on November 28, along with breakfast the following day. The cost is $270. Add Wednesday, November 27, for $100.

The New Year’s Eve package for two includes an overnight room, dinner, open bar, and brunch on January 1. The cost is $475. A Veteran’s Month special is $125 and includes and overnight room for two and breakfast or brunch. Visit www.southamptoninn.com.

Mill House Inn Located in East Hampton Village, the Mill House Inn offers 10 rooms and suites within its luxury boutique hotel. You will feel right at home at the historic inn. Enjoy its award-winning breakfast, for guests only. The team at Mill House prides itself on the “Art of Hospitality” and can help make your stay a truly memorable one. Check the website for last-minute rates and reservations. Visit www.millhouseinn.com.

The Maidstone Hotel The Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton, which opened its doors more than 150 years ago, received a complete renovation in 2017. The décor includes a renowned photo art collection. The design features a “whimsical take

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on the traditional Americana and Hamptons aesthetics” that are included in the pink sun-room, art bar, and classic lounge. The hotel is committed to eco-friendly practices and includes 19 rooms and cottages. The hotel’s restaurant will participate in Long Island Restaurant Week, which will include a $29.95 prix fixe through November 10. Visit www.themaidstone. com.

1708 House The 1708 House, a historic Southampton B&B, is located on Main Street, and offers quintessential luxury. A renovation of the house commenced in 1993. The central location in the village of Southampton offers walk to shops, restaurants, beaches, and galleries. The house also holds a museum-like cellar dating back to approximately 1648. Check website for rates. Visit www.1708house.com.

1770 House 1770 House Restaurant & Inn offers authentic Hamptons fine dining and luxury accommodations is an 18th-Century colonial home on Main Street in East Hampton’s historic district. Under one roof, a dual dining concept reflects both sides of the lively Hamptons restaurant scene with local bounty, noteworthy wines, five-star service, and celebrity sightings.

Executive Chef Michael Rozzi presents a sophisticated fine dining menu of New American cuisine in the candlelit dining room and pubstyle fare in the inn’s casual downstairs Tavern. The 250-bottle wine list, overseen by Wine Director Michael Cohen, has been a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence recipient since 2007. The boutique B&B, with six guestrooms plus two-level carriage house, is designed with good oldfashioned comforts and modern conveniences. See website for rates: www.1770house.com.

White Fences Inn White Fences Water Mill in Water Mill is a luxury B&B. Innkeepers Eric and Liz Brodar make guests feel right at home. The two are experienced hosts

The Westhampton SeaBreeze is the best deal in the Hamptons a relaxing destination for local visitors, beach goers & wedding parties.

19 Sea Breeze Avenue Westhampton, NY 11977 631-288-6886 visit us at: westhamptonseabreeze.com

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North Fork Table & Inn

North Fork Table & Inn, located in Southold, not only offers one of the best dining choices on the East End, but also an inn that reflects understated elegance that you’ll find in the finest European and American inns. Frette linens and C.O. Bigelow Apothecary skin and haircare products are yours to enjoy. A light breakfast is also available for guests from 8 to 9:30 AM.

On November 15, celebrate the 10th anniversary re-release of Chef Claudia Fleming’s legendary cookbook, “The Last Course.” A threecourse dessert tasting with wine flight is offered, and diners receive a signed book and cookie take-away for $90 per person. For more info, visit www.northforktableandinn.com.

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who previously owned an award-winning inn in the Kennebunks, ME. White Fences offers chic, modern luxurious amenities. Enjoy a memorable B&B experience as Liz creates a fresh, seasonal gourmet breakfast that includes food from local purveyors.

On Saturday, November 16 and Sunday, November 17, the B&B offers a special for Drawing and Painting with the Masters with artist Barbara Thomas. The cost is $175 for the workshop plus the cost of the room. Visit www.whitefenceswatermill.com.

Topping Rose House Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton offers 16 guest rooms, six onebedroom suites, and a restaurant by Jean Georges. There’s a pool, health and spa facilities, and shuttles that will transport you around town. This full-service luxury hotel is located in the center of it all. For rooms and rates, visit www.toppingrosehouse.com.

Jedediah Hawkins Inn Jedediah Hawkins Inn, which was built in 1863 and is surrounded by 22 acres of gardens and farms, is a luxurious boutique hotel in Jamesport on the North Fork. Each of the guest rooms and suite offer a gas fireplace and private bathrooms. Enjoy a glass of local wine in the gazebo and explore some of the North Fork vineyards during your stay.

It’s home to acclaimed restaurant, Solarium and Patio. There’s also a speakeasy with a casual menu. The Inn offers a mid-week escape Sunday through Thursday. Included is a full breakfast, complimentary tastings at vineyard partners, early check-in and late check-out, and $100 dining credit for stays of two nights. For more info, visit www. jedediahhawkinsinn.com.

Preston House & Hotel The Preston House & Hotel in Riverhead is a 1905 historical home that has been restored into a 20-room boutique hotel. It also includes an 88-seat New American restaurant. It was once owned by Henry Preston, the first salaried sheriff of Suffolk County. Dining includes fresh, locally sourced ingredients to create an inventive menu served in an industrial chic dining room. For more info, visit www.theprestonhouseandhotel.com.

The Sound View The Sound View in Greenport presents charming simplicity. The guest rooms boast influence of classic modernist, North Fork beachside homes, each including a waterfront deck. It is offering up to 30 percent off your stay this fall. Don’t miss its Foodie Package. Indulge in the flavors of the North Fork and dine with a $75 dining credit at the hotel’s The Halyard Restaurant. A welcome package will include The Halyard granola, Backyard Brine pickles, and other goodies. There’s a trip to About Food in Southold to shop seasonal jams, pickled vegetables, and more. For more info, visit www.soundviewgreenport.com.

The Menhaden

In the heart of Greenport Village, The Menhaden offers a boutique hotel with modern amenities and high-end service. There’s a hotel’s café and roof deck, The Merchant’s Wife, that is not to be missed. The hotel offers an easy access to all that Greenport has to offer, including local vineyards.

For more info, visit www.themenhaden.com.

Baron’s Cove Baron’s Cove in Sag Harbor offers 67 charming guest rooms, many that boast sweeping harbor views. It offers a Winery Escape through April 12. Enjoy a welcome bottle of wine and a cheese plate along with two complimentary glasses of wine at Wölffer Estate, a restaurant dining credit, and more. For more info, visit www.baronscove.com.

The Lin Beach House The Lin Beach House is a guest house in Greenport. “Play. Sip. Stay.” is its motto. Rooms may include clawfoot bathtubs and balconies that overlook neighboring Kontokosta Winery as well as a garden and barn. Onsite is the Matchbook Distilling Co.’s bar Days Like These, a great spot for a signature cocktail. For more info, visit www.linbeachhouse.com.

Quogue Club At Hallock House Located in Quogue, the Quogue Club at Hallock House is a luxury boutique hotel. The five-star accommodations include superb dining, the beach, vineyards, and so much more. The hotel’s 10 individually designed rooms, along with two private cottages, were created by celebrated designer Alexa Hampton. Visit www.quogueclub.com.

434 On Main 434 on Main in Amagansett is a dog-friendly bed and breakfast that is just a short walk from the Long Island Rail Road, Hampton Jitney, the beach, and Amagansett Village. The rooms are designed to showcase the charm of the historic 1905 home, which has been renovated and restored. Visit www.434onmain.com.

Westhampton SeaBreeze Motel The Westhampton SeaBreeze boasts one of the best deals in the Hamptons.

Located on a side street just south of Montauk Highway, it’s a relaxing destination for local visitors, and a short drive to beaches and Main Street Westhampton Beach, where guests can enjoy restaurants, shops, and theater. Visit www.westhamptonseabreeze.com.

American Beech Located in Greenport’s Historic Stirling Square, American Beech Restaurant, Bar & Hotel has been converted from a former 19th-Century horse stable. At the boutique luxury hotel, guests can enjoy shopping and dining as well as a retail location for Alex Vinash’s eclectic and elegant fashion line. The hotel has 11 rooms. For more info, visit www. americanbeech.com.

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Seven Do-Not-Miss Events This Holiday Season From ‘gobble gobble’ to ‘ho, ho, ho’

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Montauk Turkey Run The 43rd Annual “Run for Fun” Turkey Trot around Fort Pond in Montauk will be held on Thanksgiving, November 28. The three or six-mile run starts on the Montauk Green, with check-in between 8 and 9:30 AM. Categories are available for all ages. Register at www.turkeyday.itsyourrace.com.

Dickens Festival on December 7 starting at 10 AM and running to December 8, ending at 5 PM. The village magically transforms into the Dickensian era.

The streets including roaming characters, like Father Christmas, Scrooge, carolers, and more.

Parade Of Lights

Lyzon Hat Shop

Southampton Village presents its annual Parade of Lights, Tree Lighting, and Santa on Saturday, November 30, from 4:30 to 7:30 PM. To usher in the holiday season, Southampton features lighted fire trucks and emergency service vehicles followed by a tree lighting celebration at Agawam Park.

There’s a Santa visit at the Southampton Cultural Center and a fireworks display following.

The Lyzon Hat Shop Museum in Hampton Bays presents holiday shopping.

Craftspeople will exhibit treasures that are available for purchase, all while you view the world-famous hats and enjoy cookies and hot cider. It all happens on Saturday, December 7, from 10 AM to 3 PM.

Santa Parade East Hampton Village’s annual 2019 Santa Parade will be held on Saturday, December 7, on Main Street. Beginning at 10 AM, the parade will conclude at 11 AM at Rowdy Hall, where Santa will be waiting to meet children.

Charles Dickens Festival The Village of Port Jefferson, along with The Greater Port JeffersonNorthern Brookhaven Arts Council, presents the 24th annual Charles

Maidstone Tree Lighting The Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton presents its annual tree lighting on Saturday, December 7, from 5 to 7 PM. The ceremony will be held at 5 PM and includes drinks and snacks. There will also be cookie decorating and Christmas carols.

Breakfast With Santa The Garden City Hotel will celebrate this Christmas Season with its annual “Breakfast with Santa,” a fun family event on Saturday, December 14. Make reservations for seatings at 9/9:30 AM or 12/12:30 PM. Call 516-877-9385.

Luxury Boutique Hotel & Event Space The Quogue Club offers luxurious accommodations, amenities and is located just a short drive from ocean beaches, North Fork wineries, shops and galleries, making it the perfect setting for your Hamptons getaway.

The Quogue Club also provides a lovely venue for small, intimate social events including birthday parties, bridal showers, and anniversary parties, as well as corporate retreats and business meetings.

47 QUOGUE STREET, QUOGUE, NY 11959 • QUOGUECLUB.COM • (631) 653-0100 • RESERVATIONS@QUOGUECLUB.COM

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Oyster Farming, Stein’s Way A look at the Peeko process

By Amanda Bourne

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had the great opportunity to be connected to this layered entrepreneur, an oyster farmer and a stellar business visionary, Pete Stein, owner and founder, of Peeko — an oyster farm located on the North Fork.

This past summer, I curated several interactive events in the culinary, wellness, and cultural spheres in East Hampton. I had the honor to work with and luckily sample, the sweet, yet briny Peeko Oysters, both raw and firegrilled at a stunning event hosted by The Independent, Chef Kevin O’Connor, and Cobram Estate olive oil.

In 2016, Stein traded in his desk job, for a deep-seeded passion project that is now a thriving business, selling to the top echelon of Manhattan

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restaurants along with the leading East End eateries. To name a few: Small Batch, Osteria Leana, the Preston House, The Mallard, Port Waterfront and Grill, and Vine Street Café, Salt, and Sunset Beach on Shelter Island.

Entrepreneurial endeavors are often more complex and time-consuming than the actual pipe-dream. It took a year to tackle the oyster farm purchase and strategize a way to corner stone the deal with the former oyster bay owner. Peeko was established in 2016. However, the first oyster available on the market wasn’t until 2017.

The Peeko process mirrors a mad science experiment. Stein buys baby oysters from hatcheries and then cultivates them out in his privately-owned underwater farm on 130 acres in Peconic Bay. He utilizes trays made out of wire mesh. During the high growing season, May through October, the oysters get shuffled through a cylinder contraption (think a Bingo wheel tumbler), once a month.

The purpose of this process is to sort the different oysters by size. Who would have known? Oysters prefer to grow alongside their same-size peers.

Peeko oysters range from just shy of three inches to slightly larger.

The Peeko team implemented complex software in order to determine when precisely to harvest the oysters, progressively mixing technology with farming. This business isn’t for the wary: his team hits the waters nearly every week of the year, despite a few blistering weeks.

Not only does Stein distribute, but actually hand-delivers oysters to both Manhattan and local restaurants, traveling back and forth, several times per week.

Stein prides himself on his direct-to-chef sales model, which he believes cultivates a personal, feedback-driven and overall more loyal relationship.

His passion doesn’t stop at the farming and selling stages. Stein is driven by educating and entertaining patrons in a casual “fishermen’s village” vibe.

For the past year, he has been transforming a quintessential shack not only to store and process the oysters, but to construct a tasting room and event space abutting the Peconic Bay marina, with a goal to host intimate events for oyster enthusiasts.

Showing off his more bourgeois side, he has collaborated with Gramercy Tavern and Tom Colicchio, of Craft, orchestrating multi-course dinners, where the oyster is the star in each dish.

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Take a walk on the wild side

An Animal Lover’s Guide To Long Island

By Vanessa Gordon

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ong Island is lucky to have an array of animal encounters for everyone young and old, from Nassau to the easternmost point of the island.

Here are just a few of the many exhibits, reserves, and farms where you can be face-to-face with some of your favorite wildlife companions.

Starting in Nassau County at the Center for Science, Teaching & Learning, guests can experience more than 35 different animal species from amphibians and reptiles, to birds and mammals in their natural settings. If you also love dinosaurs, you can also learn how dinosaurs once lived. Located in Rockville Centre, the Center is open every day from 10 AM to 4 PM. The Town of Brookhaven’s Holtsville

Ecology Site and Animal Preserve is a mustvisit for everyone. It is home to more than 100 rehabilitated or non-releasable wild and farm animals. Animals include goats, buffalo, bald eagles, bears, bobcats, horses, pigs, cows, foxes, and its famous groundhog, Holtsville Hal, that forecasts the weather on Groundhog Day. Tours are available. Open year round, though from January 1 to March 5, it is closed on weekends and holidays.

At the Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, there are many interactive experiences onsite for all ages, including an indoor rainforest, reptile room, and a year-round outdoor play area equipped with a sandbox, hobbit house, and see-saw. Visitors can also step inside the Butterfly Vivarium between mid-June and

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September. Events throughout the year include turtle walks, wildlife yoga, and creatures-of-the-night walking tours. The Center and Preserve are open daily from 9 AM to 4:30 PM. For a trip to a beloved farm on the North Fork, visit Browder’s Birds in Mattituck when its farm stand is open Friday to Sunday from 12 to 5 PM. See its resident sheep, chickens, and ducks while picking up some of the most delicious quiches, farm fresh eggs, chicken pot pies, and more.

One of, if not the most, popular destinations for animal lovers is the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead. The aquarium is home to dozens of exhibits, events, and encounters all year long. If you also love art, you must check out Painting with Pinnipeds, where you can create a custom canvas with sea lions on Sundays and Mondays. Another must-do is an encounter with the Coati brothers on Tuesdays as they interact with their favorite toys, scents, and enjoy their favorite foods.

In Bridgehampton, the South Fork Natural History Museum & Nature Center, right across the street from the Children’s Museum of the East that has its own bunny “mascot,” is home to several wildlife exhibits with turtles, salamanders, and frogs, and interactive activities with underwater creatures like horseshoe crabs, fish, and others. Its calendar is full of events all year round, including outdoor excursions to see songbirds and ocean ducks, in addition to full moon hikes, live animal shows, and bird watching cruises. In addition, the Panthera Wild Cats Multi-Media Exhibit is currently on display in the barn at the museum through December.

In our own backyard is the beloved Elizabeth A. Morton Wildlife Refuge in Sag Harbor. Open year round, this wildlife and habitat oasis allows for ideal wildlife viewing, photography, and fishing opportunities (with a New York state saltwater fishing license). Along the many trails, animals that can be spotted include eastern wild turkeys, chipmunks, deer, and black ducks.

Flying above include ospreys, goldeneyes, songbirds, and bufflehead ducks, which can also be seen floating in the bay.

A trip to the very “end” of Long Island is not complete without a weekend seal walk, organized through the Montauk Point State Park. Taking place from November to approximately early April, guests are invited to experience seals in their natural habitat for a three-mile roundtrip hike where they can be seen resting on the rocks. It is essential to call to register: 631-668-2254.

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Join us as we celebrate good tidings Christmas Day as we present to you a delicious spread of traditional holiday favorites! Be sure to see Santa during your visit!

Pricing: $58.95* Per Adult $24.95* Children (ages 4-12)* under 3 FREE (*Tax & gratuity not included.)

To make reservations, please call 631.928.5200 ex. 150.

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Comfort Food To Uncover In The Hamptons Keep your belly warm this winter

By Vanessa Gordon

As the winter chill begins to set in, there is nothing more desirable than a savory stew or soup, or even a hearty bowl of pasta prepared fresh daily. Plenty of satisfying options await at year-round restaurants on the East End from Southampton to Montauk.

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East Hampton Tucked away in the hamlet of Springs is Bel Mare Ristorante. It is serving up pappardelle ragu. This specially portioned dish is made from the pork shoulder, slow cooked for 10 hours and sautéed with onions, parsley, garlic, and various spices. It is cooked in imported Italian crushed tomatoes. Pair this pappardelle dish with Barolo wine.

East Hampton’s beloved bakery, Carissa’s, founded by Daniel Boulud and Eli Zabar alum Carissa Waechter, is well-known for its sour and salty pickled rye loaves and gorgeous handpainted meringue pies and macarons. But did you know that its second East Hampton location has an all-day café and will be serving up some all-new hearty dishes? These include a brisket sandwich and panade. The brisket is braised in an “autumnal potion” of red wine, apple cider, apple cider vinegar, local apples, carrots, and red onions. It is then served on Carissa’s house stout bread with horseradish aioli and a beet slaw made from local beets and cabbage. The panade appetizer is crafted with day-old sourdough that soaked in chicken stock and layered with butternut squash, caramelized onions, gruyere, and herbs like thyme and rosemary, with fresh pecorino shaved on top.

Highway Restaurant and Bar is no stranger

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to serving up some of the best comfort dishes out east. Chef Justin Finney’s chicken pot pie is considered one of the ultimate comfort foods.

This savory dish is filled to the brim with a chicken stew of fresh, local ingredients, and covered in a deliciously light and flaky house-made crust. It is available every Monday night.

A staple of the Hamptons, The 1770 House is always warm and inviting. The downstairs Tavern Menu is reflective of this comforting ambiance.

Particularly, the Tavern Thursday menu is one not to miss. Choose from Chef Michael Rozzi’s signature dishes like his chicken Parmesan or St. Louis style ribs ($17.70 per entrée). A must is the meatloaf, which sits atop a potato purée and spinach, and is topped with roasted garlic sauce.

It’s no surprise that Ina Garten refers to it as one of her “all-time favorite” comfort foods.

Montauk Celebrate Football Sundays at Gurney’s Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa. Happening until Super Bowl Sunday, February 2, guests and locals alike can cheer on their favorite team in Gurney’s Regent Lounge while enjoying the specialty menu. This menu includes all your comfort food favorites, such as burger sliders, sesame chicken wings, and even duck confit tater tots. Additional notable menu items include traditional lobster roll sliders, herb guacamole with blue corn tortilla chips, and Nashville crispy chicken with pickled mango slaw.

Sag Harbor Escape the cold and step into Lulu Kitchen and Bar for one of its wood fired pizzas like the well-loved Trufata with stracciatella cheese, exotic mushrooms, and arugula that is perfect for sharing on a brisk afternoon. A side dish not to miss is the harvest stuffed pumpkin (for two), filled with an array of flavorful ingredients like foie gras, chestnuts, mushrooms, and cranberry brioche. A particular weekly special is its Tuesday night All You Can Eat Mussels ($29).

Tutto Il Giorno is a favorite among many for dozens of reasons. As the ideal destination for some of the best pasta dishes in the Hamptons, there is no shortage of comfort favorites. Start with its creamy burrata served with panzanella, organic tricolor cherry tomatoes, and basil.

Follow it up with the paccheri: classic Neapolitan beef ragu with provolone and herbs, parmigiana, or even one of their risotto dishes, where the preparation changes daily. Tutto Il Giorno also has a location in Southampton.

Southampton Silver Lining Diner’s chowder is a hearty blend of local clams with potatoes and apple woodsmoked bacon. This comforting and creamy New England-style soup by Chef Eric Miller is the perfect dish for the fall and winter.

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HOLIDAY

ON THE HARBOR Impress your friends, family and colleagues with an exciting holiday experience. Celebrate the season in a picturesque setting featuring stunning views of Sag Harbor Cove from our second floor dining room and private event space.

Whether a cocktail reception, dinner or lunch, Baron’s Cove can accommodate gatherings from 15 to 200 guests.

For more information contact Suzanne Behringer at 631.725.2100 or sbehringer@baronscove.com

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South Shore’s Sayville A nice place to wander around

By Bridget LeRoy

bridget@indyeastend.com

For a lot of Hamptonites, even the locals, there’s east of the canal — the Shinnecock canal, that is — and the city. Oh, and Manorville, where the Jitney stops at Starbucks.

Say “Sayville,” “Bay Shore,” or “Patchogue” to an East Ender, and you’re likely to get a blank stare, or, even worse, a comment about being there 20 years ago, perhaps accompanied by a pained look and a curl of the lip.

Well, come down off that high horse and take a visit to some of Suffolk County’s more westerly gems (that are still considered Eastern Suffolk, folks).

Sayville can be accessed in 45 minutes from Jobs Lane in Southampton. It’s exit 51 off Route 27. Head south down Broadway Avenue past the lovely Islip Grange park (home of a summer farmers market, antiques shows, and various reenactments) and turn right onto Old Montauk Highway. For a more daring, longer scenic drive, just stay on Hill Street out of Southampton and go straight — passing through lovely villages like our own Hampton Bays and East Quogue, Center Moriches, Patchogue, and Blue Point, where the oysters used to come from. It’ll take you about an hour and 15 minutes.

After you take that right, within two blocks, you will be welcomed on the right by Off The Block Kitchen & Meats. If you are a vegetarian, just keep driving into town. But if you are a meat-lover, you could do worse than stop at this no-frills butcher shop-cum-hipstery lunch/brunch/dinner spot, with free-range, organic eggs and all the meats and veggies locallysourced as much as possible. In fact, you can point to your choice cut in the butcher display, and have it cooked up for you right then and there.

Full off Insta-worthy dishes, this hidden find can be found online at www. offtheblockmeats.com and on social media at @off_the_block and on Facebook’s “Off The Block Kitchen & Meats.”

If you’re feeling a little more crunchy and a little less meaty, keep heading west, and you will enter the village of Sayville. Find parking (there’s plenty) and visit Cornucopia Natural Foods in the plaza just before

Railroad Ave — a health food store that does it up right. Think small Whole Foods. From its organic and non-GMO deli, to its huge selection of dry goods, fresh juices, and hot food choices, to the beautiful wooden wall of plants and cheerful staff (plus tables up front), this independent health food store has been serving the public, and expanding, since 1976.

Found at www.cornucopiahealthfoods.com and @cornucopiafoods on Instagram.

With a full tummy, it’s time to wander around. Although there is the occasional empty storefront (and where is there not one?), Sayville is chock full of unique shopping experiences.

Got to get your Ganesha on? Visit Guru’s on 78 Main Street — a family-owned store chock-full of Hindu and Buddhist statuary, and all the tools you need to balance your chakras, from crystals and the like, to tapestries and prayer flags, to beautiful flowing clothes, scarves, jewelry, music, books, and more. They even have meditation classes and energy healing available, with a mission statement that includes helping people on their spiritual journey. For more info, visit www.guruscreations.com, or follow them on Facebook at “Guru’s” and Insta @guruscreations.

Feeling a tad chilly? Almost immediately next door to Guru’s is Irish Crossroads at 58 Main Street, where those from the Emerald Isle will feel at home. There are the famous sweaters, signs honoring the various counties, and more Irish-themed gifts and goodies that you can shake a shillelagh at, along with gorgeous items honoring the ancient Celtic heritage. And plenty of pint glasses and tea mugs, sure and begorrah.

Online at www.irishcrossroadsonline.com, and on Facebook as “Irish Crossroads Ltd.” and Instagram as @irishcrossroadsonline.

Want to knit your own? Rumpelstiltskin Yarns at 22 Main Street is an old-fashioned yarn store, with a fabulous tin ceiling, old-timey spinning wheels on display, and all the latest skeins and patterns. With a few friendly long tables in the back (which looks like a good place to have a spot of tea), Rumpelstiltskin offers classes galore for all levels. Check online to learn more — www.rumpelstiltskinyarns.com.

Maybe you’re in the mood for Mediterranean? Well, look no further than The Crushed Olive at 31A Main Street. With dozens of different kinds of oil — extra virgin, infused with different flavors like mushroom and sage or blood orange — and other gourmet items like balsamic vinegars (the honey ginger is a favorite), this small store is loaded with gift options. They even have a butter flavored olive oil for those who are dairy-intolerant.

Yes, there’s a tasting option, with plenty of bread to dip. Visit www. thecrushedolive.com, also on Facebook as “The Crushed Olive.”

There’s so much more — neighbors chatting on the streets, places with outdoor dining, street décor to admire and hidden alleys to peek down — plus a comic-book store, a fantastic vintage clothing and jewelry store, a movie theater, and, of course, the ferry to Fire Island, that makes Sayville one of Long Island’s perfect villages for a day trip, or even longer.

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Your guide to Long Island's gift fairs

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is officially “the season.” Whether it’s through your stomach, like the Chocolate Fest, or filling your bag up with handcrafted goodies, we’ve got a list of happenings all across the island to get you into the holiday spirit, whatever it is you choose to celebrate.

Indulge in your sweet tooth November 9 and 10 from 10 AM to 6 PM at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington at the I Love Chocolate Fest. There will undoubtedly be plenty to eat, but even more ideas of what to get your loved ones for the weeks to come. www. lovechocolatefest.com.

Seeking a craft fair? The eighth annual Hauppauge Craft and Gift Fair will occur November 9 and November 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM. The 33rd annual East Islip Craft and Gift Fair returns November 23 and November 24 from 10 AM to 4 PM at East Islip High School. Northport will hold its 25th annual Craft Fair December 7 and December 8 starting at 10 AM at Northport High School. Head to the St. JamesSmithtown Craft Fair on December 14 and December 15 from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Smithtown East High School. The 38th annual Selden Craft and Gift Fair takes place December 21 and December 22 from 10 AM to 4 PM. All are free admission and additional details can be found at www. depasmarket.com.

Harborfields Public Library in Greenlawn will host a holiday craft fair on November 8 and November 9 from 9 AM to 4 PM, with 50 vendors and one-of-a-kind gifts. www.harborfieldslibrary.org.

The Long Island Woodworkers Show returns to Old Bethpage Village Restoration on November 9 from 10 AM to 4 PM, featuring handcrafted furniture and projects, even demonstrations. Go to www. liwoodworkers.org.

The Long Island Children’s Museum in Garden City will have A Victorian Tree: Festival of Trees on November 16 from 1 to 4 PM. Learn more at www.licm.org.

The Gobble Gobble Book Fest

comes to Cedarhurst on November 17 from 10 AM to 12 PM at Hindi’s Libraries with interactive story time, live music, cookie decorating, and more. Call 516-400-3428.

Garvies Point Museum’s Native American Feast takes place just in time for Thanksgiving on November 23 and November 24 from 10 AM to 4 PM, in celebration of the northeastern Native American culture, a tradition for over 25 years. Foods, medicinal plants, face painting, and more, will be available in Glen Cove. www.garviespointmuseum.com.

The 30th Annual Long Island Festival of Trees will take place November 29 through December 1 from 10 AM to 5 PM at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City. In addition to indoor ice skating, it’s a great shopping opportunity for unique vendor gifts, designer trees, and the chance to meet Santa. www.cpnassau.org.

Have great expectations at the 23rd annual Charles Dickens Festival on December 1 and 2 throughout the Village of Port Jefferson as it transforms into pages out of Dickens’s novels. Musical and magic performances, and, of course, a production of “A Christmas Carol.” www.portjeff.com.

Nassau Museum will host the Children’s Book Festival on December 1, from 11 AM to 4 PM, at The Manes Center. Enjoy a story read by exhibiting illustrators from the museum’s current exhibit. Learn more at www. nassaumuseum.org.

Ashawagh Hall in Springs is the home of the ninth annual Friends Bazaar on Saturday, December 7, from 10 AM to 5 PM. Admission is free; inside is arts and crafts, ceramics, photography, jewelry, fiber arts, home décor, bags, scrimshaw, ornaments, hand soaps, and more. For further information, contact jamielerner28@gmail.com.

Stony Brook Village Center will have a holiday festival on December 8 from 12 to 5:30 PM. Live music, trees, holiday windows, train display, and Santa. Head to www.stonybrookvillage.com.

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ew York City’s Beachfront Backyard —Long Island — is renowned for its vibrant must-visit summer spots. While the Hamptons are always at the top of this list, a visit to these chic shores in the off-season can sometimes be even more picturesque. From top leaf peeping in the fall to a snowy escape in the winter, the Hamptons are much more than just a summer destination, and here are five downtowns worth exploring year-round.

Westhampton Beach: Currently undergoing a downtown revitalization,

the village of Westhampton Beach is a vibrant and historic downtown with charming shops, nightlife, and proximity to world-class beaches. The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center is a must-stop attraction and local arts community gem with music, dance, and film productions that draw people from across Long Island year-round. In addition, the Village Green hosts live concerts, crafts fairs, outdoor movie nights, a farmers market, and more. This blissful beach community is the perfect spot to unwind year-round.

Southampton: Southampton town is known for fabulous art galleries, cultural exhibits, beautiful beaches, and, of course, the iconic and historic Big Duck. The village is home to Southampton Arts Center, which offers a range of different exhibitions, public programs, and studio classes throughout the year. The Parrish Art Museum, in Water Mill, has been showcasing the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End since the 1950s and is one of America’s most vital creative centers. The Southampton Cultural Center is also a unique stop for a variety of programming including classes, art exhibitions, and live performances for children and adults at affordable prices.

In addition to the arts, Southampton has some amazing beaches, including Cooper’s Beach, which has been rated among the Top Ten Beaches in America by Dr. Beach and has the picturesque backdrop of the luxe mansions that line the shores of the Hamptons.

East Hampton: About 20 hamlets and villages comprise the Hamptons on the East End of the island, but East Hampton is a celebrity in its own right. This town is the original cool kid with its celebrity sightings, upscale shopping, and destination dining, not to mention pristine white beaches.

Look beyond luxe summer homes and sparkling beaches to explore the 16acre sculpture garden at LongHouse Reserve or modern art at the PollockKrasner House. Dive into local history at the Home Sweet Home museum dating back to the early 1700s.

Sag Harbor: Originally a whaling port, Sag Harbor is filled with historic attributes that separates itself from the rest of the region. Considered one

South Fork Downtowns Come Alive In The Off-Season The Hamptons are more than just a summer destination

of the most walkable parts of the Hamptons, this quaint downtown is filled with independently owned businesses rather than the outposts of major retailers.

Some of the most talked about stops are Flying Point Surf that sells seasonal sport gear all year long, and Berry & Co., a local bookstore and coffee shop. Make sure to get your cultural fix by visiting places like the Whaling Museum or the Bay Street Theater, followed by a stop at Cavaniola’s Gourmet Cheese Shop for high-quality, unique cheeses, and gourmet goods.

Montauk: Over the last decade, Montauk has transformed into a yearround “it” destination. The area’s nostalgic surf-and-fishing driven character set this downtown apart from the traditional Hampton hamlets. New luxury hotel offerings such as the Marram Montauk, Gurney’s Montauk & Seawater Spa, and Gurney’s Star Island Resort are making waves in the community, giving travelers and locals new hot spots to visit while still capturing that

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Holiday Shopping In The Hamptons Where to find the perfect gift locally

By Nicole Teitler

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oliday season is officially

Destination Haus (www.destinationhaus.

upon us. With all the shops

com) is a world of travel in a single shop at 249

to choose from, it’s hard to

Main Street in Amagansett. Artwork, home

decide where to go to find the

goods, jewelry, rugs, accessories, and more. The

right gift. We’ve compiled a

products come from countries around the world.

list of some #shoplocal stores,

Support your local shelter at the ARF Thrift

aiming to keep the money in the community.

Shop (www.artfhamptons.org) located at 17

Let your impact be as memorable as the present

Poxabogue Lane in Sagaponack. Choose from

itself.

furniture, art, jewelry, clothing, and other unique treasures with 100 percent of the proceeds

Good Westhampton (goodwesthampton.

supporting the Animal Rescue Fund of the

com), located at 141 Main Street in Westhampton

Hamptons.

Beach, carries home décor, bath and body,

Is your gift recipient into the latest threads?

lifestyle, kids and baby clothes and goods,

Discover trend-right clothing at two locations

sweets, stationery, and even pet items. Grab

The Shops at LVIS

those trendy Long Island map totes, Kalastyle seaweed hand soap, and more.

with Tenet Southampton (www.tenetshop.com) at 91 Main Street and an East Hampton location at 21 Newtown Lane.

Good Ground Antique Center (www.good-

Stitch Southampton (www.

ground-antique-center.business.site), located

stitchsouthampton.com) at 22 NY-27A also

at 52 West Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays,

carries boutique clothing.

is an antique store with all different kinds of gifts.

Blue One Boutique (www.shopblueone.com),

Head to Collette’s Basement (www.

at 2397 Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton,

colletteconsignment.com) at 10 Main Street

has something for everyone. Accessories, art and

in Southampton to find luxury fashion at a

décor, or get a recommendation from co-owners

discount. But Collette is a retailer with many

Crystal and Jarret.

facets, with Collette at 2044 Montauk Highway

Gloria Jewel (www.glorajewel.com)

in the Bridgehampton Commons for luxury

has several locations — 125 Main Street

consignment clothes, shoes, and accessories.

in Westhampton Beach, 136 Main Street

Just down the road is Collette Home with luxury

in Amagansett, and 2486 Main Street in Good Westhampton.

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home consignment at 2231 Montauk Highway, and the furniture consignment outlet is at Collette Annex at 2044 Montauk Highway.

The Shops at LVIS at 95 Main Street in East

Bridgehampton (and its 180 W. Broadway in New York). Owner Megan Leary is a born and raised East Ender, with shops offering some of the very

vintage items, jewelry, and more. Revenue funds

Hampton (www.lvis.org) has men’s and women’s

projects from the Ladies’ Village Improvement

sweaters, shirts, casual, shoes, handbags,

Society.

best in female apparel.

Looking for something sparkly? Helen Ficalora (www.helenficalora.com), located at

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2487 Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, offers alphabet charms, rings, chains, and more in solid yellow gold, solid white gold, solid rose gold, and sterling silver.

Fin Montauk (www.finmontauk.com) sells fine shark-tooth jewelry for both men and women.

How about something sporty? Khanh Sports (www.khanhsportseh. com) has a few locations — 60 Park Place in East Hampton, 500 Montauk Highway in East Hampton, and 2454 Main Street in Bridgehampton. Head there for some of the best equipment in the sporting community — bike, skate, surf, eyewear, footwear, and things for the pool.

Sag Harbor Cycle Company (www.sagharborcycle.com) at 34 Bay Street in Sag Harbor has everything for the cyclist. Full bike needs, parts, accessories, tires, BMX, and more. It even has shoes, car racks, helmets, and more.

For the reader in your life, head to Southampton Books at 16 Hampton Road or Sag Harbor Books at 7 Main Street Sag Harbor (www. southamptonsagharborbooks.com), BookHampton (www.bookhampton. com) at 41 Main Street in East Hampton, Canio’s Books at 290 Main Street in Sag Harbor (www.caniosbooks.com), or Berry & Co. in Sag Harbor at 51 Division Street (www.berryandcosagharbor.com).

Looking for the latest tunes? Innersleeve Records at 199 Main Street in Amagansett (www.innersleeverecords.com) carries the new and vintage vinyl. It additionally buys, sells, and trades vinyl, cassettes, CDs, and music memorabilia.

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Youngs Farm Growing Gold Coast goods in Old Brookville

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

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hen I was a child, my father would take me driving along the Gold Coast of Long Island to gather leaves on many a crisp, fall afternoon. We’d get out of the car at random leaf clusters along the road in Roslyn, Glen Cove, the Brookvilles, and picked the brightest colors in full form. He had one of those self-adhesive scrapbooks. We lined their pages, year after year, with foliage in yellows, oranges, reds, auburns, even the occasional tint of blue.

Once we were finished, he’d make a turn off Northern Boulevard, drive down Hegemans Lane, and pull into Youngs Farm. It was customary to have a treat. A slice of pie or some fudge were my favorites. These memories made up my childhood and stood out because, out of all the places he could have taken me, he took me to this small farm stand.

The Youngs family has been on Long Island since the founding days and the farm itself began long before the Village of Old Brookville was incorporated in 1929. The story begins in 1893 when John Youngs married Ida Hegeman, thus Youngs Farm on Hegemans Lane. It is now five generations running.

Tim Dooley, a manager at Youngs Farm, has been involved for eight years. He runs the business with his wife, Remsen, and motherin-law, Paula Youngs Weir, owner of the farm.

Originally, the farm only sold local milk. Now, it sells around 50 different crops across 10 acres, with five acres being seasonal cover crops.

"I think the common thread between generations is the pride that each person takes in the quality of the products we are selling and also the pride of thriving on this land in this location. Each generation seems very different and no one has been required to be a part of it.

However, I think there is an intrinsic reward from making something that brings people some joy and comfort while also making a living,” Dooley said.

Some of the most productive crops are berries, carrots, beets, lettuces, string beans, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, summer and fall squash, flowers, and herbs. Tomatoes are

the farm’s best seller, with an increase in lettuce sales every year. Each crop is sustainably farmed, a signature the family signs on the NOFA-NY Farmer’s Pledge each season. In essence, the family promises to farm organic without going through any certification process.

The fields are rotated each season, there’s an on-site compost, and the farm opts for using a spader instead of plow, which reduces tillage depth. Each technique improves soil quality and contributes to environmentally conscious behavior.

The small building stands amid lush greenery, with the iconic Gold Coast mansions in the distance. It has a commercial kitchen and bakery on-site, putting out soups, quiches, pot pies, cookies, breads, muffins, biscuits, scones, pies, and cakes.

Beyond its own goods and produce, Youngs Farm supports other local farms; eggs from Armstrong Dairy in Lattingtown; produce from Orkestai Farm in Upper Brookville, Schmitt’s Farm in Riverhead, Fox Hollow Farm in Calverton, Wells Homestead Acres in Aquebogue, Briermere Farms in Riverhead, Wickham Fruit Farms in Cutchogue, and Densieski Farm in East Quogue.

“We would like to offer customers even more that we grow ourselves. We will also continue to strive to increase the quality and consistency of all the products we hope helps us grow through word of mouth,” Dooley concluded.

Beyond edible delights, Youngs offers gifts and housewares.

The future of Youngs Farm looks fruitful, with aims to expand vegetable production into yearround offerings and increase varieties of current produce. The farm began taking Thanksgiving orders on November 1 and will continue to take orders through Saturday, November 23. Order your pie online, a list that includes options such as pecan, pumpkin, pear crumb, dark cherry, coconut, Tollhouse, and more.

Youngs Farm is located at 91 Hegemans Lane in Old Brookville and is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sunday 11 AM to 4 PM. Call 516-626-3955 or visit online at www. youngs.farm.

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Indy Snaps Canio’s Literary Costume Party Photos by Richard Lewin Familiar literary figures like Emily Dickinson, Hester Prynne, and William Wordsworth were on the guest list on Saturday, November 2, as they joined Maryann Calendrille and Kathryn Szoka, co-owners of Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, for a Literary Costume Party.

Costumed “readers” gave dramatic presentations from their books.

EH Town Hatchery Oyster Tasting Photos by Richard Lewin Science and appetite met at Bel Mare Restaurant in Springs on Sunday, November 3, at the first annual East Hampton Town Hatchery Oyster Tasting and Rating event. Attendees, mostly oyster gardeners for the project, volunteered to taste, compare, and rate pairs of oysters from four of our local harbors: Napeague, Hog Creek, Accabonac, and Three Mile. Rating categories included texture, sweetness, saltiness, and overall. Event organizer Harold Cook from Columbia University will be compiling the results. East Hampton Town Aquaculture Department director Barley Dunne explained the process of oyster seeding to the crowd.

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By Joan Baum

Magical Realism For Hard Times Love triumphs over tragedy “Encrypting Maya” by Lawrence Kelter spans generations and locales, “leapfrogging from one time and place to another,” as the author says. The plot, which starts out as a tale about two children, one black, the other white, who become best friends in rural North Carolina, morphs into a story of separation, racial violence, romance, murder, mystery, Harvard-sponsored DNA experimentation, Utopian fantasy of saving the world from disease, big pharma corruption of academic science, and redemption.

What’s more, the time line goes from 1989 to 2115, and the narrative is told from multiple points of view, with a new voice showing up in the last chapters. The structure breaks into four unequally sized “books,” with suspense evident in only the second half of the novel and an ending that leaves

some complications unresolved. So, what to make of it all, especially as the author has a resumé of tightly written crime fiction?

His “most ambitious novel,” Kelter writes, “Encrypting Maya” has heart and exudes a sense of comfort fiction for our harsh and divisive age. It’s a timely reminder that red-state rural America contains some “goodhearted salt-of-the-earth folks.” But the story is, alas, too packed with diverse goals, as well intentioned as these are, to change the world, as the world fights back “every step of the way.”

In a brief afterword, Kelter, a born and bred Long Islander, mentions his recent move to North Carolina, love of family, and hope for a time when “we are all brethren,” a time when “it takes no effort to see that we are all just people. We are all the same.” And

so, his young protagonists, Josh and Maya, manage an affectionate relationship which, over the decades and away from North Carolina, turns into deep love, premised on serving those in need. Prejudice, however, dies hard and power politics has a nasty way of subverting altruism.

The World That We Knew New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman, who also grew up on Long Island, has her own heartfelt adventure to offer, “The World That We Knew,” based on a true story told to her by a fan at a book signing. The woman confided to Hoffman that during World War II, her Jewish parents had her live with non-Jews to escape the Nazis. They were known as “hidden children,” and Hoffman thought about this woman and her unusual upbringing for years before deciding to travel to Europe and learn more.

A short end-list of “further reading” testifies to the author’s exploration of the hidden children, and of French collaboration, but along the way, history gave way to fantasy.

It is 1941. Jews are being rounded up and parents fear for their children’s safety more than for their own. Although the subject matter is familiar, Hoffman gives it a unique spin by having her 12-year old protagonist Lea escape by way of a golem that is fashioned out of mud by 17-year old Effie, the dar-

ing daughter of an orthodox rabbi who has observed the arcane formulas and rituals of the men to make golems.

When Lea’s mother, Hanni, comes to beg for help by making a golem, Effie agrees, and a golem is secretly made, a female they name Ava. A golem, a staple of Jewish folklore, has extraordinary physical powers and is typically invoked to assist those in need, but because it has no soul, it cannot be counted on always to do the right thing, and at some point, according to tradition, must be destroyed by the person it serves.

Each woman in Hoffman’s tale is given a point of view, even though Ava, the golem, is “not sure what sort of being she was.” She knew she shouldn’t have feelings but, of course, in the magic world of yearning born of desperation, she acquires sympathy, empathy.

Together the female characters manage to help underground groups flee and to rescue as many children as they can.

The theme of Hoffman’s tale — and Kelter’s — is the power of love to triumph over tragedy, even as “the world that we knew” is long gone and cynicism and cruelty now rule. It’s been said (and attributed to the philosopher George Santayana) that those who do not or cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. Hoffman and Kelter would seem implicitly to agree, but offer as a counterforce the education of the human heart.

Gallery Events Compiled by Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

RJD Gallery The RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton presents the opening of “Inside OUT: Outside IN” on Saturday, November 9.

This exhibition, judged by Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt and Didi Menendez, features the finest works selected out of 500 entries.

Artists Choose Artists The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents its annual “Artists Choose Artists” exhibit. Seven notable artists jury the exhibit. Each selects two artists based on submissions.

Artists include Lillian Ball with Scott Bluedorn and Janet Culbertson, Ralph Gibson with Tria Giovan and Thomas Hoepker, Valerie Jaudon with Janet Goleas and Bastienne Schmidt, Jill Moser with Mary Boochever and Dan Welden, Alexis Rockman with Irina Alimanestianu and Ronald Reed, Lucien Smith with Anne Seelbach and Mark William Wilson, and Allan Wexler with

Margaret Garrett and Priscilla Heine.

A members’ opening reception will be held on Sunday, November 10, at 11 AM. The show runs through February 23.

Fall Art Exhibit The Southampton Artists Association presents its fall art exhibit on November 6 through 17 at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center. The opening reception is Friday, November 8, from 4 to 6 PM.

Your Worlds Perspective Your Worlds Perspective Art Show will be held at Ashawagh hall in Springs on Saturday, November 9 and Sunday, November 10. A reception will be held on Saturday, from 6 to 10:30 PM. Artists include Renee Gallanti, Miles Partington, Linda Capello, Carly Haffner, Aubrey Grainger, Whitney Hansen, Oliver Peterson, Dennis Bontempo, Michael Heller, Erick Osbaldo Segura, Adam Baranello, Francisco Aliotta, Andrea

Yunior Hurtado’s “Torres Immersed in Time” at RJD Gallery.

Karolina Japa, Alyssa Monique, Trish Franey, Keith Douglas, Christopher W. Clarke, Joe Denny, Sebastian Frouein, Rosa Hanna Scott, Jaime Velez, and many more.

Marie DiSunno The Amagansett Free Library presents an artist reception for Marie DiSunno Lombardi on Sunday, November 10, at 2 PM.

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Jeffrey Marrone transforms food truck into restaurant menu

By Hannah Selinger Pizza Rita has grown up.

What began as a pizza truck has transformed into a brick-and-mortar space in Mattituck. If you’re wondering if you can still make a living as a small business owner in America, here’s what I can attest to: on a recent Saturday afternoon, Pizza Rita was very, very busy.

The restaurant itself is minimalist. With handcrafted tables and chairs made from what appears to be live wood, it’s a spare space, with lemon yellow walls and a massive oven covered in mosaic tile. That oven is of premium importance. How big is it, you ask? So big that it came in through the window.

“That was a stressful day,” owner Jeffrey Marrone said when my husband and I asked him about it.

Marrone mans his storefront as he would a food truck. It’s just him — in the kitchen, on the registers, talking to customers. As a crowd amassed at lunchtime, I watched him take out the

trash, serve drinks, run credit cards, take phone orders, take in-store orders, and, yes, line pizzas on a peel to be delivered into that maw of an oven.

He seemed nonplussed by how busy he was. In that regard, the menu, which is limited, helps him.

On the day we visited, there was one type of beer available, making the choice easy. A tall can of lager from Riverhead’s Moustache Brewery, it was refreshing enough to drink on its own and sturdy enough to hold up to the pies.

About those pies. Marrone offers eight pizzas and one calzone, each of them made to order. They’re 12-inch pies, which means you can easily polish one off by yourself. (I fail to understand what the family of four who came in after us was thinking when they ordered one pizza to share; a Neapolitan slice, as any connoisseur knows, is a two-bite deal.)

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Other pizzas include a Margherita, with regular mozzarella; a Marinara, with garlic and oregano; the Stella, with hot capicola; the Bianco, with caramelized onions, mascarpone, and garlic; the Cannolo, with ricotta, mozzarella, sausage, oyster and button mushrooms, and garlic; and the Papa, with mozzarella, smoked provolone, purple potatoes, pancetta, and pecorino Romano.

The calzone, called the Fritta, is stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella, pancetta, San Marzano tomatoes, and basil, and then fried.

We ventured not, in our brief visit,

to the sweet side, but Marrone does offer dessert. His simple selection includes a handful of homemade gelatos (chocolate, vanilla, pistachio, lemon, and saffron-cherry) and an affogato (a choice of the chocolate or vanilla gelato covered in a shot of espresso, made with Aldo’s coffee).

Neapolitan pie has been making a comeback, especially on the North Fork. Two years ago, Avellino arrived at Macari Vineyards, just down the road, and the passion for this style of pizza — more doughy than crispy, and charred around the edges — has not yet abated.

Pizza Rita is an answer to the question of where to go after the moment of the food truck has passed. There is still a desire, it seems, for a sit-down experience, however casual. Expanding his concept to a space that accommodates the types more prone to lunching in than out appears to be paying off. Pizza Rita is delicious.

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Source: Suffolk Research Service, Inc., Hampton Bays, NY 11946

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143 Skimhampton Road

Hren, J by Exr

2,250,000

143 Skimhampton Rd

CALVERTON

Pellicci, R & E

US Bank Trust, N.A.

389,000

264 Southfield Rd

CUTCHOGUE

Couchara, J & Shtayyeh

Andrews, B & R

525,000

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Gambardella, R & M Lentz, P & Regent, N Wolf, A Waldman, S Gentile, K & Rabenstine Whittington, S & M 11 Surrey LLC

Stathis, M & P Yezil, M Miller Sr, G Clemens, J & Stuart,J Gutt, R & C Paul Porco Custom Homes DeLeonardis, R by Exr

1,060,000 735,000 580,000 950,000 770,000 2,010,000 1,100,000

27 Thanet Way 300 Norfolk Dr 104 Cedar Dr 16 Long Woods Ln 5 Oak Ledge Ln 8 Tillinghast Pl 11 Surrey Ct

EAST QUOGUE

Brown, W & Kadiwar, N

Lombardi, E

560,000

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Fergusen, P Spurge, T Round Corner Partners

Costello Sr, G by Adm Fiedler, C Capital One, N.A.

700,000 318,000 1,685,000

2920 Albertson Ln 208 Monsell Pl 230 Main St

HAMPTON BAYS

Keane, D M. E. Ponquogue LLC Fulton, E & Chaloner, E Elkast Corp

Citimortgage Inc Imperiale Materdomini Lerner / Nuttall, M Garity, C Trust

429,000 1,430,000 507,500 475,000

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JCW Jamesport LLC

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856 Sound Shore Rd

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Oxee, J & C

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Greg D’Angelo Construction From early days of swinging the hammer to becoming celebrity builder

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

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ften contractors that work for legendary Hamptons builders find themselves inflicted with the entrepreneurial bug, as was the case with Greg D’Angelo over 30 years ago. It’s a good thing, too. His work led to the construction of some of the most beautiful homes on the East End, not to mention some for A-list celebrities. The Independent caught up with D’Angelo to talk about his work, his history, and why he’s pursued by some of the most famous names in the Hamptons.

How did you start out building homes?

After graduating from college, I started out in the business as a carpenter working for a few high-end builders out here. While I was subcontracting for them with my crew, I was also doing my own small general contracting jobs.

As my business grew, I was doing more of my own projects and less work for those larger builders.

Your clients, including celebrities like Éric Ripert and Sarah Jessica Parker, have left such glowing reviews. It must be a great feeling?

I am certainly humbled by their kind words. It means a lot to me. It reaffirms the effort that we put into every project, which is to do a great job for the client and in a manner where these types of comments from them have come to be expected. It is an extremely gratifying feeling to be of service to our clients in such a way that they are willing to give testimonials like that.

Do you work with specific architects or do you design the home in-house?

We work with many local and out-ofarea architects, some of them on repeat projects. We are a custom builder in the

truest sense of the term. We are usually contacted by an owner or an architect to build their very specific and custom building. When a client wants us to build his or her home prior to having a specific design, we discuss basic design ideas with them, and based on that, make a recommendation to them for a particular architect that we feel would be best suited for the job.

How would you define the GDC style?

We are capable of building any style of home our clients and their architects can envision, so we don’t really choose what it is that we build. But I will say that we are a full-service custom build company that assists and supports our clients in their new homes for many years after the project is done.

You’ve built incredibly classic homes right through to ultra-modern. What do you get out of each style? Do you have a preference?

We don’t have a preference to what we build. I will say though, that traditional architecture is much easier to assemble. Modern architecture has no limits, so anything goes. This means that many times on a modern build we will see things that haven’t been done before and need to recommend smart ways of putting things together that are cost effective and warrantable.

What projects are you currently working on?

We are finishing several projects now, and have several new builds just starting up in Sag Harbor, East Hampton Bridgehampton, and Southampton.

What is your favorite town to build in and why?

I don’t think we really have a favorite, except to say that our office being in Wainscott enables us to service proj-

A Sag Harbor classic.

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ects anywhere from Southampton to Montauk pretty easily.

houses at the point of hardwiring the electric.

Regarding client acquisitions, is it usually referrals or the bidding process that you follow?

In what ways are you evolving as Hamptons builders?

Both.

Do you ever spec build?

I just completed one in Sag Harbor.

If so, once your homes are complete, do you work with a specific real estate agent, or do you market them yourselves?

Jen Ponzini from Compass is our broker and she is wonderful. She’s also a very good friend of mine and my wife.

Are you incorporating any trends that you’ve seen in any of the homes you’re currently building?

Smart home technology is ever-evolving, so we are seeing more of our clients integrating these systems into their

Well, I think the longevity of our company, which is over 33 years in business, and the success of our work has created a brand recognized for quality and reliability that is afforded some of the larger, prestigious Hamptons builders. My goal when I was “swinging a hammer” was to have a reputation like the great builders I was subcontracting from and 30 years later, I feel like we have achieved that goal.

What do you do in your downtime?

I like to spend time with my family doing whatever we can together — either on our boat or on vacation. As my daughters have gotten older, I’d like to try to get back to playing more golf.

To reach D’Angelo or inquire about his work, call 631-537-1700. Visit www. gdcbuild.com for more information, and to read some of the testimonials mentioned by celebrity clients.

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Find Your Inner Calm At The Center A place for peace and quiet on Sound Avenue

By Brittany Ineson At first glance, you probably wouldn’t think much of the small, white, churchlike building located on Sound Avenue in Riverhead. But when it comes to this safe haven, known as the Long Island Buddhist Meditation Center, looks can certainly be deceiving.

The plain white fence lining the front and delicate garden on the side just seem to add to the peaceful and inviting simplicity. Upon entering the parking lot located adjacent to the building, you will likely be greeted by a cheerful monk sporting saffron robes and a smile. If you felt any apprehension in visiting this temple prior to coming, it seems to just melt away in this moment.

Previously located in Port Jefferson, the Long Island Buddhist Meditation Center was established in 2008 on a property donated by Don Jayamaha &

The Long Island Buddhist Meditation Center is located on Sound Avenue, and offers free meditation classes for all. Independent/Bridget LeRoy

Dr. Sharmini Jayamaha. Having moved to its current location in Riverhead in 2017, the center aims to provide the local community, and beyond, with a place to connect on a spiritual level.

Entering through the front doors of the meditation center with simply the clothes on your back and the shoes on your feet (which, it is kindly requested, be removed before continuing up to the second floor) is all you need. Upstairs, you can smell the soothing aromas of light incense in the air. The door at the top of the stairs opens up to a large, dimly lit room. At the front of the room, atop a raised, stage-like structure, rests a large white statue of the Buddha. Surrounding the statue are all types of beautiful offerings such as flowers, fruit, and candles. The entire room seems to fill with this calming energy.

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Colorful pillows and floor seats are neatly scattered across the floor. Just pick one and take a seat. The kind man with the smile outside, resident monk Bhante Kottawe Nanda, sits at the head of the room quietly when class is ready to begin.

Ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1977, he received his primary education at the Sri Nanananda Vanavasa Buddhist Institute in Waturuwila, Sri Lanka.

“Practicing with Bhante and others there has changed my life,” said longtime attendee Lisa Ramsland. “The energy you experience meditating in a group is powerful. I would encourage anyone to come and meditate there. It’s a simple practice and it will help you in your everyday life to be calmer. Who couldn’t use that?”

At the end of the class, it hardly felt like longer than an hour had passed.

With the participants calm and centered, Bhante spends any remaining time inviting the class to ask questions and share feedback. Should you choose to stay after class, Bhante spends a few personal moments with you, tying beautifully colored strings around your wrist: a symbol of peace, a keepsake, and suggestion to practice mindfulness.

While many events occur within the walls of this magical little space, including a Chakra Cleansing Bowl Singing class led by Ramsland, the Guided Mindfulness Meditation class takes place Tuesday and Friday evenings from 7 to 8:30 PM.

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Book & Bottle: History of Jews on Long Island’s East End, with Karl Grossman, will be Thursday, November 7, at 6 PM at the Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead. Grossman’s presentation will zero in on the Jewish settlement in Sag Harbor. Members attend for free; non-members are $5. The registration includes wine and cheese and admission to the current exhibits.

The museum is offering free admission for veterans during Veterans Day week, November 13 to 16, to Long

Island in Conflict, a newly-interpreted permanent exhibit. This exhibit offers examples of uniforms, weapons, medals, and other objects from the permanent collection, honoring Long Island’s contribution to the country’s defense. From the earliest days of settlement, Long Islanders have played an active role in the nation’s military history. On the home front, residents raised money, food, and supplies, and provided the links to home and family so crucial to a soldier’s performance.

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Elkin Honored At Real Estate Conference Named outstanding rookie by LuxuryRealEstate.com

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com Bridget Elkin, a real estate advisor with Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, one of the nation’s leading realtors, recently received the outstanding rookie award from LuxuryRealEstate.com, a global collection of top brokers representing luxury properties around the world.

The national recognition is presented annually to an agent with fewer than five years of experience in real estate who has exceeded all expectations.

Elkin’s award was announced during the annual luxury real estate fall conference in Washington, D.C.

“Bridget is an immensely talented marketer and negotiator who has expe-

rienced extraordinary success in a very short time,” said Daniel Gale CEO Deirdre O’Connell. “She has quickly become one of the top-producing real estate advisors on Long Island’s North Fork.”

Armed with a degree in Mandarin and asian studies, Elkin began her career working in merchandising and brand development for LVMH, a luxury goods company, in Hong Kong and San Francisco, and then at Ralph Lauren, where she was tasked with growing its business in Japan and mainland China. These experiences gave her significant exposure to the global luxury consumer, which translated well to the high-end real estate

saw the largest numbers of Long Islanders in uniform. During the 20th Century, Long Island was the site of major military training grounds, encampments, and airfields. Many of the nation’s military aircraft were built on Long Island.

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market on Long Island’s East End.

Sotheby’s Int’l Realty’s Third Quarter Report Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty’s third-quarter report on Hamptons sales shows the average sale price of Hamptons real estate east of the Shinnecock Canal fell year-over-year by threepercent, from $1.99 million in the third quarter of 2018 to $1.92 million during the same period of 2019. Additionally, according to data compiled by the Long Island Real Estate Report, the total number of sold properties fell by seven percent yearover-year from 328 properties sold in the third quarter of 2018 to 304 properties in 2019.

Nearly all price categories fell yearover-year, with the exception of properties sold above $10 million, which saw a four percent increase year-over-year from $124 million in the third quarter of 2018 to $129 million in 2019. Total volume sold decreased six percent while median sale prices held flat year-over-year at $1.2 million. East Hampton and Sag Harbor both saw an increase in median sale price, of five percent and 16 percent, respectively,

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spurred by an uptick in the number of homes sold above $6 million in the third quarter of 2019 versus 2018.

The average selling price in Bridgehampton was $3.7 million, $2 million for East Hampton, $1.7 million for Sag Harbor, and $1.5 million for Southampton.

The number of units sold dropped again, from 328 to 304; it was 387 in the third quarter of 2017. Units sold by price range is also down from the third quarter a year earlier at nearly every price point, even below $1 million, which was down from 141 to 127 units. It was 183 back in 2017, but has gone down five of the past six years. Sales over $10 million have nearly disappeared.

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November 6, 2019

SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

One Foot In The Grave Envying the well-heeled denishamill@gmail.com

I love to walk.

I grew up in Brooklyn, where I spent the first 25 years of my life on foot.

In my first job, I rode a delivery bike for a butcher shop and took subways and buses everywhere else to schools, jobs, Coney Island, ballparks.

When I took a newspaper job in Los Angeles at age 26, the editor was astounded when I arrived and told him I didn’t know how to drive. As my first assignment, he sent me to driving school and the paper co-signed on a lease for a car.

I still own a car but I prefer to walk whenever I can. These days, I walk a half-mile to the Long Island Rail Road station for a train into Manhattan to work. Then I take a subway and a bus.

Then I walk all day.

I have one of those health apps on my phone that keeps track of how many steps I take a day and how many flights of stairs I climb. Some days I walk six miles and do almost 14,000 steps and 13 flights of stairs. Sometimes three miles. I average four miles and 10 flights a day.

So, it really bummed me out six weeks ago when I awakened with a severe pain in my right heel. It made me hobble to the bathroom. I felt like someone had sewed a pebble inside my

heel during a blackout drunk. Problem is, I don’t drink.

The pain got a little better as the morning wore on, especially after three Aleve. Like everyone else, I Googled the symptoms. I self-diagnosed myself with something called plantar fasciitis.

I knew I needed to see a foot doctor, but I was on set shooting an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” that I’d written called “Murdered at a Bad Address,” which was to air on Halloween.

It seemed all too appropriate because the pain was a total horror.

Suddenly I was walking like Ratso Rizzo in “Midnight Cowboy,” and started to envy all those around me who could walk pain free.

I had to leave for work 15 minutes earlier because I missed one train due to my aching foot. I just couldn’t run to catch the train.

In the half-hour I waited for the next train to the city, I found a new admiration for my father, who lost his left leg at 24 and wore a wooden leg for the next six decades, raised seven kids in a top floor walk-up tenement, and worked standing up all day in an electronic factory.

How the hell did he do it?

I popped three ibuprofen tablets three times a day for the next month, trying to find a podiatrist that took

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my insurance who was also open late during the week or who had Saturday hours.

I went to a “comfort” shoe store and bought sneakers that look like they were designed by Herman Munster for $300 that were specially made for people with plantar fasciitis. It helped.

“Do not take your shoes off when you come home from work and walk barefoot,” the shoe salesman advised.

“You should also buy the special insoles for $30 apiece. Keep those shoes on until you go to bed at night.”

The first Saturday I could get an appointment with a foot doctor, I hobbled up his stairs thinking, “Why doesn’t a foot doctor have an elevator?

Or a ground floor office?”

His receptionist told me my copay was $50, cash.

The doctor took one look at my foot and pressed his thumb into my heel.

I screamed an F-word that was not foot.

“Hurt?” the doctor asked.

“No, do it again, Doc, just for kicks and giggles,” I said.

“Uh huh,” said the doctor.

I added, “It felt like a crucifixion.”

Then he pressed his other thumb into my arch.

I levitated off his examination chair screaming the same F-word several times, only louder than when he tortured my heel. At that moment I would rather he dug his thumbs into my eyes.

“Okay, you have plantar fasciitis,” he said.

“News flash,” I said. “Hold the presses. What we gonna do about it?”

“Take ibuprofen,” the doctor said.

“Three tablets, three times a day.”

“That’s it?”

“You walk too much.”

“For my heart and health and I get this?”

“No treadmill,” the sawbones said.

“Only low impact exercise. No power

walking. Go slow.”

“That’s it?”

He X-rayed my foot and said I had a very small spur that should go away.

“What else?” I asked.

The doctor took out a numbing spray and sprayed it on my heel and then took out a needle like the ones I used as a kid to inflate basketballs.

Then he jabbed that long needle into my tender heel and my mind became a white-hot pinwheel as a constellation of stars danced before my eyes. The pain was so intense it was hallucinogenic.

This is what it was like to have one foot in the grave, I thought.

“The reason why there’s so much pain from the cortisone shot is that it is chalk based,” he said. “The body fights against it as it enters the bloodstream.

So, there’s a mini war raging at the moment in your foot.”

“It’s Little Big Horn and I’m General Custer,” I shouted.

Then, in a movie-like dissolve, the pain dissipated. The sun came through the clouds and I felt instant relief. In that magic movie moment, I was transformed from Ratso Rizzo to Gene Kelly in “Singin’ in the Rain.”

I laced on my right Munster sneaker and did a little jig around the office.

The doc sold me two insoles for $30 for my dress boots. I wanted to jog home. I made an appointment for two weeks.

“If the pain returns, we’ll have to take a mold of your foot and make orthotics,” the doctor said. “Don’t think the pain will return.”

I couldn’t believe I was as pain free as everyone around me.

Three days later, the pain was back. Only worse.

I have been hobbling since and will for another week before I revisit the doctor.

If you’re walking pain free, stop complaining.

You’ll be putting your foot in your mouth.

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Sports Seniors Mahlia Hemby and Joyce Arbia carry Pierson's fifth straight championship plaque to their team. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

Rascelles’s Goal Earns Whalers Fifth Straight County Crown Pierson plays Carle Place November 9 for Long Island title

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Ten corner attempts and over 50 minutes into a 0-0 game, Pierson senior midfielder Joyce Arbia turned to freshman midfielder Emma Rascelles and said, “Emma, just get me a goal.” And she did.

The senior shuffled the ball to Rascelles on a corner, re-received it on a tip, and crossed it back to her before Rascelles stuffed it in up front for a 1-0 lead and No. 1 Pierson’s fifth straight Suffolk County Class C title.

“In my head all I was thinking was

‘Get it in goal, win the game,’” Arbia said. “And when she did, I just wanted to run up and give her a big hug.”

Rascelles said with 6:37 on the clock she was maybe just a little overexcited when she grabbed possession.

“Energy burst through me,” she said, smiling. “I just shot it and hoped.”

No. 2 Babylon refused to go down easily, but with 4:01 left, freshman goalie Maeve O’Donoghue made her second, last, and biggest save of the game to preserve her clean sheet.

“We needed to make sure we kept the ball out of our zone, off our side of the field,” O’Donoghue said. “I was nervous because Babylon was getting intense, and mad. I thought that they might be able to score on us, but I also knew I had to focus. I told myself, ‘These last four minutes you have to do what you’ve trained for’ — make sure I’m watching the ball, moving with the ball, and doing my best to tell the girls where to be to follow their mark.”

“We all wanted to keep the ball out of that circle,” Arbia added, “Keep our sticks out. To get here year after year, it’s about hard work.”

O’Donoghue, who almost made the switch to play junior varsity volleyball instead of field hockey, said because of that dedication she trusted her defense would back her up when the going got tough.

“I was there for them. And I knew they were there for me, too,” she said. “I believed in us.”

The Whalers — with just two seniors on a 19-girl roster — shook off the early nerves to prove that. They’d been in a similar situation in 2018, with seven freshmen and three eighth-graders on that roster.

“Last year was challenging,” Rascelles said. “This year, we felt more like a team.”

Twelve freshmen and eighth graders this season were another year older, another year wiser, and another year more experienced.

“The first half of the game was all jitters, unsure of where we were going to go,” first-year head coach and 2011 Pierson graduate Nina Hemby said. “I felt a lot of pressure, although I’m sure they felt it even more.”

During the first handful of missed corners, she said she had to remind herself to breathe.

“I was holding my breath the entire time. We just needed to play smart hockey, not hard,” Hemby said. “The goal is to reach receive the ball, and shoot it. That last corner we were in the right positions to do that.”

Hemby had made it to the state tournament, and her sister won it with Pierson, so she knows what it takes.

Her cousin, Mahlia Hemby, the other senior on the squad, is hoping she could be next. First, Pierson will have to face Nassau’s Carle Place, which won its seventh straight county title, November 9 at Centereach High School at 11 AM. The senior thought having so many underclassmen would make it harder, but said her Whalers have continued to prove her wrong.

“I’m so proud of them because they’ve stepped up,” Hemby said. “Pierson field hockey is a big deal. These girls brought their game and played our field hockey. We’re not going to change it for anyone.”

Joyce Arbia and Emma Rascelles celebrates the freshman's goal. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

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Max Ochoa Cuamatitla reaches for the ball. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Ben Luss tosses the ball into play. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Southampton Falls In Class B Final Mariners, with roster of 14 seniors, finish the season 14-2-2

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com A shock wave was sent through the Southampton boys soccer team Saturday.

The No. 1 Mariners, which went on a 12-0 run to start the season en route to the program’s first Suffolk County final appearance since 2015, lost in the November 1 Class B championship game to Center Moriches, 3-1.

“It’s unfortunate. There was prob-

ably a bit of nerves, definitely some unlucky breaks, and Center Moriches did a good job playing out the clock at the end and changing their formation to make it tough to get through,” head coach Dave Riley said. “But what a great group of seniors this has been.

They made an impact on Southampton soccer for sure.”

The No. 2 Red Devils (14-2-2)

came in hot, with Michael Luongo (two goals) rocketing a shot into the right corner past a diving Ashton Triffitt (three saves) for the 1-0 lead with the game less than 10 minutes old. Two minutes later, Southampton senior forward and co-captain Parker West attempted to even things with a big kick up the middle off a cross-field pass, but the ball was stopped by Colin Raupp (seven saves).

“That goal by Luongo was world class,” Riley said. “Nothing you can do on that one. I thought the guys responded well. They did everything they should have.”

At the 24:03 mark, West got one past the goalkeeper and made it a new game. He got the ball from 30 yards out, dribbled it up to the top of the box, regained possession off Raupp’s deflection, and knocked it into an open net.

“We played a good game,” West said. “We played our hearts out.”

Ryan McDermott made it 2-1 off a corner kick with 9:54 to go in the first half, and Luongo 3-1 when the ball bounced through to him — open and unmarked — after three Southampton

defenders raced to bat the ball away from his teammate. Center back Anthony Sundermann also made it difficult for the Mariners to get the ball to goal.

“They kept their edge, but I’d like to think we could beat them on another day,” Riley said. “That’s the heartbreak of soccer.”

The group of seniors have a chemistry unmatched by most teams, with the boys playing together since they were three and four years old.

“We’re practically family at this point,” senior midfielder and co-captain Logan Whitall said. “Every week we’re with each other at least five days a week.”

“Regardless, the season was fun,” senior midfielder and co-captain Joey Avallone said.

Senior back and co-captain Ben Luss said while these things happen, there’s a silver lining.

“It’s a good lesson learned — good thing to take with you through life, a tough hardship like this,” he said. “You have to be proud of what you did all season. You can’t take it away from anyone on this team.”

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Cox, Mancino Send Pierson to ‘C’ Final Whalers play for Suffolk County title after 3-2 win over Greenport/ Southold

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The Pierson girls volleyball team celebrates its Suffolk County Class C semifinal win. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Sam Cox rocks. But you don’t need the signs in the Pierson gym to tell you that. The senior outside and middle hitter’s game speaks for itself, as she slammed the ball down every time it came to her, racking up 23 kills in the Whalers’ 3-2 win over No. 3 Greenport/Southold October 30 to advance to the Suffolk County Class C championship.

“It was a little too close for comfort for my liking, but we just showed the best perseverance,” Cox said.

“We just thought this is our game. We wanted to swing hard, place the ball strategically. This is our home court and we don’t let them take anything from us.”

No. 2-seeded Pierson (12-3) was up 2-0 after 25-9 and 25-18 first and second-set wins. That’s when momentum shifted the Clippers’ way.

Greenport/Southold (7-8) jumped out to a 13-6 lead to start the third before back-to-back kills by Cox and

Grace Flanagan broke up a six-point scoring streak. The senior added five more kills before the set was over, and sophomore setter Sofia Mancino made back-to-back diving plays during the same volley, but the Whalers still dropped the set 25-19.

“They came back with a little bit more energy than we did,” Cox said.

“We got too comfortable. We fell out of our routine, and we tried our best to bounce back from it, but struggled.”

Mancino, who had 30 assists and eight aces, was her typical flying-allover-the-court self.

“She played amazing; absolutely amazing,” head coach Donna Fischer said. “She is so tough. She doesn’t give up on a ball.”

Mancino fell racing for it in the third, and from her knees leapt up and bumped the ball before falling back down on them. The sophomore quickly rose to throw herself horizon-

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tally onto the back of the court to dig out another return seconds later.

“When I first started playing I wanted to be a libero, so that’s the inner libero in me. I just love going for the ball,” Mancino said, laughing. “I never want that ball to hit the ground.

I want the point to keep going. It’s also about the adrenaline rush, and playing this game gives me a huge one.”

After dropping the fourth set 2624, the Whalers admitted while they thought they should win, they entered the fifth with some doubt.

“We’re all confident in what we can do,” Cox said, “but it’s always in the back of your mind: ‘What if?’”

“I felt it should have been done in three,” Fischer said. “When they start missing some passing and some digs in the back court, they get in their heads. We talk about it in practice all the time, that they can’t come back.

They have to look to the next ball.”

“But it’s OK,” she added, smiling.

“They pulled it off.”

Greenport/Southold started the fifth up 2-0 before Pierson earned the next four points. A Clippers tip tied the set at 4-all and a miscue made it 5-all before Cox caught fire.

She slammed down a kill, and while Greenport/Southold saved, her next few attempts still struggled to return the ball off them, either hitting the ball into the back court or at the net.

A few Clippers serves were also out of bounds. Cox made it 11-8 on another kill, and Sam Grabb 12-8 on her ace.

The Whalers finished the match with 20 aces.

After a Pierson out-of-bounds serve brought the score to 13-9, the

Whalers earned the next five. Cox and senior libero Olivia Cassone each made their own saving plays in one of the longest volleys of the game, which ended with Greenport/Southold hitting out of bounds to make it 15-9. A Cox ace made it 18-9, Flanagan kill made it 19-10, Cox kill made it 22-12, before the Clippers made errors on the final three points.

“This is very nostalgic,” Cox said.

“I started out here six years ago. This is my last home game ever. I don’t think it could’ve ended any better.”

The team was once again without junior middle blocker Gylia Dryden (headache/slight concussion), who had seven solo blocks, six kills, and an ace the first meeting between the two teams, where the Whalers shut out the Clippers 3-0.

“That was a bit of a problem for us,” Fischer said. “That put everyone a little more on edge than they may have been.”

The coach said she’s hoping Dryden will be back when Pierson rematches No. 1 Mattituck (15-1) in the finals Wednesday, November 6, at Greenport High School at 6 PM.

“It’s all or nothing out there,” Cox said. “We’ll leave it all out on the court.”

Mattituck won in five sets (2628, 25-17, 25-19, 19-25, 18-25) when the two teams squared off back on September 20 and swept the Whalers (25-19, 25-21, 25-17) in a League VIII title-clinching match October 16.

“After playing this game, we’re stronger and going to work harder,” Mancino said. “Mattituck better be ready.”

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November 6, 2019

CHIP SHOTS

By Bob Bubka

No Mountain Too High A Tour win after battling ‘the yips’ bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com

An amazing aspect of Tiger’s recent victory in Japan at the PGA Tour’s ZOZO Championship was that so much was made of the fact that it was his 82nd PGA Tour victory, which tied the 50-year-old win record held by golf legend, Slammin’ Sam Snead. Yes, it is quite an accomplishment and it is an impressive achievement that will most likely never be equaled again. Rory McIlroy even says that he will never reach the 82-win mark.

I swear the wheels on Tiger’s private jet barely had left the Shanghai tarmac before the 19th Hole discussions began.

Social media and golf media arguments were flying around like witches’ brooms on Halloween. But why? I mean 82 wins is 82 wins, right?

Well, the main point of contention is related to the fact that the PGA Tour as we know it only came into existence in

1968 when the majority of professional tournament players decided they wanted their own “tournament” organization.

So the PGA Tour was formed and it split away from the PGA of America (generally the club pros, teachers, etc.). Even to this day, many still think that the PGA and the PGA Tour are one and the same, but they aren’t. So, the absence of early records has cast a little shadow on Snead’s victory count. Who knows, maybe he won more than 82?

The record-keeping was just not as accurate in the early Snead days as it has been in the Tiger era.

During the rise and fall and rise again of Tiger Woods, what is amazing to me is that the “82” number was rarely discussed. On the other hand, Tiger readily admits that the number “18” has always been his driving force. The latter

INDY FIT

By Nicole Teitler

Do Something Scary Why being afraid is a good thing nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily

“Do one thing every day that scares you” — Eleanor Roosevelt.

When I first read those words, I felt compelled to follow them. But who would actively choose to elicit fright?

Ask any adrenaline junkie why they scale mountains, jump out of planes, hit triple digit speeds, or even so much as ride roller coasters, and the answer almost unanimously would be the same. They walk a fine line with danger for the rush. I know because I’ve had to

explain my adventurous decisions quite a few times. But what is that feeling and does it serve a purpose? As a matter of fact, it does.

The most basic reason of fear stands in the flight or fight response, a common phrase to describe, when faced with a scary situation, whether we choose to attempt to overcome adversity, or run from what scares us. But let’s skip the evolutionary reasons fleeing dangerous situations can be neces-

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number is the gold standard in golf.

Yes, there are 18 holes in a round of golf, but the importance of “18” is that it represents the amount of major championships Jack Nicklaus has won, and therefore it is the record Tiger wants to break.

With his stunning win at last year’s Masters, Tiger now has 15 major trophies on his mantle. Unbelievably, in that amazing win total, there was a 10-year winless gap for medical and personal reasons. He won the 2008 U.S. Open Championship and then no more major wins until the 2019 Masters.

The Masters win broke the ice and now Tiger’s fans are playing that Tiger drum to a new beat. Tiger’s problems on and off the course had silenced even the most die-hard fans and all had to come to terms with the fact that the Nicklaus record was untouchable. Then, the 2019 Masters win happened, and the Tiger faithful say the game is back on to reach that magic number of 18.

But — and there’s always a “but” — Tiger will be 44 years old at the end of December and has had a combined total of more operations than I dare count. He needs three more major victories to tie the Nicklaus record and four to break it, and the clock is ticking. It seems like a big mountain to climb, but then again, we are talking about Tiger Woods.

Brendon Todd, a little-known name in professional golf, has just finished climbing to the top of his mountain. This Brendon Todd story is dedicated to any-

one who is thinking of giving up because the mountain is just too high.

Todd is a member of the PGA Tour and was good enough to win the 2014 Byron Nelson Championship. Then, inexplicably, he lost his game. In the 20182019 season, he entered 41 PGA Tour events but missed the cut in 37 of them.

He was struggling. Somehow this once talented golfer had managed to come down with the yips. If you’ve never had the yips, I can only hope you never get them. There’s no easy cure, just ask anyone who has had them. Playing golf with the yips would be like running in the New York Marathon carrying a bowling ball.

However, Brendon Todd was not a quitter. He worked hard and slowly began the healing process to control and eliminate the yips. Many golfers have walked away from the game, but Todd kept at it.

I always love a story with a happy ending and last Sunday at the inaugural Bermuda Championship, Todd reached the top of his mountain and took home the trophy. At one point he even had a realistic chance to shoot a 59 in the final round, but a 62 was good enough to do the job. Among the slew of perks that go to a PGA Tour winner, Todd now gets an almost three-year exemption on the Tour, gets to play in the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Maui, a tournament only for winners, has money in the bank, and is once again brimming with confidence.

Winning on Tour is not easy but winning on Tour after a prolonged battle with the yips is simply amazing.

sary for survival and jump into the benefits facing fear has.

Foremost, it gives us a sense of accomplishment. When Roosevelt spoke about overcoming obstacles, she wasn’t talking about shark diving, at least I assume not. She was referring to stepping outside of a comfort zone to reach the next level of success. If you do the same thing every day for too long, your body and mind eventually stop progressing.

Tackle a new workout routine, aim for the bigger job, move to a foreign city, check that item off your bucket list, read that big book, or even say hello to someone you’ve never met, and suddenly you hold a new sense of power.

Fear begins in our mind and ends in our actions.

Scaring ourselves causes us to focus and be present. There’s nothing like being scared to force our minds to think clearly. When we’re afraid, it’s because we have something to lose and, in that moment, we are faced with a question — am I ready to give this up?

Adrenaline junkies oftentimes go to the extreme because they feel as though they’ve lived a life worth risking to get to the next level of freedom. We give up jobs that are safe for the risk of learn-

ing more or for that bigger paycheck.

Couples break up with the hope there’s a deeper happiness down the line. All these things —physical, mental, and emotional — are decisions we approach with fear. Yet, our minds sharpen when we are faced with the moment of acting. We become present.

Being afraid leads to introspection and personal growth. I’ll refer to a prior column of mine about suffering from panic disorder. If I allowed being afraid of the spontaneous bursts of fear to take over my life, I would forever be an introvert. Instead, I book international flights and greet strangers on the street.

But I don’t do these things because I’m comfortable, I do them because I refuse to stay the same person. Each city and new interaction contribute to my personal development.

When we’re afraid, we must look within before we can look out. Why am I afraid? Is this fear serving me or restricting me? Even the choice to stay where we are or take a step back is a choice resulted in facing fear. It’s not always about going forward.

Eleanor inspired me and I hope to inspire you. Let fear be the catalyst for a better tomorrow.

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struggles were visible from shore. How many other whales and ocean creatures were trapped or killed during this local commercial fishing season that weren’t seen by the public? This poor whale was able to be released thanks largely to the efforts of two local men who risked their lives to help this sentient individual.

A few weeks ago, on October 21, while walking the beach and approaching the Napeague State Park Western Boundary sign I saw a dead shark (dogfish I was told). Within a few hundred feet, I came across approximately 60 of these sharks in a concentrated area. I photographed the dead sharks and shared the photos locally and was told “Yeah, judging from the condition of the gills, I’d say these are definitely bycatch.� These sharks were apparently caught in gillnets. How many other sharks and ocean beings were caught, killed, and thrown overboard this fishing season that weren’t visible because they didn’t wash up on shore? None of us should be subjected to commercial fisheries bycatch in any respect, especially when trying to enjoy our shorelines.

Whether bycatch or the intended catch, these sentient beings experience agonizing deaths. We need to evolve away from the use of gillnets by the

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HOORAY! To the grandparents that spoke up!

HOORAY! To the Southampton community that spoke up!

HOORAY! To the Southampton Village shopkeepers that spoke up!

BOO! To the folks that changed the Halloween Parade route for the Southampton Elementary School students!

HOORAY! For keeping traditions alive in Southampton!

BOO HOO! To those who seek to eliminated traditions and holidays in Southampton!

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Dear Editor, There is a substantial volume of worldwide literature pertaining to fisheries bycatch. I have read a lot of this literature but never fully realized the disconnect with respect to it until recently moving to the fish and seafood centric Hamptons. Most of us probably heard about the humpback whale that was caught locally this summer in commercial fishing netting. We became aware of it because the whale’s

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commercial fishing industry. In reality, we need to eliminate all forms of commercial fishing in order to allow the ocean beings to repopulate and not be subjected to extreme suffering and killing. The depletion of our oceans has a devastating effect on all life on Earth, including humans. It is my hope that those involved in the fishing industry will respond to these horrendous consequences and work together to find new and sustainable sources of income.

Wainscott to Amagansett indeed come into play when wind power hits land, more complications exist. The town sued PSEG and LIPA for expanding the facility in Amagansett without local zoning approval, and the town recently joined a group of citizens in a suit to force the utility entities to bury the socalled “big poles� along the route.

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Continued From Page 17. bines. The Independent has reported it will also be in Hither Hills, where the first alternative to Beach Lane in Wainscott was sited. From there it will use the Long Island Railroad right away to run to the PSEG Amagansett substation, and then run from that newly renovated facility there to the Wainscott substation.

Falcone acknowledged Ă˜rsted is seeking “a settlementâ€? to short circuit the New York State Article 7 review of the project by bringing concerned parties on board for the discussion and to hopefully reach a consensus.

Falcone said “minor upgrades� will be required for the Amagansett facility, and PSEG will make them.

More exciting to LIPA is the future of wind power as it relates to the company, Falcone said. An increasing number of wind turbines in the ocean will translate to cleaner energy and decreasing costs that will reinvigorate the LIPA power supply with renewable, affordable energy.

As for the much-ballyhooed peak time power shortage on the East End, Falcone has repeatedly said the company can easily deal without the use of wind power should the projects under consideration be indefinitely stalled or withdrawn. Line upgrades are already underway.

The LIPA system is a big one — 1.1 million customers, 2400 employees, 189,000 transformers, and a $3.6-billion annual budget. In 2014, LIPA turned over the maintenance of the grid from National Grid to PSEG. Should the PSEG system from

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Rose Hayes continues to remain among the top talents in state tennis.

The Westhampton Beach sophomore won four of her five matches in the state tournament at Tri-City Fitness Center in Latham this past weekend to earn fifth place. Last year, she finished fourth.

Hayes (11-1), the No. 4 seed in this year’s tournament, made it to the quarterfinals all three years she has competed at the varsity level.

She began the tournament in typical Hayes fashion with 6-0, 6-2 wins over Christian Brothers Academy’s Gieselle Vlassis (3-1) and Clarkstown North’s Sydney Miller (1-3), before coming off the court after dropping a heartbreaking 1-6, 7-6, 6-2 quarterfinal match to Briarcliff’s Rebecca Lim (4-1), who eliminated Hayes last year, too. The match spanned three hours and 30 minutes.

Westhampton’s doubles duo of seniors Rose Peruso and Jen Curran (11-4) took their first trip upstate together, and lost their first-round single-elimination match to Pittsford Sutherland’s Hannah Kim and Selin Akbas (5-2).

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“He did have two daughters he lived for, worked for,� Usma-Quintero’s girlfriend, Valentina Garcia, told The Independent Friday, November 1.

A GoFundMe page has been started to raise money for his daughters and pay for the funeral expenses.

The campaign had already raised more than $14,000, from mostly small donations, by Monday morning. The initial goal was $10,000.

On Friday, two of Usma-Quintero’s friends, Erika Uribe and Carolina Lopez, left an inscribed picture of the victim at the roadside memorial. The two women spoke quietly about their departed friend, who was extremely popular in the community.

As they spoke, a bicyclist passed by,

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posted will have to be exonerated this December.

East Hampton Town police consider the investigation ongoing, and ask members of the public to contact them if they have information on the incident at 631-537-7575.

There was a memorial visitation of Usma-Quintero at the Yardley & Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton Sunday. His body was to be cremated, and the ashes returned to Colombia.

There were two recent cases out of East Hampton Town, in which drunk drivers were convicted and sentenced.

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“The project in question is going to allow our people to finally address the economic disparity that has plagued our community for generations,� the council said in a previous statement. “The Shinnecock Nation has been through many trials and tribulations throughout our history and we are still here. With the strength of our ancestors and the blessings of the

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The state had previously promised to work with the tribe to open a casino. This never came to fruition. In August, votes on two gaming resolutions were passed to authorize Shinnecock leaders to draft a new gaming ordinance to submit to the National Indian Gaming Commission, and to explore Long Island gaming proposals with developers including the Seminole Tribe of Florida that owns the Hard Rock International and the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino brand.

Polite had said the plans are in the “very, very early stages.�

New York State has a moratorium on new commercial casinos until 2023. The freeze was part of a voterapproved plan in 2013.

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49.

99

Johnnie Walker Black

Lagavulin 16 Year Old Scotch

750 ml

750ML

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74.

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Bulleit Bourbon

Milagro Silver

59.

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Grey Goose 750 ML

29.

34.99 $ 55.99 $

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69.

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750 ML

22.

99

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29.

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69 .

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54.

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34.

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1-$$24.99 2- 42 3-$60

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39.

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39.

99

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46.

99

Herradura Silver Liter 99 34. $

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750ML

36.

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59.

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Oban

750ML

62.

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39.

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30.

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49.

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Kettle One Vodka Mag.

Mag

99

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Single Malt Whisky

Silver and Reposado

750ML

99

Mag.

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Basil Hayden's Bourbon

1800 Tequila

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29.

$

Jack Daniels

99

Skyy Vodka Mag.

23.$

$

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2- 40

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32.$ 99

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29.

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84.

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49.

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32.99 $ 21.99

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