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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Bruce King — Alum and teacher believes in being true to your school

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News

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Arts & Entertainment

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06 A Deadly Foe Police gear up for fentanyl exposure.

14 Dem Infighting East Hampton Democrats are fighting — with each other.

38 Sewage In Montauk Owner of yacht docked in Lake Montauk faces misdemeanor charges.

40 State Cops Arrest 3 Troopers make two busts in traffic stops.

61 Susan Merrell Sag Harbor author’s novel adapted for screen stars Elisabeth Moss.

62 Parrish Road Show Shinnecock Native Jeremy Dennis recreates stories at Duck Creek.

12 Life At Gosman’s In happy chaos, Gosman’s Wholesale runs like a machine.

20 The Swamp Is No More The building that housed the famous gay establishment is razed.

40 Facing Felony DWI Third time not a charm following arrest in East Hampton.

41 Threatened With Knife Coram man cuffed in Riverside threat.

60 Ellsworth Kelly Guild Hall summer gala celebrates abstract art exhibit.

66 Green Beetz Educates Fundraising event Green Beetz Day supports the foundation’s goals.

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88 Shagwong Tavern A true, but beloved, dive in a fishing town full of them.

90 Sotto Sopra The Amagansett restaurant offers Northern Italian menu.

98 Gary DePersia The 23-year East End real estate veteran shares his playbook.

101 RE/MAX Still Growing The real estate giant has increased its number of agents.

104 Queen Bee Of Beach Lifeguard champ ready to compete in nationals.

106 Young Lifeguards Junior lifeguards practice for the big league.

89 Backyard At SolĂŠ East The food is so amazing, reviewers had to censor their enthusiasm.

92 Recipe of the Week Orange And Ginger Cured Salmon With Wild Rice.

101 Billy Joel Tries Again The Old Bayview Bait and Tackle Shop.

102 Deeds Featured listings above $3 Million and below $1

105 Aubin Shuts Down Warriors Pitcher dazzles with full arsenal.

110 Indy Fit: Healthy Guru Stern hosts day dedicated to wellness.

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News & Opinion Guarding Against A Deadly Foe Police gear up for fentanyl exposure

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com The illicit synthetic drug mixing agent fentanyl is light, comes in small packages, and is rarely seen in its purest, deadliest form.

A useful drug physicians use in surgeries and for long-term pain management, fentanyl has hit the streets and is being mixed with opiates like heroin and then sold to addicts to intensify their high. But even a spec of its purest form can kill someone, and for first responders like police officers — the people who are most likely to come in contact with the deadly substance — there is an added danger of exposure when they are on the scene of a drug overdose or arrest.

They could enter a home or undertake a traffic stop, where sellers or users have the drug out in the open, uncovered, and all it takes is a stiff wind to blow the substance about a room or car. The drug could also be hidden somewhere on a suspect, and then ripped open by accident during a search of a pocket or a shoe. Either way, exposure through the air can penetrate vulnerable mucus membranes such as the eyes, nose, or mouth. The drug can also be absorbed through the skin.

“Because we are so concerned about the fentanyl situation, we decided that we have to protect the officers,” said Southampton Town Police Lieutenant Susan Ralph, who trains the department’s officers against exposure, as well as on the administration of naloxone, the antidote to opiates which can be used to revive people who overdose.

Police Chief Steven Skrynecki voiced concerns about fentanyl after three people overdosed at the same house in the Northampton area last month. Two people were revived in the incident; however, the third did not survive. Skrynecki requested a rush on toxicology reports from drug evidence collected at the scene in hopes of putting the dealer out of business.

The department has outfitted each police car with kits, priced at roughly $40, to guard against exposure to the drug. The kits contain plastic glasses to protect the eyes, a pair of paper booties to pull over shoes, a filtered mask to remove any dangerous particles from reaching the nose, and a pair of black rubber surgical gloves for the hands.

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Publisher James J. Mackin Associate Publisher Jessica Mackin-Cipro Executive Editors Rick Murphy Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Rigged The Vote?

A Delight

To the Editor, An unmistakable odor is starting to waft from the Van Scoyoc town board. Four members, Peter Van Scoyoc, Sylvia Overby, Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, and David Lys act almost entirely in lockstep. One member, Jeff Bragman, is raising the questions that need to be asked and protecting the public interest.

But, where was I?

Oh yes. Last Thursday night, the town board tried to give away — that’s right, for nothing — an unimproved town road to an adjacent property owner who wants a bigger lot and a bigger building envelope.

That would increase the value of that lot significantly.

There is no reason to do this at all, but for nothing? It is illegal to give away town assets or to sell them for less than fair market value.

The multi-millionaire landowner, hidden behind holding companies, is represented before the town board by, guess who? Steve Latham, law partner of Chris Kelley. Kelley is the grey eminence who really runs the East Hampton Democratic Committee having handpicked its new chair, Cate Rogers, and then rigged the vote to assure her election.

The illegal giveaway was stopped in its tracks only because David Buda showed up with real estate documents that made clear what the town board was up to. Bravo to Buda! The people of East Hampton are in your debt.

Jeff Bragman started asking questions. Van Scoyoc was livid. As to why the transaction should be allowed to go forward, Van Scoyoc explained, “What difference would it make?” Latham kept demanding that the hearing be closed. A circus.

In the end, the board reluctantly kept the hearing open for two weeks so that it could find out just what it owns that it is trying so hard to give away illegally. That odor you smell? It’s the smell of money, and something very rotten.

Rona Klopman

Dear Bridget, Delighted to see your byline via “Bosworth’s Book’s.”

Patricia interviewed me, ‘Cliff, page 273 on his Ogunquit, Maine, summer of 1954 — a boulder-sized version of real scoop Monty. Monty later visited me, Perkins Cove, Ogunquit the summer before he died.

He developed a tight friendship with Nancy Pinkerton (Beth Moon “Edge Of Night TV.”) It would be a delight to fill you in “Maine’s Magnificent Mariner,” The Village, a Kennebunk magazine, April 18, page 12.

Best, Captain Bruce Robertson-Dick Editor’s Note: The letter is addressed to Bridget LeRoy, Indy’s arts writer and web editor.

Changed Party Dear Rick, Southampton Town Supervisor, Jay Schneiderman, was a registered Republican until a decade ago when he switched to the Independence Party, in part, to win the endorsement of Democrats.

Last year, Schneiderman switched his Independence Party alliance to the Democratic Party while denying any intention to run for Suffolk County comptroller. He has since changed his mind again, opting to run for the office of comptroller as a Democrat yet hoping — unsuccessfully — to win the endorsement of the Independence Party he abandoned last year.

I believe it’s fair to ask where Supervisor Schneiderman’s values lie.

Respectfully, Susan Cerwinski

No Idea Dear Editor: The Mayflower pilgrims in heaven would be astonished at American’s present-day attitude towards God, the Word of God, and his precious son, Jesus.

Their strong beliefs in God and Christianity were expressed in the Mayflower Compact. In that compact, they said they did it, “for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith,” and signed “in the presence of God.”

Over half of those pilgrims who landed on the western side of Cape Cod Bay in mid-December, 1620, died that winter, because of poor nutrition and harsh living conditions. Because of their faith in God and Jesus, they went to heaven.

But hell is where most present-day Americans are headed, because of their gross disobedience of God, and their unbelief.

Almost daily, we see elected officials and other well-known individuals, show their defiance towards God, when they proudly defend the indefensible. They seem to have no idea that there is a righteous God who created them, and that He set rules and laws by which they are to live by.

Mankind will be judged by those laws and by the Word of God.

America erred greatly when it started its separation from God. His commandment to teach the children diligently all about him, including keeping his commandments, statutes, and judgments, was forgotten by the Supreme Court and the other branches of government.

We took God out of America, so we should not be surprised when there seems to be more hate than love in America.

Foolish America has said, there is no God, has become morally corrupt, doing abominable things, and most do bad things instead of good.

In Jesus’s name, stop the baby killing.

Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

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Montauk Fire Dept.

Sounds Alarm Delays in implementing new communications system cause concern

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

The chief of the Montauk Fire Department, Vincent Franzone, along with four Montauk fire commissioners, sounded the alarm on August 2, during the East Hampton Town Board’s work session, over delays in replacing the town’s antiquated emergency communications system. Even worse, the board was told, was the lack of a reliable patch in case the current system goes down.

“We are almost to the point of [using] smoke signals,” Chief Franzone said. While he was joking, the conversation itself was of a deadly serious nature. He explained that, in an extreme emergency, his department could be left having to communicate with radios where the signals won’t get over the many large hills in Montauk.

The town is in the midst of replacing its aging emergency communications equipment, a process that has hit several stumbling blocks, pushing the start date from the originally projected Labor Day weekend of this year to Memorial Day weekend of next year, or possibly further down the road. The project was originally bonded at $6.5 million, but changes in the plan have added another $1.7 million to the cost.

Montauk Fire Commissioner Dick Schoen told the board that the antenna with emergency communications equipment on it near the Montauk recycling center is operating at 154 percent capacity. That antenna was one of the stumbling blocks that has cost the project time and money. When Motorola, the company that has contracted with the town for the new equipment, examined the tower, its engineers found that it will have to be structurally fortified, if not totally replaced, in order to carry the new equipment. In addition, the shed for the tower, which the town had hoped to reuse for the new equipment, is going to have to be replaced.

Commissioner Michael Mirras also addressed the town board. “As we understand, the communications system, which is vital to the community,” he said, “is ready to collapse. If it breaks down, there are no spare parts and we

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would have a patchwork system which would severely affect public service.”

“It clearly is an obsolete system,” agreed Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc. “And some parts are not available from the manufacturer. We’ve been scavenging them from eBay and other places in order to keep the system going.” The system upgrade, he said, was “probably five years overdue.”

Commissioner Mirras said that when the plan to replace the equipment on the towers and on the ground was first put into place, the Montauk Fire Department was told it needed to buy new radios to interact with the new system. Those radios were purchased at that time, and are now sitting in a room, unused. “We need an update. Is Memorial Day a realistic date, or is it going to be delayed further?” he asked.

“We were projecting that that system would be online by this September,” Van Scoyoc responded. “That date obviously is blown. I don’t want to give another date that, for some reason, we can’t meet because some problems come up.” However, he added that the word from the town’s communications director, Ed Schnell, is that the project will be ready closer to Memorial Day next year. Van Scoyoc said that, going forward, the board would immediately Continued On Page 119.

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A Day In The Life At Gosman’s In happy chaos, Gosman’s Wholesale runs like a machine

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

It is early morning, but it is anything but tranquil at Gosman’s Wholesale Fish Market, just off the town dock in Montauk. Over 100 wholesale order slips cover a table. Rock ‘n’ roll is playing in the background as about 18 employees sort, scale, clean, and box fish and shellfish fresh from the sea. It is a scene of energetic, organized chaos, though that is deceiving. In truth, the operation runs like a machine.

“We bring in fish from all over the place, plus, of course, our local fish,” Asa Gosman said. As he spoke, he was filling a container destined for one of the many East End restaurants the wholesale outfit supplies on a daily basis with sea scallops. “A lot of it comes from our own docks. Certain species — fluke, striped bass, sea scallops. Tuna, when in season. Then a lot of stuff comes from all over the place.

These big scallops come from New Jersey. The wild salmon, the west coast of Canada. These mussels are from Canada, these cockles from New Zealand.”

But the local fish, and local fishing boats, are always important. “The St. Anthony is a big one for us,” Gosman said. “Fluke in season, and sea bass.

Unfortunately, in New York, sea bass is closed right now. Fluke was closed for two weeks. It just opened back up.” There is always a Plan B. No local fluke? “We had to source fluke from Massachusetts and New Jersey where

fluke was open. We have relationships with dealers and fishermen in those states so we get good fish.”

Besides the St. Anthony, Gosman said, “We got a lot of monk fish, lobster, and sea bass in season from the Lady K. We just got a whole lot of tile fish from the Sea Capture, local scallops from a boat called the New Species. Then we get striped bass from Danny D'Albora (the Freedom) and from Travis Kelly (the Amy Lee).”

Besides fresh fish, Gosman has a freezer full of frozen shrimp and calamari. “Any seafood product you see on a menu in a restaurant, we sell it. Today we will send six trucks out from here to Hampton Bays, and then Shelter Island and the whole East End area, and another truck will go farther west.

The majority of the business is in the Hamptons. And, of course, Montauk.”

He said the company makes more than 100 deliveries a day.

Each worker has his own station.

They laugh and joke, but they work with well-trained hands. Streams of fresh water flow through hoses, keeping each work station clean. Mountains of crushed ice are on hand to pack and preserve the fish as they make, in many cases, their final journey. Against one wall, three men are scaling and cleaning fish, something they will do throughout the day. Another man is cleaning halibut. “It’s a pleasure to work with these

Kleber Sanmartin has an expert hand when it comes to carving swordfish and other seafood delicacies.

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guys,” Wayne Berkofer said as he cut into the fish.

John Derrico is next to him. He is cleaning the Bronzini. That particular fish, he said, is an acquired taste. Behind him, in the middle of the room is an island of tables. Kleber Sanmartin is carving up large tuna loin. Gosman is now opposite him, working on a tuna loin himself. Usually the tuna is yellowfin, but recently, a giant bluefin, over 500 pounds, came in. It went right out to the sushi restaurants the wholesale business supplies, Gosman said.

Gosman’s was founded by Mary and Robert Gosman in 1943. Mary Gosman sold homemade clam chowder. The business expanded to what it is now, a complex of stores, restaurants, the famous retail shop, and the wholesale operation. Originally, the wholesale division, which was founded about 20 years ago, was divided into two parts, fish and lobster. They were merged about 10 years ago. Asa has

been working alongside his cousins, Bryan and John Gosman, since the expanded wholesale department opened.

On the floor, which is constantly hosed, are pallets on which boxes marked for different restaurants and stores sit. Over the course of a couple of hours, the pallets fill with iced fish, the trucks are loaded, and off they go.

All except for one. The biggest truck leaves in the evening. That truck is loaded with catch from local fishing boats that Gosman’s doesn’t need. “We buy fish from direct vendors from all over the country and the world and it ships in to the Bronx. We pick up and we bring it back to Montauk to distribute. We could be picking up anything from a black sea bass from New Jersey to a tuna from half way around the world or a halibut from Nova Scotia or mussels from Canada.” The truck arrives back in Montauk around 10 in the morning, setting off another whirlwind of activity.

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Tito and Maria Santiago outside Gosman’s Wholesale.

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Two Blissful Workers at Gosman’s Dock

He has been working at the Gosman’s complex for 29 years. Tito Santiago has been married to his high school sweetheart, Maria Santiago, for about that length of time. For the past several years, Santiago has worked in the wholesale market at Gosman’s, cleaning and packing fish. Maria returns to their home in Puerto Rico every winter — Tito stays on, working at Gosman’s.

The couple has two daughters. The eldest is 25. “She is studying medicine,” Santiago said with pride. She will eventually become a doctor. Their youngest is 21. “She is going to be a teacher,” Ms. Santiago said. They smiled and hugged for the camera, the perfect couple.

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Dem Infighting Reveals Inner-Party Dealings East Hampton Democrats are fighting — with each other

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

L

ast November, all three candidates from the East Hampton Town Democratic Party trounced their Republican opponents in the local election,

as usual.

Don’t blame the losers: Republicans Manny Vilar (for supervisor), Jerry Larsen and Paul Giardina (town board) ran a well-financed campaign, were well versed, and well known around town, especially Vilar, a lifelong resident of Springs, and Larsen, the longtime East Hampton Village Police Chief.

Yet Peter Van Scoyoc was easily elected town supervisor, and Kathee Burke Gonzalez and Jeff Bragman won the race for the two vacant town board seats, all by nearly 2-1 margins.

It’s been that way for a long time in East Hampton. In fact, the Dems have not suffered a loss since a shocking unanticipated financial meltdown during the Bill McGintee era led to a district attorney’s investigation and the arrest of the town’s budget officer, and the town winding up $29 million in debt.

It is doubtful the Dems would have ceded control of the town to their political rivals without the scandal. As it was, the GOP swept into office under Bill Wilkinson in 2009, after the district attorney had swept into town hall and leveled financial impropriety charges.

The town quickly reverted back to its Democratic leanings, forever; Wilkinson won literally by a handful of votes two years later and the Democrats regained the majority one election cycle later..

For a party flush with power, though, the Democrats certainly aren’t laughing it up. In fact, a chasm has ripped the party open, pitting its most powerful insiders against each other and forcing a district-by-district election to choose committee members. In the process, the dirty laundry is hanging out for all to see, and Republicans

privately are chortling that the end result may well be the dismantling of a powerful political machine that has shaped the town for years by controlling the appointees to its zoning and planning boards.

Chris Kelley’s name is synonymous with “Party Boss” in East Hampton Town, those interviewed agree.

Just ask any of the insiders who have witnessed him rule for 30 years. It is Kelley who controls the party’s purse strings and has the final world on appointees to the planning and zoning boards. And it is Kelley who usually has his way when it is time to choose who gets to run for town board, keeping in mind the election is usually a mere formality: to run on the Democrat ticket is to win. (Kelley is interviewed elsewhere in this section.)

The rift erupted in public after Jeanne Frankl, the longtime party chairman and Kelley disciple, announced she was stepping down. Kelley, opponents said, wanted Cate Rogers, a former ZBA vice chair, to take the helm.

But Rona Klopman, a longtime party loyalist, wanted to be named chairwoman as well. “I’m a lifelong party member. I’ve always helped out on every event. I met with them every Friday,” said Klopman. Often seen sitting with Frankl at town board meetings, Klopman assumed she would naturally ascend to Frankl’s position.

“Chris Kelley didn’t want me,” she said pointedly.

Klopman has since charged Frankl and Kelley “manipulated the districts” to a point where their followers had enough votes to choose Rogers over her. She filed suit and lost. But now the matter will be resolved on primary day, September 13. All 19 districts will end up for grabs, and two candidates from each chosen.

David Gruber has kept a lower profile in the Democratic committee but has been a power since he emerged

on the scene 25 years ago, barely losing a bid to be elected town supervisor.

In the last election he “wrote campaign literature and set strategy,” Gruber said, while Kelley “handled logistics.”

He is supporting Klopman, he said, “because the other side engaged in vote rigging.”

Gruber has announced his candidacy for the soon-to-be vacant town board seat.

When Van Scoyoc was elected town supervisor, he still had a year left on his term as town councilman, which was left vacant. The Dems chose David Lys, a political neophyte who served on the zoning board, to finish the year remaining on the term. It was doubly shocking. It was doubly shocking because Lys was a Republican, and because a number of prominent Democrats felt the seat should have gone to one of them.

“It was illogical, and politically a bad idea,” Gruber commented. “The voters wanted a Democrat.” Lys soon announced he would register to become a Democrat, but the change in designation will not take place until after November’s general election.

“He’s a bobble head. They voted for him to go along with the majority,” Gruber said of Lys. “Kelley wanted him because he can be controlled.”

The Democrats probably didn’t think Lys would be challenged by another Democrat, but he has been — by Gruber. And Vilar will be waiting to take on the winner. Gruber, like Klopman, blames Kelley for championing Rogers over Klopman. Not so, says Frankl.

“That is so unfair. The image of Chris Kelley they paint is so wrong,” Frankl said. “They are nasty and jealous and full of baloney.” Rogers got caught in the middle, and that too is unfair, Frankl said. “She is hard working.

She served on the ZBA for 10 years.”

Frankl acknowledged she and Frankl worked closely together. “We were a team. I appointed her to be a board watcher. I appreciated her,” Klopman said.

Klopman, Frankl said, was bitter because she was narrowly bested when she ran for the Town Trustees last year, and she wanted to be appointed to either the ZBA or town board. “She has a bad mouth. She can be very critical,” Frankl said, so the party hierarchy chose not to promote her to another position.

Amos Goodman, the chair of the East Hampton Town Republican Party, said the malice towards Klopman might run deeper than that. After the subsequent election, Goodman said the Republicans had a chance to challenge a number of votes that went to Klopman’s opponents — there were nine trustees elected. Klopman finished 10th, one of only two Democrats who weren’t elected. She lost by 151 votes.

“They [The Democrats] didn’t even show up to challenge. I was there. She would have gotten in,” said Goodman.

Gruber is seeking the Independence Party line as well, as is Vilar.

Both sides are claiming petition fraud and scheduled a court date.

If Lys beats Gruber in the Democratic primary, Lys and Vilar will face off for the open seat. And both will be registered Republicans.

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Chris Kelley: Nobody Likes A Primary Democratic party boss “pained” by infighting

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com Chris Kelley has been fighting the good fight for 36 years.

“I remember it was 1982. I was 24, Tony Bullock was 24. Tony was running for a vacancy on the town board in a special election,” he recalled. It was critical time for East Hampton Town.

Supervisor Mary Fallon had resigned by then, but her determination to dissolve the town planning board worried conservationists because it would open the door to unsavory developers.

“The Democratic committee was in disarray. It was dysfunctional. We asked the party chairman Andy Malone to step down,” Kelley said. The resulting infighting ended with an election to determine party committeemen. That was the last time that happened — until now.

“Technically, there is always an election but they are never contested,” he said. This year, Kelley is on one side of a very public split within the party (see accompanying article). On the other side is maverick former party head David Gruber, who is challenging the Dems’ official town board candidate David Lys in an upcoming primary (September 13). Kelley is not happy about it.

Gruber has tried to paint himself as a reform candidate breaking with the party on issues like Deepwater Wind and its appointment of Lys, who is a registered Republican, though he intends to switch his party affiliation after the election.

“It’s opportunistic,” Kelley said of Gruber’s positions. “He’s trying to

separate himself from the town board and undercut the town board.”

The party initially chose Lys to fill the vacant seat on the town board created when Peter Van Scoyoc was elected supervisor. The term ends this year. Kelley said choosing Lys despite his standing as a Republican in no way weakened the Democratic Party image.

“We ran Zach Cohen and he was a Republican. Cathy Lester was a Republican once. Hillary Clinton was a

Republican. People change all the time.

Lys has changed his registration,” Kelley pointed out.

Still, Kelley has honed his reputation on the concept that the local Democrat Party runs smoothly and gets results. “It pains me. Politics is so much about finding the right people and then encouraging them,” he opined.

In a way, the primary is a good thing, Kelley surmised. “It’s good and bad news. We have to work a little harder to bring in different people.”

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Gruber Returns To The Spotlight town board candidate brings ‘depth and experience’

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com It’s been almost 20 years since David Gruber narrowly lost an election for East Hampton Town supervisor.

But the Democratic Party stalwart has remained active behind the scene, and seemed content to remain there, until a tumultuous turn of events within his beloved party led to an unexpected announcement: He’s throwing his hat back into the ring, this time for a town board seat.

What precipitated the move — and what has resulted in a rare look at the inner-party workings — is a split in the party that has created two warring factions (see article elsewhere in this section).

Gruber favors longtime party loyalist Rona Klopman, who wanted to succeed the party chairman, Jeanne

Frankl, who is retiring. Frankl and others wanted Cate Rogers. Another thing that rankled Gruber: The board, comprised entirely of Democrats, chose David Lys, a Republican, to fill an open seat on the board.

“That’s pretty illogical,” Gruber said. “The voters wanted a Democrat.”

Lys was appointed, he surmised, because the Democrats wanted someone they could control on the board by giving the “illusion” he was independent, thus satiating calls from the media and public to have at least one non-Democrat on the board.

Gruber decided to challenge Lys in a primary battle.

Recently, at a town board meeting, Gruber made an impassioned speech about Deepwater Wind, which wants to

use Wainscott as a landing spot for its power cable. It’s the first time in memory he’s broken with the official party line.

In his speech, he said Deepwater “is indifferent to local concerns” and said the current town board “has no idea what it is getting into.” The board recently voted to allow Deepwater an easement for its offshore wind farm

project by a 3-2 vote.

Gruber is running because, “the board needs people who have depth and experience.” Towards that end, Gruber, a former party head himself, has formed the East Hampton Reform Democrats, and intends to challenge every committee seat in all 19 districts.

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The Swamp Is No More The building that housed the East End’s most famous gay establishment is razed

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

East Hampton Town razed the Star Room in Wainscott last week, erasing the last remnants of once the most decadent gay establishment in East Hampton Town.

In its heyday in the late 1970s, the Swamp, housed in the same building that later was home to the Star Room, was wildly popular, extremely loud, open very late, and had a decidedly male clientele. Who was spotted there, and with whom, churned the gossip mill. Snappers popped, disco pumped, and the crowd inside the men’s room was every bit as visible as the crowd on the dance floor.

But whether walls can talk or not is now irrelevant. After the disco era waned, the property, which contained a

second building called The Annex that also housed a bar, was shuttered for some time and resurfaced as The Star Room, a pricey restaurant owned by Scott Gray, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and Scott Storbo, who did public relations for Saatchi & Saatchi.

The property, at 378 Montauk Highway, eventually sold to Isha Kaushik and other family members in 2007.

Though shut down, the property was occasional eyed by developers for other commercial uses, drawing concern from, among others, the Wainscott Advisory Committee. In 2012 a plan to open a car wash on the site materialized, and sentiment to use the Community Preservation Fund to buy it intensified. The town purchased the

The site once occupied by first the Swamp, and later the Star Room, has been cleared by East Hampton Town, which recently bought the property. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

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Bus Woes Roll On For The 10C Breakdowns, missing connections, and schedules ire passengers

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

It was August 2, the second day of the new Suffolk Transit schedules for the 10C bus, which connects Montauk to East Hampton, and the 10B, which connects Springs to East Hampton.

The passengers waiting for the 10C in Montauk were not pleased by the result.

“I wanted to go to the public hearing,” said Patrick Ford of the night in mid-July the county held a hearing in Montauk on the schedule change, but he was unable to do so because he had important family matters to attend to.

“I thought other people would go, but I heard nobody went,” he added.

While signs announced that a new

schedule was about to go into effect, the schedule itself was neither posted nor available to riders over the weeks and days leading up to the change. “I couldn’t find it anywhere,” said a woman who gave her name as Dia. She rides the early bus to her job on Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village six days a week. The day before the change went into effect, the only schedule available on the bus was for the 10B. It was dated 2016.

Dia rides the early 10C. Previously, it had left Montauk at 7:05 AM. Now, it leaves at 6:45.

On August 2, scheduled times became irrelevant to 10C riders: the bus

had broken down, and was pulled off the road by the Hampton Jitney, the company that operates the buses for Suffolk Transit. A dozen passengers were stranded. “The bus would be full of people if they kept a real schedule,” Ford said.

The 7:15 Hampton Jitney pulled into the stop. The dozen or so stranded passengers asked if they could board the Hampton Jitney, but the driver told them they could not. Dia phoned dispatch for the Hampton Jitney. Dispatch, in turn, contacted the driver and told him to allow the dozen to board.

“I’m only stopping in Amagansett and East Hampton,” he said. There would be none of the 10C’s normal stops between those two points. For “Amassa,” who works for a landscaping company located between the two stops, it meant a couple of miles more to walk.

“This sucks,” he said.

Neither had another dozen or so passengers of the 10B. They are all workers in Montauk, commuting from Springs. On August 1, they arrived at Newtown Lane, expecting to catch the early 10C back to Montauk. Under the new schedule, the 10C leaves East Hampton before the 10B arrives.

“I take the 10B six days a week, usually,” “Laura,” who lives in Springs and works on Newtown Lane, said Au-

gust 2. “And I watched all the people that connect from the Springs to Montauk get stranded yesterday. The 10C leaves (now) at 7:14. The 10B arrives at 7:30ish. The next one is at 10:30. There were about 10 or 12 people there yesterday. It is all the workers. For them to say something like, ‘They can take a cab,’ . . . Are you kidding me? It is $70 to Montauk. If we are supposed to have local transportation, it kind of got really messed up.”

“The new schedule finally showed up on the website. I looked for it Sunday and I couldn’t find it. I looked for it the 31st and I couldn’t find it. There was no schedule. They did not have a printed schedule. Some of these people don’t have smart phones or internet access.

As a community transit agency, you have to provide a printed schedule for your ridership,” she added.

“I’ve ridden the 10C for the last 10 years. For me, the Jitney should be eliminated. Get somebody else to take it over,” said Ford. He compared the 10C service with that of the Jitney itself, which is filled to capacity on most of its New York to East End runs during the summer season. “The Jitney runs on time. You pay 40 bucks, you have to run on time.” The fare on the 10C and 10B buses is $2.25, with another 25 cents for a transfer.

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Scientist, Alec Baldwin To Talk Coastal Living Defend H2O’s McAllister wants to engage supporters

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

Having run so many fundraisers for his organization before, Defend H2O president Kevin McAllister wanted to do something different this year.

He decided to organize an event that would also engage supporters.

He planned to touch on the hot topic of climate change, with some tailoring to the East End, in a more narrow conversation about coastal living. He then decided to enlist the help of longtime supporter Alec Baldwin, tapping into his creative talent, zest for environmentalism, and experience moderating forums, given his success at Guild Hall last year, and the agenda was set.

The event, “Living on the edge in the face of climate change: An engaging conversation on coastal living with

Alec Baldwin and Kevin McAllister,” will be held on Thursday, August 16, at the Sag Harbor Historic and Whaling Museum, 200 Main Street in Sag Harbor, from 6 to 8 PM.

“As a non-profit, of course, we’ve got to raise money, and beyond a pure fundraiser — summer cocktail party or benefit — I wanted to have an educational component to it and try to engage the public to ultimately become better informed and to activate activism to effect the changes that I think are necessary to protect the resources,” McAllister said over a cup of coffee at SagTown in Sag Harbor.

McAllister said the event, which will be held on the museum’s front lawn, will open with cocktails, hors

Kevin McAllister. Independent/Peggy Spellman Hoey

d’oeuvres, and a clam bar, but then the soirée will become more serious at about 7 PM when he and Baldwin take to the stage for an intimate discussion about global warming. He believes Baldwin is the perfect partner for the event because he is a “very polished stage-person,” who can engage and interview.

“At the core of the discussion will be what physical and environmental changes are in store for coastal communities, and what adaptations are necessary to sustain the beaches, wetlands, and I’ll say ‘our island lifestyle.’

And, what I mean by that is that we are

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Using a measure of tidal gauges, scientists from New York State have determined that there has been about a four-inch rise in the sea level over the last 40 years, which is an inch a decade, and they project that over the next 40 years, that rise would be between 16 and 30 inches, according to McAllister.

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More Protection For Georgica Pond Plaques are a reminder that what enters drains exits into wetlands

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com Chances are, most people looking to slip their kayaks into Georgica Pond at the access point at the end of Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton Village don’t notice the concrete pipe that leads into a concrete box at the water’s edge.

The pipe is where excess runoff collected along the entire length of Cove Hollow Road, from Route 114, across Route 27, and past Georgica Road, is released into the pond at Georgica Cove, which extends like a pinky finger eastward and is connected to the main body of the pond by a narrow channel.

On Friday morning, August 3, village officials, including Mayor Paul Rickenbach and East Hampton Village Trustees Richard Lawler, Arthur Gra-

ham, and Rosemary Brown, along with representatives of the East Hampton Town Trustees, the Village Preservation Society, and the Friends of Georgica Pond gathered at the pipe to announce that small blue metal badges emblazoned with a gray salamander that read “No Dumping, Drains to Wetlands” will be placed on storm drains across the village to raise awareness about what happens when fertilizers, dog feces, motor oil, and other contaminants are disposed of improperly.

For decades, Georgica Cove has received the polluted runoff that overruns dry wells along Cove Hollow Road.

Earlier this year, the village, working with East Hampton Town, began a project that involves surveying the dry wells along the 6000-foot length of the

One of the new catch basin plaques. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

road. Later, additional drywells and filters will be installed in catch basins to both reduce the amount of runoff reaching the pond and clean the water that does eventually make it there.

It’s important because contaminants like nitrogen — the major component in lawn fertilizers — lead to outbreaks of harmful algae that choke off ponds.

At Friday’s brief gathering, Michael Booker, an employee of the village’s Department of Public Works,

displayed one of the filters that are installed in catch basins as a first line of defense. The filters cost about $150 and are replaced annually when the village cleans out the built-up sediments in catch basins.

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Changes In The Village East Hampton amends residency requirements for full-time employees

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Musicians Perform For Gun Reform guild Hall event raises money for Moms demand Action

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Michael Tracey (uniform) is now the official East Hampton Village police chief. Independent/Justin Meinken

The East Hampton Village Board of Trustees, in a unanimous decision on July 31, amended the village code to eliminate the residency requirement for full-time employees.

In a public hearing held prior to the board’s decision, no one spoke in opposition to the proposal.

Mayor Paul Rickenbach said the village was aware of the high cost of living. “The fact is,” he said, “it’s very expensive to live here and we’re just hoping that in some fashion, we will be able to encourage and retain qualified employees because of their ability to live close by.”

Also at the village board meeting, Michael Tracey, who had previously been the acting chief of police, was officially given the position on a perma-

Correction

An article in last week’s Independent about Independence Party head Frank McKay attributed a quote to Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman that he did not say.

Several people on the record discussed MacKay’s penchant for deal

nent basis. Board members said Tracey had met the challenge, despite working with two fewer offices. Chief Tracey, in accepting his appointment, thanked his wife and two children for their support.

The village’s historic services director, Robert Hefner, then took to the podium to recognize a $50,000 donation from the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation. The funds were allocated to the purchase of five 19th Century paintings that will be on display at the restored Gardiner Mill Cottage at 36 James Lane.

The gallery is expected to open during the Columbus Day weekend of this year. Both the historical society and the village board thanked the foundation for its contribution. making. Schneiderman did not state or imply a deal had been made. A quote attributed to him that appeared to be about the matter, “I have a good idea with whom,” was incorrectly attributed to him. The Independent apologizes for the error.

Independent/Courtesy Guild Hall

Titled “Young Musicians Unite for Gun Sanity,” Guild Hall in East Hampton will host local musicians for a night of gun control awareness on Thursday, August 9, at 6 PM. The event organizers have also said that all proceeds raised from the event will go directly to Moms Demand Action, a charitable wing of the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund.

The event begins in the Cheryl and Michael Minikes Garden, with several speakers who are strong supporters of gun control policies allied with the views of the foundation.

These speakers include student activists, local residents, former New York City District Attorney Jackie Hilly, and Paul Guttenberg, whose niece was a victim of the school shooting at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. Then, at 8 PM, attendees will move into the John Drew Theater to enjoy live performances from local bands The Sectionals, Big Karma, and Earthreal. A voter registration booth will be set up during the concert to promote participation in the upcoming midterm elections. The

overall event will also be filmed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Nigel Noble for future use.

Artist Eileen Boxer will present a single art piece in the lobby during the event from her activist art project, for which Boxer received the prestigious Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award in 2016. The artwork is a large hand-bound book with reddened pages that leave a residual red dye on the reader’s hands. Each volume contains excerpts from reports of gun violence across the United States.

Boxer stated, “Retrieving the massive raw data on gun violence accounts occurring daily in the U.S. and editing the material into concise narratives, I developed a multifaceted art project that aims to engage viewers on a more personal level in ongoing debates about the gun-violence epidemic in this country.”

Tickets range from $15 to $40 and tickets for members range from $13 to $38. Tickets can be purchased at the box office by calling 631-3244050, or by visiting www.guildhall. org.

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Effort To Restock Quail In Montauk Birds will be released at Theodore Roosevelt County Park

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

Jessica James, who summered in Montauk as a child and lives there full-time now, remembers a time when the bobwhite quail was a regular sight — and its characteristic “bob-white” call a recognizable sound — in backyards and grasslands throughout the hamlet.

But over the past 25 years, the birds have vanished.

Now, if all goes according to plan, hikers in Theodore Roosevelt County Park in Montauk can look forward to a day in the not-too-distant future when they will be startled by a quail being unintentionally flushed from its cover in the deep grass.

Working with Suffolk County, the Third House Nature Center has launched the Montauk Quail Restora-

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tion Project, an effort to reintroduce the birds to Montauk. On Saturday, August 11, at 11 AM, the first of about 25 birds will be released in the park. The public is invited to attend.

James, the project’s coordinator, has been hatching eggs purchased from a game farm in Pennsylvania. She said a limited number will be released this year and she will continue to raise others in pens in her backyard for release in the spring. She added that she was looking for other suppliers in an effort to broaden the birds’ gene pool.

The goal of the five-year program is a simple one: that sufficient numbers survive and breed, reestablishing their presence in Montauk.

“I don’t know why no one has tried

By Karen Fredericks

Will Cynthia Nixon make a comeback from her poor showing against Cuomo in the polls?

Dana Wegman I just don’t think she has any future as a major politician. I don’t think people related to her message or to the agenda she was laying out.

Rachel Hacht I’ve heard that she was campaigning and have read a bit about her but all I ever hear are ads and commercials for Cuomo. If she wants to win she’s going to have to step it up and do some advertising.

Mark Wegman I don’t think we will be seeing much of her in the future at all.

Ken Sarrel You can’t make a comeback unless you’ve already been somewhere first.

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this before,” said James, who described herself as having a passion for animals and animal husbandry. The idea of reintroducing quail “has been a bee in my bonnet since I moved back to Montauk in 2007,” she said.

James said when she inquired of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation about obtaining the needed permit for the project, she was told the DEC has written off Long Island because it no longer has suitable habitat for quail. “I wondered if this guy had ever been to Montauk,” James said. “Montauk is about 70 percent preserved open space.”

While not willing to get involved itself, the DEC did issue the permit, allowing James, who also obtained the green light from the county and the nature center, to move ahead with the project.

Quail have a limited range of about 1000 yards, so if they successfully overwinter, James believes they have a good chance of gaining a foothold. “They need cover, food, and a source of wa-

ter,” she said. Quail, like many other ground-dwelling birds, feed on bugs, and James is hoping they will put a dent in the resident tick population.

Although foxes, one of the bobwhite quail’s chief predators, have been largely absent from Montauk in recent years, James said the large number of feral cats likely decimated the population. Another theory holds that the last birds in Montauk were wiped out by an early spring ice storm about 25 years ago.

“Survival rate for quail in the wild is generally low, and so we will continue to release birds over a number of years until we can establish viable breeding colonies,” said Ed Johann, the nature center’s president, in a release. “This first year of our program we have spent most of our energy establishing best practices for hatching and rearing healthy birds, and we will only be raising about 300 quail in 2018. In future years we intend to increase those numbers substantially.”

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More Mosquitoes Test Positive West Nile Virus confirmed in East Hampton Mosquito. Independent/Courtesy Suffolk County Department of Health Services

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com One of 12 mosquito samples throughout the county that tested positive for West Nile virus was found in East Hampton, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services announced last week.

Health Commissioner Dr. James Tomarken said on Friday that the dozen samples collected between July 23 and July 29 tested positive, bringing the total confirmed number in the county to 35 for this year. The mosquitoes sampled were all Culex pipiens-restuans. Three came from West Babylon, three came from Huntington, two came from West Islip, and one each came from East Hampton, Dix Hills, Northport, and Huntington Station.

“The confirmation of West Nile virus in mosquito samples or birds indicates the presence of West Nile virus in the area,” Dr. Tomarken said in a release. He said that given that the results of the testing shows positive in such a small sample, caution is recommended. “While there is no cause for alarm,” said Dr. Tomarken, “we advise residents to cooperate with us in our efforts to reduce the exposure to the virus, which can be debilitating to humans.”

Even though West Nile virus has been detected in birds and mosquitoes in Suffolk County since 1999, the health commissioner stated that no humans or horses have tested positive for

West Nile virus this year.

Dr. Tomarken said most people infected with West Nile virus will experience mild or no symptoms, but some can develop severe symptoms including high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness, and paralysis. The symptoms may last several weeks, and neurological effects may be permanent.

Individuals, especially those 50 years of age or older, or those with compromised immune systems, who are most at risk, are urged to take precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.

Some of the precautions recommended by the health commissioner include minimizing outdoor activities between dusk and dawn, use of mosquito repellent, and wearing shoes,

socks, long pants, and long-sleeved shirts during times when mosquitoes are most active. In addition, to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs, the county recommends that residents empty and thoroughly clean all containers that are outdoors that hold standing water. To avoid mosquitoes from entering homes, ensure that all windows and doors have screens and are in good condition.

Dr. Tomarken also said dead birds may indicate that there is West Nile virus in the area. He recommended that photos be taken of the dead birds and reports made to the Suffolk County Public Health Information Line at 631-852-5999, Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 4 PM.

For more information visit Suffolk County Health Services website at www.suffolkcountyny.gov.

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Curatola Opens New Wellness Center In EH ‘It all starts with the mouth’ but it doesn’t end there

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

East Hampton resident, renowned dentist, and all-around nice guy Gerry Curatola, known to many as just “Dr. Gerry,” is back with a new business in the Hamptons, the first of its kind on the East End.

He closed up his thriving practice in East Hampton about six years ago, but his new Rejuvenation Health, which will open at 56 The Circle, East Hampton, in September, offers an integrative dental, medical, and wellness center.

Dr. Gerry has contributed to numerous television and radio programs including “The Dr. Oz Show,” “The Martha Stewart Show,” various news channels. He has also been featured in Vogue, Marie Claire, Town and Country, The Purist, and other national and local publications.

“Wellness and integrative medicine have always been my first love,” Curatola said. “Way back, under Dr. Alan Pressman in New York City, I studied all kinds of what today could be termed as alternative medicine, about the importance of supporting the microbiome. It all starts with the mouth.”

In fact, Curatola has written a new book, The Mouth-Body Connection, and is one of the featured authors at the upcoming East Hampton

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Library’s Authors Night on Saturday, August 11, at 555 Montauk Highway in Amagansett, from 5 to 7:30 PM. The book focusses on wellness through the oral microbiome and introduces a 28-Day program to create a healthy mouth to reduce inflammation and prevent disease throughout the body.

Guests that visit Dr. Gerry’s book table will receive a free tube of his toothpaste, Revitin, which was created

by Dr. Curatola and Dr. David Shuch, based on the emerging science of the oral microbiome. Revitin is made with natural nutrients, containing key vitamins and essential enzymes, and cleans and whitens teeth naturally.

Rejuvenation Health will feature conventional medical and dentistry practices including safe mercury removal in conjunction with ancient and holistic treatment plans based on the principles of bioregulatory medicine. It will also feature biologic wellness treatments such as IV-drip therapy RejuvDrip (beneficial for immune system support, detoxification, recovery from stress and exhaustion, vitamin deficiency treatment, and peak athletic performance), Clear Mind brainwave syncing and balancing, whole-body vibrational therapy, hydrocolonic therapy and lymphatic drainage, and the most advanced nu-

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Curatola is excited to provide this service. “I live out here,” he said.

“I raised my family out here. This is home for me.”

When he’s not working, he’s still busy, and it usually involves helping others. As a dentist, he has traveled to five continents to provide dental services in areas that are underserved, as well as to educate and equip other dental professionals to do the same.

He helped establish the Pediatric Dental Fund of the Hamptons, and provided pro bono dental services for The Retreat, along with many other causes he supports.

Curatola serves on the Advisory Council of the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, and is on the leadership board of the East Hampton Day Care Learning Center. In 2004, he and his wife, Georgia, established the Dr. & Mrs. Gerald P. Curatola Nursing Station at NYU’s Bluestone Center. In 2006, a larger gift established the Curatola Wing for Clinical Research at New York University College of Dentistry.

In 2007, Curatola traveled to Andhra Pradesh, India at the invitation of Dr. Krishna Ajjarapu, founder

of an orphanage and school in the region, to help establish a dental and medical clinic which will serve thousands in this impoverished community.

Some of the other practitioners joining him at Rejuvenation Health include Gabrielle Lyon, DO, a prominent functional-medicine physician and specialist in nutrition and muscle metabolism; Steven Levine, M.D., a renowned aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon, and pioneer in nonsurgical beauty restoration and nutrition; Kimchi Moyer, L.Ac., the founder of Resopathy, a unique biofeedback system rooted in European Biologic Medicine; and Keith Durante, M.D, FACS, a board-certified microsurgeon and the leading biologic hair restoration specialist.

“Rejuvenation Health is a holistic evidence-based medical system that empowers individuals seeking optimal health and wellbeing to unlock the life-force within,” Curatola said. “I am delighted to offer our community innovative, evidence-based holistic health experiences focusing on biologic dentistry, medicine, beauty and wellness by myself and other leading experts at our exquisite, restorative space. We welcome everyone to join us in late September.”

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Police DEC: Florida Man Dumped Waste In Lake Montauk Owner of yacht docked in Lake Montauk faces misdemeanor charges

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

A Florida man was arraigned last week in East Hampton Town Justice Court, charged with allowing untreated sewage to flow from his 70-foot-long luxury yacht into Lake Montauk. Charles Vaccaro, 60, of Sunny Isles Beach, is facing four misdemeanor charges, two of which carry a minimum fine of $3750 each, and a possible year in jail if convicted.

Three of the charges were made by officers from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, working in conjunction with the Coast Guard. They included discharging waste without a permit, polluting waters in a restricted marine district, and discharging untreated sewage from a marine toilet. The misdemeanor charge from the town alleges that Vaccaro discharged waste water into Lake Montauk. The yacht, the C-Weed, was docked at Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club when it was boarded by Coast

Guard officers on July 26.

According to a statement by Officer Sean Doyle of the U.S. Coast Guard on file at the Justice Court, he, along with another officer, boarded the CWeed the afternoon of July 26, after receiving a report of sewage being discharged into the lake. Master Chief Eric Best said Monday that the East Hampton Harbor Patrol made the initial call to the Coast Guard, who were assisted by that department.

In his written report, Officer Doyle reported that there was a noticeable smell of sewage when the C-Weed was boarded. Vaccaro was not on the yacht at the time. According to the statement, none of the four crew members onboard were aware that the valve from the overflow septic tank was in an open position.

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their vessel,” the officer wrote. When asked when the last time was that the tank had been pumped, a mate replied “maybe three weeks ago in Port Washington.”

The officers found that the overboard discharge tank’s valve was in the open position, and the tank was full, according to the Coast Guard. “On several occasions, while onboard, a sewage pump engaged and produced waste discharging over the side,” the report reads. The officers told the crew to secure the valve in the off position, which they did. The statement also says that a “shore side sewage fitting was missing.”

NASCAR Chief Charged with Driving Drunk The chief executive officer of NASCAR was arrested Sunday evening in Sag Harbor after a traffic stop at the intersection of Main and Wharf Streets, near Long Wharf, according to the police. Brian Z. France, 56, of Ormond Beach, FL., was driving a 2017 Lexus when he allegedly ran a stop sign at the intersection with Bay Street, leading to a traffic stop.

France failed sobriety tests and was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated, the police said.

Later that afternoon, the officers returned to the yacht alongside officers from the DEC. They contacted Vaccaro via cell phone and asked where the missing part to the septic system was.

He was unsure, according to the report: “Mr. Vaccaro then told me he would refer to one of his captains in Miami.”

Vaccaro was then able to direct the officers to the missing part. “I explained to Mr. Vaccaro that his sewage tank is full,” the report stated. It was agreed that the tank would be pumped empty the next morning.

However, Vaccaro’s legal difficulContinued On Page 119.

At headquarters on Division Street, a breath test indicated a percentage of alcohol in the blood of 0.18 or 1 percent or higher, triggering an elevated charge of aggravated DWI. Police said they also found France to be in possession of Oxycodone, an opioid. He was charged with misdemeanor criminal possession of a controlled substance. He was held overnight, and was released without bail after being arraigned Monday.

“Brian France has taken an indefinite leave of absence from NASCAR as chairman and chief executive officer,” NASCAR said in a statement Monday afternoon.

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Sag Harbor Man Facing State Cops Arrest Three Felony DWI Charges Third time not a charm following arrest in East Hampton

Troopers make two busts in traffic stops

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

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

Fabrice Twagirumukiza, 34, of Sag Harbor, is facing multiple charges, including two felony driving while intoxicated counts, as well as several misdemeanors, after being arrested by East Hampton Town police early Monday morning, August 6. It is the third time he has been arrested on such charges in less than 10 years. He has been convicted twice, including once as a felony.

Police pulled Twagirumukiza over on Montauk Highway near Spring Close Highway in East Hampton for allegedly swerving across lane lines. When asked why he was not driving a vehicle with an interlock device, required because of the prior convictions, he reportedly replied, “I don’t need it for this car, it’s my girlfriend’s.” The failure to have the interlock is one of the misdemeanor charges he is facing.

Failing sobriety tests, he was taken to headquarters, where a breath test produced a reading of .29, automatically raising the new charge to the aggravated DWI level. The alleged reading was just below the .31 mark, which triggers an automatic trip to the hospital, under most police departments’ policies regarding the well-being of defendants.

Bail was set at $7500 and not immediately posted.

Helen Garcia-Ronquillo, 25, of Central Islip was driving a 2017 Toyota

Fabrice Twagirumukiza, 34, of Sag Harbor, is facing possible jail time after his arrest on felony drunken driving charges. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

the evening of July 24 toward Montauk Highway on South Edgemere Street when she ignored two stop signs on Carl Fisher Plaza, leading to a traffic stop, police said, and, ultimately, her arrest on drunken driving charges. She was released on $500 bail.

Another recent DWI arrest was that of Jake Lifson, 27, a Manhattan resident whose family owns a house in Springs. He was headed north early morning July 29 in a 2008 Chevrolet when he was pulled over. He was released later that morning after being arraigned without bail, but with a future date on the East Hampton Town Justice Court’s criminal calendar.

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Gillian Gargiulo, 34, of Riverhead was arrested in Southold on Saturday, July 28, and was charged with driving while ability impaired by alcohol. Police said she was driving on Country Road 48 at about 2:10 AM and was stopped for failing to stop at a flashing red light and for failure to keep to the right. Upon further investigation, Gargiulo was found to be impaired with a blood alcohol content of .07 percent, according to police.

Felipe Sobrinho, 34, of Southampton was arrested in Hampton Bays on Saturday, July 28, and was charged with driving while intoxicated. Police said he was driving on Montauk Highway at about midnight when he was stopped because the passenger side

headlight of his car was out. Sobrinho was intoxicated and refused to take a breath test, police said.

Julie Willingham, 39, of Riverhead was arrested in Riverhead on Monday, July 23, and was charged with seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. Police said Willingham contacted them to check on the welfare of her boyfriend, but upon arrival and an initial interview with Willingham, further investigation revealed she was in possession of a glass pipe containing crack cocaine and marijuana. After checking on the welfare of her boyfriend, Willingham was transported back to the troopers’ Riverside barracks, police said.

All three were released with appearance tickets returnable to the courts of the jurisdictions in which they were arrested.

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ating a 2006 Dodge pickup truck that did not have a working headlight, and when he was pulled over, his eyes were bloodshot and there was a strong smell of alcohol on his breath. He was unable to produce a valid driver’s license and a background check found that he had five suspensions on three different dates, police said.

Geovany Moreno, 43, of Riverhead was arrested in Riverside on Friday, August 3, and was charged with two counts of driving while intoxicated and equipment violations. Police said Moreno was stopped at about 11:20 PM because the car he was driving did not have an adequate license plate lamp and he allowed the car he was driving to cross a divider on Flanders Road.

Upon further investigation, he was unsteady on his feet and smelled of alcohol, police said.

Luis Perez Miguel, 21, of Hampton Bays was arrested In Flanders on Saturday, August 4, and was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor.

He was additionally charged with A 58-year-old Westhampton driving while intoxicated, as well as woman was arrested on Tuesday, violations for obstructing traffic at inJuly 31, for allegedly failing to tersection, driving without a seat belt, provide care for her Chihuahuas, and driving with obstructed vision. according to the Suffolk County

Police said that Miguel was found Society for the Prevention of asleep in his car at the intersection of Cruelty to Animals. Nicy Young Flanders Road and East Street at about was charged with two counts 3 AM and when he woke up, he had of misdemeanor animal cruelty, red, glassy eyes, and the odor of alcofor allegedly failing to provide hol on his breath. He performed poorly care for her two dogs, resulting on standard field sobriety tests, police in their deaths. She is scheduled said. He was additionally charged with to appear in Southampton Town driving while intoxicated.

Justice Court on August 24, in Charlene Beckwith, 25, of Sag vestigators said.

Harbor was arrested in North Haven

SPCA Chief Roy Gross said on Sunday, August 5, and was charged animal cruelty will not be tolerwith two counts of driving while inated in the county, and is asking toxicated. Police said Beckwith was aranyone who witnesses any incirested at about 5 AM after a 911 caller dent of animal cruelty or neglect reported that she wanted an officer to to contact the Suffolk County come by and check out a car with its SPCA at 631-382-7722. All calls lights on outside her home. An officer will be kept confidential. found that Beckwith had crashed her PSH car into a tree at the end of a driveway.

Coram man cuffed in Riverside threat

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An 18-year-old Coram man was arrested for threatening a woman with a knife on Flanders Road in Riverside on Friday, August 3, Southampton Town Police said.

Police said a woman called them at about 9:30 AM to report she was threatened with a knife by an unfamiliar man. Officers canvassing the scene later found Glen Brunskill, who matched her description, and he was detained and transported to police headquarters in Hampton Bays, where the woman was able to make a positive identification leading to Brunskill’s arrest, according to police.

Brunskill was charged with thirddegree menacing, a misdemeanor.

Pot Bust At Jail A 21-year-old Flanders man was arrested for marijuana possession at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside on Saturday, August 4, after Southampton Town Police say they stopped his car for having tinted windows.

Police said that at about 5 PM,

Jose Aria Solivares was behind the wheel of a car that not only had improperly tinted windows, but a strong smell of pot wafting from it. A search of Solivares’s car found the smell coming from its center console, according to police.

He was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, which means the weight of the substance was more than 25 grams. He was additionally charged with an equipment violation for not having transparent windows. It is not clear why Solivares was at the jail.

Four Arrests Southampton Town Police arrested four people on varying charges of driving under the influence last week.

Ignacio Gonzalez, 46, of Sag Harbor was arrested in Sagaponack on Tuesday, July 31, and was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation, a felony, and driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor. Police said that at about 11:30 PM, Gonzalez was oper-

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ELIH Foundation Adds Two To Board

By Jade Eckardt jade@indyeastend.com

The Eastern Long Island Hospital Foundation named Eileen Brennan Oakley and James Rubin, MD, to its board of directors.

Established in 2006, ELIH Foundation members participate in the oversight of programs and projects funded by the foundation. They assist with the planning and implementation of fundraising activities to support capital needs. The board members each bring professional expertise and advice to manage and maintain the financial well-being of the foundation.

Oakley works as the president of The Brennan Family Foundation, an organization providing financial assistance to charitable organizations that help children.

Oakley’s parents, Donald and Patricia Brennan, and the Brennan family have been part of the Eastern Long Island community for over five decades while supporting the hospital. The family hosted the hospital’s 1999 Summer Gala at their Nassau Point estate in Cutchogue.

The Brennans’ support has made an impact on the renovation of the Greenport hospital’s Ambulatory Surgery Center of Excellence, the expan-

sion of the Emergency Department, and the raising of funds for ELIH’s current Operation RENEW campaign to renovate its Operating Room Suite.

Oakley has played a vital role in its philanthropic gestures toward ELIH. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science before going on to Johnson and Wales University, graduating with an Associate’s Degree in Culinary Arts. She currently resides in Cutchogue full time with her husband, Daniel, and their six children.

Dr. Rubin retired from his career in the medical field, but continues to serve as an Honorary Attending Physician at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Hospital. He graduated from both Columbia University and New York Medical College. During his career, he was board certified in Internal Medicine and Allergy. He then went on to hold the titles of Division Chief in the Department of Medicine for Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, President of the Beth Israel Medical Center Medical Board, and Trustee of Beth Israel Medical Center. He is also a former Associate Clinical Professor of

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Dr. Rubin and his wife, Phyllis, a former personal trainer and current health educator, are long-time friends of ELIH and live in Cutchogue. The couple partnered with ELIH to form the Community Health and Wellness Committee. The committee has provided an additional resource of educational health

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in a row, and its 2016 album Runaway Train was named IBMA Album of the Year. It also took home the 2016 IBMA award for Song of the Year (“You’re The One” by Dwight Yoakam). Flatt Lonesome taped a sold-out concert with the Turnpike Troubadours earlier this year to be aired this fall on PBS’s “Bluegrass Underground.”

Concert-goers should bring a beach chair or blanket to enjoy the music by the creek. Local food trucks On the Road Food Truck, King Andrew’s Cheese Wagon, and the Bungalow Bar Ice Cream Truck will be on the property and local wine and beer will be available for purchase. Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 at the gate and can be purchased at www. sylvestermanor.org or by calling 631-7490626.

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Calverton Rehab Approved Calverton’s Enterprise Park is set to be home to the Wellbridge addiction research and rehab facility. On July 26, the Riverhead Town Board approved a site plan for the multimillion-dollar, 80-bed, six building, 134,000-square-foot rehabilitation center.

The structure is expected to break ground this summer and be completed in late 2019. It will focus on treating people struggling with opioid addiction and other substance abuse. Developers originally planned to call it the Peconic Care Research, Recovery, and Rehabilitation Center, but had to change the name for copyright reasons.

North Fork Link Suspended Visitor transportation company the North Fork Link was temporarily suspended on July 28. According to the company’s website, it is “addressing some issues that impact overall rider experience.”

The Link is the brainchild of the North Fork Promotion Council and offers a fleet of luxury vans shuttling visitors between the area’s key attractions and villages. The transportation company launched its first rides on July 7 and was set to run through August 25. The company expects to resume service this month and extend service through September to make up for lost time.

The service, which aims to quell the North Fork’s notorious traffic and park-

ing issues, was spearheaded by the North Fork Promotion Council, a cooperative of local associations aiming to promote the area, enhancing its economy while preserving its quality of life.

The fleet was ready to roll after the NFPC received a New York State Empire State Development grant to provide a transportation solution to North Fork traffic — slow moving, bumper-to-bumper summer traffic and a lack of parking.

Unity Picnic The Southold Anti-Bias Task Force’s Ninth Annual Unity Picnic will take place on Saturday, August 11, from noon to 4 PM at the Peconic Community Center on Peconic Lane.

The free event celebrates diversity and togetherness during a day of food, fun, and a shared vision of understanding and acceptance. Food will be served from 12:30 to 3:30 PM and the event will offer live music, entertainment, kids’ games, and door prizes.

Creekside Concert Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor Educational Farm is presenting the last of its 2018 Concert Series with a performance

by Flatt Lonesome, an International Bluegrass Music Association tripleaward-winning bluegrass band. The concert will kick off on Sunday, August 12, on the manor’s Creekside Stage at 5 PM.

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School Fundraiser Peconic Community School in Aquebogue is hosting “SHARE,” its annual summer fundraiser on Sunday, August 12, from 5 to 9 PM in Naugles Barn at Hallockville Museum Farm in Jamesport. The theme is “building community through scholarship.”

The evening offers a beautiful farm setting for live music, dancing, local farm fare by Lombardi’s, pizza from Rolling in Dough, local beer and wine, and a silent auction featuring unique East End experiences. The night will honor community leader Joe McKay and celebrate and support a place-based, project-focused model of education for more children in the community. All proceeds support students with financial need at Peconic Community School.

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East End Arts Meeting East End Arts members, sponsors, volunteers, and friends are invited to join EEA’s board of directors and staff at their Annual Membership Meeting and Volunteer Appreciation Event on Tuesday, August 21, at 5 PM. The dinner will take place in the EEA Carriage House in Riverhead and a light dinner will be served.

“We are finishing up a great pivotal year for East End Arts. With several operational changes made by Pat Snyder in collaboration with board member Tony Graziano, we are having a strong year financially. We’ve just finished a very successful fundraising gala that will set us up to create a sustainable five-year plan for programming and operations,” said John McLane, board president.

“On this high note, Pat is stepping down as executive director later in the year and we plan to introduce our incoming executive director at the meeting. A lot has been done in one year, and next year is likely to be even better for the members of East End Arts,” McLane added.

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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Bruce King Alum and teacher believes in being true to your school

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ampton Bays was a good place to grow up,” stated Bruce King, a lifelong resident. “One of the things I appreciate was the freedom I had as a kid.

I could move around and explore on my bike, go down to the dock and swing off the rope at the sailboat dock. I could go places with my buddies on our bikes and go swimming in the canal. My uncle had a marina on the canal and my sister, my cousins, and I, would go swimming over there all the time.

“But you can’t do that anymore. They re-did the bulkhead and there are no ladders,” King said, “So now no one swims in the canal anymore.”

In the 1950s and 1960s, King described the Hampton Bays School District as “a small school. You knew everyone and they knew you. It was a small, close community.” It was the memories of these close friendships which helped the Hampton Bays High School class of ‘68 come together again for a class reunion.

“It was 20 years since most of us had seen each other. We organized a 40th class reunion and my wife, Nancy, and I hosted it here in our home. We did a lot of reminiscing and enjoyed ourselves. Someone brought clams and spent the time opening them for everyone.

The party went on for nine hours!”

King added, “It was during the party that we thought about giving the school a gift, so we passed around a hat and collected enough money to be able to give the school the gift of three red maple trees.”

The success of the 40th reunion prompted Pamela Johnson and Millie Huggins to organize the 50th reunion which was celebrated this past May. “This time, we gave the school a gift of a ship’s wheel,” King said. “We had 21 classmates show up. We found out that four of our classmates have passed away.”

Having been the student council president for his senior class, King spoke about his handling of Senior Skip Day. “Instead of skipping school that day, all the students dressed up nicely and taught classes in most-

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ly the elementary school. If they were going to go to college for history or science, that’s what they taught for the day. I was the principal for the day, making any decisions that had to be made. I found it was a good experience. No one got hurt, everyone dressed nicely and we did something constructive.”

With a doctorate in Industrial Arts Education, King was a teacher for 27 years, an administrator for three years, and retired from his teaching career as a college professor and coordinator for adolescent education. He credits his career path to his high school Industrial Arts shop teacher, Jack Minjinski.

According to King, “When I was a senior, there were no shop classes that I could fit into my schedule.

So, I went into the seventh-grade class and helped the shop teacher with the seventh graders. That’s when he said to me ‘Bruce, why don’t you go to school for this?’ He sent me to the guidance counselor, Harold Brown. It turned out Brown was a shop teacher before he went into being a counselor. I wound up going to Oswego for my Bachelors, Hofstra for my first Masters, and Dowling for my second Masters and Ph.D.”

In 1986, King married Nancy. They spent a short time living in California and returned back to life in Hampton Bays in 1987. A Family Consumer Science teacher, Ms. King taught for 30 years in the Riverhead School District. With a chuckle, she related a story about a Valentine’s Day present she received from her husband.

“I was teaching and all of a sudden the principal comes in with a video camera. I thought, ‘I guess he’s going to observe me teaching.’ He did that every once in a while. But then a gorilla comes crashing into the room with flowers. Well, I was shocked and everyone had such a great laugh over it. And the principal took the video so Bruce could see it. Then, for my 40th birthday, Bruce hired a limo to pick me up and take me to work. It snowed that day and school was closed so I had to wait until the next day.”

An activist in his community, King, at 69, admits, “I’ve always liked helping people.” He has served as president of the Hampton Bays Civic Association, was on the Hampton Bays Architectural Review and Advisory Board, and the Village Exploratory Committee, which examined the feasibility of incorporating the hamlet of Hampton Bays as a village.

“I’ve always enjoyed politics,” King said. “I like making things move forward and I’m concerned about the environment, especially our drinking water.”

King also served as a volunteer for over 20 years

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When I was a senior, there were no shop classes that I could fit into my schedule.

So, I went into the seventhgrade class and helped the shop teacher. with the Boy Scouts of America. When King’s son, Bruce, Jr. was eight years old, he went to sign him up for the Cub Scouts but was quickly told that the Cub Master needed someone to help. Over the years, he proudly watched his son complete the achievements to become an Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouting program.

When King’s daughter, Julia, was in kindergarten, she was enrolled in the Girl Scouts and Ms. King spent 15 years as a Girl Scout leader and service unit coordinator.

Although the Kings are having a home built and re-locating to Troy, NY, King stated, “I’m happy my family grew up here. They got to experience the small community caring and closeness that you would not find in a city area. It’s a different way of life and it’s a wonderful experience that you won’t find everywhere.”

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Bow Wow Meow Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons celebrates its annual gala

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will host its annual Bow Wow Meow Ball on Saturday, August 18, at 6:30 PM at its 22-acre Adoption Center in East Hampton. Elegantly designed

by David Monn and Alex Papachristidis, the evening begins at 6:30 PM with cocktails, followed by a night of dinner catered by Olivier Cheng, and dancing to the sounds of the Peter Dunchin Orchestra, with a live auction.

Monn, a leading event designer in the nation, will be honored with the Champion of Animal Awards, presented by past honorees Katharina OttoBernstein and Peter Marino.

“ARF is so special. To be able to help an organization that helps the little ones that can’t do anything for themselves makes me feel really good,” Monn explained. His dog Sammy, who passed away in spring, will also be remembered. A King Charles Cavalier, Sammy serendipitously entered Monn’s life through another family who gave him up for adoption.

“I never knew what it was to love before. Sammy taught me the absolute meaning of love . . . Something that hurt that much can only be because you really love him. That’s the tragedy of animals; they don’t live as long as

us.” To this day, Monn, who has donated his event planning expertise to the Bow Wow Meow Ball for the past four years, carries a laminated photo of young Sammy laying betwixt his pillows, on the day that changed his life.

The Bow Wow Meow Ball is expected to welcome 400 friends and supporters. Scott Howe, executive director of ARF, who has two ARF dogs of his own, Stritch and Finn, noted, “By bringing it to ARF [adoption center], we’ve transformed it. We realized we wanted to connect people to where we are and where we do our work.” ARF animals will make special guest appearances during the program, and the organization’s staff will be front and center.

“[David] takes it to a whole other level. It’s hard to put a value on someone of his caliber and creativity. It’s made the event something incredibly special,” added Howe.

New at this year’s ball are unique auction items called arfITECTURE, an idea conceptualized by 14-year-old rising ninth grader at Pierson in Sag Harbor, Luke Louchheim. Louchheim, who has two ARF dogs in his family, came up with the idea in Fall 2017 to partner

with some of the best architects and builders to create individual pet homes that are functional both indoors and outdoors.

Local architects Michael Lomont, Blaze Makoid, Nacho Ramos, Andrew Reyniak, Nick Martin, Kitty McCoy, Bill Beeton, Robert Young, and Maziar Behrooz, designed the homes that were then built by one of John Hatgistavrou and Jeff Gagliotti, Ken Wright, Michael Derrig, Maude Adams, Gary Seff, John Koronkiewicz, Michael Davis, Walter Sternlieb, and Jamie Davis. Homes are currently online in a silent auction, and homes will be auctioned at the event.

Tickets start at $750. Visit www. arfhamptons.org or get tickets by phone at 631-537-0400 ext 219.

ARF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, founded in 1974, that is expected to rescue more than 1600 animals in 2018, providing full medical care in addition to humane care.

ARF Adoption Center is located at 124 Daniels Hole Road in East Hampton and open Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM. The ARF Thrift & Treasure Shop is located at 17 Poxabogue Lane in Sagaponack, with all proceeds benefitting the adoption center.

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CMEE Ladies Night The Children’s Museum of the East End will host its annual Summer Ladies Night and Auction on Wednesday, August 8, from 6 to 8 PM at Wölffer Wine Stand in Sagaponack. Enjoy local wines, hors d’oeuvres, and save big on designer handbags and accessories.

Tickets start at $75. Visit www.cmee. org.

Camp SoulGrow The Camp SoulGrow Summer Soiree will be held at Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club Resort & Marina on Thursday, August 9, from 5 to 7 PM. There will be open bar, light bites, and music by Ralphie. There will also be a raffle, auction, and prizes. Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. All donations benefit Camp SoulGrow’s enrichment workshop camp. Visit www. campsoulgrow.org.

Guild Hall Summer Gala Guild Hall’s Summer Gala will be held on Friday, August 10, from 5 to 11 PM in East Hampton. The event will celebrate the museum’s exhibit “Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons.” It will honor Judith Hope Twomey and will be emceed by John Alexander with music by AndrewAndrew.

Tickets start at $1400 for the preview of Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons, dinner, and listing in the gala program. Young patron tickets are available for the entire evening, including dinner for $500 or $250 for the after party with drinks, dancing, and dessert. Visit www.guildhall.org.

Authors Night East Hampton Library’s 14th Annual Authors Night fundraiser will be held on Saturday, August 11. One of the most popular events of the Hamptons’ summer calendar, Authors Night, features 100 authors across all genres.

The “Premier Literary Event of the Hamptons” has grown over its history to become one of the most successful celebrations of books and authors in America, and one of the largest libraryauthor events of its kind in the country.

The evening’s Founding Honorary Chair, Alec Baldwin, will be joined by his wife Hilaria Baldwin, both of whom will be signing their recent books.

Other featured authors include Robert

A. Caro, Lee Child, Tom Clavin, Elliott Erwitt, Florence Fabricant, Jules Feiffer, A.J. Finn, Emily Jane Fox, Wendy Goodman, A.M. Homes, Michael Isikoff, Steve Israel, David Itzkoff, Ndaba Mandela, Wednesday Martin, Malcolm Nance, Geraldo Rivera, Bob Roth, Gretchen Rubin, Jill Santopolo, Nathan Turner, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Chris Whipple.

Tickets are available at www.authorsnight.org, at the East Hampton Library, and by phone.

Point Foundation

Join Hamptons locals in supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students through Point Foundation Scholarships at an event on Saturday, August 11, from 5 to 8 PM in East Hampton (address provided upon registration). Meet other professionals interested in empowering the next generation of LGBTQ leaders through scholarship, community service, leadership training and development.

There will be light snacks, cocktails, and good conversation.

Point Foundation is the nation’s largest provider of higher education scholarships to LGBTQ students. For tickets, visit www.pointfoundation. org/hamptons2018.

Lobster BBQ The Riverhead Elks Lodge is holding its annual popular Lobster BBQ on Sunday, August 12, from 3 to 6 PM. There will be live music by Joe Hampton & The Kingpins and raffles.

Forty-five bucks will get you a whole lobster, half a chicken, potato salad, corn on the cob, shrimp, baked beans, cucumber salad, roll, watermelon, wine, beer, and soda. If you don’t want lobster, you can get the chicken dinner for $30.

For tickets, call the lodge at 631727-2027, or stop in at 1239 East Main Street in Riverhead.

Bow Wow Meow Ball The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will host its annual Bow Wow Meow Ball on Saturday, August 18, at the ARF adoption center in East Hampton. This year, the event introduces arfITECTURE, unique cat and dog houses created by top architects and builders that will be auctioned at the event.

Robert A. Caro at Authors Night. Independent/ Eugene Gologursky/Getty

This year’s ball will honor event designer David Monn with the Champion of Animals Award. The festivities begin with cocktails at 6:30 PM, followed by dinner and dancing. Tickets start at $750. For more information, visit www.arfhamptons.org.

A Mind Is . . .

The United Negro College Fund will host its seventh annual “A Mind Is . . .” Hamptons Summer Benefit weekend on Saturday, August 18, and Sunday, August 19. The weekend will start on Saturday with a reception and program at a private residence in East Hampton.

There will be a VIP reception at 5 PM, followed by dinner at 6 PM.

On Sunday, there will be a brunch at Bay Kitchen Bar in East Hampton starting at 11 AM.

UNCF is the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization. Funds raised at the Hamptons event will be used for student scholarships on the East End. For tickets to either event, visit www.uncf.org.

Artist & Writers The annual Artist & Writers celebrity softball game will be held in East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Saturday, August 18. The game starts at 4 PM.

Prior to the game, there is a future artist and writers kid’s clinic at 10:30 AM, a home run challenge at 1 PM, and batting practice from 2 to 3 PM. There is a suggested $10 donation.

Funds raised will support local

charities like The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, Phoenix House Academy, The Retreat, and East End Hospice.

Ellen’s Run The 23rd annual Ellen’s Run 5K to benefit the Ellen Hermanson Breast Centers and Ellen’s Well will be held on Sunday, August 19, in Southampton starting at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The 5K starts at 9 AM and will wrap up at noon.

The Ellen Hermanson Foundation ensures that no breast cancer patient is turned away from the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center for lack of insurance or inability to pay for treatment. All services through Ellen’s Well are provided free of charge. For more information or to register, visit www.ellenhermanson. org.

CTREE at Sebonack Horses Changing Lives, the annual CTREE at Sebonack fundraiser, will be held on Thursday, August 23, at Sebonack Golf Course in Southampton.

CTREE, the Center For Therapeutic Riding of the East End, provides therapeutic riding lessons and equine assisted activities to children, young adults, and veterans with disabilities.

The event will be held from 6 to 9 PM. Event chairs are Tami Maines and Diana Shiel. Enjoy cocktails, silent and live auction, and Brazilian bossa nova

by Ludmilla Brazil. For tickets and more info, visit www.ctreeny.org.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

Pride In His Stride

Work Makes Kid A Man Father and son say goodbye to childhood denishamill@gmail.com

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s the summer ticked away, the father started stealing glances at his college student son in quiet, early morning preparing for another

moments, goodbye.

By the end of August, the kid would again be gone, away at college for the fall semester of his sophomore year in upstate, New York. The home where he was raised would again be empty as a playground in the rain.

The father was happy for his kid, of course, to be heading back up to the meandering campus on the glittering Hudson. This year his son would be giving up dorm life for an apartment off-campus with guy pals he knew since grade school. By day they’d join a parade of college girls to various classes and functions, all of them experiencing the good old days they’d miss for the rest of their lives.

These were the best of years when they were no longer children and not yet adults and still single and getting smarter by the class, book, debate, discussion, term paper, day, week, month, semester.

And, yes, by crazy weekends of carefree fun.

When the father picked him up in May, the kid announced that he wanted to work all summer. The father nodded, knowing that his son would learn as much about life toiling in a real summer job as he would taking notes in a classroom. The father had started working as a butcher boy when he was 12, learning life lessons about work

dumped bags of cement mix, dug ditches, hoisting power tools, hauled lumber — sweeping, painting, stacking, and sweating his young butt off as temperatures bubbled into the humid 90s.

ethic, team effort, self-discipline, punctuality, and the value of a buck that have guided him a lifetime. He worked as a Local 3 electrician’s union college helper on construction sites through college, meeting men who were the salt of the earth.

His son landed a job on his own working alongside two childhood friends for their no-nonsense father in the construction trade. The college kid’s new boss warned him, “Just because you’re my sons’ friend and I know your father, I’m warning this won’t be fun. I’m not a nice guy to work for. Be prepared for that. It’s $20 an hour on the books and believe me you will earn every penny.”

The college kid nodded, shaking his new boss’s hand.

The kid assembled his proof of citizenship, Social Security card, and took a 10-hour Occupational Safety and Health Administration training session over two days. He bought himself a hard hat, $200 work boots, a tool belt, and some work gloves.

The father watched the preparation knowing that this was a giant step in his kid’s life, a time when summer vacation was no longer Little League, or sleeping till noon, watching reruns of “Two and a Half Men,” or days at the beach before going out to party for 93 nights. This was a summer of work.

And work changes everything.

The college kid would learn that at 6:45 AM on a Monday in early June, when he reported for work as a laborer for his tough, loud, demanding, timeis-money boss and a crew of skilled tradesmen erecting a new home and a small office building. The kid unloaded trucks, carried galvanized pipe,

By the time the kid came home at 4 PM, he was maraschino cherry red, sweaty hair plastered to his skull, and filthy with the magic dust and grime of honest toil.

“How was it?” the father asked.

“I now know what I don’t want to do for a living,” the son said.

They laughed, the kid ate a plate of chicken and veggies, showered, and by 10 PM he was ready for bed for another 6 AM wakeup.

Welcome to real life.

The kid started rising on his own, learning to cook eggs and bacon, taking vitamins and slathering sunblock on his face, arms, and neck.

At the end of the first week, he waved a take-home paycheck for more than $600, $400 of which he banked toward his college apartment. “I wanna pull some of my own weight through college,” he said.

That Friday night, the kid showered, shaved, dressed in khaki shorts, polo shirt, and a pair of new boat shoes. The father noticed veins popping in his kid’s muscular arms from a week of manual labor.

The college kid went out with his guy and gal pals with a pride in his stride that only comes with money in your pocket that you’ve earned the old-fashioned way with sweat, elbow grease, and blisters that harden to calluses on soft hands.

The second week became a routine of physical labor, a demanding boss, perspiration, hearty dinners, early nights, pre-dawn breakfasts, and another paycheck and a well-deserved weekend of partying.

“I respect people who do this every day of their lives,” the college kid said to his father over breakfast. “Most of them do it so their kids won’t have to. It gives me a new perspective on the sacrifices parents make for their kids.”

His father loved hearing this from his son, who, in November, would be voting in his first election.

Pining For The Vanished Kid The downside of his kid working all summer was that the father got to spend so little time with his son. So, the

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father awoke in the pre-dawn to have coffee with his son, discussing school, the morning news, and work. Then they’d fist bump before the kid left to join his boss’s sons at work.

His grumpy boss shut the job down for a week in July and invited the college kid to join his co-worker sons at their condo in Turks and Caicos.

On a truly hot day in August, his boss told the kids to break for lunch and take the rest of the day off to go swimming.

The father’s first boss at the butcher shop had been a hard-ass with a similar kind streak he couldn’t always hide. Like his son’s boss, no one worked harder than his first boss in the butcher shop. That was a life lesson taught by example.

And now the kid’s first summer home from college, his son’s first summer of work, was almost over. The days were getting shorter. The baseball season was winding down. Parents were already buying back to school clothes.

College kids were getting ready to flap off again from the nest.

The father was already missing his kid and he had not yet left.

Then, one morning as he stared at his son from the kitchen, the father realized what he was missing was his last-born son’s childhood which had vanished with his first full week’s pay.

Now in addition to lessons in American history, the fiery politics currently dividing the nation, and the lopsidedness of the tax code learned in college classrooms, his son had learned the discipline to awaken and cook before first light, he had learned to absorb the slings, arrows, and sudden kindness of a tough, no-BS boss, and he’d learned the value of a dollar and the nobility of skilled workers who toiled with their hands and their backs and their hearts so that maybe their children would have the choice to try something different in life.

The college kid learned a master class in life.

In his first summer home from college, his son was fit, strong, and wiser, and had made a giant step into manhood.

He had learned that work is the only answer.

Before the fires of August sputtered out, the father’s son would be back in college.

The father already pined for the vanished kid who had become a man.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Ditch The Rules – Ladies Take The Lead Bumble, a new application, lets women make the first move kissandtellhb@gmail.com Women of a certain age will remember the stir created when the book The Rules: Time Tested Secrets For Capturing Mr. Right came out in 1995. The basic advice for women was to play hard-toget. Don’t accept a date for Saturday after Wednesday. Don’t call him, and rarely return his calls. Women were advised to let the men take the lead. Don’t talk to a man first, and definitely don’t ask him to dance.

Well, we know that men do enjoy the chase, and it’s no fun shooting fish in a barrel (still working out that metaphor in my mind), but hard-to-get can

also look a lot like I’m not interested.

Many men have not yet joined the psychic friends’ network so you have to make an effort. I had met a man I will call Gorgeous George, who was a bit shy but I really liked him. I hadn’t heard from him for a while, then had the unfortunate timing of bumping into him at the vet when my poor Bichon Frise had suffered a nasty nose bleed.

Of course, I was wearing white, and looked pretty much like I had a gunshot wound to the chest and tried to be kinda sexy like, “Hey we should really go out again sometime.”

Luckily there is a new great way where over 40 women can meet men without crime scene vet encounters and be the one taking the lead. Bumble is a dating app started by Whitney Wolfe Herd, who co-founded Tinder.

She decided that what was missing in the space was women having control and making the first move. In essence, women go through men’s profiles and swipe right if interested, and if the man expresses interest, boom, there’s a bee in the hive.

Then, it’s also up to women to initiate the conversation. Ladies seem to like this, with the app growing to 36 million users in 160 countries. The men I’ve talked to like the app because as one said, “It’s like being pre-approved for a loan.” Where a man may get shot down approaching a woman in a bar because she’s married, gay, just wants to spend time with her friends, or is the girlfriend of the bartender who just gave him the evil eye, the Bumble interaction starts with the woman saying, “I’m interested.”

Some tips for the best results are to use all six photos, be current, showcase hobbies, and avoid group shots where we have to guess which one you are. For women looking at men, we see that you have been the master of the universe, had a successful business life,

and fathered children but you are uncapable of producing a picture which is in focus. And unless a seatbelt is some sort of bondage fetish, find somewhere other than your car to take a picture.

Some men, however, have explained that they are not the selfie queens that some women are, which is fair enough, but find a good friend to get some good shots. And neither side wants to see you with your ex, their head exed out like they just got hit in the face with a pie.

Swiping right or left is a pretty quick decision, so a profile of “anything you want to know just ask,” tells us nothing and humor like “I’m Elmer J Fudd. I own a mansion and a yacht,” is cute but not substantive and the guy’s profile that just says “freak” is a total no go.

Guys also indicate that women who write “high maintenance but worth it” is a turn off, they don’t really understand what an “influencer” is, and neither side wants a long list of what you don’t want in a partner. It’s a bee hive after all, and you can catch more dates with honey than with vinegar.

So, ladies be bold in making the first positive move. Let him know you’re interested. And hell, once you meet, maybe even ask him to dance.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Feel My Disease I’m just fine, thank you. Thanks for asking.

How are you?

Great to hear. Say hi to [name of significant other here.]

That’s how most of my conversations go, and that’s fine with me.

All of us engage in in these snippets of conversation. Yes, of course they are shallow, but there’s a valid reason: We’re busy. We’re on our way to work; we have to get home to cook for the kids. It’s our way of acknowledging we know someone, but at the same time, keeping an arm’s length away: not too much info, please, time is tight.

Look, this does not apply to loved ones or our best friends or co-workers.

If someone I’m close to needs me for support or comfort or whatever, I’m there (just don’t ask me for money).

There are certain people we’ve learned the hard way not to engage with. We all know someone like this: “Hey [fill in name]! How the hell have you been?” you ask, though you really don’t care. And then, you get that droopy-eyed beagle look.

“Not good. I just had a surgery. The doctor said my bloody stool . . . I have to get a bile sample from my esophagus . . .

I’m really afraid that . . .”

Whoa Nellie! I’m on my way to get lunch. I really didn’t need the round up.

A simple “good” would have sufficed.

Almost as bad are the people who insist there is something wrong with you.

These are usually females of a certain

age, former hippies who have found that cleansing their bodies has enabled them to achieve a sense of purity, a healthy lifestyle that will assure long life.

The trouble with this mindset is their quest for a healthy lifestyle and long life began when they were 51.

Before that, they smoked, ingested enough dangerous drugs to take down a cow, and slept with 200 biker dudes.

I have one friend named Sunshine who fits the bill. You know the type.

Reeks of patchouli oil. Tattoos in all the places you can’t see and most of the ones you can. Long, unkempt curly hair — and that’s from the armpits. Here is a typical encounter.

Me: “Sunshine! You look great!

Hope everything is cool. Say hello to Ramrod.” You almost get away but suddenly she embraces you, tears welling in her eyes.

“I heard you’re not doing good.

Oh, my dear Rick. Let me comfort you.”

“I’m, umm, fine, thanks.”

“No, you’re not.”

“Yeah, I am.”

“NO, you’re not. I can see the brown in your dilated pupils. There are impurities in your body. How long have you felt like this? Do you want an enema?”

There is no arguing with Sunshine, because what was once a dim light is now completely out in Sunshine’s head, the result of too much LSD, patchouli oil, and men named Snake, Razor, and

Little John.

How do I try to explain that, yes, I have brown eyes — just like the day I was born.

Some people just insist on giving you too much information about themselves. It’s like they feel the need to bring you up to speed on everything that happened to them since the last time you saw them, even if it was the day before. The only way to curtail this behavior is to give it right back to them.

“Hey Rick! How have you been?”

“You mean, before the rash became infected?”

“Jeez! I didn’t know.”

“Yeah, it’s oozing pretty good now.

Here, hold my belt and I’ll show you.

Watch it though, this thing is contagious.” That usually does it.

There is the less personal route we can take when trying to make casual conversation without committing to a significant amount of unnecessary prattle.

“Hey, how about the weather?”

“It’s freakin’ hot!”

“Yeah , could sure use some rain!”

That’s it. All you have to remember is to adjust your salutation according to the season.

In theory, there really is no way you can get in trouble if you follow the guidelines, although every once in a while, you run into that fellow who will not be denied. You say, “Whew! How about this weather, huh?”

He says, “Look at my infected cyst. Here, put your fingers on it and squeeze.”

Folks, I hope you are all OK, and I mean that. And I know you feel the same away about me. But when our paths cross, let’s do each other a favor — let’s be “fine.”

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“This is like Johnny Appleseed, just getting it out there,” said McAllister, referencing the American legend who spread the word about conservationism to early pioneers. McAllister has been making the rounds this past year, hosting talks at local libraries and civic organizations to raise awareness about sea level rise. “Over the course of the last year, I’ve been educating the community to understand this stuff.”

McAllister said the intent of the upcoming event is to engage the public, and hopefully answer some questions. “It will be good. There is no script,” he said.

To him, it’s an important conversation to have.

“If we are asleep at the wheel here, 10, 20 years go by, we are going to say, ‘My gosh, we are rimmed with bulkheads; we ran out of sand, [and] we can’t pay for it’ as opposed to 2018, we should have been talking about it.

So, when I say ‘Johnny Appleseed,’ it’s about just beating the drum, keeping it out there,” he said.

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HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

My Perfect Day: Greenport jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

I would start my perfect day in the lovely town of Greenport with the ferry ride over from Shelter Island. It may seem like an inconsequential part of the day, but I’m like a little kid who really loves riding the ferry. It’s a high point in the day for me.

I’d stop at D’Latte, a cozy coffee shop with delicious gelato and a spirited staff. I would order a latte and sit at an outdoor table. Gelato would have to wait until at least the afternoon, but it's worth going back for.

Greenport is a perfect town for strolling. I would make sure to walk along the water, taking in the scene and the boats. This would include a ride on the carousel, perfect for kids and kids at heart like myself. The historic merrygo-round is over 100 years old and at $2 a ride, it’s one of the finest attractions on the East End. While walking the seaside town, stops along the way would include The Times Vintage (because I love all things vintage), Kate’s Cheese Co. (because I love all things wine and cheese), and Vines & Branches (because olive oil is everything).

The North Fork Art Collective would also be one of my stops. The collective has a storefront on Front Street that showcases the works of its members. Collective members include founder Kara Hoblin, along with Jeremy Garretson, Kelly Franké, Peter Treiber, Madison Fender, Emma Ballou, and Scott Bluedorn.

The original Greenport Harbor Brewery and Tasting Room, which opened in 2009, is located in Greenport in what was once a firehouse, directly next to the old 1910 Greenport Jailhouse. The brewery is definitely a stop along the way in my perfect Greenport day. Not only does it offer great beer selections like the Summer Ale and the Tidal Lager, it also exhibits art.

Currently on view is “Subanimalia,” an exhibit of work by the brewing company’s label artist Scott Bluedorn, through August 20. On the first Friday of every month the brewery stays open until 9 PM for Greenport Gallery

Walks.

In the spirit of giving back, Greenport Harbor also has what is called “The Giving Tank,” a tank at the brewery that is set aside for good to support local charities and organizations.

Next, I would make sure to stop by noah’s for happy hour. The menu, created by Chef Noah Schwartz, offers a wonderful selection of happy hour items, and it's also a fantastic deal. The cheese plate, which costs just $12, is substantial and of grade-A quality. It includes a selection of three cheeses like Summer Cloud from Catapano in Peconic, candied walnuts, truffle honey, and green apple. Another highlight is the crispy teriyaki tofu. Other bites include a Crescent Farm duck BBQ or Tasmanian red crab tacos. Try a specialty cocktail like the noah’s north side or a cucumber margarita for just $10.

If you’re looking for a place to stay in Greenport, book The Lin Beach House. The recently opened inn offers five oversized guest rooms — think private balcony, king-sized bed, and a Victorian clawfoot tub. Downstairs you can find the Matchbook Distilling Co.’s bar, Days Like These, which is open Tuesday through Saturday.

The “My Perfect Day” series features a different East End village each week.

The cheese plate at noah's.

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MARKET PAGE

By Zachary Weiss

Somewhere That’s Green shop local at our picks for unique greenport vendors

Shopping local has never been easier thanks to Greenport’s many vendors who easily traverse the realms of home goods, fashion, and food. Here we’ve selected some of the best.

There’s David Nyce, a furniture craftsman, whose infinity coffee table makes for the perfect centerpiece to any living room, and the perfect spot for a summer-friendly cilantro lime candle from the nearby Weathered Barn boutique.

On the style front, there’s the sailcloth Jitney Tote from WM. J. Mills & Co Sailmakers, a mainstay in Greenport since 1880, and to top it all off, a stop at Lido. The all-encompassing lifestyle destination from world travelers and BFFs Heidi Kelso and Fran Lombardi-Reilly offers a selection of

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vintage Moroccan rugs, handmade jewelry, and head-turning, limited edition resort wear, like the Bertie Dress, that you can’t find anywhere else.

Top: David Nyce Infinity Coffee Table, Price Upon Request _ Bottom, Left: Weathered Barn Cilantro Lime HandPoured Soy Candle, $20 _ Bottom, Center: WM. J. Mills & Co Sailmakers Jitney Tote, $179 _ Bottom, Right: LIDO Bertie Dress, $135

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Vintage Fashion Duo To Host Anniversary Sale What Goes Around Comes Around partners with Christie’s Auction House

By Zachary Weiss

There’s no one in the game of vintage fashion quite like Gerard Maione and Seth Weisser. Since 1993, the unmistakable duo has been a regular fixture on the shopping circuit, always on the hunt for the highest quality, and of course, the rarest fashion finds from years gone-by.

Now, fresh off the heels of the news that their vintage empire, What Goes Around Comes Around, with a location in East Hampton, will be partnering with Christie’s Auction House on a historic 25th anniversary sale of rare goods on September 18, we sat down with Weisser to look back on the past 25 years of business and what’s in store for the next 25 — and beyond!

Tell us the origin story of What Goes Around Comes Around! How did you get your start?

Gerard and I met at Syracuse University in 1988. When we moved to New York City, we discovered that fashion was the key to gaining entrance to a good party. We spent weekends scouring flea markets and consignment shops for the perfect pieces and sold them for extra cash.

Our interest in curating vintage for high fashion customers grew as we learned that people not only appreciate our taste in vintage clothing and accessories, they’re also willing to pay for it.

Your New York City locations are known to attract many celebrities.

Like who?

We’ve been fortunate to build and maintain a huge roster of celebrity clientele over the years. Kendall and Kylie Jenner are long-time customers and are often photographed in clothing and with accessories they’ve purchased from us.

Lenny Kravitz, who is currently on tour, recently performed in one of our vintage rock tees, and Robert Downey Jr. was spotted in our East

Hampton store last week.

There are too many celebrities to name!

How do your NYC and Hamptons customers differ, if at all?

The two markets do overlap. However, the biggest difference is the stores themselves. The SoHo store has an archive in the basement that attracts international fashion designers looking for inspiration and is a go-to for celebrity clients and their stylists. The archive houses an array of hard to find vintage and some of our most exquisite pieces of designer clothing.

The SoHo store has been open for 25 years and has longtime customers that have been shopping with us for years, as well as international customers that pop in to shop every time they are in NYC.

The East Hampton store, open for four years, is frequented by New York locals and tourists that visit the Hamptons during the summer season.

This is your fourth year out east. Is this an indicator of a growing clientele?

Unlike other stores that pop-up for the summer season in the Hamptons, our store is open year-round. We are a part of the mix now and continue to deepen our relationship with the Hamptons community.

Are there any other pop-up destinations on your list that you have yet to tackle?

Later this year, we’ll be opening an uptown flagship store. This new location, at 21 E. 67th Street and is slated to open in October and will expand on the success of our five locations, while catering to our uptown clients.

We are constantly exploring new retail concepts and ways to service our customers. What Goes Around Comes

Gerard Maione & Seth Weisser

around is a lifestyle brand, and we strive to integrate seamlessly into the lives of our clientele, wherever they may be.

There’s certainly no shortage of vintage destination shops. How have you set yourself apart and become the leader in the industry?

Unlike other vintage destinations, WGACA has been a leader and trendsetter in the vintage and pre-owned markets for 25 years. We strive to have the best of the best in everything we offer, and this differentiates our stores from others in the market.

Through our highly selective curation, refined visual merchandising, and incredibly personal customer service,

our stores offer an elevated lifestyle experience.

What are some of the hottest trends in vintage as of late? Any forecasts as to what might be next?

Belt bags are still one of the hottest trends on the market, particularly from Chanel, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton. Everything Fendi is on fire and overstated logos are in demand from all brands.

We’re still seeing key influencers searching out and wearing original Levi’s so I can’t call them a trend. The demand never stops. As for the future, we see a resurgence of the former “it” bag — the Dior saddle bag. What goes around comes around.

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Ninth Year For Apollo In The Hamptons All told, $20 million has been raised for the iconic theater

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

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It would take a book, or several thousand of them, to hip readers to the colorful history and the social importance of the iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem.

From a “whites-only” burlesque house in the early part of the 20th century, to

the cultural capital of America’s R&B, soul, and hip-hop movements 100 years later, the raucous ride at the Apollo has never been smooth, but it’s always been exciting.

Amateur Night has been part of

the Apollo’s lineup for more than eight decades, and was the basis for the hit Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Ella Fitzgerald took the crown in 1934 and 30 years later, Jimi Hendrix did. James Brown recorded his greatest album live there. The Temptations and Smokey Robinson debuted there in 1962, causing a calamitous and appreciative uproar with their new Motown sound, under the production of Berry Gordy.

A memorial for Michael Jackson was held there in 2009, honoring the King of Pop, who, at the age of nine with The Jackson Five, also took first place at Amateur Night in 1967.

And for those of us who would stay up past “Saturday Night Live” in the 1980s and ’90s, there was “Showtime at the Apollo,” with performers as electrifying and diverse as Hall & Oates,

Whoopi Goldberg, Lauryn Hill, Kurtis Blow, Patti LaBelle — the list went on and on. “Showtime” continues with Steve Harvey as its host to this day.

But like all great old theaters, especially one that is not only a New York City Landmark but on the National Register of Historic Places, an enormous amount of attention must be paid not only to the edifice itself, but in keeping the programs that it produces lively and engaging, along with the educational outreach and all the other hundreds of moving parts.

Enter Apollo’s vice chairman Ronald Perelman, who happens to be good buddies with Jon Bon Jovi, and Apollo in the Hamptons was born — a superexclusive, one-night fundraiser, this year on Saturday, August 11, which has, since its inception in 2009, raised

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Robert Kraft, Pharrell Williams, Ronald O. Perelman, and Jamie Foxx. Independent/ Patrick McMullan

approximately $20 million. The funds have been funneled into the non-profit Harlem hotspot, supporting the artistic, educational, and outreach programs, and continuing to provide a cultural anchor worthy of its legacy.

The private dinner and concert at Perelman’s The Creeks in East Hampton are the stuff that dreams are made on. Imagine an intimate music event featuring performers like Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Bon Jovi, and Lionel Richie — all past performers. This year’s line-up includes Sting and Shaggy, the two one-name wonders currently touring together, Alice Smith Jr., some special guest stars as yet to be divulged, and all with the best house band imaginable, The Roots.

Other benefactors at the heart of Apollo in the Hamptons include Apollo Board Chairman Dick Parsons and Chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Top Shelf Performers

At the heart of the benefit, besides the tony surroundings and top-shelf performers, is a love of sustaining the culture and education that the Apollo

provides. Apollo education programs are offered to nearly 4000 New York City students, many from underserved backgrounds, giving them unique opportunities for career development, mentorship, and exposure to high-quality arts programs in their community.

“This year’s Apollo in the Hamptons is a tribute to the soul and extraordinary musical history of the legendary Apollo Theater,” said Ronald O. Perelman.

“Support for the arts and community education is more important than ever, and I am so proud to continue to support this iconic and vital cultural institution. The Apollo’s programs provide young people the inspiration, experience, and training that help them succeed. Without our support, these incredible programs would be in danger or could disappear entirely,” Perelman said.

Jonelle Procope, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Apollo Theater, spoke with The Independent about how this particular event supports the Harlem cultural flagship.

“Apollo in the Hamptons has enabled the organization to significantly grow its education, artistic, and community programs. The Apollo now serves more

than 200,000 people annually — doubling those served since the event began,” she said.

“It also impacts 20,000 students with its inspiring and innovative educational programs, including our Apollo Theater Academy, our School Time Live shows, and our Young Producers Club.”

She added that she, and everyone at the Apollo, are “very grateful to Mr. Perelman for generously hosting this event for the last eight years, and for all of his extraordinary support of the organization.”

Procope projected the Apollo’s 2019 budget at about $14.6 million, “and Apollo in the Hamptons will make a significant contribution to that budget.”

The Story Of Moses

Stepping away from generalities, Procope shared the story of one young man named Moses.

“A flagship Apollo education program is the high school internship program, which trains youth for careers in arts administration, technical theater, and entertainment technology,” she began, “creating a pipeline of diverse candidates for the field and leveling the

playing field for greater equity tomorrow. The Apollo Theater has seen our young people succeed in college and then go on to work across the arts and entertainment field or just go right into the job market.”

Moses grew up in Section 8 housing in New York City “and never felt he belonged anywhere until he came to the Apollo,” Procope continued. “The Apollo’s high school internship program offered him training and experience in technical theater — opening his eyes to careers he never knew existed.

When he finished his internship, he was able to parlay his experience and get a job with a production company doing gigs at places like Madison Square Garden. Moses is now a part of the Apollo family, a member of Apollo’s internship alumni group, and the Young Producers Club, passing along what he has learned to younger students and continuing to hone his skills,” she said.

While music is always at its core, the Apollo’s programming extends to dance, theater, spoken word, and more.

This includes a recent international tour of the dance celebration project “James Brown: Get on the Good Foot,” the annual Africa Now! Festival, and the

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Jennifer Lopez and Justin Timberlake.

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recent New York premiere of the lyric opera Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD, with a libretto by Bridgette Wimberley and music by Daniel Schnyder.

And the world-famous Amateur Night continues, billed as “the best fun you can have in this town for under $30.” Winners of each night can advance toward a big-time payout at the event’s November finale — $5000 for child performers, and $20,000 for adults.

Famed musician and Amagansett resident G.E. Smith recalled the Apollo with fondness. “The Apollo Theater, in the heart of Harlem on 125th Street, has always been the testing ground and the pinnacle of black performers in NYC,” he said. “In 1985, I was lucky enough to play there with Daryl Hall and John Oates, at the re-opening of the Apollo after its refurbishment. It was a great honor to play with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks of The Temptations at such a special event.”

Apollo was the Greek god of the sun, but also of music and poetry. If it’s anything like its namesake, the Apollo will continue to shine brightly, providing a place of culture and education for all.

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supporter of women in politics, Judith Hope Twomey. Twomey has served as the East Hampton Town supervisor — the first woman to be elected to that office on Long Island. She was the first woman appointments officer to a New York Governor, and the first woman chair of the New York Democratic Party.

She has also been a supporter of the arts for decades.

Well-known painter, John Alexander, will emcee the evening. Alexander

was the 2013 recipient of the Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award. DJ duo AndrewAndrew will provide the music.

Guests are encouraged to don “bold colors” as their attire. The event will also feature an auction filled with luxurious experiences.

Following the gala, the exhibit will open to the public on Saturday, August 11, through Monday, October 8. For tickets and more info, visit www.guildhall.org.

— Thursday, August 9, 6 to 8 PM The White Room Gallery — The show “Ready To Open,” with work by artist CHO Yea Jae will be on display at The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton. The South Korean artist brings a fresh perspective on life and North and South Korean affairs in her debut U.S. exhibition.

— Friday, August 10, 8 PM The Suffolk Theater — Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents a performance by singer Mavis Staples.

Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist.

— Saturday, August 11, 3 to 5 PM Duck Creek Farm — Parrish Art Museum presents the Parrish Road Show at the John Little Barn at Duck Creek Farm in East Hampton this Saturday, August 11, with an opening reception of fine art photographer Jeremy Dennis’s exhibit “Stories — Dreams, Myths, and Experiences.”

— Sunday, August 12, 7 PM Guild Hall — Guild Hall in East Hampton presents Questlove’s “Midsummer Night Conversations on Creativity” with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Questlove is a percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, record producer, and occasional actor.

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Guild Hall summer gala celebrates abstract art exhibit

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com The Guild Hall Summer Gala will be held on Friday, August 10, from 5 to 11 PM. The event will celebrate the museum’s exhibit “Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons.”

“Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons” is an exhibition of works by Kelly — one of America’s most significant abstract artists — that were created on the East End. Kelly’s sabbaticals in the Hamptons during the 1960s were pivotal in the artist’s career, which spanned six

decades. During the time spent on the East End he created paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and photographs.

These works include studies of plants, flowers, horseshoe crabs, and images of local barns. This exhibit will be the first of its kind, displaying this particular body of work by the artist. The works in the exhibit highlight yet another important chapter in the history of American art that is rooted in the East End.

Friday’s gala will honor long-time

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Susan Merrell’s Shirley Begins Filming Upstate Sag Harbor author’s novel adapted for screen stars Elisabeth Moss

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com Sag Harbor author Susan Scarf Merrell smiled and slowly shook her head. “It’s surreal. I’m just speechless,” she said.

That’s because Merrell has hit a writer’s emotional jackpot — her novel Shirley, about author Shirley Jackson, which was published in 2014, is currently in production as a major motion picture starring Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men,” “The Handmaid’s Tale”) and Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water). The book, a psychological thriller, follows a fictional young couple who spend a year at Bennington in 1964 with novelist Shirley Jackson and her husband, literary critic and Bennington professor Stanley Edgar Hyman.

There’s only so many times you can use the word “disturbing” to describe Shirley Jackson’s works, but it’s the most fitting. Jackson’s deeply unsettling short story “The Lottery” was required reading in almost every high school English class, everywhere, forever (remember the stoning?), but a deeper dive takes you to Jackson’s other works, all of them equally unnerving and sinister, often blurring the line between what could be a mental breakdown or an actual supernatural event.

And the works of Jackson have been put to film before.

The Haunting of Hill House is one of her books, which Stephen King — who called Jackson a great inspiration to his own work — named as “one of the most important horror novels of the 20th Century.” That book was made into the brilliant and chilling 1963 film The Haunting, directed by Robert Wise and starring Claire Bloom and Julie Harris. (An interesting aside is that Wise went from the stark, blackand-white horror of The Haunting directly to the vast technicolor musical The Sound of Music.) Another one of Jackson’s books, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, considered by many as her masterpiece, has been presented both as a play and as a film, which has yet to be released.

But back to Merrell, who had written two books prior to Shirley — A

Member of the Family, her first novel, and prior to that The Accidental Bond, which examined sibling connections and how they influence us.

Merrell has long been fascinated

by Jackson and her life, a fascination that began while she was in grad school in Bennington. Merrell started reading Jackson’s works, and became “obsessed,” and found herself confessing her fixation to one of her professors, who helped Merrell find the local connection. “It’s where Stanley and Shirley spent their adult lives, but I didn’t know that,” she said.

The obsession continued through Merrell’s thesis in 2009, which was about Jackson. “I went down to the Library of Congress, and there are these incredibly sexy, funny, unbelievably smart love letters exchanged between Shirley and Stanley when they were 19, 20. I made copies of all these letters, thinking, ‘I’ll write something about this one day.’ I knew their marriage had not been a perfect marriage. It was very complex. I was really interested in the idea of what happens to a marriage over time; how you could start out so perfectly matched and then end up in the mess they ended up in.”

Merrell planned on a straightup biography, meeting with Jackson’s children and others who had known her (Jackson died in 1965 at the age of 48). But more interesting tie-ins began to surface, including the real-life disappearances of several people around that time and in that area, including an 18-year-old female Bennington student, Paula Welden, which added to the intrigue. And so, the biography became more of a thriller, with real life events and people.

“But I could never really find the way in for the project that I wanted to do. After graduate school, I was walking in the woods with a friend of mine from grad school — the novelist Martha Cooley — and I said ‘I just don’t see the way in,’ and she said, ‘What if someone else could see what was happening?’”

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server, the narrator, the Nick Carraway, who could tell the story. “I remembered, from reading her diaries, these notations of people who had come to stay with them, and I just began to imagine who that person might be.

Merrell struggled for five years to bring the book to fruition, but all the time, she said, “I kept having these feelings while I was writing the book that she really wants me to do this.”

Eventually, Merrell came up with the idea of a younger couple who come to live with Shirley and Stanley, with the young woman, Rose, who becomes All About Eve-style obsessed by Shirley, gradually coming to “imagine that the house is haunted, and that Shirley and the house are somehow guiding her.

And that Stanley, who was a philanderer, had something to do with Welden’s disappearance. And what’s real and not

real is never really established,” just like one of Jackson’s storylines. “She really does lose her mind,” said Merrell. “But she’s living in a world where people don’t really have their minds, so who can judge whom?”

Four years ago, the book was optioned, and even though there have been a couple of moves, the project has stayed in the original hands. The film is being directed by Josephine Decker, with a screenplay by Sarah Gubbins (creator and writer of “I Love Dick”), and has begun filming in the Jefferson Heights region of Catskill, NY — a good stand-in for the 1950s feel of Bennington, VT. “It’s a very weird little book,” Merrell acknowledged. “I like to think that she would have liked it. And having the film made, with such a stellar ensemble, is just so exciting.”

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Dreams, Myths, Experiences Shinnecock Native Jeremy Dennis recreates stories at Duck Creek

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Parrish Art Museum presents the Parrish Road Show at the John Little Barn at Duck Creek Farm in East Hampton this Saturday, August 11, with an opening reception of fine art photographer Jeremy Dennis’s exhibit “Stories — Dreams, Myths, and Experiences.”

As a Native American growing up on the Shinnecock Reservation, Dennis will feature seven images from his project that depict indigenous stories and supernatural images. Starting at 3 PM and going until 5 PM, will be an opening blessing and welcoming song

by Shinnecock tribal member Shane Weeks and an introduction to the work

by Dennis and Parrish Curator Corinne Erni.

Describe what it was like to be raised on the Shinnecock Nation Reservation.

Growing up on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation was great. I was fortunate to be raised where my ancestors have lived for thousands of years!

As an adult, I’ve become more aware of how unique our reservation is in regard to our local history and geography. Much of the unavoidable conversations we have with our neighbors still relates to remaining and aiming to be acknowledged for our presence and contributions.

What are some of the indigenous stories you’ve

recreated?

For the exhibition, Corinne Erni, Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish Art Museum, and I have chosen seven stories out of about 80 from the project series to represent in the show. They are titled Chokanipok, Ghost of the White Deer, The Oath, The Interment of Pogattacut, The Legend of O-Na-Wut-A-Qut-O, The Moon Person, and The Stone Coats. The images span 2014 to 2017 and deal with many themes.

Does one image in particular resonate with you most?

The image I am most happy with is

The Interment of Pogattacut, based on a local historic landmark between East Hampton and Sag Harbor on Route 114. The landmark is called “Sachem’s Hole,” also known as Buc-usk–kil, or “resting place.” It’s the site where the late Manhasset Sachem Poggatticut was laid upon the ground as he was being brought from Shelter Island to Montauk for interment in 1651.

From that point on, the area was always kept clear of leaves and debris by local tribal members traveling that route until the site was eventually destroyed by Route 114.

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it’s so great when art, life, and storytelling can easily be so accessible and relevant.

So many of us are ‘American,’ by way of immigration. How do the terms ‘American’ and ‘Native American’ differ in your mind? What does being American mean to you?

More and more, we are becoming aware of the complexity of Native American culture and history and a diverse group of unique and sovereign nations who each have their own language, history, and relationship with the United States at a government-togovernment level. Because of this, the hope is that, in the future, the nations will one day be addressed or recognized by their unique names. For example, I could say, “Hello, my name is Jeremy and I am Shinnecock,” with the hope that being Native American or indigenous is inherent in the name.

In regard to American versus Native American, I think that many people describe themselves as both American and Native when they are from a certain area or town regardless of their background. But for indigenous people that can often contribute to indigenous erasure — or the new idea that “We are all Native American because we are born here.”

What issues do you feel plague Native American communities most in today’s contemporary culture?

For many Native American communities, the number one priority is tribal sovereignty and economic self-dependence. Between the contact-period in America’s history and today, Native people have been removed from the most valuable resource: land.

Looking at this issue on a local level, real estate is one of the most valuable yet sparse assets. For Shinnecock and I’m sure for other tribal nations, there has always been a conflict between the use of land, selling and gaining land, and who gets to live on the little land that remains.

How do we bridge that gap?

There have been several efforts to regain land that was taken illegitimately, but there has been a resistance to reconcile after so many decades. That struggle is still being pursued as often as the courts will hear us, but we also seek other modes of economic development.

Are all of your subjects in your Parrish exhibit of Native American descent?

It is half and half Native descent and volunteer models who participated in the project. For a long time, I debated working with non-native models, but I was convinced to do that to while reading Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.

In his book, King quotes Cree playwright Tomson Highway who answered the same question with this statement: “To insist that Native parts go only to Native actors was a good way to silence Native drama and starve Native playwrights, since there were not enough Native actors to mount plays in various cities around North America at the same time.”

I think the issue is heightened when it is at the Hollywood or Broadway level for example; many more people will see the erasure, the opportunity to pay large amounts to talented Native actors and models is lost.

Sometimes that is working directly from an oral story, a description of a dream; or on the other end, trying to work with theory and philosophy in text and trying to represent that in a visual motif.

As I read, I always have an image of a scene in my mind. That vision is what I try to depict in each image — attempting to recreate it as truly as possible, which often requires assets added later on, during post-production.

What do you hope the public walks away with after seeing your exhibit?

Most of all, I want the public to see us (Shinnecock) as a contemporary and complex people and culture. The cultural production behind the photographs and the fact that the Parrish Art Museum has made this exhibit possible is a glimpse at a hopeful future of filling gaps and celebrating differences and similarities between my tribal community and our neighbors.

What is your creative process like?

What’s the message you’re trying to convey most?

I always begin with an influential text.

Each piece in the show addresses a dif-

ferent message, and the general motivation behind the project has changed throughout producing the work, from 2012 to 2018. But the common thread is that we have an essential connection to our environment as a place of origin and as an ingredient to our survival.

Traditional oral stories and the sacred sites where they take place offer a compelling reason to preserve the environment despite the scientific revolutions that convince us that mythology no longer has any practicality and has made us all skeptical. While working on this series, I’ve been working out ways to elevate myth and storytelling to the same relevance and importance.

The John Little Barn at Duck Creek Farm is located at 127 Squaw Road in East Hampton. The event is on view through September 3, and is free and open to the public. Hours are Friday through Sunday, 12 to 4 PM, or by appointment. Call 631-283-2118 ext 140.

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Director’s Imagination Changes Library’s Image Fabiszak creates full slate of events for East Hampton Library

By Richard Lewin

When Dennis Fabiszak joined the East Hampton Library as director in 2006, many thought of a library as just a quiet place with a lot of books to enjoy. But Fabiszak was determined to change that image, with his imagination and the support of the library’s Board of Managers.

The year 2006 was not only Fabiszak’s first as director, but also the year that the late Tom Twomey, likely the library’s most passionate advocate and fundraiser, became chairman of the board. Years later, in commemoration of Twomey’s passionate support and his untimely passing in 2014, Fabiszak was instrumental in the creation of the Tom Twomey Series of free lectures by local, national, and interna-

tional notables.

Howard Schultz, chairman emeritus and Founder of Starbucks, is next in the series on August 17 at 6 PM. When Schultz visits the library, he will certainly be pleased to try one of Fabiszak’s most recent innovations, the new Starbucks “Serenade Single-Cup Brewer” that welcomes visitors at the front desk, and lets them be their own barista. A freshly brewed cup costs only $1 with your own cup, or $2 with a disposable, environmentally sensitive cup. Schultz’s lecture is anticipated to attract the largest audience ever (over 300), so it will be held for the first time in the Children’s Room larger space.

One of Fabiszak’s dreams for the library came true in 2014, with the

grand opening of the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Children’s Addition, which serves children from birth through eighth grade. Fabiszak personally supervised the entire project, from the digging of the foundation, the moving of the massive tree that would be too close to the finished addition, to the grand opening celebration on June 21, 2014. Two rooms have since been dedicated downstairs. Thanks to the generosity of the Baldwin Family, the addition now houses the Baldwin Family Lecture Room and the Teda and George Balasses Young Adult Room, used exclusively by high school students and young adults.

The year 2004 was the first of the library’s most important annual fundraising event, Authors Night, which gathers together about 100 famous authors under one tent (arranged alphabetically, not by fame and popularity), allowing attendees to rub elbows with the names on the book jackets, and to purchase personally signed copies. After each Authors Night, attendees are invited to purchase tickets to 25 private dinners with select authors, held at private homes by local illustrious library supporters.

Working with Library President Sheila Rogers, Fabiszak has helped Authors Night grow tremendously in status,

and the event now features best-selling titles and a list of controversial writers, which this year includes the event’s honorary chairman Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, Robert A. Caro, Lee Child, A.J. Finn, Emily Jane Fox, A.M. Homes, Michael Isikoff, David Itzkoff, Ndaba Mandela, Malcolm Nance, Geraldo Rivera, Nathan Turner, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Chris Whipple.

This year, the event has outgrown its former library and Maidstone Lane locations, and will be held on August 11 at the huge “555” field on Montauk Highway in Amagansett, between 5 and 7:30 PM. The Independent’s Bridget LeRoy will offer a live broadcast of the event on WPPB 88.3 FM, the local NPR station.

The library offers a broad array of weekly family-oriented events, and children under the age of five do not need a library card to borrow books and other items. At age 14, parents can choose to have their child’s card upgraded to an adult card.

Also, if you want to check traffic in East Hampton Village before heading out, a Traffic Cam view from the library’s location at the intersection of Main Street and Route 114 is now available on the library’s website.

Keep an eye on www.easthamptonlibrary.org for future events.

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Green Beetz Educates Students On Food Issues Fundraising event Green Beetz Day supports the foundation’s goals

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Ronald Perelman and Don Lemon Saturday, July 28, marked the fourth annual Green Beetz Day in East Hampton. Green Beetz is a foundation with a mission to empower NYC public and charter school students to understand how food impacts the environment, their bodies, and the world around them. The event was held at the home of Ronald Perelman and Green Beetz co-founder Anna Chapman.

The afternoon included field games, a healthy gourmet lunch, cooking activities, and eco-friendly arts and craft activities for families. The

gathering of 250 guests was designed to promote Green Beetz’s classroom programs. CNN’s Don Lemon was the emcee.

“We are in a time of widespread crisis, in terms of public health and the environment. The next generation needs to think differently than we have in the past, and food is a great lens through which to inspire children to do so,” said Chapman.

Green Beetz aims to help students navigate the complex issues surrounding food in today’s world. From 2017 to

2018, the foundation participated in 59 classrooms and four YMCA summer camps, reaching more than 2000 students. The curriculum is broken down into four core areas: Food and the Environment, Food and the Body, The Big Business of Food, and Cooking Basics and Culture of Food.

“Green Beetz is poised to double in size in the 2018-2019 school year; support from friends, family, and partners at Green Beetz Day and throughout the year is invaluable in allowing us to achieve this goal,” continued Chap-

man.

Green Beetz also has a new partnership with Alex and Ani, a jewelry brand known for its unique charms and other adornments. Alex and Ani designed an avocado charm and avocado necklace to benefit Green Beetz.

The purchase of one avocado charm provides a full program to a student for an academic year and the purchase of one necklace will provide for two students. An event was held to celebrate the collaboration at Blue Parrot in East Hampton in late June.

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Christina Cuomo and Eden Williams

Rashaan Reid and Jane Hong Fernandez The host committee for Green Beetz Day included Michelle and Chris Babu, Andrew Chapman, Anna Chapman and Ronald Perelman, Desiree Gruber and Kyle MacLachlan, Andrea and Tim Haddock, Tracey Brown James and Kendall James, Tracey

Kemble, Danielle Levine, Paige Nelson, Dana Reed, Rashaan and Donville Reid, Marisa and Robin van Bokhorst, Alison Strong, Eden Williams, and Roxy and Adrian Zajac.

To find out more about Green Beetz, visit www.greenbeetz.org.

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Gallery Events

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Three Roads Three Artists Ashawagh Hall, Springs Reception: Thursday, August 16, 5 to 9 PM “Three Roads Three Artists,” an art exhibition featuring local artists Kirsten Benfield, Kurt Giehl, and Daniel Vernola is on display at Ashawagh Hall in Springs through Thursday, August 16.

A reception will be held on Thursday, August 16, from 5 to 9 PM.

“Three Roads Three Artists” is an exhibit where three roads converge and three artists come together to present a collection of oil paintings and watercolors that explores a “place between.”

Water Color Works Amagansett Library, Amagansett

Opening: Saturday, August 11, 4 to 6:30 PM “Water Color Works,” an art exhibition featuring local artists Ani Antreasyan, Kirsten Benfield, Nancy Brody, Barbara DiLorenzo, Cati Van Milders, Lesley Obrock, Kate Rabinowtiz, Janet Rojas, and Jerry Scwabe, will be held at Amagansett Library through Sunday, September 30. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, August 11, from 4 to 6:30 PM.

Melinda Zox Quogue Library, Quogue The Quogue Library presents its August outdoor sculpture artist, Melinda Zox in the “Up-Lift” outdoor series.

Zox is an emerging Abstract Expressionist painter who studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City

under Frank Roth. Zox is the daughter of abstract painter Larry Zox, who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, and his artist wife Jean Glover Zox. As a result, the sculpture artist was raised in the heart of the downtown New York City art scene. Her childhood, she said, was “a continual lesson in the experience of art and creativity.

Art, color, and expression were part of our daily life and almost every conversation.” Zox’s original sculpture will be on display outside the Quogue Library for the months of August and September, 2018.

Nika Nesgoda The Spur, Southampton Opening: Thursday, August 9, 7 to 10 PM Featuring thought-provoking photographs by Amagansett artist Nika Nesgoda, “Virgin” opens at The Spur in Southampton on Thursday, August 9. The show is presented by McNeill Art Group, and curated by Eve Gianni Corio in collaboration with Laura Eisman and Sylvia Hommert. The artist challenges the contemporary notion of iconography, identity, and religion.

Taking a cue from the Old Masters, many of whom were known to have employed prostitutes and other marginal-

ized women as their models, Nesgoda playfully interprets art history and reimagines these Church-commissioned paintings. Nesgoda employs celebrated porn stars to portray the Virgin Mary.

The models featured in Nesgoda’s images include adult entertainers Tera Patrick and Stormy Daniels. A closing reception will be held on Wednesday, August 29.

Ready To Open The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton Opening: Thursday, August 9, 6 to 8 PM The show “Ready To Open,” with work by artist CHO Yea Jae will be on display at The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton. The South Korean artist brings a fresh perspective on life and North and South Korean affairs in her debut U.S. exhibition. Her artistry provides unique insights to life filled with hope and compassion in the midst of a world that is grappling with angst and transition.

Female strength, grace, sensuality, and wisdom are illuminated throughout each piece with masterful fluency and feeling. At the opening, there will be special guest appearances by the founder of Gabrielle’s Angel Continued On Page 119.

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Marvis Staples performs at Suffolk Theater

Entertainment

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Empowers Africa

The Clam Bar

Sunday, August 12, 6 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org

Wednesday, August 8, 5 PM

Southampton Arts Center hosts a screening of Elephant Documentary Shorts with Empowers Africa, presented with a Q&A reception. Tickets are $10 ($7 for Friends of SAC) All singing, all dancing? Readings, stagings, and slams? We can’t print it if we don’t know about it. Send your entertainment events to nicole@indyeastend.com

by Thursday at noon.

Film Momentum Generation Thursday, August 9, 6:30 PM www.hamptonsfilmfest.org Hamptons International Film Festival presents Momentum Generation outdoors at Gurney’s Montauk, with artistic director David Nugent and filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist.

Summer Of Spielberg Friday, August 10, 8:30 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org Southampton Arts Center continues the Summer of Spielberg series with a screening of Ready Player One. These weekly films are free to the public and outdoors.

Cuban Food Stories Sunday, August 12, 6 PM www.sagharborcinema.org Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center presents the Artists Love Movies series with Cuban Food Stories, hosted by Maria Bacardi at the Pierson High School auditorium.

Jewish Film Festival

The Clam Bar at Napeague will have live music every Wednesday. This week, will be Jeff London and Joe Van Asco.

324 Lounge

Tuesday, August 14, 7:30 PM

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 9 PM www.324events.com

Southampton Arts Center continues its Southampton Jewish Film Festival with Prisoner of Paradise and guest speakers Robret Kalfin and Jeremy Lawrence.

The 324 Lounge in East Hampton hosts live music Thursday through Saturday. Local favorite DJ K-Alert spins all night.

Music

Solé East

Craig Rose

Thursday, August 9, 6:30 PM www.npcowgirls.com

Wednesday, August 8, 6 PM www.eastwindlongisland.com The Shoppes at East Wind in Wading River present Live at the Shoppes with Craig Rose. This event is free to the public.

Neo-Political Cowgirls brings the arts to Solé East in Montauk with live music and surprise performances at the Toga White Party. Tickets are $100 and $25 per child.

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Young Musicians Unite

Jazz On The Terrace The Fast Lane

Thursday, August 9, 8 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents “Young Musicians Unite . . . for gun sanity” with a concert featuring Big Karma, The Sectionals, and Earthreal.

Tickets are $15 to $40 ($13 to $48 for members)

Stephen Talkhouse www.stephentalkhouse.com Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will have a live performance by Edmar Castaneda, Jazz Harp & Sandbox Percussion on Wednesday, August 8, at 8 PM. On Thursday, August 9, see Nancy Atlas at 8 PM and Tradewinds at 10 PM. Friday, August 10, see Garland Jeffreys & The Coney Island Playboys at 7 PM, Mad Staggers at 9 PM and Booga Sugar at 11 PM. Saturday, August 11, will be Glenn Tillbrook & Leon Tillbrook at 7 PM, Shadowlands at 9 PM, and Hello Brooklyn at 11 PM. Sunday, August 12, at 8 PM will be Swanky Tiger and Winston Irie at 10 PM. Monday, August 12, see Donavon Frankenreiter, David Luning, and Lisa Bouchelle at 7:30 PM. Then, Tuesday, August 14, catch Donavan Frankenreiter, John Craigle and Lisa Bouchelle at 7:30 PM.

Shabbat By The Bay Friday, August 10, 6 PM 516-690-7742 Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor presents Shabbat by the Bay, an all-ages musical service with drum circle followed by a BYO-picnic, held every Friday in August at Havens Beach.

Friday, August 10, 6 PM www.parrishart.org

Saturday, August 11, 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com

Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents Jazz on the Terrace: The Philippe Lemm Trio. $12, free for members, children and students.

The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents The Fast Lane: Eagles Tribute with a Sprinkle of Petty.

Born And Raised Friday, August 10, 6 PM www.townlinebbq.com

Ecstatic to the Sublime Sunday, August 12, 6:30 PM www.bcmf.org

Springs Tavern

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will host “From the Ecstatic to the Sublime” at Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church Grounds.

Saturday, August 11, 8 PM 631-527-7800

Josh Ritter Sunday, August 12, 8 PM www.whbpac.org

Townline BBQ in Sagaponack hosts live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM. This week will be Born and Raised.

The Springs Tavern will host karaoke night every Saturday beginning at 9 PM. No cover, just bring your best singing voice. There’s also open mic every Sunday 2 PM to 6 PM.

Bernstein & Copland

ABBA The Concert

Music Monday

Saturday, August 11, 8 PM www.whbpac.org

Monday, August 13, 8 PM www.baystreet.org

You Can Dance, You Can Jive… a tribute to ABBA will take the stage at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents Charles Busch: My Kinda ‘60s as part of its “Music Monday” series.

Friday, August 10, 7 PM www.bcmf.org The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will host “Wm. Brian Little Concert: Bernstein & Copland” at Channing Sculpture Garden at the Bridgehampton winery.

Mavis Staples Friday, August 10, 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com Suffolk Theater in RIverhead presents Mavis Staples.

Bakithi Kumalo Saturday, August 11, 7 to 9 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org The Southampton Arts Center presents the outdoor concert Bahithi Kumalo and the Nations United Band. It is free to the public.

Joe’s Pub Saturday, August 11, 8 PM www.joespub.com Joe’s Pub Sound View in Greenport presents a concert by James & Jerome in the Piano Bar.

EVITA Through August 26 www.baystreet.org

Jazz On The Steps Sunday, August 12, 2 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org

Cabaret At Claude’s

Southampton Arts Center, along with The Jam Session, brings back Jazz on the Steps with Bob Hovey on trombone and Stan Wright on guitar. It is free and open to the public.

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Cabaret at Claude’s 2018 Series at the Southampton Inn, featuring Konstantin Soukhovetski every Thursday night through August 23 with a prix fixe dinner at 7 PM and show starting at 9 PM.

Guild Hall in East Hampton presents “A Community Conversation about Mass Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System” with Zachary Lazar, Sarah Koenig, and Garnette Cadogan. Admission is free.

Thursday Authors Studio

Rick Gekoski

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton continues its Thursday Night Authors Studio with Joy Behar and New York Times bestselling humor author Larry Amoros.

OBAMA-OLOGY Thursday, August 9 through Saturday, August 11, at 4 PM www.haygroundcamp.org Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents the first ever summer intern production with OBAMA-OLOGY by Aurin Squire.

Tova is Leona!

Saturday, August 11, 10 AM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents Tovah Feldshuh in Tovah is Leona!

Words Vengeance Wednesday, August 8, 4 PM www.guildhall.org

Wednesday, August 8, 5 PM www.bookhampton.com BookHampton in East Hampton presents Rick Gekoski, author of A Long Island Story.

Summer Lecture Series Thursday, August 9, 7:30 PM Tuesday, August 14, 7:30 PM www.watermillcenter.org The Watermill Center presents its Summer Lecture Series. This Thursday, Harvard Professor Eric Mackin in conversation with President of Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, Claude Grunitsky discusses “How to Improve Presidential Elections.” On Tuesday, will be director Robert O’Hara with “Get on the Bus: Writing the Opening Scene.

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Two additional programs through Aug 19.

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Thursday, August 9, 7 PM www.jcoh.org

Joel Sartore Thursday, August 9, 7 PM www.icptalksatsac.brownpapertickets.com Southampton Arts Center and the International Center of Photography present a special series of illustrated talks with photographers. This Thursday will be ICP Executive Director Mark Lubell in conversation with National Geographic photographer, Joel Sartore. Tickets are $15 or $10 for friends of the SAC.

Thad Vogler Friday, August 10, 5 PM

www.bookhampton.com BookHampton in East Hampton presents Thad Vogler, author of By the Smoke and the Smell.

Fridays At Five Friday, August 10, 5 PM 631-537-0015 or info@hamptonlibrary.org Hampton Library in Bridgehampton presents Fridays at Five with Martin London presenting The Client Decides.

Admission is $25.

Reshaping The Conversation Saturday, August 11, 11 AM www.longhouse.org LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton presents “Women Artists: Reshaping the Conversation,” dedicated to Elaine de Kooning. Speakers include Carla Chammas, Carrier Moyer, Dorothea Rockburne, and Terrie Sultan. RSVP to women.artists.rsvp@gmail.com.

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Questlove will be at Guild Hall on Sunday.

Marders Sunday, August 12, 10 AM www.marders.com Marders in Brdgehampton presents Garden Lectures every week. This week, “How To Live Organically.” All lectures are free. Email info@marders. com for more information.

Questlove Sunday, August 12, 7 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents Questlove’s “Midsummer Night Conversations on Creativity” with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The Art of the Process Monday, August 13, 6 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org

The Southampton Arts Center presents phase one of the new series “The Art of the Process” that will follow a making of a feature film by screenwriter Jon Levenson. There will be a public reading with the cast and Levenson. It is free to the public.

Hamptons Institute Monday, August 13, 7 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents the “2018 Hamptons Institute,” produced by Alec Baldwin and Tracy Marshall, on The #MeToo Movement.

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Tuesday, August 14, 4 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents a staged reading of Locura.

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Watermill Center Series Engages Public Dialogue The 2018 Summer Lecture Series continues this Thursday

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The Watermill Center continues its 2018 Summer Lecture Series with “cultural luminaries” on Thursday, August 9, at 7:30 PM. Adams University Professor and Harvard Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Eric Mackin, in conversation with Claude Grunitzky, President of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, will discuss “How to Improve Presidential Elections.” For nearly three decades, the series has featured approximately 80 artists from 30 nations.

“I have always hated the word ‘lecture’ and the idea of a lecture.

This is more of a conference talk, a

dialogue with the public to ask questions,” said Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center’s founder and artistic director who is leading the series.

Wilson founded the center in 1992 to be an artistic haven and feature a year-round Artist-In-Residence Program for the area’s creative youth.

The 20,000-square-foot building houses a library, global artifacts and over 10 acres of grounds with sculpture gardens.

This year, the series curated by Wilson alongside Kelly Dennis and Residency Coordinator Brian O’Mahoney.

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participant and current performance artist, noted, “What is most exciting about our Summer Lecture Series is that it’s not focused on one kind of art, or the arts at all. We bring in speakers from all disciplines and backgrounds to engage the local community and our summer Artists-in-Residence through conversations, exploring a wide range of topics.”

Playwright and director, Robert O’Hara, will be the featured speaker on

Tuesday, August 14, with “Get on the Bus: Writing the Opening Scene.” Concluding the series is American composer Nico Muhly with “Roots & Pulses” on August 16.

The Watermill Center is located at 39 Watermill Towd Road in Water Mill.

The Summer Lecture Series is open to the public for $15. Advance reservations are required by visiting www. watermillcenter.org or calling 631-7264628.

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READING OUR REGION

By Joan Baum

Sparrow Beach This debut novel by Shelby Raebeck thrives on strong dialogue Although debut novelist Shelby Raebeck spends too much time revisiting the domestic tribulations of his protagonist, put-upon, nice guy Michael Dorian, the author’s skill in creating dialogue among his principals — Michael, his anxiety-prone, estranged wife Vivvy, and their obsessive/compulsive teenage daughter Tommy — is impressive. He also entices the reader with the disagreements between Michael and his hothead older brother and construction management partner Willie, whose venality leads him to cut questionable deals. Their arguments, in the form of shorthand lingo, pauses, silences, interruptions, ring true. Raebeck has a good ear.

He also has an informed feeling for the East End (he grew up in Amagansett), its beauties, and inevitable change. As Michael says to a developer, his problem isn’t with change but with “usurpation, greed, vainglory” (that last a nod no doubt to Michael’s having been an English major in college). His good friend Sam, who, like Michael, comes from “the last thinnedout generation of fishermen and farmers,” shares with Michael a great love of the area.

“Mountains give you perspective,” he says. “They lift you up, let you see the wide world. Water brings us back to our beginnings.” Michael, an avid surfer, nonetheless adds that both mountains and the water “are things you can’t build on.”

It’s not clear, however, what Sparrow Beach wants to make its central theme or how extended details about secondary characters enhance it.

These include a troubled needy woman from The Rez, who’s been having an on-and-off again affair with Willie. She comes on to Michael, taking him to a peyote–infused meeting on The Rez. Her actions later on cause the plot to take a dramatic turn, but she conveniently disappears at the end, and her plight does not affect the book’s domestic or environmental concerns.

Sections on Michael’ daughter also go on a bit, as though the author were recalling real-life friends and ac-

quaintances rather than judiciously selecting what he needs to move his narrative along. Indeed, up front he gives thanks for the “colorful characters” in his life, “their spirit rolling continually forth, irrepressible as ocean waves.”

To its credit, Sparrow Beach reasonably (and therefore admirably) explores the continuing encroachment on East End land by big-time builders, especially those who declare they want to work with wildlife organizations and preservation societies. The real estate mogul who hires (then fires) the Dorians — he knows the advantages of using respected locals to advance his projects with the town — seems to believe that what he builds and promotes will benefit the community as well as his bank account. (“My business is based on creating habitats, on improving quality of life.”) But as Michael’s friend Sam says, “The only places that get preserved are the ones rich people get to first.”

Sam also recognizes, however, as do Michael and Willie “elitist bulls---” about “preserving the “character” of a place” evoked by those who don’t suffer from not having jobs or affordable housing, and he is acutely aware of the exploitation of immigrant day laborers.

Readers on either side of continuing development conflicts will find in Sparrow Beach a complex take on timely issues. Raebeck avoids stereotypes and simplistic conclusions. He knows that life is more complicated than good guys vs. bad guys. Even “green” folks who would oppose development are complicit to some degree in the problems facing their town.

Still, one wonders about the organic integration of it all. A prologue about the Corchaug tribe [a.k.a. Montaukett] explains the book’s title but doesn’t quite translate to, or help resolve, present-day issues at the core of the novel, even as Raebeck revisits the tribe’s myth toward the end of the novel: “The Corchaug tell a story about Raven and Sparrow, who, after the white people come to Long Island and spread disease, fly into their settlement seeking revenge. Leading the way, Raven

flies directly into a hail of gunfire and dies, whereas Sparrow, flying behind, survives. Some of us fly like Raven.

Some fly like Sparrow.”

Of course, Raebeck means to suggest that there are ways to respond to “the dark cloud of excess that consumes Long Island’s East End,” as he

says in an email. Some will “adapt, finding new paths amidst the changing landscape,” others will “refuse.”

The irony of this comment, however, is that Sparrow Beach is more nuanced in testing out possible solutions than the myth, which references only the native Americans, anyway.

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the sand between your toes on the ground floor, hang out at the secondfloor bar, or rise above it all to dine on the upper deck in the fresh air and take in the view. www.sunsetbeachli.com

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Our Mid-Summer Report Card

local favorite restaurants Claudio’s or Sunset Beach. www.gabriellesangels. org

Four Trends this Summer

We’ve compiled our favorite places, trends, and hosts for summer 2018

Seafood Towers. 2018 seems to be the summer of the seafood tower. One tier or two or three? Great for sharing and a taste of the freshness of the sea, with clams, oysters, crab, lobster represented in the hit dish this summer in the Hamptons.

Summer is flying by, and as we seem to be half way through the season, it feels time to take note of the best of this summer so far. This week, we focus on our favorite places by the water for socializing, the four trends which define summer 2018, and those hosts without which the summer would be far less fun.

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luxury waterfront guest rooms, suites, and villas inside 15 acres of grounds boasting outdoor amenities such as a swimming pool by the yacht dock, restaurants, and bars. New this year, registered boat owners at the marina can place services on their account. www. gurneysresorts.com Navy Beach. Inside, the antique 35foot wooden bar and décor screams old-school, though a modern wine list and Signature dishes including the Jumbo Lump Crab Cake, Hamachi Ceviche, Charred Portuguese Octopus, Local Clam & Corn Chowder and the eponymous Navy Burger make for a fun time for all. Outdoors, there is seating and tables directly on the beach to take in the scenery. www.navybeach. com

Duryea’s Lobster Deck. A dose of the South of France in Montauk, Duryea’s offer a raw bar with seating alongside the theater of the team at work preparing the oysters, clams, and seafood in front of diners. Outside, the deck has those hard-to-get tables by the waterfront where you can take in that sun, sea, and those magnums of rosé wine. www.duryealobsters.com Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club. Under new ownership this season, Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club offers some 107

Frosé. The adult slush puppy has arrived with a vengeance. Guaranteed to induce brain-freeze and an instant feeling of “party on,” frosé, mixing crushed ice, rosé wine, and sometimes other fruits, such as strawberries and lemon, is the social drink of the moment. Remember to try it responsibly, at Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club and Sunset Beach, just to name two.

Cocktails in Copper Vessels. From copper gnomes (which can be purchased separately for $100 from EMP Summer House) to a cocktail in a copper pitcher at Nick & Toni’s to a copper swan serving vessel at Surf Lodge, cocktails in copper is this season’s trend. Will it survive into the fall? Who knows?

BBC. Rumors of the demise of Cyril’s roadside bar on the road to Montauk’s favorite cocktail are greatly exaggerated. The BBC is alive and well (a potent mix of Bacardi, Bailey’s and Cointreau) and can be found at Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club, among others.

Hosts with the Most

Sunset Beach. The clue is in the name.

Sunset is the ideal time to watch the world go by and let the stresses of the day flow away with the tide. Created by owner Andre Balazs, Sunset Beach itself is a hideaway, with 20 hotel rooms and a restaurant on three floors. Feel

Brunch at Sea with Michele Rella.

Founding board member of Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation Angel Ball in New York (this year, it’s October 22), Rella is one of life’s generous people and with her husband, Frank, she can be found at sea in the Hamptons on their boat where the food, rosé wine, and conversation flow naturally with warmth whilst winding their way to brunch at

Breakfast with Debby Sroka. Wife of international real estate guru Neal Sroka, Debby combines a sharp mind with a lifetime’s sense of how to cater to her guests. Breakfast is the family affair, combining a homely feel with a table full of platters of everything your stomach was looking for and more than a few things you forgot existed — salted gravlax, anyone?

Lunch with Lawrence Scott. The Founder of Lawrence Scott Events, whose work has placed the phrase “It’s a Larry Party” on everyone’s lips, entertains at home for his guests simply and exquisitely, bringing his skills as an elite events planner to the needs of close friends around his table. It is definitely a Larry Luncheon. www.lawrencescottevents.com Dinner with Henry Lambert. The powerhouse behind Pasta & Cheese and the restaurants at Bergdorf Goodman and author of Amazon hit The Kitchen Sleuth, Henry Lambert’s table is the invitation to receive this summer. Lambert takes a genuine pleasure in cooking and endlessly refining and seeking new recipes to surprise his guests. His gazpacho, grilled steak, and duck spring rolls are not to be missed. Remember to bring conversation — Lambert’s mind is as inquisitive as his cooking skills.

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Reporting From Broadway

By Isa Goldberg

Head Over Heels Broadway’s take on The Go-Gos story has nod to Elizabethan times

Belinda Carlisle’s anthemic, “Heaven Is A Place on Earth.”

As is his wont, Tom Kitt’s musical arrangements and orchestration are cause for craziness on stage. All in all, it’s a fun ride.

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It’s pretty funny that Head Over Heels, the latest jukebox musical on Broadway looks like an Elizabethan take off, as in the style of Spamalot and Something Rotten. It’s not Jersey Boys. But then The Go-Gos, the girl rock band whose music is celebrated here, were punk rockers, whose style rejected the sentimental balladeering that made The Four Seasons so popular.

Punk, to the contrary, was aggressively modern, spawning a fashion craze, and creating the music of rebellion, of anti-establishment, antiauthoritarian ideology. On stage, punk musicians were known to perform strange antics, famously staging explosions, and chain sawing guitars.

To that end, the Elizabethan dialogue in Head Over Heels is integral to the comic, cacophonous style of the stage story. Based on Sir Philip Sidney’s late 16th Century prose work, The Arcadia, the musical book was conceived by Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), and adapted by James Magruder (Triumph of Love). True to the idealized story of a shepherd’s life, with multiple intertwining plot lines, and set against pastoral scenery, the action is brash, broadly comic, and highly anachronistic. The genre is camp outré, and rife with gender bending.

Scenic designer Julian Crouch creates a bucolic background in the style of Renaissance pastoral paintings. But the action mostly takes place among trees that look like they’re made of cardboard, and a smattering of columns that appear to be relics from the Oracle of Delphi. Arianne Phillips’ costumes, Elizabethan garb mixed with body suits, equipped with cads for the male chorus, are eye-popping.

But the most dynamic element in

this production, and which drives it, is Spencer Liff’s choreography (Hedwig), featuring highly charged moves and uniformity of gesture that looks almost militaristic.

When it comes to “keeping the beat,” Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) keeps the action moving at a pace becoming of farce. And his cast is fast on his heels.

In the role of The Shepherd, Andrew Durand is a heartthrob. He’s completely adorable and fetching, both as the character of the Shepherd, and the Amazon woman he poses as, in Act II. He sings and acts the role beautifully.

As his love interest, Philoclea, Alexandra Socha is a vulnerable flower child. Wearing bright red slippers, Bonnie Milligan plays her love-starved sister with panache, and Taylor Iman Jones, the lost daughter of royal descent, has the spunkiest vocal style.

As the evil king, Jeremy Kushnier projects both the banality of his daring and his bluster. And Rachel York as the queen is easily commanding. Together they have a walloping sex scene behind a hanging sheet, making this the sexiest shadow puppet show of all time.

That gets a 10.

Peppermint, of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fame, portrays Pythio, the Sphinx, with a sense of shapeshifting that transcends the human form, suggesting a third gender. With her large womanly figure and baritone voice, she fulfills the message about unbounded sexuality and self-expression.

While the Go-Gos may not be well remembered today, several songs here are worthy of attention, especially, “We Got The Beat,” “Head Over Heels,” and

Tracy Letts’ new play, Mary Page Marlowe, currently at Second Stage, is an emotional drama. Letts loves to pack a punch, giving voice to characters in varying states of despair, many of whom are unpredictably alarming. Indeed, he’s a masterful engineer of psychological horror stories that include his 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, August: Osage County.

In a way, Mary’s three marriages are evocative of the horrible relationship at the heart of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, in so far as both plays depict marriage as a kind of hell. Letts, an actor as well as a playwright, garnered the Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the play’s 2013 revival.

While Edward Albee’s play is set amidst the ivory towers of a New England college, Mary Page takes place in the simpler, and seemingly more banal terrain of Ohio. The bickering and abuse that Mary discovers in marriage are the everyman, everyday version of George and Martha’s games. The dialogue, and the ongoing life of this play, are far more quotidian as well. But that doesn’t seem to be making things any better for our titular heroine, Mary, who yearns for adventure, in a bigger world.

As the play opens, she’s telling her two teenage children that they’re moving from Ohio to Kentucky because she and their father are divorcing. That the kids are upset over the move to another state just a couple hundred miles away tells us something about the provincial nature of their Midwestern lives. Not that that makes the trauma of moving, and dealing with divorce any less, but it does alter our perspective on what qualifies as significant.

Still, the focus of this drama is our titular heroine, Mary, an accountant who we meet at various times of her life, from infancy to old age. And she is portrayed by six consummate actors.

Among them, the chameleon Susan

Pourfar portrays the wan accountant in her midlife crisis; Emma Geer the college student who dreams big; and Blair Brown the older, more accepting, and wryly humorous Mary.

Structured around 11 distinct scenes, the story line emerges through Mary’s eyes and shifting perspectives.

In a scene with 12-year-old Mary, played delicately by Mia Sinclair Jenness, we meet her mother, portrayed

by Grace Gummer as a nasty alcoholic.

Be it nature or nurture, that is the rut Mary falls into, and which drags her life downward. As in August: Osage County, addiction as a family trait is central to the action.

As for the men in her life, they are mostly syphons. Mary’s father, played

by Nick Dillenberg, is a study in selfinvolvement, and her second husband, portrayed here by David Aaron Baker, is similarly wed to self-interest.

Her corpulent boss, played by Richard Thieriot, standing in for Gary Wilmes the night I saw the play, is mercilessly after sex with the 27-year-old Mary, played by Emmy Award-winning Tatiana Maslany, who makes an impressive Off-Broadway debut. Maslany also plays a 30-something Mary in a scene with her moralizing therapist (Marcia DeBonis).

Fortunately, Mary marries well in the end. And Brian Kerwin brings out the gentleness in the man who respects her need for self-fulfillment.

As directed by Lila Neugebauer, (The Wolves), this woman’s story is fascinating, complex, and probing. In Neugebauer’s hands, the nonchronological, nonlinear structure of the play creates an intriguing puzzle for the audience. In the hands of a lesser director, the story line might be difficult to follow. But here, Mary’s need for selfactualization, in a world where abuse is the thread that threatens the fiber of existence, is truthful without being overstated.

The production feels intimate, in spite of the mostly white tile set by designer Laura Jellinek, who creates a two-platform playing area connected by a wall that flows from top to bottom, like a wave. It’s an interesting metaphor for the drama of Mary’s life, which washes over us so transfixingly.

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Wild At Heart Photos by Richard Lewin Veterinarians International presented Wild At Heart on Friday, August 3, at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club. The event featured DJ Alexandra Richards, Christie Brinkley and her Bellissima organic sparkling wine, and honored Dr. Carl Safina. Veterinarians International was founded by Sagaponack resident and veterinarian Dr. Scarlett Magda.

Hospital Summer Party Photos by K.Doran for Rob Rich/www. societyallure.com Stony Brook Southampton Hospital held its 60th Annual Summer Party on Saturday, August 4, in Southampton. The Catsimatidis family and the Mosler family were honored. Caitlin Diebold served as Junior Chair, and Jean and Martin Shafiroff served as Presidents/Committee Chairs.

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Hamptons Trunk Show Photos by Jenna Mackin UJA-Federation of New York’s Hamptons Trunk Show was held Thursday, August 2, at Bridgehampton Historical Society. The event featured designer clothing, jewelry, accessories, and home décor for sale, along with music and refreshments. Twenty percent of all sales benefit UJA-Federation.

Sandcastle Contest Photos by Jessica Mackin-Cipro, Joe Cipro The Clamshell Foundation hosted its 27th annual Sandcastle Contest on Sunday, August 5, at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett. The event was presented in memory of Rossetti Perchik, the founder of the foundation. All donations ensure the continuation of the Clamshell Foundation’s events as well as benefit the people, programs, and projects here on the East End.

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Walk Of Hope Photos by Jenna Mackin & D.Gonzalez for Rob Rich/www.societyallure.com On Sunday, August 5, the final day of the Week of Hope, Audrey Gruss and Mayor Irving led a Walk of Hope and 5K Run around Lake Agawam in Southampton to benefit Hope For Depression. Participants came together to raise awareness in the fight to defeat depression. One hundred percent of proceeds from the walk fund groundbreaking research into its root causes.

Pentaque Tournament Photos by Eric Striffler Duryea’s Lobster Deck hosted its annual Pentaque tournament on Monday, July 30. Pentaque, the French version of bocce ball, is played in a team format for this tournament. Teams from Sunset Beach, The Beacon, Baron’s Cove, Lulu Kitchen, Le Bernardin, Biblioquet, Felix, and more joined. The winner was Sunset Beach.

Competitors included Eric Ripert and Francois Payard. Event partners included Domaine Ott and proceeds benefited A Walk on Water, which provides surf therapy to children with special needs or disabilities.

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Annual Summer Fair Photos by Richard Lewin The rain over Amagansett on Saturday stopped long enough for the planned outdoor activities to take place as scheduled at First Presbyterian Church on Saturday. Rev. Donald P. Hammond invited guests to enjoy the family fun at the 105th Annual Summer Fair.

Veuve Clicquot Casino Night Photos by Jenna Mackin Guests joined Veuve Clicquot at Topping Rose House on the rosĂŠ garden lawn for a casino night on Saturday, August 4. With each ticket, guests enjoyed glasses of Veuve Clicquot champagne, $100 in casino chips, hand-crafted bites, and the chance to win prizes from Veuve Clicquot.

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Paddle For Pink Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com Hamptons Paddle & Party For Pink to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation was held on Saturday, August 4, on Havens Beach in Sag Harbor. Event co-chairs were Maria and Larry Baum, Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn and Gary Cohn, and Jackie and Bippy Siegal.

Hamptons Jewelry Show Photos by Richard Lewin The inaugural Hamptons Jewelry Show opening night was held on Thursday, August 2. The first-of-its kind, four-day extravaganza showcased over $40 million in fine jewelry and luxury collectables at the Southampton Elks Fairgrounds over the weekend.

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Nancy Atlas At Jones Beach Photo by Ken Grille Photography Montauk’s rocker sweetheart, Nancy Atlas, performed at Jones Beach on August 2 with Jimmy Buffett.

Eastport FD BBQ Photos by Peggy Spellman Hoey Torrential rain almost dampened the fires of the Eastport Fire Department’s 67th annual barbecue Saturday morning, but the longstanding community tradition went on.

At the barbecue, which takes several months to plan and days to set up, about 1000 dinners of barbecued chicken and 1000 steamed lobsters were doled out to about 2000 hungry supporters. Beyond the chicken and lobster, the department prepared 35 bushels of clams, eight bushels of mussels, 200 pounds of hotdogs, 90 pounds of macaroni salad, and 50 watermelons. In addition to plenty of food, there was a bounce house for children, music, and later in the evening, some games of chance.

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Montauk Playhouse Photos by Justin Meinken Hundreds headed down to the Montauk Playhouse for a gala on Saturday, August 4, to raise funds for the Playhouse’s new community center, the Cultural Arts and Aquatic Centers. The centers will add an expansive performance theater, various exercise pools for all ages, and more. While additional funds still need to be raised, the center is expected to be completed in no more than three years. The gala was headlined by Nancy Atlas and Friends and Seth Herzog was the emcee. For more information about the Montauk Playhouse, visit www.montaukplayhouse. org.

Dale Chihuly Photo by Bridget LeRoy Arthur Wiener held a private benefit, featuring the glass art of Dale Chihuly, at his residence in Remsenburg on August 5, to support the Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts in South Florida.

Wiener is seen here, flanked by Remsenburger Liz Giordano and Louise Irvine, the museum’s curator.

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Solving Kids’ Cancer Photos by Jenna Mackin A luncheon was held at Tutto il Giorno in Southampton on Monday, August 6, to benefit Solving Kids’ Cancer. The host committee included Cristina Cuomo, Gabby Karan De Felice, Andrea Greeven Douzet, Lindy Gad, Kara Gerson, Deborah Hughes, Christine Mack, Jan Planit, and Bonnie Young.

Hamptons Trash Night Photos by Jenna Mackin The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett hosted its annual Hamptons Trash Night on Sunday, August 5.

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Shagwong Tavern: Montauk Mainstay A true, but beloved, dive in a fishing town full of them

By Hannah Selinger In 2015, the first chapter of Montauk’s Shagwong Tavern history book closed, for good, when longtime owner Jimmy Hewitt sold the restaurant to Jon Kras-

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ner and Beau Campsey. The Shagwong is a true dive, and an even truer personification of that old Montauk adage: a drinking town with a fishing problem.

Of course, libations at the Shagwong are hardly a problem, per se. The bar and restaurant opened in 1936 but has enjoyed a few reiterations during the course of its tenure. In 1969, when Hewitt took over the space, he renovated the original kitchen. His work has stood the test of time, welcoming celebrities, locals, and Irish visa holders in Montauk for summer work.

After the sale of the Shagwong three years ago, the new owners closed the restaurant for a while in order to reimagine the space. In March of 2016, the bar enjoyed a modest reopening. Although the space now feels a bit more 2018, Krasner and Campsey have retained the old-school feel of 1970s Montauk, replete with photos of the hamlet that were uncovered in the basement.

If you are unaware of the Shagwong’s street cred, let’s be clear: This was once the dallying bar of Andy Warhol (who owned a sprawling estate on Montauk’s Amsterdam Beach) and the

Rolling Stones (who made the Memory Motel famous in a 1976 ballad). It was a dive, yes, but it was the coolest of dives.

Today, it remains famous, in part, for its history. Open seven days a week, for both lunch and dinner (and the after dinner and after-after dinner drink), the Shagwong Tavern teems with both with history and tribalism.

It offers insight into the Montauk that once was, the Montauk that sometimes feels absent in today’s world of flannel, fedoras, and $22 piña coladas.

Food has enjoyed a modest update since ownership changed hands, but some things remain the same, like iconic Shagwong Clam Chowder, made New England-style (read: lots of cream, no tomatoes), and served either in a cup or a bowl. Food tends toward the seaworthy, with an ample selection of oceanic choices, ranging from tuna poké to chilled Maine lobster to charred Spanish octopus.

For the hungriest of land-lovers, there’s a 36-ounce tomahawk ribeye for two, which will set you back 99 clams (a far cry from the dive bar of yore, but hey, it is Montauk, after all).

Drinks have also received more

care and attention in this recent revision of an old classic. Instead of a dive bar’s standard vodka tonic, there’s a fresh watermelon margarita, or a mojito, or a hard tea made with Montauk Hard Label peach whiskey, iced tea, and simple syrup. Of course, the traditional drinks are still available — Pabst Blue Ribbon, Tecate, Coors Light, Miller Light, Budweiser, and Bud Light are available from $5 to $7 per bottle. To round out the beer list, the owners have added some craft selections on tap: Fat Tire Ale ($7), Ballast Point Sculpin IPA ($8), Montauk Watermelon Ale ($7), Goose Island IPA ($7), and more.

Consider this an updated version of an old classic, willing to embrace new trends like craft beer and locallysourced produce, while preserving the old ($5 beers). The Shagwong Tavern is, as ever, a great place to spend a little bit of time. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, the bar features a DJ. Other promotions include “ladies’ night” (Thursdays) and “industry night” (Tuesdays). And yes, there is wine — and a kids’ menu, to boot — but are you really going to the Shagwong for an intimate family meal?

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Montauk’s Hidden Gem: Backyard At Solé East The food is so amazing, reviewers had to censor their enthusiasm

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com Solé East, that Tudor landmark turned boutique hotel on Second House Road in Montauk, holds a hidden treasure within its walls. Those who pass through the light and spacious lobby can head straight out, through a verdant bamboo tunnel, and emerge into the Backyard, Solé East’s gem of a restaurant concealed behind shrubs and plantings, but still with an outdoor, airy feel.

The dining room is open to the outdoors, but protected. On one side is a patio, where we were seated, next to shrubs to protect our privacy and that of the inn guests. The bar side is nearer to the swimming pool, which is probably more kid-friendly. The restaurant features breakfast with all sorts of goodies, lunch, brunch, and poolside dining.

But we were there for dinner. My guest for the evening was one of the best faux finish, mural, and trompe l’oeil artists on Long Island, if not in the world, Heather Dunn. Although neither of us are proper ladies when on our own, when we get together, the F-bombs drop like the Cuss Wars have begun. Just assume that every quote is liberally doused with expletives.

Our lovely server, Azaria, brought out the bread, and it was something — fresh baked sourdough served with a pat of butter doused in olive oil, topped

with roasted garlic cloves and drizzled with balsamic vinegar. “This is amazing,” said Dunn, kind of, with a few more words.

The focus at the Backyard is “a healthy and simple approach to market fresh cuisine,” as it says on the website.

We shared an appetizer, a Mediterranean plate, beautifully presented, featuring freshly-made hummus, spicy eggplant, red onion agrodolce, olives, and a crema de pecorino cheese I had never had before, sort of like a Brie. The spicy eggplant was perfect, the hummus, which was dressed with spices and roasted chickpeas, was also very tasty, as was the “sweet and sour” onion creation. The cheese was out of this world, with fresh grilled pita bread.

“This is delicious,” said Dunn, kind of, with a few more words.

For our main courses, my guest chose the cavatelli pasta with lobster meat, jumbo shrimp, tarragon, tomato ragu, oyster mushrooms, and a shower of parmeggiano. The Backyard at Sole East doesn’t skimp on the seafood — the dish was packed with large pieces of the shellfish, and the mushrooms and pasta were perfect.

I ordered the oven-roasted chicken, served with polenta and broccoli rabe, in a chicken thyme jus.

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expressed that you can really tell a restaurant by how it prepares its most simple dish, roast chicken. If it’s dry or over-seasoned, or, God forbid, underdone, then there’s a problem.

The chicken at Solé East was one of the best I’ve ever had. No kidding.

“And this broccoli rabe is awesome,” said Dunn, kind of, with a few more words, copping a taste off my plate. By the way, friends can cop tastes without asking, but girlfriends can cop tastes with their fingers without asking.

The menu includes a raw seafood bar, lots of simply grilled items, vegetarian and vegan choices, and everything is beautifully presented in a calm and peaceful environment. There are kid-friendly choices as well, really something for everybody. The manag-

er, Sean, came over to see how we were doing. He told us about the incredible blueberry pancakes at brunch, and we decided we will come back for them at a later date.

When we got up to leave, we got a hug from Azaria. Not only did we have a delicious meal, and get a chance to catch up, but we felt like we had made friends as well. Whether you’re getting together with an old friend, or a family dinner, or a romantic rendezvous, the Backyard is the place to be.

The Backyard at Sole East is open Sunday through Thursday from 8 AM to 10 PM, Friday and Saturday from 8 AM to 11 PM, and offers up the Bossa Nova Sunday brunch from 10 AM to 2 PM. To view menus, and for more information, visit www.soleeast.com.

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Sotto Sopra: A Taste Of Home The Amagansett restaurant offers a simple, Northern Italian menu

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Sotto Sopra in Amagansett proves that fine dining doesn’t need to be complicated, with a Northern Italian menu that gets back to the basics.

I walked through the open design interior of cedar-paneled walls guiding me towards the back. Light shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows that were opened due to the beautiful weather. The glass separated the inside space from the hidden treasure of an outdoor patio, where I was seated casually under an umbrella, as though I were about to dine with family.

As with any good Italian meal, I started off with fresh bread from its wood-burning oven. It was accompanied by a surprise red, sun-dried tomato garlic sauce, a twist on the traditional butter or oil dip. My guest, David, who happens to be a local chef and, as such, has turned into my go-to companion on dining reviews, repeatedly reached into the bread basket.

“I’m going to accidentally fill myself up on this bread and red sauce,” he said. “I can’t get enough!”

During the summer months, my go-to cocktail is a Moscow Mule, which Sopra labels a Friggin Mule, with black fig vodka. It paired perfectly with the appetizers. Baked Clams Oregonata served with undercooked breadcrumbs, at least for my taste, were fixed by a unique butter sauce that was light, creamy and unlike anything I’ve tasted.

The Tuna Tartare with an avocado mousse and sesame-crusted wonton didn’t disappoint, with a cilantro, chili oil.

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All too often, restaurants try to add a culinary twist on this traditional meal and lose sight of the original flavor.

With a light layer of parmesan cheese, Sotto Spora instantaneously brought me back to childhood memories with my Italian side of the family. David observed as I indulged in each forkful like a kid at Sunday dinner. “This meal is like home,” I said, eagerly pushing him to try.

Our other main course of Butchers Tenderloin came out, a grilled skirt steak, arugula, and balsamic vinaigrette. The steak was cooked exactly as we ordered, medium rare. Needless to say, there were no leftovers from this meal. The desserts, of which we opted for a cheesecake, aren’t made in-house and therefore don’t compare to the rest of the meal. However, can you really go wrong with something sweet at the end of an Italian meal?

In addition to crispy Italian style pizza, fresh sushi, a prix fixe menu daily from 5 to 6:30 PM and Happy Hour from 5 to 7 PM offering halfpriced drinks and food menu at the bar, Sotto Sopra now has new Family Style Suppers. The menu, offered Sunday through Thursday starting at 5 PM, is owner, Joseph Smith, and managing partner, Rose Evangelista’s way to cater to the local community. Chef Angelo, who works at Bobby Vans in New York City in winter, wows guests with a family style menu with dishes such as Eggplant Tomato Mozzarella Stacks, Kale Quinoa Salad, Mussels, Nurrata and prosciutto crostini, Orecchiette, Penne

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Times Writer To Interview Chef Bouley On Sunday, August 12, Florence Fabricant, food and wine writer for The New York Times, will interview David Bouley at Guild Hall in East Hampton as part of the “Stirring The Pot: Conversations With Culinary Celebrities” series. The chef is hailed for his flagship restaurant, Bouley.

From early on, Chef Bouley was strongly influenced by life on his grandparents’ farm, drawing up on their French heritage which instilled a love of the land, his dual citizenship, and an appreciation for fresh products, care in preparation, and the inspiration to cook and enjoy healthy meals, of which he continues to draw from the French paradox. He studied at the Sorbonne and has won multiple James Beard

Foundation awards, including for Best Restaurant and Best Chef.

Following the tragic events of September 11, Bouley Bakery served as a base to organize an operation to feed rescue and relief workers at Ground Zero.

Tickets are $20. The talk starts at 11 AM. A champagne continental breakfast is held at 10 AM prior to each talk. For tickets and more info, visit www.guildhall.org.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Massimo Sola Catch of the Day on Pappa Al Pomodoro

By Zachary Weiss

Who: Chef Massimo Sola at Dopo La Spiaggia

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Chef Sola’s Guest-Worthy Recipe: Catch of the Day on Pappa Al Pomodoro

Why? “This is a traditional summer dish in the regions of Tuscany and Liguria.

An authentic ‘pappa al pomodoro’ is the perfect match for a wild local fish, burned on its skin and then slowly cooked into a fish stock for a few minutes to concentrate all the flavors. Simple but delicious, and easy to make for an unexpected guest or a crowd.”

Ingredients 6 oz wild local fish fillet, skin on Two mature plum tomatoes 1 shallot Extra virgin olive oil 4 oz old bread Salt and pepper

Directions Slowly stew the onion into olive oil.

Add the diced tomatoes and the bread.

Continue till the tomatoes are melting.

Add salt and pepper.

Strain through a vegetable mill and season with extra virgin olive oil.

Put the completed dish into the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and reheat as needed.

Put a pan on the burner, and when very hot, add some olive oil and the fish skin side down.

When roasted to a brown color, turn the fish over, add some water and olive oil, and continue cooking. Seven minutes will be enough.

Put the reheated pappa al pomodoro on the bottom of a plate and the roasted fish on top. Finish with some microgreens.

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Ingredients (serves 4) 1 1/2 lbs salmon fillet 3/4 c light brown sugar 1 orange juiced and zest removed 2 Tbsp Kosher salt 2 Tbsp minced ginger 2 c wild rice 1 white onion diced 1 handful chives 1 handful microgreens 1/2 c dried cranberries 3 Tbsp butter 1 Tbsp olive oil 1/2 c toasted walnuts Salt and pepper to taste

Directions For this recipe, it is ideal to cure the salmon overnight, or for at least four or five hours. Begin by portioning the fish into six-ounce steaks. Heat the brown sugar, kosher salt, orange juice, ginger, and orange zest over medium heat for about five minutes. Let the liquid sit and cool before pouring it generously over the salmon. Cover in plastic wrap and put in the fridge overnight.

The following day, start by sautéing the diced white onion in olive oil until it’s translucent. Add a tablespoon

of butter and the rice. Stir until it is coated by the oil and butter.

Add two quarts of water. Cover and cook on medium high for about 35 minutes, or until the rice is cooked.

While the rice cooks, remove the salmon from its curing liquid and pat dry the skin side.

Heat a large non-stick sauté pan over medium low heat and add a tablespoon of olive oil. Place the salmon skin side down in the pan. Lightly press the fish against the pan when it puffs up. Allow the fish to cook on the skin for about five minutes at the mediumlow temperature, so to crisp the skin.

When the rice is close to finished, you are about ready to assemble your plate. Place the fish in a 400-degree oven to cook for another five minutes.

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Where to Wine

By Peggy Spellman-Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

‘Wine’ be normal? If you have an event for our guide, email peggy@indyeastend. com by Thursday 9 AM.

Baiting Hollow Farm Drop by for some food and drink specials and Craig Rose on “Twilight Thursday,” August 9, from 5 to 9 PM. Cheese plates will be $5 and to wash the snacks down, bottles of wine will be 10 percent off, glasses of wine $8, beer $5, and wineritas, $7.

Craig Rose plays again from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM, followed by The Smoking Gun from 2 to 6 PM, on Saturday, August 11. On Sunday, August 12, it’s The Smoking Gun from 2 to 6 PM. For more events, check out www.baiting-

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Clovis Point On Friday, August 10, stop by to hear live music with Teacherman from 6 to 9 PM. On Saturday, August 11, from 12 to 5:30 PM, Taco Loco will swing by for some grub, and Todd Grossman will play from 1:30 to 5:30 PM. On Sunday, August 12, Taco Loco will be back from 12 to 5:30 PM, and Peter Kanelous and Friends play from 1:30 to 5:30 PM. Visit www.clovispointwines.com for more information.

Jason’s Vineyard Dante will play from 5:30 to 8:30 PM

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While you are stopping by, try one of the vineyard’s summer winery tours, which make a run at 12 and 2 PM on Saturday and 2 PM on Sunday. They are $20 per person; $15 for wine club members.

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Leaves No Stone Unturned The 23-year East End real estate veteran shares his playbook

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t would be a challenge to find any part of the Hamptons that Gary DePersia didn’t know like the back of his hand. In speaking with one of the masters of the real estate scene out East, it’s easy to see that his tagline, “Southampton to Montauk, Sagaponack to Shelter Island,” is supported in spades. He and his Corcoran team have a firm handle on the red-hot selling and renting markets, and to think, DePersia’s love for the Hamptons all began with a windsurfing excursion in the ’80s. Read on to get the full scoop.

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You’re coming up on 23 years of experience in the real estate scene out East.

Where did you get your start?

I started with Allan M. Schneider Associates in the fall of 1995. I had a textile brokering business for many years in Manhattan, and I saw an opportunity to come out here to start in real estate. In 1995, all of the pieces were in place for me to join Allan Schneider, which was bought by Corcoran in 2006. So I joined, and I’m very happy that I did, because it was the perfect launch for my real estate career. I stayed to see the synergy between the two agencies — Corcoran and Schneider — and for me, it worked out great.

I’m still working with a lot of the same people from when I first joined Allan Schneider, which, in those days, was above Coach on Main Street in East Hampton. We have definitely grown since then.

You specialize in both selling and renting beautiful homes. How do the processes differ for you and your team?

They’re really two different animals, although sometimes a renter will become buyer. A renter is looking for something for an immediate need. Sometimes they’re very familiar with the area and where they want to be. They have specifics to give you on location, timeframe, price, and size of house they need, then you go out and find them a number of options that will work. Most often they’ll come out and take a look, but sometimes they’ll just do it over the internet.

A buyer, of course, is looking for a much longer term solution. Sometimes they’re brand new to the area, and

realize they want a house out here, so it can be a function of not only finding a house for them but also finding an area or village they like. It’s a matter of education for those who aren’t familiar with the Hamptons.

Has the rental business grown in recent years? What do you think has contributed to this?

The rental market is going very well this year. Up until about 2008, the biggest part of the rental market was Memorial Day to Labor Day. After the downturn in 2008, you saw less of that. You saw people renting the same kinds of houses, but for a shorter period of time, maybe from July to Labor Day or just July or August. There were a lot more of “a la carte” type time frames, or even two-week rentals, which works well for a landlord, because in the United States you can rent your house for 14 days or less, once per year, and not pay tax.

This year, though, I’ve done many more full-season rentals from Memorial Day to Labor Day than I’ve done in

past years and we’re still doing rentals for parts of August and beyond. What we also see today, which we didn’t see years ago, are people making decisions much closer to the time that they want to rent. Sometimes you get on the call Monday, a lease is signed on Wednesday, and they move in on that Friday.

I think people have very complicated schedules now, and they just put it off and make a decision later, hoping there’s something out there.

Is there a particular type of buyer associated with each hamlet on the South Fork?

At one time, maybe. Now there’s a huge crossover. South of the highway buyers going north, north of the highway buyers going south! People change their thought process on the Hamptons by their history of usage.

Sometimes they find they want to be closer to the city or their golf course or their friends. They have one thing in mind, or had one experience, but their usage of the Hamptons leads them to learn about the different areas. Buyers are much more fluid today

than they’ve ever been, and they move around a lot.

Have you noticed any trends to look out for when it comes to the caliber of homes you’re taking on?

One of the biggest changes over the last 23 years is that we’ve become more of a country getaway than a beach getaway. It’s not about the beach anymore. People don’t spend all day sitting in the sun like they did years ago. Yes, it’s nice and it’s there, but very often the client is very happy to stay at their home, sit at their pool, have people over for lunch, or host a tennis match.

People come out and use their homes all year round too, so when looking to buy or rent a house, clients need to be somewhere where they can enjoy the area for much more than just the beach.

Do you ever work with builders on luxury spec homes? If so, how are these partnerships formed?

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I represent a number of spec home builders and developers. Over the years, selling new construction has become a big part of my business. I do business with Farrell Building Co., M & M Custom Homes, East End Building Company, Lifton-Green, James Michael Howard, and DiMarco Development, to name a few, so I’m very familiar with the process. It can be ground-up, where the property has not been built yet, or something that’s in the process of being built, or you sell them a brand new house that’s been completed.

These partnerships are formed through the developers giving you a shot at something. They’ve either been referred to you or heard about you, and when they have a great experience with you they give you more. With a firm like Farrell Building Co. I’ve done over a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of business with them since the early 2000s.

You operate your own website, in addition to your Corcoran database. How did this idea come about?

In the early 2000s, when I started my own website, it was rough and very basic. You needed something that talked about you, your listings, and you generally had more latitude than you did on your company’s website which in those days weren’t very elaborate.

Even today with Corcoran having the best website in the business, a personal website can add many layers to your business. For me, they go handin-hand.

Are there any other modern tools you use to sell or rent a home?

Besides my two in-house people who work for me in my office, and do a number of things for me like showings, open houses, and launching new

listings, I also have a dedicated marketing person who I use called Dead On Design. They manage my website, photography, brochures, and interface with Corcoran to manage my listings. I also have my own PR consultant, Suzee Foster, and a social media person, Danielle Gingerich.

In a way, do you think you’ve become your own brand?

Brokers are independent contractors.

We’re working within a company, but in a sense, are working for ourselves.

Almost all of the top brokers have created a brand. I began doing considerable advertising in the early 2000s, so my name and eventually my face were out there. Because I have a significant amount of listings, I’m advertising constantly and people see me. So yes, I’m a brand within a brand!

We hear you’re an avid skier.

Where do you escape for your favorite slopes?

Aspen is where I usually go, although I have skied in many of the areas out west in Colorado and Utah. I’ve been skiing there for almost 35 years. I’ve also gone heli-skiing and cat-skiing in British Columbia, which are amazing experiences. But as far as the place I go most often, that would be Aspen.

In the summer months, when skiing isn’t necessarily an option, where can you be found during your free time?

I get to travel every now and then, but I’m very busy in the summer. When I have some free time, outside of my daily gym routine, I’ll go out and windsurf when conditions permit. Windsurfing is what originally brought me to the Hamptons in the mid-’80s when I rented each year from April to October. I was once a decent golfer, with two holes in one at Montauk Downs actually, but don’t play as much anymore. Otherwise, I’m busy working.

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Billy Joel’s Bay Street property. Independent/Gordon M. Grant.

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By Rick Murphy

Billy Joel Tries Again The Old Bayview Bait and Tackle Shop never garnered much media attention, until Billy the Kid rode into town. The Piano Man himself has been doing the soft shoe with Sag Harbor Village officials for a couple of years now, trying to renovate the two structures on the property, which sits across from Marine Park and the Sag Harbor Yacht Club.

He doesn’t want clever conversation, but renovations that are as timeless as they are meaningful. Back in 2016, Joel’s people advanced an ambitious plan to rotate the two buildings so both would align with Bay Street — both now sit at peculiar angles to the street and to each other. That plan didn’t fly.

Joel took the good times with the bad times, and came to the Sag Harbor Village Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review last week with a request to raise one of the buildings to FEMA flood standards as well as to add a wing and a screened-in porch. Board chairman Anthony Brandt said a public hearing would allow needed feedback.

Honesty is such a lonely word.

The original building dates to the 18th Century. Much of the interior detail has been compromised — it once held a seafood store in addition to the

tackle shop and an office. It has four en suite bedrooms and is one of the more distinctive buildings in the village, with a wall of buoys adorning the Rysam Street side of the structure.

Joel can make the scene at Dopo la Spiaggia, an Italian restaurant, which is right down the block. Brandt assured Joel would be treated like any other applicant come the public hearing on August 23 and not a Big Shot. It is scheduled to commence at 5 PM.

RE/MAX Still Growing The real estate giant RE/MAX boasted that it had 63,162 agents in the United States at year’s end 2017, an increase of 2.3 percent over 2016. The firm also increased its number of Canadians 2.1 percent to 21,112. Worldwide, there are 34,767 additional agents, up almost 18 percent from a year ago.

“Everyone wants to stand out.

But the truth is, not all do,” read an accompanying press release. “When RE/ MAX was founded in ’73, they called us renegades. We were on an unapologetic mission to help the nation’s top producers keep more of what they earn.”

The firm is still looking to hire.

Call 631-941-4111 for additional information.

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Sports Queen Bee Of Beach Flags Lifeguard champ ready to compete in nationals

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

As youngsters, Amanda Calabrese and her brother watched from the beach as their father, T.J., surfed the mighty waves at Montauk. They wanted to follow in his footsteps, so to speak.

Just a few things were missing, though. In order to ride the crest of the waves, they needed to become not only strong swimmers but confident ones who were ready for whatever the changing ocean tides would bring.

“He told us that we needed to be super confident and strong swimmers in the water to go surfing with him in Montauk,” the 20-year-old East Hampton native recalled. “Any kid knows how to run, any kid knows how to kick a ball, but with surfing there is so much danger and the unknown.”

Calabrese’s parents wanted her to be confident enough in the water to take the waves, so they entered her and her brother, also named T.J., in the East Hampton Junior Lifeguard Program.

She started the program when she was seven years old, practicing her dives and swimming out to the break. Four years later, at age 11, she began competing in life-saving competitions.

Today, she is the reigning women’s beach flags champion in the United States.

For those who don’t know what the event is, it’s like musical chairs without the chairs, and on the beach. In the event, competitors are asked to lay

down flat on their stomachs in the sand all in a row. When the whistle blows, they jump up quickly, turn around, and run to flags placed in the sand. There is one less flag for the number of competitors — resulting in a dive for each remaining flag. If they don’t seize a flag during a round, they are eliminated.

Calabrese has taken the event the past three years at the United States Lifeguard Association’s annual tournament. This year, on July 19, she easily took the event at the local level during the Ocean Lifeguard Tournament at Main Beach in East Hampton, which serves as preparation for many of Long Island’s lifeguards who participate in the national competition. And this week she is ready for another go as lifeguards from all over the U.S. head to Virginia Beach for this year’s competition.

So, does the reigning beach flags queen ever eat sand while diving for a flag in a pack of other women? Not entirely, but Calabrese said she has come close.

“At this point, it’s just part of the game,” she said, noting that sand does get in her nose from time to time, and there is always the looming danger of it getting in her eyes. “But I’m a lucky girl because my dad is an optometrist, so if I get sand in my eye, I run up to dad, and he fixes everything.”

Diving in the sand does have its

National Women’s Beach Flags champ Amanda Calabrese. Independent/ Courtesy Lynne Calabrese

moments, she acknowledged. “It’s really uncomfortable, but you get used to it,” she said.

And does she have any special ritual or routine that she follows before her main event?

“I’m a very superstitious person,” she said. The beach flags event is always held at night, so after the day’s events, Calabrese makes sure that she is well rested and makes sure to wear a black bikini bathing suit.

Other events Calabrese competes in include the paddle board, in which she was runner up nationally, and she won the board rescue with her partner in the Hampton Lifeguard Association last year.

Calabrese’s superstition seems to work, as her competitions have taken her all over the world, including to France, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. But the “nationals,” as she refers to the yearly national competition stateside, will al-

ways hold a special place in her heart.

“The nationals are always great because I get to see my friends,” she said. “It’s always one big reunion.”

And no matter how far she travels, home is never far from her mind.

Calabrese no longer takes the lifeguard stand to watch over beachgoers as they splash about in the waves.

These days when she is back home in East Hampton, she coaches junior lifeguards and also runs an all-girls surf camp called Montauk Boardriders.

She says that even though it might seem that the East End is small, its lifeguards are some of the best. “We have one of the best programs in the country,” she said. “I find the kids always willing to learn. I find the community here so supportive and so able to create an empowering community out here. I think that’s what counts.”

As for surfing? The sport is now only a pastime for the champ. “This became more than surfing very quickly,” she said.

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Aubin Shuts Down Warriors As Tomcats Win Title Pitcher dazzles with full arsenal

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com “Momentum is only as good as today’s pitcher” isn’t a baseball adage, it’s a truism.

The Long Island Road Warriors learned the lesson anew on August 1, when their quest for a second consecutive Hamptons College Baseball League championship fell one game short.

The losers ran into a buzz saw in the person of Casey Aubin, who brought his A game to the hill, tossing six innings of one-hit ball to silence the explosive bats of the Road Warriors.

The Riverhead Tomcats, meanwhile, manufactured runs in a variety of ways, with Luke Oliphant the main catalyst. Their swarming, unyielding attack seemed to wear down the resolve of the defending champs as the

Tomcats chipped away to build an early lead.

Oliphant walked to lead off the bottom of the first, advanced on a twostrike single off the bat of Alex Baratta, and scored when Louis Antos doubled.

Eduardo Malinowski reached on an infield single and Matt Daller drew a base-loads walk.

After, the Warriors went down without incident making it 4-0.

In the bottom of the fourth, the pesky Oliphant was up to his old tricks again as the visitors scored a run without the benefit of a hit. He was hit by a pitch with one out, stole second, moved to third on an error, and scored on a fielder’s choice.

Aubin, meanwhile, was dazzling.

The Riverhead Tomcats earned the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League title by defeating the defending champions, the Long Island Road Warriors. Independent/Christine Heeren, Artist Lake Media (Axcess Baseball)

The righty out of U-Mass Amherst had full control of his arsenal including a pinpoint fastball and a nasty slider.

When Josh Greene drilled a tworun double that chased Chris Tessitore, the Warriors’ second pitcher, it was a 6-0 affair.

With the damage done and the deficit daunting manager John Galanoudis lifted his starter, all the players labored with the intense humidity and went to the pen.

After a Chris Stefl two-run blast made the score 8-0 the Road Warriors,

just as they had in the second game of this three-game series, reached down deep and found a fresh well, rallying against the Cats excellent closer Beau Keathley, who had relieved Joe Murphy.

Matthew Stepnoski, Eric Rouba,l and Thomas Colombo (Adelphia) all delivered run scoring hits and the deficit was cut in half, 8-4.

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Young Lifeguards Take To The Beach Junior lifeguards practice for the big league

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

The East Hampton Junior Lifeguards went full throttle this past weekend for their annual competition at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, despite being almost rained out on Saturday morning.

“I am always thrilled when these young children hit the ocean,” said organizer John Ryan, noting that Saturday was not a calm day, but Sunday was and there was no difference in the way the young guards competed. “They did all they could with all the waves, currents, and rips to get the task done and get to the victim.”

The team of Colin Schaffer, Matt DiSuno, Joey Badilla, and Owen Mc-

Cormack took first place in the Group A landline event. In the Boys A Group Ironguard event, Wyatt Schaeffer took first place, Ely Dickson, second, and Joey Badia, third. In A Group Girls, Sophia Swanson took first place, Caroline Brown, second, and Dasha Leus, third place, respectively.

In B group Boys, Rodan McKenna took first place, with Nick Badia coming in second, and Tenzin Tamang following in third place. In the B Group Girls, Ava Soldo came in first place, with Camryn Hatch following in second, and Braylon Bushman in third place. In C Group Boys, Liam Knight came in first place, Luke Castillo in

second, and Raphael Schori in third.

In C Group Girls, Gigi Michaels came in first place, Daisy Hitches in second, and Chloe Resnick in third.

Ely Dickson, Wyatt Shaeffer, Bobby Whitman, and Edmond Massey took first place in the A Group Boys division Paddle Board Race. In B Group, it was the team of Chloe Coleman, Kyle Massey, Luke Delaney, and Henry Murphy. In C Group, the team of Gigi Michaels, Hannah Delaney, Lily Nye, and Amelia King took first place.

Matthew DiSuno, Owain McCormack, Colin Schaefer, and Will McGaugh came in first place in the Sprint Run Relay for the A Group Boys Division; Nick Badia, Rodan McKenna, Tzen Taman, and Aidan McCormack took first place place in B Group, and the C Group winners were Dylan Cashin, Aly Schaefer, Luke Castillo, and Khalila Martin.

In the torpe rescue event, Joey Badia and Kevin Pineda came in first place in Group A; Nick Badia and Rodan McKenna came in first in Group B; and Chloe Resnick and Dylan Cashin came in first place in Group C. Aidan McCormack, Luke Ferraro, and Hunter Whitman took first place in their respective divisions in the boys beach

flags event. In Girls Beach Flags, Lizzie Neville took first place in Group A, followed by Alyssa Brabant and Ali Schaefer in groups B and C, respectively.

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gallons down the fuel storage sump, and charges you for 20 gallons. Make sense to you, Bunky?

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By Vincent Pica

Bottom’s Up!

Improving Your Fuel Efficiency On the Water

By Vincent Pica

ct Captain, Sector Long Island South, D1SR United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

p of this column is available. All fees raised will be ated by The Independent to Division 18 of USCG Auxilliary for use in boating safety.

Here are some tips on how to save money on fuel

Speed Kills (Fuel Efficiency!)

mation call Jim Mackin @ 631.324.2500

I’m the first to say, “You’ve got a $30,000 boat tied to the dock and you’re fretting about $200 in fuel?

Wassup, doc!?” But, with that said, “Waste not, want not!” and this column is about that.

sitting on my boat — in full uniform.

Some of the bigger boats have 100-gallon tanks for showers. That’s like having three linemen on board! Fill up the water tank when you are going to use it.

Some Basics

Name that Tune

Would it be any surprise to know that heavier boats need more fuel at a given speed to move through or over the water? So, why lug around gear that you don’t need? Go through all your lockers, lazarettes, and compartments and get rid of the gear that is sitting around gathering mildew. We all have it — get rid of it. Store it in the garage, in a dockside locker, or in the garbage heap.

Do you have an on-board water tank? had a 25-foot Chris-Craft once that had a 40-gallon water tank, which I kept full, whether I was going out for the afternoon or overnight. At eightplus pounds per gallon, this was like having a New York Giants lineman

Your prop is the next most important item to tune. “Tune up my prop?” you say? Yes. If your prop (pitch) is too large for the boat, you are wasting energy. Wait, you say: It came with the boat as original equipment. How can it be too large now? Simple. As the boat gets older (i.e., heavier), the prop’s “pitch”, i.e., how far the boat goes with one revolution of the prop, has to come in so the engine to still match the pitch and distance.

A ding in the prop (never hit the bottom, you say?) can take as much as 10 percent in fuel efficiency out of the power plant. Think of it this way. You ask for 20 gallons and the fuel tender puts 18 gallons in your tank, pours two

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A fouled bottom is like dragging the anchor as you motor. It reduces hull “lubricity” versus the water and, if the hull is fouled, the running gear is probably too.

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Let’s stop for a second and review some maritime math. For vessels under sail, the longer the “wetted surface,” the faster the boat can go. This is why, in sailboat races, boats are assigned handicaps like golfers to normalize this issue. In theory, the handicap eliminates any structural advantages that a 25-foot sailboat has over a 16-foot sailboat so it is then all about the crew.

The formula for a boat’s “hull speed” (sometimes called the “displacement speed,” and soon you will understand why) is: V = 1.34 x SQRT(LWL), where SQRT means Square Root and LWL means length of the water line in feet. V(velocity) conveniently comes out in knots.

So, the theoretical hull speed of the 25-foot sailboat is 6.7 knots and the 16-foot sailboat’s hull speed is 5.4 knots. In an interesting historical side note, this little fact was what caused a number of the great sailing clipper ships to mysteriously sink. How? Well, the captain throws on more sail to make the ship go faster. As you know, a ship’s form is to some extent a big, long “V.” The bottom of the “V” is in the water and the top, planked over, is the deck area.

The only way for the ship to respond to the increased power from the sails was for the “V” to dig deeper

into the water so there was more wetted surface to service the power. More sail? More power. This drove the “V” deeper into the water until the “V,” or the ship herself, was driven under the water and sank.

But wait. I have a 25-foot boat and she goes considerably faster than 6.7 knots. How? She uses horsepower to defeat the physics of the “hull speed” equation — also known as the “displacement speed” equation. As our power boats go faster, the “V” comes up out of the water — we convert from a displacement vessel to a “planing” vessel. But at 6.7 knots, I’m burning two gallons an hour. At 25 knots, I’m burning 10 times that but only going about four times as fast.

It can get very complicated from here when we start talking about bow waves and stern waves interacting and the trim of the engine versus the waterline of the boat, etc. Suffice it to say, you’ll use less fuel at 20 knots than at 25 knots, and you’ll use less fuel at all speeds if you reduce your wetted surface. Trim the bow up a bit and experiment at a fixed prop speed (see what your speedover-the-water does at a given prop speed by using your trim tabs and reducing the weight of the boat) so the “V” doesn’t sit so deeply in the water naturally.

Last, install a fuel meter in your boat. If all our cars and boats had them (anybody in Washington, D.C. listening?), our national fuel consumption would improve overnight! Nothing slows a boat down from 25 knots to 15 knots faster than realizing that you’re burning 20 gallons an hour ($100!) at 25 knots.

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By Bob Bubka

Spieth Chasing History Golfer tries to enter “Career Grand Slam Club” bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com As unbelievable as it may seem, we are sitting on the doorstep of the fourth and final Major of the year, the PGA Championship. Prior to the first Major this year, the Masters, the anticipation and expectations were off the charts.

At the start of the year, there were three different golfers that possibly could be extended invitations into a most exclusive club, the Career Grand Slam Club, a club that only grants admission to those players who have won all four Major titles in the course of their careers. To date, only five players in history have reached that elusive mountaintop. Gene Sarazen was the first to do so. The last being Tiger Woods. The other three are some of

the most iconic players in the game . . . Gary Player, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus.

This year at the Masters, it was Rory McIlroy who had the opportunity for membership but failed to gain entry.

At the U.S. Open, Phil Mickelson, who has chalked up six second place U.S. Open finishes didn’t even look like he was knocking on the door. At 48 years old, his window of opportunity seems to be closing.

The third potential member trying to gain entry is Jordan Spieth. With a victory at this week at the PGA Championship, Spieth would become member number six and would be forever in the history books alongside the game’s

ultra-elite.

To put that accomplishment in perspective, just consider that the “King” himself, Arnold Palmer, never danced in the winner’s circle at the PGA. Other superstars from years past just one major shy of the Career Grand Slam membership are iconic names like Sam Sneed, Byron Nelson, and Tom Watson. When one takes note of those players that have won three of the four majors, it brings into focus what a great achievement it is to win all four — the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the PGA Championship — really is.

This PGA Championship celebrates the 100th playing of this event.

The first-ever PGA was held in October of 1916 at the Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, NY. The state of New York has hosted the PGA Championship 12 times more than any other state, but Ohio has a solid hold on second place with 11.

Next year, when this event moves to a May date, it will be played at Bethpage Black, often referred to as the toughest public course in the country.

Jim Barnes won the first PGA Championship and earned a whopping $500 first-place check. This week, that check will be in the $2 million range.

Bellerive Country Club, which sits in the shadow of the famous St. Louis

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Just in case you’re a big fan of “Jeopardy” like my family is, knowing that the architect of this iconic landmark is Eero Saarinen might just come in handy someday. The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot structure clad in stainless steel. Interesting to note, it is the world’s tallest arch and the tallest manmade monument in the Western Hemisphere.

Speaking of a tall order, that is exactly what is confronting Jordan Spieth in his quest for victory. Spieth has played in the PGA Championship six times with only one top 10 finish to his credit. To make matters worse, Jordan’s play last week in the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational left a lot to be desired with a five-over par 60th place finish and 20 shots behind the Champion, Justin Thomas.

So, who do I like this week, you ask despite the fact I hesitate to put my choice in writing? My pick is Ricky Fowler to win. I am much better at picking winners when on the radio because people tend to forget whereas when it’s in writing, it becomes rather permanent.

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Healthy Guru is a new day dedicated to wellness and fitness at Southampton Arts Center, hosted by Beth Stern, which this year was held on Saturday, August 4. Not to be confused with Southampton Sweat, hosted by Christie Brinkley and daughter Sailor, which was held on Sunday, August 5.

“I meditate every day, do transcendental meditation, and I watch what I eat. I do some sort of physical activity every day of my life, otherwise I feel terrible,” Stern said during an in-

person interview. If you’re a Hamptons regular, you’ve likely seen Stern on her daily three to four-mile walks on the beach and around town, her favorite way to stay in shape. Apparently, this is also where the known animal philanthropist runs into the needy fourlegged friends that she’s oftentimes seen rescuing.

Although Stern wasn’t working out herself, the center was filled with health-geared vendors and fitness studios, many of which had to be moved

inside due to the intense downpour.

The day featured Exhale Barre, Bode NYC Yoga, Run The Hamptons, East Side Dance Company, Kima Center for Physiotherapy and Wellness, Elements Fitness, Erika Bloom Pilates, 5 Pillars Yoga, and TruFusion Barefoot Bootcamp.

Lululemon had a press machine on site, with phrases like “East End Summer” for anyone looking to personalize their summer, and a photo booth. BE

TIME was on site with meditations every 15 minutes. Hamptons Farms was there with a goat cheese, a delicious zesty spread that absolutely blew me away!

Having attended Southampton Sweat in the past, I wasn’t sure what to make of the event. Healthy Guru, which is newer, certainly has some room to grow but, in contrast to Southampton Sweat, it focused more on local brands.

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Photos by Richard Lewin It was like a remote East Hampton Town Board meeting on Friday, August 3. Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, and board members Sylvia Overby, Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, and David Lys joined East Hampton Little League coach Tim Garneau and Superintendent of Parks and Recreation John Rooney in dedicating the Maidstone Park ball field in memory of the late David M. King, a former chief of the Springs Fire Department. Supervisor Van Scoyoc cut the ribbon and threw out the first ball, celebrating the completion of the field renovation.

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Travis Field Memorial Softball Tourney Many softball players took part in the annual Travis Field Memorial Softball Tournament, August 2 to 5, in front of hundreds of fans. The tournament memorializes Travis King, an East Hampton resident who tragically lost his life in a car accident.

In the spirit of Travis’s love for baseball, several coed teams compete in the softball tournament to raise money for the Travis King Memorial Scholarship Fund.

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Samantha Schurr has been an avid bowler from the time she started school and has been bowling alongside her friends for years. After playing for a high school bowling team in Patchogue, she is heading into her senior year at East Hampton High School. She is only 17 years old and she is already a well-established bowler.

In addition to her astounding track record with the high school team, Schurr has started working at The Club in East Hampton, just opposite the airport. She has been an active coach in The Club’s new bowling alley and she’s already making a name for herself. In recognition of her skill, The Club has allowed her to practice for competitions during her breaks.

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urr took a flight down to Dallas, TX on July 13 for the National Bowling Tournament. The tournament is divided by age groups and she was placed in the under-20 category. The tournament consisted of timed increments where teams would compete in a variety of different style lanes and oil patterns over a four-day qualifying tournament. Not only was Schurr going to be competing against some of the best bowlers in the country, but specific details into the exact nature of the competition were entirely unknown to her before the start of the tournament.

The situation was more than intimidating, but the East Hampton rising senior was eager to face the challenge with a smile on her face. She explained, “My friends get really intense and really

focused when they’re bowling. As for me, I play my best when I’m not paying attention to the score. I take my mind off it by thinking about what I’m going to be doing later, or even singing songs in my head. So really, I just play for fun.”

As for the tournament results, Schurr did not place in the advanced rounds but ranked 442 out 856 girls in the under-20 division. Regardless of the results, Schurr was happy with them, especially when considering that this was her first major competition. She also played in the youth open singles and doubles as well as a survivor tournament from which she was able to win a new bowling ball.

Schurr hopes to do even better next year in the National Tournament in Detroit, MI. She said, “I only played in the under-20 division, but the overall competition was an experience I will never forget.”

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“They’re a little bit heavier and there are really no breaks in them for anything to soak through,” said Ralph as she pulled one of the gloves over her hand and stretched it out to demonstrate its strength and flexibility.

The kits are generally used whenever officers respond to a drug overdose. Officers responded to 11 of those cases up until June 27, not counting fatalities, where there was the option of using the kit, Ralph said. However, there is no way of gauging how many of the kits have been used, she said, because officers do not always report to her when they have used them. “Again, when you are getting that call for that aided case, these officers are running in. They are going in to save that life,” she said.

The department has also issued special hazmat suits to guard against exposure to fentanyl, which are only used in extreme cases where there would be a high likelihood of exposure. The suits could also be upgraded to a “level A suit,” fully encapsulating a person’s body to enter into an area where the drugs might be produced, she said.

In an incident this year, two officers from the department were exposed during a traffic stop in which the suspect began throwing items out of a car. The substance then blew back

into the officers’ faces, and they experienced dizziness and lightheadedness, requiring them to be checked out at a local hospital.

“There was a case upstate where an officer was dealing with an arrestee, and another officer said, ‘Hey, you have some powder on your shirt,’ and brushed his shirt,” Ralph said. The seemingly innocuous action caused the man to lose consciousness. “He went down.”

Use of the kits is left to the discretion of the officer and the situation, according to Ralph. “Obviously, the department recommends it anytime you are going into a situation, whether you are searching a vehicle after you make an arrest, and you know there is narcotics, or the person tells you there is narcotics in the car,” she said. “You don’t want [the officers] being exposed to it because, again, the first responder needs another first responder. So, they are trying to save someone and now they need to be saved also, that doesn’t bode well for us.”

Montauk

Continued From Page 11. put together a commission or committee involving all the various emergency responder agencies in the town, to make sure all were abreast of any new developments or delays.

When he spoke, Chief Franzone

complimented Schnell’s work on the project, saying he had actually spotted some of the shortfalls in the original proposal. Chief Franzone acknowledged that the board was dealing with the mistakes, to some extent, that town boards had made in the past, but that now the onus was on it. “How many more things are we going to find before we get this going?”

Van Scoyoc replied that he was “fairly confident” that there were no more major surprises coming. He addressed the questions about the Montauk tower, and why it had not been anticipated that it would have to be fortified. “The problem, as I understand it,” he said, “is that they were relying on past engineering reports which may have been fudged by some of the operators on the tower. They may not have been accurately reflecting what the actual conditions were.” Once the current board realized there could be a shortfall, it immediately filled the gap with the $1.7 million bond.

All the commissioners and the chief returned several times to the problematic current system. Schoen said the issue with the current Montauk tower is weight. We are in a hurricane season, he reminded the board.

“Wind is the issue,” he said. “I would like you to keep this point in mind: If a hurricane goes through Montauk and our tower goes down, we are without EMS, we are without fire, we are without police.”

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walks. Players and the ecstatic fans swarmed the field at Veteran’s Park in Riverhead.

Oliphant made a compelling case to be named tournament Most Valuable Player, going four for 10, reaching base eight times, scoring five runs and swiping five bases.

The Tomcats won the opener of the series on July 30 at Veteran’s Memorial Park, but the Road Warriors, needing a win to stave off elimination, pulled out a gripping 11-10 victory the following day in Southampton. Roubal swung the big bat with three hits including a homer for four ribbies.

Malinowski and Chris Stefl shared the MVP award. Malinowski went 7-for-13 with a home run, a triple, six RBI and four stolen bases through the three-game series. He finished the playoffs with a .462 average after finishing fifth in the regular season batting standings. Stefl was 7–for-12 with three doubles, a homer, and six RBI in the series. The St. Johns lefty also led all postseason players with 16 strikeouts and hit .435 in the playoffs.

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Foundation, Denise Rich, as well as recording artist, Prince protégé and founder of Urban Farming, Taja Sevelle.

Beyond The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton Opening: Saturday, August 11, 6 to 8 PM The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton presents “Beyond,” featuring the art of CHO Yea Jae, Nicholas Down, Phil Marco and Alicia Gititz. Four diverse artists display abstract paintings and photographs exhibiting elements that border other-worldly and surreal.

The show will be open through August 19.

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The Fireplace Project, Springs Opening: Saturday, August 11, 6 to 8 PM The Fireplace Project in Springs, a contemporary art gallery and project space, presents the exhibit “Tulips!”

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Florida Man

Continued From Page 38. ties were not over. Besides the four misdemeanors, when the DEC officers ran his personal information, they discovered an outstanding warrant for his arrest out of Broward County on a felony charge related to the alleged failure to pay sales tax from a used car business in Fort Lauderdale between February 2015 and July 2016. He was placed under arrest based on the warrant on July 27, and was held overnight in a cell in Riverside.

He was first brought to East Hampton Justice Court to be arraigned on a fugitive from justice charge on July 28.

His attorney, Edward Burke Jr., told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana that the tax issue was being handled, and would be resolved when the banks opened that Monday, July 30. According to the complaint on file in East Hampton, the state of Florida accused Vaccaro of under-paying them by almost $170,000. Justice Rana set bail at $1000, which was posted. Justice Rana ordered him back to court that week, so that he could be arraigned on the misdemeanor charges, which was done on August 2. He is due back in court August 16.

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