Oyster Bay Herald 04-23-2021

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A race like no other in O.B. By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com

Courtesy John Quirk

DANIELLE TAYLOR, LEFT, Cheryl Lordi, Liam Gagliano and John Quirk took part in the 4x4x48 challenge in Oyster Bay on March 5.

Danielle Taylor was sleepdeprived, and the muscles in her legs were tightening, causing excruciating pain at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, the final day of the race. She knew she had less than three hours before the next leg of the race, one that she had been running since Friday night. But the Oyster Bay resident wanted to finish the 48- mile race, and she had to complete it in 48 hours. So she filled up her bathtub with warm water and Epsom salt and submerged herself until the pain partially dissipated. She couldn’t stay in there too long, because she had to eat and sleep too. At 3 a.m. she would be running the

course again. The 4x4x48 challenge involves running four miles every four hours for 48 hours. That’s four miles 12 times. It is broken down into 12 four-hour legs. The race was created in 2020 by former Navy SEAL David Goggins, an ultramarathon runner and triathlete, to raise money for charities. It begins on March 5, and can be run anywhere in the world. This year, 10 Oyster Bay residents took part. John Quirk, 54, organized the local 4x4x48 challenge, with a course from Beekman Beach to the Bayville Bridge. Quirk oversees the Oyster Bay Turkey Trot, a 5K Thanksgiving family fun run that raises money each year for local nonCONTINUED ON PAGE 2

Through the looking glass: the ’60s in poster art By GEORGE WALLACE newsroom@liherald.com

What do you do when you’re closing down an office where the walls are filled with psychedelic posters you started collecting as a college kid in the 1960s? Realizing that those posters, promoting local rock concerts back then, are considered works of art today, Ted Bahr opened an art gallery in Oyster Bay in 2018 to display them. The Bahr Gallery’s new exhibition, “Travelogue,” showcases the artistry of day-glo colors, psychedelic typographic distortions and other techniques that

those posters were known for. The show, which opened on March 19 to Covid-limited access, explores the regional differences in poster-making in the late ’60s, a genre that is typified by the iconic work produced in San Francisco for the Fillmore West and other concert halls. Grouped thematically on the gallery walls are first-edition vintage creations, handsomely framed and enthusiastically explicated, from Manhattan, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, among other locales. Bahr’s interest in music posters dates back decades. “In col-

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he poster era began in 1969, but by 1971 the promoters didn’t use posters because it was too inefficient.

TED BAHR

Owner, Bahr Gallery lege I collected a little bit, attracted to the bright, psychedelic look and its association not

only with the great music being made, but also with the utopian ideal of peace that was represented,” recalled Bahr, 62, a former owner of a publishing company who moved to Laurel Hollow in 1998. Originally from Westchester County, he spent 15 years in the San Francisco Bay area. “Eventually I had about 45

pieces. I treated them as fine art, hung them in various areas around the office” — BZ Media in Melville — “and wrote placards with explanations of the work. I treated my office almost as a museum.” Bahr sold BZ Media in 2017. “I had 45 framed posters and CONTINUED ON PAGE 3


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