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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Jack Capone

— Former Southampton Town Board member helps preserve Hampton Bays history

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07 Airport Noise Helicopters the worst offenders, report says.

13 ‘Kiki’ They Love You Former NY Giant, teens dance at National Night Out.

26 Head Of EH GOP ‘You can’t get any new traffic infractions,’ judge warned.

28 Federal Custody Jose Torres faces up to 20 years in federal prison as violent felon.

46 Laura Michaels Former fashion designer styles interiors.

50 Barbara Lobosco Lobosco has long-standing love for Sag Harbor.

8 Mako Shark A juvenile shark caused a stir last week,

54 Deepwater A deep dive into deepwater.

27 Boat Sinks Couple rescued by East Hampton Marine Patrol, Coast Guard officers

29 Foiled Robbery Second suspect remains at large.

51 Tim Kelly Industry veteran brings full spectrum of experience.

52 Deeds Featured listings above $3 Million and below $1 million.

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66 Mermaids, Montauk Surfers “Michael Dweck: Iconic Images” is currently on display.

72 Syncopation William Ris Gallery hosts duo show, examines music and art.

96 1770 House This historic restaurant serves noteworthy food, award winning wine.

98 Crab Cakes Recipe by Chef Joe Cipro.

104 Shaq Drops In At The Hive NBA great in Bridgehampton for screening of Killer Bees.

109 Chip Shots The money is on Brooks.

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70 Marissa Bridge East Quogue artist: Nothing but flowers.

74 Evita Musical chronicles Eva Peron's rise and fall.

97 New Moon Café Hearty fare in East Quogue.

99 Grilled Corn Guest-worthy recipe by Ayesha Nurdjaja.

106 Junior Lifeguards Second for adult guard Paroz, Calabrese keeps title.

110 Indy Fit School of hard nocks. It will knock you out.

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News & Opinion Airport Noise Complaints Skyrocketed In 2017 Helicopters the worst offenders, report says

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Complaints from residents over noise from aircraft flying in and out of East Hampton Airport skyrocketed in 2017 after the town-imposed restrictions and curfews covering landings and takeoffs were struck down in court, according to a study released last week

by East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc’s office. The study, prepared by consulting firm Harris, Miller, Miller, and Hanson compares noise complaints from the peak seasons of 2015 and 2016, when the town had restrictions in place, to 2017, when no restrictions were in place.

According to the study, total noise complaints more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, going from 24,309 to 49,669. Complaints caused by helicopters went up by 15,955 from 2016 to 2017, an increase of 121 percent, the second-largest percentage increase of the three types of aircraft listed. Seaplanes showed the highest increase, 124 percent, though the actual increase for the much more lightly used

aircraft was 3,245. Land aircraft noise complaints went up 5,769, up 82 percent.

While the bulk of the complaints were from East Hampton Town, from both east and west of the airport, a series of maps included with the report shows a number of complaints came in from as far north as East Marion and Orient, and as far west as Aquebogue, with a heavy pocket of complaints coming in from Jamesport. Some complaints were received from as far west as Northville and Reeve’s Park in Riverhead.

Helicopter complaints, according to another map, are specifically clustered around the various approach routes used to get to the airport. The least amount of complaints received from helicopters flying mostly from the city was along a route named Sierra. Helicopters using this route fly parallel to the southern shore, over the water, according to the map, before heading north to the airport.

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The Sikorsky S76, which the report terms “a noisy helicopter,” sparked the most complaints received of any make of aircraft. It also made the most flights, the report says.

After the town’s efforts to restrict air noise through its code were struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals, in

agreement with flight industry advocates, the town petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, unsuccessfully, to hear the case.

The town is now pursuing a Part 161 application with the Federal Aviation Administration to control aircraft noise.

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Mako Spotted Near Inlet A juvenile shark caused a stir last week

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com It was just in time for Shark Week.

A roughly four-foot-long juvenile Mako shark was unaware that its unusual appearance coincided with the Discovery Channel’s popular annual “Shark Week” programming as it swam along the shoreline near the commercial fishing dock at Shinnecock Inlet in Hampton Bays on Tuesday, August 7, before a pack of gawkers, nevertheless leaving a lasting impression.

Video footage of the unusual sighting was forwarded to Greg Metzger of the South Fork Natural History Museum’s Shark Education and Research Project, an alliance of the Long Island Shark Collaborative, for his insight on the species. In the

video, which was posted the same day

by Joshua Gold on Facebook under the heading “There be sharks in these here waters,” a group of people can be seen watching the shark as it swam along, seemingly unaware of the ruckus it was causing, outside Sundays on the Bay restaurant.

Metzger said the footage was shared with a team of biologists, who determined the shark was a young Mako, not a Blue Shark as is suggested by an onlooker in the video.

He said it was likely the shark was drawn to the area by the prospect of dining on some ample baitfish along the shoreline, since the area around the South Shore inlets are very pro-

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“It’s almost like waking up to see a deer in Southampton Village,” he said. “It’s a little unusual but not crazy.”

By evening on Sunday, August 12, the video footage had 94,000 views on Facebook and was shared 1000 times by fans. The footage also generated 164 responses.

Sharks generated a buzz this past month as two people were bitten by them off Fire Island within the span of a couple of hours.

Metzger said that according to a study of shark encounters over the past 100 years, there have only been 12 such encounters, including the most recent two. “How many people have been in the water in the last 100 years — it’s probably billions — and it’s only 12 people who have had a negative interaction. Just to put it into perspective, the number of any negative interaction is so infinitesimally small,” he said.

In other marine news last week,

the head of a whale carcass washed up on a beach in Quogue, also causing tongues to wag. During a necropsy, the partially decomposed head did show evidence that shark teeth had bitten into its flesh, according to Metzger, who saw photos of the remains. Because the full body of the whale was not available for necropsy, it’s unclear how the whale died, though it is unlikely the sharks killed it, since they are known more as opportunistic scavengers.

“They definitely would take advantage of it, if they came upon it in the water,” he said, adding that the bite marks could have been attributed to either a Great White, Blue Shark, or Tiger Shark in open water.

Metzger urged anyone who might want to report a shark sighting to call the research program at the museum at 631-537-9735. Anyone seeking to identify the species of shark that they have captured photographs or video, can email the footage or image along to sharks@sofo.org.

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Sparks Fly Over Oceanside Bar Bar at motel never received a building permit, Town Attorney’s office says

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

August 8 proved to be a stormy session before the East Hampton Town Planning Board for the owners of the Oceanside Beach Resort, also known as the Hero Beach Club. In particular, the presence of a bar that, the board was told, never received a building permit or a certificate of occupancy when it was installed was a major friction point during the back and forth

between board members, the board’s attorney, the planning department, the attorney for the applicant, as well as one of the owners.

The motel is located on Montauk Highway and South Eton Street, opposite Second House. It was built before the introduction of the town’s zoning code. It has long been known by its nickname, the “Smiley Face” motel, for

the yellow smiling face painted on its eastern exterior wall. It was purchased in 2016 for $9.6 million by an ownership group headed up by Jon Krasner, and the group has poured millions more into the property’s redevelopment.

The town’s planning department has warned the planning board that, under the liquor license the new owners have, which allows up to 499 people to be present and potentially drinking at one time, and the presence of a great lawn area behind the motel where a mass gathering could occur, that any site plan approval should spell out exactly where on the property liquor and food can be served. “You need to say where, exactly, this is going to be,” planning director Marguerite Wolffsohn told the board at a previous meeting.

Tiffany Scarlato, attorney for Hero Beach, addressed that concern. “We don’t have any objection to limiting outdoor dining to the deck area,” she

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said, which is on the Montauk Highway side of the property, and apparently includes the area around the pool. “The lawn is a family gathering place,” she continued.

“Can you address the issue of the bar?” asked Job Potter, the board’s chairman.

“It is an indoor bar,” Scarlato responded. “That was not there at the time of the application,” Potter replied.

“It is not in the photographs. It is not in the site plan.”

“It’s not really a bar,” Scarlato continued “It is more where everybody is checking in. It is not intended to be a bar area.”

“Did you look at the website? It sure looks like a bar. It has happy hour.

All kinds of stuff that sounds like a bar,” responded Wolffsohn.

“It’s a bar in the sense that it has discreet stools and a counter,” Potter answered. “The question is, it’s not in the site plan. I don’t know how we deal with this.”

Krasner then spoke. “I’ve been running this hotel for two years now.

We have not had gatherings. It has been very quiet. It has been quiet at night. We are a high-end resort. We love it there.

Children are there,” he said. He went on, “We want to continue in that direction. All these narratives that are given by all these people who actually don’t know us and the property are completely false,” and he added that he had sat through meetings hearing that the hotel was throwing parties when that was not the case. “We raised money for Wounded Warriors this weekend,” he said.

John Jilnicki, the board’s attorney, then stepped in. “The questions relate to your own website.” The board had been presented screenshots from the website. “You have a happy hour.”

“It’s a happy hour,” Krasner answered. “Every bar in Montauk has a happy hour. We are happy to do away Continued On Page 11.

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Replace Meat Dear Editor,

With scorching heat and raging wildfires in the West and torrential downpours and massive flooding in the East, global warming is not just about a gentle sea rise any more. These tragic consequences of dumping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere call for drastic remedies.

For starters, we should re-join the Paris Climate Accord and actually become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One of the most effective ways is by changing our diet.

Yes, that. Last fall, Oxford University’s prestigious Food Climate Research Network concluded that solving the global warming catastrophe requires a massive shift to a plant-based diet. A 2010 United Nations report blamed animal agriculture for 19 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, 70 percent of freshwater use, and 38 percent of land use.

Carbon dioxide is emitted by burning forests to create animal pastures, and by transporting animals.

The more damaging methane and nitrous oxide are released from digestive tracts of cattle and from animal waste cesspools, respectively.

In an environmentally sustainable world, we must replace meat and dairy products in our diet by vegetables, fruits, and grains, just as we replace fossil fuels by wind, solar, and other pollution-free energy sources.

Let’s start with our next supermarket visit.

Sincerely, Elijah Hannesburg

Big Thanks Hi Bridget,

Thank you for your story about the Apollo.

It was nuanced and really brought home what we do with our education and community programs.

I hope you will come and see one of our programs soon.

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Editor’s Note: Bridget LeRoy is an arts writer and web editor for The Independent.

Major Town Differences Dear Rick,

Because Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman has decided to run for Suffolk County comptroller, I believe it’s important to understand the major differences between Southampton and other East End towns.

Your article, “Dem Infighting Reveals InnerParty Dealings” (The Independent 8/8/18), also reveals the significant fact that a town may be shaped

by appointees to planning and zoning boards.

In Southampton, zoning variances proliferate to the point where traditional zoning principles have little meaning. Southampton’s zoning variances are often given vague-sounding names such as Planned Development District and are codified into law using language that is often confusing.

For example, one of the largest development projects proposed for Southampton, a luxury golf course pitched as The Hills, was originally filed as a PDD. PDDs are no longer permitted in Southampton. However, the developers have re-submitted the golf course project under a new name using a different zoning variance. The development is now being referred to as the Lewis Road Planned Residential Development and the filing has been submitted to the zoning board of appeals for review.

Alec Baldwin of East Hampton, who opposed The Hills PDD, referred to Southampton’s zoning vehicles as “Let’s make a deal zoning.”

He’s correct. And most, if not all, of these zoning vehicles are initiated at the prompting of Southampton’s supervisor and town board.

Southampton also has the unique distinction of reassessing homeowner properties every year. Unfortunately, when a Southampton supervisor considers supporting a project like The Hills/Lewis Road golf course resort, the supervisor usually fails to consider the impact of new development on annual reassessments that inevitably raise the taxes of existing homeowners. The relationship of reassessments to new development and existing homes has never been clarified by any supervisor.

Respectfully, Susan Cerwinski

Two-Faced President Dear Editor,

As a conservative independent, I agree with some of Trump’s domestic policies, but Trump is two-faced concerning foreign trade.

President Trump harassed and threatened Harley-Davidson because they are moving their foreign production overseas in response to the imposition of the Trump tariffs. He has railed against other U.S. companies who have moved facilities to foreign countries.

Trump’s trade war with China might eventually even out the trade imbalance with China, but it might lead to China establishing trade deals with other countries and the permanent loss of revenue to U.S. companies and farmers.

Trump has businesses all over the world producing his products. Trump shirts have been made in China, Bangladesh, Honduras, and Vietnam.

Some of Trump’s suits came from Indonesia. His eyeglasses are from China. Some furniture emaContinued On Page 11.

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Continued From Page 10. nates from Turkey. Trump flags and hats are made in China.

Many of the Trump hotel products manufactured overseas — including pens, shampoo, body wash, moisturizers, shower caps, laundry bags, pet products, and bath towels — are from China.

Trump’s outsourcing is inconsistent with his attacks on U.S. companies manufacturing products overseas. He is two-faced and does not practice what he preaches. I will not vote for him again.

Donald Moskowitz

A Road Map Dear Mr. Kotz,

We enjoy reading the Independent newspaper and find it superior in quality to anything else on the East End of Long Island. Our communities depend on responsible journalism if we expect democracy to survive.

Your article entitled “Protecting the Pond” (The Independent, 8/8/18) is an example of excellent journalism and you are to be commended for it.

Those of us who have spent our

lives trying to educate ourselves, our students, the community in which we live, and the nation appreciate it when we see a young person like yourself tell it like it is. Georgica Pond is a gem that needs to be protected by the citizens that live around it. And you have brought the matter to them by creating a road map to follow.

I hope that you continue to write articles about the marine environment and wish you great success in your career.

Thank you, Henry W. Moeller Ph.D., Professor emeritus in marine biology (and a home owner on Squires Pond, Hampton Bays)

Editor’s Note: Stephen J. Kotz is the editor of the news division of The Independent.

Clear and Concise Dear Peggy,

I wanted to thank you for the recent article on Riverside. You were quite clear and concise in your reporting and I, and others, are very appreciative. Thank you.

Francis Zappone, Deputy Supervisor Editor’s Note: Peggy Spellman Hoey is Deputy News Editor at The Independent. in China.

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Continued From Page 9. with the happy hour if that makes everyone happy.”

“You don’t have an approved bar,” countered Jilnicki. “That is the question. So you’re having a happy hour at a bar that has no approval.”

“We have a 100-percent legal liquor license,” Krasner retorted. “You never came in and made an application for the bar,” Jilnicki said. “You never obtained a building permit or a C of O for it. To say ‘I have a liquor license’ is not really relevant.”

“Everything we’ve done has been 100-percent legal,” Krasner shot back.

“And my lawyer can take over from there. I’m here to talk about the narrative. We are not a party hotel. We have not had parties. It has been a lovely hotel. Please come and look for yourself. That’s it.” He turned and walked away from the podium.

Scarlato took over. “I don’t have much more to say except that the application before this board is complete, and at this point, should be scheduled for a public hearing.”

A public hearing is required before the planning board can act on the site-plan application. “Except the

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bar is not in the site plan,” Jilnicki answered. “The town code has a requirement about what elements are on a site plan. And all existing conditions. “If you have a bar, that is an existing condition.”

“I will speak to the client about it.

Does this mean we are not scheduling a public hearing?” Scarlato asked.

“We need to clear up this little bar thing,” board member Nancy Keeshan answered.

Woffsohn asked the applicant to provide a new narrative. What the board currently has on file “does not seem to match what is on their own website. I think they should submit, in writing, how this matches a restaurant.

It seems to match a bar.”

Scarlato was also told by Potter and Wolffsohn that the new narrative needed to address several other things shown on the resort’s website, such as yoga classes, an exercise room, and a spa. “Clarify what is for the guests of the motel and what is also open to the public,” Wolffsohn suggested.

Potter said that the images on the website and that have popped upon social media of the resort “look really fun,” but don’t have the appearance of what’s described in the original narrative.

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'Kiki' They Love You Former NY Giant, teens dance at National Night Out

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com It was all about spreading the love.

Former New York Giants safety Jack Brewer got his groove on — dancing to Drake’s “In My Feelings” as part of the Kiki Challenge — with a group of teenagers on August 8, in a safer version of an impromptu video shoot at National Night Out in Riverside’s Ludlam Park.

The song, which tells the story of a man’s pursuit of and unrequited love from a woman, has become an internet sensation with people filming themselves and friends jumping out of their cars to dance for the challenge, which is posted at #KikiChallenge. In the National Night Out version, the teens, who included a group of police explorers, jumped out of Southampton Town’s police cars with Brewer himself behind the wheel of an armored car.

Some of the police officers even waved their hands in the air like they just didn’t care.

The former NFLer, who is the spokesperson for the National Police Athletic League, dropped by to lend his support for the event — which celebrates the relationship between the community and law enforcement. He passed around a football, shot some hoops, and chatted with the teens about their plans for the future before

suggesting the dance.

“I think it will be cool getting out of dope police cars. It’s National Night Out,” said Brewer, who was joined by about 20 teens and a handful of police officers — including one canine — in the backdrop as extras, at what was the town’s first ever National Night Out event.

Brewer had been in town over the preceding weekend for a benefit for his charity, the Jack Brewer Foundation, which was hosted by 50 Cent at Oreya at the Capri Hotel in Southampton.

The foundation helps actors and artists to come together to support impoverished women and children living in underdeveloped countries such as Haiti and Malawi. The athlete/philanthropist said he would like to work on developing more of a PAL presence in the town.

Southampton Town Police Lieutenant Susan Ralph, who serves as the department’s community liaison, said there is currently a PAL program. She said she could not comment on the possibility of a partnership with PAL and Brewer because the issue was only just raised that week.

Brewer said he believes events like National Night Out are important for children and young adults because they foster stronger relationships of respect

and provide them with good role models.

“I believe in community policing,” said Brewer, adding that support of the police is an obligation. “If you are going to ask them to protect men and women — I believe it’s the community’s obligation to support them, and then go above and beyond to make sure that those relationships within the community are strong.”

Brewer said he tries to use his celebrity to set a good example and support law enforcement “as much as I can.” Though not a product of PAL programs growing up in Texas, Brewer, who played several seasons with the Giants, was influenced by a police officer who played the drums in his church named Officer Vernon Wright. “He taught me a lot even though I did not even know I was learning,” he said.

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And some community leaders like Thelma Brown-Syks are trying to pick up that same thread and foster the benefits of a relationship with law enforcement in the neighborhood, which for years has been considered the forgotten child of Southampton Town.

Brown-Syks, a 54-year resident of Riverside who works for Southampton Youth Bureau as a youth counselor running a teen night every Wednesday at the park, said the program helps keep young people out of trouble. She works weekly with security and a police officer on Teen Night to keep roughly 30 teenagers in check while they listen to a deejay, skip rope, and shoot some hoops. “We just try to keep it safe; we keep the gate locked. No parents are allowed to come in — when it is teen night, it is teen night,” she said.

The community of Riverside has had its struggles with the criminal element over the years. Just steps away from the park, which is also down the road from the community’s elementary school, a 15-year-old was shot in May. But Brown-Syks believes the community is on the rise now that more attention by law enforcement is being devoted to it.

Brown-Syks said that about three years ago, middle school aged children started showing up to the program wearing gang colors, so they are now not allowed inside. Backpacks, which can conceal a number of things, are also not allowed. Neither is chalk after police officers found gang graffiti at the park, she said.

The important thing to BrownSyks is to not turn kids away because they might lose that positive connection with law enforcement.

The New York State Police now sends troopers from the gang unit to the event to hear teens’ concerns, which makes her feel better.

“I was saying this for years, there’s gangs and it was like, ‘Oh no, there’s no gangs.’ Now we see a [law enforcement] presence here. The kids have no concerns and that is a good thing. I try to keep the lines of communication open,” she said.

Keeping those lines of communication open is something that Southampton Town Police Chief Steven Skrynecki is big on. He credited the community for identifying a house on Brown Street where drugs were being sold and investigators from the East End Drug Task Force have since been able to shut it down, he said. “It’s not Continued On Page 14.

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Continued From Page 13. going to open again,” he said. “We worked together we shut that down and we are going to keep an eye out for things like that again, and we are working together to make sure that does not

happen again. It’s about the community and the police coming together to keep the community the way they want it. “ Brewer said that fast forwarding from his first and positive influence with law enforcement in Officer Wright to today, he believes respect for law enforcement has been lost in communi-

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“I’ll be the first to tell you. I have been pulled over for no reason before.

I’ve been racially profiled. I have gone through all of those things, but what I have always found is that when I have good energy and I have positive energy and I show respect to law enforcement

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From Eyesore To Waterfront Jewel Demolition is the first step in the creation of Steinbeck Park

By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com It doesn’t look like much just yet, but a 1.25-acre waterfront parcel in Sag Harbor Village will soon be home to the John Steinbeck Waterfront Park.

On August 13, demolition crews converged on the parcel to begin tearing down the old Remkus fishing station and the Sag Harbor Professional Building, which have long stood vacant.

Sag Harbor Mayor Sandra Schroeder said this week the demolition was being underwritten by developer Jay Bialsky, who agreed to sell the property to Southampton Town in May for $10.5 million. The town will pay for the property through the Community Preservation Fund, with the closing to take place after the land is cleared and an environmental assessment completed, the mayor said.

The village has plans to transform the lot, which lies in the shadow of the Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge, into a park with an amphitheater, path, and other amenities.

Schroeder would not give a timetable for when work is projected to begin.

For starters, though, she said the area would be planted with grass to prevent erosion while a village committee works on plans for the park.

The parcel had long been eyed for waterfront condominiums, with Bialksy buying the property from Greystone Development, which had proposed a 13-unit development on the site and the neighboring 1-800-LAWYER property formerly owned by attorney Bruce Davis. Bialsky retains the right to develop that parcel.

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A Toast To Life Congregants discuss fight against opioid addiction

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@Indyeastend.com Rabbi Berel Lerman looked out on the audience of his congregants inside the Center for Jewish Life Chabad in Sag Harbor on a recent evening and recited a verse from the Talmud laying out a traditional belief that to save another person’s life is to save the world.

It was a fitting verse for the setting. The group had gathered to discuss the opioid addiction crisis in Southampton Town with its police Chief Steven Skrynecki, each person seeking more information about how they can help someone in need of assistance.

Rabbi Lerman said he organized the event in response to news of the epidemic and believes drug addiction often comes from something lacking in a person’s spiritual life.

“For someone who is a member of the clergy, and we have a congregation with many spiritual programs, it ties

in very well into the broader addiction epidemic that goes on locally, at the state [level], and nationally,” said Lerman after the forum’s end.

“So, these are topics that we are very much interested in to talk about, and really the bottom line is, the Talmud states that if you save one life, you save the entire world. If our event with the chief over here brought awareness to one additional person, who in turn is able to influence someone who is going though a difficult situation in their life or is ready to fall off the edge because of their activities and practices, perhaps we saved a life tonight. By the way of that, we saved the whole world with the potential of that life,” he added.

The crisis has also hit close to home. As a spiritual leader, Lerman has counseled people who have been affected by drug addiction. “It’s an epi-

Southampton Town Police Chief Steven Skrynecki was welcomed by Rabbi Berel Lerman during a forum about opioid addiction at the Center for Jewish Life Chabad in Sag Harbor recently. Independent/Peggy Spellman Hoey

demic,” he said.

Chief Skrynecki instructed the group on drug laws, such as the Good Samaritan law, which allows a person to call police without fear of prosecution when someone overdoses, and

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Straight From Cyprus A Hamptons landscaper testifies at Manafort trial

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

They weren’t checks from Capital One, but you can pay your tab at Nick & Toni’s with money wired from Cyprus, too.

A local landscaper found himself in the middle of a tale of international intrigue —and testifying in the most watched trial in America. Not to mention cashing hundreds of thousands of dollars of foreign wire transfers.

Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, is in deep legal trouble. His trial on 18 charges of bank and tax fraud is ending in Alexandria, VA, and even if he beats the rap, he is by no means free and clear. “The longtime GOP operative still faces a second federal trial slated to be-

gin in mid-September in Washington,” reports Politico. In that case, Manafort is accused of failing to register as a foreign agent — he reportedly lobbied for the government of Ukraine, and was paid handsomely for the chore.

How handsomely? Court records reveal Manafort pulled in more than $60 million from his Ukrainian clients. The New York Times reported he fronted 15 or more shell companies to shield the loot. “Mr. Manafort used his tax-free dollars, prosecutors have said, to support a lifestyle of staggering extravagance. In 2012 alone, he bought three homes,” according to The New York Times.

The fall from grace has been swift

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and stunning. He was behind on the mortgage of his Brooklyn townhouse and even had trouble paying for his front row box at Yankees Stadium. And lest anyone believe a hot dog and beer comes cheaply in the hallowed halls that Ruth built, be advised Manafort had to charge his American Express card a whopping $210,000 to settle the score with the Bronx Bombers.

But Manafort always paid his Hamptons landscaper on time, even if the money did show up via wire from Cyprus.

Michael Regolizio, the owner of New Leaf Landscaping and Maintenance, was undoubtedly surprised when he was called to testify at Manafort’s trial.

It turns out that Manafort’s pad, down a private road at 174 Jobs Lane in Bridgehampton, is well coiffed indeed.

Regolizio landscaped a giant flowerbed shaped like an “M” in the front yard.

Regolizio told the court he installed trees, hundreds of flowers, and was responsible for the overall landscaping care of the property.

Regolizio was paid more than $400,000 between 2010 and 2014. The court was shown there were a number of Cyprus wire transfers that were applied to Manafort’s New Leaf Landscaping account.

Other testimony revealed the property is wired with a $2.2 million audio-video system, complete with Apple TVs and a $10,000 karaoke machine. Regolizio reported there is a manmade pond on the property which one British tabloid apparently mistook for a moat, according to published reports. Regolizio did not return phone calls by press time.

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Board Backs Off Trail Easement Deal Critic says board is ‘giving away’ valuable land

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com Three-quarters of an acre down the block from Albert’s Landing in Amagansett is worth a pretty penny on the open market. But even if it is not a buildable lot, there is no justification for East Hampton Town to give it away.

That’s what critics charged at a heated town board meeting on August 2, when the board held a public hearing on what appeared to be an innocuous matter: the “Abandonment of Part of Cross Highway.” The board, after approving the measure, would then accept “Scenic, Conservation & Trail Easements” from the party that was acquiring the property gratis, identified only as Galaxy Group Investments LLC.

The proposed transaction caught the eye of David Buda, a Springs board watcher who frequently complains that recent town boards often do favors for connected individuals, often Democratic Party loyalists. It doesn’t hurt there is a very public rift in the local Democratic Party membership and one faction is led by longtime party boss Chris Kelley from the law firm Twomey, Latham, Shea, and Kelley.

In last week’s Independent, there was a story about the party infighting, as well as a letter from Rona Klopman, who is vying for control of the Democratic Party Committee. She accused the Democratic controlled town board of trying “to give away — for nothing — an unimproved town road to an adjacent property owner who wants a bigger lot.” She further said the value of the parcel in question would “increase the value of the lot significantly.”

Kelley opposes Klopman’s ascension to party leader. Perhaps not coincidentally, Steve Latham, the Latham on the Twomey, Latham masthead, represented the beneficiary of the largess — the owner of the adjacent parcel.

On paper, the deal looked routine. The land slated to be turned over to Galaxy was about 50 feet wide and runs from Cross Highway to Abraham’s Landing Road. The easement, almost 30,000 square feet, would ensure it remain part of Paumanok Path in perpetuity. The Paumanok Path is a trail

that goes from Rocky Point to Montauk Point State Park.

No one on the town board publicly asked who controlled Galaxy or questioned whether there were other motives behind the deal. There was no inkling a connected individual and a major donor to the party was the real beneficiary — until Buda took the podium.

Wealthy Landowner Buda told the board, “A wealthy landowner wants to move a house” onto his lot, 85 Oceanview Lane, which is adjacent to the parcel under discussion. Buda charged the town, by giving him the land, would facilitate the house move by easing clearing restrictions and setbacks on the newly-created property.

More important, Buda also unearthed a 1914 “Highway Record Book of the Town of East Hampton” that shows the so-called trail as a bonafide town road, which means the town board would would not have the authority to give it away in its present state.

Latham took the podium in an attempt to refute Buda. “I met with the Trails Preservation Society. We did an exhaustive search. We’ve gone through a great deal of trouble to protect the public,” he told the board.

Buda hammered away, lambasting the resolution itself, which stated Galaxy was “giving the town” an easement. In reality, he said, the town was handing over nearly three-quarters of an acre of land in a multi-million-dollar neighborhood for no remuneration.

Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, who also served on the planning board, said the stretch of “trail” has never been a public road. “I don’t see the downside of turning it over to Galaxy,” he said. “This preserves the public’s right in perpetuity where the Paumanok Path exists. I think that alone is reason enough to do this.”

But Jeff Bragman, the board’s newest member and an attorney, thought the 1914 highway department book “should be addressed.”

Town Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, like Van Scoyoc, a former planning board member, pointed out the lot wouldn’t be able to be subdivided even if the town gave Galaxy the additional land. “It’s giving a benefit to a private property owner,” said Bragman, digging in his heels.

Latham, a bit flustered, took to the podium yet again. “I’m asking the board to close this.” The board declined, deciding to leave the hearing record open until at least August 16.

Who Controls Properties?

In a letter written to the town board, Buda maintained Michael Novogratz, “a billionaire with local ties, appears to control Galaxy.”

Novogratz, “apparently owns or controls numerous other properties in Amagansett on Ocean View Lane and Town Lane. Limited liability companies controlled by Novogratz have appeared before the planning board when members of the current town board may have then been members of the planning board,” Buda wrote, a zinger with clear implications: one or more of the current town board members might have a possible conflict of interest.

“I don’t know Mike Novogratz,” Van Scoyoc countered this week. The supervisor said he has no idea if any of Novogratz’s companies did business with the planning board when he was a member. “LLCs are usually designed to shield owners and controlling interests. Without knowing the names of the LLCs, the property addresses, and what the applications would have been, I can’t confirm David’s comments.”

Overby, however, said after the meeting that it was possible there indeed is a conflict of interest, at least in her case. “I would ask our town attor-

Toast To Life

Continued From Page 16. doses in touch with rehabilitation and counseling services.

He described the new initiatives as significant changes since the beginning of his career, when drug addicts were thought of as criminals.

“We have changed our view of the addict from a criminal to a person with a medical condition that they may or may not want. We are looking at the addict less as a criminal, and more as somebody with a mental issue or a physical issue. That doesn’t mean that we have shifted our view of the seller,” the police chief noted.

Water Mill resident Emil Braun had a friend, an affluent physician, who became addicted to opiates and ended up losing his wife and his fam-

ney for advice on the issue of recusing myself. During my tenure on the planning board, there were several horse farms on Town Lane that came before the board, as well as several applications in the Devon area, but I do not recall the names of the applicants or the LLCs that were involved.”

Overby made the motion to hold the record open two weeks. ”I felt the town should investigate more thoroughly the deed to the property. Mr. Buda has brought up some very serious and interesting information that needs to be addressed.”

Buda said in a letter to the town board that, “It is an open secret that 58 Cross Highway East was purchased with the intent to relocate the former residence of architect Francis Fleetwood from its existing location at 85 Ocean View Lane, Amagansett. That property was purchased in July 2016 from the Estate of Fleetwood by another entity under common control: Novofam, LLC, which appears to be controlled by Novogratz,” he wrote.

One possible reason for the town’s largesse, critics charge: according to Forbes, Novogratz is a Democratic contributor, who, along with his wife, donated more than $100,000 to the party from 2005 to 2010.

“An unmistakable odor is starting to waft from the Van Scoyoc Town Board. Four members, Peter Van Scoyoc, Sylvia Overby, Kathee BurkeGonzalez, 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 . . . That odor you smell?

It’s the smell of money, and something very rotten,” Klopman wrote.

Latham did not return emails by press time. ily, and eventually his life when he overdosed. “It was just terrible,” he said. Braun said he believed that opioid drug addiction hits more affluent families than the crack epidemic did.

“It’s bad out there,” he said.

Lerman said he would consider having a representative from the police department come back to the Chabad to teach a class to congregants about the administration of naloxone.

To Skrynecki, the forum achieved its goal. “You are in the ‘awareness and the education mode’ right here, right now,” he said.

At the end of the evening, Lerman requested Skrynecki join him in a toast, both raising a bottle of water — as the chief was still on duty — in recognition of the event, the rabbi leading Skrynecki in the traditional Jewish verse celebrating life. “L’chaim” they said. “To life.”

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The Francis Fleetwood house on Oceanview Lane. Independent/Corcoran group

A Windfall — For One Property Owner?

Town Board was set to approve questionable deal

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com An accompanying article in this issue examines whether political connections play a role in sweetheart deals involving East Hampton Town — especially if those connections are with the local Democratic Party hierarchy, which traditionally controls the planning, zoning, and town boards.

Back in 2016, controversy swirled over a proposal to allow a homeowner to subdivide a Georgica Association property that would have netted the owner a small fortune.

The 5.6-acre “Floken” property at 17 Georgica Association Road contains a main house, two small “cottages,” and a boathouse. The parcel sits on Georgica Pond, where developed properties routinely list and sell for in excess of $10 million.

The owners of the parcel (Ken Joseph, “Floken” and later, Florence and Ken Joseph, are all listed on documents at one time or another) had been trying to get permission to split the lot for some time — eight years.

It required myriad legal maneuvers through the planning, zoning, and town boards. The noted attorney Christopher Kelley of Twomey, Latham, Shea, and Kelley by all ac-

counts expertly guided the applicants through the process.

In 2015, the Josephs actually got an approval from the zoning board of appeals to subdivide, but neighbors banded together and sued.

Had the decision stood, the applicants would have been a step closer to their goal: a vacant lot totaling 1.6 acres (lot one) and 3.9 acres for lot two — which contained all the structures on it.

In 2016, the East Hampton Town Board was all set to amend its Open Space Preservation Law which would have allowed the subdivision to proceed. Town officials repeatedly expressed a willingness to accommodate the property owner and renewed the process to make it happen with vigor. However, the tenacious neighbors brought in legal muscle of their own.

Linda Margolin, a partner in Bracken, Margolin, Besunder LLP and a land use specialist representing the neighbors, noted at a public hearing that only two of the four buildings had legal Certificates of Occupancy, the main house and the boat house.

Two other structures on the property,

each about 600 square feet, did not, Margolin maintained.

That was key to the Josephs’ argument that they were going to reduce density on the parcel and improve the health of Georgica Pond by building only a single dwelling on the property — in exchange for permission to carve another lot out of it.

Make It Happen According to published reports, Kelley maintained granting a needed waiver would be of “a great value to the town” because of the proposed removal of the structures.

Town Attorney John Jilnicki championed the project, telling board members the lot “had multiple dwellings” and that the “applicant wanted to reduce density.” He urged the board members to “adjust the open space requirements” because “it renders the property more compliant by reducing density.” Marguerite Wolffsohn, the head of the planning department, said the environmental state of the fragile Georgica Pond would benefit from the reduced density and septic upgrades.

Apparently, no one mentioned the mega-mansion that would be erected.

Margolin carefully dissected and refuted each claim. She accused

the board of withholding documents and of “acting in secret” by withholding pertinent information her firm had requested under the Freedom of Information Law.

Kevin McGowin, an attorney for Esseks, Hefter, Angel, Ditalia & Pasca, who also represented the neighbors, argued there was no benefit of any kind to the town or his clients. For ex-

ample, the combined square footage of the buildings to be razed was about 3400 square feet; the applicants wanted to build an 8900-square-foot residence instead. “The notion that Floken is somehow making a sacrifice and that the town is gaining a tangible benefit by exchanging a modest boathouse and two diminutive structures . . . is simply untrue,” he argued.

Margolin also addressed the elephant in the room: that all these years numerous town officials involved in the process knew they were jumping through hoops to accommodate the Josephs, which she said would constitute illegal spot zoning. The reason: the political might of Kelley and his firm.

Politics had nothing to do with it, according to Kelley. Good lawyering did. He reportedly said after gaining ZBA approval that it was no secret that his applicants bargained with the ZBA to receive their variances “but that it was to everyone’s benefit. That is not disallowed by the law,” Kelley said at the time. “We don’t try to hide that. It’s true — that’s exactly what we did. We can get a benefit for the client, but the town is also getting their benefit.”

Town board members cooled to the idea of amending the town’s Open Space law to allow the subdivision to proceed. Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell described the proposed law change that would have allowed the lot to be subdivided as a “clunker” and the other town board members agreed it was “a non-starter.”

Shortly after the decision, two adjacent parcels down the block totaling 2.9 acres at 29 Association Road with two teardowns on them were on the market for $24 million.

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Small Ticks, Big Problems The APC hosts a public forum on tickborne diseases

Independent/Courtesy East Hampton Town Hall

Sculpture At Town Hall

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

The Accabonac Protection Committee will host a public forum on the dangers and misconceptions of ticks. The event will take place at 5:30 PM in Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Monday, August 20.

Cornell University’s Dr. Tamson Yeh will discuss the science and biology of common tick species. Dr. Anne Marie Wellins, who serves on the advisory panel of the Regional Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, will talk about the medical science of tick-borne diseases.

The presentations will conclude with Peconic Baykeeper Sean O’Neal, an expert on pesticides. He will give his insight on eco-friendly and chemical tick

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by Zachary Cohen of the Suffolk County Tick Control Advisory Committee.

Following the presentations, there will be a 30-minute Q&A session with the audience, which will be moderated

by Edwina von Gal and Dr. Christine Ganitsch. In addition, infection prevention specialist Rebecca Young, RN, BSN, will be available to answer any questions at a Tick Info Table at the forum. Young is also a member of the hospital’s resource center.

Admission to the forum is free.

For information, email accabonacprotection@gmail.com or call the group’s president, Francesca Rheannon at 631268-9131.

Laura Cutler from the East Hampton Arts Council donated the Bill King sculpture, Nureyev & Fontaine, last year and it now rests on the grounds of the East Hampton Town Hall.

The late King won numerous awards for his artistic creations and he had lived in East Hampton for more than 40 years, and was an active community member.

The East Hampton Arts Council and the Town of East Hampton stated they are grateful for Cutler’s generosity and are pleased that the sculpture will be enjoyed by the community that King was so involved in. For more information, contact Councilwoman Sylvia Overby at 631-324-2620.

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East Hampton Town buildings have been retrofitted with energy saving light and heating systems, all of which were covered under the South Fork Peak Savers incentive program. With this program’s assistance, all of these new building upgrades will not result in added costs to the town or its residents, and will likely cut down on the buildings’ energy costs.

Currently, more than 400 light fixtures and bulbs have been replaced in the town’s office spaces on 300 Pantigo Place and in the EMS technical services building. These lighting upgrades are expected to save roughly 40,000 kWh each year and thousands of dollars in utility costs.

East Hampton homes and businesses are also eligible for similar offers under this program. This can range from improved air conditioning and heating systems. The program even offers up to $950 in rebates for energy efficient pools. To sign-up, sign onto EnergizeEH.org.

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Eastport Fire Department. Independent/Peggy Spellman Hoey

Land Purchase Pondered Suffolk County, Brookhaven fire department could partner

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

Officials are considering the purchase

cause it could cause congestion affect-

of a parcel of land located across Union

ing how the department’s trucks would

Avenue from the Eastport Fire Depart-

get in and out of the firehouse.

ment. The department has concerns

over the property being developed be-

commissioners requested the Town

In a recent letter, the board of fire

of Brookhaven, where the parcel is located, purchase the property to save it from development. Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine said he is looking for a partnership with Suffolk County for the purchase, though the fire district, which maintains the property by cutting its grass, could also chip in.

The undeveloped parcel is often used by the fire department for overflow parking during events such as its annual chicken barbecue in August.

Eastport Fire Commissioner Tom Collins said the department wants the parcel preserved and does not want to see it commercialized.

Collins said the department owns a piece of land, which is across the street from its headquarters adjacent to King Kullen, that it would be willing to trade off to a developer to use for park-

ing. However, the district wants to see the lot across the street from the firehouse preserved to reduce traffic congestion. “I think that is the biggest concern of the fire department,” he said.

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming said she is working with Romaine’s office and said a three-way partnership would be a good thing..

“I want to support the fire department in any way that I can,” she said, noting the potential purchase is only in the exploratory phase. “We are trying to meet the fire department’s needs based on vacant land availability.”

Romaine, a former legislator, said the purchase would have to first go through the legislature and be rated to determine if the land can be acquired.

If it is rated high enough, the next step would be for it to be appraised. Once that is done, officials would have to determine if it could be purchased. He said it would be nice to have the parcel preserved because many residents see it as an unofficial village green.

“I think it’s important and I am behind this 100 percent. I hope we are capable of doing this,” he said.

Brookhaven Town records show that the parcel, which is just shy of two acres, is owned by Eastport Commons LLC of Hauppauge, according to Kevin Molly, a spokesman from Romaine’s office. A real estate sign located on the property at the corner of Union Turnpike and Montauk Highway lists Alexander Tsunis as a contact for the property.

The advertisement states that the property is roughly four acres and is zoned J-6, which means that its development could make way for a mixeduse structures, including businesses.

Romaine said the property received approval for the construction of a bank and a pharmacy prior to his becoming supervisor.

Tsunis was not immediately available for comment. Collins said it is possible that the district could come up with some money for the joint purchase of the parcel.

“That would have to be hashed out with the attorneys,” he said.

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The Fisherman’s Fair Photos by Justin Meinken Even a downpour couldn’t keep people away from this year’s Fisherman’s Fair.

The fair was held at Ashawagh Hall in Springs as it is every year, with vendors huddled under their tents to fend off the rain until the weather cleared during the last few hours. The vendors sold everything from handcrafted art and decorative pieces to food.

The Springs Improvement Society hosted the fair as well as an art gallery inside Ashawagh Hall. The gallery boasted works from more than 100 exceptionally talented artists from all across Long Island.

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Editorial JUST ASKING A Deeper Look

By Karen Fredericks

What movies have you seen recently?

This week, with the publication of Kevin Gray’s in-depth look at Deepwater Wind’s proposed South Fork Wind Farm, The Independent launches a new initiative: the publication of magazine-style features focusing on the major issues affecting the East End. Under the direction of editorial consultant Will Bourne, we will on occasion commission freelance writers to tackle pieces that allow us to step back and present a more global view of important topics than what would normally appear on the pages of this newspaper.

Since it was approved by the Long Island Power Authority in early 2017, Deepwater’s plan to build 12 to 15 wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean about 30 miles southwest of Montauk has been praised as a green-energy bonanza that will provide enough electricity to power 50,000 homes and enable East Hampton Town to meet its goal of providing all the energy used in town through sustainable means.

But critics, including fishermen and environmentalists, have raised serious concerns about both the financial and environmental impacts of the project, arguing that the project represents the beginning of the industrialization of much of the Atlantic coast and the energy Deepwater produces will cost ratepayers more than it should.

We also delve into the allure of sustainable energy for deep-pocketed investors like D.E. Shaw, the investment company that owns Deepwater, as well as the political entanglements that have resulted in alliances between environmentalists, investors, political donors, and the office of Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Alana Baptiste I just saw Jurassic World. It was really very good. I almost cried at the part where this very frightened little girl is hiding in the corner from a dinosaur.

Nancy Flynn I just saw a documentary called Three Identical Strangers. It was about three boys who are identical triplets. They were separated at birth and adopted by three different families. Many years later they have a reunion. It was very good. Very complex.

Sonia Lewenberg I’ve seen almost every film in the Southampton Jewish Film Festival. Some are educational, some are historical, and some of them are very sad. But others are very uplifting. I’m looking forward to the very last film. It’s about antiSemitism and the Jews in Europe and Sweden and I’m from Sweden, so I’m particularly interested.

Emily McClure I just saw Incredibles 2. It was fun to go and connect it in my mind to going to see the first Incredibles movie. That must have been almost seven years ago! And this movie was still a lot of fun.

Deepwater is still awaiting final approval from East Hampton Town officials to learn whether it will be given permission to bring its cable ashore on Beach Lane in Wainscott. The project must still be reviewed by the state’s Public Service Commission before work can begin on the multi-million-dollar wind farm. In the meantime, after reading our piece, we hope our readers will be better equipped to understand the ramifications of this major infrastructure project off our shores.

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Southampton Oldies Spectacular Photos by Justin Meinken/Courtesy Ron Esposito The Southampton Oldies Spectacular jumped onto stage at the Southampton High School on Saturday, August 11.

Hosted by WLNG and The Southampton Lions Club, the evening was filled with the music that would shape several generations.

The Quotations began the night with their classic hit, “Imagination.”

They were followed by the always entertaining Joey Dee, who performed “Peppermint Twist” and is just as spry at 78 as he was decades ago. Then, Lou Christie performed his famous “Lightnin’ Strikes” in the same key as he sang it back in 1965. The Capris earned a standing ovation for their incredible performance of “There’s A Moon Out Tonight” and The Duprees closed out the night with “You Belong To Me” and “My Own True Love.”

Judge Reprimands Head Of East Hampton GOP ‘You can’t get any new traffic infractions,’ Tekulsky warns Goodman

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com “You’re lucky you’re not going to jail,” East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky told Amos Goodman on August 9. Goodman, 35, of

Springs, the head of East Hampton’s Republican Party, was in court as part of the adjudication process stemming from his arrest in March

on an aggravated unlicensed driving charge.

Police pressed that misdemeanor count after Goodman was pulled over for allegedly speeding on Springy Banks Road in a 2004 Honda. Goodman’s license at the time, police said, was suspended twice for failure to pay fines. Beyond the suspensions, the Department of Motor Vehicles had also revoked his license for having been convicted of three speeding violations or misdemeanor crimes in an 18-month period.

Goodman’s attorney, Edward Burke Jr., was presenting the court evidence that Goodman had cleared up his issues with the DMV as he tries to work out a deal acceptable to Justice Tekul-

sky and the district attorney’s office.

Justice Tekulsky routinely warns defendants before him on unlicensed driving charges that if they are arrested and convicted before him of that same charge again, he will sentence them to jail time.

After accepting the document from Burke, Justice Tekulsky referred to Goodman’s “rather horrendous history of getting tickets and ignoring them,” as well as for driving without a license, as he set yet one more court date for Goodman, this one in October.

“Let me just impress upon you, you can’t get any new traffic infractions,” the judge warned Goodman from the bench.

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This 44-foot-long boat sank after striking a rock west of western Lake Montauk jetty. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

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A 44-foot-long Meridian yacht sank just west of the western jetty in Montauk on Thursday, August 9. The boat was coming from the Patchogue area, Executive Petty Officer Ryan O’Hare of the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday, when the driver misjudged the entrance to Lake Montauk, then tried to maneuver back to the mouth to the lake between the eastern and western jetties. He struck a rock about 100 yards from shore.

The boat began taking on water, and Coast Guard officers, who had heard

the collision from their station on Star Island, drove over to the jetty, while an East Hampton Marine patrol boat, which is smaller than Coast Guard rescue craft and therefore able to get closer to the distressed craft, approached the vessel.

Marine patrol and Coast Guard officers boarded the boat and rescued the man and his wife, whom the Petty Officer did not identify.

The boat was removed from the jetty over the weekend, at the owner’s expense.

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Man With Three Names Now In Federal Custody He faces up to 20 years in federal prison as violent felon

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

The man known by East Hampton Town police as Jose Torres, and by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as William Wilfredo Janders-Rodriguez, apparently has a third name. “My name is Casada,” he told a reporter as he was being led away from the East Hampton Town Justice Court on August 8. At that moment, he was in the custody of the Suffolk County Sheriff ’s Department. That was about to change.

In court, the case of the People of the State of New York v Jose Torres had been, essentially, dropped, as East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky agreed to adjourn the case for one year “in contemplation of dismissal.” Torres had been originally charged with criminal mischief for allegedly smashing up the dashboard of an acquaintance’s car. That charge was brought as a felony. He was initially arraigned in East Hampton on that charge on July 6.

However, there was an arrest warrant for the man known to the Feds as Janders-Rodriguez. He had been indicted by a Federal grand jury on a charge of being a violent felon who had illegally re-entered the country after being deported as such. It was the second time he has faced that charge.

He had served six years in New York State prison for armed robbery in which the victim was injured, after which, in 2002, he was deported back to his native El Salvador. He then re-entered the country illegally, was caught, and, in 2011, pleaded guilty to the violent felony charge, and was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison, after which he was again deported.

At some point after that, he returned illegally, according to the Feds. He was indicted on that charge in March, and faces up to 20 years if convicted. Before that could happen, however, the local charge needed to be dealt with. Matthew D’Amato, an attorney from the Legal Aid Society

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who represented the man known on the local docket as Jose Torres, was adamant in open court sessions in East Hampton that his client would not take a plea.

Last Wednesday, the district attorney’s office threw in the towel by agreeing to what is termed an ACOD. Such an adjournment means that if the defendant stays out of trouble with the law for a prescribed period of time, in this case one year, the charge will be dropped.

If Torres or Janders-Rodriguez gets in trouble, it will likely be while in custody, which, in his case, would not be the first time. While serving his time upstate following the armed robbery conviction, he was charged and convicted of an illegal weapon in prison charge. Twenty-four hours after receiving his ACOD, federal marshals picked him up. He is now being held in the Federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

When prisoners are brought from county jail to court, they are allowed to wear their own clothing, instead of prison garb, if they so choose. Last Wednesday, the man known locally as Torres wore a suit with a purple dress shirt underneath the jacket. As he was being led from the court, a reporter had the following exchange with him: “How are you doing?” the reporter asked.

“How are you?” he responded back, smiling. “Good,” the reporter said. “Is your name Janders-Rodriguez or Torres?” the reporter asked.

“No. My name is Casada. William Casada. William Wilfredo Honduras Casada.”

“Are you concerned with possibly having to go to federal prison?”

He responded, “Yes, I am. Thank you very much.” He was speaking in a very polite, almost friendly tone.

He was asked if he would ever return to the U.S. “Would I return?” he answered. “No, sir. Thank you.”

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Second Suspect Remains At Large

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

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A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Sunday, August 12, in the attempted robbery of two Roanoke Avenue residents, Riverhead Town police said.

Police said when they responded to the location at about 9 PM, the victims told them that two Hispanic males had demanded they empty their pockets, but they were able to run away and contact police. The suspects then fled the scene in a green-colored car, police said.

The teenager, who is from Riverhead, was located a day later after the attempted robbery and was placed under the arrest, police said.

The Independent does not identify minors charged with crimes. The teenager was charged with two counts of second-degree attempted robbery, a felony. A second suspect remains at large. Police are asking anyone with information about the crime to contact them at 631-7274500.

A homeless woman arrested three weeks ago after she was found with a man having sex in a car at Wildwood Lake State Park was arrested again on Thursday, August 9, for allegedly skipping out on a court appearance related to that case, Southampton Town police said.

Thirty-five-year-old Alison Pfefferkorn, who was charged with public lewdness and drug possession following the July 25 incident, was found at Marta’s Deli in Riverhead at about 5 PM and was placed in custody for failing to show up in Southampton Town Justice Court in Hampton Bays on Tuesday, August 7, according to police. She was transported to police headquarters for processing.

A man and woman were arrested on drug possession charges after Southampton Town police say they were found with drugs outside an abandoned building near a wooded area along Riverleigh Avenue on Thursday, August 9.

Police said that at about 2 PM Kyle Camberdella, 27, of Hampton Bays and Alisha Davis, 31, of Southold, were found outside the building that is known to be frequented by people using drugs. Davis was seen by an officer getting into the car that Camberdella was waiting inside and when officers investigated, both were found to have crack cocaine and hypodermic needles, police said. Both Camberdella and Davis were charged with two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and one count of possession of a hypodermic needle.

A 57-year-old Riverhead woman was arrested in Riverside for drunken driving on Tuesday, August 7, according to Southampton Town police.

Lisa Deluca was charged with two counts of misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. She was additionally charged with an equipment violation because the car she was driving did not have adequate lights, police said.

A 36-year-old Riverhead man was arrested for stealing an 18-pack of Budweiser beer from 7-Eleven on Friday, August 10, Southampton Town police said. Jamuela Carter was located at his home on Priscilla Avenue and was charged with petit larceny, a misdemeanor. He was held at police headquarters for processing.

Southampton Town police are investigating graffiti that was painted on the concrete dugout of Iron Point Park in Flanders on Wednesday, August 8. Vandals used black spray paint to draw male genitalia inside a rectum, as well as the rectangular shape of a flag with five stars, allegedly representing the country of Honduras, according to the police report on the incident. The graffiti also contained anti-gay sentiments in Spanish, police said.

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East Hampton Town police made four arrests recently on misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charges.

Yohanna Guarin, 36, has a Jupiter, FL address on her license, but is currently living in Springs, she told the court during her arraignment on August 9. She had been pulled over in a 2007 Toyota Camry early that morning on Route 114 in East Hampton for allegedly speeding, leading to her arrest on a DWI charge.

Guido Sicha, 19, of East Hampton, was pulled over by police the night of August 7 for reportedly running the stop sign at the intersection of Neck Path and Old Stone Highway in Springs in a 2010 Ford Mustang. Both Guarin and Sicha refused to take the breath test at headquarters, making it likely that their licenses will be revoked for the next year following a hearing at the Department of Motor Vehicles scheduled to take place over the next few days.

Sicha, who was also charged with unlawful possession by a minor of alcohol, is facing, if convicted of the DWI charge, the possibility of his driving privilege being revoked by the DMV until he turns 21. Both Guarin and Sicha were released after being arraigned without having to post bail.

Eric Mendez, 38, who is working in Montauk for the summer season, as he has for many years, was pulled over in a 1998 Toyota Corolla early August 10 for failing to signal a turn off of West Lake Drive onto North Fernwood Drive, according to the police. In addition to DWI, he also was charged with two additional misdemeanors. Police said he was in possession of a small amount of cocaine, as well as some concentrated cannabis. He posted $500 bail.

Matthew Gutauskas, 45, of Manhattan, was stopped on Montauk Highway in Wainscott after allegedly allowing the 2017 Infiniti he was driving to swerve across the double yellow lines into the oncoming lane of traffic early Saturday morning, August 11. He posted $250 bail and was released later that morning.

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Four Men And A Boat, Docked by Liar’s Saloon Trespassing charges after four board The Sea-Jack

By T. E. McMorrow and Kate Ward t.e @indyeastend.com Four young Irishmen in Montauk on work visas for the summer were arrested after an apparent night of drinking, according to the East Hampton Town police, when they allegedly climbed onto a Hatteras 45-foot convertible boat, The Sea-Jack, docked near Liar’s Saloon a little before dawn Monday morning.

David Patrick Fitzgerald, Luke Peter Clarke, Alan John Minihane, all 22, and Darragh Moloney, 23, were all charged with misdemeanor trespassing.

According to the police, they received a call a little after 4 AM reporting a “disturbance” at 408 West Lake Drive, an address shared by Liar’s, as well as by The Landing condominium complex. It is not clear from the report whether the owner of the boat was actually sleeping on board or in the condominium complex, but police were quickly on the scene. The owner of The Sea-Jack swore out a complaint, and the four were soon under arrest.

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New Eats Riverhead Central School District English as a New Language students in the Riverhead Central School District continued their learning and bolstered a variety of skills through a thematic program at Phillips Avenue School.

The annual three-week, half-day program engages K-6 students in creative lessons that reinforce concepts in math, science, vocabulary, reading, and writing.

This year, fifth and sixth-graders culminated the program by hosting an interactive gallery walk for younger students. Their presentations demonstrated different aspects of the topics they studied, including energy flow in a food chain, locating ecosystems of various animals on a world map, and concepts related to interdependence and erosion.

Nature For Kids On August 18, kids can get outside with “Mummichogs and mud crabs,” sponsored by Group for the East End. Children will use seine and dip nets as they search for crabs, fish, mollusks, shrimp, and other marine life to catch and release.

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Lazzara’s Pizza has come to Claudio’s in Greenport. Lazzara’s at Claudio’s serves the classics, including cheese, pepperoni, and margarita pizzas made from scratch each morning.

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Sculpture Symposium The first International Sculpture Symposium has been launched at four North Fork vineyards and will run through August 21. At each vineyard, artists Giancarlo Biagi, Jill Burkee, Barry Grove, Alena Matejka, Flavia Robalo, and Lars Widenaflk, have created sculptures from Italian marble.

When the symposium is over, the 24 sculptures will be auctioned off. Sessions took place at Sparkling Pointe Vineyards and Pindar Vineyards in early August. On August 15 and 17, a session will take place at Jamesport Vineyards, and at Diliberto Vineyards on August 19 to 21. Sessions run from 10 AM to 5 PM.

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CAST Elects New President The organization Community Action Southold Town, Inc. has named Marc Sokol president.

“Marc’s deep technology and business experience and personal commitment to the CAST mission” make him the ideal candidate to serve as the next CAST Board president,” said Cathy Demeroto, CAST’s executive director.

Since 1965, CAST has been serving low-income residents from Laurel to Orient Point and Fisher’s Island.

CAST helps individuals and families meet their basic needs in the areas of nutrition, clothing, energy, employment, and education. CAST’s mission is to promote self- sufficiency and provide a safety net for Southold Town residents in need.

Sokol has been on the North Fork for over 10 years and currently resides with his wife in Mattituck. He has more than 40 years of experience building, managing, and investing in technology companies. He is currently a partner with Florida Funders and he is the co-founder and CEO of technology startup Commack Solutions.

“Volunteering and being a board member has been an honor over the past five years. I am pleased to assume the role of president and work closely with Cathy and the board as we accelerate the growth of CAST to serve all of the needy families in Southold Town,” said Sokol.

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He added, “It’s a powerful experience with many positive benefits. It helps build confidence and self-esteem and helps you to face your doubts and fears, take ownership of them, and not allow them to stop you. It’s like a vitamin for your soul.”

With a full trapeze set-up on the campus of the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, Gold conducts lessons for the school’s summer camp programs. It is also open to the public for all ages, so long as they are medically cleared. The trapeze stands 32 feet in the air and is complete with safety nets, mats, and harnesses that can be adjusted to accommodate any adult or a child as young as four years old.

In 1998, Gold became a pioneer in the field of trapeze by making the sport of “flying” accessible to the general public. “There was no competition,” Gold said. “I knew what a powerful experience this is and how it doesn’t just help physical conditions, there’s a big part that is psychological. It helps build mental clarity and strength. It’s really

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Juliana Richards from Florida, the youngest member of the staff, has four years’ experience. Richards remarked about her time with Trapeze Experience by saying, “They have been the best four years of my life.”

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A Walk Down Memory Lane With Jack Capone Former Southampton Town Board member helps preserve Hampton Bays history

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hen I was 12 years old, I would drive my father’s car up and down the driveway,” said 94-yearold Jack Capone with a chuckle. Even though his “parents were very strict,” his father never scolded him for driving the car.

Capone was born in New York City in 1924. His family moved to Hampton Bays when he was two years old to be close to their first cousins, the Catenas. Capone’s father, Daniel, and mother, Mary, were originally from Italy, and came to the United States as teenagers. Records of their entrance are still present in the Ellis Island archives.

Capone’s father was a carpenter and builder by trade who started his own business in Hampton Bays.

“I used to like to go with my father to all his jobs. I was only four when I first started. I enjoyed the whole idea of building, from start to finish. First there was just an empty lot, then slowly the structure would go up, and next it was a building. The men would put a branch at the top of the rafter after it was erected, signaling that it was time to celebrate with a drink. It was a tradition and the homeowner knew what it meant. I don’t know if they still do that anymore,” said Capone.

Capone was in eighth grade in 1938 when the Great New England Hurricane hit Long Island. “It started raining really heavy and the winds began to pick up. The school sent us home. We had no idea how bad it would be,” Capone said.

Without the meteorological advancements that exist today, the Hurricane of '38 hit the Island as a category 3, leaving massive damage and destruction in its wake. Its intensity increased as it continued to Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts with recorded wind gusts of 186 miles per hour. While the Capone family did not sustain a great deal of damage to their home, some neighbors were not as lucky. “We all helped each other and re-built what was damaged,” he remembered.

Enlisting After Pearl Harbor When Capone became old enough, he worked with his father building and renovating some of the iconic buildings around the Hampton Bays area. They built the Boardy Barn, did the renovations to an old house making it into the public library, and made renovations to both St. Mary’s and St. Rosalie’s churches.

“It was challenging,” admitted Capone, “but it was the kind of work I liked to do.” When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Capone was still attending Hampton Bays High School. “Two weeks after I graduated, me and two of my friends, Gordon Jackson and George Holzman, went down to enlist. I was 18. The Army sent me to California and then

Dothan, AL, where the 35th Division was stationed,” he recalled.

“I was assigned to the 1652nd Engineer Utility Detachment as a carpenter construction foreman because of my experience working with my father. My division repaired runways on damaged airfields and buildings of importance. We were sent to France, 40 miles from the combat, and assigned to the headquarters of General Eisenhower, who was Commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force,” he added.

His brother, Anthony, two years his senior, was already serving in the Air Force. During one of his missions, his B24 was shot down by enemy fire as it flew over Poland. A radio operator, “Tony” managed to evade capture for a short period of time. A Polish family helped to hide him from the Nazi forces in the area. He was eventually captured by Nazi troops and remained a captive for several months until his release at the end of the war.

With both sons in the service, the Capone family was concerned with their safety. “I knew my parents were worried about me,” said Capone. “I wrote letters home all the time so they would know I was okay.”

Returning Home To Hampton Bays When the war ended, Capone’s detachment was sent to Vienna. “I remember the children. They had no food. We would sneak food from the mess hall or take food that was sent to us from home and give it to the children. I would also always make sure I had some candy whenever I went out. They were the ones most affected by the war. They were the victims,” Capone said sadly. “That’s a memory I will always have from the war.”

Capone returned home to Hampton Bays and went back to work with his father. A few years later, “I went with a friend up to Poughkeepsie so he could visit his girlfriend. She had a friend, Rosemarie, and she set up a date for us to meet.” In December of 1947, Capone and Rosemarie married and they had one son, John. Their marriage lasted more than 60 years, only ending when Rosemarie passed away in 2008.

Always active in the Hampton Bays community, Capone served as chief of the Hampton Bays Fire Department in the 1960s. He was also a councilman on the Southampton Town Board in the 1970s.

Like his father, John is also an active member of the Hampton Bays community. He is on the board of the Civic Association, and the assistant director of the

I enjoyed the whole idea of building, from start to finish.

Information Technology Department for the Town of Southampton.

In 2012, Capone’s son surprised his father by arranging for him to participate in the Honor Flight program, in which WWII veterans are treated to a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the memorials. John went as a chaperone with his dad, taking the chartered flight to D.C., where they were greeted by a cheering crowd and a military color guard. His father met Senator Bob Dole. The veterans were treated to both lunch and dinner before returning back to New York.

“There was such patriotism and there were so many people who came to see us off and cheer,” John said. “It was an amazing experience for both of us.

There aren’t many WWII vets left, so they’ve recently opened the program to other vets in foreign wars.”

Capone said that one of his favorite spots in Hampton Bays is down by the canal. “I used to go there and watch the boats. I’d also sit there and write notes about Hampton Bays.”

The notes Capone wrote can be viewed on the Hampton Bays Historical and Preservation Society’s website. These notes/letters chronicle the historic changes Hampton Bays has undergone over the course of several decades. Having seen the changes firsthand, Capone and his older brother both wanted to preserve Hampton Bays history. Anthony Capone made a YouTube documentary, “Hampton Bays Downtown from the Memory of Tony Capone.”

Jack Capone’s letters can be viewed using the following link: www.hamptonbayshistoricalsociety. com/jack-capone-letters. Tony Capone’s YouTube documentary video may be viewed at: youtu.be/F_ zrV_AnPg8.

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Fighting Cancer, One Stride At A Time The Ellen Hermanson Foundation to hold its annual Ellen’s Run

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

On Sunday, August 19, the streets of Southampton will become a sea of pink as The Ellen Hermanson Foundation holds its 23rd Annual Ellen’s Run 5K. The rain or shine, 3.1-mile run/walk course begins at 9 AM at Southampton Hospital’s Parrish Hall on Herrick Road and goes into town, through beautiful treelined and oceanfront roads, before looping back.

This is the leading fundraiser for the not-for-profit foundation, dedi-

cated to breast cancer research at the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Southampton Hospital, which serves the entire East End. While trophies and medals are awarded (top three female, male, and first-place breast cancer survivor), it’s a day dedicated to the community. Children will enjoy face painting and there will be snacks and refreshments as well.

Southampton resident Jodi Wasserman celebrates a decade of being cancer free. The mother of four

was diagnosed at age 51, a mere six months after losing a friend to the disease, and, as with any parent, was only concerned about her family. “I didn’t want my children worried, the end result isn’t the same for anybody,” Wasserman explained of her then 13-, 14-, 21-, and 23-year-old children. “Someone told me, ‘Don’t listen to others’ war stories. Your cancer is your cancer.’”

Wasserman took to running to help cope with her diagnosis, a chance to get lost in the music and clear her head, and has been a particpant in Ellen’s Run for 12 years.

While she started as a patient, she now runs as a survivor. “It made me feel like this is something I could do to help other women. It’s a feeling of one family, all running and walking for the same reason,” she explained.

In addition to her volunteer work with breast cancer patients, Wasserman’s inspirational attitude of “Don’t worry about tomorrow, focus on today” garnered her the honoree award at the Ellen Herman Foundation’s “An Evening of Enchantment,” held at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton on July 28. “I never in my

life felt as special as I did that night,” Wasserman humbly noted.

Through the money raised at the benefit, 10 new, state-of-the-art chemotherapy chairs were funded, along with additional funds going toward a new breast biopsy center. Fundraising aside, The Ellen Hermanson Foundation has also recently been awarded $75,000 through The Gateway Grant, thanks to Senator Ken LaValle.

This grant money will be put towards services at Ellen’s Well, the psychosocial support center helping patients and their families cope through support groups, counseling, and wellness program.

“We’re extremely proud that we keep the money that we raise here on the East End. We work with the hospital, with Ellen’s Well, to get the most mileage out of our money. For me, it’s always how many women can we serve, how many can we help? We want people to have the opportunity that [my sister] Ellen didn’t have,” co-founder and chairwoman of The Ellen Hermanson Foundation, Julie Ratner, explained.

New to the organization’s website are two compelling videos. The first is by Bobby Priel-Gelb that captures the excitement, warmth, atmosphere, and love at last year’s Ellen’s Run event.

The second is done by Julie Ratner’s daughter Remy as she documents one of the support groups at Ellen’s Well. The women featured in the video are real cancer patients, one of whom tragically lost her battle. They discuss the importance of having a place to go where they can openly and freely discuss their experiences and how, in many ways, Ellen’s Well is saving their lives.

“We’re doing exactly what we’ve always been doing. The part that’s always changing are the new people being diagnosed, and the new challenges to reach out to those people and bring them in to get the support they need. What doesn’t change is our commitment to stay in the trenches and provide these services,” Ratner concluded.

Groups of five or more are considered a team and team entries are welcome for Ellen’s Run. The top three female and male runners will be awarded a trophy, including a prize for the first-place breast cancer survivor.

Parrish Memorial Hall is located at 235 Herrick Road in Southampton.

Day-of-race registration is $45, preregistration is $35 at www.ellensrun. org or 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM on Saturday, August 18.

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Paving The Way To College UNCF hosts its 7th annual Hamptons summer benefit weekend

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The United Negro College Fund will host its seventh annual Hamptons Summer Benefit, "A Mind Is ... " with a weekend of events. Donations provide financial aid for college-bound minority students.

This year’s honorees are educator and former Historical Black College & Universities’ president, Dr. Johnetta Cole and senior advisor of Solera Capital LLC., Edward Lewis.

“As an entrepreneur, I have striven to run a business that does good work

in the community, as well as achieves a viable bottom line,” explained Lewis.

“Early on, my mother instilled in me the importance of doing the right thing by being a good man, a man of integrity, honor, discipline, and responsibility. She also felt very strongly that getting an education should be my priority, did all in her power to make that possible for me, and also later encouraged me to be supportive of community organizations that stressed education,” he added.

“UNCF was an organization she passionately believed in and financially supported, even on the limited income of a divorced woman working as a domestic. Both privately and as co-founder and publisher of Essence, I made certain that the company also supported the mission of UNCF. It is imperative that each of us ensures that every child has access to educational opportunities,” Lewis emphasized.

Since its establishment in 1944, UNCF has paved the way for students to graduate college, doubling the number of minorities attending collegiate programs, as the nation’s largest minority education organization. UNCF has received more than $4.8 billion in financial contributions.

As a result, more than 450,000 students have earned college degrees, with a 70 percent graduation rate of the recipients with a UNCF scholarship, nine percent higher than the United States average for all students at four-year colleges. In addition, UNCF provides 400 programs including mentoring, summer enrichment, and curriculum and faculty development.

“I am elated to be recognized as a 2018 UNCF honoree; not only because its mission is to help young people whose backgrounds so closely

resemble my own in the Bronx, but also, because my mother would be so proud,” Lewis concluded. Lewis is one of countless examples that the work of UNCF provides more than a chance at furthering education, it opens possibilities for a better life.

The organization’s recognizable motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” symbolizes the dedication to furthering education for those who may not otherwise get the opportunity, and the logo features a torch of leadership as the leading light guiding the way.

On Saturday, August 18, will be a VIP Reception at 5 PM followed by dinner and a program, including a silent auction, at 6:30 PM. The festivities will be held at the Silberkleit residence in East Hampton. Then, on Sunday, August 19, join the team again for brunch at Bay Kitchen Bar in East Hampton from 11 AM to 2 PM. Funds raised at this year's event will go towards scholarships for local East End students.

Both events will be attended by UNCF’s president and CEO Dr. Michael Lomax and co-chairs Jean Shafiroff and Gregory Lowe. For ticket information, email lexi.hellerman@uncf.org or call 212-820-0147. Follow UNCF @ uncfny.

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Sweet Charities

rity 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.

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

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.

Ellen’s Run

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.

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.

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Bow Wow Meow Ball

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 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.

Box Art Auction The annual Box Art Auction benefiting East End Hospice will be held on Saturday, August 25, at St. Luke’s Church Hoie Hall in East Hampton. Eighty-five artists take a small, unadorned box and create a unique work of art that is put up for auction. The silent auction will begin at 4:30 PM and the live auction at 5:45 PM. Wine and hors d’oeuvres are included in the $75 ticket price.

Leading up to the benefit the boxes can be previewed at Hoie Hall on Wednesday, August 22 and Thursday, August 23, from 10 AM to 4 PM. On Wednesday, August 22, the public is invited to a meet the artists reception.

For tickets and more, info visit www. eeh.org.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

Lotsa Space For The Space Force Locals nominate who’d they like to banish to outer space denishamill@gmail.com

“Bang, zoom, to the moon.”

If you’re looking for the few and the proud, go tell it to The Marines.

But if you wanna round up the worst bums you know, please volunteer them forthwith for Trump’s newest science fiction fantasy called the Space Force.

Don’t tell my liberal weenie snowflake pals — especially my fellow enemies of the people in the press — but I am secretly in favor of the Space Force.

Forget about ICE deporting unsavory undocumented aliens. The Space Force can transport undesirable earthlings into deepest space, a mercenary army patrolling the “open borders” of the blackest holes in the most distant galaxies of the infinite universe.

As alternative sentencing, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos and Shelly Silver, Dean Skellos & Son, and Congressman Chris Collins & Son and in-laws, and possibly Carter Page, Roger Stone, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Hope Hicks might now all choose to join the Space Force — the way French thugs were once allowed to join the Foreign Legion — to avoid incarceration.

But since all politics, bums, thieves, louts, shady pols, and oily lawyers are local, let’s start a Space Force Recruitment Center right here on the East End. I asked several people who live year-round on these golden shores to suggest a recruitment list for the Space Force.

Topping most lists, of course, is Congressman Lee Zeldin, who is more like Trump’s ottoman than a congressman. Zeldin offers zero checks and balances to an unhinged executive branch so long as he gets checks to soar his campaign balance toward the stars.

Zeldin will vote for any appropriation for the Space Force that Space Com-

mander-in-Chief Heel Spurs requests.

“Zeldin loves to go on junkets at taxpayers’ expense,” says one of his underwhelmed constituents. “So, let’s send him on a LOOOOOOOOONG one, let him find some facts, and get back to us in like 50 lightyears.”

But recommendations get even more local, as one East Ender would love to see David Betts, code enforcement guru, in a shiny Space Force uniform with a money-green light saber.

“Betts has a high-paying patronage job,” says this concerned local citizen.

“He’s the knucklehead who forwarded the money grab rental registry, a law that does nothing to deter unscrupulous landlords from packing their houses with people.”

This local would like to see Betts in the same Space Force rocket ship as Alex Gregor, Southampton Town’s highway superintendent “because he’s forever undertaking big road projects during the summer. Let him go do this in July and August on one of Jupiter’s newly discovered moons.”

Another local nominated to the Space Force “whatever knucklehead it was who designed the roundabout at the Five Corners in East Hampton Village. Now we call it 59 Corners. Send this guy into Deep Space 99.”

One Sag Harbor resident wants to sign up “the egg white omelet crowd, those house share invaders who, on a Sunday deli line, order way off menu and then want separate checks. Sign up the owners of those big cabin cruisers who race past little fishing boats, wave, and send a giant wave to swamp us. Join the Space Force and go wave at Uranus!”

The East End Space Force list is as long as the one looking to board the rocket ship in the Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man” — until a code breaker discovers that the title of the alien tome of the episode’s title is a

cookbook.

Yum. “I volunteer former East Hampton Councilwoman Deb Foster who killed the proposed cell tower at Ashawagh Hall, leaving Springs with little to no cell phone service,” says another frustrated local. “See how she likes living with no damn bars on her phone on the red dwarf planet Kepler-186!”

“I’d enlist anyone who doesn’t pull over for EMTs and ambulances into the Space Force,” says one angry Amagansett resident. “Ambulance service is a big thing here on the East End and many just don’t get it that they need to get out of the way! God forbid you have a heart attack on the Fourth of July or Labor Day weekend and you need to get to Southampton Hospital. If you don’t know or care to get out of the way of an ambulance, you should be launched into space on a one-way rocket ship.”

Another nominee was that noted navigator Charles Vaccaro, 60, of Sunny Isles Beach, FL, who sailed his 70foot C-Weed luxury yacht to Montauk Lake, where authorities say he allowed untreated sewage to flow into our pre-

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Vaccaro was charged with four misdemeanors carrying a minimum fine of $3750 each and a possible year in jail. According to T.E. McMorrow’s story in The Independent, Vaccaro was also wanted on an outstanding felony sales tax evasion warrant from Broward County, FL. Vaccaro, who was held in jail overnight before being released on bail, is due back in court here this week. Instead of jail time, how about a plea deal that includes launching this model citizen from Sunny Isles Beach to the sun itself, his only drinking water from his septic tank that he allegedly emptied into Lake Montauk?

So, don’t knock the Space Force.

It will probably never happen, another figment of Trump’s Richie Rich imagination like El Wall that he promised would be paid for by Mexico. Ha ha, don’t bet your bottom peso on that or the Space Force from ever materializing.

But unlike The Wall, the Space Force could sure rid us of some very undesirable earthlings.

Bang, zoom . . .

“I’d enlist anyone who doesn’t pull over for EMTs and ambulances into the Space Force,” says one angry Amagansett resident. “Ambulance service is a big thing here on the East End and many just don’t get it that they need to get out of the way! God forbid you have a heart attack on the Fourth of July or Labor Day weekend and you need to get to Southampton Hospital.”

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KISS & TEll

By Heather Buchanan

The Pupu Platter Problem With Dating Are there too many choices on the menu? kissandtellhb@gmail.com

There is an interesting theory that the problem with forming a committed relationship is actually too much choice.

Is the Pupu Platter of dating ruining the Prix Fixe marriage menu? Were you totally happy with the shrimp toast until you spied the sexy short ribs? Did the kimchi sauce on the collar give you away?

Saturday night presented me with an interesting juxtaposition on this question. My Uber driver was telling me that in his culture, he has an arranged marriage. Despite thinking that his wife at first was ugly, he grew to love

her deeply and 11 years of marriage and three children later, he was quite happy.

I was pondering this as he dropped me off at the Surf Lodge with whole herds of long-legged beauties tottering down the road on high heels like newborn fillies.

I have no illusions that for women in certain cultures who have no choice, arranged marriages may be a misery. But the interesting psychological question arises on the other side of the spectrum, what can happen with too much choice on a Saturday night in the Hamptons?

We have a generation driven more

by FOMO than taking a chance on Ms. or Mr. Almost — if they lost 10 pounds/ liked my incontinent Yorkie/didn’t make that strange braying sound during sex — Right.

Anthropologist Helen Fisher calls it “cognitive overload,” where you keep looking to find someone better. She maxes out at nine alternative partners to consider, and then you tend to choose none. Except, of course, if you are under contract on reality TV. No wonder “The Bachelorette” is always in tears.

We live in a day and age where quantity can overshadow quality. Are thousands of thumbs up or fist bumps on social media more gratifying than a few close relationships?

I admit to having had a dating Excel spread sheet. This kept track of favorite qualities, status of ex-wives and children, and extra credit for old fashioned chivalry. But it’s true that when I just felt overwhelmed, I retreated to corgis surfing videos and called it a day.

Barry Schwartz explores the dilemma in his book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. His theory expounds that choice is critical to freedom and autonomy. Yet an abundance of choice doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness.

In his Ted Talk he lists the number of choices we have, from 175 salad dressings in the grocery store to the best new

phone. What about choosing the best curling iron, blood sugar tester, oyster knife, or crème brulee torch?

He reminded me of what it meant to buy just one pair of jeans. I used to go to Cove Hollow to buy a pair of Levi’s where the only option was waist and inseam length. I took that pair of jeans and washed them again and again then ran them over with my Ford Pinto in the driveway to get that perfect worn look. I kept patching that pair and wore them for 20 years. Now you have the option of pre-washed, pre-dyed, pre-hole-in-theknee jeans in skinny, cigarette, modern athletic, and slouchy slim.

Ultimately, the increased options also increase expectations and lessen satisfaction. There is no being pleasantly surprised. At least with jeans and salad dressing FOMO, you just go back and get the friggin’ mom cut that hides your muffin top and the Wishbone Italian.

Yet none of these choices involve till death do you part. Some choice is always good, and when it comes to a committed relationship, we don’t want to have low expectations. But what is enough? What really matters? Is a delicious mini crab quiche going to sidetrack you from your main romantic entrée? Find ultimately what is going to nourish you because the thing about nibbles is they ultimately leave you hungry.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Buns Clip-on man buns exist, much to Rick’s chagrin rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Yeah, I’m really sorry I don’t have a “man bun.”

The matter came up when one of the ladies in the office mentioned she liked some guy’s “man bun.”

Being Catholic, I didn’t ask what that was, but Googled it later.

It apparently is a bird’s nest made out of human hair perched on either the very top of a man’s head or right on the back of his neck where infected sebaceous cysts frequently fester.

“It’s hot looking,” Karen assured me. Maybe to a bird with a worm dangling out of its mouth, yes. But to me, no.

First of all, I like to wear baseball caps, because I’m manly, a world class athlete, and also because it’s hot looking.

If I had a man bun, I would have to cut off part of the cap to accommodate the man bun (and the bird with the worm) and that would negate the entire purpose of the hat, which is to cover my head.

It must be extremely difficult to grow a man bun. Most guys — well, most normal guys — go to Tony the barber every four months or so and say

something like, “Bring it down, Tony,” or “Take it all off.”

Women don’t go to barbers. They go to hairdressers. They say stuff like “Feather it a couple inches over here,” and “Make sure you don’t cut any off the top.” To me, there is no point in going to the barbershop unless he has to sweep the floor afterward.

The main difference between a hairdresser and a barber is hairdressers apparently wash your hair. Tony has never washed my hair, and as far as I can tell, doesn’t wash his own very often either.

For those who don’t know it, this column doesn’t write itself. It requires an extensive amount of research (unless, of course, I can steal an idea from someone). Today I uncovered this startling headline, from Bustle: “Clip-On Man Buns Exist Because Hipster Men Deserve Extensions Too.” The pictures made me a little queasy. Little rodent-like buns were cradled gently in feminine hands in the ad. They came in all sizes and colors.

Aren’t they wigs?

It got worse. It turns out that the real name for a man bun, the formal

name you would use if, say, you were being introduced to English royalty, is a “Top Knot.”

Someone at Buckingham Palace would make the introduction. “Your Highness Prince Charles, this is Sir Richard of the Hamptons. Notice he has a proper Top Knot.”

I would be beside myself with honor. “Yo, Chuck, what was it like bonking Princess Diana?” I would ask, using my best King’s English.

So here was the point of the article: there is a new product out in the booming line of man bun accessories.

It’s Clip-On Man Buns.

Look folks, I am not naive. Even after working on Wall Street and going to Catholic high school, I know how difficult it can be to put a tie on properly. The little end is too short, or maybe just the opposite, the little end is longer than the big end. And it always looks like the guy wearing the tie is considering hanging himself from a

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And so, God created clip-on ties, and I’m not too proud to admit I’ve been known to wear them. In fact, in high school I got extra credit if I wore the Sacred Heart Of Jesus Clip-On tie you could purchase from the St. Augustine Book Store for 99 cents.

But this abomination has taken a thing too far. In the article the author, Marlen Komar, points out women wear extensions and that men do as well.

How silly is this? Who has ever heard of a man wearing an extension?

I mean . . . geez! A man wearing . . . how ridiculous. Who ever?

God graced me with a full head of hair, just like my pappy and his pappy before him. If I want a big ugly clump of it to gather anywhere on my head, I can make that happen with a jar of Brylcreem and a pint of Jack.

Next week: “What Do Fanny Packs and Man Buns Have In Common?”

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HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

My Perfect Day: Shelter Island jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

Whether you’re coming from the North or South Ferry or already on the Island, a day on Shelter Island is never a bad idea. The island may only be 12 square miles of land nestled between the North and South forks, but it packs a lot of punch when it comes to dining, entertainment, and natural beauty. The island and its residents have character in spades.

My Perfect Day on Shelter Island would start with a visit to the Havens Farmers’ Market and a yoga class at the historical Havens Barn. I would sign up for the weekly yoga class with Heidi Michel Fokine that takes place every Saturday during the summer from 9 to 10:30 AM. Visit www.heidifokineyoga. com for more info and schedule.

The market hosts a group of incredible vendors. Grab a coffee from Stars Café, fresh bread from Blue Duck, cheese from Consider Bardwell, and fresh fruit from Goodale or Wesnofske Farms and you’re in business. Sit in the picnic area and enjoy. Before you leave, pick up some fish from Alice’s Fish

Market for dinner.

Next up, I would take an artists’ studio tour. This Saturday and Sunday, August 18 and 19, ARTSI, the Artists of Shelter Island, will host its annual studio tour throughout the island. The tour will take a look inside the studios of 14 Shelter Island artists and it’s free and open to the public. Artists include Janet Culbertson, Kathryn Cunningham, Melora Griffis, and Mike Zisser.

For more info visit, www.artsi.info.

My perfect day on Shelter Island wouldn’t be complete without a stop at Marie Eiffel Market. You can take the fine foods to-go — selections include fresh baked goods, organic produce, and hand-rolled pizza — or stay and enjoy the café with a nice selection from the coffee shop and prepared items from the French bakery. There’s also an organic and raw juice bar. I like to sit and enjoy. The dockside water view just adds to the experience.

Later, I would stroll through Mashomack Preserve. It features 2039 beautiful acres of interlacing tidal

creeks, woodlands, freshwater marshes, and fields.

I would end the day at Sunset Beach, just in time for sunset at this magnificent institution. Sunset Beach includes a hotel, restaurant, bar, and boutique created by André Balazs, Balazs is also the mastermind

behind Chateau Marmont in LA. At the restaurant, enjoy a menu that celebrates the summertime food of the French Riviera. Try the pan roasted halibut or charred sweet potato, created by Executive Chef Edi Cungu, with a glass of André Balazs’ Reserve Rosé.

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Beach Boutique Shops at Sunset Beach offer a curated selection of goods

It’s no secret that Shelter Island is small, and with its many acres of protected land keeping the hidden jewel of the East End pristine and clean, shopping options are few and far between.

That is, until you happen upon Sunset Beach, the André Balazs-owned boutique hotel property.

With its 20 beautifully appointed, ocean-front rooms, red-hot, rosé-fueled eatery, and blink-and-you’ll-missit boutique, it’s easy to see how the sought-after locale was inspired by St. Tropez. And to add to the fun, the property has announced a set of new popups slated to debut starting this week from Thaddeus O’Neil and Maison Labiche.

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Top: Aurélie Biderman Emerald Green Merco Drop Earrings, $115 _ Bottom, Left: Oliver Peoples MP-2 Sunglasses, $445 _ Bottom, Center: Adriana Degreas Josephine Baker Ruffle Bikini, $239 _ Bottom, Right: Frescobal Carioca Copacabana Sports Swim Shorts, $220

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Calvary Baptist BBQ Photos by Justin Meinken The Calvary Baptist Church hosted another outdoor barbecue this past Sunday, August 12. Honey barbecue chicken and ribs cooked on an open grill were just a few of the delectable choices. Many attendees showed up with strong appetites and left with full stomachs and empty plates.

Sag Harbor Carnival Photos by Justin Meinken It seems like everyone in Sag Harbor decided to join the Fire Department at Havens Beach for its annual summer carnival. With rides and games of all sorts, there was no shortage of activities. To top it off, the carnival hosted a beautiful fireworks display that could be seen all around the beach.

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Former Fashion Designer Styles Interiors Laura Michaels’ design work is part of Hamptons Designer Showhouse

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

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aura Michaels Design is a Connecticut based, full-service design firm. The former fashion designer, Michaels specializes in residential and commercial interiors, mostly working in the Tri-State area in addition to the Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, and Miami. The company’s online GetARoom feature allows clients to take a project into their own hands before placing it into Michaels’. Michaels designed a room in the Hamptons Designer Showhouse in Bridgehampton, on view through September 3.

Why did you make the move from fashion to interior design?

I worked in the garment industry for 15 years. I love being a fashion designer, but travel and working seven days a week no longer held my interest after I had children. I could not bear to be apart from them, so I stopped working.

I then decided to move to Westchester and put furniture into rooms. People came into my home and thought I had a unique style and from that my second career was born.

You have a unique style questionnaire on your website. How did you come up with it?

Some time ago, I started having very internet savvy clients, and I had to rethink my approach to the Millennials. I noticed that they shopped online constantly and price shopped as well. I saw a trend and felt I needed to react to it in order to remain current.

The idea was to establish GetARoom as an online design business that would serve that client. A questionnaire allowed us to gain an insight into the client’s needs and begin to formulate a design theme.

What inspires you as a designer?

Everything! I walked the High Line yesterday and was inspired by the architecture, the gardens and the creativity it took to transform something discarded into something that gives such pleasure. It transformed Chelsea. Every day I am exposed to beautiful homes, materials, architecture and people.

I feel like I learn something new every day. I am a passionate collector of information. I absorb the information and often I recall a small detail to use it in my designs.

What areas do you specialize in?

I specialize is all custom interiors, including kitchen and bath. I love kitchen and bath design because it requires a blend of materials, technology, and functionality. The basic layout of a kitchen is usually dictated but certain architectural elements and then the rest is pure imagination!

My kitchens and bathrooms tend to be more unique and usually incorporate exciting new materials.

What are your favorite elements to work with?

I love to mix materials in unique combinations. I search the market for unique products to combine with well-known products. I love mixing metals with

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stone and wood. It elevates each material to another level and makes what could have been basic into something unique. It also adds dimension and texture.

for those wanting to update their interior style?

How would you define your signature touch?

I always add bespoke elements to all rooms. I want the client to have a singularly custom designed home.

I feel it is my job to create something unique for the client so no two projects look the same and fit the clients’ idea of what their home should look like.

What’re some tips you have

It is possible to add pillows and other accessories to update a room. Wallpaper or paint is a very easy and fast way to make a major change.

Do you work or partner with certain brands/ companies?

I have traveled and visited many factories to learn and see these vendors’ manufacturing facilities: Kohler, Porcelanosa, and Cambria. I have been fortunate to have the support of Phillip Jefferies, Studio Marte, and Peter Maier, who supported and contributed

to my room at the Hampton Designer Showhouse that runs until September 3 in Bridgehampton.

You’ve showcased Simple Vodka in your work at Hamptons Designer Showhouse, how did you pair up with that brand?

I wanted a display of wine bottles but changed my mind when I saw the clean and simple lines of Simple Vodka bottles. The Simple Vodka company also donates 20 meals to the hungry for each bottle sold. It was easier to spend hundreds of dollars on display bottles when I knew I would be helping those

in need. My Hamptons Showhouse display provided 360 meals to the hungry!

I was so taken by their dedication and mission that I contacted them directly and sent them the images of the show house to use to promote their mission. I had one small voice as a designer in the show house and thought I could use that opportunity to spread the word.

Call Laura Michaels Design at 203-5317047 or email laura@lauramichaelsdesign.com or visit www.lauramichaelsdesign.com.

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By Rick Murphy

Goodbye To Pelé It seems like only yesterday Pelé was holding court at Mellow Mouth, scores of adoring fans of all ages gathered around him as he regaled them with tales from the four corners of the world.

Pelé was more than just a soccer player. The Brazilian was and remains an icon, one of the most famous people in the world. His teams won three World Cups. When he came to New York to play soccer late in his career, he almost single-handedly put professional soccer on the map here.

Pelé is regarded by many including football writers, players, and fans, as the greatest footballer of all time.

In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, and was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the Century award. That same year, Pelé was elected Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee.

He was quite the man about town as well. Pelé found his way to the Hamptons in the late 1970s, when he signed on to play with the New York Cosmos. He enjoyed the disco scene and the beaches and decided to buy a vacation home here. He plunked down $156,000 for a waterfront ranch at 156 Waterhole Road and turned it into a 3400-squar- foot ultra-sleek modern, perfect for midnight pool parties.

But the Great One, approaching his 78th birthday, doesn’t get around much anymore. Recently it was re-

vealed the seven-bedroom home sold for $2.85 million. It had been on the market for $3.25 million. It’s situated on a landscaped acre next to Clearwater Beach and marina. The property comes with deeded beach rights.

Long Island Market Report The Long Island housing market continued to be characterized by rising prices and low inventory, as the pace of sales growth eased, according to first quarter results released by Douglas Elliman.

While the number of sales was the second highest for a first quarter in 15 years, year over year sales declined for the first time in more than three years. There were 5682 sales (private homes and condos), down 1.3 percent from the prior year quarter. Listing inventory levels rose 2.1 percent to 11,022 from the prior year quarter but were the second lowest supply total for a first quarter in 14 years.

With the modest rise in supply and slight decline in sales, the pace of the market eased but remained historically brisk.

The absorption rate, the number of months to sell all inventory at the current rate of sales, was 5.8 months, 3.6 percent slower than the prior year quarter but the second fastest moving first quarter since at least 2004. Marketing time was faster, and negotiability tightened.

Days on market, the average number of days from the original listing date to the contract

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Lobosco Has Long-Standing Love For Sag Harbor Elliman agent proud of community ties

By Zachary Weiss

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ince the 1960s, Barbara Lobosco has watched the Hamptons flourish.

In her continued exploration of the region, she found a fitting home base in Sag Harbor.

Now, she’s helping others do the same with her uniquely specialized knowledge of a village steeped in creativity.

Tell us all about your longstanding love for Sag Harbor. What makes the village so special to you?

I started coming here as a child, when my parents began summering out here in North Haven in the 1960s.

During the late ‘70s, I attended Long Island University and received my BFA, and met my husband, Stephen Lobosco, in the ’80s. After that, we built a home here and started a family.

Sag Harbor has always been a special place to me. It’s different from all the other hamlets and villages, mainly due to the varied small communities within the village itself. Plus, it’s a place where you know your neighbors and you can walk to almost anywhere — the beaches, the village, the parks, the theater.

As long as I’ve known it, this has been a place that’s family friendly and culturally diverse. The village, and the people who make it what it is, have no trouble growing or keeping up with the times, even as we continue to ensure that its history and uniqueness are preserved.

How has the area developed? Any major changes?

There’s always going to be change, which in itself is not a bad thing, but I think that we all realize that this land and the area that surrounds it is a precious thing. I’m so glad that Sag Har-

bor leads the way on preservation, and working to minimize adverse impacts on the environment.

This is driven by our local community spirit and engagement, and also by the market. In Sag Harbor, I find that more buyers are looking to downsize and are more conscientious of their surroundings than ever before.

You’re deeply involved in the community. Has this been an asset when working with buyers and sellers?

I do it because I love this place and the people who call it home. Personally, I think it’s very important to be part of the community, to get to know your neighbors and what’s happening around you. Professionally, I think the more you educate yourself about your community, the better you can connect with home owners and buyers.

Volunteering is so rewarding! I’ve always been involved in education, especially since my children were young.

Some of the things that I’m most proud of are centered arou oms into a gallery to provide a place for local East End artists to exhibit their work to the public.

All these things have kept me close to the people who live here, work here, fish here, and raise families here.

I love my community and am so happy to call Sag Harbor home.

You’re a member of the creative community too.

Have you seen this grow in past years, and has it become an attraction for home buyers?

You know Sag Harbor has always, at least to me, been a place where artists, writers, musicians, theologians, scholars, fishermen, farmers, landscapers, and restaurateurs have gravitated.

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our school systems, our neighborhoods, and the people we call our friends and neighbors.

How do you spend your free time? We hear you’re an accomplished painter.

Well, I’d like to say that this time of year, I spend my spare time painting or sitting on the beach, but those are

winter treats for me. I do manage to squeeze in some time to walk on the beach, though I’m, admittedly, a workaholic.

These days, the most important downtown for me is spending time with my family, especially when my three grown children come out for a visit. That’s the most special time of all.

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Tim Kelly Leads The Charge For Douglas Elliman Industry veteran brings full spectrum of experience

By Zachary Weiss

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rom building to selling, Timothy Kelly can do it all. What began with a first home purchase in Wainscott quickly blossomed into a longstanding love for the real estate market on the East End. Now, Kelly is leading the charge in more than a handful of markets under the Douglas Elliman umbrella.

You’re a 30-year veteran in the real estate business. Can you tell us about how you got your start?

Instead of buying in the city, I started out in Wainscott with my first home purchase. My neighbor was a local contractor, Frank Gounaris, and he helped me renovate. I sold the house in a year for a large profit and then moved on to East Hampton Village.

This purchase and sale helped me to understand that buying, building, and renovating offers so many great options out here in the Hamptons. As my experience grew, I developed many properties and moved into the brokerage side of the business.

You’re managing both the Montauk and Sag Harbor Elliman offices. What positive attributes make these growth areas?

Both Montauk and Sag Harbor are growth markets, with many buyers moving into these communities due to the lifestyle options available. Additionally, each has tons of properties on the water, which is what buyers want. rties to buy — from condos to oceanfront.

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You’ve also worked across every hamlet on the East End. Can you play favorites?

I think the unique thing about the Hamp-

tons is that there are so many different little villages and hamlets; there’s literally a community here for everyone in search of unique experiences.

And being a broker is the best, as you are afforded the opportunity to get to know so many great communities and the people that call them each home.

How does your knowledge as a developer come in handy?

Is it something you use on a daily basis?

Understanding the true costs of a project is incredibly informative and helpful, especially as it relates to competitive pricing and all the way to the eventuality of closing.

Of course, there are many important things that a professional real estate agent or broker should know, as we are the experts who navigate our clients smoothly through the entire process.

What other tools do you use to sell your homes? Are there an y new channels you’ve started to gravitate toward?

I think the best tool is using an experienced broker. Local knowledge and someone who is working full time in real estate is the best tool. They know the market and ultimately help the buyer get the best representation in the homebuying process.

All the tools are just accessories in help make the ultimate decisions on what house to buy.

Tell us about your free time.

While we’re sure it’s a rarity, how do you like to unwind?

At this time of year, I seem to be sitting in traffic in my free time.

But when I am about to get out and about, I love to spend my time socializing with friends, meeting new people, and taking advantage of the great weather.

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As the climate heats up, so does the debate over Deepwater Wind’s South Fork project.

But the conversation we should really be having is much, much bigger.

By Kevin Gray

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eff Grybowksi likes to tell the story about the whale. In it, he — Grybowski, not the whale — sits ashore with a cell phone, anxiously wishing the mammal away from the ongoing construction of his $300 million offshore wind farm. It’s the first project like this to be built in U.S. waters and it took a lot of lobbying, political muscle, and money to get it here. On that day, in 2015, about three miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island, the whale was screwing things up. The humpback had veered close to Grybowski’s crews, who were sinking steel piles into the ocean floor. By law, it’s illegal to “harass” endangered and at-risk marine mammals; Grybowski’s pile driving, emitting some 220 decibels (as loud as a space shuttle taking off), would definitely cross the line.

As CEO of Deepwater Wind, Grybowski was worried — not just for the whale but also for his investors. If the whale didn’t budge, the project might not be able to move forward until the following spring, costing millions of dollars in delays. Deepwater was obliged to stop construction during the whales’ migration, and that day was the last chance to sink the last pile for the five turbines Grybowski was erecting to power the tiny island with carbon-free electricity. If delayed, he would have to wait six months to finish up.

After a few fretful hours of back and forth with his construction manager, who had halted work in deference to the leviathan, Grybowski finally received word that the whale had moved on. His crew sank the final piling, making its deadline at no cost to man or beast.

For Grybowksi and his surrogates, as well as for the powerful environmental groups blowing wind into his green-energy sails, this is a handy anecdote, one they frequently recycle to journalists and policy makers. In the face of commercial fishermen’s warnings that Deepwater’s wind farms will kill their industry, Grybowksi’s parable portrays the company as a true steward of the environment. At the same time, the story underscores the brinksmanship that has propelled Grybowski’s company from startup obscurity to leading player in the booming domestic offshore wind trade: They are ready to go down to the wire for the sake of their hedge-fund investors.

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Deepwater’s South Fork Wind Farm is just one parcel in an industrial-scale power plant that will run up and down the Atlantic’s continental shelf.

But whatever Grybowksi’s whale tale really means, you won’t hear him tell it to The Independent: Deepwater’s reps would not make him available for comment on this story. And who can blame them, really? Because as anyone out on the East End knows, Grybowski and Co. have spent the past two years battling headwinds in the form of local opposition to their next proposed wind farm, a 15-turbine array set in a 256-square mile federally leased parcel about 30 miles off Montauk.

The project promises to deliver up to 90 megawatts of clean electricity to the South Fork — enough to power 50,000 average homes. As Grybowski put it in a press release when the project was approved: “There is a huge clean energy resource blowing off of our coastline just over the horizon, and it is time to tap into this unlimited resource to power our communities.”

But not everyone out here is impressed by Deepwater’s plans, or by Grybowski, or his whale. “The only thing green about this project is the money that’s going to end up in a bunch of hedge funders’ pockets,” says Bonnie Brady, executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, who has been battling the plan since it was announced in July of 2016.

“We don’t know what these windmills, or their highpowered transmission lines, will do to our fish. All we’re asking is, let’s take time to do this right, not rush it.”

It’s not that people around here don’t understand the need for clean energy; at least in theory, it’s hard not to love renewables. But beyond the local commercial fishermen understandably worried about their livelihoods, there is a vocal band of activists — among them local energy experts, financial consultants, and accountants — who question the economics of the deal, and the lack of public transparency into exactly how it was made.

Deepwater’s contract with the Long Island Power Authority requires the utility to buy all of the wind farm’s energy output for 20 years. The total cost of the project, which includes two 5-megawatt battery storage projects and a contract to remotely turn down customer ACs and other appliances during peak demand, is $1.6 billion. LIPA has said that ratepayers will see their energy rates rise from 7.5 cents per kilowatt hour to about 16 cents, with the average homeowner facing a $1.19 per

month increase. When so-called soft costs such as distribution, transmission upgrades, and battery storage are added in, the hike is closer to $2.50 per month.

That may not sound like much, and plenty of people worried about climate change are more than willing to pitch in and pay their share for a cooler planet, but that increase could severely affect commercial electric bills. Bill Valenti expects the bill at his sprawling Multi Aquaculture Systems fish hatchery in Amagansett to double from its current $3000 a month. “That will drive me out of business,” he says.

In addition, neither LIPA nor Deepwater will release the specific financial terms in their contract, so there’s no way for the public to assess what exactly has been agreed to. Under the “Confidentiality” clause of the contract (which The Independent obtained from LIPA in a version redacting all financial information), it notes that both parties agree that the disclosure of “rate, cost, financial, and other economic and material

terms…would cause substantial injury to the competitive position of both.” It also notes that because LIPA is required under New York State’s Freedom of Information Law to release certain confidential information to the public, that Deepwater reserves the right to review that information in advance and then “seek a protective order” against releasing it.

“Without knowing the most basic premise of any deal,” Si Kinsella, former chairman of the Wainscott Citizens’ Advisory Committee, told East Hampton town officials at a public hearing in May, “we are making decisions blindfolded.”

It might seem difficult to understand why so many large, powerful forces — hugely rich hedge funds, massive national environmental groups, even the New York Governor’s office — are focused on the East End. But the outline of one possible long-term plan does make sense of it all: Since 2010, the Federal Bureau of Ocean Management has auctioned off 12 leases to energy companies that plan to erect as many as 1200 turbines in 1.4 million acres of Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to North Carolina, with South Carolina coming later this year and others soon afterward.

In other words, Deepwater’s South Fork Wind Farm, as it’s formally known, is just one parcel in an industrial-scale power plant that will run up and down the Atlantic’s continental shelf.

That’s a vision that suits not only a for-profit developer like Deepwater and its hedge-fund majority-stake owner, D.E. Shaw, but also the national green energy agenda of major environmental organizations like the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and even Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has mandated that the state generate 2.4 gigawatts of offshore power by 2030.

The only missing link to making this master plan a reality has been finding a place for the power to come ashore, a process that’s been stymied by communities up and down the coast questioning and challenging the offshore wind developers’ plans. For its part, Deepwater initially said it wanted to run its 60-mile long extension cable around the South Fork and land it through the bay. But the community there — longtime baymen as well as weekend sailors and yacht club members — opposed it. Deepwater eventually set its

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n a bright Saturday morning in June, Dan Farnham stands on the commercial dock in Montauk. A 28-year-old college graduate with a degree in economics, and a second generation fisherman, he is overseeing restoration work on the Kimberly, a long-line commercial fishing vessel that in two days will head back to open ocean for a week-long stretch of catching tilefish.

The Kimberly, one of three vessels that Farnham and his father, Dan Sr., co-own with their captains, can hold up to 24,000 pounds of fish. But father and son fear their little fleet’s holds, just a small part of a $16 million commercial industry around here, could get harder to fill thanks to Deepwater.

The Farnhams and others worry that the process of installing the turbines offshore, including the plowing of a 60-mile long trench in the sea floor to accommodate the electric cable needed to bring power from turbines to the beach, will devastate marine life and destroy their business.

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sights on Wainscott, where it needs an easement to land its cable and bury it beneath public roads. If it’s rejected there, the company has a Plan C: state-owned land at Hither Hills, which would allow it to completely bypass town approvals.

But Grybowski and Co. are running out of time.

Deepwater has repeatedly said it needed the easement by the end of June in order to meet contact deadlines.

Not only that, it needs to start the project by a certain date in order to qualify for a federal tax credit worth $170 million. As Clint Plummer, its vice president of development, told The Independent this past spring, “I don’t want to draw a red line in the sand, but we need to meet permitting deadlines.” The company, says Plummer, has already spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to survey this route. Moving it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

In mid July, despite opposition, the East Hampton Town Board, which includes Wainscott, signaled its “support” for granting Deepwater its easement — and accepting the company’s nearly $8.5 million community compensation package. But it didn’t actually grant the easement. Instead, it punted to an outside attorney to review, draw up an agreement, and open that up for final public review.

That means Deepwater remains at a standstill and that there’s still time to ask questions, and for East Enders to look into the full extent of the project, the company building it, and the eventual cost to ratepayers. And while they look, locals are starting to see a larger debate happening along the East Coast over the potential impacts of this nascent offshore wind industry on the environment and on their generations-old fishing communities.

Here on Long Island, if Deepwater’s project does get built, and its cable is plugged in to the LIPA substation at East Hampton’s Cove Hollow Road, people fear the town could become just one transfer node in a wind-driven power plant spanning hundreds of miles.

And maybe that Blade Runner-like future is inevitable — necessary, even — if the worst effects of climate change are to be avoided. But if that’s the real play here, shouldn’t the locals know it? As one woman put it this past spring in a fiery, applause-inducing speech at a contentious community board meeting on the project: “Are we going to see the Hamptons, once a playground for the wealthy, turn into a playground for the utilities?”

They know that some wind farms in Europe, which have been operating for more than a decade, have altered the seafloor and the tides. Satellite images from NASA have shown that wind farms in the North Sea, where more than 40 percent of the world’s offshore wind power originates, have created underwater sediment plumes measuring up to 500 feet wide by several miles long, sweeping around daily as the tide reverses direction. European fishermen have reported that the farms have driven off cod and whiting fisheries. And there remain the unknown effects of the constant churn of the enormous windmill blades, which can be as long as a football field.

“The truth is they’re going to start industrializing the ocean and no one knows what that’s going to do to migration, spawning habitats, or marine life populations,” says Farnham.

Deepwater did hire consultants to sift through scientific literature on impacts of offshore windmill farms on marine life. The company concedes that pile driving and jet-plowing could affect certain marine

life. But not, it insists, very seriously and not for very long. As for the electromagnetic field that will emanate from their 60-mile long cable, which will carry a 138-kilovolt, high voltage current, and which critics liken to a giant dog fence, they say that such cables have shown no adverse impact on lab fish. “If you were standing directly above the cable, it’s roughly comparable to a household appliance,” says Plummer, Deepwater’s face at many community meetings.

However, while electrical fields can be contained by a cable’s insulated sheathing, magnetic fields are not easily subdued. According to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, whose research arm supports the U.S. Department of Energy’s office for wind and wave energy technologies, EMFs from underwater cables are thought to “potentially cause changes in behavior, migratory navigation, development rate, and reproductive success” in marine life.

Organisms at high risk include sharks, skates, and rays, some finfish, including sturgeon and eels, and sea turtles.

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“The truth is,” says Montauk fisherman Dan Farnham, “they’re going to start industrializing the ocean and no one knows what that’s going to do.”

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The experience of Europe, which has pioneered offshore wind power, provides at least some insight into the effects of industrial scale offshore wind on the environment. But even after a decade of operation there, a great deal remains unknown. Besides, most of Europe’s offshore windmills sit in relatively shallow water, disturbing mostly potters, or lobstermen, not ocean fisheries; in the U.S, wind power companies have sited their projects in deep water that’s rich in marine life.

Even the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which oversees the offshore leases, has raised concerns.

In a 2017 report it cautioned that major fishing ports in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey are most exposed to potential impacts and loss of revenue.

In particular, it said, the sea scalloping grounds lying within the wind farm areas could be hard hit. BOEM also warned energy companies to be careful when siting their turbines off southern New England because of the area’s winter flounder spawning grounds. While BOEM has conducted environmental surveys of the lease areas, and has asked fishermen for input, it is waiting on the energy companies to submit their construction operation plans before conducting formal environmental impact studies.

Critics of Deepwater’s consultants’ report argue that its scientific findings are cherry picked, that none of the studies cited was peer reviewed (the gold standard in scientific research), and that the research

is not site-specific to their fishing grounds. In effect, the critics say, the developer got what it paid for. “I wouldn’t rely on any science they or their associates put out,” says Dr. Carl Safina, a nationally known marine science professor at Stony Brook University. “It’s obviously a conflict of interest for both of them.”

Safina points to large-scale studies in Europe on windmill blade strikes that have killed an untold number of sea birds (bird conservation groups have sued to stop offshore wind projects in Great Britain and the North Sea). Europe’s fishermen have reported that cod and whiting fisheries have disappeared. “It’s a terrible thing when environmentalists, who have been calling for clean and renewable energy, find these new things create new problems,” says Safina. “But giant industrial scale projects will do that.”

Rachel Gruzen, a local environmental consultant who holds a doctorate from Yale, and has been a critic of what she calls Deepwater’s “lack of transparency,” says her community “is asking for a deeper dive” into the project’s design. “Before you build the infrastructure we want to understand the infrastructure and the worst case scenarios,” she says. “Instead we’re given blanket statements by the developer about this causing zero environmental impact. At least Rhode Island asked for and got two years of science.”

What Rhode Island actually got, in advance of Deepwater’s Block Island project, was something called the Ocean Special Area Management Plan, a set

of regulations for managing and protecting ocean resources and activities. Scientists from the University of Rhode Island drew up a list of the potential drawbacks of an offshore wind farm; among them were the loss of access to fishing grounds, decreased catchability of fish during construction and operation, changes in species abundance and distribution, disturbance of fish from noise or EMF, loss of commercial fishing gear, and maritime collision with the turbine bases. In cases where bad stuff did happen to the fish or a fisherman, the plan called for mitigation — money to buy up worthless fishing licenses and repair broken gear, or reimburse fisherman for lost days, among other things.

The Block Island Wind Farm has now been in operation for about 20 months. While it’s too soon to know whether its turbines will have long-term effects on local marine life, it has certainly adversely affected commercial trawlers. In community forums during the run-up to the project, Deepwater officials had explained that in some areas, the ocean floor would be too hard to bury its in-shore cable or the inter-array cables that connect the turbines to each other; instead, it said it planned to secure the cable to the ocean floor by laying one or two concrete slabs or “mattresses” over them.

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they have been dangerously hung up when their bottom-dragging nets caught on the mats.

To compensate for just such a problem, the state had required Deepwater to set up a contingency fund for fishermen whose gear might be damaged and who might lose days of work as a result. But when draggers like Joel Hovanesian, who works out of nearby Point Judith and whose 40-foot boat, Defiance, went to report his claim after getting hung up on a mattress on August 9, 2017, he was met, he says, by stalling and low-balling.

Deepwater had developed the sea-to-shore cable with National Grid, a regional utility. Deepwater’s fisheries liaison told Hovanesian his beef was now with the utility, which had acquired the rights to the cable, says Plummer. At first, Hovanesian says the utility insisted it was not responsible and that his $6600 claim (for the damage and 10 lost work days) would not be paid. After many phone calls, it relented, offering him, he says, 50 cents on the dollar and requiring him to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

“I said ‘Hell no, that’s not gonna happen,’” says Hovanesian. He then hired a lawyer, called his local senator, and “lo and behold” this past June they paid him the full amount, no NDA required. Others have not been so lucky. Hovanesian offered the names of three other trawler captains who also filed claims and who received only half their claim amount and signed the NDA. (None would go on record because of those agreements, but confirmed the gist of his accounts.

Deepwater, on the other hand, has disputed that the mats have caused any damage or lost income.)

Dan Farnham doesn’t want the same thing to happen to his community. He’s also worried for his safety.

He has yet to receive assurances that the turbines will be set in such a way that they are navigable and don’t pose a hazard during normal days or, worse, during storms or hurricanes when fishermen are forced to steer around or through them in high winds and 30-foot waves.

“We’re out working in that kind of weather,” says Farnham, as one sleek fiberglass yacht after another glides past the rusting commercial hulks creaking at the Montauk dock. “That’s what people don’t realize.

When storms are blowing and they’re in their homes in October, with a little space heater running on green energy from out there, we’re the ones who are out there risking our lives trying to avoid these things.”

The family fund of Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt owns 20 percent of hedge fund D.E. Shaw, Deepwater’s corporate parent. Google has advocated for a continent-scale wind installation called the Atlantic Wind Connection project. Photo: Frederic Legrand/ COMEO / Shutterstock.com

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By switching to wind power, Block Island has eliminated some 40,000 tons a year of greenhouse-causing carbon emissions.

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few years ago, offshore wind was dead in the water. The infamous Cape Wind project, which would have put 130 turbines in the waters of Nantucket Sound, off Cape Cod, died because of NIMBY pressure from Senator Ted Kennedy and fossil fuel baron William Koch, who didn’t want their oceanfront views spoiled by 440-foot high turbine blades. Back then, federal auctions for ocean plot leases for wind farms were lackluster at best. Even so, some far-sighted hedge funders were convinced the tide would one day turn, thanks to technological efficiencies and the promise of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits.

One of those visionaries was Bryan Martin, head of renewable energy investments for D.E. Shaw, the $47 billion Manhattan-based hedge fund that is the primary owner of Deepwater. A former partner at J.P. Morgan’s private equity unit, Martin had spent years working with oil and gas exploration companies and in the oil tanking and oil field services industry. By 2007, he had recalibrated his attention toward renewables and, that year, to a fledgling New Jersey wind-energy outfit that had yet to put up a single turbine, on shore or off.

Martin had seen that the electrical bottlenecks around Long Island and coastal New England left them badly in need of new energy sources. Those areas could not easily build new fossil-fuel plants or utility-scale solar (which eats up land) or on-shore

wind (an eyesore). So he scooped up the little outfit that became Deepwater Wind. Then, while casting around for a flagship project and the political allies who could help him get it built, he found both in the tiny state of Rhode Island.

Around that time, Jeff Grybowski was chief of staff for Rhode Island’s governor, Don Carcieri, who had begun pushing legislators to back wind power to expand the state’s energy portfolio. When the state opened bidding in 2008 for a wind farm site off Block Island, which had for years relied on dirty diesel generators for power, Deepwater called Grybowski, then in private law practice, to help land the deal. “We brought in Jeff because he was well connected politically,” Bill Moore, Deepwater’s CEO around the time, told The Independent. After going up against six other companies, Team Grybowski won the project.

Once it had locked in a government-mandated project, Deepwater was in a strong — some say one-sided — position to negotiate its power purchase agreement with National Grid. To many, it seemed like a sweetheart deal with no downside for the developer.

It required the utility to pay 24.4 cents per kilowatt hour for all the power the wind farm could churn out over 20 years. That’s twice the wholesale price National Grid had been paying for electricity. The contract also contains a built-in price escalator of 3.5 percent per year.

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in the nation — and one requiring a $100,000-a-day specialized ship to install the turbines — it was meant, he says, to “open the doors” to more projects. Plus, he says, Carcieri and the legislature “wanted it to happen and were willing to subsidize it.”

But the state’s Public Utilities Commission was not. In 2010, it rejected the contract, noting it was not “commercially reasonable.” Determined to see steel in the water, the governor and assembly passed a statute instructing the PUC to look again and stop considering its high cost. The three-member panel then approved a revised contract, 2-1.

Outraged, State Attorney General Patrick Lynch labeled it an “inside deal” that “will force us to buy overpriced electricity for the next 20 years in order to subsidize one company.” He and several commercial ratepayers appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court. In 2014, after a lengthy review, the court reluctantly affirmed the contract, writing in its decision that it viewed the Assembly’s “unwavering quest” to execute the project “with trepidation.” Yet it yielded to the Assembly’s role as lawmaker. In other words, it didn’t smell right, but since the public had elected these people, what are you gonna do?

Bill Moore, and Deepwater, are unapologetic about the Block Island deal. Because, they believe, that’s what it’s going to take to get us to a green energy future. They note, with understandable pride, that Block Island, which once relied on 1 million gallons of diesel fuel a year to run its generators, has eliminated some 40,000 tons a year of greenhouse-causing carbon emissions. “Block Island was a one-off and a stepping stone,” says Moore. “That contract I signed in 2010, that would not have happened without some deep pockets involved.”

“I know it’s going to happen,” says Bonnie Brady, executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association. “And I know it can work.

But I want them to do it right.”

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n a clear night in late May, more than 100 people have crowded into the hangar-size studio of LTV, East Hampton’s public access TV station on Industrial Road. The room, which hosts lectures, cooking shows, and garage-rock bands, is painted black and dominated by folding chairs and stage lights. The mood is buoyant, like at a political rally.

Middle-aged locals in jeans and fleece carry signs denouncing the Deepwater project. They stand mingling and joking in the aisles. A few young people in crisp blue oxfords, wearing Wind Worker nametags, sit erect in their seats. They are mostly outreach workers for the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Federation. When approached by locals, they talk in eager tones, like missionaries proselytizing to a group of animists.

The pro-wind forces are deeply worried about the global climate crisis, about Long Island’s vulnerability to rising seas and storm surges, and they see a way forward with wind power, despite concerns about what it might do to the ocean. “Look at the impacts of fossil fuels on marine wildlife, birds, fisheries, the acidification of the oceans, and what it’s doing to the critters we love so much,” says Lisa Dix, the senior representative in New York for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal advocacy campaign. “We don’t have the time to slow down and wait.”

Tonight’s gathering is the first joint meeting on the project between the town board and the Trustees, the town’s oldest elected body. (Dating to the colonial era, the group today owns — in trust for the public — most of the town’s beaches, bays, and ponds.) This is also the first chance for the public to have its say

on the Deepwater project, setting the stage for, and possibly influencing, the board’s future vote. Some 50 people have signed up to speak; nearly all, with the exception of the blue shirts and a few others, are soundly against the project.

Among the most contentious questions asked that evening: why did LIPA, with dozens of powerproducing projects to choose from, choose only one?

Energy experts agree a resilient grid is a decentralized one in which renewables like solar and wind play a mutually reinforcing role. Choosing a single wind power project puts you at the mercy of…the wind.

“There will be several days in a row when there will be no electricity coming from that offshore wind farm,” says Tom Bjurlof, an energy consultant who lives in Port Jefferson. For those days, and many light-wind days like them, LIPA will have to rely on a few backup batteries and its current crop of fossil-fuel-fired plants — and possibly build new ones, precisely what it was trying to avoid.

One problem is that the entire East End sits in what’s called a load pocket. That’s an area that can’t provide its own power and where there isn’t enough transmission capacity, in this case from up Island, to supply 100 percent of the power 100 percent of the time. The grid here was built to serve smaller homes and fewer commercial properties; of course, all that has changed — and with it, so have the area’s power needs.

When LIPA requested proposals for energy projects in 2015, to meet what it called peak load demands on the South Fork, energy consumption was growing at 2.5 percent a year and the utility estimated that the need could max out the grid’s capacity by 2022. At the time, LIPA said it was looking to avoid

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The entire green energyindustrial complex is starting to look a lot like other powerful industries (see: Wall Street), with a revolving door of corporate executives, state officials, and lobbyists.

transmission upgrades to the grid. But this past June it confirmed that it was planning to build a new 138 kilovolt underground cable from LIPA’s Canal Substation in Southampton to an as-yet-unbuilt new substation in Wainscott, as part of a half billion dollar transmission upgrade.

A spokesman for the utility calls the substation an “if and when” issue, meaning it might be needed to support future load growth, which the utility reckons will be about eight years from now, in 2026. That means it is possible the Deepwater wind farm would no longer even be needed by then.

“Why do you need this wind farm, for a few Fridays and Saturdays of peak power in August, when the grid can be backed up at any time?” Bjurlof said after the meeting. “There are ways to do this so you don’t have to spend twice. Look at the Danes and the Germans. They don’t run into load pockets. People talk about how great wind is. Yeah, it’s great when you design the system right. But this is just a terrible idea. It’s a design problem.”

One solution is to decentralize the design, to put up a distributed system of rooftop solar farms, landbased windmills, mandated solar awnings and roofs, and so forth. The obstacle to that plan, says Bjurlof and other critics, is not so much the NIMBY opposition and a lack of real estate, but that utilities like LIPA make their money distributing electricity and require a monopoly system to keep the money flowing. A single large industrial power plant, even one that sits on the water and runs on wind power, allows LIPA to keep competition at bay and keep rate payers, who get little to no say in the matter, on the hook. Says Bjurlof, “Clever games are being played here.”

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ack in 2012, two years before Jeff Grybowski’s political allies had subdued the Rhode Island state Supreme Court, billboard messages began appearing around LIPA headquarters in Uniondale. Paid for by the Sierra Club, the hot-applied vinyl bore a singular message — “Let’s Turn, Not Burn” — along with contrasting images of clean white windmill blades against endless blues skies and filthy belching smoke stacks against a menacing black horizon. “Offshore wind is an incredible piece of the renewable energy pie,” says the Sierra Club’s Lisa Dix today. “And we’re not going to reach our clean energy goals without out it.”

Around that time, LIPA was looking to renew long-term energy contracts, and was already assessing several new projects, including a proposal from Deepwater. By this time, the company had elevated Grybowski to CEO, after Moore departed to start a solar venture. And while Deepwater and the Sierra Club both say the company had nothing to do with the billboards, which were part of a $10,000 multi-media campaign, they certainly sent a helpful message to LIPA staffers, the public, and their political representatives. Over the next few years, LIPA would review dozens of energy projects.

It would be naïve to think that Deepwater’s political ties, lobbying efforts, and support from green groups, like the Sierra Club and National Resources Defense Council, didn’t help push its projects onto LIPA’s short list. That is how the American system works these days, like it or not. And while green energy projects are inevitably sold as a solution to the mounting carbon crisis, it’s often not clear to consumers — even

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those who care about global warming and are willing to make sacrifices — that in almost all cases, those projects are commercial ventures.

“Everyone thinks this green energy company is just your friendly neighborhood person trying to save the planet,” says Farnham, the Montauk fisherman who has spent two years meeting with Deepwater representatives over his concerns about threats to the local fishery. “No. This is a large energy company owned by a hedge fund and they are in it for the profit.”

In fact, the entire green energy-industrial complex is starting to look a lot like other powerful industries (see: Wall Street), with a revolving door of corporate executives, state officials, and lobbyists.

For instance, Katherine Kennedy, the NRDC’s director of transportation and energy, led the state attorney general’s environmental protection bureau under Cuomo from 2007 to 2009. As Newsday’s Mark Harrington first reported, Kennedy urged LIPA, in a 2014 blog post leading up to a LIPA bidding round, to “include Deepwater One on the short list for a renewable energy contract.” That nudge certainly serves the interests of her old boss, Governor Cuomo, who has since mandated a major increase in wind power for the state. It also serves the interests of one of NRDC’s board members, Max Stone, who is a managing director at D.E. Shaw, the hedge fund that owns Deepwater.

The fund’s founder, David E. Shaw, has given $38,000 to Cuomo’s political campaigns.

Meanwhile, Hillspire LLC, the wealth management firm owned by the family of Eric Schmidt, Google’s former executive chairman, holds a 20-percent stake in D.E. Shaw—and the Schmidt Family Foundation, which supports sustainability, gave the NRDC a $1 million a year in grant money between 2006 and 2011. Google also happens to be one of the companies that has advocated for, and invested millions of dollars in, a continuous wind-powered electrical backbone off the coast called the Atlantic Wind Connection project.

Then there are Deepwater’s lobbyists, Tonio Burgos & Associates, which have lobbied, among other entities, the New York State Senate, Assembly, and LIPA on Deepwater’s behalf. The company’s namesake founder served as appointments secretary in the administration of the governor’s father, Mario. Burgos has given $80,000 to Andrew Cuomo’s campaigns and his firm has given $140,000. And Burgos’ staff includes Kristen Walsh, who served as Long Island representative for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. It’s a small world.

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“Wind power is great when you design the system right,” says Tom Bjurloff, an energy consultant.

“But this is just a terrible idea. It’s a design problem.”

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The NRDC’s Kennedy tells The Independent that the group will work with any developer that wants clean energy. But, she adds, “the NRDC does not take money from any energy developer, I want to make that clear.” In order to win the organization’s support, a project like Deepwater’s has to be sited properly, have environmental reviews, and “minimize conflicts” with stakeholders, she says.

In July 2016, having faced off against 21 other proposals to supply energy to the South Fork — including projects for natural gas plants, fuel cells, and solar arrays — Deepwater sailed to victory. “For anyone who is on the side of sustainability this should be a triumph,” Clint Plummer of Deepwater told the Independent. “For the first time an offshore wind farm competed head to head with other resources and won.” In fact, no one really knows if Deepwater’s bid was the cheapest, because the company and LIPA have refused to make the terms of the contract public.

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’ve always maintained that this is not about these stupid windmills at all. It’s about the grid,” says Bonnie Brady. It’s lunchtime on a Friday in early June. Brady, a 55-year-old with unruly hippie hair held back by a green visor, and who favors fanny packs to accessorize her neon-accented running shorts, sits at a high table in the bar area of Inlet Seafood. The room is all wood, brass, and postcard views of Lake Montauk. “This is nothing but a place for Deepwater to plug in the cord to a vast power plant,” Brady says.

Deepwater has said its ocean plot can hold up to 200 turbines. In May and June, the company won two more contracts, this time to provide Rhode Island with 400 megawatts of power and Connecticut with 200 megawatts from the same zone.

Deepwater has said the Connecticut project, called Revolution Wind, would be paired with “a first-ofits-kind offshore transmission backbone” developed with National Grid Ventures. This system, it noted, “would support not just Revolution Wind, but also future offshore wind farms in the region, even if

they’re built by our competitors.” The implications of this plan are as enormous as its scale — and rich in potential profits.

“That means they can potentially sell energy, and trade renewable energy credits, up and down the grid,” says Bjurlof, the energy consultant. Indeed, that sounds a lot like the Google-supported Atlantic Wind Connection, a coastal system that would, eventually, allow utilities to buy and sell power from Maine to Florida.

Energy companies and the business media like to attribute this flurry of leases to new cost-reducing technologies and economies of scale. And sure, those factors play a role. But according to some estimates, offshore wind energy can still cost three times as much as that from a gas-fired plant. And while costs are coming down, what is also driving the industry right now are mandates like New York’s.

This past January, Governor Cuomo unveiled a plan to make the state a leader in offshore wind by mandating that it create 2.4 gigawatts of offshore electricity by 2030, enough to power 1.2 million homes.

(Curiously, that’s the same amount of clean energy he essentially cut from the grid a year earlier when he announced a deal to shut down the upstate Indian Point Nuclear Plant.) New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts collectively have mandated a combined 7.2 gigawatts of energy from offshore wind. That’s a lot of spinning blades that utilities must put up.

It’s clear the country, and the world, needs a new energy strategy, fitting in as many renewables as possible into the mix. But whether that’s done via the carrot of tax incentives or the stick of political mandates, or both, it needs to be done coherently, on a continental — even global — scale. Elements of a solution are already on the horizon, as can be seen in California’s recent law requiring all new homes to have rooftop solar. Another element can be viewed in the current dash to build offshore power on the Atlantic. “I know it’s going to happen,” says Brady. “I’m not stupid and I know it can work. But I want them to do it right.”

But doing it right means doing it in the open.

Critics point out that Deepwater has yet to reveal the

specific horizontal drilling methods it plans to use to land and bury its cable — and to keep it buried in the face of shoreline erosion. On August 9, the company was sent scrambling with National Grid after the Block Island cable, carrying 34,500 volts, became exposed at low tide, 25 feet from the beach.

If the threat of global warming is real enough to require clean energy, communities need to develop a way to provide it that distributes the pain.

Everything has a cost, after all. Natural gas is 50 percent cleaner than oil, but it’s still not clean.

Coal is a nightmare. Nuclear is scary and polarizing, but it’s carbon-free and it’s constant (at least until it melts down, which actually happens quite rarely, but that’s another story). And offshore wind turbines are expensive and require people who recreate and work on the ocean to give up some space (and maybe some fish and therefore some income).

As Dix of the Sierra Club says, “There is no energy source with zero environmental impact.” There are going to be tradeoffs. Political leaders need to muster the courage to be honest with the masses, not outsource leadership to private companies who won’t even disclose the terms of the deal to the people who are paying for it.

Farnham knows that wind power means pain for fishers and boaters. He just wants that decision to be made for the right reasons. “People just want [the turbines] out there because they don’t want to look at them,” he says, hopping over the stern of the Kimberly and ducking past the large drum holding some 33 miles of fishing cable. But “you’re going to put 1000 structures in the water and worry about it later. It’s unfortunate. I’m all right with having offshore wind. But I’d like to see some other people make sacrifices besides us.”

Kevin Gray is the executive editor of Popular Science. His writing has appeared in Wired UK, The Wall Street Journal, New York, The New York Times Magazine, and numerous other publications.

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A still from My Art of artist Laurie Simmons (right) and actress Lena Dunham. The film will be shown as part of the Artists Love Movies series on August 26. Independent/Courtesy Laurie Simmons

Artists Love Movies Visual artists choose their favorite films for summer series

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Following the great success of its inaugural film series, "American Values," the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center is now in the midst of its second series, "Artists Love Movies," which will continue at Pierson High School each Sunday at 6 PM throughout the summer. Giulia D’Angnolo Vallan, a distinguished film journalist and the Ameri-

can programmer for the Venice Film Festival, is curating the series, which consists of films directed or carefully chosen by renowned visual artists, who will be available for talk-backs postscreening.

“There’s an interesting dialogue between visual arts and cinema,” said Vallan. “More and more artists are

venturing into filmmaking, with strong creative ideas, while film history and its language — fueled by new technologies — find their way into art galleries and museums all over the world. Very often, behind a painter hides a fervent cinephile. And painters have long been an object of fascination for filmmakers.

The cross-pollination between these different art forms is very exciting. And we want to give our audiences the opportunity to explore it.”

Inspired by the rich history and interconnectivity of arts and culture ingrained in the East End, Vallan decided "Artists Love Movies" would be a perfect fit for the Sag Cinema. So far, screenings have included Eric Fischl’s presentation of Oblako-Ray, a rarely

screened Glasnost-era satire directed

by Nicola Dostal, and John Huston’s version of Arthur Miller’s western drama The Misfits starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, and presented by David Salle.

Other featured artists are Laurie Anderson, Ai Weiwei, Laurie Simmons, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Alex Israel, all of whom are presenting films of their own invention, alongside greats like Julian Schnabel and Steve McQueen.

“I see more and more artists trying to make film, and I thought, that’s what we should put for the summer series for the cinema,” said Vallan. “What we did with this is found some favorite artists, or we went to artists and asked Continued On Page 69.

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Mermaids, Montauk Surfers By Dweck "Iconic Images” is currently on display at Roman Fine Art

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

“Michael Dweck: Iconic Images” is currently on display at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton. The show is a carefully curated selection of the photographer’s best-known works. Dweck, who lives and works in Montauk and New York City, is recognized for his seductive photographic style and alluring subject matter that features privi-

lege, youth, and beauty — the female form and fascinating locales.

The exhibit shows a few new images from the newly released expanded edition of his photo book, The End, Montauk, NY. Also featured are photographs from Dweck’s other successful books, Mermaids and Habana Libre.

In the 1990s, Dweck rented a

house at Ditch Plains in Montauk and sparked a friendship with one of the local surfers, who introduced him to the local surf community. After closing his advertising agency in 2002, Dweck began to photograph the subjects and scenes of Montauk. Dweck’s photographic essay, The End, Montauk, NY, follows surfers through daily rituals. The book displays portraits, nudes, and photographs of the landscape, celebrating the lives lived only to surf.

“It was the desire to record something before it faded away that was the catalyst for this project,” Dweck wrote in a 2004 essay about the book.

“That’s the way it always goes, isn’t it?” Dweck stated, referring to visitors of the once sleepy town. “Everyone who makes it to the fallout shelter tries to bolt the door behind him. It’s like some graffiti I read in the stall at the Shagwong Tavern. ‘Welcome to Montauk. Take a picture and

get the f--- out.’”

His book Mermaids, released in 2008, features a dazzling array of photographs that explore the theme of the female nude submerged in water.

Dweck scouted Weeki Wachee Spring in Florida, the home of the famous mermaid shows, as one of the locations for his project. There Dweck met a young beauty from a nearby island fishing village, and began photographing her. Through her, Dweck met other “waterbabies” — girls who could hold their breath underwater for as long as five or six minutes — who became the subjects of his book. He also photographed “mermaids” for the book in Montauk, Amagansett, and Miami.

In his book Habana Libre, a contemporary exploration of a secret life within Cuba that was released in 2011, Dweck photographs exhilarating and provocative scenes of the privileged class in a classless society. It shows a face of Cuba never before photo-

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models, artists, filmmakers, musicians, and writers.

The show at Roman Fine Art runs through Monday, August 26.

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vest and the cycle of life and death, and her daughter, Persephone, who was kidnapped by Hades, the lord of the underworld. “And while Demeter spent the time searching for her daughter, the world became dry and barren. It died. And when Demeter couldn’t take one more step, she fell at the mouth of a well. And Baubo came up out of the well and whispered something into Demeter’s ear.”

Was it inspiration, affirmation, well wishes (so to speak)? “No,” Mueth said with a smile. “It was the raunchiest, funniest, dirtiest joke ever told. And it made Demeter laugh. It gave her the strength to stand up and take that one more step, to continue the search.”

In spite of Baubo’s reputation for blue material, Mueth says the show is very youth-friendly, and welcomes all. “There is going to be so much to see,” Mueth acknowledged. “I’ve never been interested in presenting things just as they are. I’m interested

in breaking down walls and pushing boundaries — where are we going?

How far will we have progressed by tomorrow? Where do we need to be and what’s the next thing we need to be working toward? Let’s get started on it now.”

Tickets for Baubo start at $15 and can be found, along with more information, at the www.npcowgirls. org website.

— Saturday, August 18, 6 to 8 PM Tripoli Gallery, Southampton — Tripoli Gallery in Southampton presents “Wavy,” featuring Sabra Moon Elliot and Mary Heilmann. On view from August 18 through September 24.

“Wavy” unites the work of two neighboring artists who merge the geometric with the gestural.

— Saturday, August 18, at 4 PM Guild Hall, East Hampton — “Here’s The Thing,” will be held at East Hampton’s Guild Hall, with Alec Baldwin and special guest Steve Higgins. Admission: $25 for non-members, $23 for members.

Baubo Comes To Montauk Outdoor event features goddesses and aerialists

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com Baubo, said Kate Mueth, the artistic director of The Neo-Political Cowgirls, “is my favorite goddess. And it’s time for her.”

Baubo opened on Tuesday, August 14, in Montauk County Park, and runs through Saturday, August 18. NPC is known locally for its wild and unexpected style of theater, and this performance is no different. It will feature aerialists, dance, music, and words to surprise audiences who

come to enjoy the production, outdoors under the big Montauk sky.

Those of us who consider ourselves myth-nerds can be mystified by the name Baubo. “She’s been so subverted,” Mueth explained. “She’s the person who laughs too loud and doesn’t care, she’s sexual energy and laughter and joy, the deepest most authentic part of yourself.”

Mueth related the familiar story of Demeter, the goddess of the har-

— Sunday, August 19, at 11 AM Guild Hall, East Hampton — “Stirring The Pot: Carla Hall,” will be hosted by Florence Fabricant, food and wine writer for The New York Times.

Admission: $20 for non-members, $18 for members.

— Sunday, August 19, at 6:30 PM www.hamptonsfilmfest.org — Hamptons International Film Festival presents The Bookshop starring and hosted by Emily Mortimer at East Hampton UA.

NPC is known locally for its wild and unexpected style of theater, and this performance is no different.

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Continued From Page 65. them to pick a film.”

Vallan is thrilled with the selection of modern artists, but also considered what artist throughout history she would most like to have included.

“I’d like to get an artist whose work was based in movement, like Jackson Pollock,” Vallan said. “I’d love to know what film he would have chosen to present.”

Artists of the East End abound, along with art enthusiasts. Stephen Hamilton, co-founder and former executive director of Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater and a member of the Cinema Advisory Board, says the response to "Artists Love Movies" has been overwhelming.

“We’ve had a very good response,” said Hamilton. “[We’re] way above our budgeted numbers for income. "American Values" was equally successful, but the numbers have grown since the winter as more and more people find out about us.”

There are only four films left in the "Artists Love Movies" series. Laurie Simmons presents her film My Art on August 26, April Gornik hosts Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away on September 2, there’s a special to-be-announced presentation on September 9, and Jamie Bernstein with Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note by Susan Lacy on September 16. Vallan intends to continue the collaboration with Pierson through a winter series in the coming months, while the Sag Harbor Cinema undergoes a reconstructive transformation after being gutted by a fire in December 2016.

“We’re in a nomadic phase,” Vallan remarked. “We don’t have the cinema yet, so we’re going here and there for movie screenings; but what I like about it is they’re giving us an opportunity to know the audience, and to make the cinema known to them, so it’s a very interesting and exciting process.”

Vallan hopes the series will continue once the new cinema space is up and running again. As it has done for over a century, the new Sag Harbor Cinema will offer free screenings and multiple programs, allowing for audiences of all breeds.

“It will be programming as varied and as rich as possible,” Vallan stated.

“My role in future programming will be decided at the right time, but I would certainly love to be involved in the cinema once it reopens. It will be a much bigger set of programs, because it needs to operate every day of the year.

But it will be wonderful.”

Hamilton, who co-produced both series with Vallan, is equally excited

Giulia D’Angnolo Vallan, curator of the film series. Independent/Courtesy Giulia D’Angnolo Vallan

about the Cinema’s reopening.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing how 'Artists Love Movies' and other series we present in venues outside the Sag Harbor Cinema will segue into the ‘state of the art’ cinema once it is rebuilt and running,” he said. “Until

then, it’s been highly rewarding witnessing the possibilities of world-class cinema and film education on the East End from remote sights, as we strive to keep the re-building and re-branding process present in the community’s awareness.”

“I’ve had an absolute ball working with everyone on this series and the last,” Hamilton continued, “but especially Giulia. She’s smart, funny, and really, really knows her stuff when it comes to film. We are so lucky to have her on board.”

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Marissa Bridge: Nothing But Flowers East Quogue artist bridges media with botanical art

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com East Quogue artist Marissa Bridge is known for her botanical paintings, but lately she has been working in a new, painstakingly precise medium that doesn’t really have a name. It can be lumped under the grouping of “paper mixed media,” but that hardly describes the rolling of each individual piece of paper, the putting it in place, the time-consuming art that Bridge excels in.

The pieces — all white and some of them quite large — have been wowing local art-goers since she began creating them. Now, Bridge will be part of a show at Jamie Forbes Gallery in Center Moriches that opens August 18.

You have several distinct styles — painting, encaustic wax, and paper mixed media — but the subject is consistently botanical. Have you always been drawn to flowers and plants? Were

you raised in a place where blooms were plentiful?

I’ve had a long, complicated relationship with flower imagery. As a young child, my mother taught me how to draw a rose one evening after dinner.

She was amusing me with a simple trick of drawing small, concentric curved lines, and if you did a bunch of them, it started to look like a rose. Drawing it was fun, and I decided then and there to become an artist. Coloring, drawing, painting, sewing, knitting, all of that activity got me through my childhood and teenage years.

But I definitely did not plan on being a botanical artist. I studied painting in art school, and fell in love with abstraction. After art school, I lived in the Flower District with the conceptual artist Allan Bridge, creator of the Apology Line, and vowed never to paint flowers. I was making all black paintings with thick paint and no imagery, just pulsing texture. But those paint-

ings became a dead-end for me, and I needed to get out of it.

Allan was a big scuba diver, and he talked me into doing it as well. The first time I dove in the icy cold waters of Rhode Island and saw all the incredible beauty in the dark, dense greens and browns of the New England Atlantic coast, I knew I had found what I was looking for. I made a commitment to that subject, and for the next 13 years I painted and exhibited “Underseascapes,” as I called them.

It all came to a halt when Allan died in a scuba diving accident in the Shinnecock Inlet in 1995. I could not bear to think about the undersea world that we loved and shared.

So, I floundered for a few years, until one day I received a small flowering houseplant as a gift. My second husband, writer and poet Joe Lamport, had rented a house in East Quogue that had a barren backyard, and I was itching to paint something. So, I reluctantly began to draw the cyclamen. It was as if I were four years old again, and something just clicked. Painting it made me feel better.

I realized that flowers are given at funerals, for birthdays, weddings, almost every occasion, happy or sad, for a reason. They are beautiful, consoling, and hopeful even though short-lived.

I try to convey those feelings in my work.

Were you influenced by artists like Georgia

O’Keeffe?

They are several O’Keeffes in the Art Institute of Chicago collection, which I visited often since it is near where I grew up. They have an enormous O’Keeffe, it’s called Sky Above Clouds IV, about eight by 24 feet, and I still think of it often. Hard to believe she painted it at 77 years old.

I have to give a shout-out to Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, and Frida Kahlo, artists who managed to paint nature with an emphasis on the spiritual feelings it evokes in us. And to Agnes Martin, who cuts to the chase and gives us the simple yet profound geometry of life to meditate on.

Tell me about the mixed media paper pieces you create. How did you get into it?

I’ve only been making the mixed-media paper pieces for two years, but it seems like a lot longer. One of the ways I’ve made money is by doing restoration, and I’ve been lucky enough to work on some amazing pieces such as Line Vautrin mirrors and wall sconces, and John Dickinson plaster tables. I got a lot of satisfaction in repairing these weird and wonderful, quirky 3-D pieces that most restorers wouldn’t touch. They are definitely one of my influences.

I had been painting flowers for many years, did a series of 36 paintings of one phalaenopsis orchid from first bud to final withering, and then a se-

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ries of daylily paintings with a feminist bent called Liliths. After all that, I knew the center of a flower was the area that I wanted to concentrate on. So, I just started playing around.

Immediately it seemed like the center needed to be more than just paint, and I began to build it up with paper, modeling paste, wire, beads, and other materials I had lying around the studio. Those pieces from 2016 have a 3-D center, and the adjoining petals are painted in a traditional 2-D manner.

It was thrilling to step out of my comfort zone. So to challenge myself further, I tried to make the entire thing 3-D, not just the center. I figured out the only way I could do that was by using paper. It’s similar in texture to a petal, and I had plenty of good quality paper left over from my printmaking days. I began rolling the paper to be able to build it up, to get more of an architectural feel, to construct it from a kind of cellular level.

When an artist moves from painting to sculpture, they have to deal with structure, not just surface. And it was a just a natural progression in my study of nature, to learn more about growth on a physical level.

How long does it take to do a large piece in that style? Do

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you find it meditative?

It takes quite a while to make each piece, small or large, because I make all the parts by hand. I cut all the different sizes of paper, then position them where I want them. I also make all the papier-mâché petals and seed balls, and the modeling paste/wire buds. I don’t plan what it’s going to look like.

I make the parts as I go along, it’s an intuitive process.

Every piece, even the all-white ones, starts on a dark indigo background. To me, that color represents the earth, the sky, water, the beginning, the unknown we all come from. Sometimes that color remains, other times it is painted over, but I know it’s there.

Since I use the dark indigo as a base for some pieces, I recently began to see them as celestial. There are similarities between flowers and stars, they share a round center that has elements radiating out from it.

It is meditative to create this work. Since there is a lot of repetition involved, a lot of time spent making parts, it frees my mind to concentrate on the purpose of what I’m doing.

Where are you currently showing your work?

I’m really excited to be showing at

Bridge's painstaking art of paper rolling produces fields of flowers.

the Jamie Forbes Gallery in Center Moriches this month from August 18 through September 12. The opening is Saturday, August 18, from 4 to 6 PM. I also show at the William Ris Gallery in Jamesport. The owner, Mary Cantone, always has some of my pieces available. These two women are brave pioneers who are building an artistic community west of the canal. It is sorely needed. I am opening my studio for the Westhampton Free Library Artists’ Studio Tour on Saturday, Septem-

ber 29, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Fourteen wonderful artists from Remsenburg to East Quogue are participating.

This spring I showed work at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton. Over the past two years, curator Kathy Zeiger has shown my work at Sara Nightingale in Sag Harbor and Kathryn Markel in Bridgehampton.

The East End has been very supportive of my work from the beginning, and I am very grateful for that. It’s an incredibly inspiring place to live and work.

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‘Syncopation’ Examines Music and Art William Ris Gallery hosts duo show featuring award-winning artists

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com William Ris Gallery in Jamesport will host an opening reception for its new duo exhibit, “Syncopation,” this Saturday, August 18, from 4 to 7 PM.

The show, which will run through September 9, features Bethpage native Michael Ingui and New Jersey native Robin D. Williams and focuses on the interconnection between music and artwork.

Ingui is also an architect and partner at Bat Ingui Architects PC in New York city. He was influenced by his high school art teacher, John DeGuardi, who made him realize he could pursue art and architecture simultaneously “by simply continuing to do both.” Williams is a self-taught artist and member of the Drawing Center of Manhattan.

Together, they exhibit for the first time on Long Island and conclude the summer season at William Ris Gallery.

How did you get involved with William Ris Gallery and Robin D. Williams?

Ingui: My brother and sister-in-law Jules and Janna introduced me to this incredible art gallery that I just had to see. They were right — it’s not just the gallery (which is incredible on its own merits) it is the creative culture and energy that surrounds [gallery owner] Mary Cantone. It is clear that she and this gallery, full of beautiful art, act as a beacon that so many creatives flock to.

We have left the gallery many times saying it was the high point of the weekend — so many fantastic conversations, such thoughtprovoking art. It is a place you want to be a part of and I couldn’t wait to show some of my paintings there.

How do architecture, music, and artwork tie together?

Ingui: Architecture, painting, and design are all conduits to express creativity and music just makes everything better. For me, one ties into the other seamlessly.

Painting or sketching inspires me to be more creative with architecture. I love working on many things at once, and there are times when I have

architectural designs on one table and paintings on the next, with a note pad always close by.

Which passion was discovered first?

Ingui: Architecture definitely came first. My parents saved plans and elevations of houses I designed in grade school. I don’t know how I learned to draw them, but I feel like I was influenced by taking long rides in cars and the fact that I truly love looking at houses.

I still do — I love walking through a house and thinking about what could be different or through a great house studying why the designers made the decisions they did. I love the craftsmanship of incredibly well-built objects, homes, and the way details are completed.

In junior high, I learned of Miro, Picasso, and Motherwell, and my mind was blown open with Jackson Pollock.

The feeling when you are in front of those paintings is just indescribable.

I painted all of the time. I sketched all of the time. Sometimes it was houses, sometimes it was a designed object, and sometimes it was just a crazy abstraction. I never made a distinction or thought about why I drew one or the other.

I have been told by many people that I needed to choose between art and architecture, but I am surrounded by so many talented people both at my architectural firm and in my life in general that this just doesn’t seem like it will ever be the case.

What music ignites a fire in you?

Ingui: I am drawn to many genres, from jazz to dubstep, from rock to electronic music. I am influenced by the seamless ways that musicians feed off each other or how a DJ can mash together worlds that were not originally intended to be, just to create something new and fantastic that another will then mutate again.

The way they can run in and out of the song’s structure and how the mu-

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sicians bring everyone in the audience along with them is incredible. You can see and feel this in a jazz club as much as you can in a mosh pit or in a dance club. It is that energy and the movements that surround it that I hope to capture.

How did you get involved with William Ris Gallery and Michael Ingui?

Williams: I became involved with the William Ris Gallery when a close friend asked if I would be willing to share/ show images of my work that relate to jazz to the manager and owner. I said: “Sure, of course!” They loved the work and invited me to be in a show with Michael Ingui.

I took a look at Michael’s paintings, loved his work immediately, and decided to grab this opportunity to show in New York again.

What was your first blind contour drawing?

Williams: I think my first blind contour was of two women sitting at a Paris side walk café enjoying their gossip, beverage, and croissant.

How did you come into that format?

Williams: I came to drawing/seeing/ meditation through the words and instruction of Frederick Franck. His books The Zen Of Seeing and The Awakened Eye are my drawing bibles. These

books are guides for meditation, and describe a path for living and drawing.

Tell us about your artistic journey.

Williams: I have been an artist all along. First through singing. Then, in my teens and early 20s I wrote poetry, essays, and short stories.

It was in my early 20s when a friend was moving and said, “Hey, Robin, you want this box of paints?” I took that box of paints and started experimenting, creating expressive, abstract paintings. Drawing came later.

How does music most influence you?

Williams: Music is part of this life’s journey. It is someone telling a story, sharing an experience. I want to know and relate to that experience. I want to travel on the road with that musician.

To share the journey, hear their story.

The opening reception for “Syncopation” will also feature a live special performance by Grammy award-winning producer and musician, Gil Goldstein, while Williams creates one of her signature blind contours of the performance.

William Ris Gallery is located at 1291 Main Road in Jamesport. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday and Sunday, 12 to 5 PM, and Saturday 12 to 7 PM and by appointment. Visit www. williamris.com or call 609-408-5203.

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Evita: A Brilliant Revisioning Musical chronicles Eva Peron’s rise and fall

By Isa Goldberg

Mounting Evita on a small stage proves no mean trick in this current revival at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, now extended through September 2. Set in a working-class bar, where tango and sweat mix with hunger and booze, the story implodes with the power of insurgency.

In director Will Pomerantz’s brilliant revisioning of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic, the musical is framed as a play within a play. Set in 1962, men and women of the Peronista movement gather to perform the story of Eva Peron’s rise and fall. The audience views the real time events that unfold from this historical perspective.

Portraying the revolutionary leader as a leering, cynical commentator on Argentina’s political scene under Per-

on’s rule, Trent Saunders mines the satire of the musical. In an inspiring performance — more resonant with Joel Grey’s Emcee in Cabaret than Ricky Martin’s Che in the 2012 Broadway revival — Saunders carries the show with magnetic energy.

Lithe, with a puppet-like quality, his physicality is more comic than romantic, which is a more traditional way to play the role. But this revival is not about spellbinding romance. Nor is it the Argentinian Camelot, as it sometimes comes across. Here the romance has already died, and the greed and dishonesty of Peron’s fascist rule sparks a revolutionary spirit.

The familiar lyrics ring true to our time: Instead of government we had a stage/Instead of ideas, a prima donna’s

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In the titular role, famously portrayed on stage by Patti LuPone and on screen by Madonna, Arianna Rosario stands on her own. With a robust voice that is also smooth and silky, Rosario makes for a sympathetic, albeit fallible Evita. In Lindsay Davis’s costumes, she emerges as the jewel in a grey world.

Portraying her husband, Juan Peron, Omar Lopez-Cepero has a strong presence and just the right vocal nuances. Still, the character to whom Eva reveals herself most intimately is the Child, played here with wonderful aplomb by Dakota Quackenbush.

While Eva Peron is portrayed as duplic-

itous, the Child is our two-way mirror, revealing both Eva’s vulnerability and the fragile life of the masses.

That her big numbers, typically staged at the President’s mansion, Casa Rosada, are played on the balcony of the bar, a bed, and most importantly, among the people, brings warmth to the production without sentimentality.

To that end, Anna Louizos’s scenic design is remarkably innovative.

The music (supervised by Aaron Jodoin) performed live, with piano, guitar, accordion, and trumpet makes the atmosphere of this working-class bar come to life, much as it would in the Buenos Aires of its day. And Marcos Santana’s muscular choreography resonates with the pulse of the story.

Staged, not as a grand romance, this Evita rings with urgency and immediacy. A rousing production.

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‘Black Angels’ Takes Flight Tuskegee story comes to Guild Hall for one night

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Take flight with the Southampton African American Museum and the Eastville Community Historical Society on Thursday, August 16, as Black Angels Over Tuskegee, one of the longest-running off-Broadway productions, comes to the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton for one night.

The story of the African American World War II squadron of pilots from the 99th Pursuit, who were trained separately on their own base in Tuskegee, AL, is now the stuff of legends. Eleanor Roosevelt, while visiting Tuskegee in 1941, reportedly asked Charles Anderson, the head of the program, if “Negroes can really fly airplanes?”

In answer, Anderson took the president’s wife on a flight, over the objections of her Secret Service crew, and from that, the Tuskegee squadron became a reality.

Commonly referred to as the Tuskegee Airmen, these men came together to participate in the U.S. Army Air Corps program, which sought to train and prepare African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft.

The group included pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance, instructors and support staff personnel who were charged with keeping the planes operable and in the air.

The Tuskegee Airmen conquered isolation and prejudice to become one of the most highly respected fighter groups of World War II forming the 99th Pursuit Squadron. They proved conclusively that African Americans could fly and maintain sophisticated combat aircraft. The Tuskegee Airmen’s achievements paved the way for full integration of the U.S. military.

From the press release for the show, “Black Angels Over Tuskegee enlightens and educates audiences. The narrative depicts the lives of six men who struggle through the Jim Crow era and emerge with distinction as the first African-American pilots in the U.S. Army Air Forces. With courageous brotherhood, their intelligence, patriotism, and strength propel a dream into flight while fighting both military and social wars.”

Direct from the Actors Temple Theater off-Broadway, this inspirational and award-winning play by Layon Gray has been awarded the 2009 NAACP Award for “Best Ensemble,” and was winner of the 2009 Artistic Achievement Award for “Best Play.”

The New York Times called it, “Uplifting! Inspirational! By the end, when the pilots overcame their obstacles and finally got up into the air to the swelling

Tuskegee Airman Lee Hayes, who died in 2013, was a longtime resident of Amagansett. Black Angels Over Tuskegee tells the story of a half-dozen men of the famed 99th Pursuit. Independent/Courtesy Barry Johnson

of music, tears welled up in my eyes.”

“The extraordinary story of these brave men is an incredible part of not only our history but American history,” said Brenda Simmons, Executive Director of SAAM.

“So much of our history had been deleted, diluted, and misconstrued,” she continued.

Layon Gray, the playwright, says his take on the lives of the 99th Pursuit differs from others that are more about military history than connection. “Black Angels is about family, and friendship. We perform the play all around the world and all nationalities relate to the story,” he said. “It’s not just African American history — it’s

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Doors open at Guild Hall at 5 PM with a VIP cocktail party until 6:30, honoring local Tuskegee Airmen, like Amagansett’s Lee Hayes, who died in 2013 at the age of 91. Music at the event will be provided by flautist Dwayne Kerr, known for touring with Erykah Badu, and there will be signature beverages and appetizers.

Tickets for the VIP cocktail party are $50, tickets to the show at 7 PM are $25 general admission, with a discounted rate for seniors and children.

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Gallery Events

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Mail Art Keyes Art, East Hampton Opening: Saturday, August 18, 6 to 8 PM Keyes Art in East Hampton presents Scott Covert and Ray Johnson with the exhibit “Mail Art.” The exhibit will run through August 31.

The Wednesday Group The Nature Conservancy, East Hampton Opening: Friday, August 17, 4 to 6 PM The Wednesday Group, Plein Air Painters of the East End presents “August Plein Air” at The Nature Conservancy in East Hampton.

Participating artists include Da-

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Montauk Green Village Green, Montauk Friday, August 17, 12 to 6 PM Saturday, August 18, 10 AM to 6 PM Sunday, August 19, 10 AM to 6 PM

vid Bollinger, Pat DeTullio, Anna Franklin, Barbara Jones, Teresa Lawler, Deb Palmer, Gene Samuelson, Christine Chew Smith, Cynthia Sobel, Frank Sofo, Bob Sullivan, Aurelio Torres, and Dan Weidmann.

The show runs through August 31.

Wavy Tripoli Gallery, Southampton Opening: Saturday, August 18, 6 to 8 PM Tripoli Gallery in Southampton presents “Wavy,” featuring Sabra Moon Elliot and Mary Heilmann. On view from August 18 through September 24.

“Wavy” unites the work of two neighboring artists who merge the geometric with the gestural. Equally visual as it is verbal, the title “Wavy” illustrates the universally understood language of shapes and colors, a language that precedes the words used to

The 24th Annual Show on the Montauk Green will be held on August 17 through August 19. The free event is held on the Village Green in downtown Montauk. Admission to the event is free. It is presented by the Montauk Artists’ Association.

Artists Speak Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett Talk: Wednesday, August 15, 6 PM The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art announces the third talk in the summer series Artists Speak, to be held on August 15, when it will host artist Audrey Flack in conversation with Esperanza Leon.

Groot & Condon Romany Kramoris Gallery, Sag Harbor Opening: Saturday, August 18, 6 to 6:30 PM

Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor presents a group show featuring the artwork of Barbara Groot and Thomas Condon. The exhibit runs from August 16 through September 6, with a reception for the artists on Saturday, August 18, from 5 to 6:30 PM.

Barbara Groot grew up in Southern California with the sun and light illuminating the landscape. Now living and working in East Hampton, she finds the light on the East End equally special and energizing. The focus of Thomas Condon’s work reflects the New England town throughout the seasons.

Miles Jaffee The Monika Olko Gallery, Sag Harbor Opening: Saturday, August 18, 6 to 8 PM The Monika Olko Gallery presents Miles Jaffee in “Get To The Point.” The show runs through Labor Day.

Brian Farrell Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill Sunday, August 19, 3 to 6 PM The Grenning Gallery is sponsoring New York artist Brian Farrell as he works with the children showing them his mural and street art techniques at the Parrish Art Museum's Summer Family Party Benefit this Sunday.

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Rufus Wainwright performs at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Saturday.

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val presents The Bookshop starring and hosted by Emily Mortimer at East Hampton UA.

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Music Hayground Music Series

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.

Comedy Tig Notaro Saturday, August 19, at 8 PM www.guildhall.org Tig Notaro will perform at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

Film Summer Of Spielberg Friday, August 17, at 7 PM

www.southamptonartscenter.org Southampton Arts Center continues the Summer of Spielberg series with a screening of The Post. It is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, August 15, at 6:30 PM 631-547-5188 or info@haygroundcamp.org Hayground Camp presents the Hayground Music Series with The Underground Horns. Free.

Ceux Des Chez Nous Stephen Talkhouse Sunday, August 19, at 6 PM www.sagharborcinema.org Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center presents the "Artists Love Movies" series with Ceux Des Chez Nous, hosted by Wendy Keys at the Ross School Senior Lecture Hall.

The Bookshop Sunday, August 19, at 6:30 PM www.hamptonsfilmfest.org Hamptons International Film Festi-

www.stephentalkhouse.com Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will host a live performance by Sofia D’Angelo on Wednesday, August 15, at 8 PM. On Thursday, August 16, see Chapter Soul at 10 PM. Friday, August 17, see Brandon “TAZ” Niederauer at 7 PM. Saturday, August 18, will be Dirty Dozen Brass Band at 9 PM and Rubix Kube at 11 PM.

Sunday, August 19, at 8 PM will be Samantha Fish, and Inner Roots at 10 PM. Monday, August 20, see Mountain Wave at 8 PM. Then, Tuesday August

21, see Nikki Taylor at 7:30 PM, The Saturday Souls at 9 PM, and Revel In Dimes at 11 PM.

Baubo Wednesday, August 15, 7:30 PM Thursday, August 16, 7:30 PM Friday, August 17, 7:30 PM Saturday, August 18, 5:30 PM The Neo-Political Cowgirls present Baubo at The Montauk County Park.

Performances are outdoors and tickets start at $15. Shows will be cancelled only if it is raining at show time.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Wednesday, August 15 Saturday, August 18 Sunday, August 19 All at 6:30 PM www.bcmf.org The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will host Beethoven’s “Ghosts” on Wednesday, August 15; “Saturday Baroque: An Evening of Bach Sonatas” on Saturday, August 18; and “Brahms in A New Country” on Sunday, August

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19. All concerts are at 6:30 PM, held at Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Hampton presents “Musical Fireworks with Piano Two & Four Hand” with Natalia Lavrova and Vasily Primakov.

Limited indoor seating, RSVP to duckcreekarts@gmail.com. Outdoor seating is free to the public.

Saturday, August 18, at 8 PM www.whbpac.org

Through August 26 www.baystreet.org

Rufus Wainwright performs at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center.

Shabbat By The Bay

Classic Stones

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents Evita through August 26. The show’s lyrics are by Tim Rice and music

by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Friday, August 17, at 6 PM 516-690-7742

Saturday, August 18, at 8 PM www.suffolktheater.com

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.

Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents Classic Stones with the Glimmer Twins.

Brady Rymer Wednesday, August 15, at 6 PM www.eastwindlongisland.com The Shoppes at East Wind in Wading River present Live at the Shoppes with Brady Rymer. This event is free to the public.

The Clam Bar Wednesday, August 15, at 5 PM The Clam Bar at Napeague will have live music every Wednesday. This week will be Jack Marshall.

324 Lounge Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, at 9 PM www.324events.com The 324 Lounge in East Hampton hosts live music Thursday through Saturday. Local favorite DJ K-Alert spins all night.

Jazz On The Terrace Friday, August 17, at 6 PM www.parrishart.org Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents “Jazz on the Terrace: Richie Siegler’s Quintet.” Admission: $12, free for members, children, and students.

Musical Fireworks Thursday, August 16, at 6:30 PM www.duckcreekarts.org The Arts Center at Duck Creek in East

Townline Music Friday, August 17, at 6 PM www.townlinebbq.com

Jazz On The Steps Sunday, August 19, at 2 PM www.southamptonartscenter.org

Townline BBQ in Sagaponack hosts live music every Friday, until 9 PM.

Southampton Arts Center, along with The Jam Session, brings back “Jazz on the Steps” with Yacouba Sissoko on Kora. It is free and open to the public.

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Saturday, August 18, at 9 PM Sunday, August 19, 2 PM 631-527-7800

Sunday, August 19, at 8 PM www.whbpac.org

The Springs Tavern hosts karaoke night every Saturday. No cover, just bring your best singing voice. There’s also open mic every Sunday, through 6 PM.

Joe’s Pub Saturday, August 18, at 8 PM www.joespub.com Joe’s Pub Sound View in Greenport presents a concert by Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna in the Piano Bar.

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Arturo Sandoval, with special guest Jane Monheit, performs at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center.

Music Monday Monday, August 20, at 8 PM www.baystreet.org Bay Street Theater presents “Music Monday" with Bobby Conte Thornton: Blame It On My Youth.

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Thursday, August 16, at 7 PM RSVP: 631-283-6500 Southampton Cultural Center presents 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.

Black Angels Over Tuskegee Thursday, August 16, at 7 PM www.guildhall.org The Southampton African American Museum, with the Eastville Community Historical Society, presents the renowned Off Broadway production Black Angels Over Tuskegee: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

Comedy Play Reading Tuesday, August 21, at 8 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents Thursday, Three by Drama Desk Awardwinner and Emmy Award-nominee Eugene Pack, starring John Magaro.

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Stirring The Pot: Carla Hall

Wednesday, August 15, at 5 PM Thursday, August 16, at 5 PM Friday, August 17, at 5 PM Saturday, August 18, at 4 PM Sunday, August 19, at 5 PM www.bookhampton.com BookHampton in East Hampton presents Scott Straus with the book Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa on Wednesday, August 15; David Scott Kastan with On Color on Thursday, August 16; A.M Homes with Days of Awe on Friday, August 17; Walter Isaacson and Leonardo da Vinci on Saturday, August 16, and a special HIFF book signing of The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, with Emily Mortimer and Isabel Coixet, on Sunday, August 19.

Carol Guzy Thursday, August 16, at 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 an illustrated talk with Pulitzer Prize Winner Carol Guzy. Tickets are $15 or $10 for friends of the SAC.

Thursday Authors Studio

Thursday, August 16, at 7 PM www.jcoh.org The Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton continues its Thursday Night Authors Studio with Kate Siegel, author of Mother, Can You Not?

Summer Lecture Series Thursday, August 16, at 7:30 PM www.watermillcenter.org The Watermill Center presents its Summer Lecture Series. This Thursday, American composer Nico Muhly speaks on “Roots and Pulses.”

Fridays At Five Friday, August 17, at 5 PM 631-537-0015 or info@hamptonlibrary.org Hampton Library in Bridgehampton hosts Fridays at Five with Walter Isaacson presenting Leonardo da Vinci. Admission is $25.

Tom Twomey Series Friday, August 17, at 6 PM www.tomtwomeyseries.org East Hampton Library presents the

2018 Tom Twomey Lecture Series with “Building A Better Company” featuring Starbucks chairman emeritus Howard Schultz interviewed by NY Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Here’s The Thing Saturday, August 18, at 4 PM www.guildhall.org

The Opioid Epidemic Monday, August 20, at 7 PM www.guildhall.org Guild Hall in East Hampton presents “2018 Hamptons Institute: The Opioid Epidemic” with Alec Baldwin, Naomi Oreskes, Alex Soros, Rhea Suh, and David Rattray.

“Here’s The Thing,” will be held at East Hampton’s Guild Hall, with Alec Baldwin and special guest Steve Higgins.

Admission: $25 for non-members, $23 for members.

Marders Sunday, August 19, at 10 AM www.marders.com Marders in Bridgehampton presents Garden Lectures every week. This week, it’s “Cooking From The Garden.”

All lectures are free. Email info@marders.com for more information.

Carla Hall Sunday, August 19, at 11 AM www.guildhall.org “Stirring The Pot: Carla Hall,” will be hosted

by Florence Fabricant, food and wine writer for The New York Times. Admission: $20 for non-members, $18 for members.

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Old Dogs, New Trips

By Vay David and John Laudando

The Timeless Magic Of Granada’s Alhambra The palace is surrounded by enchanting gardens olddogsnewtrips@gmail.com One of many water features of The Alhambra’s Lower Gardens. Independent/John Laudando

Granada, I’m falling under your spell, And if you could speak, what a fascinating tale you would tell.

Of an age the world has long forgotten, Of an age that weaves a silent magic in Granada today.

The dawn in the sky greets the day with a sigh for Granada.

For she can remember the splendor that once was Granada.

It still can be found in the hills all around as I wander along, Entranced by the beauty before me, Entranced by a land full of flowers and song.

When day is done and the sun touch the sea in Granada, I envy the blush of the snow-clad Sierra Nevada, Soon it will welcome the stars While a thousand guitars play a soft Carbinera.

Then moonlit Granada will live again, The glory of yesterday, romantic and gay.

Agustín Lara wrote it and Frank Sinatra famously sang it, and, no doubt about it, Spain’s ancient city of Granada fascinates to this day. The magnificent Alhambra towers over the city, and this former home of sultans casts its spell

over the entire area.

It’s been a palace, a fortress and a citadel, and it has variously served as the residence of the Nasrid Sultans and their top government officials, court servants, and the royal guard. Its history dates back to the Ninth Century, with changing dynasties and added buildings.

Considered a “palace city,” because it contains a variety of historic buildings, The Alhambra was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.

It’s Granada’s most archetypal monument and one of the most visited sites in Spain. Its luxurious interiors offer glimpses into the gilded lives of its privileged residents. (An important note if you plan to visit: Since October 2017, individual tourism tickets to see the interiors have been limited to adults 14 and older and require a passport or other government-issued identification. They have also eliminated some of the long lines by making tickets available online, which was not the case when we were there.)

So, on a warm day in May, we chose to explore its gardens rather than brave those lines waiting to get into the Palace itself. But the gardens were

The Alhambra rises above Granada’s Arab Quarter. Independent/John Laudando

more than enough splendor for us. As a backdrop, The Alhambra sits on a small plateau on the city’s southeastern border and has a sweeping view of the imposing Sierra Nevada, which were still covered in snow when we visited. And there is water everywhere, to irrigate an array of flowers to take your breath away. Because we are serious gardeners, these old dogs found the gardens to be a special treat.

Several playful structures dot the gardens, created of multiple layers of elegantly carved filigree craftwork that looked enough like lace that you could wonder how it could have been standing for so many years — since as long ago as the 1500s.

But Granada’s allure is not limited to The Alhambra; below it is the Albaicin — the “Arab” quarters — where we found fun little tea shops, complete, to our surprise, with hookahs for smoking exotic tobaccos. And, as we wound our way through its narrow streets, we found intriguing shops and a tasty dinner of equally exotic foods. But the highlight of the Albaicin was the nighttime vision of the illuminated Alhambra rising and shimmering above it.

You can enjoy many glimpses of the lush floral offerings of The Alhambra’s gardens at indyeastend.com. Visit our website at olddogsnewtrips.com, and we welcome your comments on our Facebook page — Old Dogs, New Trips.

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Streaming: Bogie-Bacall Part II, The Big Sleep Streaming reviews classic films available on home networks and apps

By Ernie Hutton

The Big Sleep is arguably the noirist of noirs, packed to the gills with unrepentant decadence — hoods, cops, dames, and druggies lurking around a cynically iconoclastic Humphrey Bogart. After the seductive pairing of Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (see previous review in The Independent, 6/27/18), two years later Warner Brothers decided to reunite them in this film rendition of detective writer Raymond Chandler’s best-selling thriller — and to re-enlist the previous film’s successful behind the camera team of William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, screenwriters, and Howard Hawks, director.

Hawks then embellished his screenwriting team with Leigh Brackett, one of Hollywood’s early female professional writers, who was at her best with genre plot and crackling dialogue, from science fiction to pulp fiction. Faulkner and Brackett divided up the job by writing alternative scenes, letting Hawks sort out any conflicts, and Furthman came in at the end to add material. Bogart called on Brackett, who he nicknamed “Butch,” whenever he wanted any of his dialogue toughened up. (Hawks also reportedly used as a script doctor a six-foot-two showgirl called “Stuttering Sam” with whom he was involved.)

To today’s viewer, The Big Sleep is enjoyable for its 1940s types — its male characters’ tough guy bravado grafted onto its females’ startlingly flirtatious boldness. The resulting tension is apparent not only in the sparks generated by the leading stars’ obvious on-and off-screen relationship (Bogie and Bacall married immediately after the film’s completion), but also in the scenerychewing energy of its secondary performances.

Interestingly, Bacall’s role, though important to the film as a whole, was

originally smaller, in keeping with the original novel. But with the first provocative appearance of Martha Vickers as a barely post-Lolita nymphet (she plays Bacall’s younger out-of-control sister), the studio worried that she would steal the movie from Bacall.

(Bogie’s astonished comment on Vickers’ ingratiating introduction is “She just tried to crawl into my lap standing up.”) And the script, embellishing on the original book, also added concern by giving Bacall additional competition — an aggressive shop girl who pulls down the shade when Bogie pulls out a flask, a cheeky librarian who has her own card catalog in mind, a saucy taxi driver who can’t resist volunteering her private phone, a sullen moll fronting for a rare-book pornographer.

But Bacall, as proven both in her earlier introductory film and in her later successes, can easily hold her own in a crowd. To counter the parade of wise-cracking supporting dames, and to accentuate Bacall’s sexy presence, Hawks encouraged his screenwriters to further inflame the script with surprising innuendo. They pumped up added scenes with suggestive conversation — for instance, in their famous racing repartee, after Bacall compares Bogart to her optimum horse, he replies in turn, “You’ve got a touch of class, but I don’t know how far you can go,” and Bacall responds, “A lot depends on who’s in the saddle.”

The violent script hews closely to Chandler’s cinematic novel — every time actions reach a stalemate, they are resolved with gunfire (by my count, five on-screen and three off-screen murders). The ensuing complications are held together (just barely) by Hawks’ fast-paced direction, which favors momentum over explanation. A telling example is the confusion over who killed Owen Taylor, a minor but important

figure to the plot. Bogart asked Leigh Taylor, who asked Faulkner, who didn’t know, so Hawks telegraphed Chandler himself, who replied, “Dammit, I don’t know either.”

In fact, to try to keep straight the twists and turns of the labyrinthine plot can lead to a massive headache.

It is much better simply to hop on board and go with the energy of the film’s myriad outrageous characters as they interact with a bemused Bogart.

But by the end of the film, even if you don’t know exactly what has happened or who has done what to whom, it all comes down to Bogart and Bacall again — rather improbably patching up their mutual differences and betrayals with an emotionally, if not intellectually, satisfying embrace.

The movie is available on FilmStruck and iTunes, streaming or disc.

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top and most respected facialists, will be in residence from August 18 to August 24. www.ondabeauty.com

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Health And Beauty

THE WEllNESS PlACES

It’s time to pamper yourself. Here are the best kept secrets for beauty and wellness.

Elements Fitness Studio. Elements is a boutique health and wellness fitness brand, redefining Barre, Dance, Stretch, Yoga, High-Intensity Interval Training, and Stand Up Paddleboard as total-body Fusion workouts founded by Andrea Fornorola Hunsberger. www.elementsfitnessstudio.com

Labor Day is approaching, though there is no let up as the pace of social events is in high gear and the weather, hot and humid. It feels like it’s time for some personal care and attention, with a dash of wellness.

Here are the beauty go-to people, the places to make you feel better, and of course, the star events you need in your calendar for the coming week.

THE BEAUTY PEOPlE

like a private salon for the luxe experience. www.akfsalon.com Siddhi Nails & Reflexology. Formerly called Marcella Nails until April of this year, the salon is now owned by Patricia Cabrara, who offers reflexology services alongside the hands and feet manicure expertise of Marcella and Constanca. www.siddhinailsreflexology.com

AKF Salon Southampton. Leah Ayres is the new owner, though Rose Ferraro remains an integral part of the team, providing a wide range of hair salon services such as cut, color, and blowouts to frazzled Hamptonites seeking beauty before entering the social scene.

Quiet and quaint, this best kept secret has an atmosphere which feels more

Naturopathica East Hampton. Naturopathica is a refuge from the whirl of the Hamptons where you can rebalance and recharge with signature rituals inspired by traditional remedies from around the world. Try the Blue Eucalyptus Energizing Massage, a holistic treatment to combat fatigue caused by our modern lifestyle. www.naturopathica.com Southampton Pilates. SH Pilates was founded by Marcelina Munford in 2013 and is across the street from the Southampton Inn, making it an ideal destination from which to roll out of bed and into a dose of wellness. The classical studio has a wide range of apparatus including the Cadillac, reformer, ladder barrel, spine corrector, wunda chair, mat, and magic circles. www.shpilates. com Bonheur Supreme Spa. Why not try the ultimate and enjoy a massage on Sunset Beach in Shelter Island?

Although rosé and a meal might be tempting, just imagine relaxing in an expert spa looking at and listening to the water. Bonheur Supreme Spa is the Hamptons sister of Lexson Therapy in New York City. Better yet, why not try its mobile service and if time is an issue, bring the experience directly to you. www.bonheursupremespa.com

Kevin Goicouchea is a celebrity hair and makeup artist who resides in the Hamptons, though he is professionally based between New York City, Bogotá, Colombia, and Los Angeles. Catch him if you can . . . www.instagram.com/kevingoicouchea/ Onda Beauty. Vogue Magazine’s Top 5 rated facialist and owner Larissa Thomson, with actress Naomi Watts as one of the partners, now has an outpost in Sag Harbor to rescue your face from the ravages of summer socializing in the Hamptons. London-based esthetician, Joanne Evans, one of the UK’s

a number of luxury brands such as Cayman Islands Tourism, Cohiba, The Macallan, ICON Aircraft, Smart Flower Solar, Laviano, and Jet-Aviation with the centerpiece being those luxury collector cars of Ferrari & Maserati of Long Island, to benefit the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.

By invitation only. www.theluxuryreview.com

THE STAR EVENTS Ferrari Maserati Private Charity Brunch. The Rand Luxury Ferrari Maserati Brunch, & Concours, hosted

by Ken and Maria Fishel, will be held at a private Bridgehampton estate on Saturday, August 18, bringing together

“An Evening Under the Stars” with Michael Bolton. The dream combination of a great person, worthwhile cause (children and women at risk), and superlative setup produced by Larry Scott of Lawrence Scott Events makes for a wonderful evening at which Samriti and Scott Seltzer will be honored, on August 18. www.michaelboltoncharities.com Luxe Wanderlust, A Hamptons Luxury Travel & Health Event. Exhibitors including Antigua & Barbuda Board of Tourism, Viceroy Hotel Los Cabos, Visit Britain/Visit Manchester, and WimCo Villas will gather at the Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton, providing a showcase for those seeking their next fix of luxury travel on August 18 from 3 to 7 PM. www.luxewanderlust.com WHBPAC: Rufus Wainwright. Celebrated musician, Rufus Wainwright will perform at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on August 18 at 8 PM as part of WHBPAC’s 20th Anniversary season. A musical polymath, Rufus’s second opera, commissioned by the Canadian Opera company, is set to premiere in Toronto this fall. www. whbpac.org

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AUGUST PLEIN AIR The Nature Conservancy 142 Route 114 East Hampton, NY South of Stephen Hands Path

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Reception: Friday, August 17 - 4 to 6 pm Gallery Hours: Monday- Friday: 10 am - 5 pm Closed: Wednesday, August 22 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: David Bollinger, Pat DeTullio, Anna Franklin, Barbara Jones, Teresa Lawler, Deb Palmer, Gene Samuelson, Christine Chew Smith, Frank Sofo, Bob Sullivan, Aurelio Torres and Dan Weidmann

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Apollo In The Hamptons Photos by Joe Schildhorn/BFA.com On Saturday, August 11, Apollo Theater Vice Chairman Ronald O. Perelman hosted a dinner and private concert at his East Hampton home, to benefit the non-profit Apollo Theater.

This year’s event raised more than $4 million to support the Apollo’s artistic, educational, and outreach programs, which build on the theater’s rich history as a cultural and economic anchor to Harlem, and as a nurturer of emerging talent.

The 9th Annual Apollo in the Hamptons featured a blowout concert with performances by legendary singer Chaka Khan, Sting, Shaggy, Alice Smith Jr., and a surprise visit from Chris Martin, with The Roots as the live house band. The event was co-chaired by Perelman, rock legend Jon Bon Jovi, Apollo Board Chairman Dick Parsons, and Chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and was underwritten entirely by Perelman.

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Food Truck Derby Photos by Richard Lewin The seventh annual Great Food Truck Derby returned to the Hayground School in Bridgehampton on Friday, August 10, hosted by Edible East End. Trucks from Manhattan to Montauk hit the pavement for an early evening of mobile eats, local wine, craft beer, and more.

Woman of the Year Photos by K. Doran for Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com The Pioneer Chapter of Hadassah hosted its 24th annual “Woman of the Year” fundraiser luncheon on Monday, August 6, at Oceanbleu at the Bath & Tennis Hotel on Dune Road in Westhampton Beach. This year’s Woman of the Year Award was presented to philanthropist, activist, and author Jean Shafiroff.

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Authors Night Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com East Hampton Library’s 14th Annual Authors Night fundraiser was held on Saturday, August 11. One of the most popular events of the Hamptons’ summer calendar, Authors Night featured 100 authors across all genres. The evening’s Founding Honorary Chair, Alec Baldwin, was joined by his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, both of whom signed their recent books.

Other featured authors included 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.

EH Library Fair Photos by Richard Lewin On Sunday afternoon, August 12, at the “555” field in Amagansett, the East Hampton Library held its annual Children’s Fair, a day of free family fun that always follows the library’s major annual Authors Night event.

There was something for everyone — carnival games, amusement park rides, hot dogs and brownies served by the East Hampton Lions Club, ice cream, zany magic shows, face painting, and more.

Children had the opportunity to meet the creators of the books they have on their bookshelves at home, and to buy the latest titles to add to their collections.

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Tractor Show Photos by Richard Lewin The East Hampton Historical Museum hosted an Antique Tractor Show on Saturday, August 11. The event was presented by the Long Island Antique Power Association.

Point Foundation Photos by Nanette Shaw Guests showed their support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students at an event to benefit Point Foundation on Saturday, August 11, in East Hampton. Point Foundation is the nation’s largest provider of higher education scholarships to LGBTQ students.

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Ready To Open Photos by Stephanie Lewin The show “Ready To Open,” with work by artist CHO Yea Jae, opened at The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton on August 9. The South Korean artist brings a fresh perspective on life and North and South Korean affairs in her debut U.S. exhibition.

Hamptons Cup Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com The Hamptons Cup, presented by Cartier to benefit Robin Hood Foundation, was held in Water Mill at the Equus Polo Club on August 6.

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Budapest Festival Orchestra Photos by Annie Watt The Friends of Budapest Festival Orchestra, including Sylvia Hemingway, Heidi Lee Komaromi, Peter Thomas Roth, Christine Schott, George Ledes, and Victoria Wyman, hosted a chamber concert at the home of Penny and Jay Lieberman on Friday, August 3, in Southampton.

Jack Lenor Larsen's Birthday Photos by Sabine Dietrich Hindra Jack Lenor Larsen celebrated his birthday on Saturday, August 4, at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton. Said the 91-years-young master weaver, “Extreme old age is much better than it’s cracked up to be.” The evening began with cocktails, followed by a unique botanical Shakespeare concert featuring period instruments and songs citing the flowers and herbs in Elizabethan poems.

Guests included Judy Auchincoloss, Paolo Bartolani, Board Chair Dianne Benson, Katja Goldman, Helen Harrison, Arthur Hochstei, Susan Wood Richardson, Michael Sonnenfeldt, Lee Skolnick and JoAnn Secor, and Executive Director Matko Tomicic.

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Women Artists Photos by Richard Lewin “Women Artists: Reshaping The Conversation,” a series of panel discussions in the LongHouse Reserve Garden hosted by Toni Ross, continued on Saturday, August 11, with a conversation with Carla Chammas, Carrie Moyer, Dorothea Rockburne, and Terrie Sultan.

LIMPIA Fundraiser Photos by R. Cole for Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com LIMPIA, a non-profit organization working to create awareness and inspire change for water quality on the East End, held its summer fundraiser at the Crow’s Nest in Montauk on Saturday, August 11.

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Toga For Baubo Photos by Bridget LeRoy To-GA! To-GA! A rousing toga (or summer whites) party, featuring kids’ activities and aerialists, was held at The Backyard at Solé East on Thursday, August 9, as a benefit for The Neo-Political Cowgirls’ production of Baubo, which is being performed at the Montauk County Park through August 18.

ARF Appreciation Photos by Joe Cipro An Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons volunteer appreciation party was held at Urban Zen in Sag Harbor on Friday, August 10. Guests were invited to shop, and 15 percent of sales were donated to ARF.

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1770 House: Cozy, Colonial Atmosphere This historic restaurant serves noteworthy food, award-winning wine

By Hannah Selinger

Not that East Hampton’s 1770 House is unpopular in summer (it isn’t), but the restaurant truly comes to life in winter, when its cozy, 18th Century atmosphere — emphasized by plush antiques, low ceilings, and original wood beams — provides respite from the elements. The restaurant has been functioning, in one capacity or another, at least as far back as 1942, and its richly embroidered history is part of East Hampton.

In 2002, restaurateur Ben Krupinksi purchased the restaurant, which he ran — along with Cittanuova and East Hampton Point — until his untimely death in a plane crash this June.

The building itself — the actual 1770 house — enjoys a storied past.

Erected in the 1600s, the building was initially owned by William Fithian, an English settler who lived in East

Hampton with his wife, Margaret, beginning in 1640. Later, Jonathan Dayton, a third-generation resident of East Hampton, purchased the property, which was inevitably passed down to his grandson, Dr. Bolivar Dayton.

Dr. Dayton served as a surgeon in the Civil War and as East Hampton’s town doctor until 1886. Regardless of the home’s origin (and Fithian’s role in creating it), the 1770 House was regarded as “The Jonathan Dayton House” for many years. Its current name, however, refers to its roots as an inn. In 1770, the house became an inn for travelers, and its modern-day identity was born.

Today, the 1770 House is both inn and restaurant, restored to reflect its original Colonial architecture (white clapboard exterior, for instance). The staircases and exposed beams within are all original. On a cold winter eve-

ning, there are few spots more inviting than the restaurant’s wood-paneled parlor, equipped with one of several working fireplaces. Oriental rugs, candlelight, and elegant appointments define the space. It’s impossible to feel anything but Colonial in the warm, inviting, historic space.

But the 1770 House, décor notwithstanding, is more than a one-trick pony. The food is noteworthy, too. At the helm since 2013, Chef Michael Rozzi curates an impeccable menu, highlighting local ingredients, like fluke and local produce.

The basement’s tavern (which also boasts its own fireplace) serves more casual cuisine, included a much-lauded meatloaf. Rozzi’s spicy Montauk fluke tartare, adorned with pickled cucumber and wasabi tobiko, is an admirable take on an old classic, and local beets shine in conjunction with Mecox Dairy Bascom Blue cheese, sunflower seeds, endive, and bacon. Summer striped bass, also local, benefits from the season’s bounty: sweet corn, Dutch runner beans, and a potato ragu.

And then there is, of course, the wine. In 2006, Michael Cohen took over the restaurant’s wine program, a position he has held ever since. In the intervening years, he has built a 250-bottle wine list, which has garnered national attention. Since 2007, the list has held a coveted Wine Spectator Award. The expansive list includes verticals of Opus

One and Bond, top growth Bordeaux, and a panoply of wines made by Italian legend Angelo Gaja.

As for the inn, well, it’s more than just a stopover for passing travelers these days. The inn has six suites, as well as a two-story carriage house, most of which are equipped with their own fireplaces. The carriage house comes with its own kitchenette, as well as a porch and private garden, divine even in the cooler months. Summer is a lovely time to visit the restaurant, too, to be clear. An intimate patio, flanked by hydrangea, sparkles under strung Edison bulbs.

It may not have been exactly what William Fithian envisioned when he built his home nearly 400 years ago, but something tells me he would be fine with how everything turned out.

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New Moon Café: Hearty Fare In East Quogue Tex Mex eatery specializes in BBQ and comfort food

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com If you’re looking for miserly portions of the hot-topic unpronounceable food of the week, served on interestingly shaped plates with micro garnishes, then the New Moon Café is definitely not for you. But if you’re in the mood for a good steak and a brew, a comfortable atmosphere, and some stickto-your-ribs cooking, then come on in through those swinging doors, pardner.

New Moon Café is a family owned and operated Tex Mex restaurant located in the heart of East Quogue. Serving

the East End since 1978, New Mooners Shana and Ron “Ole Tex” Campsey have been offering up hearty fare, late night drinks, a bar menu, and a weekend breakfast for the past 40 years, and have pleased both locals and out-oftowners who make up their loyal base.

My guests for the evening were fellow “Westies” (those who live west of the canal), the Press News Group’s Executive Editor Joe Shaw and his wife, the Group’s Photo Editor Dana Shaw, two of the finest people the East End

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has to offer. It made sense for us Westerners to go full-on cowboy for the night, and New Moon was the ideal spot for that.

The décor at New Moon is downhome diner style. License plates, oil paintings, and old advertising signs compete for space in a large, woodpaneled room, which features a friendly “saloon” atmosphere with drinks and pub grub.

Joe and I shared a salad to start, a deconstructed Greek with greens, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, and feta cheese, in a cilantro-lime vinaigrette.

We just sort of picked at it, which wasn’t the salad’s fault. We were waiting on the main courses, which heavily accented meats of the smoked and slathered variety.

Dana chose a mac-and-cheese appetizer that could have been a main course (for an additional couple of bucks, you can add chorizo sausage to the dish). Now, you’d think you can’t go wrong with mac-and-cheese, but I beg to differ. I’ve had some pretty nasty,

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But the mac-and-cheese at New Moon was just right. It was topped with crunch, filled with cheesy goo, and the pasta was perfect. Just what you want if you’re seeking a dairy-and-gluten filled extravaganza of comfort food.

For my main course, I got the special, a sliced marinated steak with mushrooms, onions, and balsamic. It was very flavorful and filling, and lasted me for three days.

Joe opted for a mixed kebob dish — a medley of chicken, shrimp, and steak with grilled mushrooms, onions, and peppers, served with a side dish of a delicious Asian-style dipping sauce.

The meal came with a mound of seasoned rice on the side, and fresh vegetables. “This is really good,” said Joe of the sauce. It was indeed tasty, and I test-drove a piece of chicken in it.

Dana got the crème de la crème, however, a barbecued brisket dinner with mashed potatoes, baked beans, and a piece of watermelon, to boot.

This is where the New Moon Café really shines. Whether it’s steaks, burgers, or other grilled goods, the restaurant delivers full platters of moist and mouthwatering concoctions.

There is a veggie burger and other choices for those who prefer to go meatless, but the accent here is on all things blackened and barbecued. There are nightly specials like Tex Mex Mondays and Taco Tuesdays, and margaritas come in all flavors from blueberryginger to strawberry-jalapeno. For the rest of this month, enjoy music on the porch on Sundays, and breakfast is served all year round on the weekends, along with dinner seven days a week.

If you’re in the mood for a steak with all the trimmings, or some downhome ‘cue, or a place to bring the family where everyone can find something they like, then look no further than East Quogue for a Western feel.

For more information, visit www. newmooncafeeq.com.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Crab Cakes

Ingredients (serves 4) 1 lb jumbo lump crabmeat 1/2 white onion (minced) 1/4 c parsley(chopped) 1 1/2 Tbsp Old Bay seasoning

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Directions Begin by mixing all of the ingredients.

Then form your crab cakes.

Heat the olive oil and butter over medium heat in a sauté pan. Slowly cook the cakes over medium heat, flipping the cakes regularly to brown the outsides.

Heating them all the way through should take about 15 minutes.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Ayesha Nurdjaja Grilled corn at the shuk with tarragon yogurt and harissa

By Zachary Weiss

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Who: Ayesha Nurdjaja, Head Chef of Shuka Soho

use it as a spread on a sandwich or loosen with lemon juice and drizzle over a summer salad.”

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Grilled Corn at the Shuk with tarragon yogurt and harissa powder

2 1/2 c yogurt 1/2 c water 4 Tbsp Harissa 1/4 c preserved lemon purée 1/4 c chopped tarragon 2 Tbsp salt

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Directions:

“I love corn in the summer. For me, there is no way better than to eat grilled corn off the cob. This dish is inspired by eloite, the Mexican street corn, however I’ve taken a healthier approach using yogurt instead of mayo and cheese.

A real crowd pleaser at your next BBQ. If you have left over yogurt, you can

Mix all the yogurt ingredients together in a bowl with a whisk. Grill corn, cut into thirds. Skewer the cut side and roll the corn in the tarragon yogurt.

Finish with ground sumac and aleppo chili and squeeze of lemon and picked tarragon leaves.

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Where to Wine

By Peggy Spellman-Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

Let it wine. If you have an event for our guide, email peggy@indyeastend.com by Thursday 9 AM.

Baiting Hollow Farm Drop by for music by Craig Rose, $5 cheese plates, and drink specials — including 10 percent off bottles of wine, $8 glasses of wine, $5 glasses of beer, and $7 wineritas — on “Twilight Thursday,” August 16, from 5 to 9 PM. Craig Rose also plays from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM, followed by The Smoking Gun from 2 to 6 PM on Saturday, August 18. On Sunday, August 19, it’s The Smoking Gun from 2 to 6 PM. For more events, check out www.baitinghollowfarmvineyard.com.

Clovis Point On Saturday, August 18, The Earth-

tones will play from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. On Sunday, August 19, Handful of Chords will play from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Visit www.clovispointwines.com for more information.

Jason’s Vineyard Todd Grossman will play from 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Friday, August 17. Joe Hampton will take the stage from 1:30 to 5:30 PM on Saturday, August 18, and during the same times on Sunday, August 19, it’s George Barry.

For more vineyard news, go to www.jasonsvineyard.com.

Martha Clara Vineyards Wine Down Wednesdays is in full swing with music, a local food truck, and wine from 6 to 9 PM on Wednes-

day, August 15. On Saturday, August 18, take an educational vineyard walk beginning at 12 PM. Tickets are $5 to $15.

Looking ahead, the vineyard’s annual stomp party is September 9 from 1 to 5 PM. There will be live music and food, and tickets are $105 per person for VIPs. VIP admission includes inside access to the Manor House, a private hour of stomping, a complimentary glass of wine, and food options.

General admission is from 2 to 5 PM at $65 per person for wine club members and $75 for all others. Admission includes a complimentary glass of wine. For more information, visit www. marthaclaravineyards.com.

Palmer Vineyards Johnny Kroo plays from 4 to 8 PM on Friday, August 17. Alberto Bengolea plays from 1 to 5 PM on Saturday, August 18. If you are looking for a bite to eat, the Brockenzo Pizza Food Truck drops by starting at 1:30 PM. For more information, go to www. palmervineyards.com.

Pindar Vineyards Jen Kane plays on the Wisteria Deck from 6 to 8 PM on Friday, August 17, as part of “Sunset Fridays.”

Then, on Saturday, August 18,

the NO-FO Band takes the stage from 1 to 5 PM. Bob Carney will play during the same times on Sunday, August 19.

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.

And, don’t forget to partake of some Summer Sangria with Sweet Scarlett, which is $8 per 16 oz. cup through September.

Get ready for some fashion, wine, and art on Saturday, August 25, from 1 to 7 PM. There will be an island inspired festival, featuring a day of talented musicians, artists, pop up shops, food, and wellness. The event will feature music by Samantha Pearl.

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By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com A small group of about 50 students, employees, and other community members were crowded into a small section of bleachers usually reserved for fans of visiting teams in the Bridgehampton School gym on Friday, August 10.

“The Today Show” was in town,

and producers had transformed the north end of the tiny gym into a makeshift studio, with lights, cameras, and sound equipment, while ordering the assembly to remain hushed.

Somehow, the small crowd did not notice the entrance of the guest of the

hour: Shaquille O’Neal, a National Basketball Association Hall of Famer, who played on four championship teams over a 19-year career. O’Neal, who stands seven feet, one-inch tall and whose playing weight has been listed at north of 330 pounds, is ordinarily hard to miss.

As he crossed the floor, O’Neal motioned to the crowd to make a little noise and they obliged him with a raucous cheer.

In what was one of the worst kept secrets of the year, Shaq was in town to promote Killer Bees, the documentary about the school’s near-legendary basketball team, which, despite the school’s tiny enrollment and undersized gym, has won eight New York State titles.

The film was made by Ben and Orson Cummings, who attended the

school before going onto filmmaking careers.

Having O’Neal, who has been in several films and released a handful of rap albums, sign on as one of the film’s associate producers, has given the documentary, which has received good reviews from the critics — pardon the pun — a helpful buzz.

Ben Cummings acknowledged that O’Neal’s presence had helped open doors to a distribution deal.

The film can be watched on iTunes and Google Play, and Cummings said the next step is to get the film on Netflix and other streaming services.

The film, which premiered at last year’s Hamptons International Film Festival, has been screened in New York and Los Angeles — a requirement to be considered for an Academy Award.

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“We’re not done yet,” Cummings said. Getting the film positioned on the “short list” for the Oscars is next on the agenda, he added.

If anyone in the small gathering wanted to hear about why O’Neal decided to back the film, they’ll have to wait until Today’s segment on the team airs sometime between 8 and 9 AM on August 20. That’s because both O’Neal and the correspondent who interviewed him, Craig Melvin, were close miked and could not be heard in the stands.

No matter. Shortly after O’Neal finished his interview, the gym doors were flung open and hundreds of people rushed in.

Kids divided into two groups and drove to the basket, like a team doing pre-game warm-up drills, while the giant stood in the lane, swatting away shots when he felt so inclined.

Later, Shaq engaged in a shooting contest with Melvin and Elijah Jackson, a former Bee standout, who was one of the players featured in the film.

“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, wearing shades in the dimly lit gym, also made a cameo appearance, engaging in a game of Horse with kids from the Eastern Shore Players, a youth hoops team from Virginia, led by former Killer Bee Daryl Hemby, who were in town for a weekend tournament at the Southampton Town RecCenter in North Sea. One of their coaches, Marvin Johnson, said even though O’Neal retired seven years ago, the kids on his team all knew who he was.

The Cummings brothers and their camera crews followed the Bridgies, as the team was once known, during the course of the 2015-16 season as they tried to defend their state title. The film also explored the social-economic and racial divides that remain barely under the surface in Bridgehampton today.

The film, which was screened in the gym following Shaq’s appearance, was well received by the audience of community members.

And although it was not a day for speeches, Carl Johnson, the team’s former head coach, spoke briefly after the movie.

“What makes us special,” he told the crowd, “is we are a family, and no one can take that away from us.”

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Junior Lifeguards Win 10 Second for adult guard Paroz, Calabrese keeps title

By Peggy Spellman Hoey peggy@indyeastend.com

The junior lifeguards of the Hamptons Lifeguard Association fared better than their older counterparts — taking home 10 first places — in the Jersey Mike’s 2018 United States Lifeguard Association National Lifeguard Championships in Virginia Beach last weekend.

In the beach flags event, the juniors won the 14-to-15-year-old and 16-to 18-year-old boys and girls divisions, with Val and Lila Ferraro, William Schlegel, and Lizzie Neville taking home gold medals. Evan Schaefer also took first place in the boys beach flags division for nine-to11-year-olds.

Luke Castillo came in first place for the boys nine-to-11-year-old division in the beach run and board race. In the boys under-19 division

surf-swim-race, Chasen Dubbs took home first place. In the rescue race, the juniors took two first places, with Joey Badilla and Kevin Pineda in the combined Group A for 14-to-15-yearolds, and Rodin McKenna and Nicky Badilla in the combined Group B for 12-to-13-year-olds.

“Juniors do not score team points, but if they had, we would clearly be top team in the nation,” wrote Coach John Ryan Jr. in an email on August 12.

In the adult’s competition, top performers in the championships included men’s overall points winner Hayden Hemmens from Newport Beach and was followed by Ryan Paroz of Hampton Lifeguard Association. On the women’s side, Jenna Solberg of LA County took home her

third straight overall women’s title with 94 points, beating out teammate Kelsey Cummings, who came in with 89.5 points. Beach flags champ Amanda Calabrese, who ranked number 10 in overall women’s points, held on to her title, taking home her fourth medal in the event. Vanessa Edwardes took first in the 2K beach run for 60-to-64-year-olds.

In addition to ranking number two in overall men’s individual points, Paroz also took second place in the surfski event.

Calabrese said that this year definitely brought some of the toughest competition she had ever seen for the open and the juniors.

“Not only was [this] my fourth beach flags title, the one I wanted the most, but in my opinion, it was

the hardest earned. I want to thank the USLA for another awesome Nationals and all of the competitors for giving their all and making it a great week of racing,” she wrote in an email.

“The Virginia Beach Lifeguard Association was honored to host this inspiring group of life savers and elite athletes for the last four days and we cannot wait for them to return in 2019. We would like to thank all the officials, volunteers, sponsors and all who made this incredible event possible,” said Tom Gill, president of the Virginia Beach Lifeguard Association, cohost of the event.

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Boat Insurance - Friend Or Foe? An Update

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Even though the boating season is closer to the end than the start, we are well advised to be sure that we have insurance in place, even over the winter.

This column is about that.

To File or Not to File Most of us are familiar with insurance from owning a car. I don’t know about you, but the fear of “assigned risk” and massive spikes in the cost of annual insurance premiums keeps me from putting in for anything on my car unless an asteroid lands on it and totals it. How does that translate into boat insurance?

Unlike insurance for your car, it’s not mandated by the state, so do you really need it?

As noted in a prior column, most boats that sink do so right in their slip or out on their moorings. Insurance premiums for such losses can run from a couple of hundred dollars a year to thousands of dollars a year, depending, of course, on the value of the boat and the electronic package that it carries. It makes sense, to me at least, to protect that open-bow 17-foot Seahunt with the 150-hp Merc on her transom (worth $20,000 when you bought her) for a couple of hundred dollars a year,

just in case. Also, as you read in a prior column on groundings, you just might need towing and insurance covers that for a relatively small amount — say $100 a year.

Why protect that bow rider if you really take great care to ensure that all the through hulls are supple, that the battery is well maintained, and all the scuppers are kept clean? Well, if you can assure yourself of such caring attention, maybe it is worth booking the bet. Put the $250 you would have spent in a coffee can and save it year after year. You won’t get to $20,000 in your lifetime but it wouldn’t be the worst thing to take $1000 out of that coffee can one day and buy a new GPS with a big color screen for the boat (Did I say that you and the boat are getting older and that small black-and-white GPS is going to be impossible to see one day?)

But, from a personal experience, I had a neighbor’s boat break off its mooring during a nearly month-long nor’easter we had back in October 2005, and it set down on my very wellmaintained 25-foot Chris Craft launch.

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company to be able to raise her. The insurance company didn’t need too much convincing that I wasn’t derelict in maintaining the boat. It also helped that I told the truth on the application when I said it would be on a mooring and not fast to a dock at a marina.

But what if it had just sunk on her mooring because the scuppers got clogged with leaves and, eventually, she filled with water from rain and sank as the battery drained down to nothing? By the way, it doesn’t have to rain much. Just enough to have the boat sit lower in the water than she was designed for. Then, wind-driven waves can ship some water aboard, causing your pride and joy to sit even lower. A vicious cycle, leading to a sinking… Any insurance company is going to look at such facts and consider assigning some blame to you.

Translation? Less than full book value.

How about if the wire running from the battery to the bilge pump was found to have been chafed? Not enough to short out (which you might catch a number of ways, such as the circuit breaker tripping) but enough to reduce the juice driving the 1000-gph bilge pump to a trickle. When the insurance company’s surveyor finds that, they will assign some amount of blame to you for not properly maintaining your boat.

Translation? Less than full book value.

Look, if you deal with the major insurance carriers, their staffs are generally well-trained, and they are not out to cheat you. But they aren’t Santa Claus either. If the facts are friendly, you will get what you paid for and you will get it with a smile. When my 25-foot boat was sunk, for the first 24 hours I was walking around like I had lost a puppy or worse. Then I said to myself, “It is time for a new boat. Thank God, this is only a money issue.” And the insurance company was fast with the settlement.

However, if you haven’t been giving your maritime baby the caring she needs or ensuring that she is getting it from the dock master, you will find that the kindly insurance adjuster can be as cold as a January arctic blast across Moriches Bay.

They are neither your friend nor your foe. They are your insurance company. Give your vessel good care and attention. Let the facts always be friendly. But check out whether you are covered for environmental damages like fuel spills associated with the sinking.

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By Bob Bubka

The Money Is On Brooks Koepka is on a roll bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com The PGA of America its 100th anniversary of the PGA Championship this past week and to be candid, it may take another 100 years to duplicate the 2018 edition.

The central participants were some of the biggest names in golf. Coming down the stretch on Sunday, so many big names were in the hunt with a chance to win.

Let me get this out right now. My pick for the week was Ricky Fowler. Going into the final round, my crystal ball was on fire. Too bad Ricky was not. Just three off the lead starting his Sunday round, Fowler was unable to make me a marked man around the sports bet-

ting windows in Vegas. Fowler, when he needed it the most, came up empty. In fairness to Ricky, he was playing hurt, with a rib injury.

Jon Rahm, from Spain, was also in the mix but a two-under-par Sunday round just didn’t get the job done. So, after 100 years of this championship, no player from Spain has ever won it. Defending champion, Justin Thomas, appeared at times on Sunday like he was going to step back into that winner’s circle, but missed some short putts to short circuit catching Brooks Koepka. Adam Scott, formers Masters champion, who was granted a special exemption into the field, justified the honor with his third-

place finish. Scott competed this week with two putters in the bag, one long and one short, certainly not a boost of confidence.

The final round created a massive dose of excitement, as Tiger’s famous final round Sunday colors, the familiar red and black, were on display. One of the craziest stats in all of sports is that Tiger has never come from behind on Sunday to win a major. He was tough once again in the final round, and the crowds could not get enough. On his front nine, Tiger looked more like Houdini than a professional golfer.

He made four birdies and only one bogey in those first nine holes. What’s the big deal you say? Well, the Houdini named Tiger did not hit a single fairway in that stretch. On Championship Sunday, that’s like being in a heavyweight fight with one hand tied behind your back. He came up short but from where he was a year ago, not knowing whether he could play again, it was a remarkable performance.

Equally remarkable was when Tiger gave a thumbs up to the massive crowds after he finished play, much like Arnold Palmer was famous for doing. He also waited to congratulate Koepka as he came off the course, a great sign of respect.

This is the new gentler, kinder Tiger, which might be directly related to

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not knowing if he would ever get to play golf again due to his injuries. Apparently, he appreciates the second chance and has decided to make the most of it, for which I commend him. Also, it’s possible that thoughts of his friend, Jarrod Lyle, who lost his battle with cancer at the age of 36 earlier in the week might have crept into the picture. Unfortunately, there are no second chances for Lyle, who leaves behind a wife and two young daughters.

From that perspective, Tiger’s second chance has to look awfully good.

Koepka, who looks like he could play any sport well, is on a roll. Out of the last six major championships that he has played in, he has won half of them.

Only four players in history have won the U.S. Open and the PGA in the same year. Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods. Koepka can now add his name to that short list in the history books.

At this place in time, we have three players one victory shy of winning all four of golf’s majors. The Masters, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship, and the PGA Championship. Rory McIlroy needs to win the Masters, Phil Mickelson needs to win the U.S. Open, and Jordan Spieth, the PGA Championship.

My money is on Koepka to win the Open Championship and the Masters to complete his career grand slam before the other three.

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IndyFit: School Of Hard Nocks It will knock you out nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily Growing up, my professional athletic aspirations in high school were equally divided between becoming a Rip Curlsponsored surfer or a kick boxer — both of which never came to fruition, of course. The latter came after I joined a local gym where amateur boxers trained. Two of them taught women’s kickboxing lessons. Before and after my hour-long class, I’d sit around the boxing ring and watch the men spar.

I became enamored, not by their physiques, but by the intense power and strength that was displayed.

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That’s why meeting Jeff Nockelin of the School of Hard Nocks in Greenport was a welcome challenge after all of these years. I arrived at his boxing studio to a scene right out of Rocky (which happens to be both of our favorite boxing movie), with basic workout gear in the front and a full-size boxing ring in the back, and padded flooring between. It was nothing fancy but everything that was necessary.

Nockelin, an amateur fighter, who turned down two offers to go pro and once worked with three-time World Champion Greg Haugen, was exactly what I’d expect: an intimidating and beastly boxer’s build and an old-school, rough-around-the-edges, but friendly personality. The visual definition of what you’d want in a trainer.

Knowing my prior training, he gave me an extended 45-minute session spanning boxing, core, cardio, and resistance training — or what he calls Super High Intensity Training — to get “Fighter Fit.” Basic dumbbell lifts, planks, and sit-ups were incorporated between the more difficult versa climber (like a StairMaster on steroids) and prowler push sled (like running on steroids) with hard beats playing in the background for motivation. To work out my back, Nockelin instructed me through a more primal exercise, sledgehammering a tire. Once the adrenaline kicked in, I was unstoppable: swing, hit, jump, switch; swing, hit, jump, switch. By the end of my reps I had nearly passed out.

Then I was led into the ring — “Eye of The Tiger” playing in my head — where Nockelin handed me gloves and guided me through several choreographed boxing movements. Jab, cross, hook, uppercut, duck, and weave, all

around the ring. Small motions, fast repetition, little rest times in between, burning fat while building lean muscle.

Nockelin got into boxing after training with his older cousin as a teenager, and has stayed true to it ever since. “I’ve spent a lot of years and have been through a lot of experiences putting my workouts together. I really have a passion for what I do because I’ve seen in myself and in my clients the benefits and great quality of life that comes from it,” he said. “I sculpt people’s bodies to look amazing and work even better.”

By the end of it all, I nearly threw up from pushing myself so hard. As truly exhausting as it was, I felt stronger physically and mentally. It was a feeling I had almost forgotten but deeply missed, the feeling of being an empowered badass.

Sessions are 30 minutes each at $40 a session. Since each session is guaranteed to knock you out, Nockelin recommends going with the 30 minutes before requesting a full hour.

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It was a feeling I had almost forgotten but deeply missed, the feeling of being an empowered badass.

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Suffolk Football Rankings Released Westhampton tries to protect its winning streak

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Section XI, the governing body for high school sports in Suffolk County, has released its pre-season football rankings.

The rankings factor into a complicated points system that rewards teams that beat higher ranked schools and helps

to determine which teams make the playoffs.

Westhampton, the undefeated Long Island champions and one of the best East End teams of all time, come in ranked second in League III, a bit

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Half Hollow Hills West, ranked first in the league, could imperil the Hurricanes’ bid for a second consecutive undefeated season.

Last season the two teams played in the Suffolk County Championship game, and the Hurricanes overcame a determined Half Hollow Hills West squad to win 28-14 before a crowd estimated at 5000 strong.

The Hurricanes dug deep last year to prevail against HHHW, using a punishing defensive effort to augment their strong rushing attack led by Laube.

The victory bore out Coach Bill Parry’s belief that the team is still improving, but Hills was peaking at exactly the right time as well.

There has been a noticeable decline in the quality of play on the East End and in the number of schools even fielding teams. East Hampton, seeded

11th of 12 teams in League VIII, has already announced it will not participate in varsity football this year. Greenport, Mattituck, and Southold will combine forces in order to put a team on the field. Nevertheless, the North Forkers are ranked 12th and last.

Southampton and Pierson will combine forces, and sit eighth in the preseason rankings. Mercy High School closed in June. Hampton Bays, ranked 10th, will once again take on the bigger schools.

Correction A photo caption for the Travis Field Memorial Softball Tournament in the August 8 issue of The Independent misidentified Travis Field, in whose memory the tournament was held. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Travis Field Memorial Scholarship Fund.

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This Week In Indy, 1998 New post office planned, spending cap changes proposed

By Justin Meinken justin@indyeastend.com

Plans to build a new post office on County Road 39 took center stage in Southampton in August 1998. Traffic was a concern among both anti and pro-development community members. The 17,000-square-foot building was slotted to be built on a 2.46-acre lot next to Burger King.

The village mayor at the time, Douglas Murtha, along with several town residents, rejected the plan. One town resident, who expressed concern about the accessibility of the location, told Indy, “You can’t make a left turn until midnight.”

The mayor added, “We really depend on our postal building more than a lot of other buildings in this community.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service indicated that 1000 questionnaires had been sent out to local

residents to get community feedback regarding the need for a larger facility. The Postal Service also planned to conduct a traffic impact study on the proposed office.

Another issue which caught the attention of local residents this week in 1998 was the town’s spending cap.

Residents had voted the cap into effect in 1993 and extended it in 1995, keeping it in effect until the year 2000.

A public meeting of the Southampton Town Board was held to discuss the board’s proposal to make changes to the spending cap.

The board reported that since the cap would only allow a small increase in spending, obligatory contractual increases in civil service salaries and other mandatory services might not be able to be met unless other programs were reduced or eliminated.

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THE VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING: Treasurer Position-Applications can be obtained at the Village Hall office located at 55 Main St. between the hours of 9am & 4pm Monday through Friday.

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RUNNER-EH VILLAGE, LUXURY BOUTIQUE INN, The Mill House Inn. Job duties include supporting housekeepers with lifting and supply runs. Also performs light maintenance, grounds keeping and a variety of other tasks. This is a Fulltime, year-round position.

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FRONT DESK & CONCIERGEEH VILLAGE, LUXURY BOUTIQUE INN, The Mill House Inn. Job duties include customer service, serving of breakfast, attentive all day guest services, and light phone sales. This is a Fulltime, year-round position.

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BREEZY is an RSVP Inc. community outreach rescue. He has been in boarding and training for 9 months now (with our wonderful trainer Ray). He went from a boy who has spent his entire life of 5 year on a chain, fighting the elements and fearing any socialization from volunteers that fed him weekly.

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Labor Day, Monday, September 3, 2018 10K 9:00 A.M.; 5K 9:20 A.M. Entry Fee: $35.00 Adult; $20.00 Age 12 & under or 65 & over; ($40/$25 Race Day; REGISTRATION 7:30 TO 8:45 A.M.) * Awards * Refreshments * T-Shirts * JMS Race Timing Name___________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________ Email:_________________________Phone_________________ Age______ D.O.B. ______________ Male ______ Female_____ 5K Run________ 5K Walk_________ 10K Run__________ WAIVER & RELEASE: In consideration of your accepting my entry to the Great

Bonac Footraces, I hereby for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators waive and release any and all rights and claims for damage I may have against the Town of East Hampton, the Springs Fire Department (SFD) and the Old Montauk Athletic Club (OMAC), their employees, agents, officers, the volunteers and their representatives, successors and assigns for any and all injuries suffered by me in this event, or as a result of my travel to and from the competition, or if signing as guardian waiver and release same on behalf of my charge. I authorize the event personnel and their agents permission to request emergency medical treatment or care as necessary to insure my well being or

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