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shed some light on the subject with his latest book, “Ballpark: Baseball in the American City,” a look not only at the game and the stadiums at which it is played, but at the psychological, sociological, and economic effect on the cities that are lucky enough to have their own team and arena. “I felt like doing something different,” he said. Goldberger’s book before this one, a biography of the architect Frank Gehry, was also a departure from his other publications, mostly essays or histories, sometimes with a concentration on a particular modern master like Charles Gwathmey or Richard Meier, but without as much biographical material. “I had never written a biography before,” he said. “So even though it was architecture, it was different.” Goldberger, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, began his career at The New York Times, where he was award-

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From Buildings To Ballparks What led the East Hampton resident to switch up his focus from buildings to ballparks? Admittedly, heading into the world of sports — rife with emotional territoriality — was new turf, “but I have been a baseball fan my whole life. I cannot tell you who played in the 1927 World Series, but I’ve always loved the sport.” [By the way, it was one of the most important World Series of the early years of the sport, as the Yanks swept the Pirates, making it the first time an American League team had taken the title, as chronicled in the book, “One Summer: America, 1927” by Bill Bryson.] “But what I can tell you,” Goldberger continued, “is that Fenway Park and Tiger Stadium, in Detroit, both

in the suburbs, so I was used to lawns, but I had never seen a lawn as perfect as this, and the fact that you came to it by going through the city, and through this very urban structure, into this Garden of Eden — that’s what really got to me. Even as a kid, I couldn’t articulate it, but I felt this combination of city and country bumping up against each other in this amazing way that it does in no other place. And that is the magic of a ballpark.” The baseball stadiums also hold a treasured past. “It really is the history of American cities,” Goldberger said. “So, this book is partly a history of baseball, but it’s also about how baseball and American cities have intertwined histories. A ballpark becomes a critical definer of urban identity, if you have a team.”

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There was a heavy police presence on the grounds of Second House in Montauk Friday as the murder of Robert Casado was investigated. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

Montauk Man Murdered In Kirk Park Robert Casado, 38, died after being attacked early Friday morning By Stephen J. Kotz and T.E. McMorrow sjkotz@indyeastend.com t.e@indyeastend.com

A Montauk man, Robert Casado, 38, died after being attacked with a blunt instrument, possibly a hammer, according to the police, the morning of June 6 on a trail in Kirk Park in Montauk. The attack occurred about 7 AM, East Hampton Town police said. Casado’s body was found by two people walking along the trail about a half hour after the attack. “We are treating this as a murder investigation,” said Det. Lt. Kevin Beyrer of the Suffolk County Police

Department homicide squad. Beyrer said the victim suffered severe head trauma. Since then, police have had divers search nearby murky Fort Pond, apparently looking for the weapon. Police had not made any arrests as of the morning of June 10. Beyrer said after the attack that there were no signs that the murder was gang-related. The detective spoke to reporters at the park Thursday afternoon, June 6, at about 2:30, as members of Casa-

do’s family gathered around a parked Honda Pilot just east of Second House, which is in Kirk Park. A small group of bystanders looked on. Several police cars lined Montauk Highway in front of Second House in the hours after the attack, as police, who had closed off Second House Road in the morning, combed the grounds, searching for evidence. Suffolk County Police vehicles, including a large command post and crime laboratory trucks were parked on the Second House grounds. Beyrer said East Hampton Town Police had received a 911 call of a man with “injuries to his head” on a trail in tthe park. Initially, Beyrer said the man was from Montauk, but he would not identify him. The Suffolk County Homicide Squad, working in conjunction with the East Hampton Town Police Detective Squad, is investigating the murder. Suffolk County police deployed canine units, along with crime scene investigation trucks, plus many detectives in the hours after the murder. The investigators sealed off Kirk Park and Second House Road between Montauk

Highway and South Elroy Street, as they worked throughout the day and into the evening. Second House Road and Kirk Park were both reopened to the public by Friday morning. A Montauk resident who is familiar with the victim’s family said that he had worked for Mickey’s Carting, and walked to his job at the Mickey’s truck depot at the end of North Shore Road every morning at the same time. North Shore Road is accessed off of Second House Road where it intersects with Industrial Road. A path in Kirk Park is commonly used as a shortcut between Montauk Highway and Second House Road. Beyrer said that Casado was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by Montauk ambulance, where he was pronounced dead. “We will have a medical examiner, a pathologist, examine the injuries,” he said. “I can’t specifically say what the mechanism of injury was, but there was head trauma.” Beyrer asked anyone with information about the case to call Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 800-220TIPS or the East Hampton Town Police at 631-537-7575.

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Gosman’s Soups Choice of Chowders or Lobster Bisque The emergence of PFAS as a significant contaminant in drinking water was underscored again June 6 when the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation placed 47 acres in and near East Hampton Airport on its Superfund list. There are a half-dozen locations in Suffolk that have been identified as hotbeds for perfluoroalkyl substances in the last few years. These chemicals were first detected in Westhampton and Westhampton Beach, then Bridgehampton, Yaphank, Wainscott, and East Quogue. For decades, the federal Centers for Disease Control and the state DEC did not recognize or simply underestimated the dangers associated with ingesting the chemicals. Perfluorinated chemicals like PFOS (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid) and PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) were commonly used in firefighting foam for decades, and local fire department used it to train at the airport. The chemical is also used to douse jet fires — explaining its presence at many U.S. Air Force facilities. According to a 2013 presentation by the Air Force, PFCs were found at every Air Force base that had been tested, which included Randolph in Texas, Robins in Georgia, Beale and McClellan in California, Eglin in Florida, Ells-

worth in South Dakota, and F.E. Warren in Wyoming. More recently widespread contamination was identified in Dutchess County emanating from Hudson Valley Regional Airport. In addition, the chemicals are commonly used in many household products, most notably 3M Scotchgard. Dow is being sued by numerous entities to force the company to share cleanup costs and East Hampton Town has indicated it may do so as well. The town has already presided over an effort to replace private drinking wells throughout the hamlet of Wainscott. Upon notice of initial findings of PFAS contamination in the fall of 2017, urged Wainscott residents to have their private wells tested, and provided free bottled water to anyone within the area of concern. There was some grumbling among residents there who said the town was aware of the contamination months earlier. The town ultimately arranged for the Suffolk County Water Authority to extend public water mains throughout the hamlet, which was completed at the end of 2018, and offered $3000 grants to those whose wells were found to contain PFAS to enable them to install water treatment systems in the interim, before public water became available. Continued On Page 29.

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Leaving Behind The Falkowski Farm Stand Owner closes Country Garden doors for good after 50 years By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The Country Garden farm stand on Scuttlehole and Millstone roads in Bridgehampton has been a local hot spot for fresh fruit and vegetables on the East End for decades. From Memorial Day to Thanksgiving, customers would line up to load up on corn, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, cauliflower, melons, and more. Now, the loyal group of followers will need to find someplace else to shop after owner Tom Falkowski decided to close his doors after 50 years.

Consumers looking for fresh strawberries and other fruits and vegetables will have to find a new place to buy them now that the Country Garden farm stand in Bridgehampton has closed. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

“He did everything he wanted to accomplish,” his wife of over 40 years, Jackie Falkowski, said. “He’s an excellent farmer, always proud of his product. He learned a lot of things from scratch, and his customers were always grateful.” Falkowski could be seen spending 10 to 12-hour days, sometimes longer, working in the fields. For years he’s been tapering off, but he’s not done yet. He was busy bailing straw and tending to the hay crop this week, his wife said. “It wasn’t easy,” Falkowski said of her husband’s demanding schedule,

adding that for her, it was also an adjustment. A city girl from Brooklyn, the surgical nurse said farm life took some time getting used to. “It was foreign from the beginning, but after 40 years, you get used to it,” Falkowski said, laughing. “You grow to love it. We had a big following. It was always busy.” The farmer found time to tend to his crops while raising four daughters, including Susan Parry, who used to farm alongside her father until she gave birth to a set of twins. Falkowski said this, plus the difficulty of finding help — not

in the fields, but at the farm stand — made it difficult to keep the doors open each season. She said her husband also had two knee replacements, so the timing seemed right. He declined to be interviewed for this article. “He did everything he wanted to do, and he’s happy in the end,” Falkowski said. “He’s a very intelligent and focused guy. He wanted to accomplish whatever he set his mind to and do it to the best of his ability. He never let anything slide. He’s just really dedicated. He figured he accomplished his goals, and a lot of people don’t get to do that.”

Isle Of Wight Parcel Eyed For CPF Half-acre of land slopes sharply down toward Hog Creek By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

The East Hampton Town Board hit the pause button, at least temporarily, on a purchase of a half-acre property on Isle of Wight Road in the Lionhead Beach Association area of Springs at a meeting June 6. The town is looking to buy the property for $650,000 from Dao Spencer, who, along with her husband, purchased the land along with an adjacent property many decades ago. The couple developed the adjacent plot, but left the land at 87 Isle of Wight Road undeveloped. The land slopes sharply down into Hog Creek. Scott Wilson, who is in charge of land acquisitions for the town, using Community Preservation Funds, explained the value of the property to the board. He said that the purchase would

protect the Springs watershed. Development of the property, he said, would allow contaminants to flow downhill into the already troubled creek. The Lion Head Beach Association had sent a letter to the town board, asking that it delay approving the proposed purchase until its members could weigh in on it. Alex Miller, the head of the association, addressed the board, saying he was not speaking for the association, but, rather, as a neighbor of the property in question. He commended Spencer for selling the land to the town, saying the thickly wooded site supports various birds and other creatures, many of which are endangered. He said that Hog Creek, which al-

The town is considering purchasing this heavily-wooded parcel of land from its owner. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

ready has high levels of nitrogen, must be protected. There was a time, Miller said, when Hog Creek provided an abundant home to wild scallops. The current levels of pollution, Miller added, is not sustainable. Other neighbors spoke, all in favor of the proposed purchase. However, they felt it important for all members of the association to be involved in the decision.

However, they also warned that there is a misconception about the results of such a purchase. Some, they said, fear the land will be overused recreationally if it becomes town property. Ira Barokus countered, “There is no such thing as an overused preserve.” The town board agreed to keep the record open for written comment until after the Lion Head Association’s next board meeting June 22.

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Sag Harbor Village Vote June 18 Four running for two seats on board; mayor is challenged By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Along with Kathleen Mulcahy challenging Mayor Sandra Schroeder, four are vying for two Sag Harbor Village Board seats in the upcoming June 18 elections. Incumbent trustee Aidan Corish is seeking a second term, and current board member Ken O’Donnell said he would not seek a fourth term. Challenging for the two positions are landscape and furniture designer Silas Marder, Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals member Bob Plumb, and real estate agent and attorney Jennifer Ponzini. Corish, a founding partner in the branding firm Tangram, serves as liaison for the wastewater treatment plant. Water quality is at the top of his priority list, and if elected, he plans to expand water quality testing throughout the vil-

lage. Corish also helped launch the village’s new website that allows users to sign up for automatic notifications and alerts. Plumb, president of Salt Construction Corp., has lived in Sag Harbor for 40 years and chose to run after the approval of a controversial 22,000-squarefoot West Water Street condominium project, which he voted against. He said the ZBA, Planning Board, and Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board have lacked reinforcement from the village’s board of trustees. Ponzini is a former Sag Harbor Village ZBA member and licensed associate real estate broker with Compass. The mother of three has been living in the village since 2010 and boasts expe-

rience as a residential and commercial real estate attorney, which she’s looking to use to bring forth legislation with the goal of creating a balance between protecting rental owners and neighbors. She said she’s committed to quality-oflife issues, and would like to address current issues involving waterways through updating the Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan. Marder, a member of the family that owns Marders garden center in Bridgehampton, says he is passionate about the environment and water quality protection. The former manager of Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton is looking to utilize his business skills to aid in analyzing and developing budgets, along with coordinating projects. Mulcahy, a former marketing executive who managed PepsiCo. and Frito-Lay’s retail advertising, said she’d like to see more open communication and flexibility between the village and its residents. Mulcahy wants the village board to be more accessible to the public by including quarterly Friday afternoon or Saturday morning meetings, rather than having them all on Tuesday evenings. Corish, whom Mulcahy supported when he first ran, would also like Friday afternoon meetings in addition to more public work sessions. For incumbent Schroeder, who is

Sag Harbor Village elections will be held June 18 from noon to 9 PM at the Sag Harbor Fire Department on Brick Kiln Road. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

seeking her third term, she’d like to start a long-term plan on drainage and road runoff, and spearhead the Long Wharf Pier restoration project, which the village board adopted the beginning phases of last month. Mulcahy said when it comes to the Long Wharf renovation, she thinks there’s money to be found, adding the village is “desperate” for a manager or administrator. The mother of two would also like to tackle protecting Sag Harbor’s waterfront. Voting will be from noon to 9 PM at the Sag Harbor Fire Department on Brick Kiln Road.

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Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman consults with assistant town attorney Kathleen Murray following the second of two meetings with East Quogue residents on the sufficiency of the East Quogue Village Exploratory Committee’s petition to incorporate. Independent/Desirée Keegan

East Quogue Village Petition Fails Test Schneiderman says lists of inhabitants includes 34 deceased individuals By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The East Quogue Village Exploratory Committee’s petition to put incorporation up for vote had been denied for now. In a nine-page decision issued Monday, June 10, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman concluded that the petition to incorporate the village, submitted April 3, does not meet the legal requirements because 34 people on the list of regular inhabitants have been found to be deceased. “In the case law that I reviewed particularly for the second department, which is the jurisdiction where Southampton is located, it was clear that an inaccurate list does not qualify,” Schneiderman said. “Cases with far fewer deceased individuals were ruled to be inaccurate and ineligible for incorporation vote.” The supervisor wanted to ensure a decision he made abided by the law, so it would be sustained if it were challenged,

although the exploratory committee would have that option should it choose to take Schneiderman’s ruling to court. Petitioners have 30 days to challenge the decision. “It’s very well researched,” Schneiderman said. “In the second department it’s shown to be a deal-breaker, even though in the third department — upstate New York — it’s OK; they have interpreted the law differently. The presence of deceased individuals here makes it inaccurate.” The committee also has the option to refile with an accurate list. The same signatures can be resubmitted, but the group would have to ensure a “due diligent, demonstrated good-faith effort that the list is complete and accurate,” according to Schneiderman. To do this would require the use of Continued On Page 17.

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Watch Out For Turtles! Although armored, they are no match for two-ton vehicles By Stephen J. Kotz sjkotz@indyeastend.com

An eastern box turtle confronts a common obstacle in Bridgehampton: curbing that is difficult, if not impossible for it to climb. Independent/Stephen J.Kotz

In the fable “The Tortoise and the Hare,” Aesop taught us that slow and steady wins the race. But there are times, like right about now, when being slow and steady is a definite liability. We are talking here about turtles, especially eastern box turtles, which so often end up being crushed as they try to cross the East End’s busy roads. The carnage can be doubly costly this time of year, according to Xylia Serafy, an environmental educator at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, because the turtles are on the move, especially during late

May and June, as they seek a suitable place to lay their eggs. How bad is it? Let’s just say that box turtles, once relatively abundant here on the East End, have now been declared a species of special concern by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which means they could soon disappear completely from Suffolk County. To be sure, errant drivers aren’t the turtles’ only enemy. Natural predators such as foxes or raccoons can rob their nests of eggs. The steady drumbeat of development has restricted

An all-too-common sight at this time of year is a dead eastern box turtle like this one seen on Montauk Highway in East Hampton. Independent/Stephen J. Kotz

and destroyed much of their natural habitat hereabouts. Landscapers rushing to get a lawn cut in time for the homeowners’ weekend arrival might accidentally run one over with a lawn mower. Biologists believe the typical box turtle could have a 50-year lifespan, but there is a documented case of one living 124 years, Serafy said, making the reptile “the longest living vertebrate on North America.” When you encounter a box turtle in the open, they shouldn’t be hard to miss, although for some reason drivers insist on making mincemeat of them. They have a domed shell, which typically has a pattern of black or dark brown interspersed with yellow or orange markings, although sometimes they are a duller brown tone. The more brightly colored specimens stand out like a jack-o-lantern when they cross a green lawn or blacktop road, but they blend in with their surroundings quickly when they crawl among the leaf litter in the woods, where they are likely to find an abundance of food, including beetles, slugs, and plant matter. The box turtle gets its name because its lower shell is hinged, allowing it to seal itself in a protective box when threatened. Unfortunately, that behavior doesn’t work so well on the road. Serafy said there is good reason

the turtles resolutely insist on crossing the road. “There is a part in their brain that recognizes where they were hatched,” she said. “Since they survived, they figure that is a suitable place to lay their eggs.” Drivers who see a turtle crossing the road can lend them a hand by pulling over and helping them across the road. Because the animals know where they are going — and will persist in traveling that direction — it is essential to carry them across the road and not bring them back to the side from which they started. Female snapping turtles, which spend most of their lives in ponds, are also often seen crossing the roads this time of year, searching for a suitable place to lay their eggs. Snapping turtles have a reputation for being nasty, but Serafy noted you’d be irritable too if you were out of your natural habitat and trying to find a safe place to lay your eggs. That said, it would not be wise to try to pet one’s head because it has powerful jaws that can claim a finger, and a neck that can reach almost all the way to the back of its shell. If you want to assist a snapping turtle, you are probably better off simply stopping traffic and accompanying it across the road, Serafy said. Pulling it by the tail is a definite no-no, because that could injure the animal’s spine.

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Shinnecock Still Ignoring Restraining Order Billboard remains operational while future court proceedings planned By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

On Friday, Shinnecock Indian Nation tribal lawyers and attorneys for Idon Media, the manufacturer of two double-sided 61-foot-tall electronic billboards being built along Sunrise Highway in Hampton Bays, appeared in New York State Supreme Court, where their project is being opposed by the state Department of Transportation. The briefing before Justice Sandford Berland June 7 was for the state’s request for a preliminary injunction against the nation. Different from a temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction requires that both parties receive notice and appear before the judge, and stop a party’s actions

— in this case, completion of the first billboard and construction of the second, along the north side of Route 27 — until litigation is over. The judge said he expected the Shinnecock Nation filed a motion to dismiss on Monday. Supreme Court Justice Cheryl Joseph’s temporary restraining order issued last month to prevent the tribe and its contractors from “conducting any and all activities relating to the construction, maintenance, and operation” of the signs until the court makes a determination on the case has been ignored, and the tribe filed papers in federal court against the DOT and the State of New York for their efforts

to stop construction, including three stop-work orders and a cease-anddesist letter. The tribe removed its complaint from federal court about a week after it was filed and submitted an amended version, according to Tribal Council Chairman Bryan Polite. “We don’t recognize the DOT’s authority or the state’s authority, and we have sovereign immunity from suit,” Polite said. While attorneys for the DOT declined to comment Friday, the DOT has made it clear it plans to continue to fight the erection of the signs, noting safety hazards specifically. “The state will continue to pursue whatever actions are necessary to fulfill its obligation to uphold state and federal law,” NYS DOT Assistant Director of Communications Glenn Blain said.

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Idon Media of La Quinta, CA, said the plans for the signs were well thought out, and his client does not believe it presents any kind of safety concern. “There are digital signs similar to this one that have the same kinds of images appearing and that kind of thing all over,” he said. “The safety argument that there’s a danger associated

Idon Media’s attorney Sean Byrnes in state Supreme Court June 7. Independent/Desirée Keegan

with the digital signs is not something that we accept, and that’s something the state is relying on.” Judge Berland asked the two parties, which are due back in court June 14, to discuss putting mutually agreedupon protective devices or barriers around the billboards. “We want to move forward on this as promptly as we can,” he said. Byrnes said he’s confident the tribe will win the legal argument that the land is protected and free from state and federal jurisdiction, noting the land is owned by the tribe and the property has never been taxed. “Every record you can look at in the public domain will tell you that Continued On Page 43.

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We are conducting a survey of what you would like in the village and would appreciate all those who are interested to fill one out on our website today. We are excited to be busy planning the first — in over 350 years —East Hampton Summer Festival in Herrick Park on August 17. We are accepting applications for arts booths, food vendors, and non-profits. If you are interested please email the chamber at info@easthamptonchamber.com or call 631-324-0362. Steven Ringel is the executive director of the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce. tition were not obtained based upon misinformation, and the petition is signed by at least 20 percent of residents in the proposed new village qualified to vote for town officers. “I felt this was the only decision I could make based on the facts and the law,” Schneiderman said. “It doesn’t matter whether I think incorporation is a good idea or not, whether I think people should be entitled to a vote. I tried to be as impartial a referee as possible. This is the law, the body of law, the framework of laws around me, and it doesn’t meet the criteria. There was no other conclusion I could come to.”

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Petition Fails Test

Board of Elections list and said these are the people that live in the area, but the Board of Elections hasn’t been purging the list. In the Town of Southampton there are probably thousands of individuals as registered to vote that are no longer with us, and that’s a problem.” In an email, Dave Celi, one of the committee’s co-chairs, said, “We are discussing the best course of action with our attorney to move this process forward to allow the people of East Quogue to have a vote about incorporation.” He said he believed that having a less than 1% error in the number of inhabitants over the two-year process “is

not a valid reason to deny our petition.” The supervisor said he did not support many of the objections brought forth at two separate hearings on the sufficiency of the petition, saying the burden of proof is on the objectors. For instance, he said he received tons of complaints about individuals on the list no longer residing in the area, and received printouts from whitepages.com as proof, showing the name of an individual with a different address. He said he did not find that met the standard for proof. What was met though, regardless of the list of regular inhabitants being inaccurate, was that the signatures on the pe-

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available records, like obituaries or governmental databases. It used to be that the Board of Elections requested death certificates from the town clerk, according to Schneiderman, to cull its own records. He said that no longer happens. The issue, is that the clerk cannot release death certificates to anyone without a valid governmental purpose, so the supervisor does not believe the records can be released to a group trying to incorporate. “That in essence is the problem,” Schneiderman said. “They took the

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Police Did Gilbert Plan To Kill Dad In Wainscott? Made New Year’s Eve roundtrip to EH five days before alleged murder By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com This ticket, shown to the jury in the murder trial of Thomas Gilbert Jr. was used for a round trip to East Hampton from Penn Station days before Thomas Gilbert Sr. was killed. It was presented to the jury by the prosecution as evidence June 4. Independent/Courtesy the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

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Five days before Tommy Gilbert allegedly murdered his father, Tom Gilbert, in his father’s Beekman Place apartment on January 4, 2015, Gilbert Jr. appears to have made a round trip from Penn Station to East Hampton, where his family had a house in Georgica Estates in Wainscott. Evidence of that trip was presented, without comment, in the Manhattan courtroom of State Justice Melissa Jackson Tuesday, June 4, by the detective who arrested Tommy Gilbert on January 5, 2015. Detective Joseph Cirigliano later told the jury that when police searched Gilbert’s locked room in his family’s house at 8 Georgica Association Road in Wainscott in March 2015 after the murder, they found locked in a safe over 100 rounds of ammunition and two holsters for the Glock .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun the son was said to have used to kill his father. His mother, Shelly Gilbert, had testified May 28 that her son, whom she was

very close to, but had not heard from in the weeks before the alleged murder, had put a lock on his door in the Wainscott house in 2014. Prosecuting attorney Craig Ortner told the jury during his opening statement that Tommy Gilbert had planned the murder well in advance, from the beginning of 2014. The train ticket that was introduced as evidence by the detective was one of many items stuffed in Gilbert’s wallet the day he was arrested. An image of the off-peak ticket was released to the media. The ticket was purchased by cash on December 31, 2014, at 4:10 PM, apparently at Penn Station. There is a train that leaves Penn Station weekdays at about 4:30 PM bound for East Hampton. The round-trip ticket was punched five times by conductors, meaning it was used both directions. Gilbert has been placed by a witness as being in Manhattan, at his West 18th Street apartment, the evening of January 2, 2015. Tom Gilbert celebrated his 70th

birthday on January 1, 2015. Shelly Gilbert stated in her testimony that she and her husband had not seen or had any contact with their son until he showed up at their Beekman Place apartment the afternoon of January 4, 2015. The son allegedly shot his father in the head at pointblank range after sending his mother out on an errand. The reason Gilbert would make a round trip to East Hampton has not been touched on, thus far, during the trial, which is now in its third week. Many families in the Georgica Association spend their holidays in Wainscott. The Gilberts were no different, with the home being the center of their lives, particularly during the holidays. Shelly Gilbert said during her testimony it was their true home. While the Gilberts spent most of their holidays in Wainscott, it appears they were not there on New Year’s Eve, 2014. The prosecution has not yet addressed in their presentation where they believe Tommy Gilbert stored the gun in

the months before the murder. Gilbert purchased the weapon from a Clarksburg, OH, man, John Jay Bennett. Bennett testified last week that he had advertised the Glock on Facebook at the beginning of May 2014, and that Gilbert had responded. After a series of emails back and forth, Gilbert agreed to drive to Ohio to take possession of the gun. Bennett, for the agreed upon $575, included about 150 rounds of ammunition, a couple of holsters, a laser sight, and a speed loader, which would greatly increase the speed at which the user of the Glock could reload magazines into the gun.. Bennett described Gilbert, who was sitting in his living room in Clarksburg, as gleeful when he finally had the Glock in his hands, repeatedly saying, “I can’t believe how easy this is.” At one point, as Gilbert and Bennett negotiated the transaction via email, Bennett wrote, “I know you will have a great deal of fun with her.” He signed the email, “Your obedient servant, In Christ, Jay Bennett.”

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Teenager Dies In Single-Car Crash Westhampton Beach High School graduate lost control of vehicle Br Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com An East Quogue man was killed Saturday morning, June 8, in a single-car accident on Old Country Road near Lewis Road in East Quogue. Gianni Mongelluzzo, 19, an honor student and first-rate baseball player who graduated from Westhampton Beach High School was driving and his car had no passengers. Mongelluzzo was driving at about 9:30 AM when he apparently lost control of his 1996 Chevrolet Corvette and crashed into a pole on Old Country Road in East Quogue, according to Southampton Town Police. Mongelluzzo attended elementary school at East Quogue School and

graduated from Westhampton Beach High School in 2018. He was a member of the National Honor Society and a topnotch baseball pitcher. He was a student at Clemson University at the time of his death. Also on Saturday, June 8, the Southampton Town Police Department arrested Jan-Carel Van-Heyningen, age 24, and Claudia Strzesak, age 18, both of Shirley, and charged them with passing counterfeit money. Police said they were alerted to an incident at a Hampton Bays Marina in which Van-Heyningen and Strzesak utilized counterfeit $100 bills to purchase two used 200HP Yamaha boat engines.

EH Cops: Man Passed Out, Charged With DWI Four men charged with drunken driving between June 8 and 10 By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

An East Hampton man was found passed out behind the wheel of a 2015 Toyota on Accabonac Road near his Banks Court home early Monday morning June 10, according to the po-

lice. Omar Leon-Saldana, 19, was unconscious when an officer approached the Toyota, which was pulled over to the side of the road, transmission in park, with the engine running, the East

Jan-Carel Van-Heyningen, left, and Claudia V. Strzesack, right, have been charged with Southampton Town police with passing counterfeit $100 bills. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town Police

The victim did not realize the bills were counterfeit until the pair had left from the area with the boat engines. The total amount passed was allegedly $5000. Both Van-Heyningen and Strzesak were hit with a charge of second-degree criminal possession of forged instrument, a class D-Felony. They were held overnight at Southampton Town Police Headquarters for arraignment at Southampton Town Justice Court. A Hampton Jitney employee was arrested on May 25 charged with taking almost $22,000 worth of truck parts. Brett Betheil, 48, of Miller Place, who worked as a bus mechanic for the Jit-

ney, stole numerous bus replacement parts in March and April. Riverhead Police picked up Betheil at the company’s Calverton facility. In other news, a sordid tale involving minors is playing out in Westhampton Village, where local police announced the arrest of two 12-year-old boys on felony sexual abuse charges. Relatives of a third, younger minor who was the alleged victim, went to police, and lodged the complaint. Police made the arrests at the end of May following an investigation. The two boys were charged with for sexual abuse in the first degree, a Class D felony.

Hampton Town police said. The arresting officer reported that Leon-Saldana said he was coming from Montauk. Allegedly failing sobriety tests, he was placed under arrest on a misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge, and was taken to police headquarters, where a breath test allegedly showed a blood-alcohol content of .16 of one percent, over twice the legal limit. Due to his local ties, he was ordered released without bail by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky after his arraignment later Monday morning. Three men were arrested Saturday morning, June 8, on misdemeanor DWI charges. Two of the three, Tomas Torres of Springs, 46, and Roger Tejas, 47, of Hampton Bays, refused to take the sta-

tionhouse breath test, causing Tekulsky to suspend their driving licenses for the next year, pending a hearing at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The third man arrested, Franklin Nieto-Cuesta, 45, of Springs, did reportedly take the breath test, with a .15 reading. His license was also suspended by Tekulsky, though, because he took the stationhouse breath test, he could be eligible for a hardship license to drive to and from work. Each of the three men got the same warning from Tekulsky during their arraignments: If they disobey his suspension orders and are charged with unlicensed driving while their cases are pending, and are convicted in front of him of that charge, “You will go to jail.”

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cialist who is way out in front of this thing. They’ve already secured radar data and communication data. It’s already archived in computers and we’ll get that. I’ve got a preliminary radar track that will help us understand his position/altitude and we’ll compare that to aircraft performance and what we can expect the airplane could provide to the pilot in the circumstances.” Raynor said the pilot declared an emergency due to a loss of engine power. “Whether that was total loss, partial, or the engine was surging, I don’t know,” he said. “We have eyewitness accounts, we have surveillance video of the airplane — a sort of wide shot showing the airplane traversing the property before it disappears from view right before ground contact that doesn’t offer a great deal of fidelity, but it does give us a better understanding of the final stages of the flight.” He said the airframe is significantly damaged by fire, but the NTSB was able to establish “control continuity from the cockpit area to all the flight control services and don’t see any signs of pre-impact mechanical anomaly of the airframe.” As of 1 PM on Sunday, June 9, NTSB was recovering the engine to be transported to Southold Police’s impound garage where investigators planned to see if they could complete examination or suspend the exam and transport the engine elsewhere to do a detailed analysis. “We’ve got a pretty strong confidence we know where the maintenance

Tragedy behind Harbes Farm; dog survives By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com A team from the National Transportation Safety Board is currently investigating the wreckage behind Harbes Pumpkin Farm in Mattituck to determine probable cause of a fatal plane crash that occurred Saturday, June 8. Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell confirmed the crash of the Beechcraft A36m aircraft, which resulted in the death of a man and a woman, occurred around 9:15 AM, after alleged mechanical issues led to the pilot attempting to land in the farm field. Representatives from Harbes Farm said in a press statement that they witnessed a low-flying plane crash and catch fire in the rear field, adding in a revised statement to The Independent, “Firefighters, police officers, and rescue personnel arrived at the scene within minutes and put out the ensuing fire. While en route to the scene, Edward Harbes recovered a dog that was found to have been an occupant of the plane. The dog appeared to be in good health and has been reunited with its family. This is a sad tragedy, and our thoughts

and prayers go out to the family of the passengers of the aircraft.” The MacArthur Airport commissioner said the aircraft left Runway 6 around 9 AM with the ultimate destination being New Bedford, MA, according to Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell. The incident is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and, at press time, Southold Town Police said Chief Martin Flatley was working on an updated press release to this developing story. The identities of the two victims, described as a “long-time couple” by Southold Police, were released on June 9. They are 66-year-old Robert Mark and 57-year-old Susan Quagliano of Oakdale. The dog, who survived, is Cocoa. “It’s hard to find the words for family members,” Senior Air Safety Investigator Brian Raynor said Sunday afternoon. “Hopefully we can explain this tragedy and that will help them. At headquarters, I have an air traffic spe-

records are and no idea where pilot log books might be, but we do have family contact information. When the time is right, we will reach out to them and ask if they can help us in that regard. Right now, it’s not a primary concern.” Raynor confirmed that the preliminary report will be published online in a week to 10 days. Afterward, he will write a factual report that will ultimately be presented, along with collected evidence, to the board, which determines probable cause.

DWI Arrest Uncovers Weed

Over the weekend of June 8 and 9, Southold Town cops made a DWI arrest. If it’s 2 AM on a weekend night and you are driving around without headlights or taillights and then make a turn without signaling, chances are no good will come of it, especially on a busy village street. Evan Richard Vanduzer did all those things, Southold Police allege, and after failing to signal making a turn from First Street onto Front Street in Greenport he was pulled over, Southold Police said. Vanduzer then failed field sobriety tests, police added, which triggered a DWI charge. Vanduzer also had a small amount of pot in the car, police said. He was held for arraignment and will answer the charges in justice court. RM

Another Man Charged By EHTPD With Sex Abuse Yet another man has been accused by East Hampton town police of sexually abusing a child. Wilson RolandoMorales, 22, a former East Hampton resident who now lives in Hampton Bays, surrendered to police Thursday, June 6. Stacy Skorupa of the district attorney’s office said during the ar-

raignment of Rolando-Morales, that, when he lived in East Hampton, he had “sexually caressed” a girl under the age of 10. The girl, with whom he was acquainted, was dressed at the time. Rolando-Morales was charged with a felony, sexual abuse, and a misdemeanor, endangering the welfare of a child.

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It was at least the sixth such arrest over the past couple of months made by East Hampton police. Bail of $5000 was posted. In other news, a Manhattan man, John Detmer, 27, was arrested on Montauk Main Street a little after midnight Saturday, June 8. Police said that Detmer

was standing a little west of The Point Bar and Grill when he was spotted dropping a packet of cocaine to the ground. Police said the weight of the narcotic was over half a gram, making the possession charge a felony. He was released Sunday morning after posting $500 bail. TEM

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JUST ASKING

Describe your father

Pothole Or Roadblock?

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman announced on June 10 that he was sending the organizers of a drive to incorporate East Quogue as a village back to the drawing board by rejecting their petition to place the matter before the community for a vote. The supervisor made his decision after a number of complaints were raised during hearings on the petition. Some residents said they were misled by organizers and believed they were signing a petition to discuss, but not necessarily vote, on incorporation. Others said they saw names on the list of residents of the proposed village who no longer lived in the hamlet — or were no longer living, period. While the supervisor did find the names of 34 dead people on the list provided by incorporation backers, it is important to note that he found no indication of fraudulent activity on their part. Under state law governing village incorporation, a town supervisor is in charge of determining whether an incorporation petition meets the legal requirements. The supervisor’s own opinion of the merits of incorporation is not supposed to play a role in his determination. To his credit, Schneiderman has upheld his side of the bargain throughout this process by refraining from any comment that would roil the waters. This, despite the fact that if East Quogue were to incorporate, it would certainly have a negative impact on the financial health of the town by draining off valuable townwide tax revenue. The ball is now squarely back in the court of incorporation backers. They are free to create another list of those who would be residents of the new village and collect the required number of signatures. That task may be easier said than done, though, because voter registration lists, on which the group relied, are out of date and it might prove next to impossible to get a completely accurate list. It remains to be seen if the incorporation drive has hit a pothole or run into a major roadblock.

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Heiko Roloff My father saw war in his childhood, something I hope we won't see again. In Germany, at 14 he had to go into war as a motorcycle messenger between Russia and Germany. He was lucky. He got shot and sent home. After the war he was a refugee. Later, his family started out fresh and he went on to have six children.

Lloyd Kopka I lost my father ten years ago when I was nine years old. He was a really nice guy and he did a lot of good things for other people. He was a building inspector and he was really a good man.

Uwe Kind My father was quite a character. He fought in the Second World War and he did not wish to continue so he shot himself in the leg. In a wild way that was very brave. If everyone had done that there wouldn't have been a Second World War.

Ralph Bartelme My father is a writer and a Jack of many trades and he is a world traveler. But he wasn’t a huge part of my life because my parents split up when I was very young. But I definitely got a lot of my talents and attributes from him.

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Arts & Entertainment Paul Goldberger Up At Bat On Ballparks American history told through cities and baseball By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com If, as the great American philosopher Morris Cohen opined, baseball is a religion, then surely America’s ballparks are the temples where the masses can gather to share the communal experiences of hope, joy, loss, and even salvation. To watch thousands of stadiumgoers leap to their feet as one, whether it’s for a grand slam or a bum call, is to see an astonishing number of people of all ilks united for a common cause, if only for a nanosecond. But how to capture that magnifi-

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cent moment when one first glimpses the outrageous, impossible green of the baseball diamond, when one emerges from a tunnel of dark alleys and asphalt urbanism into an area so colossal and all-encompassing that it is indescribable unless you’ve actually been there? Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning author and architectural critic, has shed some light on the subject with his latest book, “Ballpark: Baseball in the American City,” a look not only at the game and the stadiums at which it is played, but at the psychological, sociological, and economic effect on the cities that are lucky enough to have their own team and arena. “I felt like doing something different,” he said. Goldberger’s book before this one, a biography of the architect Frank Gehry, was also a departure from his other publications, mostly essays or histories, sometimes with a concentration on a particular modern master like Charles Gwathmey or Richard Meier, but without as much biographical material. “I had never written a biography before,” he said. “So even though it was architecture, it was different.” Goldberger, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, began his career at The New York Times, where he was award-

Fenway Park in Boston. Independent/Courtesy Library of Congress

ed the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism for his writing on architecture. For 15 years, he was architecture critic for The New Yorker. He has authored many books, teaches at the New School, and lectures widely around the country on architecture, design, historic preservation, and cities.

opened on exactly the same day — April 20, 1912. I’ve always loved ballparks,” he said. He recalled his first trip to a ball game, which was at the old Yankee Stadium. “I was a little kid, and I grew up in the suburbs, so I was used to lawns, but I had never seen a lawn as perfect as this, and the fact that you came to it by going through the city, and through this very urban structure, into this Garden of Eden — that’s what really got to me. Even as a kid, I couldn’t articulate it, but I felt this combination of city and country bumping up against each other in this amazing way that it does in no other place. And that is the magic of a ballpark.” The baseball stadiums also hold a treasured past. “It really is the history of American cities,” Goldberger said. “So, this book is partly a history of baseball, but it’s also about how baseball and American cities have intertwined histories. A ballpark becomes a critical definer of urban identity, if you have a team.” Continued On Page B2.

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Peter Asher Was Chased By Groupies!

On the surface, Peter Asher was not unlike many of the other young men in Great Britain in the early 1960s. Back then, if you could strum a few chords and carry a tune — and if you had a cockney accent — chances are you’d be given a chance to make a record. Those were the years of the British Invasion, of course, when American music fans fell in love with the English sound, the residue of Beatlemania. “We idolized America. Of course, I wanted to come to America,” Asher recalled. Asher did in fact live the dream, as a member of Peter and Gordon (Waller). The duo had a pleasing vocal sound reminiscent of the Everly Brothers and a hot song that received extensive airplay. “We made a record, and it was very successful,” he said. The record was “World Without Love,” and it wasn’t just a coincidence it followed “I Want To Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles to the top of the charts: Paul McCartney, a family friend, penned the tune for Peter and Gordon. Asher recalled touring America

many times. “We got chased around New York by girls. It was all very exciting,” he said. The group appeared on “Hullabaloo,” “Shindig,” and even “The Ed Sullivan Show” and had a string of hits, most notably “I Go To Pieces” and “Lady Godiva.” As it turned out, Asher was a lot more than a kid looking to get chased around by groupies. His father, a medical professional by trade, and mother, a music teacher, were both professional musicians. They had instilled a firm foundation in the arts in their children. Peter was a child actor of some renown — his sister Jane, who later dated McCartney, was as well — and a brilliant student. When McCartney and the Beatles formed Apple Records, they asked Asher to come aboard. Coincidentally, a friend of his guitar player, Danny Kortchmar, was coming to Europe from America, and asked Asher to look out for the friend. That was James Taylor, an unknown, who had been in a short-lived band called “The Flying

Machine” with Kortchmar. Taylor was a singer-songwriter. “I was enthralled and amazed,” Asher recalls, and signed Taylor to Apple. The album went nowhere, and Taylor returned to America to try his luck in Los Angeles, and the burgeoning soft rock music scene. “I became his manager,” Asher said, noting he had no background in the field. But the product, Taylor’s “Sweet Baby James” album, became one of the hottest in the world. Asher decided to sign another client, and that choice panned out nicely as well: Linda Ronstadt become rock’s reigning queen, like Taylor, a platinum-selling superstar. Asher became head of A&R Records and worked with the likes of Cher and Diana Ross. But the Peter and Gordon sound was always in there, albeit on the backburner. “I enjoy it very much,” he said of performing live. The duo reformed and played intermittently until Gordon died in 2009. Chad and Jeremy were peers of Peter and Gordon, so much so they were sometimes confused with each other. “When we were on ‘Sullivan,’ people were congratulating them. When they were on ‘Patty Duke,’ people congratulated us!” Chad and Jeremy rode the coattails of a fabulous debut album, “Yesterday’s Gone” to stardom and churned out a number of hits before taking a hiatus. They reformed and played on and off for a half-century: Chad Stuart retired in 2010, but Jeremy Clyde still relished performing live. A pairing with

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Never mind Cooperstown, they should have put the Hall of Fame in Brooklyn, because there is so much history there.” Jackie Robinson first fielded second base at Ebbets in 1947, breaking the race barrier. “So, it was also a monument to civil rights,” Goldberger said. There is a plaque on the side of the housing project that now occupies the site of Ebbets Field, but the stadium was demolished in 1960. “Today I think we would not allow that to happen,” he said. “We have a much stronger sense of historic preservation.” Tiger Stadium in Detroit is another loss. “It was not as beautiful as Ebbets Field or Shibe Park in Philadelphia, which was one of the most ornate early ones from 1909, but it had a lot of history.” There was a dark period in the late ’60s and early ’70s when the aging parks were demolished and “concrete doughnuts” were put up in their stead. But in baseball architecture, as in the sport itself, there’s always hope. Goldberger pointed to the “positive

restoration” of Fenway Park in Boston and Wrigley Field in Chicago as good examples of “how an old baseball park can be brought up to date. They are the only survivors, and they are deservedly beloved.” Goldberger also gave a nod to Camden Yards, which, although it is relatively new, “is probably the single most important ballpark of our time. It killed off the concrete doughnut in one fell swoop.” Luckily, the Baltimore Orioles’ owners and management team had been fans of the old ballparks, and decided against another ugly artifice, selecting to go instead with a design reminiscent of the stadiums of their childhoods. “That changed everything,” Goldberger noted. Camden Yards was a phenomenal hit, and has been the touchstone for all ballparks built after it. “There is so much specialized knowledge needed,” Goldberger said. “It’s like designing hospitals. It’s not just about the building, it’s about moving people around, and making bath-

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Continued From Page B1. A case in point: Goldberger’s mother “was an impassioned Dodgers fan,” he recalled with a smile, speaking of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who picked up and moved cross-country to Los Angeles in 1957. “And when they left, she felt so betrayed, she not only didn’t transfer her allegiance to any other team, she simply gave up on baseball altogether. She was finished with the entire sport.”

Demolition And Restoration As far as some of the best and worst of the past, Goldberger mourns the Brooklyn ballpark first. “Ebbets Field was the saddest loss, because it was the wonderful ballpark, it had architectural history. Since it opened in 1913, and one of the first ballparks that was a serious work of design. It had incredible baseball history. The Dodgers were such an amazing team. But it also represented the apotheosis of baseball.

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old friend Asher seemed like a perfect match. “We were always confused with each other anyway,” Asher said with a laugh. “We’re both accomplished storytellers on stage and we’ll get a chance to sing each others’ songs.” The revamped duo comes to the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Saturday, June 15, for an 8 PM concert. Don’t be surprised if some of the tunes sound Beatlesque: it turned out the boys from Liverpool quietly penned several songs for Chad and Jeremy, just as they had done for Peter and Gordon those many years ago. The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center is at 76 Main Street. The box office number is 631288-1500. Tickets are available online at www.whbpac.org. rooms that work, and concessions, and parking lots,” he said. “They have improved on the design over the years too. There’s the ballpark in San Francisco on the water; that’s fabulous. It fits into the city perfectly. Pittsburgh, the PNC ballpark, is also one of the very best.” John Thorn, the official historian for Major League Baseball said this about Goldberger’s book: “The still evolving story of the park in the city is one that Paul Goldberger tells brilliantly in ‘Ballpark,’ a book about architecture and engineering and history, certainly, but profoundly about the soul of the game and our imperiled sense of community.” The book is available at the local book stores. Goldberger will be engaging in a conversation, followed by a book signing, with fellow author and editor Ken Auletta at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on July 5. For more information about the event, visit www.parrishart.org. For more about Paul Goldberger’s books, you can check out his website, www.paulgoldberger.com.

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IndyLit Rinse off the sand, grab a cocktail, and get some culture! The Independent invites you to join us for an after-the-beach summer reading series hosted by Bridget LeRoy at the Southampton Inn.

June 22 Rachel Love Nuwer POACHED Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking Rachel Nuwer, a frequent contributor to Scientific American, The New York Times, and National Geographic, traveled the world to shine a light on this global black market. Come hear her tales from the front lines.

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Artists Speak In Amagansett Art Barge welcomes discussion around conceptual pieces By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art’s Art Barge in Amagansett kicks off its annual Artists Speak series on Friday, June 19, at 6 PM. First up will be artist/ designer/set decorator Kris Moran and author/film critic Scott A.S. Hamrah with a conversation focused on the creative process. Moran will be creating an interactive installation based on color in collaboration with The Art Barge and Fritz Horstman of The Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation. “I speak because I think I am fortunate and like to share. Sometimes I strike a clarity that surprises people. Also, I am interested in where science and creativity intermingle and I have nowhere to share my findings literally,” Moran said. D’Amico was the founding director of education at The Museum of Modern Art 1937 through 1969, and brought his creativity to the East End

in 1960 with the Art Barge. Chris Kohan, president of the institute, has been involved since 1975 when he came to take painting classes. It was then that he met D’Amico and was personally asked to stick around. Kohan, in his 20s at the time, started as an assistant cataloguing archives and working with D’Amico, a man in his 70s. Artists Speak began in 1983. D’Amico personally knew Elaine de Kooning, Max Ernst, and many others. “Everyone knew D’Amico’s reputation as an educator. It was a rather natural thing. They all lived in the area,” Kohan described of the initial years of how Artists Speak came together. “In those days, it was likely a telephone call, and so word of mouth just got around. We expanded and ended up getting younger artists as the years went on.” This year, the institute is casting a wider net, beyond visual artists of

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paintings and sculptures. Serina Mayer, new to the board of trustees, used her contacts to create a conversation with artists and their own personal connections: husband/wife, mother/son, or colleague/friends. “It’s a unique level of collaboration,” Kohan noted. “We go to a museum and we look at the artwork. A lot of times the artists say that art speaks for itself. As an educator, I need a little more information. Nowadays, when you have artwork that’s a little more conceptual, and more personal, I feel it’s important to have the artist explain more about their process, their motivations, and inspirations . . . about their general thinking.” Coming up will be Ilya and Emilia

As a curator, how does the process differ, if at all, when curating a gallery versus a gala/event?

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The scope is much larger, so I tend to allow more variety in style and size. Also, artists often like to suggest what they are putting in since they are donating 75 to 100 percent of the sale to the foundation. I like to respect their choice of submission.

East Hampton Airport becomes an art studio and gala space By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Malcolm Morely's "Air Command."

The third annual Hamptons Artists for Haiti Benefit Bash will take place on Saturday, June 22, from 5:30 to 8:30 PM at the East Hampton Airport. The event benefits Wings Over Haiti, a non-profit organization that builds schools for children and is “committed to improving the lives of destitute children and their families in Haiti.” Guests will walk amid open walls in a unique setting with an art show and silent auction curated by Folioeast, music by DJ Giancarlo, raffle prizes, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres. Indy caught up with committee member and head of Folioeast, Coco Myers.

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beginnings. Jonathan Nash Glynn, founder of Wings Over Haiti, and I are friends. A few years ago, we talked about doing a benefit for Haiti, where he’s already built a school and wanted to build another. Since I represent local artists, I thought why not make it a party with a silent art auction? Hamptons Artists for Haiti seemed natural.

Have you seen the event grow over the years? Yes. In fact, this year we moved the event to the East Hampton Airport,

Kabakov on July 17, a collaboration that has produced more than 200 immersive conceptual works since 1989. Dressing utopian ideas as a reflection of universal human condition, “How To Make Yourself Better” is on view July 17 to August 5. Maira and Alex Kalman will show “Shack From Belarus,” a whimsical reconstruction, from August 14 to September 30. The mother and son team created “Sara Berman’s Closet,” which was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nine months. The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art is located at 110 Napeague Meadow Road in Amagansett. Tickets are available at www.theartbarge.org/artistsspeak.

which gives us more space for the event. Plus, the association with flying made it an ideal setting.

There are more than 60 artists participating. How do you find them? I represent and exhibit East End artists. I reached out to them and many of them are participating for the third year. But there are also many who heard about the event and approached me. It’s great to have new artists in the mix. This year, I am also showing several pieces by students from the local high schools.

Is there a theme? Because of the size of the exhibit, I don’t try for a theme, except that all the artists love and work on the East End at least part of the year. When I curate a gallery show, I am much more concerned with the visual flow. With a silent auction of 60-plus works, I am more interested in making sure there is a range of prices and types of artwork. There will be painting, photography, drawing, small sculptures, ceramics, and more. East Hampton Airport is located at 200 Daniels Road in Wainscott. To buy tickets and learn more, visit www.wingsoverhaiti.net.

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A Full Heart For A Full Life Antonella Bertello remembers those lost to cancer By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The Baker House 1650 is set to celebrate its 15th summer under the ownership of Antonella Bertello. She originally purchased the property as a 1031 exchange (redo and resell) but couldn’t let it go. When the doors officially opened to the public on Valentine’s Day in 2005 she likened the experience to inviting strangers into her home, having become incredibly attached to her project. “There’s so much history that goes with this house and that’s why I love it so much. I even saw these beautiful trees and tried to work around them. What right do we have to knock them down when they’ve been around hundreds of years before us?” Bertello expressed of her passion for the existing elements on the property. From the trees outside to the Sandra de Ovando flower artwork inside The Baker House, she looks for the unique and interesting in everyday life. Her passion for design, and life, is an inherited trait from her father, one that continues to run through her blood in everything she does. Born and raised in Peru, Bertello recalled going out with her father, mother, and two younger brothers on Sundays after lunch, driving past the buildings and admiring their structure. “From the moment I was born, my father would take me everywhere with him,” she reminisced, from car rides to Formula One races. Her father was a pioneer in banking, “a frustrated architect,” and an avid polo player, a tribute with tin-foil polo artwork

throughout the property. However, his life was cut short at age 46, in 1992, due to cancer. While the primary cancer was never discovered, he ended up suffering from lung, lymph, and bone cancer, an atrociously painful experience. At only 22 years old, Bertello flew back to Peru from Spain to help her younger brothers and was in charge of buying her father’s morphine. “It was very difficult because he started sounding very normal, and then he would go off into crazy things and you didn’t know where he was.” Looking into her eyes, a strong woman on the verge of celebrating 51 years of life, the memory of “a brilliant man, big and strong” remained as clear as the day he was breathing. She would always be his little girl and he would always be her hero. “Is he nice to you? Does he respect you? He asked the normal questions,” she recalled of his dating advice. “It was very funny because my father knew exactly how to handle me in the sense that he never imposed anything on me, yet I did exactly what he advised me to do all the time.” After her father, Bertello lost her aunt to pancreatic cancer, which swiftly took her in five months after she complained about stomach pain. When Bertello was 35 she lost her cousin, age 36, to a birthmark that grew into melanoma. She left behind two children that Bertello still watches over today. In addition, Bertello’s best friend lost a daughter, at 18, to a brain tumor. “It’s anti-nature for a

Antonella and her father Lucho.

parent to have to bury a child,” she said. And finally, without children of her own, Bertello lost her 14-year-old yellow lab to melanoma. “Cancer doesn’t only affect people. It happens to animals too,” she said. As her 14-week-old puppy, Bella, and nine-year-old dog, Sophie, played in the Italian styled backyard, Bertello recalled the best advice she has ever been given. “A wiser man, like a grandfather, told me ‘You need to switch the perspective. You cannot just focus on what you’re feeling and how sad you are, you need to focus on what the person that passed would have liked for you to do. How would he or she have liked to be remembered?’ Smile, with all the love in our hearts.”

When the Hamptons Happening co-chair, Randi Schatz, asked Bertello to be the business honoree at this summer’s Samuel Waxman Cancer Research event, Bertello had no choice but to support to the efforts of such a collaborative, authentic organization. “I do things fullheartedly or not at all. If I’m going to be involved, I’m going to make a difference.” The culinary event is held on Saturday, July 13, in Bridgehampton and also honors Chef Lidia Bastianich, fashion designer Nicole Miller, and local restaurant owner Ian Duke. Learn more about The Baker House 1650 at www.bakerhouse1650.com. For tickets to the Hamptons Happening, visit www.waxmancancer.org.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21 AT 8 PM Guild Hall and the Hamptons International Film Festival present A Thousand Thoughts, a live documentary with performance by the Kronos Quartet Written and Directed by Sam Green and Joe Bini

Oscar-nominated ﬁlmmakers Sam Green and Joe Bini team up with the Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet for a wildly creative multimedia performance piece that blends live music and narration with archival footage and ﬁlmed interviews with prominent artists like Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Wu Man, and Terry Riley. T I C K E T S from $65-$150 ($60-$145 Members)

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Entertainment Guide By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

COMEDY Dad Jokes Suffolk Theater in Riverhead will celebrate Father’s Day with fathers from Long Island Comedy & the Laughter Saves Foundation on Saturday, June 15, at 8 PM. For tickets, go to www.suffolktheater.com.

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Center welcomes Daniel “Rudy” Ruettinger on Sunday, June 16, at 4 PM. Learn more at www.whbpac.org.

MUSIC The Clam Bar The Clam Bar at Napeague hosts live music every Wednesday starting at 4 PM.

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Heavy Water On Thursday, June 13, at 7 PM, the film “Heavy Water” will be showing at Regal Hampton Bays. Visit www.fathomevents.com/events/heavy-water.

WORDS PechaKucha Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host PechaKucha Night Vol 28 on Friday, June 14, at 8 PM. Check for tickets at www.parrishart.org.

Remembering The Nazi Saboteur Landing: “Cavalcade of America Radio Show” On Friday, June 14, at 5 PM there will be a staged reading at the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station. This is a free event.

Beth Fiteni Eileen Fisher in East Hampton presents Meet the Author with Beth Fiteni of “The Green Wardrobe Guide,” on Saturday, June 15, at 4 PM.

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Springs Tavern in East Hampton will have live music by Paul Gene every Thursday from 6 to 8 PM.

Jam Session The Jam Session of The Hamptons will perform at Union Cantina in Southampton every Thursday at 7 PM. See more at www.thejamsession.org.

Open Mic Night New Moon Cafe in East Quogue presents open mic night every Thursday from 8 to 11 PM. Check out www.newmooncafeeq.com.

Tony Orlando Suffolk Theater in Riverhead on Friday, June 14, welcomes Tony Orlando at 8 PM. For tickets, go to www.suffolktheater.com.

Rites Of Spring The Rites of Spring Music Festival concludes on Saturday, June 15, at 7 PM with a Viennese Lyrical Evening at Laurel Lake Vineyards in Laurel. Visit www.ritesmusic.org.

Westhampton Beach Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will have Peter Asher and Jer-

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emy Clyde on its stage on Saturday, June 15, at 8 PM, and Morgan James on Sunday, June 16, at 8 PM. Hear more at www.whbpac.org.

Pat DeRosa East Hampton Library welcomes The Pat DeRosa Jazz Orchestra on Saturday, June 15, at 6 PM.

Greenport Harbor Brewery At the brewery’s Peconic location will be Marty Attridge on Sunday, June 16, at 3 PM. Go to www.greenportharborbrewing.com.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett jams out to Andy Aledort & The Groove Kings on Thursday, June 13 at 10 PM. On Friday, June 14, at 8 PM, will be The Sturdy Souls followed by Booga Sugar at 10 PM. Saturday, June 15, is Faces

For Radio at 9 PM and Hot Date Band at 11 PM. Scott Bravo will play on Sunday, June 16, at 8 PM and Winston Irie will follow at 10 PM. On Wednesday, June 18, at 8 PM will be Matt Jaffe, and DJ Paul Jones at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

THEATER Andromeda’s Sisters Guild Hall in East Hampton welcomes The Neo-Political Cowgirls with Andromeda’s Sisters, a series of one-acts by women, on Friday, June 14, at 7 PM. Get tickets at www.guildhall.org.

The Prompter Bay Street Theater presents the world premiere of “The Prompter.” The show will run through June 16. For tickets and more info visit www.baystreet.org.

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Big Mama Keeps On Trucking Little boy inspires artistic 18-wheeler By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com The building blocks of learning await in an 18-wheeler truck known as Big Mama. Created by a family of three, Angela De Vincenzo, a learning specialist, her husband Jeff Mayer, a former BMX professional, and their son, Luca; Blocks, Trucks, + Art is a progressive educational movement geared toward children ages three to 13. The truck has made its way from Brooklyn to a new home at Hayground School in Bridgehampton.

our passions and interests. There are sacrifices (we lived on our truck for three summers, as we were building the program). We see kids getting into biking, DJing, working together, or feeling better about themselves as readers and writers. We see the shift in self-confidence, and self-acceptance.

How does it feel to work side-by-side with your spouse?

Angela: When you observe children in a block area, it’s magic. They are making connections about how the world works, problem solving with their peers, developing spatial awareness and language skills — it’s kind of everything. When children are guided in their endeavors, and we are attentive to their process, there is so much growth and opportunity there. You learn most from and about children in these settings, and then your teaching can be so much more impactful when you have a fuller understanding of the whole child.

Angela: Exciting and inspiring. With our business, we are able to focus on our individual areas of strength. I am able to hone in on my educational background and private tutoring/consulting practice, and Jeff focuses on the big picture of Blocks, Trucks, + Art, and of course the biking, skateboarding, and DJing components. Jeff has truly guided us with his creative direction and vision for our family-owned 18-wheeler and the program. I support the ideation process, ground it all in educational rationale, and help to implement the plan as he builds, conceptually and logistically. While we often work on separate aspects of the whole, we do come together and collaborate with our varying perspectives. We certainly lean on one another to balance our thinking, and share common goals and expectations for the work we do with kids.

Your son, Luca, inspired this concept. What’s that backstory? Angela: Our soon-to-be nine-year-old son, Luca, led the way for my husband and me. We are deeply connected to Luca’s needs and desires, and in slightly unexpected, organic ways. Luca’s love for trucks led us to purchase our Big Mama, his adept biking skills (like his father) led us to create our BMX/biking program, and now Luca’s skateboarding has inspired us to add skateboarding to our program menu. We love showing kids that we are a family that works together, sharing

Your teaching method sounds to be very hands on and creative.

Jeff, how’d you design the 18-wheeler, Big Mama? I have been designing since I was a kid and haven’t stopped. The 18-wheeler has been my favorite project so far though, mainly because it inspires people like nothing else I have ever done. Ironically, a lot of my friends back in the city thought I should have pursued a career in interior design. Living in small apartments in NYC was how I learned to use space well. When we bought the trailer, I immediately saw the potential. The first summer, I basically re-created our Brooklyn apartment down to the Design Within Reach Italian leather couch, a DJ console that I designed that holds 1000 records, turntables, and a mixer. In addition, my print and photography. Each summer there’s been a renovation on the trailer, as our program continues to evolve. Summer one, it had a massive block area, a pop-up shop with our skate line Luca718, and a lounge, where we could hang between tutoring and block sessions. This summer, number five, we have a full-on DJ booth with fog machine, laser, black

Angela De Vincenzo, Jeff Mayer, and their son, Luca. Independent/Jenny Norris

lights and a big disco ball, a skateboard mini-ramp (with Pop-Up Shut Skates NYC Shop) and a tutoring workshop/ classroom all inside.

Why is biking such a large part of your program? Jeff: We realized our first summer back in 2015 how many city kids didn’t know how to ride a bike. We brought our bikes with us. Luca was riding around camp in the morning and parents would ask how he knew how to ride (he was five years old at the time). So, I started giving private lessons after camp. Fast forward four summers, and I am now teaching children BMX in an after-school program I created and we now have four different bike tracks. From learning how to ride a bike with no training wheels, riding a dirt pump track that builds a child’s core through left and right banked turns, and this summer, an advanced pump track with bigger obstacles and a new jump track. Seeing kids go home with the confidence biking gives them has been the biggest reward for me with teaching my biking program. If you have confidence in this world, I believe that is everything. Not to mention the physical component, which is what we are all about. We have a big no cell phone policy with our kids old enough to have a phone.

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the Hayground school? Angela: We had a friend who led us to Jon Snow, on the board of trustees. He thought our philosophies of working with children would be completely aligned. We came to Jon with a seed of an idea: working with children with open-ended materials inside and around an 18-wheeler. And now, we are on to our fifth summer, and are offering so much more.

What is your overall mission or goal? Jeff: Balancing the demographic is very important to us. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to participate in what we offer out here. We are seeking sponsorships and also will host a few fundraisers this summer/fall. We would love to fix up the truck (the engine has 1.6 million miles on it and needs a rebuild) and take the truck on the road to schools and events across the country in the future. If we can raise $500,000, we will be headed to Art Basel this winter with our rig and two other 18-wheelers to demo our program. We would also like donate a few shipping containers (built out with parts of our program) to an underfunded school in Miami. Learn more about what this family does and to sign up visit www.blockstrucksandart.com.

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The Wednesday Group The Wednesday Group plein air painters will exhibit new art works at the Water Mill Museum Art Gallery. The show opens Thursday, June 13, and runs through June 30. For more info visit www.watermillmuseum.org.

Boatyards Nathan Slate Joseph, a New York based artist and integral member of the New York art scene for more than 50 years, presents “Boatyards.” The show is the artist’s journey back to his past — the ocean and boats reminiscent of his childhood on the edge of Mediterranean Sea. Using a unique process he developed while living in Mexico, Joseph collects chosen, found material and oxidizes it with natural pigment, exposing it to the elements to produce rich saturated color and varied textures. The exhibit, which opens with a reception on Friday, June

14, from 5 to 8 PM at Tait Yachts in Sag Harbor, advances Joseph’s journey into modern abstraction and re-imagination of the forms he grew to know. The show runs through July 8.

Contemplations “Contemplations” will feature a diverse group of 16 East End artists. The show will be held at Ashawagh Hall in Springs and will host an opening reception on Saturday, June 15, from 5 to 9 PM. Artists include Mary Ahern, Kevin Bishop, Christopher Butler, Johanna Caleca, Anahi DeCanio, Mary Daunt, Anne Holton, Steve Haweeli, Mary Laspia, Pingree Louchheim, Lynn Martell, Jerry Schwabe, Lieve Thiers, Richard Udice, Rosario Varela, and Bob Wilson. The show will run through June 19.

Banner Day CRUSH/Amagansett presents “Banner Day,” paintings by David Humphrey. An opening reception will be held Saturday, June 15, from 4 to 8 PM.

Sweet Charities By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Building On Tradition The North Fork Community Theatre presents its 11th annual Building on Tradition campaign gala hosted at Pellegrini Vineyards on Friday, June 14, at 7 PM. Enjoy live performances, raffle, auction, hors d’oeuvres, and buffet dinner. Individual tickets are $125. Visit www.nfct.com.

Photo of John Lennon by May Pang.

Sag Noir Cinematographer/photographer Don Lenzer presents a new photographic portfolio, “Sag Noir,” honoring the Sag Harbor Cinema, at Julie Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor. This boxed set of 14 works represents observations of the old cinema after the December 2016 fire. Lenzer spent long and careful hours going through the cinema, finding an eerie beauty in its devastation. This set of images, printed by artist/photographer Jane Martin with a foreword by Lenzer, is being presented in a clamshell box produced by the bookbinder Paul Vogel. Each image is a loose photograph measuring 17” x 22”, suitable for separate framing. The entire boxed set is priced to start with initial sales at $7000, increasing to $7500 as the edition of 20 sells out, and proceeds after production costs will be

entirely donated to the Sag Harbor Cinema rebuilding effort. A reception will be held on Friday, June 14, from 6 to 8 PM.

May Pang Chase Edwards Contemporary in Bridgehampton will host an exhibition for May Pang titled “Instamatic Karma — Through My Lens” starting Saturday, June 15. Her career in the music industry started at 18 with Allen Klein’s company, ABKCO Industries, the firm that managed the Beatles’ Apple Corp. and the Rolling Stones. In 1970, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono hired Pang as their personal assistant. In 2008, St. Martin’s Press published “Instamatic Karma,” a collection of Pang’s personal photographs of Lennon. The collection of fine art prints, which now hits the Hamptons, have

Andromeda’s Sister Gala Immerse yourself in the wild and indomitable female spirit with the third annual Andromeda’s Sisters gala to benefit the dance theater company The Neo-Political Cowgirls. The compelling three-day journey includes play readings, a private estate fundraiser, and an interactive creativity workshop on June 14, 22, and 23 which can be enjoyed collectively or individually. For tickets and a full schedule, visit www.npcowgirls.org/andromedassisters-2019.

Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic will hold its annual East End benefit “Artists for Choice” on Saturday, June 15, at Guild Hall in East Hampton. This year’s event features an art auction and concert. The Movin’ Out Band, from the

Tony Award-winning Billy Joel musical “Movin’ Out” will perform favorite hits from the Billy Joel songbook, and more than 50 artists donated diverse pieces to the art auction. The art auction is curated by Pamela Willoughby and hosted online by www.Paddle8.com. Proceeds from the event will benefit PPHP’s health care services, education programs, and advocacy efforts in Suffolk County. For tickets, visit www. pphp.org/eastend2019.

Group For The East End Group for the East End will hold its Swing into Summer benefit on Saturday, June 15, at The Bridge in Bridgehampton starting at 6:30 PM. There will be cocktails, auction, dinner, and dancing. The hosts are Stéphane Samuel and Robert Rubin. For tickets and more info, visit www.groupfortheeastend.org.

Barn Dance The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center will host its Barn Dance at Kilmore Farm on Saturday, June 15, starting at 6:30 PM. There will be live music, line dancing, and country cuisine. For tickets and more info, visit www.ewecc.org.

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KISS & TELL By Heather Buchanan

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Hello, my name is Heather, and I am a rose-aholic. I have roses on my dining room table, roses in pots on my back porch, rose perfume, essential rose oil for the bath, a rose tattoo, and would even open the sun roof and put potted roses in my car, which by the way is named “The White Rose.” I confuse the dealership when I call up and say, “White Rose needs a spa day,” then after a confused silence, explain, “Um, I need my

car detailed.” This is a tough time of year for me because roses are at their peak in June. At my last house, where I had more yard space getting direct sun, I would go mad buying and planting roses until a friend would kindly suggest, “Do you think you need to talk to someone?” “Why?” I would ask putting down a potted Climbing New Dawn and swiping a dirty gloved hand across my sweating brow while pulling pepper-

mint spray from the back of my pants to help the row of five rose bushes in front of me which had black spots on their leaves. “I can see your Am Ex peeking out from your bra,” he said. When I am on a crazed rose-buying binge, I don’t even have time for a wallet. You see, I deeply understand roses. We have both been called difficult and high maintenance but have been complimented on our long stems. Roses require constant attention. They like a good watering but don’t like to get their leaves wet. They need a proper PH balanced soil and well-drained loam. They need loads of direct sunlight. They need to be dead-headed when the petals fall and only cut above a three-leaf cluster. They need to be constantly told how beautiful they are and to always, always have their thorns respected. And although the famous saying is “a rose is a rose is a rose,” I find that not to be true. Most commercial growers are not carrying old-fashioned garden roses. The definition of disappointment is a woman holding up a bouquet to her nose and sniffing . . . Nada. Nope. No scent at all. We have become a culture which has forsaken the olfactory pleasures for physical beauty. Even if you take time to smell the roses, they don’t actually have a scent. I am old school and always pick

a rose for its intoxicating smell: Peace, Double Delight, Melody Parfumée, Bolero. But over the years I have seen the garden centers in the Hamptons carry less and less of these beautiful Hybrid Teas and instead have row after row of Carefree Roses. First of all, that is an oxymoron. Second, grand dame roses would take one look at these shrubs and dismiss them as peasants. I find it sad that people don’t want to put in the time and effort to grow roses in their gardens. I am a card-carrying member of the Southampton Rose Society and a great admirer of the work they do taking care of public rose gardens. They also still have an annual rose competition. Due to stress, I decided to no longer enter. Trying to find a bloom at just the proper time that was not too open, then putting it in the refrigerator, then realizing on competition day the petals weren’t opening up to their full potential and yelling to my sister, “Get me Q-Tips NOW!” (you place them in between the petals to gently urge them open), then trying to cut off a brown spot on a leaf with serrated sewing scissors without it being obvious was just too much. So now I just sit on my deck and see my gorgeous rose plants, and take in a deep and satisfying breath. And I think . . . maybe just one more.

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RICK’S SPACE By Rick Murphy

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Those wacky bicyclists are an eccentric bunch. I say that with admiration — I have friends who routinely hop on their bikes and ride out to, say, Montauk on a whim and then race home, covering 50 miles and averaging God knows how many miles per hour. I’m afraid it’s a rich man’s game nowadays. Remember when we were kids? We had one gear. Later in life, the ritzy three-speeds made the scene, followed by English racers, which were neither English nor racing bikes. Now they have 10 speeds and more. That would confuse me — I had trouble mastering the little bell on the handlebar back when I rode. Nevertheless, I went shopping for a bike after my doctor told me if I didn’t get more exercise, I would probably die. Actually, he told me if I didn’t pay my overdue bill, he would kill me, but the net result is the same. My friend Artie suggested I get a Colnago C 64. So, I went to Walmart and the guy there laughed. It turns out

you don’t get a Colnago in a store like that. I went to a real bicycle shop. The model my friend Artie has retails for $6199. Whhhhhhat? “Yes. It’s Italian.” Oh. So, the Italians spend all this money developing bicycles that sell for six grand? Maybe they should have put all that technology into making weapons. That way the Italian army might have lasted longer than two weeks in World War II. But I digress. The six grand is just the beginning. You have to buy parts and tools and gear. In fact, there were 10 pages of items for sale. One was a back wheel — I kid you not. You mean, you are spending six grand on a bike and the wheel is optional? Then there is the tool kit. Folks, if I spend this kind of money on a bicycle and it needs mechanical work, it’s going into the shop and I’m getting a loaner. You have to purchase the requisite riding outfit, which is a rubber suit made in some combination of garish colors like purple and orange. The skintight, airtight outfit cuts air resis-

tance, allowing you to maximize speed. The suits do not let any air in — or any air out. Consider the plight of a healthy male, having ingested a perfectly proper Cajun or Tex Mex lunch. Where does the gas go on that 25-mile jaunt to Montauk? It would great if you could supercharge the bike with it. Sure, as the doctor recommended, cycling allowed you to lose 25 pounds of excess weight. What is left unsaid is you’ll have to get your right leg from the knee down amputated because the suit was so tight blood stopped flowing to the feet. Then there is the helmet, which is shaped like an ant’s head. Now that works well for an ant, but not for a human. It just draws attention to the ugly costume. Bicyclists nowadays don’t actually go anywhere. “Wanna take a ride down to the park?” “Sure, what’s going on there?” “Nothing. Just take a ride and come back.” My thought is, “Why go to begin with? Just chill out on the couch.” Of course, you don’t need a bicycle to get around. You can run. But this has developed into an art form as well. It used to be you had a destination:

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“Mom, I’m going to run over to Billy’s.” This accomplished two things; it got you to your friend’s house, and your mom knew where you were. “Mom, I’m gonna run to the candy store.” “OK, little Rick, just don’t let them catch you looking at those dirty magazines.” Today’s runners are aimless. “I’m gonna get a run in.” “Where ya going?” “Around the block.” Why? If you run around the block you’ll end up in the same place you started from. So why go in the first place? Running has become pricey as well. There are special shorts, shirts that absorb sweat — and who among us doesn’t want one of those? — and of course, those socks. Don’t look dumb, guys, you know the ones. The kind Chrissie Evert wore. With pom poms on. The ones that don’t cover your ankle. In other words, the kind that embarrasses all men who bow instead of curtsy. I’ll say no more. Hey, I’m cognizant of the fact that as we get older we need more exercise. I guess I’ll just have to find a hobby that I enjoy. I’m thinking stamp collecting, but I’m going to ease it in slowly: You try and do too much too soon, you can do more harm than good.

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Indy Snaps Independent Thinking Photos by Richard Lewin The Independent hosted its latest “Independent Thinking” panel discussion, sponsored by Adam Miller Group and Advantage Title, at The Maidstone on Thursday, June 6. The topic of discussion was “Arts: Creative Place Making” and included panelists Andrea Grover, director of Guild Hall; Inda Eaton, musician; Scott Bluedorn, artist; Helen Harrison, director of Pollock-Krasner House; and Emma Walton Hamilton; best-selling author and arts educator. The conversation was moderated by The Independent’s Managing Editor Bridget LeRoy.

Claudio’s Re-Opening Photos by Rob Rich/ www.societyallure.com Claudio’s, the oldest family run restaurant in the U.S., celebrated its grand reopening after a renovation with a private reception in Greenport on May 31.

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Indy Snaps Southampton Inn BBQ Photos by Richard Lewin The Southampton Inn invited Hamptons locals and visitors to a celebration in the heart of Southampton, by kicking off the Hamptons summer season at the 21st annual Memorial Day weekend barbecue on Sunday, May 26.

Mesa: An Ode To Xochimilco Photos by Richard Lewin On Monday, June 3, Coche Comedor in Amagansett held a reception for “Mesa: An Ode to Xochimilco,” curated by Coche Comedor co-owner and artist Toni Ross. Artists who contributed their talents to create the unique table tops, indoor and outdoor, gathered to celebrate the completion of the installation. Participating artists included Don Christensen, Sabra Moon Elliott, Christopher French, Steve Miller, J. Oscar Molina, Bastienne Schmidt, Almond Zigmund, and Hayground school students. Wall Graffiti is by Host18.

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Angelo David Pisacreta — Owner and creative director of Angelo David Salon in New York City, Pisacreta enjoys the tranquility of the summer at his home on the North Fork in between the hectic pace of life looking after his clients and launching his new products, The Flex Brush and Hair Detox. www.angelodavidsalon.com Ian Duke — Duke, a resident of East Quogue with his wife and family, enjoys motorcycle riding, running, tennis, and his dogs as a break away from the energy of managing Southampton Social Club, Union Cantina, and its new 2019 creation Union Burger with his partners and team. www.unioncantina. net Henry Lambert — The host behind one of the more exclusive dinner party invites you could hope to garner this summer, the author of “The Kitchen

Dr. Samuel Waxman — Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation founder and CEO, Samuel Waxman, MD has dedicated his entire career as an oncologist/hematologist to pioneer collaboration among research scientists and to generate private funding for cutting-edge cancer research. Dr. Waxman and the SWCRF will host their 15th annual Hamptons Happening charity fundraiser on Saturday, July 13, in Bridgehampton. www.waxmancancer.org

The Celebration Dinner Tutto il Giorno — Restauranteur Gianpaolo de Felice, Donna Karan’s daughter Gabby, and David Mayer created this Southampton Italian cuisine hotspot. Tutto il Giorno remains one of the harder reservations to secure this summer season for a Father’s Day that will be bellissimo! www.tuttoilgiorno. com Le Bilboquet — For that sense of chic dining alongside the gleaming white yachts, why not experience Le Bilbo-

quet at the Sag Harbor marina. The clientele represents a mix of the beau monde and New York personalities, all seeking one of this year’s must-haves — an outdoor table with a full view of the marina and, of course, a view for everyone else of your own skill in securing the reservation. www.lebilboquetny.com Blu Mar Hamptons — Zach Erdem has brought life back to the Old Post House at the heart of Southampton with his new restaurant, Blu Mar, with Chef Terrance Brennan. The Mediterranean seafood restaurant will marry the highest quality, wild seafood from Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean waters, caught or flown in daily, with seasonal ingredients harvested locally and at their peak. www.blumarhamp-

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Sotto Sopra — Enjoy a touch of Tuscany at Sotto Sopra in Amagansett and bond over a classic pizza. Diners can enjoy indoor and outdoor seating while trying the Picante pizza combining sliced pepperoni, spicy sausage, and creamy ricotta. The Tuscan eatery was founded by one of the principle owners of Bobby Van’s and Rose Evangelista. www.restaurantsottosopra.com

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Sag Harbor State Golf Course — This 48.8-acre, nine-hole golf facility is located in the middle of a 341-acre parcel known as the Barcelona Neck Natural Resources Management Area. The property was acquired in 1989 by the NY State Parks Service and is situated on a peninsula surrounded by woodlands, bluffs, and wetlands. This delightful course may be played as nine or 18 holes. www.parks.ny.gov/golf

Hampton Hills Golf & Country Club — Westhampton Beach’s best-kept golfing secret is located among 2000 acres of the Pine Barrens. Participate in friendly competition against a challenging Par-71 - 148 slope golf course featuring dramatic elevation changes at the members-only Hampton Hills Golf & Country Club. www.hamptonhills. com Montauk Downs State Park Golf Course — Originally developed in 1927, Robert Trent Jones Sr. redesigned the present course in 1968 with assistance from his son, Rees — the ultimate father and son golf experience. Register and learn to book using the NY State registration scheme and impress Dad this year. www.parks.ny.gov/golf

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Dining Townline BBQ: Low and Slow Delicious and approachable all year round By Hannah Selinger Do not allow the surge of interest in the Honest Man Group’s most recent restaurant, Coche Comedor, distract you from one fundamental truth: Townline BBQ serves delicious, approachable barbecue all year long. If you’re wondering how the men and women behind one of the Hamptons’ most essential restaurant groups streamlines their approach to food, partner Christy Cober recently described it to me in layman’s terms. The group, she said, aims to get to the heart of the culinary matter, asking themselves to distill whatever cuisine they’re producing into its component parts. “What really is barbecue?” she said, posing a question the group has, no doubt, asked itself on more than one occasion. So what, according to Townline BBQ, is barbecue, really? I would argue that the richly conceived foods of this restaurant point to a series of blended culinary traditions. Even its carefullycrafted mission statement, publicly available on its website, points to a certain ideology. We can agree on some

things even while we disagree over others. Barbecue should be smoked (check), dry-rubbed (double-check), and cooked low and slow to its desired level of doneness. Sauces must be homemade for true authenticity. It’s likely that no one will ever agree on which sides appropriately amplify the meat portion of barbecue, or on which style of sauce best complements a pork rib, but it’s likely that everyone can get behind a 70-whiskey selection. Whether your preference for barbecue originated in Memphis, Kansas City, St. Louis, or Texas hill country, it’s likely that you have one — and allegiances are strong when it comes to the types of food that we have allowed ourselves to fall in love with. The nice thing about making barbecue outside of any one place dedicated to the stuff is that there is still great creative latitude. In the northeast, removed from tradition, we can create restaurants that highlight the best of everything. For Townline, that means St. Louis-style ribs (a sparerib cut with no breastbone) next to South Carolinian

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That value feels true enough on any given evening when the happy hour specials are in effect, or when the live music (5 to 7 PM on Fridays) is playing. And while the question posed by Christy Cober may flicker inside of us eternally (I can no more define barbecue than I can the color blue), Townline makes a compelling argument for this version of the stuff, a hybridization of style that just really tastes good. In a world where the approach to eating often verges on the cerebral, it’s refreshing to eat somewhere that simply is what it is. Driving past the reclaimed wood house in Sagaponack, where the billowing clouds from the wood smoker out back casts an enticing aroma, you’re more likely to stop than you are to keep driving. And that’s exactly the point.

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I was introduced to the culinary mecca that is Melbourne, Australia by a close friend who also acted as my tour guide and respected resource throughout my two-week stay Down Under. She informed me that Melbourne is the food capital of Australia, and even Sydney cannot come close in comparison to the diverse and authentic range of cuisine and chefs that find their roots in Melbourne. In fact, many notable restauranteurs and chefs acquaint Melbourne to be the best of the best when it comes to its quality and range of food and wine. An abundance of cafĂŠs, restaurants, bars, and food halls are around every

street corner in Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Central Business District. In the short amount of time I was visiting, I had the opportunity to visit at least a dozen different restaurants and taste a wide variety of cuisines not often found close to home, including Vietnamese, Filipino, Malaysian, Indian, Thai, and of course traditional Australian dishes such as Coorong Pippies that are similar to mussels and clams here in the United States. Restaurants visited included Long Chim at the Crown for Thai, Grand Lafayette for a Japanese-Australian inspired brunch, Brunetti for coffee and desserts (Melbournians

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Back To The Basics Paola’s East rewinds the recipe to relatable Italian fare By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Italian restaurants are like Italian people; each obtain their own unique, robust personality with one commonality, a love for food. Occupying the former space of EMP Summer House and Moby’s at 341 Pantigo Road in East Hampton, is Paola’s East. What began 33 years ago in New York City has made its way to the Hamptons. Paola’s has officially opened its heart and kitchen doors to the East End community, bringing family recipes from Rome. From the moment I entered the doors to shaking owner Stefano Marracino’s (son of Paola Bottero) hand as I left the restaurant, the team was attentive and warm; it brought me back to dining at Don Peppe’s in Ozone Park, Queens. Folding napkins when guests got up from the table, memorizing the orders, allowing digesting time before bringing out the next course, lightheartedly smiling in small conversation — all with classic Italian music playing in the background. Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, tunes from yesteryear brought me back to dancing with my grandfather in the living room on Sunday mornings as “Sounds of Sinatra” echoed in the background. A red wine arrived, 2016 Pinot Noir from Oregon, at a chilled, roughly, 51 degrees Fahrenheit. It added a lightness to what was bound to be a traditionally heavier meal, as did the light, fluffy bread with olive oil for dipping.

To start, an insalata di barbe, roasted fresh beets with Montrachet goat cheese, toasted hazelnuts, orange segments, and watercress. It was fresh, light, and the hazelnuts almost convinced me I was eating a healthy version of Ferrero Rocher. Alongside it was Roman style meatballs with veal, all-natural Hampshire Pork meatballs, tomato sauce, and ricotta and pecorino cheese. It had a more fluid consistency than the sauces I’ve tried in the past, without being watered down, and with a mild, rather than spicy, flavoring. In each bite, I could taste the bread holding all the juices together, making it a soft but subtle consistency. The first courses were two pasta dishes. A fettuccine Bolognese with grass-fed beef and natural Hampshire pork. Making tabletop headlines was the veal and spinach ravioli, served at room temperature with shaved grana, black truffles, and hints of sage. Each forkful absorbed more of the light, white truffle sauce before it hit my tongue in an explosion of satisfaction. Before continuing onto the next courses, my guests and I sipped our wine as we observed the staff greet guests, refill our waters whenever the glasses were below the half line, and mingle on the side with one another. This is more than a restaurant, it’s a true team of staff who genuinely enjoy each other’s company and want to be there, many of whom uprooted from

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the city to move to the area. It’s a devotion, and dedication, that’s rare. A veal Milanese arrived that I could’ve continued to eat endlessly. It was thinly sliced, lightly breaded, and tender. With a touch of lemon on the rucola salad and tomatoes, it made for a meaty yet simplified dish. With it, a skirt steak that appeared small in portion was actually the ideal size. I opted for rare to medium-rare temperature and it came out exactly as such, with a slightly crisp outside. When asked what to have for dessert, out of three choices, I felt obligated, as a food writer, to try all three. All the better to inform the public, of course. Ricotta and mascarpone cheesecake, tiramisu, creme caramel. I couldn’t pick a favorite, but the cheesecake stood out because I can honestly say I’ve never tried one with mascarpone cheese and it made an understated but notable difference. When a restaurant serves consistency on each plate, there is no need to anchor the menu with an over-the-top

item. Paola’s East menu is executed in such a way that every dish, from start to finish, is unwaveringly delicious. For more information, visit www.paolaseast.com.

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Guest Chefs Include The ‘Justin Bieber Of Food’ Visiting culinary stars spice up local summer menus By Beth Landman

Topping Rose House (1 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton) will be extending its dining room poolside, and holding rosé parties on weekend afternoons throughout the summer. “We will be partnering with Chateau de Berne in Provence; they are taking over our wine program,’’ said Joseph Montag, the hotel’s manager. The restaurant will also be offering a dish from a different one of Chef Jean Georges Vongerichten’s other restaurant each weekday (veggies note: Thursday is ABCV night!). The hotel will also be the scene of a large culinary gathering on June 29, when Vongerichten and executive chef Drew Hiatt host a first-time event, Chefs of the Hamptons, a benefit for

Guild Hall with New York Times food scribe Florence Fabricant as an honoree. Among the participating chefs are Joe Realmuto of Nick and Toni’s, Terrence Brennan of Blu Mar, Sam McClelland of Beacon and Bell & Anchor, Jeremy Blustein of Showfish, and Carissa Waechter of Carissa’s Bakery. “We want to focus attention on the great chefs working on the South Fork and support the cultural center of East Hampton,’’ said Don Evans, the event’s producer. East Hampton will have a latenight dining spot, thanks to The Maidstone (207 Main Street, East Hampton) and its new chef Ron Phillipp, who has added a separate menu from 10 PM to 1 AM on summer weekends. Formerly

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co-owner of Farmer Bar BBQ and Big Mamas Creole Kitchen on the North Fork, chef de cuisine at Barefoot Contessa, and executive chef at Hobson’s Choice in Williamstown, MA, Phillipp is adding a range of flatbreads, including “Big Duck Pie,” a mix of duck confit, mascarpone, fig spread, pine nuts, and brandied cherry; Almost Leo, studded with beet root gravlax, crème fraiche, red, onion, chives, dill, and crispy shallots; and Bonac Clam Pie, full of little necks, purple potatoes, lardons, and charred leek, topped with béchamel. There will also be a raw bar, and an array of desserts including assorted tarts, cookies, brownies, and chocolate truffles. On Sundays, he will introduce a pig roast in a southern barbeque pit. The former Robert’s on 27 has been transformed into a new spot called the Garden at Water Mill (755 Montauk Highway, Water Mill), named for its lush grounds, decked out with tree swings, couches, and lawn games. Apart from a regular menu of dishes like grilled romaine with coconut yogurt, burnt olives, lemon, and cherry jus; day boat scallop crudo with pickled wasabi stems; and halibut with mussels, white wine, and lavender; and daily specials driven by local fishmongers and farmers, the restaurant will have a pop-up series of visiting chefs

offering prix-fixe menus and wine pairing options. James Beard award-winner Tyson Cole from Uchi in Austin will bring his omakase Thursdays through Sundays July 4 to July 31 ($225). Renzo Garibaldi of Osso, the sustainable butcher shop and restaurant in La Molina Peru will prepare a beef-focused meal with house-made charcuterie and steak aged 300 days ($145 for a family-style meal), and from August 1 to 15, Matsuharu “Micha” Tsumura of Maido will whip up a nine-course Peruvian and Japanese fusion menu ($395). “We wanted to bring experiences that were unique, lauded and not otherwise available to people vacationing in the Hamptons,’’ explained co-owner Joseph Miller. Surf Lodge (183 Edgemere Street, Montauk) will also have a visiting chef program, bringing back its “Artists and Plates’’ series, which kicks off this Sunday with 20-year-old Flynn McGarry, who has been cooking since he was 11 and was named one of Time magazine’s most influential teens in 2015. “He’s called the ‘Justin Bieber of Food’ because he’s been the chef for tasting menus since he was 11 years old,’’ said Surf Lodge owner Jayma Cardoso. “He’s all grown up now and will blow you away.’’

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Camps & Recreation East Hampton Sports Camp @ Sportime 631-267-CAMP (2267) www.sportimeny.com/ehsc 320 Abrahams Path, Amagansett East Hampton Sports Camp @ SPORTIME Amagansett offers children between the ages of three and 13 an exciting program of sports and games that includes tennis, baseball, swimming, basketball, soccer, dodgeball, capturethe-flag, and more. Experienced art and music teachers also provide campers with a variety of creative activities, special events, and fun theme days.

The Country School Summer Camp 631-537-2255 www.countryschooleasthampton.org 7 Industrial Road, Wainscott The Country School Summer Camp is for kids ages two-and-a-half through seven. There is a full range of activi-

ties to choose from, including art, music, gymnastics, jewelry making, team sports, swimming, and more. Located on Industrial Road in Wainscott — call for dates and rates.

YMCA East Hampton RECenter 631-329-6884 www.ymcali.org 2 Gingerbread Lane, East Hampton At YMCA Summer Day Camp, children learn leadership skills and develop selfconfidence in a safe, accepting, and stimulating environment. Flexible programs are designed to accommodate all families across Long Island and cater to meet your child’s interests and abilities. If your child can dream it, they can do it at the YMCA Summer Day Camp. Weekly sessions begin July 1 and run through August 30. YMCA membership is required, and space is limited. Visit the YMCA’s website for more information.

Summer Camp @ ROSS 631-907-5555 www.ross.org/programs/summercamp 18 Goodfriend Drive, East Hampton

Summer Camp @ Ross offers a variety of programs from surfing to sailing, filmmaking to ceramics, and robotics to rock band for campers between the ages of six and 14. Early childhood program-

Summer Art Workshops at the Pollock-Krasner House 830 Springs-Fireplace Road, East Hampton • 631-324-4929 • www.pkhouse.org

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m. in July and August Designed for youngsters accompanied by adults, these programs include a tour of the house and studio, a film of Pollock at work, and a hands-on painting session. Registration is required, and space is limited.

Thursdays and Fridays: Action Painting with Karyn Mannix Call 631-329-2811

or email karynmannix@optonline.net to register

Saturdays: Family Art Workshop with Joyce Raimondo Call 917-502-0790 Register online at imaginearted.com

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ming for children six and under includes music and movement, creative exploration, and sports exploration. The camp’s Majors and Minors programming gives campers the opportunity to explore their two favorite areas. Weekly sessions begin July 1 and run through August 23.

Camp Blue Bay

Camp Blue Bay offers both Troop House Camping and Outdoor Tent Camping. Throughout the week, girls will enjoy swimming in Gardiners Bay, learn to shoot arrows on the archery course, make new crafts, and roast marshmallows over a campfire. Other camp activities include boating at Hog Creek, nature, outdoor survival skills, team building, sailing, games, and sports! At Camp Blue Bay, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

631-604-2201 www.gsnc.org/en/camp/CO/camp-bluebay.html 103 Flaggy Hole Rd, East Hampton Located on 179 acres in East Hampton, Summer Reading Club At East Hampton Library Camp Blue Bay Sleepaway Camp is the 631-324-0222 perfect place for girls in third to 11th www.easthamptonlibrary.org grade to have fun while discovering new 159 Main Street, East Hampton things. Camp programs are available for The East Hampton Library’s Summer one or two-week sessions or a special Reading Clubs have the theme, “A Unifour-day mini-session for girls entering verse of Stories.” first to sixth grades. CGG ad Inde 4.28x2.72_indiependent 3/14/19 2:58 PM PageThis 1 summer, there will

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be three groups: Read-to-Me Readers (ages two-and-a-half to kindergarten); Independent Readers (entering grades one through five); and Young Teens (entering grades six through eight.) Prizes will be awarded. The program ends on August 31.

Future Stars Camp 631-287-6707 www.futurestarssouthampton.com Future Stars Camps is offering junior summer camps focusing on multi-sport, soccer, tennis, basketball, lacrosse, and baseball programs. Future Stars Southampton LLC, which operates the 46,000-square-foot state-of-the-art indoor complex on Majors Path in North Sea, is an affiliate of Future Stars Tennis, LLC, one of New York’s largest sports management companies.

Time Travelers www.shelterislandhistorical.org The Shelter Island Historical Society hosts a weeklong summer program for children ages six to 12. Participants will journey back in time to explore Shelter Island’s story through music, art, performance, crafts, gardening, and games. Monday, July 29, through Friday, August 2, 9 AM till noon in the Havens Barn. Registration is now open. For more information, email info@shelterislandhistorical.org.

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Bulldog Ball Club www.bulldogballclub.com Based at East Hampton High School for the summer, the multisport camp for children six to 14 is now open for registration. Weekly sessions run from June 24 through August 23 and from 9 AM to 3 PM daily. The camp programs are designed to improve children’s knowledge and skills of sports for both beginners and experienced players alike. All children can enjoy sports with the right coaching and approach. Camp offerings include soccer, flag football, and basketball in the mornings, and baseball or softball in the afternoon. All coaches are year-round professional youth sports coaches. A drama and art camp takes place from July 8 to August 2, also from 9 AM to 3 PM daily. Transportation is available from Southampton, Bridgehampton, and Water Mill.

Theater Camps 631-725-0818 www.baystreet.org/education Bay Street Theater’s available summer camps and classes include puppetry, musical theater, and Shakespeare. An array of offerings suitable for kids between the ages of four and 14. Visit the website to see it all.

SoFo Camp 631-537-9735 www.sofo.org South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton hosts a marine science program each summer. Children will get to explore various marine habitats and the ecology of their fascinating and secretive occupants. Visit SoFo’s website to learn more.

The Art Farm 631-537-1634 www.theartfarmhamptons.org The Art Farm offers small groups and tailored schedules that meet the desires of each camper to create a unique experience. Campers spend their morning on the water and the afternoon on Art Farm’s organic, sustainable farm in Sagaponack. Mornings are about being active, challenged, informed, and fulfilled while exploring. Afternoons add a chance for creativity, time spent nurturing the animals, teamwork, and fun, always combined with composting, reducing, reusing, and recycling.

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Camp Good Grief 631-288-8400 www.eehcampgoodgrief.org Every year, East End Hospice offers a summer camp for children who have experienced the loss of a loved one. This year, Camp Good Grief will be held July 22 to 26 at Camp Pa-qua-tuck in Center Moriches. There are fun activities and plenty of surprises, plus the camp gives the children a chance to bond with others who have had similar experiences.

Camp Shakespeare 631-267-0105 www.hamptons-shakespeare.org Entering its 20th year, Camp Shakespeare is a fun, creative, and welcoming place for kids and teens ages eight to 15. Activities involve acting, improvisation, movement, voice, and theatrical arts and crafts, and are led by trained theater educators in an atmosphere of discovery and cooperation. Each weeklong session culminates in a performance for family and friends. Camp Shakespeare is held on the expansive grounds of and in St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

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Join the East Hampton Library’s

Summer Reading Clubs! Read-to-Me Readers (ages 2 1/2 to kindergarten) Read 20 books to your child.

Independent Readers (entering grades 1-5) Read at least 10 books. All participants earn prizes along the way!

Young Teens (entering grades 6-8) Read at least 5 books. Receive a prize for each book you read.

Lego Prizes End of summer drawing for LEGO sets for kids who have successfully finished the Summer Reading Program!

Registration begins May 26th!

After reading the required number of books, kids are eligible to attend a special end-of-the-summer program!

Registration begins May 25th

EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY 159 Main Street | 631-324-0222 | easthamptonlibrary.org Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9 am - 7 pm • Friday & Saturday, 9 am - 5 pm • Sunday, 1 pm - 5 pm

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Real Realty

Alan Schnurman Shares His Recipe For Success: I Can, I Will, I Must.

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Alan Schnurman Shares His Recipe For Success: I Can, I Will, I Must By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

Alan Schnurman always has a smile on his face. He is dressed impeccably and ambles with an aura of happiness as he walks into Pierre’s, where we sat down for a chat about his new book. “I Can, I Will, I Must — Buying the Hamptons, Building a Successful Future, Becoming the Best You Can Be,” published by Sagg Main Press, can be purchased through Amazon.com. Schnurman’s life could have turned out very differently. He came from humble beginnings — a first-generation immigrant raised by a single mother in Brooklyn who drove a New York City cab to put himself through law school. He follows his own version of the “Power of Attraction” to which he attributes his many successes. His attained goals include manifesting a life as a successful lawyer, TV and internet content pioneer, multi marathon runner, Mount Everest explorer, and today he is one of the most successful real estate brokers on the East End.

Is this something you’ve been practicing your whole life? Are you a believer of the “power of attraction?” I do believe in the “power of positive thinking” and the “power of attraction.” I do not believe in failure. I have challenges. Failure is an end game, challenges are a beginning. Everyone has situations that do not meet their expectations. It is how you deal with them that is a path to a successful life. Optimism and positive thinking started in my youth.

Do you follow a practice of gratitude as well? I was raised by a single mother who continually told me I could do anything I set my mind to. She gave me self-esteem and taught me to always have a good attitude. I am grateful for what my mother gave to me and try to give back to others as much as possible.

Tell us how you put into daily practice what you write about. Every morning I re-energize myself by saying three quotes. “Attitude equals al-

titude;” “I can, I will, I must;” and last, my most important, from Helen Keller, “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

You wrote the book with Eric Feil, COO of Dan's Papers. My co-author Eric Feil is one of the nicest and talented people I have come across. We met at a Dan’s Papers reception and I must have talked his ear off. We continued the conversation at a later lunch and the die was cast. What followed was a four-year, every Thursday, hourly free-flowing conversation of questions, from my childhood and my philosophy on life to my most complicated real estate deals. Each conversation was recorded and transcribed by Eric that evening.

Are you a religious man? I am a person of faith. I believe there is a superior force that intertwines life’s web. We as humans do not have the capacity to understand this force. It’s like gravity that holds the entire universe together in organized fashion. Unseen, but keeps all the galaxies, stars, and planets in a continuous order and life cycle.

You have “10 Answers to Why Real Estate.” Can you give us a sneak peek to tempt our readers to consider getting the book? Real estate fits my personality. It is slow, methodical and reliable. You have to have patience in real estate, otherwise you will not be happy. If you require immediate satisfaction, buy stocks, because real estate will not be for you. Real estate was the road I chose to meet my goals of becoming financially secure, to achieve self-respect, the respect of my peers, and most of all, to be happy. In our society, financial success is very important, but not the most important. Family is first and everything else is background. My goal is to inspire and motivate others to be optimistic, positive, and with due diligence, to take the risk in whatever path they choose.

You’re a very successful real estate investor. You say your book can help anyone with achieving their goals, no matter the industry or calling?

development, and brokerage.

The goal of the book is to be a model of success and happiness that can be achieved if the reader is provided with the right tools and how to use them. It is no secret that one has to use due diligence and hard work. The book provides a road map to understand and appreciate that self-confidence is required to attain one’s goals. I provide examples how I did it. The idea is to give readers a role model to follow.

The rules of real estate investing do not change. They were true 200 years ago, they are true today, and they will be true 200 years from today. It’s about buying the best location that your money will allow, and having the patience to wait out any downturn. Good locations usually get better with time. I like a little leverage (mortgage), just not to be overly leveraged. If you borrow too much money on a property, when the market turns against you, you may not be able to keep up the payments. Please note, inflation is the real estate owner’s friend by raising the value of your project and rental income.

You studied law in New York. How and why did you pivot from law to real estate? My interest in real estate started at the same time I started practicing law. I had read an article about Forbes’ 400 richest people in the United States. I concluded that a significant number of these very wealthy individuals made their money in real estate. That is when I decided to invest in the purchase of property while continuing a full-time legal practice. I retired eight years ago to go full-time into real estate ownership, management,

You’ve lived through a lot of economic climates. Why is real estate such a great investment?

To reach Schnurman or to see his properties, call 917-991-4076 or email CallAlan@Saunders.com. His book, “I Can, I Will, I Must — Buying the Hamptons, Building a Successful Future, Becoming the Best You Can Be" can be purchased on www.amazon.com. Read the full interview of this abridged version at www.indyeastend.com.

June 12, 2019

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IT'S ONLY NATURAL By Frank Quevedo

One-Way Ticket Tropical fish make involuntary visits to our waters Each summer, many fish species visit the waters along the South Shore and Long Island Sound. Many of these fish are either here temporarily (migratory) or inhabit these waters year-round. They are here to feed on the abundance of food that thrives in our nutrient-rich marine environment. These fish will linger as they see necessary, feeding and accumulating the energy needed in preparation to migrate back to their wintering grounds, or venture offshore to hunker down for the winter. Another unique group of fish is here as well during the summer, and the fish are seldom seen because they hide and are not here on their own willpower. They are tropical fish, but unlike the other fish groups, they will not be able to venture back in the winter to their tropical marine habitats.

These tropical fish arrive via the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic Ocean current originating in the Gulf of Mexico, exiting through the Strait of Florida and flowing in a northerly direction along the southeastern coast of the United States and eventually passing Long Island 150 to 200 miles to our south. This flow of water is part of the greater North Atlantic Gyre, which is one of the five major oceanic gyres found throughout the world. This gyre includes systems of circular ocean currents that stretch across the North Atlantic from near the equator, almost to Iceland, and from the east coast of North America to the west coasts of Europe and Africa. As the Gulf Stream current flows, it influences the climate on Long Island and also brings us an array of tropical visitors.

Every year in the Gulf of Mexico many types of tropical fish spawn, releasing free-floating eggs and developing larvae into the water column. As the Gulf Stream whips past these spawning grounds, it draws in anything in its path, especially young, developing fish that eventually find themselves drifting north and away from their home range. As these fish drift unwillingly along the east coast, they are pushed-out of the Gulf Stream current by large swirls of water known as eddies. These fish are then in a “race for time” to find a sanctuary and protection from predatory fish or birds. They dash and swim into our bays, harbors, and inshore waters, where they will stay and develop throughout the summer months. As we enter the summer season here on the South Fork, there is no better opportunity to grab your snorkel gear and flippers and head down to the bay and to try to view these wonderful creatures, such as the lookdown, trigger, banded rudder, Jack Crevalle, spot-fin butterfly, glass-eye snapper, or even a bigeye. I have seen all these fish mentioned many times here on the East End in eelgrass habitats and around bridge and dock pilings. When the local waters become cooler, these fish are triggered through their sensory systems to head back to

A glasseye snapper. Independent/Rickard Zerpe

a warmer environment and away from our inshore waters in search of the warm current that brought them here. As these fish swim offshore in search of this climate, they are preyed upon by migratory fish such as striped bass and blue fish. Those that make it back into the Gulf Stream will be heading in a northerly direction bringing them toward the frigid waters off Nova Scotia and Europe, where they will either perish due to the cold or be eaten by other predatory marine creatures. Before these fish depart on this one-way journey, jump in the water this summer and search for these colorful and temporary visitors here on the East End. “Staycations” are all the rage these days, so living in a beach town is a definite bonus, especially when the beauty of the Caribbean is practically in our own backyard. Frank Quevedo is the executive director of the South Fork Natural History Museum.

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Bridget LeRoy, Ty Wenzel, Hannah Selinger, Heather Buchanan, Lisa Cowley, Jessica Mackin-Cipro, and Jim Mackin at the PCLI Media Awards dinner June 6. Independent/Joe Cipro

The Independent came home with nine awards in assorted categories after the Press Club of Long Island media awards dinner on Thursday, June 6. PCLI is a division of the venerable national Society of Professional Journalists, the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior since 1909. Out of more than 700 entries from organizations as diverse as the Long Is-

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Cornell Works To Protect Horseshoe Crab Population Volunteers can help in tagging effort By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com They look like a combination of a crab, a stingray, and a helmet. These living fossils have migrated around the shallow waters of the East End for millennia, and the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County is keeping a strong eye on horseshoe crabs this season. The conservation group’s marine program just launched a two-year campaign to raise awareness and funds for research into the effectiveness of a partially synthetic substitute for the maritime arthropod as developed by the University of Delaware with the ultimate goal of cutting down the number of locally harvested horseshoe crabs — often used for bait — during their spawning season. “We respect and support baymen’s rights to legally harvest horseshoe crabs as they are the preferred bait for eel and conch, but unfortunately many crabs are harvested during the spawning cycle, and, in many cases, before they are able to lay their eggs,” said marine program outreach manager Kimberly Barbour. “Getting this alternative bait trial going will enable us to work with the baymen to see how well this other bait works in hopes that we can transition to using that instead.” Barbour said while CCE is still lining up funds to launch the trial, it is already working closely with Southampton Town Trustee President and bayman Edward Warner Jr., who will serve as a liaison to the fishing community when and if it can raise the money needed for this summer’s trials. “These are an incredible species which has been out here for so long and we want to make sure the populations

remain sustainable, so anything we can do from a scientific standpoint, we are really looking to do,” said Barbour, adding informative cards can now be found in area restaurants, bagel shops, and liquor stores. “We’re really trying to push the fundraising campaign, as getting this research project funded is going to make a big difference to the viability of the local breeding population.” According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Service website: “Horseshoe crabs are not really crabs (crustaceans), but are more closely related to spiders and scorpions . . . Few people realize how important horseshoe crabs are to modern medicine. Because their blue, copperbased blood quickly clots in the presence of bacterial toxins, medical researchers

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Through a bond issue, the town also offered those hooking up to public water the option of amortizing the private connection line costs by repaying them over time as an addition to property tax bills. According to an East Hampton Town press release, “East Hampton Town has remained vigilant by hiring

These are an incredible species which has been out here for so long and we want to make sure the populations remain sustainable

Girl Scout Troop 1556 helped with the horseshoe crab monitoring effort at the Pikes Beach site in Westhampton. Independent/Gina Mulhearn

use it to test intravenous drugs, vaccines, and medical devices, ensuring that they are free of bacterial contamination. Every year, many thousands of horseshoe crabs are harvested from their habitats, ‘bled’ of about one-third of their blood, then returned to the beach relatively unharmed.” According to Barbour, the reduction in horseshoe crab population reported by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission along the East Coast through Delaware and New Jersey is a trend CCE has noted in data collected by teams led by marine educator Dr. Matt Sciafani, working with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, to evaluate the current state of the population from what is now more than 20 sites on Long Island as far west as Jamaica Bay. “We need all those numbers to help inform regulations and conservation measures,” said Barbour. “We’re not an organization that sets any sort of regulatory guidelines in terms of the harvest of the population, but we can help inform it by using real science.” On Saturday night, June 1, roughly 100 volunteers from all over Long Island hit Pike’s Westhampton Dunes to help tag roughly 800 horseshoe crabs as the group continues gathering longterm data. The tagging blitz is part of the island-wide survey regarding spawning Town is committed to addressing the contamination with the necessary investigation and cleanup in accordance with a consent order expected to be executed with the DEC. The work would be performed by expert environmental consultants working under DEC oversight. The Town intends to proceed expeditiously and will seek repayment of all of costs to investigate and remediate the contamination from all responsible parties.”

Christine Tordahl prepares to return a horseshoe crab back to the water after tagging. Independent/ Courtesy Kimberly Barbour

horseshoe crabs’ abundance, size, and tag return around full and new moon events from spring to early summer with a few more events left. Those who want to get involved in the effort are encouraged to go to www. nyhorseshoecrab.org/ to find and fill out the necessary volunteer paperwork before going to a tagging event. Participants are also encouraged to bring a flashlight, rubber boots, work gloves, and a clipboard with some pencils. Though the town is suggesting homeowners may be responsible for the contamination, a Wainscott homeowner, Kate Shipman, has filed a lawsuit against East Hampton Town and several chemical manufacturing companies — including the Minnesota-based giant conglomerate 3M — over the contamination of her home’s well by chemicals believed to have leached into the ground from industrial properties including East Hampton Airport.

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Fallen Officer Honored In Street-Naming Ceremony Detective Brian Simonsen Way part of South Jamesport Avenue By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com

Detective Brian Simonsen was laid to rest in Jamesport Cemetery on February 20. Independent/Gianna Volpe

Detective Brian Simonsen was called “Smiles” for a reason. The 42-yearold NYPD Detective assigned to the 102nd Precinct and ultimately killed in a friendly fire incident during the interrupted robbery of a Queens T-Mobile store in February was so beloved for his jovial, compassionate nature that the community in which he grew up has banded together to ensure his memory is never forgotten. The Jamesport Fire Department and Greater Jamesport Civic Association — along with several Riverhead Town employees and community members — asked the town board to dedicate portions of South Jamesport Avenue in honor of the fallen officer who was raised, and now rests, on that same street; a request which passed in a town board resolution on April 16. “One of the most touching things

about this is that Detective Simonsen can look at the road from where he’s buried,” Riverhead Town Deputy Chief of Staff May Zegarelli said of the dedication and unveiling on Saturday, June 8, of one of the three spots on South Jamesport Avenue that will identify the road as Detective Brian Simonsen Way. “We’re only going to be unveiling the one on Main Road and South Jamesport Avenue, right near George Young Community Center.” The spot is across the street from Jamesport Cemetery where Simonsen was buried February 20 and mourned by both the NYPD, which spearheaded Saturday’s dedication ceremony, as well as the community to which he stayed loyal, including Simonsen’s wife, Leanne; mother, Linda Petersen; and grandfather, Vernon Petersen. “The fact that he commuted all the

way to Queens each day from Calverton shows his love for this community,” noted Zegarelli. “The Riverhead Police Department has definitely been mourning alongside the NYPD. It was a great loss for them.” Seventeen-year-old Jordyn Stromski, who was awarded an $1100 scholarship from the Greater Jamesport Civic Association for her efforts in lining County Road 105 and Route 25 with American flags and blue ribbons during Simonsen’s funeral procession, is the daughter of one of those officers: Riverhead Town Police Detective Mark Stromski, who attended both Riverhead High School and the police academy alongside Simonsen. “It was such an honor to give Jordyn the scholarship,” said Greater Jamesport Civic Association President William Van Helmond. “To see a young

individual come out and shed some positive light — find that silver lining in a dark cloud — it really touched me.” The decision to dedicate, rather than entirely rename South Jamesport Avenue, was a timing issue, according to Van Helmond, who said the association decided to go with a road dedication, rather than to go through the rigmarole of having each resident sign off on entirely changing their address. “There were a lot of people who felt the same way about memorializing South Jamesport Avenue in Detective Simonsen’s honor,” he said. “Brian was an exceptional man who had an unfortunate accident serving and protecting the people of New York City, as he would have done if he were working for the Riverhead PD. That was just his nature.”

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First Fridays Are Loved On Love Lane Mattituck braces for July onslaught By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com Hundreds amassed on Mattituck’s epicenter of commerce known as Love Lane on Friday, June 7, for the monthly “First Friday” block party, which has grown exponentially since its inception more than five years ago, according to organizers. The crowd size was unexpected by some vendors, at least four of which sold through their stock within an hour or so of the event’s start. “This is crazy,” Love Lane Kitchen owner Carolyn Iannone said with a smile after quickly selling through 20 dozen lobster sliders. “I usually order 12 dozen and we’ll make it to 8:30, but now we know! It usually takes a while for this to pick up, but the street was full by 5:45.” Harvest Moon Oysterman Josh Clauss was in the same boat down the

First Friday on Love Lane in Mattituck was a big hit on June 7. Independent/Gianna Volpe

Lane, and while packing in his operation at 7:30 PM, said, “We did not expect this big of a crowd, but we are glad to have it. We went through 400 oysters in an hourand-a-half, so I think we’re going to bring more than 1000 for July.” In addition to local vendors and informative booths like that of the North Fork Promotion Council and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Patrol, there was an open mic night providing music through the Town of Southold’s Youth Bureau, a new, popular feature, which may return again in the fall. David Perrin of the Mattituck Chamber of Commerce, which vaulted the once-local gathering into the stratospheric merging of East Enders and upislanders, seemed to be the only one not

surprised by the crowd. “I’m not shocked; I kind of expected this turn-out,” said Perrin. “When I walked in and saw NoFoDoCo and Braun’s walking out saying, ‘We’re out of food,’ I was like, ‘Wow — Welcome to the party, guys.” July is expected to be a particular challenge for hyperlocal vendors as it will not only occur the day after Independence Day, but the day before the 42nd Annual Old-Fashioned Street Fair, which brings a crowd that one of the so-called ‘Pillars of Love Lane,’ Rosemary Batchellor, formerly of The Village Cheese Shop, said she expects First Fridays will one day match. “We really had to drum it up to get people to come back in 2013 or 2014,” Batchellor said of the early days. “Ev-

erybody was very enthusiastic and they really supported us, but it was nothing to this level. 2015 was my last one and it has just grown exponentially every single year. This is almost — well, not quite — the crowd of the street fair, but it’s going to be. Give it another two years.” First Fridays is the brainchild of two other “Pillars of Love Lane,” Kate Altman of Altman’s Needlearts on Love Lane and Robin Epperson McCarthy of Saltbird Cellars and Peconic Cellar Door, who, at the time, worked for Roanoke Vineyards, but Epperson McCarthy said Dave Perrin gets the credit for turning the event into what it is today. “It’s awesome,” she said. “Dave made it everything I hoped it could become.”

Say No To Drugs Pulaski Street Elementary students march By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Pulaski Street Elementary School students, in Riverhead, participated in a Riverhead Community Awareness Program on Friday, June 7. The 34th annual Say No To Drugs program included a march that began at the school, headed south on Roanoke Avenue, west on 2nd Street, and returned back to the school. Each student marched wearing a white and orange “Drug Free Body” shirt as they car-

ried signs with anti-drug messages. The community rallied in support of students growing up in an educational environment without drugs or alcohol. The march was followed by a ceremony honoring Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon. Sheriff Toulon was inducted as Suffolk County’s 67th Sheriff on January 1, 2018, and was the county’s “first African-American to be elected to a non-ju-

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WHAT A NIGHT! The Independent came home with 9 awards

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Exploring Future For Arts On East End

ton called it “the graying of the American audience.” It is becoming increasingly difficult to draw young people to the performing arts. She told the audience, “We need your help. We need you to advocate for the arts out here.” Bridget LeRoy, who moderated the talk, and is the managing editor and co-founder of The Independent, is also a member of the East Hampton Town Arts Council. She said that the council’s monthly meetings at Town Hall are sparsely attended, and she encouraged members of the public to attend. Scott Bluedorn is an artist, as well as an art curator. He said it is important to develop centers where art and artists can survive and thrive. “There is just no studio space.” A performing artist on the panel, singer-songwriter Inda Eaton, expressed concern that the number of venues for musicians are rapidly decreasing in the Town of East Hampton, with almost all that remain being in Montauk. Eaton noted that venues have vanished entirely from some towns and villages to the west. She also pointed out that at the many charitable events and fund raisers held each summer season, the promoters budget money for the wait staff and the food, but the money seems to stop when it comes to paying the performing artists. Solutions to long-term problems

Independent Thinking: problems and solutions for art world By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The future of the arts on the East End was the focus of a lively five-person panel on Thursday, June 6, during a luncheon at The Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton. “Arts: Creative Place Making” was the second topic in the Independent Thinking series, sponsored by the Adam Miller Group, Advantage Title, and The Independent. Emma Walton Hamilton, author, educator, and one of the co-founders of Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor in 1991, said that two major hurdles facing the arts on the East End are funding and housing. Hamilton said that when she founded Bay Street along with Stephen Hamilton and Sybil Christopher, the theater soon found itself spending $100,000 a year to house the actors, designers, technicians, and the rest of the creative team needed to mount high-quality theater, and that

cost has only gone up over the years since she has left. She warned that the trend is not sustainable, long term. Helen Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, and a former art reviewer and feature writer for The New York Times, read a passage written by Patsy Southgate for the Paris Review in 1959. Southgate was commenting “on the incongruity between the area’s well-heeled conservatives and the Bohemian art colonists,” writing “It is an uneasy juxtaposition, with very little contact and hardly anything in common — it might almost be a mutual reaffirmation society based on contrast. One can’t help wondering why the painters come here when even the rents give pause.” Concern was expressed for what seems to be a growing lack of interest in the arts among younger people. Hamil-

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facing the arts and artists were offered at the luncheon, as well. Andrea Grover, the executive director of Guild Hall, suggested that, off-season, Guild Hall could open space for musicians like Eaton. She also sad that musicians should be paid stipends, at the least, for their work. Grover also said that towns and villages on the East End need to work together to support the arts. She said that one thing municipalities could do to help is to examine the zoning regulations as they effect the arts. When she was 27, she founded the Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX. Grover stated that Houston’s lack of a zoning code (LeRoy jokingly responded by calling it “the wild west”) was a stimulant for the arts, allowing artists and curators to think outside the box. Harrison drew from her experience at the Pollock-Krasner facility, describing what should be the goal of institutions encouraging developing artists. “You don’t have to draw something that looks like something. It doesn’t have to be correct. It’s not about depicting things, it’s about expressing the way you feel about things, an alternate way of creating. We don’t present it as the be all and end all, like, you should stop drawing horses with four legs, because ‘we don’t like that.’ Horses with four legs work just fine,” she said. “Let people let their creativity out without judgment.”

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Sports Hall Puts Pierson In State Final Four Junior pitches complete game, hits RBI-single in defeat of Tuckahoe By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Matt Hall has all the tools to triumph. The junior right-hander tossed an 83-pitch complete game, allowing six hits, striking out one, and walking none, and smacked an RBI-single to lead Pierson’s baseball team to a 5-2 regional final win over Tuckahoe at Pace University June 8. The Whalers will face Cooperstown in the state semifinals at 5 PM Friday, June 14 at Maine-Endwell High School. “Matt Hall pitched a great game — he pitched for contact, and we held them when we have to, let the fielders do their job,” head coach Jonathan Schwartz said. “After the first inning, he settled down quickly and got ahead of batters.” Schwartz was able to locate a plethora of Tuckahoe (21-5) film that helped him and his coaches get the boys prepared. Hall said it helped him immensely. “The film gave me an opportunity to see their lineup and come up with a game plan,” the pitcher said. “My strategy going into the game was to mix up the speed of the pitches and keep the batters off-balance and guessing. I had a good feel for my curveball today, which helped to get a lot of weak contact.”

Matt Hall raises Pierson baseball team’s regional championship plaque during a welcome home parade following the Whalers’ 5-2 win over Tuckahoe June 8. Independent/Courtesy Kristen Schiavoni

He said keeping a 3-1 heartbreaking loss to East Rockaway in the Long Island Class C championship game last season in the back of his mind also motivated him. Hall hit a two-out RBI-single that scored Harry Cowen and put Pierson (512) ahead for good, 2-1, in the top of the third inning. It capped off a small ball cycle that started with freshman Dan Labrozzi drawing a walk before Cowen’s single. Christian Pantina, the ninth batter in the lineup, dropped down a sacrifice bunt to move the runners to second and third, and Nick Egbert grounded out to short with the infield back, to drive in Labrozzi and tie things up. The Whalers tacked on a run in the fourth before Tuckahoe closed the gap to 3-2 in the bottom of the inning. Pantina and Egbert each scored in the fifth to put the game out of reach. “We took some chances, had a couple of timely hits, they made a couple of

errors we took some extra bases on, and here we are,” Schwartz said. “The small ball is all we needed today. We don’t have a power-hitting lineup this year. We rely on scattered singles all over the field, our speed, execution, and aggressive baserunning. We’re happy to have an opportunity to play again. It’s all a little surreal right now. The kids are excited.” They were especially excited to play again after a three-week break. The Whalers had their final regular season game May 17 against Babylon and hadn’t played since, inter-team scrimmaging almost every day to try to remain as competitive as possible. Hall said he knew what his fielders could do, so despite the time off, he was confident in his team’s abilities. “The defense was amazing today. It kept us in the game,” Hall said. “It made me much more confident on the mound. I knew if a ground ball was hit up the mid-

dle that the play would be made. Christian and Cooper [Schiavoni] have been solid all year and they continued to play great defense today.” He also credited his battery mate, Cooper’s younger brother Tucker, who threw out a runner attempting to steal second to get him out of a jam. “He did a great job of keeping everything in front of him,” Hall said. “We have a good connection. And he always knows what I want to throw.” Having a week break could bode well for the Whalers, especially with their confidence being “sky high,” according to Schwartz. The coach said while the team thought it was even a privilege to play in a regional final, his boys are even more enthusiastic to be part of the state semifinal game. “We’re going to make the best of it and leave everything out there on the field,” Schwartz said. “We’re ready to go.”

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Mattituck Girls Have Double The Fun Hoeg’s five straight goals lead Tuckers to second state title in a row By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com They lost six seniors. They were doubted. But behind Mackenzie Hoeg’s five straight goals the Tuckers did it again. With an 11-7 win over Bronxville at SUNY Cortland June 8, the Mattituck/ Southold girls lacrosse team won a program first second straight Class D state championship crown. “We lost six starters from last year’s team, so being a small school, I think

people questioned whether girls would be able to step into those roles,” Hoeg said. “While those seniors were a huge part of the state championship last year, we knew the girls coming back had great potential to go get another. Winning the first time was awesome, but winning the championship for the second time feels even better. We proved ourselves when some people doubted us.”

Tuckers Out After State Semis Loss Mattituck manages three goals against fundamentally sound Briarcliff By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The Mattituck/Southold boys lacrosse team has come up short in its quest for redemption. Unable to overcome a seven-goal second-quarter burst by Briarcliff, the Tuckers fell 10-3 to the Bears in the Class D state semifinals at Adelphi University June 5, once again coming up one win short in their second straight push for the program’s first state final berth. “I’m so proud of where this program has come and I’m blessed to say I’ve been part of it,” said senior Max Kruszeski,

who’s been on the team since eighth grade. “I’ve grown extremely close to this program, my coaches, and the guys I’ve played with that it’s so hard to see it finally come to an end.” Matt Seifert scored Mattituck’s (136) first goal just over nine minutes in to even the score at 1, but Briarcliff’s Anthony Capasso and Jackson Ricciardi racked up three goals each during an 8-0 wave from the end of the first through the second to weaken whatever momentum the Tuckers may have had.

Members of the Mattituck/Southold girls lacrosse team raise their second straight Class D state championship plaque. Independent/Courtesy Riley Hoeg

But the win didn’t come without a battle, especially when there’s history between the two teams. Bronxville (19-4) is a six-time state semifinalist that has never won the title, settling for runner-up three straight years. The Broncos lost 12-1 to the Tuck “Our style of play has always been to push the tempo and play fast — that’s something that has always worked,” Kruszeski said. “It was very tough playing against their zone and our sets against the zone weren’t working as we expected.” Kruszeski scored the final goal of his illustrious five-year varsity career — the Tuckers’ final goal of the game — with 4:54 left to play. “It was definitely very emotional … scoring the last goal of this season and of my career definitely means a lot to me and is something I’ll remember for quite some time,” said the Marquette University-bound senior, who is the first lacrosse player from Southold and second from the Mattituck/Southold area to sign to play with a Division I team. “We wanted to adjust our play in the offensive zone because they were locking me off. We discussed something to do with that and to just keep pushing transition and the opportunities will come.” Teammate Dane Reda found the netting before him off an assist from

ers last season, and beat Mattituck in the 2017 semifinals. But the Section I challengers were coming in hot, overcoming an 8-2 deficit to topple Skaneateles, 15-11, in the semifinals Friday. “We had watched one of their games Continued On Page 43.

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Ethan Schmidt, but the Tuckers struggled to gain possession and made a handful of errors that led to turnovers, making it that much tougher to mount a comeback. “Early in the game we had some good long offensive possessions that just didn’t turn into points,” Reda said. “It felt like their defense knew all our sets and it was very frustrating, and their opposiContinued On Page 36.

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Each step is a step forward for charity at the Shelter Island Run, sponsored by BNB. Founded in 1980, the annual 10K/5K run/walk will celebrate 40 years of crossing the finish line on Saturday, June 15, beginning at 5:30 PM. The USA track-and-field-certified course is the setting for a fundraising event for several East End Charities including East End Hospice, Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch, and the Shelter Island 10K Community Fund. As noted on the website, the non-profit race “is dedicated to create positive awareness through running and health . . . to provide funds to community youth, adults, and seniors through education and services.” To commemorate four decades of running, new to the race will be a Masters Runner Category for men and women 40 years and older. In addition, anyone who completes the 10K run in under 40 minutes will receive a “I broke 40 at the 40”

T-shirt sponsored by Harry Hackett of Merrill Lynch. Bill Rodgers, former Olympian, four-time NYC Marathon winner, and four-time Boston Marathon winner, will casually compete. “To me it’s one of the ultimate community road races, something that appealed to me from the very beginning of my road racing career which was in 1966 at the Manchester Road Race in Manchester Connecticut,” the Newington, CT native said. “The entrance way the course runs through the countryside, it’s just beautiful racing. It’s kind of low-key in a way. It’s not like the big city marathons, which can be overwhelming and tedious. Coming to this event shows you its uniqueness. I do want to salute Dr. Frank Adipietro, who has been the race director for 40 years. It is a community event, but runners from around the world will be there.” “It’s definitely my favorite day of the year on Shelter Island combining in-

spirational athletes, amazing volunteers, hard-working race organizers, and the great people of our town. It has been an honor being associated with one of the most important, historic road races in America. And what’s amazing is that it’s right here at home,” noted Adipietro. Running legends in addition to Rodgers are expected to stride alongside community members. Benji Durden and Kyle Heffner both competed on the 1980 Olympic team. George Hirsch, chairman of the board of the Board of New YorkRoad Runners and publisher of Runners World, as well as a joint founder of the NYC Marathon in 1976, is also set to run. Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic Gold Medal winner and first-time women’s Olympic marathon champion commented, “It promises to be a true celebration of a meaningful and storied race. Running the scenic and challenging course with runners and a community who share a passion for all that is good

about sport and teamwork inspires us all. It’s one to be treasured and experienced by runners of all abilities.” Pre-race activities begin at 3:30 PM with family fun activities on school grounds, adjacent to the American Legion Center and open to all. Activities include a kids fun run with medals for all kids participants, bounce houses, photo booth, crafts, and ice cream from Mister Softee. After the race will be a BBQ. From 6:30 to 9:30 PM will be dancing in the street with live music by Points East. There will also be a silent auction by Grandstand Sports, food trucks by Pizza Rita and Mattitaco, beer sponsored by Long Island Brewery, and wine from Bottle Hampton. There will also be a contest after party for best 80s running apparel. 10K tickets are $40 in advance, $50 day of the race and 5K are $30 in advance, $40 day of the race. For a full schedule of events and tickets, visit www.shelterislandrun.com.

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nine saves before being relieved by Tyler Shuford with 4:11 to go in the game. Briarcliff (18-4) outshot Mattituck 36-20. “They were a great team and so unlike teams we have played all year. They’re extremely fundamentally sound and all of them played their role and were able to execute better than us,” Kruszeski said. “But the energy and commitment to this program has grown tremendously. Coach John Amato comes to practice ev-

ery day motivated to bring Mattituck into the conversation as an elite team on Long Island. Coach Amato and the great players that have come through this program have put Mattituck on the map.” Along with Kruszeski, the Tuckers bid farewell to Greg Hauser, Ryan Seifert, and Willie Burns. Reda, a junior, said they’re all tremendous losses. “The seniors this year are going to be hard to replace, not only because

they are all midfielders but because they worked super hard every day,” said Reda, noting the nine other soon-to-be seniors, but lack of juniors returning to next year’s team (three). “My goal for the past two years has been to win a state championship, and we came up short both times. So next year we’ll be extra motivated. I think we can get there for sure, but we’ll need our younger guys to step up big.”

Continued From Page 35. tion was very good. . . we could tell that from their warm up. I think a couple guys were intimidated by that.” Kruszeski, who was presented with a sportsmanship award after the game, also picked up four ground balls, as did Parker Sheppard and Colby Suglia. Mattituck goalie Luke Wojtas made

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CHIP SHOTS By Bob Bubka

Fairy Tale Or Reality At The U.S. Open? Father’s Day championship will deliver the outcome bobvoiceofgolf@gmail.com At precisely 6:45 AM Pacific Time on the Pebble Beach Golf Links first tee on June 16, Arnold Palmer’s grandson, Sam Saunders, will tee off, thus starting the examination of the best golfers in the world to determine who will become the 119th U.S. Open Champion. A year ago, at Shinnecock, the view of the Atlantic Ocean added to the overall charm and the incredible scenery. This year, the Pacific Ocean is so close to the 18th green that the players may feel the ocean spray. Two completely different courses, both close to oceans, both beautiful, both a good examination. Although both have a lot in common in my opin-

ion, Pebble Beach is more pleasing to the eye, while Shinnecock is a far better test. And there are two other ways the Pebble Beach and Shinnecock areas are connected. John Steinbeck, one of America’s greatest writers, had a huge affinity for both settings. The Pebble Beach Golf Links opened 100 years ago in 1919, which was the same year that Steinbeck graduated from nearby Salinas High School. He lived and wrote in nearby Carmel-by-the-Sea as much as he did in Sag Harbor. Although both areas possess a serene and charming setting, oddly enough, both areas also provided a unique setting for high-speed race cars.

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The Bridgehampton streets were the site for open-car racing, where Roger Penske once took home the honors. Eventually, this turned into racing at the Bridgehampton Race Circuit. Oddly enough, that track is now a wonderful golf course called the Bridge. Also, in the 1950s, car racing was very popular in the shadows of Pebble Beach. Golf, by some, has been described as a good walk spoiled. Just think, if you were in great shape and had great footwear and chose to walk the distance to get to each course, it’s estimated that would take you 999 hours to traverse the 3097 miles. For reference, driving it would take around 48 hours non-stop. There are so many storylines coming into Pebble Beach that I worry it will not live up to the hype. Topping the list in the fairy tale department has to be Phil Mickelson, who won earlier this year in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and only needs the U.S. Open title to complete his career Grand Slam. Bear in mind only five players in history have done so: Sarazen, Hogan, Player, Nicklaus, and Woods. As fairy tales go, this would be a good one . . . Mickelson will turn 49 on Championship Sunday and would then be the oldest player ever to win a Major. Tiger, fresh off his Masters win, could be a factor this week. In 2000, Woods came out on top by 15 shots at 12 under par and was the only player under

par that week. A Tiger victory this week would bring him to within two titles of Nicklaus’s record of 18. Despite the allure of a Tiger win or a Phil Slam, defending champion Brooks Koepka, who came out on top in his last two U.S. Opens, is seeking a three-peat, a feat only accomplished once in history by Willie Anderson and that was well over 100 years ago. Oh, by the way, a lot of Irish eyes were smiling after Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell both scored big victories at the RBC Canadian Open this past weekend. McIlroy, the Irish golf child prodigy who is now 30, put his full arsenal of golf prowess on display as he ran away with the Canadian Open title, oddly enough, a title never won by Jack Nicklaus. McDowell’s seventh-place finish secured his spot in the Open Championship that will be played in Northern Ireland in July at Royal Portrush, where McDowell grew up and learned the game. It’s a course he has played more than 500 times and, as he is one of his hometown’s favorite sons; it was a big relief for him to make it into the field. The question remains, will a fairy tale come true or will reality prevail in our National Championship on Sunday? So as Father’s Day approaches, if you are blessed to still have your Dad, be sure to tell him you love him.

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