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Boosler, who will headline the show, is a comedian, writer, and animal activist. She’s been named “The First Lady of Standup Comedy” by Rolling Stone and is listed as one of Comedy Central’s “Greatest 100 Standup Comedians of All Time.” She is known for her thoughtful and feisty socially conscious humor.

“Elayne Boosler is really a legend in the comedy world,” said LaGreca.

“She was the first woman to have her own Showtime and HBO specials. It was a big deal.”

Balan has appeared on “Last Comic Standing,” where she was a finalist. She headlines across the coun-

try, and performs regularly at Caroline’s on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club, and The Comic Strip live.

TV personality, comedian, and writer Bill McCuddy will serve as the night’s auctioneer. The live auction will include a private sunset sail charter on the Lelanta, an 82-foot schooner. “I’ve never been on a sailboat like that,” said LaGreca.

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Angela LaGreca Hosts Comedy Benefit

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

LTV’s Creative Director Angela LaGreca will host a celebrity lineup of comedians at a Super Salon Comedy Benefit at LTV Studio in Wainscott on Friday, July 12, from 6 to 9 PM. The evening features comediennes Elayne Boosler and Michele Balan.

“We wanted to do a night of comedy benefit with a live auction,” said LaGreca. “It’s a chance for everybody to see what LTV is doing.” All proceeds from the event will benefit East Hampton’s LTV and help it expand from a local television station into a media center to serve the growing needs of the community.

“We’re trying to do more events,” she said. LaGreca recently started the Creative Salon Night Series at the studio, which has been a great success. It’s where the community can experience a variety of performers, writers, and filmmakers, with ideas and works in progress.

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outfit, and private photo shoot courtesy of the Bow Tie Pet Club; and an LTV TV production package.

The event’s host committee includes Joy Behar, who has joined for many of the Creative Salon nights.

“We have a good host committee,” said LaGreca. “Joy Behar has been extremely supportive.”

The roster of local notables also includes Arlene and Alan Alda, Lorraine Bracco, Jamie DeRoy, Joan and Skip Hamburg, Judith Kasen-Windsor, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Robert Zimmerman.

The evening will begin at 6 PM Continued On Page B19.

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Letters Just Sign Here Dear Editor, As described in The Independent’s June 12 editorial, “Pothole or Roadblock,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman invalidated a petition submitted by the East Quogue Village Exploratory Committee to incorporate the hamlet of East Quogue into a village.

While the petition will be resubmitted to address the supervisor’s concerns, the editorial noted that some residents argued they mistakenly signed the petition to learn more about incorporation, not to support a public vote.

However, other residents argued that the Exploratory Committee clearly explained signing the petition supported a public vote.

Value judgments aside, the following extract from a letter to The Southampton Press written in 2018 by a supporter of incorporation may explain why some residents thought they signed the petition to explore the feasibility of incorporation:

“Whether you are for, against, or on the fence doesn’t matter. Signing the petition only helps get this to the next stage and enables more information to be processed for the benefit of all.”

To add to the confusion, the boundaries of the proposed village appear porous. The proposed eastern boundary includes homes with Hampton Bays

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addresses and the western boundary includes at least one homeowner who is a member of the Quogue school board.

Further, at least one home within the proposed village is listed twice using two separate and distinct street addresses. The home is occupied by family members with different names who use two different street addresses, giving the appearance of two separate houses where only one house exists.

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Bloated Government Dear Editor, The editorial in last week’s edition was head shaking.

After watching the Democratic candidates blabber, stumble, and pontificate on raising taxes and open borders, it brought to mind what their theme song should be . . .

“I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts, there they are all standing in a row — big ones, tall ones, some as big as your head!”

May I ask one simple question? Who the hell is going to pay for enlarging the bloated government, yet not one solid mention of how they will improve the lives Continued On Page 29.

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A miles-long ribbon of red brake lights stretched from Montauk to points west after the annual fireworks display July 4. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

So, You Enjoyed The Fireworks?

Now try to leave Montauk

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

After the approximately 17-minuteslong fireworks show ended, another annual display took place in Montauk: a single-file line of brake lights. A long red ribbon, miles long, extended west as thousands of celebrants sat in their

cars on Montauk Highway, waiting, in some cases more than two hours, to leave the hamlet.

One local resident described her nightmarish experience driving in Montauk after the fireworks.

Annie Clemenz lives on Edgemere Street, just north of town. She and her daughter watched the fireworks together. After the show ended, the daughter asked Clemenz if she could get a ride. “She wanted to go to a sleepover,” Clemenz said. The friend’s house was on Lincoln Road, about a mile and a half west of downtown Montauk. Google Maps lists it as a seven-minute journey.

Clemenz drove down Edgemere, making a right on South Euclid to avoid the obvious jam up of cars on Main Street at Carl Fischer Plaza. She drove to South Emery Street, turned left, then made the right onto Montauk Highway.

There, she and her daughter waited. And waited. And waited.

One hour, 10 minutes later, Clemenz reached Lincoln. It was sealed off by the police, as all side streets were.

The next turn off into Hither Hills was

probably an hour away, near the Hither Hills overlook. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Clemenz told a little fib to the officer. “I live here,” she said. She was waved on through.

“It was as bad a traffic congestion as we have ever seen for the fireworks,” East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo said afterward. By 6 PM, he said, there was not a single open parking space in downtown Montauk.

“The roadways just are not designed to handle this volume. There is no way to empty out the crowds quickly,” he said. “The downtown grid of roadways makes it even more challenging, with cars parked along shoulders trying to turn around, or make it one block to turn back west.”

“With perfect weather and a fourday weekend for the holiday, it was pretty much saturated,” he added.

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East Hampton Agrees To Share Power Will aid Southold during peak periods

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

East Hampton Town Board members seemed amenable to entering into an emergency power-sharing agreement championed by PSEG when a discordant voice was heard.

The Town of Southold, like East Hampton, reaches peak need a few times a year, typically on hot, summer days.

Lauren Steinberg, from the town’s

Natural Resources Department, told the board Southold had approached East Hampton to join the South Fork Peak Savers load relief program.

Under the proposal, East Hampton would agree to generate enough power to provide load relief when an overload is imminent — there were two peak demand events in 2017 and four in 2018.

Free Sunscreen In SH Town parks and beaches receive Stony Brook Hospital donation

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital is sponsoring free sunscreen dispensers throughout Southampton Town.

On Tuesday, June 25, members of the town board and hospital held a ribbon-cutting at Ponquogue Beach for 17 free SPF 30 dispensers that have

been installed at town beaches and parks.

“The program allows everyone to safely enjoy our beautiful beaches, parks, and recreational facilities all summer long,” said Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera, who worked

Sarah’s Day: A Remembrance In Amagansett Boutique, Baldwins host one-day event for CancerCare

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Sarah DeHavenon, who founded French Presse in Amagansett Square, was known locally for her energy and kindness.

An Amagansett resident for decades, DeHavenon-Fowler passed away last October at 58 years old after a two-year battle with glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer.

On Saturday, July 13, from noon to 4 PM, friends — including Alec and Hilaria Baldwin — will be hosting a free event at French Presse, open to the public, with music, good food, and more to celebrate DeHavenon’s legacy of life, love, and community.

“Sarah brought a warmth, caring,

East Hampton would generate the energy by firing up generators at a handful of key locations where the power wouldn’t be needed. After hearing the proposal, board member Jeff Bragman straightened in his chair, likening the plan to “taking from Peter to pay Paul” and wondering what was in it for East Hampton Town.

Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, who championed the project, pointed out Bragman had seemed to be on board with the plan a day earlier; it could add up to $70,000 a year to town coffers. Further, the generators used would be fired up at places where there isn’t a problem with peak usage — the Parks Department building, the police garage, the Highway Department, and the Senior Citizen Center. Employees typically go home early and don’t use as much power as fulltime residents might.

The propane-fired generators reduce the need for the old LIPA Peakers like the ones at Route 114 and Cove Hollow Road, which are diesel-powered and notably inefficient.

Town Hall was eliminated from consideration because the computer systems might suffer from the shift in the source of energy.

Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said the funds could be spent with an eye of making the town more energy efficient by installing solar panels at key locales and employing other fossil-fuel reducing initiatives.

Bragman said the town could do that anyway. He also pointed out Southampton Town declined to participate in the PSEG program.

“We’ll have to agree to disagree,” Overby said to Bragman. “That’s fine,” he replied. The other board members were in favor of entering the agreement.

with Stony Brook on the initiative.

“I would also like to thank Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for their generosity and continued support.”

Creative Advertising Concepts had proposed the idea to Preston Scalera earlier this year, who then reached out to Stony Brook Hospital about a potential partnership. As part of the program, CAC worked with the town to find local sponsors to support the project. Stony Brook Southampton Hospital signed on right away.

“Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s mission is to promote health and wellness,” said Steven Bernstein, chief development officer at the hospital. “Providing free SPF 30 broad spectrum sports sunscreen can help protect residents and visitors against

too much sun exposure.”

Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said his first comment was, “Why didn’t we do this sooner?”

“I wish I thought of that,” he said.

“It ought to be as commonplace as soap dispensers in the bathroom. It’s right there — right on the pathway to the beach — and it takes two seconds to slather it on. I think every beach should have that, and now our beaches will have that. I hope it becomes a ubiquitous thing.”

The free sunscreen dispensers are available through Labor Day. For more information on the locations, visit the Parks and Recreation Department page on the town’s website at www. southamptontownny.gov/353/ParksRecreation.

intelligence, and style into every room she entered,” Alec Baldwin said. “There are not many like her in our area. In our world.”

DeHavenon founded French Presse, a bedding and lifestyle boutique, as a way to revive the natural joy of a slower era. She had witnessed much change in the Hamptons since being a child out here in the 1960s, and strived to create a space where people would feel welcome, tranquil, and present.

French Presse Linens began as a high-end, environmentally-friendly linen laundering service, but expanded to include luxury retail linens and pillows. The shop is now run by DeHavenon’s and her husband, Joe Fowler’s son, Dylan. This weekend, French Presse will be donating 15 percent of all proceeds from sales (online and in-store) to CancerCare, an organization dedicated to helping people manage the emotional, practical, and financial challenges of cancer.

There will be limited edition prod-

ucts available, as well as select sale items, along with a silent auction. Mandala Yoga Center, which is also located at Amagansett Square, will host a communal chanting session. And live music will be provided by The Woodworkers, Lynn Blumenfeld, and others.

“Sarah was a beautiful, kind spirit who inspired everyone around her. Deeply connected to her kids and her community, she radiated warmth and love,” said Lynn Blumenfeld, who performs under the name Lynn Blue.

“Her son, Dylan — who I used to hang out with at Atlantic Beach — asked if my band could play,” Blumenfeld said.

“We already had a gig so we couldn’t do both, but I asked my friend Fred Raimondo, and I hope to sing a song or two in her honor.”

Catering will be provided by Estia’s Little Kitchen, Art of Eating, and Cavaniola’s. Additionally, the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation will provide a donation to the organization.

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Hampton Bays Residents Could See Rate Hikes Water district increases to pay for improvements, maintaining local control

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The cost of maintaining local control may be high for Hampton Bays Water District customers.

Residents could potentially see a 25 percent increase in their water bills.

The number came up during a June 27 discussion between Southampton Town Board members, who act as water district commissioners, and town comptroller Len Marchese over the cost of funding two infrastructure upgrades.

The rate increase would pay for the purchase and installation of a $3.6 million iron and manganese filtration system at the district’s fourth wellfield along Bellows Pond Road near Sears Bellows County Park, and a $2.8 million resurfacing of the site’s tank.

Because pump 4-2 at the wellfield

has been turned off as a result of iron and manganese levels being above the one mg/L limit, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said the upgrades are urgent. The costs of waiting, he said, include lower water pressure and potential discolored water while demand is high in the summer months. These issues were seen last summer, along with high levels of perfluorinated chemicals.

“They’ve been problems. It’s something I’m looking to avoid,” Schneiderman said. “This pump does provide critical volume, so it’s unfortunate as we approach the summer season that we’re operating only one of the two pumps at the fourth field.

We need to figure out a pathway that

will cover the debt service on these two items as well as providing the district additional funds for routine maintenance.”

During the time the issues arose last summer, the supervisor learned wells should be cleaned at least once every seven years. The wells at the fourth field hadn’t been serviced in 22.

Schneiderman said this means the water district would have to clean one or two wells a year across its fields to remain in compliance. The cost is $50,000 a well.

While Schneiderman’s statement that the two items were being pulled out of necessity was argued, the projects were on a top list of priorities generated through a study done by Suffolk County Water Authority, which had been in talks with the town board about taking over management of the water district.

The water district’s superintendent, Robert King, also agreed there’s a sense of urgency, according to Schneiderman.

King confirmed this July 5, adding he’d like to see them addressed by this fall. Councilwoman Julie Lofstad also pointed to 10 years’ worth of reports from Melville-based H2M Architects + Engineers, which identified both the iron filtration system and tank resurfacing as “high priority” items.

At the Thursday work session,

Hampton Bays resident Debbie Sarube complained of discolored water at her home last June that she said continued through July. Independent/Courtesy Debbie Sarube

Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera said she was hesitant to move forward with enacting a rate increase without first hearing from consultants D&B Architects. The Woodbury-based firm was hired by the board in March for $47,000 to assess the condition of the water district’s infrastructure and establish a 10-year capital improvement Continued On Page 42.

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Community Rallies Around Dana Barrett

trials and tribulations.”

Barrett is currently stable and conscious in the intensive care unit, and is scheduled for surgery this week.

She suffered a C2 fracture, and doctors are currently unsure whether she’ll be able to walk again. The 28-year-old was an elite gymnast when she was younger, traveling across the United States attending camps where she was trained by Olympic coaches. She had also worked out daily, and was an avid snowboarder, living in Utah for a short while.

“This is extremely tragic that she may not be able to do the things she loves to do,” Perna said. “And she is one of the kindest people that I have ever met. She really is, and anyone who comes in contact with her says the same exact thing.”

That’s been evident by the support shown through the GoFundMe campaign Perna set up to raise money to support the financial burden.

Doctors have told Perna estimations given are thousands of dollars per day, and recovery will take years.

“With every trial she has faced, she has always come out stronger,” Perna said. “Dana will physically fight this, however, she needs whatever help anyone can.”

Sweeping fundraising efforts for paralyzed East Quogue native

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com A freak diving accident left East Quogue resident Dana Barrett with a broken neck, damaged spine, and the inability to breathe on her own, but her local community is lifting her up.

A GoFundMe has seen a tremendous response, and the funds are pouring in following the June 30 incident, demonstrating how Barrett, as many friends and family members have put it, “is everyone’s best friend.”

“I think that says a lot about her personality that so many people consider her to be their best friend, because she really is just a wonderful, caring person,” said cousin Jamie Perna. “Her road to recovery is going to be extremely, extremely long, and we don’t want medical bills to be in her

way down the road.”

Perna received a call from Barrett’s boyfriend Seamus Cantwell, and immediately took the first ferry from Connecticut to meet her cousin who was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital. Barrett lost her father, an officer at the Riverhead Correctional Facility when she was 16, and mother, who worked for Southampton Town, when she was 21.

“We were in disbelief,” Perna said of how family and friends reacted to the news. “Despite her going through all she did at such a young age, she has shown strength and resilience. She doesn’t let anything get her down. She’s always there, with her head held high and a smile on her face, despite all the

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Dana Barrett, 28, of East Quogue, broke her neck and damaged her spine during a June 30 diving accident. Independent/Courtesy Jamie Perna

In just 24 hours, Barrett received $125,000 in donations. As of press time, the campaign surpassed $150,000 funded by more than 1175 people, some of whom donated hundreds to thousands.

“She is the most selfless person in the world and deserves nothing but all the love and support anyone can give,” Brittany Gold said.

“You are an amazing person, and because of that, you have the best support system — we are all here for Continued On Page 29.

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East Quogue Village Petition Resubmitted Exploratory committee updates list of regular inhabitants

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Members of the East Quogue Village Exploratory Committee handed in their first version of the petition on April 3. Independent/Courtesy Cyndi McNamara

At 10:55 AM July 1, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman accepted an amended East Quogue village incorporation petition. The revised petition was signed by Dave Celi, Maria Daddino, and Karen Kooi, the same individuals who signed the original petition for incorporation submitted April 3. The boundaries of the proposed village are East Quogue School District and the East Quogue Fire District.

The supervisor announced the insufficiency of the initial petition back on June 10. In a nine-page decision, Schneiderman concluded the failure was due to the list of regular inhabitants not meeting the legal requirements.

There were at least 34 people on the list 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 challenged, although the East Quogue Village Exploratory Committee had the option, should it have chosen, to take Schneiderman’s ruling to court.

The town attorney’s office and town clerk’s office will assist Schneiderman in reviewing the amended petition, pursuant to the terms and conditions of Article 2 of New York State Village Law. He will

call a public hearing on the sufficiency of the petition on a date and location to be announced.

The petition was resubmitted with the original 780 signatures backing up the group.

“We’ve stood up at many meetings and said this is how we feel, and no one’s ever had the ability to ascertain what we wanted,” Celi, a committee co-chair, previously said. “We feel we have no voice.

We feel Southampton Town is not listening. It’s time East Quogue takes its future into its own hands.”

The 15-member group began working together in November 2017 on trying to figure out a way to be heard, but found it difficult when there’s no East Quogue representation on the town board, and the hamlet only makes up eight percent

of the town’s voting population.

The main objective has been a thin layer of government — a village with a hall, planning board, zoning board, and code enforcement that would rely on the town for police coverage and public works.

“We’re so proud of what we’ve accomplished and so pleased that we’ve got to this point,” Kooi, also a committee co-chair, said previously. “We planned everything. This group pulled it off.”

Copies of the petition will be available for viewing inside the clerk’s office in Town Hall, located at 116 Hampton Road, Southampton, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the town clerk’s Annex Office, located in the Hampton Bays Community Center on 25 Ponquogue Avenue in Hampton Bays.

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New Home For CMEE Summer Programs Flanders satellite location opens, search for permanent home continues

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The Children’s Museum of the East End is opening its doors to more kids in the Riverside and Flanders area with the organization moving into a larger satellite location. The Southampton Town Board unanimously approved an agreement that would permit CMEE to sublease a portion of the town-owned building on Flanders Road that houses Long Island Head Start.

“We’re thrilled to partner with the Town of Southampton and Renaissance Downtowns to create a permanent location in Riverside where we can achieve the museum’s vision of serving all young children and families on Eastern Long Island,” said Steve Long, president of CMEE. “While work on that permanent site continues, we’re grateful to town officials and Long Island Head

Start for arranging a temporary home this summer for the museum to present free programs for the local community.”

In addition to its main campus in Bridgehampton, CMEE currently shares space at the 250-square-foot Renaissance Downtowns office on Peconic Avenue in Riverside, expanding its access to its educational programming. CMEE is one of the most visited museums on eastern Long Island, and welcomes more than 75,000 visitors annually to its Bridgehampton museum. The museum opened in 2005 and offers over 7000 square feet of interactive, hands-on exhibits, classrooms, and performance space. CMEE’s mission is “to spark imagination and foster learning for children of all backgrounds and abilities and to build strong connections within

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the East End community by providing playful experiences.”

“This is a perfect solution to a growing need for this creative programming to reach more young children in this area of the town,” said Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman. “We value the importance of early childhood education and we plan to continue to work with CMEE to find them a more permanent home in the Riverside/Flanders area.”

CMEE plans to provide programming in the 1100-square-foot

multi-purpose room it’s subleasing in the Riverside Head Start Building, located at 271 Flanders Road, in July and August on Tuesdays between 11 AM and 8 PM. The programs will be specifically designed for infants, toddlers, and young families, and will include music at 11 AM and a Family Fun Night between 4 and 8 PM.

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EH Lawyer Argues Immigration Case In U.S. Court Irace before appeals court for the 2nd Circuit on 6th Amendment Carl Irace, shown here leaving East Hampton Town Justice Court recently, argued a potentially key immigration case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Carl Irace, an East Hampton-based attorney, argued a case last month before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit which could directly impact how cases are handled where the defendants face deportation if convicted of a crime.

The case involves an Ecuadorean, Luis Carrasco, who had pleaded guilty to tax evasion in Central Islip’s federal court in 2017. Carrasco’s thenattorney, John Wallenstein, had failed to inform him that taking the plea would result in certain deportation. Instead, Wallenstein had advised his client that he thought the deportation matter could be worked out.

It was Wallenstein’s understanding

that, if Carrasco took the plea, he still would be able to fight to stay in the U.S. in immigration court. Carrasco has scant ties to Ecuador at this point, since he has been in the United States for 30 years.

It was only after Carrasco took the plea that he and his attorney learned that the crime involved is classified as an aggravated felony by the federal government, and thus requires deportation upon conviction.

Irace, who was co-counsel on Carrasco’s appeal with Lawrence Carra, argued that the advice Carrasco had been given was equivocal. If Carrasco had known that deportation was a certainty upon conviction, he would have fought the case in court, instead of taking

the plea deal Wallenstein had arranged, Irace said.

“This guy was told to take the plea and live to fight another day,” Irace explained last week.

Irace had argued before the Second Circuit that Carrasco had been given ineffective counsel, which is “inconsistent with the protections of the Sixth Amendment.”

The audio of the appeal is available online on the Federal Court’s website.

In it, Irace tells the court about what Carrasco was told before he entered his guilty plea. “This advice is being given every day in every courthouse everywhere,” he said, “and I think that the practitioners and the trial court judges

Irace, who was co-counsel on Carrasco’s appeal with Lawrence Carra, argued that the advice Carrasco had been given was equivocal. could really benefit from advice from this court, the Second Circuit.”

Irace talked about going before the Second Circuit. “It was an awesome experience. It was about as exciting as anything could be for an attorney, to have a court of that level tell you what the issues are,” he said, and then to have an extended exchange with the court on “justice and the protections of the Sixth Amendment.”

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Police Medford Mom Indicted, Life Without Parole?

New charges indicate DA believes twins were tortured before dying

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com New charges have been added against the Medford woman accused of murdering her twin toddlers on her drive to Montauk on June 27 in an indictment issued by a grand jury in Riverside July 3.

According to online court files, Tenia Campbell, 24, has been charged with murder twice over

for the death of each of her twoyear-old daughters, Jasmine and Jaida Campbell. Beyond the original charges of murder in the second degree, for allegedly intentionally killing the two, she has also been charged with torturing the children before their deaths, which adds the

In Springs: 20-Year-Old Stabs His Mother Son charged with assault, family asks for psychiatric help

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A 20-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant who recently joined his mother at her Springs residence was arrested early Sunday, July 7, on a charge of assault with a weapon with intent to cause serious injury, a felony, as well as a misdemeanor charge of possession of a weapon, after he allegedly stabbed her in the chest with a kitchen knife, after having put the knife to her throat.

The woman was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, where she was treated for her wounds, which apparently were more painful than dangerous. She gave a statement to police then.

Carlos Pucha-Guaman has been in the country for less than a year, rejoining his mother, who has been here for several years. As a backyard party was breaking

charge of murder in the first degree for each. She now faces possible life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of the new charges.

The penal law that triggers the murder in the first-degree charges that have been brought against Campbell has 13 subsections. The only one that appears pertinent in Campbell’s case reads: “The defendant acted in an especially cruel and wanton manner pursuant to a course of conduct intended to inflict and inflicting torture upon the victim prior to the victim’s death.” Police and the district attorney’s office have not yet commented about how, exactly, they believe Campbell killed the girls.

Campbell told her mother via cell phone, according to the mother’s statement to police, “I killed them with up, the mother came into the house, where her son allegedly grabbed her from behind, putting the kitchen knife to her throat. “He said he was going to kill me,” the mother told police.

She pushed him away, suffering cuts to her neck and hand as she did so.

Police said he then stabbed his mother in the chest with the knife.

When the mother spoke to police, she said that Pucha-Guaman had told her that he believed that her daughter who had died previously in Ecuador had “told him to kill her because she had abandoned them.”

Police arrested Pucha-Guaman shortly thereafter. He was held through the day July 7 to allow detectives to investigate the case. They confiscated Pucha-Guaman’s clothing, possibly as evidence, issuing him a jumpsuit instead.

He was brought in to be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Monday, July 8.

His mother and several members

Tenia Campbell, shown here being brought into East Hampton Town Justice Court for arraignment June 28, faces possible life behind bars without parole.

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my bare hands.”

The indictment against Campbell will be unsealed in the courtroom of New York State Justice Richard Ambro on Wednesday, July 10, in Riverside. At that time, the district attorney’s office will weigh in on how they believe the children were killed.

Carlos Pucha-Guaman, 20, is facing a major felony charge after being arrested early July 7.

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were in the court. Pucha-Guaman was represented by Gregory Bennedetto Haynes of the Legal Aid Society.

Justice Steven Tekulsky said, as his words were translated into Spanish for the defendant, that the district attorney’s office had asked for an order of protection to be issued for the mother, which would require the son to have no contact of any kind with her.

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Two Brothers, One Car, 30 Minutes, Double DWIs EH Police: Man stopped, arrested; six blocks later, so is his brother

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

Two Springs brothers were arrested by police during a county-sponsored anti-drunken driving sweep in East

Hampton on driving while intoxicated charges within minutes of each other, allegedly driving the same car on the

same street around midnight July 5.

Milton Anguisaca-Buestan, 22, was pulled over in Springs on Cedar Ridge Drive near Woodcock Lane for, among other infractions, having an unilluminated license plate on the 2005 Dodge Neon he was driving, according to the police. At least one other officer was called to the scene to assist with the arrest, which is standard procedure.

Milton Anguisaca-Buestan allegedly failed roadside sobriety tests, while telling the arresting officer he had “one Corona.” He was charged with DWI and unlicensed driving as misdemeanors, and was taken to headquarters by the arresting officer.

At that point, according to the police, Milton’s older brother, Claudio Anguisaca-Buestan, 27, slid behind the wheel, continuing the westbound

journey in the Dodge Neon on Cedar Ridge Drive. Claudio made it almost six blocks before he was pulled over. According to the police, the license plate lights were still not working. He, too, failed sobriety tests, and was placed under arrest.

Both men allegedly failed breath tests at headquarters.

The two were arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Saturday morning. Claudio was released without having to post bail, while Justice Steven Tekulsky set bail for Milton at $250, concerned that the additional misdemeanor he is facing on the unlicensed driving charge could indicate a disregard for the law. Tekulsky warned Milton that, if he were arrested again on that same charge and found guilty in front of him, “I will send you to jail.”

EHTPD: Alcohol Fuels Criminal Mischief As customers leave the bars, bad things can happen in Montauk The East Hampton Town Police Department’s Montauk substation was the hub of activity this past week.

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By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com Intoxication appeared to trigger several incidents that led to arrests in Montauk over the long Fourth of July week. Here are two of the incidents in which it is alleged the defendant was under the influence, and was charged with criminal mischief as a misdemeanor.

The first man was Benedict McKenna, 21, of Southampton, who was arrested at 1:54 AM, July 1.

According to the police, the bouncers at the Point Bar on Montauk’s Main Street asked him to leave and not return to the establishment. McKenna repeatedly tried to return, only to be rebuffed, police said. He then allegedly

got into scuffle outside the Point, before trying to re-enter, again.

When told he would not be allowed back in, the police say, McKenna headed west, stopping in at the Montauk Medical Center, about 20 yards away, where the report says that he “did kick, destroy, and uproot plants located near the entrance.” Besides the misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief, he was also hit with two violations, disorderly conduct and public urination.

He was released the next day without bail by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana, who cited McKenna’s local ties.

Police received a 3 AM 911 call July

6 from an Agnew Avenue residence, where a visitor was allegedly on something of a rampage.

Police were told that John Mark Shkreli, 27, of Bronxville was under emotional duress due to the loss of a loved one, “and was getting really drunk and starting to act crazy” earlier at Gurney’s, where he had gone at around midnight, with the owner of the Agnew Avenue residence and another friend. The Agnew Avenue men left Shkreli at Gurney’s and returned home a little after 2:30 AM. Then Shkreli showed up, and entered the house, agitated, the homeowner said. The confrontation quickly turned

physical, with Shkreli shoving several in the group, and even threatening to kill them, police were told.

He had allegedly broken the handle off the patio door, and smashed a plate before police arrived. Shkreli was charged with criminal mischief and two counts of harassment. Police said he had pushed and held one of the men to the ground, and had punched and shoved the owner.

He was arraigned July 7 and released without bail, after being issued court orders that he stay away from the two men he was said to have physically harassed.

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EH Cops: Sex Offender Failed To Register Dennis Walker Jr. sent to jail, could face extended prison time

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com An East Hampton man remained in county jail July 9, facing possible extended prison time after being charged by East Hampton Town police with being a registered sex offender who failed to notify authorities of his whereabouts for an extended period

of time, which is a felony.

Dennis Walker Jr., 47, was picked up by police at the Lobster Roll in Napeague the morning of July 5.

Walker had apparently been working there, spending his nights sleeping on the beach in nearby Hither Hills State

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both lanes of traffic, striking and covering most of Balestra’s vehicle.

“It was so quick, it just happened,” stated the driver. “It was extremely scary.

The tree landed on us with a loud crunch.”

Eastbound vehicles avoided incident, and other drivers stopped to Park, according to court documents.

Walker was previously convicted of failure to notify police of an address change in 2011, at which time he was sentenced to one year in prison.

Walker spent two years in state prison after pleading guilty in 2008 to sexually abusing a girl who was under the age of 11 at the time.

He is classified as a levelone sexual offender. Level one is considered the least likely to repeat his or her sexual crime. A level one offender’s name does not appear on the nationwide open website that lists sex offenders. That list is reserved for level-two and level-three sex offenders and can be accessed by any member of the public at any time.

However, as a level-one offender,

assist the women, who managed to exit the vehicle without serious injuries.

The Jeep sustained damage. Montauk Highway was closed in both directions for several hours between Cove Hollow Road and Jericho Road as police waited for for crews to remove the tree.

Dennis Walker Jr was picked up at the Lobster Roll in Napeague on a charge he failed to register an address change. Independent/Courtesy EHTPD

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Margaret McGerity The best part of the weekend was that we got to spend time with my son and his girlfriend at our home in Amagansett. We went to the beach and got to see the whales. They're a bit far off shore. But you can see them spouting and it’s truly amazing.

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Mason Jefferson We went to the beach during the day and I went swimming in the ocean.

Then we went home and I played some video games. In the evening we went to watch the fireworks. They were really great to see.

The Southampton Town Board last month joined East Hampton Town when it banned the intentional release of balloons.

It’s not that local officials are a bunch of killjoys, eager to stamp out fun at birthdays or other parties. Instead, after many years, they have finally heeded the calls of environmentalists who have long warned that the plastic material used to make balloons, which often ends up in the ocean, is frequently mistaken by marine animals for food, with deadly results. Banning their intentional release is a no-brainer to anyone concerned with proper stewardship of the Earth.

But that begs the question of what to do with unintentional releases? Who hasn’t seen a joyful child let go of a helium balloon only to be reduced to tears when she discovers it’s not coming back? And what about yard sales and real estate open houses, where brightly colored balloons are often tied to signs to attract attention? Sometimes they break loose and float away as well.

Although Southampton’s new law calls for fines ranging from $350 to $750 or up to two weeks in jail for violators, it seems doubtful that anyone is going to find themselves behind bars for letting go of a balloon any time soon.

Instead, the town’s goal is to educate the public and encourage them to be mindful of the impact balloons can have and to dispose of them properly when done with them.

Short of an outright ban on the sale or possession of balloons, it seems little else can be done, although prohibiting the outdoor display of balloons for open houses and yard sales would not seem to be too onerous a burden.

Not long ago, people complained that it would be an inconvenience to do their grocery shopping if plastic bags were banned, but today, just about everybody carries reusable bags when they shop. Drastically cutting back on the use of balloons should be an even easier goal to achieve. And the sea creatures will thank you.

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Aaron Adams I spent the weekend with a group of friends and we had a great time. We went to restaurants every night and we spent the day in the pool or at the beach. We saw fireworks one night in Montauk and another night in East Hampton.

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Arts & Entertainment Angela LaGreca Hosts Comedy Benefit Acts include Elayne Boosler and Michele Balan

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com LTV’s Creative Director Angela LaGreca will host a celebrity lineup of comedians at a Super Salon Comedy Benefit at LTV Studio in Wainscott on Friday, July 12, from 6 to 9 PM. The evening features comediennes Elayne Boosler and Michele Balan.

“We wanted to do a night of comedy benefit with a live auction,” said LaGreca. “It’s a chance for everybody to see what LTV is doing.” All proceeds from the event will benefit East Hampton’s LTV and help it expand from a local television station into a media center to serve the growing needs of the community.

“We’re trying to do more events,” she said. LaGreca recently started the Creative Salon Night Series at the studio, which has been a great success. It’s where the community can experience a variety of performers, writers, and filmmakers, with ideas and works in progress.

Angela LaGreca. Independent/ Lisa Tamburini

Boosler, who will headline the show, is a comedian, writer, and animal activist. She’s been named “The First Lady of Standup Comedy” by Rolling Stone and is listed as one of Comedy Central’s “Greatest 100 Standup Comedians of All Time.” She is known for her thoughtful and feisty socially conscious humor.

“Elayne Boosler is really a legend in the comedy world,” said LaGreca.

“She was the first woman to have her own Showtime and HBO specials. It was a big deal.”

Balan has appeared on “Last Comic Standing,” where she was a finalist. She headlines across the coun-

try, and performs regularly at Caroline’s on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club, and The Comic Strip live.

TV personality, comedian, and writer Bill McCuddy will serve as the night’s auctioneer. The live auction will include a private sunset sail charter on the Lelanta, an 82-foot schooner. “I’ve never been on a sailboat like that,” said LaGreca.

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The event’s host committee includes Joy Behar, who has joined for many of the Creative Salon nights.

“We have a good host committee,” said LaGreca. “Joy Behar has been extremely supportive.”

The roster of local notables also includes Arlene and Alan Alda, Lorraine Bracco, Jamie DeRoy, Joan and Skip Hamburg, Judith Kasen-Windsor, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Robert Zimmerman.

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Jack O’Brien Isn’t Playing It Safe At Bay Street Director of provocative play encouraged by audience response

By Georgia Warner “The play is more than alive and kicking,” director Jack O’Brien said of “Safe Space,” Alan Fox’s sharp new drama that was met with a thunderous standing ovation following its world premiere performance, and will continue playing at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor through July 21.

Set at an elite university, the action of “Safe Space” ignites when an AfricanAmerican professor (Rodney Richardson, NBC’s “FBI”) is accused of racism by an Asian-American student (Sasha Diamond, “Blindspot”), prompting the president of the university (Tony and Academy Award-winning local Mercedes Ruehl) to intervene, and sparking a precarious and volatile exploration of political correctness, identity politics, personal ethics, and the triggers on American campuses today.

About a year ago, O’Brien, the three-time Tony winner and Theatre Hall of Fame inductee who served as artistic director of San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre for more than 25 years, received a phone call from his agency requesting his involvement in a barebones reading of a new play by a fresh new playwright.

“I went in,” recalled O’Brien, “and here was this 27-year-old playwright with this provocative, political, racially-charged, challenging play.” He found himself immediately fascinated with Fox, and the two went out for a drink to discuss the work. The mutual respect

between the artists was immediate.

“He’s smart and bright and funny and a writer of genuine quality,” O’Brien said of Fox. “And he was more than responsive to me, and eager for input and help and the rest of it.”

Fox and O’Brien met regularly over the course of a year to sort through the meat of the play, working to steer the content away from arguments and toward the underlying humanity of the piece. When Bay Street’s artistic director Scott Schwartz expressed interest in producing the play out east, O’Brien was delighted and eager to make his Bay Street directorial debut with such a poignant piece of theatre.

Of course, considering the hot-button issues it tackles, O’Brien knew that “Safe Space” ran the risk of ruffling a few feathers.

“I both feared that that might be the case, and hoped that that might be the case,” O’Brien said measuredly.

“It’s not a boulevard comedy,” he cautioned. “It’s a play about the climate of the university at this time, and all the warring factions that are fighting for their own rights, their own identity, their own voices.”

As was hoped and expected, audiences have been extremely responsive to the play so far.

“I heard the audience gasping, they laughed occasionally, there were collective intakes of breath — all the things you would hope a provocative

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play will engender in an intelligent audience. And let’s face it, this is an intelligent audience,” O’Brien said of the Hamptons theatregoers.

“These people have the habit of going to plays out here. That’s the kind of audience that you don’t get very often. I had it at the Old Globe years ago, because even though that was a sunshine center like this one is, still there were people who wanted meat and potatoes for dinner; they wanted to go and have serious confrontations with dramatic beings, not just comedies and musicals. And so, I feel a kinship with this audience out here.”

In fact, the president of a local university was very proud to attend the first preview. “It’s just exactly like this,” he said of the play’s representation of modern college politics.

While “Safe Space” packs a fierce political punch, the intimate three-person cast keeps the conflict personal.

“That was one of the great perks of doing this, because when, ever, do I sit down in a room with three actors?”

O’Brien asked rhetorically. “You know, I get the spectacles, I get the epics, but I don’t ever really get a sort of quiet, intellectual interchange, and so I was thrilled to be able to sit with these wonderful actors and turn over the ideas one by one and examine them carefully, and fit them bespoke-style to what they really needed to achieve.”

O’Brien’s career has been both epic and eclectic. From pop musicals, to the grand opera, to the recent Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” (of which he also directed the made-for-TV film in 1987), there’s hardly a genre he hasn’t explored and excelled in. And while his first book, “Jack Be Nimble: The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director,”

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is a memoir of his life and work, his upcoming book will focus more on the skill and occasion of directing.

“I don’t think there’s any one way to direct,” O’Brien said, reflecting on his wide range of projects. “I think you’re presented with a challenge and you either surmount it or you don’t, and if you do, they ask you to do another one. But it isn’t because there’s a methodology you’ve mastered in a laboratory or a classroom.”

In fact, O’Brien views theater as an all-around ethereal experience.

“I have inordinate respect and love for the acting,” he said. “I don’t understand it because I’ve never been an actor myself, but I find actors to be rare spiritual figures that hover just over the Earth, and can bring to life something that most human beings can’t even conceive.”

His admiration and passion for that aspect of the art is largely what compels him into project after project, often with little to no lag-time. While he’s working on something new, other productions he’s directed are often carrying on without him.

“I feel like someone who’s just put a toddler on their tiny little feet, and is watching them run toward the playground,” O’Brien said fondly of the still-running works he sculpted, such as “Hairspray,” which will be remounted in London next year, and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which is still touring the states. He feels no sense of possession over these works; on the contrary, O’Brien expressed feeling like a distant helpmate, providing “celestial CPR” to get the actors to just breathe and entertain.

And that’s precisely what he’s done with “Safe Space,” which is still breathing and expanding daily.

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

A Conversation With Gay Talese The birth of ‘New Journalism’ denishamill@gmail.com

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Gay Talese doesn’t have a cold.

Gay Talese has pneumonia.

Well, the celebrated author of the timeless April, 1966 Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” is actually recovering from the pulmonary disease that has not slowed him down one sniffle — even at age 87.

Unlike Sinatra — who would not speak with the author for that now JSchool required reading essay — Talese was happy to chat about how he got started in the old journalism, before pioneering the New Journalism. And what he thinks of the current journalism, of the 24-hour news cycle in the internet age.

“I grew up in Ocean City, New Jersey, and I was lucky that my father was a tailor,” said Talese, who said he learned life lessons in his dad’s shop.

“To start with, nice clothes and good manners, because if you work in a store, you have to look good, be polite and patient, and learn how to speak to the public.”

That would come to be a solid foundation for this sartorial man of letters. “But the other big break I had was that, in 1944, the World Champion Yankees did not fly south to St. Petersburg for spring training,” he said. “There was gas rationing and so the depleted Yankees team — many of the best players were in the armed services — decided to hold spring training in Bader Field and indoors in the Atlantic City Armory. I guess I was 11 and I’d go and watch the Yankees train,” he recalled.

“But better than that, I got to watch up front and in person the great sport writers from the Daily News, Daily Mirror, New York Times, Herald Tribune, the Sun, and more, all taking notes, doing interviews, typing up their stories in the Senator Hotel. In the morning, I’d buy the papers and read those stories, and I decided that spring that I was going to be a sports writer when I grew up,” Talese said.

His Father Was a Tailor Talese would later play second base for Ocean City High. “I wasn’t a very good player,” he said. “But I volunteered to send basic stories about the team’s games to the Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger.” His stories were so well-received that he was soon given his own sports column at the Sentinel-Ledger and by the time he graduated high school, he’d stacked up over 300 bylines.

“But after applying to all the Ivy League schools, I was turned down because my grades were poor,” he said.

“But if your father is an excellent tailor in a small town, prominent men will be fitted for his suits. One of them was the newspaper publisher and another was a top surgeon who’s graduated from the University of Alabama. When my father told him that I’d been turned down at all the top schools, the doctor said he could get me into the University of Alabama.”

It wasn’t long before Talese was the editor of the UA’s Crimson Tide school newspaper where he wrote a column called “Sports Gay-zing.”

“I laugh now reading stories about people facing prison time for paying bribes to get their kids into top schools,” said Talese. “I got into a top school because my father made a suit for a doctor.”

After graduating in 1953, he donned his best suit, tailor-made by his immigrant dad, polished shoes, a starched shirt, and new tie, and travelled by bus to midtown Manhattan from home. “I marched unannounced to the New York Times, then located at 229 W. 43 Street, and rode up to the third floor. I told a receptionist wearing a bowtie that I was here to see Turner Catledge about a job.”

The Audacity “The receptionist asked if I had an appointment; I said no, but I was recommended by Mr. Catledge’s cousin from

their native Mississippi,” he said. A college friend, Jimmy Pigston, had told Talese that he was related to Catledge and to mention his name. “The receptionist said Mr. Catledge wouldn’t be free until about five minutes to four that afternoon. I said I’d be back.”

Talese left the Times, wandering the great city he’d never explored before for several hours, mesmerized by the noise, big crowds, gigantic stores, tireless energy.

“When I got back to the Times at 3:45, I waited a few minutes before I was led by Catledge’s assistant, Herb Andre, through the enormous city room that was a city block long, with over 500 reporters and editors, all smoking, a great roar coming from ringing phones, manual typewriters, and teletype machines. Finally, I was led into Turner Catledge’s office. I told him I wanted to bring good writing to the Times. He looked me over, kind of astonished, and asked who’d sent me here. I said his first cousin, Jimmy Pigston.”

Catledge, a former Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter, squinted at Talese and said, “Who the hell is Jimmy Pigston? I don’t have any first cousin named Jimmy Pigston.”

Talese was crushed.

“I apologized,” said Talese. “Catledge could see I wasn’t a bum or a nut, that I had a fine appearance, and good manners, and the audacity to show up in person to get what I was after.

He might have secretly admired that I dared to ask for a job writing for the New York Times at age 21. But, in the end, he said reporters write big awardwinning stories for years for other daily newspapers before they are even considered by the Times. He told his assistant to take my name and phone number and if an office job ever opened up, maybe they’d give me a call.”

Embarrassed and disheartened, Gay Talese left the Grey Lady and trav-

elled home to Ocean City to work in the family store.

Two weeks later, the phone rang.

It was Herb Andre, saying, “Mr. Talese, we have an office job for you. When can you start?” And thus began one of the most remarkable careers in American journalism.

Knack For Details Talese soon had his first Times byline, and then piled up a series of small stories written with facts and detail and an irrepressible flair that soon led to a sports writing beat, and then an Albany state government beat, and then banishment to obituaries. “My favorite was obits,” said Talese. “They sent me there as punishment for always arguing about my mangled copy out of Albany.

But they didn’t know that for writers, obituaries are life stories, amazing tales about famous people and the even more-interesting common man.”

Talese would soon branch out to the Sunday Times Magazine, where he was able to write much longer pieces with his peculiar knack for telling details.

“If someone told me they only had time to speak to me at three o’clock because they had to go to the barber at noon, the auto mechanic at one, and the dentist at two, I’d ask if I could just tag along and observe them in those scenes from real life, in dramatic situations that you’d find in the short stories of Irwin Shaw, John O’Hara, or John Cheever, where the mundane events of life are often the most dramatic. Places where I could set the scene, listen to conversation with my subject and others, observing how others regarded them and spoke to them,” he said.

This was the birth of what my brother Pete Hamill would call “The New Journalism,” coining a phrase for shoe-leather reporting intersecting with the literary writing skills of the Continued On Page B19.

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Gabba Gabba Hey Ramones celebration at Innersleeve Records

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com Those who remember the days of pogo-ing, CBGB & OMFUG, and that brief and shining moment in time when WPIX-FM was the coolest radio station in the world can rejoice. Innersleeve Records in Amagansett is dedicating a day to celebrating the Ramones — those boys from Forest Hills — on Saturday, July 13.

In addition to a punky hardcore mix from DJ Wake n’ Bake from 3 to 5 PM, the store on Main Street will also have on hand a look back at the Ramones with photographer Chip Dayton, and a live acoustic performance of Ramones music by InCircles’ Jewlee Trudden.

And author Donna Gaines will sign copies of her latest book, “Why The Ramones Matter,” a celebration of Joey, DeeDee, Johnny, Marky, CJ, Clem, and Richie — the godfathers of punk.

In “Why the Ramones Matter,” Gaines compellingly makes the case

that the Ramones gave us the central experience, through their music, of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who’s somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing.

Fans, she said, got it right away — from their own experience of alienation at home, at school, on the streets, and from themselves. This sense of estrangement and marginality permeates everything the Ramones still offer us as artists, and as people.

“Think of the disco era,” she said.

“It was all about how you looked, the pretty people. And here were these kids in white T-shirts and jeans, and they accepted everyone. It was the exact opposite of trying to get into a club; they invited everyone in.”

Gaines is also the author of “Teenage Wasteland” and “A Misfit’s Manifesto.” She has written for Rolling Stone, Ms., the Village Voice, Spin, Newsday, and Salon. Her work has been published in underground fanzines,

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numerous trade and scholarly collections, professional journals, and textbooks. Her photographs, liner notes, paintings, lyrics, and poetry have been published or shown as well.

A sociologist and expert on youth violence and music subculture, Dr. Gaines has been interviewed extensively in newspapers, for documentaries, on radio and television. She grew up in Rockaway Beach, Queens, the surf town made famous by the Ramones, and spent many happy summers hanging out on the East End with Joey Ramone, eating lobsters at Gosman’s, drinking coffee at the Springs General Store, checking out local bands, and swimming in Bonac Creek.

According to DJ Wake n’ Bake, “I specialized in garage, trash, punk, sleazy rock-and-roll, metal, and everything else that made a good soundtrack for decadent behavior.” Wake n’ Bake relocated to eastern Long Island in 2017.

“My first Ramones concert was in 1983 in Beaumont, TX.” The Ramones, he said, “were the soundtrack to my life for many years, and I will always hold

them close to my heart.”

Chip “Rock” Dayton photographed the Ramones a year before the release of their first album, up until the release of “Subterranean Jungle.” In 2003, Rock published the book, “The Ramones Photography.” Rock said his biggest regret is passing up the band’s now famous gig at The Jag in East Hampton, because he got too drunk at The Seawolf. He has always had what he calls “a Ramonesy attitude”; as a child he never wanted to go down to the basement.

Jewlee Trudden is half of the acclaimed alternative high energy rock 'n' roll duo, InCircles. Featuring Jewlee on vocals and guitar and Oscar Silva on drums, they hail from the Bronx and Long Island. Selected by MMNY & Punk Island to perform in NYC’s Times Square, they’ve shared the stage alongside groups such as Midtown, The Casualties, Alkaline Trio, Priests, Patent Pending, and Glassjaw.

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Bacardi Brings A ‘Bolero Feelin’ To Guild Hall Cuban singer stars at benefit for Project MOST

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

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Maria Bacardi. Independent/Christine Newman

Guild Hall will be filled with the sounds of Cuba on Sunday, July 14, at 8 PM. Maria Bacardi — East Hampton resident, Cuban songstress, and artistic soul — will perform a benefit concert to raise funds for Project MOST, an inclusive afterschool and summer learning program for children in East Hampton.

Bacardi is the lead singer of the Cuban “Bolero Feelin” revival. Collaborating artists, both well-seasoned and up-and-coming Cuban artists, include Grammy Award-winning guitarist David Oquendo; leader of the new generation of Cuban producers, Edgar Gonzalez; virtuoso pianist Ahmed Alom; bassist Jorgito Bringas; brass arranger Kali Rodriquez; drummer Amaury Acosts; percussionist Tony De Vivo; and vocalist Gina Soto. Together, they sing songs from Bacardi’s latest album “Duele,” meaning “It Hurts.” Its sound is a mix of classic and contemporary, with both mellow and upbeat tunes.

“Life hurts. Being Cuban also hurts because of having to have left so early in my life,” Bacardi said of her departure from Cuba at only three years old, born there in 1957. Her music pays homage to the music Bacardi’s mother would sing as a political exile in Spain.

In a group, she and other exiles would play guitar, sing melodies, and oftentimes cry all night, reminiscent of a land they could no longer call home.

“I had to start at a place that I

knew with my music,” said Bacardi.

“The first album was very traditional, and this one I wanted to bring something new and innovative that has never been done before, which is to contemporize these songs.”

Prior to singing, Bacardi founded the Oddfellows Playhouse, a non-profit theater company producing original plays at local Hamptons venues including the Watermill Center, LongHouse Reserve, Arlene Bujese Gallery, and more.

She also creates mixed-media art pieces — from her past to the present, everything Bacardi does is art. “I couldn’t live in the harsh reality we have. If I didn’t have the voice, I’d create something from a stick and mud,” she said.

There will be different styles of Cuban music presented at the Guild Hall event. “I think that the audience will get a little bit of an idea of what the poets were writing when they wrote, which were mostly composers and lyrics as one in producing poetry,” she said.

Her upcoming project will be exploring music with lyrics in French, keeping a broader “emotional vocabulary.”

Guild Hall is located at 158 Main Street in East Hampton. Learn more about Bacardi at www.mariabacardi. com. For more information on the concert, visit www.guildhall.org.

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HAMPTON DAZE

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

July 4th Weekend Recap

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It was another July 4th weekend for the books on the East End. I was lucky to spend time doing all things American, like wearing red, white, and blue, barbecuing poolside, and watching fireworks on the boat (even if my view was slightly obstructed). There were also a few great events this weekend.

Market Art + Design came back to town. The modern and contemporary fine art and design fair returned to Bridgehampton for its ninth edition July 5 through July 7. On Friday evening, there was a VIP opening.

Local participating galleries included Roman Fine Art, Janet Lehr Fine Arts, Quogue Gallery, The White Room Gallery, VSOP Projects, ARDT Gallery, Chase Edwards Contemporary, and RJD Gallery, along with London’s Sim Smith, Madrid’s Galerie MPA, New York City’s David Benrimon Fine Art, Richard Levy Gallery, Jan Kath Design, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Unix Gallery, Haas Contemporary, Sugarlift, Vellum Projects, and Michele Mariaud Gallery, as well as Chicago’s Jean Albano Gallery and Los Angeles’ Timothy Yarger Fine Art. This year’s beneficiary partners were The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and East Hampton’s Guild Hall.

The Sag Harbor Historical Society hosted “The Point” Gala on Friday, July 5. This gala was hosted by Marni and Stuart Hersch in North Haven at the site of the historic Point House. Sandra Foschi and Bill Evans served as honorary chairpersons, while Stephen and Emma Walton Hamilton were this year’s honorees. Stephen Breitenbach was recognized for his renovation of The Point House and Chris Denon and John Battle were recognized for their restoration of Sag Harbor’s movie theater sign.

Polo Hamptons continued this

weekend in Bridgehampton with a polo match and VIP cocktail party. Guests enjoyed an open bar paired with hors d’oeuvres by Elegant Affairs while watching the match.

On Sunday, “Croquet and Rosé” began at the Southampton Inn. We enjoyed samplings of rosé from Raphael winery in Peconic. Claude’s at the Southampton Inn invites guests to enjoy “Croquet and Rosé” on its lawn each Sunday for the next few weeks between noon and 6 PM. The lawn offers the perfect place to relax, mix, and mingle with friends and family. Stay for lunch and try the fish tacos or guacamole and chips — both were delicious. Next Sunday will be Foley Family Wines, followed

by Provence Rosé Group on July 21, and Gin Lane 1751 on July 28.

I ended July 4th weekend with an ice cream cone at Gemelli Gelato in Hampton Bays. Gemelli offers artisan gelato and sorbetto. They also have live music and lawn games, making it the perfect place to close out the busy weekend.

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“Deia” by Darius Yektai in the show “Thick and Wet.”

LIK Fine Art Australian-born landscape photographer Peter Lik presents the grand opening celebration of LIK Fine Art Hamptons on Newtown Lane in East Hampton. The celebration will be open to the public on Saturday, July 13, from 6 to 9 PM. This is Lik’s second New York gallery, featuring 45 of his masterworks.

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Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue opens the summer season with a WOW. Featured in its new exhibition, “Women on Water,” is a selection of works by four female regional artists, JoAnne Dumas, Katherine Liepe-Levinson, Winn Rea, and Blair Seagram, whose complementary creative processes involve water as an inspirational subject.

Celebrate the exhibit with the artists at a reception in the gallery on Saturday, July 13, from 6 to 8 PM. A free luncheon gallery talk with the artists will be held Sunday, August 11, from noon to 2 PM. The show runs through August 18.

Ezra Gallery Ezra Gallery of the Hamptons at the Center for Jewish Life presents “Abstract Thinking,” opening Sunday, July 14, from 4 to 6:30. Artists include Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Eric Ernst, Kimberly Goff, Diana Leviton Gondek, Tracy Harris, Carol Hunt, Nathan Slate Joseph, Joan Klutch, Elaine de Kooning, Zero Mostel, Alfonso Ossorio, Danny Simmons, Ty Stroudsburg, and

Esteban Vicente. The show is curated

by Kimberly Goff of the Elaine Benson Gallery.

Thick And Wet The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor presents “Thick and Wet,” a group show by painters who value and accentuate the materiality of paint. Longtime Grenning Gallery artist Nelson White is highlighted and will be joined by local painters Beth Rundquist and Darius Yektai; Russian painters Irina Rybakova and Daniil Volkov; and introducing Emily Persson, a young painter from Melbourne, Australia. On Saturday, July 13, a public opening reception will be held from 6:30 to 8 PM.

NextActArt NextActArt, a mixed-media exhibition by seven women artists, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from July 12 to 17. There will be collages, assemblages, mixed-media pieces, and paintings. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to Peconic Land Trust and Quail Hill Farm. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 13, from 5 to 8 PM. Artists include Barbara Brier, Rena Diana, Madeline Farr, Madlyn Goldman, Ronnie Grill, Patricia Miller, and Sheila Wolper.

Abandoned Beauties East End Arts presents “Abandoned Beauties,” featuring the photography of Holly Hunt at Rosalie Dimon Gallery in Jamesport. An opening exhibit will be held on Sunday, July 14, from 3 to 5 PM.

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By Norah Bradford

The Bookworm Edition Hampton Jitney and beach reads plus book gift ideas Jitney Reading Make that round-trip journey from the City to the paradise on the East End go ever so quickly.

ful locals like bar owner Bobby Van and shark fisherman Frank Mundus (whom the character Quint from “Jaws” was based).

recounting of the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, where American militiamen took on the world’s most formidable fighting force.

Requiring no battery charging or special screen settings, these books (and if you must, their electronic versions) will have you turning the pages while working on your tan.

“Lake of the Ozarks” Emmy Award-winning “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent Bill Geist reflects on his coming of age in the American Heartland and traces his evolution as a man and a writer from summer holidays at the Lake of the Ozarks.

“The Reckoning” John Grisham’s latest takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to a 1946 Clanton courtroom.

“In the Hamptons” Dan Rattiner celebrates his 80th birthday this summer and his book paints an intimate portrait of a place and the people such as Andy Warhol, and color-

“Summer of ‘69” At the time of this writing, riding high at number one in the New York Times book charts, Elin Hilderbrand’s latest novel published only last month is a tale of a family living through the tumultuous changes in society in 1969.

“The British are Coming” Rick Atkinson reminds us that Long Island was once a war zone in Revolutionary times with his fast-paced

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“The Pioneers” Pulitzer Prize-quality history from David McCullough recalls the first band of pioneers who set out from New England in 1788 for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam.

“It’s Hot in The Hamptons” Holly Peterson weaves a tale of wives making a pact to seek revenge on their cheating husbands by having affairs in the Hamptons. As the author says, “In the Hamptons, no rules apply, especially in matters of money — and the heart . . .”

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“Where the Crawdads Sing” Delia Owens weaves a coming-of-age tale in 1969 in which, for years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast.

Host & Hostess Book Gifts Be the thoughtful guest and bring one of these to your next party as a host or hostess gift.

“The Big Book of the Hamptons” Michael Shnayerson celebrates the

“Out East: Houses and Gardens of the Hamptons” Jennifer Ash Rudick and Tria Giovan capture the enduring appeal of shingled houses, modernist oceanfront designs, artist compounds, and Montauk surf shacks with an insider’s tour of more than 25 houses, cottages, and pool houses.

“Hamptons Entertaining: Creating Occasions to Remember” Annie Falk and Eric Ripert serve up 18 lavishly photographed parties, offering a wealth of inspiration for table settings and menus, along with entertaining tips and more than 80 recipes — from a Watermelon Margarita to Panamanian Chicken Pot Pie. “Hamptons Gardens” Jack deLashmet take us on a tour and invites the reader behind the hedgerows into picturesque landscapes, showing work by groundbreaking designers such as Edwina von Gal, Oehme, van Sweden and Associates, and Miranda Brooks.

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By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

‘Only Told In Whispers’ On Saturday, July 13, at 2 PM, Edith Lester, author of “Only Told In Whispers,” will be at the East Hampton Historical Farm.

Open Mic Night

COMEDY Nick Kroll Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center brings Nick Kroll to the stage on Wednesday, July 10, at 8 PM. For tickets, go to www.whbpac.org.

FILM Cinema Night Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor will have two films on the subject of Chinese contemporary art on Thursday, July 11, at 8 PM.

Southampton Arts Center Southampton Arts Center presents a free screening of “On The Water & In The Field” on Friday, July 12, at 6 PM, and its outdoor film will be “Finding Nemo” at 8:30 PM. Then, on Sunday, July 14 at 6 PM, catch the documentary, “Halston.” On Tuesday, July 16, at 7:30 PM, see “Operation Wedding” as part of the Southampton Jewish Film Fest. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

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ing Time Constructively,” in conversation with James Zirin on Sunday, July 14, at 3 PM. Go to www.bookhampton.com for details.

Architect + Design Tour Southampton Arts Center will host its second annual Architecture and Design Tour, on Thursday, July 11, at 10 AM. The tour will feature the extraordinary work of Grosvenor Atterbury, one of the most iconic architects of the late 19th Century.

The event begins with a brunch reception and talk by Atterbury expert Peter Pennoyer. The tour, which follows, will feature exclusive access to three private properties designed by Atterbury. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter. org.

‘Stan The Man’ Guild Hall in East Hampton welcomes a staged reading of “Stan the Man,” a new dark comedy by Eugene Pack, on Thursday, July 11, and Friday, July 12, at 8 PM. The play features Alec Baldwin. Visit www.guildhall.org to learn more.

ICP Talks

Amagansett Library welcomes poet Carole Stone on Wednesday, July 10, at 6:30 PM. Go to www.amagansettlibrary.org.

Southampton Arts Center welcomes ICP Talks: Illustrated Talk with Ami Vitale, National Geographic photographer, on Thursday, July 11, at 7 PM. Go to www. southamptonartscenter.org.

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BookHampton in East Hampton welcomes Madeleine Henry, author of “Breathe In, Cash Out” on Wednesday, July 10, at 5 PM; Jamie Brenner, “Drawing Home,” in conversation with Zibby Owens on Thursday, July 11, at 5 PM; William Norwich, “Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century,” in conversation with David Netto on Saturday, July 13, at 5 PM; and Peter Solomon, “Wast-

Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will have renowned historian Ralph Buultjens speak on Friday, July 12, at 7:30 PM. Visit www.templeadasidrael. org.

Tom Twomey Series On Friday, July 12, at 6 PM, East Hampton Library continues its Tom Twomey Series with a lecture titled “At Home with the Wiborgs: The Family and their

Laurie Wilson On Sunday, July 14, at 5 PM Laurie Wilson will be part of the Lichtenstein Lecture Series at the Arts Center at Duck Creek. Visit www.pkhouse.org to find out more.

The Majesty And Mystery The Southampton Cultural Center presents “The Majesty and Mystery of the Relationship Between Mental Illness and Artistic and Scientific Genius” on Monday, July 15, 22, and 29 at 7 PM. The lecture series by social worker Roger Keizerstein will examine the life and works of J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote, Maya Angelou, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and others.

Visit www.scc-arts.org.

THEATER Oz Pearlman Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will welcome mentalist Oz Pearlman on Saturday, July 13, at 8 PM. For tickets, go to www.whbpac.org.

Goat On a Boat At Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, Goat on a Boat presents “Rumpelstiltskin” by Stevens Puppets on Saturday, July 13, at 11 AM. For tickets go to www.baystreet.org.

‘Safe Space’ Through July 21, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor debuts “Safe Space,” directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien and starring Tony and Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl. For tickets and times, go to www. baystreet.org.

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Pianofest Pianofest in the Hamptons continues at St Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on Wednesday, July 10, at 6 PM. Then again at the Avram Theater in Southampton on Monday, July 15, at 5 PM, hosted by Alec Baldwin. Visit www. pianofest.com for tickets.

Better Than Ezra The Paramount Theater in Huntington hosts Better Than Ezra on Thursday, July 11; The Coffeehouse Tour with Matt Costa, JD and The Straight Shot, and Matt Hartke on Friday, July 12; Saturday, July 13, will be Baroness “Gold and Grey Tour 2019.” These shows have an 8 PM start time. Then on Tuesday, July 16, will be JJ Grey and Mofro with Jonny Land and North Mississippi Allstars at 6:30 PM. Buy tickets at www.paramountny. com.

East Enders Jazz Series The Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton presents its first weekend of East Enders, a music festival curated

by Peter Watrous on Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13, at 5 PM; and again, on Sunday, July 14, at 3 PM. For a list of the entire lineup, visit www.duckcreekarts. org.

Surf Lodge The Surf Lodge in Montauk brings to the stage Wild Belle on Friday, July 12, at 6 PM and John Legend on Sunday, July 14, at 6 PM. Nancy Atlas Project is there every Wednesday. Head to www.thesurflodge.com for more sounds.

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Suffolk Theater in Riverhead will have Jimmie Vaughan on Friday, July 12; Boogie Shoes: Tribute Band to K.C. and the Sunshine Band on Saturday, July 13; and Cher, Bocelli, Streisand — the Edward Twins Vegas Impersonators on Monday, July 15. Showtimes are at 8 PM. For tickets, go to www.suffolktheater.com.

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In An Italian Garden

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

Guild Hall in East Hampton will present “In an Italian Garden: An Evening of Chamber Music with Musicians from the New York Philharmonic” on Saturday, July 13, at 8 PM. Visit www.guildhall.org to learn more.

Opera And Broadway On Saturday, July 13, at 7:30 PM, Duck Walk Vineyard in Southold welcomes Opera and Broadway of the Hamptons.

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

Paul Gene 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 take place at Union Cantina in South-

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Women Making Waves Surfrider Foundation honors Cardoso at One Ocean benefit

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com On Saturday, July 13, the Surfrider Foundation will dive into its fifth annual One Ocean event in Montauk to benefit clean water and healthy beaches at The Edward Vincent Ecker, Sr. County Park. This year’s theme is Women Making Waves, which will honor a Montauk entrepreneur and coastal activist, Jayma Cardoso, owner of the Surf Lodge.

“I got involved with Surfrider about five years ago at the first One Ocean benefit in Montauk. Before then, I had no idea how bad the water quality was in some of the ponds and lakes in our community. I did some research and decided to help clean up Fort Pond, where my coastal business, the Surf Lodge, is located. I was also moved by Surfrider’s impact,” Cardoso said.

The nonprofit grassroots organization, founded in 1984 in Malibu, CA, aims to eliminate waste from waterways and make way for cleaner oceans of the future. With 81 chapters across 10 regions in the United States and

Canada, Surfrider continues to make victorious progress. Major accomplishments have thus far been the ban of plastic bags in California, protecting the Atlantic Ocean from offshore oil drilling, and, most recently, a statewide plastic bag ban in Oregon.

Currently, in the Northeast, there are 24 active campaigns. On the East End, there is a focus on Little Fresh Pond in the Town of Southampton, in addition to Fresh Pond Beach in Amagansett, and others.

Cardoso opened nightlife hot spots in New York City, Cain and GoldBar. In addition, she is a current partner in Lavo, a restaurant/nightclub combination. After launching the Surf Lodge over 10 years ago, she continues to spearhead upgrades to the establishment that respect its precious water surroundings. Cardoso has played a key role in encouraging the community to protect the coast. One of her major endeavors was a dedicated commit-

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By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Parrish Midsummer Party On Saturday, July 13, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host its annual Midsummer Party, a festive social gathering of artists, art collectors, curators, philanthropists, and business leaders from the Hamptons, New York City, and beyond. In addition to cocktails, dining, and the Late Night Party, guests will have the opportunity to view the special exhibitions Thomas Joshua Cooper: “Refuge;” Renate Aller: “The Space between Memory and Expectation;” Jean-Luc Mylayne: “A Matter of Place;” as well as the museum’s current permanent collection installation, “Every Picture Tells a Story.”

This year, the Midsummer Party will honor Louise and Leonard Riggio and artist Maya Lin. The Late Night Party, an after-hours extension of the gala that brings together young patrons to celebrate and support the art and artists of the East End, is chaired by Larry Milstein. Artist Shantell Martin is the honorary guest, and music will

be provided by DJ Alice Longyu Gao.

For more information, visit www. parrishart.org.

Land And Sea Wellness Paddle Diva founder Gina Bradley and SusanSweats’s Susan Harrison are teaming up for the second annual Land and Sea Wellness morning on Saturday, July 13, from 9 AM to 1 PM, to benefit Group for the East End. Taking place at Shagwong Marina in Springs, the morning will begin with a guided standup paddle, led by Bradley, followed by a full-body conditioning class with Harrison and Silichore. The Group will also be on hand to discuss ongoing conservation efforts to protect the East End’s wildlife, waters, and land. For more information and tickets, visit www.susansweats.com.

SOFO Gala The South Fork Natural History Museum, the only state-of-the-art natural history museum on the South Fork,

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ment to eliminate single-use plastics in the Montauk business community, as plastics often end up in the ocean, affecting marine life.

The One Ocean benefit will include a cocktail hour with live music and a sit-down dinner to follow. There will be live music by Wild Belle and a guest DJ. “Surfrider’s One Ocean event brings together leaders from the fashion, surf, finance, business, and music industries to support clean water and healthy beaches,” said Surfrider’s CEO, Dr. Chad Nelsen. “This year, we’re ex-

cited to celebrate the many visionary and dedicated women — the scientists, attorneys, policy experts, teachers, volunteers, and surfers — who are fighting to protect our ocean, waves, and beaches. We’re especially pleased to honor Jayma Cardoso, who has made substantial investments to ensure the Surf Lodge reduces plastic pollution and advances clean water.”

Cocktail hour is $100 and entrylevel full event tickets start at $500.

The event begins at 5 PM. Purchase tickets at www.surfrider.org/oneocean-event.

presents its 30th Anniversary Annual Summer Gala Benefit at the museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday, July 13, to commemorate its growth from a small nature clubhouse founded in 1988 by SOFO board president Andrew Sabin and a group of South Fork naturalists concerned about the future of the area’s fragile ecosystems to an acclaimed state-of-the art museum highly regarded for its outstanding nature exhibits and over 270 annual educational programs focusing on environmental stewardship, climate change, sustainable energy, marine science, community outreach, and more.

The event will begin at 6 PM with a VIP cocktail reception that includes tastings from the Bell & Anchor, Bostwick’s Clambakes & Catering, Calissa, Centro, East Hampton Grill, The Golden Pear, Grace & Grit, Grand Banks, Hamptons Farms, Montauk Shellfish Company, Page at 63 Main, Saaz Restaurant, and Southampton Social Club.

The gala will continue from 7 to 11 PM with a buffet dinner, live and silent auctions, and honoree tributes.

SOFO will honor Dr. Demian Chapman, Trammell Crow, and Greg Manocherian. Co-Chairs include Carole Crist, Georgia and Dr. Gerry Curatola, Eric Goode, April Gornik and Eric

Fischl, Susan and David Rockefeller, and Liev Schreiber.

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

Lobster Bake Benefit The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum will hold its annual lobster bake benefit on Saturday, July 13, from 6 to 8:30 PM, at the station, at 160 Atlantic Avenue. A traditional lobster bake will be served, including lobsters, barbecue chicken, clams, mussels, corn on the cob, potatoes, field greens, and dessert. There will also be live music. Visitors can tour the interior of the station.

Tickets are $150 for adults and $75 for children 12 and younger and can be bought on the station’s website at www. amagansettlss.org or at Amagansett Wines & Spirits, at 203 Main Street in Amagansett. The rain date is Sunday, July 14.

Hamptons Tea Dance The Annual Hamptons Tea Dance will be held on Saturday, July 13, from 4 to 8 PM at Nova’s Ark Project in Water Mill.

The event benefits SAGE Advocacy & Services for LGBT Elders and CallenLorde Community Health Center. Tickets start at $150. For more information, visit www.hamptonsteadance.org.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Bellying Up To The Barre The competition is fierce kissandtellhb@gmail.com

Once upon a time, we put on shorts and a ratty T-shirt and went to the gym.

Footwear was tennis shoes, whether or not they actually stepped on a court.

Now it is fashion-forward fitness with name brands like Exhale, Soul Cycle, Tracy Anderson, and Physique 57. No wonder my mother is confused when I say I am going to barre class and she thinks I am trying to be a mixologist. Women’s workout in the Hamptons has become a full-blown extravaganza replete with expensive costumes and classes and fierce competition.

I grew up with Jane Fonda and her video empire and still have a soft spot for leg warmers. “Aerobics” we called

it, and I loved the fitness studios where they put the stationary bikes right behind where the women’s classes were held. I remember men huffing and puffing looking at the infamous thong leotards bouncing in front of them and peddling furiously to the object of their desire but getting nowhere.

But like hem lines, women’s exercise crazes have had to keep changing to keep us on our toes. There was step class, then kickboxing, then boot camp, then spin classes, then Zumba.

I drew the line at Zumba. Even yoga wasn’t just yoga — there was Bikram and Hatha and Yin and goat, kitten, and puppy yoga. (Seriously, it’s a thing

at the Southampton Animal Shelter).

I am usually not one who is into competing with other women, but why is it in yoga class that the girl version of Gumby is always next to me? I wonder if she just has fewer vertebrae in her spine or ran away from Cirque de Soleil. Or in barre class, where a gazelle lopes up to the ballet bar in a python print sports bra and warms up with a graceful leg held up to her ear. I squat and grunt and realize I have a coffee stain down my shirt.

Some women have the luck of just getting a healthy glow after a workout and delicately pat a few drops of sweat off their brow with their blow-out perfectly intact. I am not that girl. I have sensitive skin so tend to go past flushed to red and may look like I need medical attention. This and my lack of a $200 outfit make me a poor candidate to be invited out after class for a skinny vanilla latte.

On summer weekends, you need to be Xena, Warrior Princess, to do battle getting into class. The women gather early by the door to the studio, waiting for the previous class to get out. Once the music stops and the thanks are heard from the instructor, the women make a rush for it, grabbing a towel and bottle of water as they swim upstream through the glowing women trying to get out. Once through the throng, they

race to get a spot at the barre, which can get ugly. I mean, come on, this is exercise class — not the last plane to Lisbon. One woman even cracked her engagement ring band she was gripping the ballet barre so hard.

There’s a desperate musical chairs quality to the whole affair. Even in the parking lot. Women race to get the closest spot . . . because they don’t want to walk that far . . . to exercise class? Then, after class, there are pheromone-high throngs of confused women all beeping their key fobs to see which black Range Rover is actually theirs.

The one thing I will say is that these women do look fantastic, into their 50s, 60s, and 70s. They may be fierce about the exercise ritual, but the results speak volumes. So even if I show up in my ratty T-shirt — *fist bump* — respect.

Women’s workout in the Hamptons has become a full-blown extravaganza.

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By Rick Murphy

A Nice Sandwich That’s all a working man really wants for lunch

Art in the Park 2019 July 13 and 14

Agawam Park, Southampton Village

rmurphy@indyeastend.com

You have to say it with a Brooklyn or Bronx accent. “A nice saaaand-wisssh.”

Not a hoagie. Not a wrap. Not on artisan bread. And for god’s sake, not with vegetables on it.

When I was growing up in Brooklyn, every neighborhood in the city had a German deli, a Jewish deli, and an Italian deli, which the owners called a pork store. You went to different ones for different delicacies, but you got a good sandwich at any self-respecting deli.

Sandwiches came on white or rye bread, a roll, or a hero. A hero sandwich was an entire loaf of Italian bread.

Then, they started cutting them in half.

Then, they started making miniature heroes. Nowadays, they are about the size of a hot dog roll.

When you ordered a BLT on white toast, the mayo melted on the warm toast, the bacon came hot off the grill, the tomatoes were plump and local, and the iceberg lettuce was cold and crisp. Good luck getting that today.

The transition from adolescence to manhood was defined by what we carried for lunch. In the beginning, mom sent us off to school with a lunch box with Batman or somebody like that on it. Inside, there was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or, if you drew the short straw, bologna.

Soon, at least in my Irish-Catholic neighborhood, we outgrew the lunch box and carried a Thermos instead, probably because we noticed our dads, especially the ones that worked outside, put a couple of shots of Irish whiskey into it — to ward off the cold, of course.

Ultimately, though, you were defined by the size of your hero sandwich.

Here is how you know we live in a world gone mad: they make 12-grain bread, yet I challenge any of you to name 12 grains. Try it quickly: wheat, oats, rice, er . . . Donner, Blitzen, Snoopy, Dancer, Soapy, Mopey, Dopey, Alvin, John, and Ringo.

When I was in the eighth grade, I walked to Parkside Avenue and got a peppers and egg hero, my favorite. It

came on a whole hero, tri-colored peppers steaming, sautéed onions smoking, and scrambled eggs falling out all over. I went to Prospect Park and sat on a bench.

A local bum came over and said, “That sure looks good, son.” I motioned next to me. I ripped off a hunk and there we were, me in my blue dress pants, light blue shirt with the Saint Francis of Assisi logo on it and my knit tie. His pants, held up only by a rope, were falling off. The waist button and fly were open. He reeked of cheap liquor. Soon a cop came by and made him move. No harm, no foul.

Please note: A “wrap” is not bread.

A wrap is something the health nuts in California invented to make avocado “sandwiches,” and if you’ve been paying attention, there is no such thing as an avocado sandwich, just as no sandwich can exist with sprouts, sun-dried tomatoes, pesto, or any cheese not on the approved Deli List.

And by the way, if you even attempt to put arugula on a sandwich, I believe you should be attacked by the meateaters and your head left to hang like a salami, as real men, hungry men on lunch break, sweaty hard-working men like myself, step over your carcass to order a real sandwich from the approved list. Roast beef, ham, turkey, salami — meats that cause colon cancer. These are the real meats men want!

(Whew, I just worked an appetite writing that last paragraph!)

Unless your name is Sven, you live in Monterey, and are on your way to an aerobic workout, lose the wrap. If you must nosh on something on the way to the gym and you don’t feel like a sandwich, grab a couple of slices . . . with pepperoni on them.

Rick Murphy is a six-time winner of the New York Press Association Best Column award as well as the winner of first place awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Suburban Newspaper Association of America, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.

“Art Fair” by Helen Gianquinto

Art lovers, come and browse our

annual open air art show in beautiful Agawam Park, Southampton Village.

Meet the artists and add a piece of

local art to your collection.

SATURDAY, JULY 13 & SUNDAY, JULY 14 10:00AM TO 6:00PM, BOTH DAYS. Enjoy a great variety of work by

local artists: paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, mixed media

and more, all at affordable prices.

Sponsored by Southampton Artists Association.

Visit us online at www.southamptonartists.org

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Indy Snaps Fresh Air Home Photos by Nicole Teitler The Southampton Fresh Air Home’s annual American Picnic, with fireworks by Grucci, was held on Friday, July 5. Festivities included a carnival with games, stilt walkers and magicians, a delicious American picnic, dancing, music, and a fireworks display.

Bay Street Gala Photos by Lisa Tamburini Bay Street Theater’s 28th annual Summer Gala was held on Saturday, July 6, at Wölffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack. The event began with a cocktail reception and silent auction, followed by dinner, live auction, and entertainment. The gala chairs were Mala and Jeff Sander. The event featured emcee Isaac Mizrahi, celebrity auctioneer Richard Kind, and honored Joel Grey and Andrea Wahlquist.

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Indy Snaps The Point Gala Photos by Jenna Mackin The Sag Harbor Historical Society presented the 2019 “The Point” gala, on Friday, July 5. This year’s affair was hosted by Marni and Stuart Hersch in North Haven. Sandra Foschi and Bill Evans were the honorary chairpersons.

Stephen and Emma Walton Hamilton served as honorees. Stephen Breitenbach was recognized for his renovation of The Point house. Chris Denon and John Battle were recognized for their restoration of Sag Harbor’s movie theater sign following the fire.

Market Art + Design Photos by Richard Lewin A dozen East End Galleries joined 77 others from Friday, July 5, through Sunday, July 7, at this year’s Market Art + Design fine art and design fair on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Museum. Beneficiary partners included the Parrish Art Museum of Water Mill and Guild Hall of East Hampton.

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Gay Talese

Continued From Page B5. best fiction writers.

Talese kept pushing the envelope at the Times until he had to leave to follow his muse into magazine pieces and books like “The Bridge: The Building the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge,” “The Kingdom and the Power,” about the New York Times, “Honor Thy Father,” about the Bonanno crime family, “Thy Neighbor’s Wife,” a first person journey into the sexuality in America, and most recently, “Voyeur,” about a motel infested with secret spying cameras. His latest was made into a Netflix series.

Back in the late-1960s, other writers followed Talese into the liberation of the New Journalism, and soon Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, Gloria Steinem, Tom Wolfe, Nora Ephron, David Habersham, Norman Mailer, Talese’s first cousin Nick Pileggi, and other young journalists were writing compelling essays and literary journalistic narratives that riled a generation from the pages of Esquire, The Sunday Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and the New Yorker.

24-Hour News Cycle What bothers him most about today’s journalism is the sheer stress it places on young writers rushing to post one half-formed story after another onto the web and updating stories all day in the insatiable 24-hour news cycle “where being first is more important than being best.”

“It makes for lazy, shallow reporting and leaves no time for good writing, for probing profiles, to follow people deep into their fascinating lives where human drama happens,” said Talese.

“I also think the students from the elite journalism schools lack a crucial knack for connecting with ordinary people. Most will never do what Breslin or Hamill or Kempton did in a daily newspaper because they grew up with privilege.”

“That said, there is some great reporting to be read,” he added. “If you want to dig into an amazing profile of a celebrity, read Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Times piece on Bradley Cooper. Wonderful. She did another outstanding piece on Gwyneth Paltrow. Not surprisingly, Brodesser-Akner has a new novel out, which I will read.” [Editor’s note: Brodesser-Anker will be appearing as part of the IndyLit series at the Southampton Inn on Saturday, July 27, at 5:30 PM.]

Looking back, would he have done anything differently?

“All I know is that if my father wasn’t a tailor for an Ocean City surgeon, I’d never have gone to Univer-

sity of Alabama, where I met Jimmy Pigston, who sent me dressed in a fine suit to his make-believe cousin Turner Catledge at the New York Times, who actually gave me a job and a chance to become a writer.”

And so this is how Gay Talese, who became famous writing about Frank Sinatra having a cold, recovers from pneumonia.

LaGreca

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Connecting Talent

LaGreca is a four-time Emmy-winning producer for NBC’s “Today Show,” and an award-winning comedian and singer. She has performed everywhere from Caroline’s to Carnegie Hall, and Bay Street, Guild Hall, and the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center locally.

“I think I was always putting shows together, connecting talent,” said LaGreca. She described her background as a singer. “If you’ve sung at as many weddings and bat mitzvahs as I have, you will go into comedy. There’s so much material there,” she joked. “I cannot stand in these high heels and this sequin dress for one more minute and not comment on this folly.”

She talked about her transition from comedy into television. “I auditioned to be a co-host on ‘The View.’

They said ‘You didn’t get the big job.

How do you feel about being the warmup?’” she recalled. “I did a lot of TV. I became a writer. I did the ‘Hot Topics’ with Meredith Vieira.”

When Vieira went to the “Today Show,” she told LaGreca to “come with me.”

“We did some crazy, fun stories,” she recalled. “We went to the Olympics. We went to Ireland. With Kathie Lee and Hoda, I did a bowling segment with them and their mothers. It was so fun. I really like to turn a segment on its head.”

One of those segments, she thought, “We could have Jerry Seinfeld come in and talk to Meredith about his ‘Bee Movie,’ or we could do this whole thing where we’re all dressed in these bee outfits,” she remembered.

This is the experience she brings to LTV, which serves as the East End’s premier public access television station. The station tapes hundreds of town hall and government meetings, and also provides television access and

studios in Wainscott for people on the East End to create and produce their own shows. LTV offers producer classes, instruction on how to shoot and edit on your iPhone, a sound-proof recording studio, a place to record your radio show or podcast, and rental space for events that could include screenings, readings, panels, performances, and more.

Tickets are $100 for the cocktail hour, comedy show, and auction. A limited amount of VIP tickets is available for $150 and include reserved seating, plus a post-show meet-and-greet toast with talent. Visit www.ltveh.org to

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St. Rosalie’s in Hampton Bays with Ken Ellis and his band.

Southampton Arts Center Southampton Arts Center will host an Outdoor Live Concert: Performance of Eco the Musical on Saturday, July 13, at 7 PM. On Saturday, July 14, at 2 PM, will be World Music on the Steps: Yacouba Sissoko. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

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Center will present Colbie Caillat featuring her new band Gone West on Sunday, July 14, at 8 PM. For tickets go to www. whbpac.org.

Concerts On The Green On Monday, July 15, Montauk Village Green’s free outdoor concerts continue with Ray Red Bandy Band at 6:30 PM. Visit www.montaukchamber.com to learn more.

Music Mondays Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor welcomes Linda Lavin with “Love Notes” on Monday, July 15, at 8 PM. For tickets, go to www.baystreet.org.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett presents Swanky Tiger at 8 PM on Wednesday, July 10; Thursday, July 11, will be David Bromberg Quintet at 8 PM followed by The Sturdy Souls at 10 PM; Friday, July 12, at 7 PM see Steel Pulse and Rubix Kube at 11 PM; Saturday, July 13, check out Big Sam’s Funky Nation at 8 PM followed by the Bayside Tigers at 11 PM; Sunday, July 14, at 8 PM will be Passafire with opening act Kash’d Out and The Skadanks featuring Ras Droppa at 10 PM; Monday, July 15, is Outrageous Open Mic Night at 10 PM; Tuesday, July 16, see Jettykoon at 8 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

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The Duke Of The Restaurant Industry SWCRF honors local proprietor’s philanthropy

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com “All these people are doing all of these wonderful things to fight cancer. All the things they’re doing enhance people’s lives and enable them to live longer.

Whereas I’m just giving people a good time. I’m certainly honored to be honored by such a prestigious group,” said restauranteur Ian Duke, who will be lauded at the Hamptons Happening benefit for the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation on Saturday, July 13.

Ten years ago, Duke was intro-

duced to Samuel and Marion Waxman, both through the annual event and the community. Admiring all of the research work the organization does (see article on page B26), he became involved a little more every year with his now three establishments: Southampton Social Club, Union Cantina, and Union Burger Bar. Duke’s name has become synonymous with success in the restaurant industry, both in Southampton and New York City, and

is known for his hands-on charitable involvement.

With the Social Club, Duke created a restaurant mentality that was more than nightlife. The club aimed “to welcome everyone who wanted to be a part of what we were doing,” he said, yet the club upped the ante with a dress code.

The establishment gained a reputation for being respectful, charitable, and part of the community. This reputation carried over when Duke opened up Union Cantina a short distance away. “It was almost as if the village supporting us, as we have supported them,” he said.

The final installation was the opening of Burger Bar, attached to Union Cantina. Both Duke and Chef Scott Kampf saw the opportunity to expand on their existing space.

In addition to his East End experience, Duke lends his hand with several of his restaurants in New York City, including his personal favorite, Prohibi-

tion, a live music venue and restaurant.

“I have the pleasure of saying it’s one of my favorite places to go in Manhattan,” he said. His other favorite place is Lucky’s Famous Burgers, and an upcoming project set to open in August, The Baylander — an old naval helicopter carrier docked up near Columbia University. A beer garden-style environment, the boat will remain docked and is set to be a truly unique experience.

“The key to handling all of it is having an amazing team of people. The staff I have the pleasure and grace to work with are all amazing. The team of people that I’m surrounded with are truly what makes the difference, in every capacity.

I’m the least important guy in my restaurant,” Duke concluded. “We are what we need to be. Today I’ve already been a plumber and a TV repair man. Everyone takes on what’s needed.”

Learn more about the 15th annual Hamptons Happening at www.waxmancancer.org.

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Chill Vibe At Montauk Beach House Hotel’s menu now includes pizza, brisket sandwich

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Situated in the heart of Montauk village is the Montauk Beach House, a hotel that boasts an active daytime environment and a chill-out-by-the-fire-withfriends vibe at night. It’s not unusual to find well-known DJs and a great party.

This summer, the venue will host

a rolling art program by Roman Fine Art in East Hampton, intellectual chats with well-known female entrepreneurs, brunch parties, and more.

The dining menu — which is served at tables in the sand on the MBH lawn, complete with fireplaces, or poolside — includes small bites like hummus and avocado toast, fresh salads, and tacos. The cocktail menu includes drinks with fun names like “Call An Uber” and “Montauk Make Out,” both of which are fantastic.

And what could make all of this even a little better? The answer: Adding pizza to the menu. And not only pizza, made to order Neapolitan pizzas.

The pizza menu is thoughtfully crafted and has a little some-

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thing for everyone — there are even gluten-free and vegan options for those with dietary restrictions. The dough is made fresh, in-house daily.

The individual pies, which are about 12 inches, include highlights like the Bee Sting with hot cured Brooklyn Sopressata slices, tomato sauce, spicy honey, and red pepper flakes; the Margherita di Burrata made with fresh burrata from Murray’s Cheese in Manhattan, along with cherry tomatoes and basil; or the Pizza Truf-

fata, made with an assorted mix of Italian cheese, shaved black truffles, and truffle oil.

The new menu doesn’t stop there.

There’s also a brisket sandwich, marinated for eight hours and then slow cooked. It’s served on a potato bun with creamed coleslaw, hot and sweet pickles, and potato chips.

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Westlake: Fresh From The Fishermen

can choose any three maki rolls for a do-it-yourself combo. “In this area, it’s Salivar’s and us,” Escobar said of the sushi selection. “But we also offer another menu, for people who don’t want to eat sushi.”

That menu, like the sushi menu, is the work of Montauk native Shawn Hewitt, whose personal relationships with the fishermen — he is, himself, a former fisherman — allow for unfettered access to the area’s best fish. Each night, he adds a host of specials to the menu, displaying whatever happens to be freshest. When possible, he utilizes produce from local purveyors, and prefers to source as much as he can from the State of New York.

Linguine with clams features local clams, naturally, and the fish and chips is made from off-the-boat fresh fish. The Westlake Clam Chowder is billed as “New England-style” — meaning tomato-free, much to the delight of us New England transplants. Impressively — and in tune with the ethos of catering to the locals — Westlake Fish House serves three meals a day, beginning at 5 AM and ending at 9 PM (10 PM on weekends). In summer, the restaurant also offers brunch on Saturdays and Sundays, from noon to 3 PM.

After six seasons, Escobar considers her team to be more of a family than

Former Montauk angler Shawn Hewitt helms seaside menu

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“We want Westlake to be as authentic as possible for what Montauk is,” said Laura Escobar, co-owner of Montauk’s Westlake Fish House. “If Montauk is offering fresh food, and you’re located at the marina, you should offer fish and chips. Our chef was born and raised in Montauk, so he knows what is good and what’s not around here.”

In the six years since Escobar and her husband, James Lyons, took over the space — which was previously the Clam & Chowder House — Westlake has embraced the calling of the sea.

It isn’t just the location, but that helps. Perched on the fishing docks, a table in the covered bar area makes you feel like you yourself just got off a boat. That’s probably the desired effect. Everything about Westlake speaks to a vacation mentality. Outside, a pea-

gravel patio offers access to ring toss, cornhole, and a view of the water. Inside, the bar serves a formidable list of frozen cocktails that are impossible not to enjoy. Consider the frozen avocado margarita, which arrives at your table with a carved avocado (think Totem pole-style, with a flat face emerging from the pitted skin). Is there a better expression of summer anywhere on the East End?

There are all kinds of fishy finds on Westlake’s menu, and they’re all worth your time. I’m personally fond of the inventive, wide-reaching sushi menu, which features composed rolls, maki rolls, sushi, and sashimi. The Lighthouse roll represents Montauk at its most bountiful: spicy local scallops, tobiko, avocado, fluke, and tuna.

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“They fall in love with the restaurant and the family that we have created,” she said of her returning staff. “This is like a pot of people from different cultures. We sponsor people from the Czech Republic and Ireland every year.

There are employees that just like to work here . . . they ask to come back next year,” she said.

The family that she and Lyons has cultivated is an unusual phenomenon in a town renowned for its hyper seasonality. So, if you don’t already know about this diamond-in-the-rough, make it the next stop on your culinary tour of the East End.

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A Silver Lining In Southampton Also, Bostwick’s reclaims former home

By Beth Landman

Eric Miller, who received accolades for his uber-popular Bay Kitchen and Bar on Three Mile Harbor, gave up that space this summer after seven years when his lease was up, and is readying his new project, Silver Lining Diner, which is being built on the bones of Southampton’s legendary Princess Diner.

“We needed a bigger space for our catering and the season was short there,’’ explained Miller, whose partners in the venture include architect Jeffrey Beers, hedge fund manager Richard Silver, and his entrepreneurial wife MT Carney, who heads the marketing firm Untitled.

“I didn’t want to lead a seasonal

life anymore; I like to cook game in the fall, to cook in all seasons. We wanted to offer farm-to-table and sea-to-table at an accessible price point — three meals a day, seven days a week. We have been working on getting this diner space for two-and-a-half years. It’s taking us a while to finally open, but we expect to be here for 20 years or so,” Miller added.

There will be some carryover dishes such as Bay Kitchen’s Clam Bake with lobster, steamers, mussels, corn, and potatoes, but the plate, which cost $49 there, will be $29 at the diner. Other options will include rotisserie Crescent Farm duck with roasted yams and summer vegetables; local fluke with kale,

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Miller said, “I hired a wonderful baker and we will do everything from scratch; we are even making muffins that are almost all top!’’ Look for those to come in banana, oatmeal, streusel, peach, and strawberry, along with an over-the-top coconut cake and a signature cinnamon babka bun. Move over cronuts!

Meanwhile, Bostwick’s, which originally occupied the Bay Kitchen space, has reclaimed its former home, finally opening a much-anticipated, more upscale offshoot in late June, while retaining its busy spot on 27 in East Hampton. Among the offerings: Crab Louis made with jumbo lump blue claw crabmeat; burrata with fresh peaches, figs, baby arugula, and balsamic reduction; local fluke with citrus gremola, Champagne beurre blanc and summer vegetables; and a Montauk beer boil made with shellfish, sausage, and Montauk Summer Ale. Said a spokesman for the restaurant, “We are still working out some kinks but we are

really happy to be back home.’’

Chef Jay Lippin left his post as chef at Baron’s Cove just before the July 4 holiday, but sous chef Luke Andrews, who was most recently at Little Red, stepped into his role, and managed to pull off the unchanged menu seamlessly. Andrews noted, “I will be adding new dishes later in the summer.’’

Rosé is particularly appealing as a summer wine and a dinner party gift because of its upbeat hue as well as its light, crisp taste, but if you are looking for a real show stopper, the JNSQ comes in a bottle that looks like it could be Lalique, complete with a rose on top. It’s available at McNamara Liquors in Bridgehampton.

If cocktails are your preference, Mark Noonan is mixing up some impressive ones at Highway in Wainscott. Noonan, who began his career at Kitchen Night Club in Dublin, owned

by Bono and The Edge, went on to work at The Plaza, Minetta Tavern, and The Nomad. His Hamptons concoctions include Kentucky Buck, a variation on a Moscow Mule made with bourbon; Vodka Maid, with cucumber, mint, citrus, and vodka; and Watermelon Tequila Crush, with spicy agave and citrus.

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Guest-Worthy Recipe: Philippe Chow Green prawns

By Zachary Weiss

Ingredients: 1/2 lb spinach 1 lb extra-large shrimp, deveined and butterflied 1 tsp tempura powder 1/2 c vegetable oil 1 tsp salt 1 tsp flour 6 oz chicken soup 1/3 red bell pepper 3 oz carrots 3 oz water chestnuts 3 oz mushrooms 3 oz cashews

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Blend fresh spinach in food processor or blender.

Combine shrimp, spinach puree, and tempura powder in a bowl; mix well and let the shrimp soak.

Add a half a cup of vegetable oil into a wok that is heated on medium-high heat. Add shrimp and quickly stir-fry for one minute. Then add salt and flour with chicken soup, as well as peppers, carrots, water chestnuts, and mushrooms. Stirfry quickly to retain that crisp bite.

Garnish with cashews.

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Use oil with a high smoking point,

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Preheat the wok until the oil is smoking, then keep an eye on the temperature so it’s hot enough to sear food, and cook quickly without burning.

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Hamptons Happening To Raise Money For Research Waxman benefit attendees will ‘tour’ the gastronomic globe

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

The 15th annual Hamptons Happening to benefit the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation will take place on Saturday, July 13, from 6:30 to 10:30 PM at 900 Lumber Lane in Bridgehampton.

Every year the benefit charms foodies with its array of dining options, and this year is no different. The new theme is “Tour de Cuisine,” providing guests with tastings from culinary destinations around the world. More than 350 guests are expected to attend.

The honorees this year are Chef Honoree, Lidia Bastianich, founder of

Honoring Generations of the Bastianich Family; Restauranteur Honoree, Ian Duke, owner of Southampton Social Club, Union Burger Bar, and Union Cantina; Fashion Honoree, desiger Nicole Miller; and Business Honoree, Antonella Bertello, owner of The Baker House 1650.

“The proceeds generated by the Hamptons Happening help support more than 30 scientists who are some of the world’s brightest minds working diligently to develop a cure for cancer,” said Dr. Samuel Waxman, founder and CEO of the SWCRF.

“The SWCRF seeks to award $1.6 million in new grants this year, and community support is critically important in this effort,” he continued. “We are always grateful and moved by the generosity of our honorees, sponsors, guests, and the more than 30 participating chefs, restaurants, wine and spirit makers, and food purveyors who make this fun summer event possible.”

Hamptons Happening was one of the first charity events to offer tastings from both the South Fork of Long Island and bring in celebrated chefs from New York City. This year’s samples are

by Attraversa, Backyard Brine, Baked

by Melissa, The Baker House 1650, Becco, The Bristol, Candied Anchor, City Chefs Catering, Cutwater Spirits, Del Pesto, Felidia, Five Senses Catering, Haas Brothers, Harmless Harvest, Kurly Kurtosh, MarieBelle, Mercer’s, Otto, Owls Brew, Palm Bay International, Saaz, Simple Vodka, South Fork Bakery, Southampton Social Club, Super Coffee, Sydney’s “Taylor” Made, Splash, Union Burger Bar, and Union Cantina.

The food might get guests to the tent, but it’s the research that fuels the passion.

Since its humble beginnings in 1976, the Waxman Cancer Research

Foundation has continued to uncover genetic and non-genetic changes that can cause cancer in the organs, in addition to blood-borne cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. The mission is clear: eradicate cancer through funding cutting-edge research. SWCRF has awarded more than $100 million to more than 200 researchers across the globe.

Music this year will be provided by Pat Farrell and the Cold Spring Harbor Band (“The Billy Joel Tribute Show”), and DJ Jarrell Entertainment will offer up all-night dancing. “America’s Got Talent” finalist Caly Bevier, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at only 15 years old, will additionally give a special performance.

The Hamptons Happening Event Chair is Marion Waxman. The event Co-Chair is Randi Schatz; Sponsorship Chair, Karen Amster-Young; Journal Chair, Erica Linden-Fineberg, and committee members include Chris Arlotta, Maria Fishel, Michelle Greenberg, Adi Heyman, Norah Lawlor, Jessica Mackin-Cipro, Laurie Schaffran, and Jessica Wasmuth. The event producer is Elissa Held.

Individual tickets start at $425, with a $200 ticket for young professionals. For tickets, go to www.waxmancancer.org.

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The team has tapped chef Sam Talbot, formerly of The Surf Lodge, to head the kitchen of the summer

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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 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 programming 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 run through August 23.

Camp Blue Bay 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,

Camp Blue Bay Sleepaway Camp is the perfect place for girls in third to 11th grade to have fun while discovering new things. Camp programs are available for one or two-week sessions or a special four-day mini-session for girls entering first to sixth grades.

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.

Summer Reading Club At East Hampton Library 631-324-0222 www.easthamptonlibrary.org

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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.

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159 Main Street, East Hampton The East Hampton Library’s Summer Reading Clubs have the theme, “A Universe of Stories.” This summer, there will 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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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 through August 23 and from 9 AM to 3 PM daily.

The camp programs are designed to im-

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

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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.

Camp Shakespeare is held on the expansive grounds of and in St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

tend and each camper is placed into an appropriate group.

Camp Invention

631-727-7850 ext. 328 www.ccesuffolk.org/peconic-dunes-4-hcamp The Cornell Cooperative Extension sponsors a sleepaway and day camp for youngsters eight through 15. Includes training in outdoor survival, marine science, forest, pond, and woodlands study. Call for more information.

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.

800-968-4332 www.campinvention.org Camp Invention is where BIG ideas become the next BIG thing! Local educators lead a week of hands-on activities created especially for children entering first to sixth grades. Camp Invention gives boys and girls the opportunity to investigate circuits, disassemble household appliances, and much more. As they dream, build, and make discoveries, they will have a chance to examine science and technology concepts during team-building exercises.

Camp Invention will be offered at Springs School from July 22 through July 26 from 9 AM to 3:30 PM and at the John Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton from August 12 through 15 from 9 AM to 4 PM.

East Hampton Indoor Tennis 631-537-8012 www.ehit.club The Davis Cup Tennis Program provides top summer tennis instruction on a daily, weekly, or seasonal basis. Players of all skill levels are welcome to at-

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Amaryllis Farm Equine Rescue Pony Tails Compassion Camp 631-537-7335 www.amaryllisfarm.com For the camper who just can’t get enough of the world of horses, have we got a camp for you. Camps will run Monday through Friday, 9:30 AM to 1 PM, through August 30. Sign up for one week or the whole summer.

Raynor Country Day School 631-288-4658 www.raynorcountrydayschool.org/camp The best gift you can give a child. Kids can enjoy an all-inclusive summer camp offering both indoor and outdoor options. Twelve-acre grounds offer manicured fields, gymnasium, two heated

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Buckskill Tennis Club 631-324-2243 www.buckskilltennis.com Located in East Hampton, the Buckskill Tennis Club offers a program to help develop well-rounded tennis players. Instruction is given in form, technique, fitness, and proper tennis etiquette. Buckskill instructors stress the importance of enjoying tennis as “a game for life.”

Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck 631-878-1070 www.camppaquatuck.com Specifically designed for campers with disabilities. Each session is designed to help the campers (children and young adults up to the age of 21) achieve equality, dignity, and maximum independence through a safe and quality program of camping, recreation, and education in a sleepaway environment. The camp aims to help children reach beyond the limits of their physical and mental challenges, encouraging them to join fellow campers in activities. The camp is on Chet

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Hamptons Baseball Camp 631-907-2566 www.hamptonsbaseballcamp.com For children of all experience levels, ages four to 13, who want to play baseball and soccer in a safe, fun, positive, and organized learning environment. Emphasis is placed on effort over talent, as well as team concepts, and core fundamentals.

Also included are tips on diet, fitness, and “intangibles.” Weeklong summer sessions are available hrough September, and weekend camps are offered in spring, summer, and fall.

Sandy Hollow Day Camp 631-283-2296 www.sandyhollowdaycamp.com The Southampton-based camp, for ages four through 14, offers a wide variety of activities, including swimming, tennis, sports, and arts and crafts. It is family owned and operated. Transportation is available.

MBX Surf Camp 631-537-2716 www.mainbeach.com The leading surf camp in the Hamptons provides 10 weekly sessions, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 3:30 PM.

Pathfinder Country Day Camp 631-668-2080 www.pathfinderdaycamp.com Treat your kids to a summer they will remember in scenic Montauk. Activities include swimming instruction in a heated pool, basketball, baseball, archery, tennis, cookout, and much more.

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Roby Braun Kids Sculpture Camp 631-680-3835

Rebecca_Robin@aol.com Children will focus on age-appropriate projects in small groups that provide each child with individualized attention and instruction as they work from drawing their design on paper to making clay models, papier-mache masks, and finger puppets. Weekly sessions will be held through August 26 from 2 to 5 PM Monday through Friday at Robins Stables on Merchants Path in Sagaponack.

East End Arts School 631-369-2171

www.eastendarts.org Two Renaissance Kid Camps, “Nature As Our Muse,” in which children ages five through eight will explore art, music, and theater, will be held starting July 15 and July 22, from 9:30 AM to 3 PM Monday through Friday. A choice of a weekly art camp focusing on drawing and painting, sculpture, or mixed media or a weekly music camp, focusing on group guitar, rock band, and singing, will be offered for children ages nine to 14 August 5 from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Check for exact schedules.

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we do and used its knowledge by often executing her designs with local flora.

Ferrand was the master at playing with height, color, and scale that evoked the work of another landscape architect, Gertrude Jekyll, the master of the English garden, whose gardens she visited at Munstead Wood in Surrey.

Her handiwork is painterly.

Lush flowers and shrubs are bedded in sequences to outlast the seasons.

Once spring blooms ebb, the summer blooms planted expertly behind them begin their show. It’s nature’s choreography.

Notable landscapes include the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Bar Harbor, ME; various gardens on the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental; and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. For the White House, the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had commissioned Farrand to design the East Colonial Garden (now redesigned as the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden) and the West Garden (now the redesigned White House Rose Garden) in 1913.

Farrand was recognized for her landscape design for the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden in 2014. It won the “Built

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By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com This past spring, the Horticulture Alliance of the Hamptons hosted three events that celebrated the gardens of the local New Yorker and landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand. She was the only woman among the 11 founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899. A film documenting her ascent as one of the most influential landscapers in the nation, “The Life And Gardens Of Beatrix Farrand” was screened in March at LTV in Wainscott. It was followed by a Q&A with the award-winning filmmaker, Karyl Evans, and a reception. In June, HAH also hosted a guided tour of Bellefield, a charming garden designed

by Farrand, in Hyde Park.

“I admire how Farrand’s garden designs have withstood the test of time, as some of her gardens have existed for over 100 years. Her gardens engage all the senses, and there’s something for gardeners to learn by visiting a remarkable landscape,” said Susan Alford, who

spearheaded the trio of Farrand events that the HAH held this year. “Bellefield in New York and Hill-Stead in Connecticut feel like stepping back in time. The hush of the mossy woodland gardens with Asian sculpture in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Maine feels more modern,” Alford added.

Farrand, the niece of Edith Wharton and lifelong friend of Henry James, was immersed in beauty from birth. Her family members were known to claim they were “five generations of gardeners.” Her expertise is undoubtedly celebrated not only for its sublime beauty but because the gardens have lasted a long time, with some that were planted over a century ago. There are also those that were restored using Farrand’s notes and plans, of which there were more than 200, that were designed for public gardens and private homes.

She was an early proponent of the native plant revolution, which understood that nature knows more than

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tition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during that autumn to denote superior and diverse spaces designed, engineered, and built by women.

To view the trailer or learn more about the documentary, visit www. beatrixfarranddocumentary.com. To learn more about Ferrand, visit www. beatrixfarrandgardenhydepark.org.

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The 90-bed hospital, which has been affiliated with Stony Brook Medicine since 2006 and agreed to the merger in 2015, is now known as Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital and operates under Stony Brook’s license.

The move is similar to the one that saw Southampton Hospital join the Stony Brook system in 2017.

One of the goals of the merger is for the new hospital “to work collaboratively with Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital to increase care, particularly specialized outpatient services,” Stony Brook Medicine stated in a release. “These hospitals in the Stony Brook Medicine healthcare system are working together to address healthcare gaps for East End residents, including specialty areas such as trauma, neurology, psychiatry, gynecology, pulmonology, hematology/oncology, and orthopedic services.”

“By welcoming Eastern Long Island Hospital into the Stony

Brook Medicine hospital system, we remain on the cutting edge of healthcare, implementing new strategies to improve the health of the communities we serve,” said Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, senior vice president, health services, and dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.

“With the help of Stony Brook Medicine, ELIH has gradually grown its footprint during the past few years,” said Paul Connor III, chief administrative officer of the hospital.

“We welcomed neurological surgery and urologic oncology specialists, and we now have general surgeons from Meeting House Lane Medical in Southampton performing procedures in our Surgical Center of Excellence.”

“This is an exciting time for Eastern Long Island Hospital,” added Thomas Murray, the chairman of Eastern Long Island Hospital’s board of directors. “A lot of hard work has taken place, but the reward is here now — to be part of Stony Brook Medicine. Becoming part of the Stony Brook Medicine family allows us to continue our mission, offering the best possible care to our patients and community.”

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Continued From Page 16. space, but was also disappointed to hear the town had to back away from constructing a permanent location on Ludlam Avenue. Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera said estimates came back at $4 million.

“That’s more than double what we had budgeted for and more than anybody anticipated, so we started to look at other sites,” Preston Scalera said. “We’re doing everything we can to make sure they find a permanent home. That’s our goal, and we’re 100 percent committed to that; always have been.”

One option being considered is on the Riverhead traffic circle. “The idea of locating the site in the center of Riverside was eagerly supported by members of the local community and it would certainly help increase access to the museum,” Long said. “I remain very confident that we’ll secure a site where the funding can be used to create a satellite location.”

Councilman John Bouvier said he thinks the town is on a good path toward sealing a deal. He was in a meeting with Preston Scalera, Long, and Riverside Rediscovered on July 8 to discuss the option in detail.

“It has to make sense to the community, but more important, it has

to make sense to the taxpayer,” he said.

“The community has been asking for this in one form or another for a long time, and it makes absolute sense to me.”

For Taldone and his organization, it’s been a long time coming. “We’ve been championing this idea for a long time.

We love the children’s museum, and this part of the community really needs educational opportunities for the kids,” Taldone said.

Nearly $750,000 in state and federal grants have been secured for a new home. FRNCA worked particularly hard and independently hired a grant writer to obtain $450,000 that went directly to CMEE for a Riverside location. Taldone said Riverside residents have difficulty getting to Bridgehampton, and said educational opportunities remain mostneeded in his area.

“A lot of these people have very little in terms of resources. We have many, many households where there’s no car, or only one car, and the worker takes it in the morning, so mom really can’t get very far,” he said. “It’s just very, very difficult for them economically to access the kinds of wonderful programs that the children’s museum offers.”

But the building also isn’t exclusive to Flanders/Riverside children, or solely children of low-income families. Families from Westhampton and Riverhead, or

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anywhere else will have access. Preston Scalera said she’s particularly proud to see CMEE coming closer to an agreement before she leaves office.

“I started the process over six years ago. This has been my pet project,” she said. “I’ve seen the Riverside area start to take shape and am seeing what we’ve envisioned — this buildout over the next couple of years is one of the most promising things I’ve been able to do while I’ve been on this board — and we’ve done so with unanimous support from all board members from all different town boards. It’s been a great, rewarding experience.”

Hampton Bays Fluke Tournament One of the region’s fastest growing fluke tournaments is Saturday, July 13.

The Hampton Bays Fire Department hosts the event, its ninth annual, held in honor of Benjamin “Benny” Lupia, and features a day of fun and surprises in addition to the fishing.

Lupia, a volunteer with the Hampton Bays Fire Department for 73 years and a former chief, died in 2010. He joined the fire department in

The councilwoman also sees tremendous potential with a location west of the canal.

“There’s not a lot of access to cultural science amenities there. This is something that appeals to all ages, it’s great for families, it’s affordable, they’ve worked hard to make it and keep it that way to make it accessible to everybody, and it’ll be in a great location at the gateway to the forks,” Preston Scalera said. “What CMEE can provide for the community in terms of an enhanced cultural asset is huge. We hope this becomes a cornerstone for the development that will follow there.”

1937, seven years after it was founded, and served under every single chief in the department’s history including, briefly, his grandson. While serving the department, he lived across the street from the Montauk Highway firehouse. Lupia served as chief himself between 1954 and 1957.

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try to raise the bail, but Pucha-Guaman remained in custody as of Tuesday morning.

In other news, a man wanted by the East Hampton Town police since 2016 on a misdemeanor charge of assault was arrested early morning July 4 after he returned to Montauk from his native Puerto Rico to work as a cook, according to the police. Josean Hernandez, 26, who was living in an apartment on Westlake Drive in 2016, allegedly beat another resident of the complex by punching and kicking him “all over his body” multiple times, fracturing a rib and causing lacerations, on August 28, 2016.

After interviewing the victim in 2016, police went to look for Hernandez, but could not find him. He apparently had returned to Puerto Rico. Justice Lisa Rana eventually issued a warrant for his arrest.

He was picked up shortly after arriving back in Montauk, on July 3.

The circumstances that led to his arrest are not clear. At police headquarters, as Hernandez was being processed, police said they found a small packet of cocaine in his wallet, leading to a second charge, criminal misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.

During his appearance in East Hampton Town Justice Court the

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son still be allowed to be in contact with her, but, given the serious nature of the allegations and the possible danger to her, he was siding with the DA. The defense attorney told Tekulsky there was an uncle the defendant could stay with.

Tekulsky expressed concern about Pucha-Guaman’s mental state, asking Bennedetto Haynes, “Are you satisfied that he understands the process, that he is competent to understand the process?” adding that he found some of Pucha-Guaman’s answers “a little odd.”

After setting bail at $5000, Tekulsky gave the defense attorney a few minutes to speak with the family.

“They want him to go to a psychiatric hospital,” Bennedetto Haynes said.

The mother spoke out, through the translator. “His mind is not well,” she told the judge.

“I understand you have some concern about his mental health,” Tekulsky said. He explained that he could not, legally, send Pucha-Guaman to a psychiatric hospital, and suggested, “Perhaps his uncle can get him to Stony Brook.”

Family members said they would

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morning of July 4, Brian DeSesa, Hernandez’s attorney for the arraignment, told Rana that Hernandez had arrived the day before, to go back to work at Ruschmeyer’s as a cook.

DeSesa asked for low bail, but Rana said she was concerned about the seriousness of the injuries the victim allegedly suffered, as well as Hernandez’s lack of ties to the community, as she set bail at $5000.

He remained in county jail as of July 9.

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It is frequently used by employers as part of a background check for employees.

Walker is allegedly registered on that list as living at a house on Front Street in Springs with relatives.

According to the police, Walker travelled to Tuscon, AZ, staying with family there from February 17 to April 24. While there, he convinced a young adult female to come out to East Hampton to work at the Lobster Roll for the 2019 season, telling her she would make $50,000.

When she came east, she told police she found Walker living with two friends in a tent in Cedar Point County Park. The female told police she had never felt comfortable sleeping in the

tent, after waking up the first night to find him trying to get physically close to her, a move she rebuffed.

In May, the four moved to Hither Hills State Campground, when Walker began sleeping on the beach. The female eventually learned of Walker’s past, and contacted the NYSDCJS, which confirmed he was a registered sex offender, the police said.

The NYSDCJS began to investigate Walker’s whereabouts, as did the East Hampton Town police.

They allegedly learned that Walker hadn’t lived at the Front Street address he was registered at for some time. A registered sex offender is required to contact the local police, in this case the East Hampton Town Police Department, within 10 days of any address change.

After he was picked up at Lobster Roll, Walker was questioned at headquarters about his alleged extended stay in Arizona. His answers are included in the court file. “I went on vacation,” he told detectives. “Less than 30 days, but more than 10 days.”

He explained, “I had a brain fart.

I am sorry. I am not a bad guy.”

Walker has an open DWI case in East Hampton, as well as an open misdemeanor drug possession charge.

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Continued From Page 4. of the majority of citizens, surely not the giveaways, such as free medical care for illegals, the 20 million that will clog the hospitals and doctors’ office.

Europeans come here because of the six-month wait, especially in England. What about the seniors? Is this “senior-cide?” How to get rid of us? I guess they are just practicing their “vote whores” mentality!

Let us ignore comrade de Blasio Wilhelm’s Che Guevara shout out! You know, the Argentine Marxist whose hands were drenched in the blood of innocents!

Yours Truly, Arthur French

Gardeners Unite Dear Editor, Thank you for your interesting and enjoyable article in The Independent.

It brought back memory of a trip I took about five years ago to Yorkshire. Also, stately homes and oh, those English gardens! There were about a dozen of us led by this older English woman, we were based in Harrogate. If you just love flowers, plan a trip to the Chelsea

Flower show if you haven’t seen one yet.

I’m a Master Gardener and volunteer at LIHRC on Sound Avenue in Riverhead.

We are called the Cornell Gardeners and we meet weekly (Tuesdays) and tend a variety of themed gardens. Stop by if you are ever over on the North Fork. We are a mix of MGs and people who do their own gardens and love it. You can wax on about your plants and nobody rolls their eyes; they really listen!

Thanks again, Margaret Quinn (Editor’s note: the writer is referring to our regular column “Old Dogs, New Trips” in last week’s edition.)

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Continued From Page 13. you. Stay strong,” Kalle Phillips wrote.

Kathy and Alex Sweet called Barrett “one of the toughest girls” they know, and Sarah Haupt said “there’s no one more deserving of our love.”

“Stay strong Dana, and keep fighting,” said Natalie Camp. “We all love you and your huge heart to help others. It’s our time to show you how much we care and appreciate what you’ve done to touch all of these people’s lives.”

Lizzy Cantwell, Seamus’s sisterin-law, who referred to Barrett as her

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sister, said that Barrett, who graduated Westhampton Beach High School, is her son C.J.’s godmother.

“Dana is the most amazing woman — she is the kind that hops on a plane and flies 500 miles, gets in a car straight away just so you wouldn’t have to drive nine hours with two

For Sunny

On Sunday, July 14, at 6 PM, there will be a special benefit held for pro surfer Sunny Garcia at Gurney’s Montauk.

Garcia is in critical condition after an attempted suicide. Suffering from depression, he has remained a remarkable role model in spite of his struggles. He pulled himself out of the depths of drugs and addiction to win a world title but somehow found himself back in the throes of desperation last April.

“He is beloved to many, the Kurt Cobain of the surfing world,” said event organizer Nicole Delma, “and has been the voice of a generation of athletes, teens, and loners seeking to connect.”

Delma chose the timing of the event for two reasons: Garcia was discovered and mentored by Rell Sunn, whose namesake is honored in the annual Rell Sunn Surf Contest

kids by yourself,” Cantwell said. “We chose Dana because we could not have thought of a better person to help our C.J. through life than this incredible human.”

Those looking to donate can visit www.gofundme.com/f/ danabarrettstrong. in Montauk the day before the event.

But also, “summer is a key time when many locals go through ups and downs with drugs and alcohol, and when we can make people most aware of resources to help and remove the stigma of seeking help,” Delma said.

There will be a screening of “One Track Mind” at the event, a film which includes Garcia plus about 10 other very notable surfers from Kelly Slater to Mick Fanning.

Donations have been received from artists Jack Johnson (autographed ukulele and songbook), a collection of films from Chris Malloy, artwork from Kelly Slater’s daughter Taylor plus Cynthia Rowley, 4Ocean, and more.

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A 1700s House Hides A Scandal

Hampton Historical Society house where the book signing will be held is yet another Lester family homestead).

Her future home, built by John Bennett around 1770 near Miss Amelia’s Cottage, was moved to its current location on Pantigo Road about 100 years later after Selah Lester bought it.

Selah Lester was the son of Nathan W. Lester from the Round Swamp farm Lesters.

Nathan M. and Catherine Bennett Lester eventually moved into Selah’s house — they were cousins. Soon another cousin, Catherine Sophronia, who had been farmed out to work for George Miller, moved into the homestead.

That’s when the scandal occurred.

Catherine had a baby out of wedlock.

“The year was 1861. It changed the lives of everyone involved,” Edie related. “There was no going back.”

“That bastard son was my grandfather,” Edie learned. “The story is about her life leading up to this trial and what happened to Catherine after giving birth,” Lester said.

Still there is much conjecture included in her telling. She had to rely on old newspaper clippings for some of the information and extrapolated the story as needed. But Edie thinks she has accomplished what the courts couldn’t — she’s identified the real father, and surmises Catherine’s rape story may or may not be plausible, but notes that another more intense crime, incest, could have been at play. But that’s for the reader to decide.

Edie will host a book signing at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum on Saturday, July 13, from 2 to 4 PM. The book will be for sale at the Pantigo Farm Stand, Wittendale’s, and One Stop Market. Her original period artwork will also be available for purchase.

The best way to get a copy of the book if you miss the book signing is by emailing the author at GMA54@ yahoo.com.

large pelagic sharks and it provided us with the opportunity to continue the goals of the research study. With the two teams working together, we proceeded to tag an additional 20 juvenile white sharks along the south shore.

Thanks to OCEARCH’s support, these additional sharks were tagged with the most advanced tags used by researchers, known as Smart Position and Temperature tags. These tags are primarily designed for use on animals that are commonly found at the ocean’s surface, where regular transmission to a satellite is made possible. When a deployed tag, mounted to a shark’s dorsal fin, breaks the surface of the water, the tag sends a signal that is transmitted to the satellite and back down to Earth, where it’s received by a shark tracker program on OCEARCH’s website.

The technology of these SPOT tags allows scientists to detect immediate location sites of these sharks in real-time.

The data retrieved from these hi-tech tags presented facts that these juvenile sharks were staying in this area for days, weeks, months, and even years. This groundbreaking information confirmed the resident data necessary to call the south shore of Long Island a nursery for young-of-the-year juvenile white sharks, making it one of only three known white shark nurseries in the world. The others are in South Africa and Australia.

What an amazing discovery in our own backyard!

Fish nursery grounds are vital and extremely delicate environments, which have evolved and exist for the reproduction and juvenile rearing of many species. Juvenile white sharks move along the inshore marine waters and consume mid-sized fish such as bunker, mackerel, striped bass, bluefish, and squid during their developmental years before they grow large enough to venture further offshore and prey on larger marine mammals. Due to the slow growth (20 years to reach reproductive maturity) of white sharks and their vulnerability to human impacts and climate change, these habitats need to be managed properly and protected to sustain a robust marine environment.

In 2018, the South Fork Natural History Museum took on the leadership of this exciting research initiative.

Once known as the LISC, it is now the SOFO Shark Research and Education Program. The museum’s mission is to create awareness, educate, and foster appreciation of our natural world.

Ecosystems are ruled from the top of the food chain by animals such as wolves, bears, big cats, and sharks. The health of our planet depends on their existence. These white sharks are apex predators, and are truly the “Lions of the Sea!”

A Bonac family hidden from the truth for centuries

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Edie Lester. Independent/Edie Smith

Every home has history hiding in its rafters. But some more than others. In this case, there are many stories to tell, for the Lester house has been around 250 years.

But there is more: a heinous secret, an unsolved horror that has been heretofore hidden in these walls. Until now: Edie Lester’s new book, “Only Told in Whispers” unravels a centuryold mystery.

Lester has mined the rich veins of the family household once before, with her debut book, “A Gift From the Attic,” (2015). In it, she dissected a collection of letters written by her grandmother Elsie Miller during World War II to her daughter and Elsie’s mother, Dottie,

who had gone off to war.

Her grandmother, Elsie Miller, who was born in 1890, married Elmer Wood. Their union ended far too soon.

“Grandpa died and she died 21 days later,” Lester said matter-of-factly.

“Something kept calling to me, so I went back to that box and started reading. That’s when I fell in love with my grandmother,” Edie said. That’s also when she became exposed to a treasure trove of family dynamics, local yore, and insight into a way of life some in East Hampton still stubbornly try to hang onto.

Her family house stands today on Pantigo Road in a compound of several inhabited by the Lesters. (The East

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By Frank Quevedo

‘Lions Of The Sea’ Tracking the great white shark off Long Island’s south shore

In August 2015, the Long Island Shark Collaboration — a group of friends, scientists, and organizations, including the South Fork Natural History Museum— was the first to deploy a satellite pop-off tag on a young-of-theyear juvenile white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The shark was caught, tagged, and released a few miles south of Shinnecock Inlet. After the shark was released, the tag popped off a few days later off the coast of Maryland, some 240 miles south.

This information was groundbreaking to the scientific community, establishing

migration data for this species. Once announced publicly, the LISC embarked on the research initiative to continue the work necessary to better understand, protect, and sustain white shark populations along the south shore of Long Island.

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Sports Magician Wins Firecracker 8K The 2015 ‘America’s Got Talent’ finalist maintained strong lead throughout

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Oz Pearlman flashed his cards as he crossed the Southampton Rotary Club Firecracker 8K finish line.

The magician, mentalist, speaker, and athlete set to perform at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Saturday, July 13, nearly snapped his fingers and teleported to the end of the July 7 course at Agawam Park. He traveled the 4.97 miles in 27 minutes, 36.68 seconds.

For Pearlman, the first-place finish was serendipitous. The 36-year-old said he would never have run the race if it wasn’t for bumping into a friend in the Stop & Shop parking lot who told him about the event. The magician signed up on the spot Sunday morning.

“It’s a gorgeous day, picture perfect,” Pearlman said. “I know the first few miles because I run here in the summer.”

The Manhattan-based athlete competed in a 100-mile ultramarathon in May. He’s also taken part in the Hamptons Marathon three times, finishing first in 2014. Pearlman

Oz Pearlman, a magician known most famously for finishing third in season 10 of “America’s Got Talent,” flashes his cards while crossing the Firecracker 8K finish line at Southampton’s Agawam Park July 7. Independent/Desirée Keegan

typically runs 120 miles a week when training, and 75 when he’s not, getting outside five or six days a week.

Although the day was a humid one, he said once he hooked onto Halsey Neck Lane and down roads he didn’t know, it was windy and cool.

Caroline Lefrak, 35, of New York City, also liked the shady parts of the course. Competing in the race that benefits the rotary’s club’s scholarship fund since she was 20, the 2011 winner who also holds the women’s record (27:05:00) once again found herself atop the leaderboard, as the first female and second overall with a time of 28:27.46. She remained alongside thirdplace finisher Sergio Avramenko most of the way before making a mad dash down the final stretch. The 34-yearold’s time was 28:48.96.

“I kind of used him for a while, just stuck with him,” Lefrak said. “It’s always nice to have someone around.”

Running 50 to 60 miles a week, and even to the start line Sunday, the Southampton summertime resident plans on doing more local races as she works her way up to a half marathon

this fall. She said taking part in the Southampton event in memory of past rotary district governor Roy Wines Jr. was a no-brainer.

“It’s so easy to do . . . I had home course advantage for sure,” she said.

“Everyone is so friendly. It’s very uncomplicated. There’s great volunteers and great staff. It’s a fun event.”

Lefrak, who has been running since she was 14, has been easing her way back into marathons following a running hiatus to start a family. She said her husband and kids love it just as much as her.

“We’re a running family,” she said.

“It felt great to get back on the course.

It’s a great stress relief.”

Brian Schneider, 35, finished third for the men in 29:26.96. Tenke Zoltani, 34, who finished sixth overall, placed second for the females in 30:25.44.

Hannah Connolly-Sporing, 22, clocked in 11th overall and third for females in 31:51.57. Thomas Arnold, 15, who finished seventh (30:34.45), was the first competitor under 20 to complete the course. Erin Conroy, 31, was first in the three-mile walk (45:05.91).

Arnold had gotten off to a strong start, but Pearlman pulled away from the pack before the first mile marker.

The magician kept a consistent pace, averaging 5:33 a mile, and remained comfortably separated from the runner ups, although he continued to push forward as if someone was “breathing down his neck.”

“I never looked behind me, but you know when you get to the water stations if people are behind you, because they say, ‘Way to go,’” Pearlman said. “You wait to hear them say it to the next person, but I didn’t hear it.”

Although there weren’t any people standing in his way, there was a pack of geese and a family of ducks crossing the road down the home stretch.

“They just got out of the way for me to sneak through,” Pearlman said, adding once he passed them he saw his son Theodore at the finish line, which gave him an extra boost. “I didn’t have to do any hurdling, but once I saw the red finish line and my son so excited, for the first time in the race I gave myself the look back, knew I was in the money, and I made the cards appear.”

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Palumbo, A Positive Athlete

Southampton senior Caroline Palumbo, a hurdler on the track and field team, was named a positive multisport athlete. Independent/ Courtesy Southampton School District

Southampton senior one of 34 in state to receive the recognition

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Southampton High School senior Caroline Palumbo was one of 34 New York state athletes to earn the title of Positive Multi-Sport Athlete by the Positive Athlete New York program. She will be presented with her award at a New York Mets baseball game July 23.

Palumbo earned the award by displaying optimism, care for others, and by always encouraging her teammates to give 100 percent.

During her high school career,

Palumbo played varsity and junior varsity soccer and served as captain of the varsity winter and spring track teams.

She currently holds the school’s 55-meter hurdles record (9.44 seconds), placed fifth in the county in that event this year, and received All-League honors.

Along with her athletic participation, she was a member of Athletes Helping Athletes, Natural Helpers, and the student council, as well as president of Best Buddies. The

recent graduate, who plans to attend Occidental College in the fall with a double major in Spanish and education, also volunteered her time assisting with the district’s sports program and with Special Olympics.

Outside of school, Palumbo is involved with the Southampton Village

Volunteer Ambulance program and The Retreat in East Hampton.

She did all of this while maintaining a high grade-point average. She is an AP Scholar with Distinction; a member of the National, Latin, and Spanish honor societies; and graduated summa cum laude.

Hampton Bays Honors Competitors, Leaders Students signed letters of intent, others awarded for achievements

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Hampton Bays seniors Helen Benenaula and Maryrose O’Connell signed letters of intent last month.

Benenaula will be attending Five Towns College to play soccer and O’Connell SUNY Cortland to run track.

O’Connell was also one of two athletes to receive the spirit scholarship at the district’s annual awards dinner in June.

Sean Noonan, who’s headed to Penn State, also received the recognition.

The Doc Fallot Memorial

Scholarship was also awarded at the dinner, to Ava Bianchi and Patricio Pulla.

Bianchi plans to attend Muhlenberg College and Pulla, Fordham University.

Kevin Eras (Culinary Institute of America) and Sarah Fassino (University of Rhode Island) received the Baymen Pride award; Christina Coulton (Binghamton University) and Gavin Grismer (University of Buffalo) were named scholar athletes; and Kevin McNamara (United States Army) and

Hampton Bays senior athletes were presented with scholarships during the Hampton Bays Booster Club’s annual athletic awards dinner. Independent/Courtesy Hampton Bays School District

Rachel Reycroft (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry) received the John J. Pizarelli Award, given to all-around athletes.

Along with these recognitions, nearly all of these students were re-honored as “leaders of the game.” Eras was honored in football, although he also competed on the wrestling team, Bianchi for cheerleading, Grismer for golf, Reycroft for volleyball,

Pulla for tennis, Coulton for cross county, Fassino for field hockey, and Noonan for lacrosse. Sixteen other students received this recognition.

Thirty-two Hampton Bays Middle School students were also honored as scholar athletes. Students were required to maintain a 90 or above average for the first three quarters of the 2018-19 school year.

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Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolff?

Rookie with a funky swing captures PGA tournament I have a lot of loose ends to catch up on before we head to Ireland for the “Grand Daddy” of golf majors, The Open Championship. The Open has been played for 147 years, but this one is going to be different . . . a lot different.

The last Open to be played outside of Scotland and England was 68 years ago at this year’s venue, Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.

The Open is known for always having tickets available, but the excitement level is so high that it has been a sellout for months. Unbelievable and almost unprecedented.

On a personal note, I have been

looking forward to my return to Ireland since 2009. Why ’09 you ask? Well, that year when appearing as a guest on an Irish radio network in advance of the U.S. Open being held at Bethpage Black, I was asked to pick the winner.

I boldly tabbed Lucas Glover who was a real long shot at 250 to 1 to win that U.S. Open Championship.

Apparently, enough Irish listeners took my advice and made a bundle. But one who wasn’t too happy was Ireland’s largest bookmaker, Paddy Power, who blamed my prediction for causing a $1 million-plus loss at the betting shops.

After Glover won that U.S. Open Championship, it was mentioned

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several times that whenever I returned to Ireland that I will never have to pay for a drink. Sounds like a good time to me.

Speaking of excitement, the return of the PGA Tour to the state of Minnesota and the 3M Open was a huge success.

So, the question now is, who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? A song by the same title was written in 1933 by Frank Churchill. In case you don’t remember, it was a song about three little pigs who were confident their houses could stand up to the big bad wolf.

On the PGA Tour, it’s been generally accepted that there is a big learning curve in transitioning from college golf to professional golf. Well, this past weekend, it was Matt Wolff who huffed and puffed and blew the door down on his way into the PGA Tour winner’s circle.

Earlier this year, Wolff won the NCAA individual championship and in doing so, became only the third golfer in history to win both the NCAA and a PGA Tour event in the same year. I am sure you heard of the other two: Ben Crenshaw and Tiger Woods. Wolff ’s the second youngest winner in the past 80 years to win on the PGA TOUR at 20 years old. The youngest is Jordan

Spieth.

Hats off to the Oklahoma State golf coaches for not trying to change Wolff’s very unusual swing. If I were asked to describe it, I would suggest you try to visualize an octopus in a phone booth attempting to hit a golf ball . . . and hit it a long way. He is definitely one to watch and I predict that he’ll be around for a long time.

Another interesting Wolff sighting — a couple of weeks ago when Wolff made his pro debut in the Travelers in Hartford, he had J.P. Fitzgerald on the bag. You might remember that J.P. caddied very successfully for Rory McIlroy for a long time. Wolff had never met J.P. prior to that week in Hartford, but after Wolff finished 80th the blind date was over.

Steve Lohmeyer, a former Kent State golfer who started as an assistant pro then turned looper, got the call from Wolff, and, lo and behold, now has his 10-percent share of that $1,152,000 winner’s check in his bank account. I think it’s safe to say that Lohmeyer made the right move in taking over Wolff’s bag.

So let me answer the question who’s afraid of the big bad Wolff? I’d say everyone playing on the PGA Tour.

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By Nicole Teitler

Yoga On The Farm Communing with nature in the barnyard nicole@indyeastend.com @NikkiOnTheDaily

Sure, some people have heard of goat yoga, but have you ever heard of farm yoga?

My typical response to yoga is nama-stay out of it, which is likely the way I’ve led off prior IndyFit columns on my yoga experiences (some feelings never change). However, when I was informed about yoga amid baby goats

and pigs, free-roaming cats, chickens, sheep, and horses — the horses were not free-roaming; they were in a paddock — I couldn’t resist.

The Green School in Sagaponack, which was founded in 2008, is tucked away so well that a local of 30 years told me she never even knew the place existed. Now the secret is out. Its Yoga

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on the Farm program kicked off for the season with the intention of connecting animals, humans, and Mother Nature.

According to its website, “Walking barefoot, also known as ‘earthing,’ has remarkable health advantages, such as increasing antioxidants, reducing inflammation, and improving sleep.

Extensive research shows the emotional support offered by animals.” I was just there for the animals; happy coincidence with the benefits.

As someone who enjoys being constantly stimulated most days, the natural activity of the animals around me provided comfort and calm at the same time. They’d eat the grass, make their animal noises, walk around, and sniff away. It was adorable. I swear I could almost sense them feeling more relaxed as well, as though the energy of the group reached them.

The yoga itself felt more like strength training, with breathing exercises and typical poses. For those, like myself, who don’t find yoga particularly appealing, the sheer act of lying and meditating as the yoga instructor spoke was calming.

The fresh air, which wasn’t smelly, cool breeze, and animals made the environment holistic and grounding.

Each week highlights a different local brand, with the Bolster Bra, a yoga bolster cover made from 10 recycled water bottles, featured the week I was

The Green School in Sagaponack, founded in 2008, is tucked away so well that a local of 30 years told me she never even knew the place existed. there. The goodie bag also included some Plain-T detox tea, and some products from Beauty Counter. It was a nice little keepsake and way to spread awareness about good brands doing good things.

Yoga on the Farm is held on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 PM. Adult admission is $30, for children, $15.

For information, visit www.the-greenschool.org.

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rate increases, saying instead its entire customer base would help foot the bill.

Marchese said to borrow the over $6 million for just the two projects would come with roughly $422,000 a year in debt services. He said when factoring in the additional $100,000 a year for well maintenance, that number would jump to $550,000. With an $8 million need, factoring in other future undertakings, it would come to $700,000 of debt. “We know there are expenses coming up regardless,� Councilman John Bouvier said. “Let’s identify how we’re going to pay for it. I’m all in favor of getting the revenue we need. We’ve already anticipated this. We know they are the highest priorities. For me it’s very clear.�

The Hampton Bays Water District hasn’t seen rates raised since 2012, when they were bumped up five percent.

On average, other districts, including

Continued From Page 12. plan. That plan would have a ranked list of items needing immediate attention.

“I feel like we’re operating in the dark without all the information I need to make an intelligent decision,�

Preston Scalera said. “We keep doing this circulatory thing going back to the fact that we’re trying to get real numbers so we can give the people of the district real numbers.�

Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said he’s hoping concrete costs presented in a package by D&B Architects will help the board present the options better to Hampton Bays residents, who can then decide if they would like to take the issue over management to vote. Suffolk County Water Authority has said it would cover the costs of the infrastructure upgrades without

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Suffolk’s, have raised rates on average four percent a year, Marchese said.

He added even if rates were raised 10 percent, going off the average $1.95 million brought in through consumption with the current rate structure, that’d only be an extra $190,000 in extra revenue.

“In order to get up to the number that you need, if you were to just do it through a rate increase, you’d be looking at a pretty significant one,� he said. “We need to open a dialogue in terms of funding needs in general. My job is to get long term planning in place to get you on a strong financial footing to do the things you want to do.�

In response to Preston Scalera’s concerns, Marchese suggested funds begin being raised immediately, saying it would behoove the board to have money in place before getting to that step.

“As a result of your needs, you’ll

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have funds available to deploy as necessary; otherwise, we’ll have to loan money to the fund and play catch-up, which we’ve never done in the past,�

Marchese said. “There’s a planning process — putting it out to bid, getting bids, scheduling the work — this is a sixmonth, ninth-month lead time to even get a shovel in the ground, literally. You have to act today to have the water for next year.�

While Marchese said taxes could be raised in January, rates could be raised at any time of the year to get a fund started as soon as possible. Schneiderman said he was in favor of raising rates over taxes, saying charging based on consumption is the fairest way.

Water district officials will answer questions at a 7 PM meeting Monday, July 15, at the Hampton Bays Community Center on Ponquogue Avenue.

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