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8 Restoring The Health Of Sagg Pond Approved funding for water quality projects

15 Infrastructure Upgrades Options weighed for HB Water District

B1 Sultan Leads New York Foundation For The Arts Studio Tour A private lunch will follow

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B21 Let’s Taco ’Bout Food Mattitaco is more than just a food truck

B23 Influencers Gather At Maidstone Brunch attendees will get a ‘taste’ of the East End

12 Opioid OD Death Rate Dropping Countywide Narcan driving death toll down, officials say

23 Insanity Defense For Alleged Child Killer?

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B4 Blue Parrot Family Fiesta Event held to support Green Beetz

B6 Schnabel And Karan Honored At LongHouse Laurie Anderson performs

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Letters Israel Is Essential Dear Editor, This is the 81st anniversary of the Evan-les-Bains, France conference conducted July 6-15, 1938 to discuss the plight of the Jews in Nazi Germany, and develop and implement a plan to rescue them. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated convening the conference of 32 countries and 24 relief agencies.

Adolf Hitler said he would agree to allow the Jews to leave Germany and immigrate to the 32 countries represented at the conference.

Unfortunately, 31 countries refused to take in any of the Jewish refugees. Only the Dominican Republic agreed to allow in some Jews. All kinds of excuses were stated. Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King said “We must . . . seek to keep this part of the continent free from unrest and from too great an intermixture of foreign strains of blood.”

The British, who controlled Palestine, refused to allow the Jews to emigrate because of the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Jews. The French said they could not help. The U.S. State Department, who had at least one Jew hater in a prominent position, blocked entry to the U.S. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama said they wanted no traders or intellectuals. Argentina said it had enough immigrants from Europe. Australia said it had no racial problems

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and did not want to create any.

After the conference, a number of countries relented and allowed relatively small numbers of Jews to enter their countries, including the U.S. during 1938 to 1940 —120,000; Britain — 100,000; Australia — 15,000; and the Dominican Republic-— 800.

However, from 1940 to 1945, approximately six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany.

Based on all of the persecution, discrimination, and violence against Jews down through millennia, including the events previously stated in this opinion piece, it became obviously essential to establish Israel as a homeland for Jews, and this occurred in 1948.

Even in recent times, the Jew hatred exhibited by many European countries has justified the need for Israel. The last survey conducted a few years ago lent substantiation to the ongoing Jew hatred in Europe.

The survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League concluded anti-Jewish extremism infects European populations, including Greece, with 69 percent of the population anti-Jewish and with only 5000 Jews, and it has the worst economy in Europe, which shrank 25 percent since 2010. Many European countries, including France, Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria range from 20 to 45 percent in Jew hatred.

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50 years since the Apollo 11 lunar landing

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

July 20, 2019 will mark 50 years since Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind” as he and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.

To celebrate, the Montauk Observatory and Stony Brook University are teaming up to provide a free, public program taking place at the Avram Theater at Stony Brook Southampton on Saturday, July 20, from 1 to 6 PM.

“Montauk Observatory is so very pleased to again partner with Stony Brook University to present a program that commemorates such an important historic event,” said Donna McCormick, the observatory’s executive director.

“While it’s unfortunate that it’s been 50 years since we’ve had a lunar landing, the Apollo missions taught us so very much and paved the way for subsequent study of the moon. I’m sure we can soon look forward to another manned lunar landing, as well as use of the moon as a gate-

way to the further exploration of space.”

The event will be highlighted by a screening of Todd Miller’s documentary “Apollo 11” followed by a Q&A with production team leader, Ben Feist. Feist currently serves as NASA Spaceflight Data Manager and Researcher, where his job is to “help design systems that help organize the massive amount of information that’s gathered on a modern spaceflight mission.” As a matter of fact, he noted that NASA expects to make a return landing on the moon in 2024 through the Artemis program.

As the official NASA government website states, Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology, “will send the first woman and the next man to the moon.”

However, in order to do that, there is a great need for computer systems that process information in real time as the crew is on board. “How do you give a crew member a point of view that will

allow them to triage information in real time? And that’s what I’m working on now,” Feist said. “The thought there is that we need to learn how to stay on the moon and live long-term off of Earth.

And if we can solve some of those problems, the moon is a great staging area, it’s very close by.”

As we envision a future for lunar landings, and overall space exploration, it is critical to understand and celebrate our historic past. Raymond LeCann was part of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering team where he worked at the Lunar Excursion Model Data Reduction Room in Bethpage 50 years ago, where all the tests took place as things were being built.

“My job was to take the data that was being processed and give it to the engineers while they were designing the LEM,” LeCann said. “To be honest with you, we were all more worried than anything else.

It wasn’t obvious that we were going to be able to get them back.”

LeCann will head the Grumman round table: behind-the-scenes stories about Grumman and the Apollo 11 project. Alongside him will be Joseph Bevilacqua, design engineer in the LEM Crew and Equipment Integration Division, who met with the astronauts; Leon Gurinsky, rocket scientist who worked on the LEM propulsion systems; Anthony Mascolo, Cockpit Design Leader who was responsible

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin as photographed by Neil Armstrong. Independent/Courtesy NASA

for fireproofing the cockpit and suits; and Edward Whitman, an engineer that worked on communications between the LEM and the Command Service Module.

The 50th anniversary celebration will additionally include a lecture by Stony Brook University Professor Timothy Glotch as he discusses “50 years of Lunar Science,” followed by an appearance of Assemblyman Fred Thiele as he presents each member of Grumman with a New York State Citation acknowledging their contributions to the Apollo 11 program.

View more at www.montaukobservatory.com.

One Giant Leap In Southold Custer observes 50 years since moon landing

By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com “My mother told me that when I was three or four years old, we were walking in Jersey City when I saw a big, bright, full moon in the sky and said, ‘I want that,’” said Barbara Lebkeucher, who has been the treasurer at the Custer Institute and Observatory for nearly 40 years. “I have always been drawn to — and fascinated by — the moon.”

Lebkeucher, a Jamesport resident,

got her wish 50 years ago when she watched the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on her 33rd birthday, wideeyed and alone in her living room.

“I looked at the TV, ran to my back door, looked at the moon, thought, ‘Holy crap! There’s men walking up there!’” Lebkeucher recalled. “Then I ran back into the living room and Continued On Page 16.

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Restoring The Health Of Sagg Pond Southampton approves funding for water quality improvement projects

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Some of Southampton Town's water quality improvement project funds will go toward fighting harmful algal blooms in Sagaponack Pond. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Harmful algal blooms will be attacked in Sagaponack Pond with the help of Dr. Christopher Gobler and an aquatic management plan.

Gobler, a professor at the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences who is also the director of its Center for Clean Water Technology and runs his own laboratory across from the school’s Marine Sciences Center, received Southampton Town Water Quality Improvement Project funds for the cleanup efforts. The town awarded him $56,000 a year for two years to plan, maintain, monitor, and rejuvenate Sagg Pond. The aquatic restoration component includes the installation of monitoring sensors and removal of sand for inlet openings.

Gobler will be monitoring water quality — temperature, salinity, pH, phytoplankton, blue-green algae levels — determining factors promoting the growth of toxic blue-green algae, evaluating nutrient sources into Sagg Pond, tracking both fecal bacteria and foodborne pathogen contamination, and assessing suitability for feeding animals that can clean the water by eliminating these particles.

“We can rapidly assess what’s go-

ing on in this pond in real time with this project,” said Ryan Wallace, a Stony Brook Ph.D. candidate who works at the Gobler Laboratory. “We know that there’s probably bacteria within this pond, and a significant amount, but we don’t have any data to back that up.

Surveys can look at bacterial concentrations and detect the source.”

Determining the different sources of nitrogen and phosphorous and how they’re entering the pond will be important for remediation purposes and distinguishing whether the contamination is a result of humans or animals.

From there, a plan of action can be put into place to correct the issues. What compounds the problem though, is when the pond is opened to the Atlantic Ocean, and the saltwater mixed with that of the freshwater pond.

Sagg Pond had been on New York State Department of Environmental Conservation harmful algal blooms notification list from July 20 to October 18, 2018, the last time sampling was done.

“Mecox does not even have that intensity of harmful algal blooms,” said Trustee Ann Welker, whose board worked with Gobler to present the appli-

cation for money from the Community Preservation Fund for the project. “Although a significant study is being done on Mecox, each water body is single and separate and should be treated as such.

Mecox is considerably larger and considerably deeper than Sagg Pond.”

Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said he’s hoping the Mecox management plan in the works can create a template for Sagg Pond.

“I hope there’s more similarities than there are differences,” he said.

Councilman John Bouvier said it’s the informational qualities of the proposal that are invaluable.

Toxins, specifically liver toxins, have been picked up in the pond in recent years, according to Wallace, who said because there is very little data, not much is known about the pond. The money will help fund a telemetry buoy, which will measure toxin concentrations every 10 minutes and stream the recordings back to the lab’s website.

The Center for Clean Water Technology, which at a June 6 work session unveiled the first phase of a nitrogen-removing biofilter, was awarded $195,000 to conduct a site characterization assessment to tie a filter in with the exist-

ing sanitary systems at the Westhampton Beach high and middle schools for increased nitrogen removal. The waste would be reduced to less than 5 mg/L, and from 1800 pounds to 90 per year.

The Bridgehampton Beach Club’s request for funding was partially met.

It will receive half what it asked for, or $43,465, for the design costs and installation of a new alternative sanitary system to replace a single existing cesspool installed in the early 1900s.

The seasonal club, off Ocean Road, is used three months out of the year and is upgrading its pavilion.

“We believe this is a good thing — that we engage with people who want to upgrade their systems, and we have the funds to do so,” said town Assistant Planning Director Janice Scherer. “It’s in a high-priority area.”

Architect Peter Cook said the pavilion is being upgraded to address membership needs. He said while there’s no outside events like weddings planned for this year, there currently is no kitchen inside the not-for-profit facility, which is one of the additions that would go along with the sanitary system. The club will be breaking ground after Labor Day.

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million Muslims, and a high percentage hate Christians and Jews. The remaining Jews of Europe should immigrate to Israel.

Jew hatred persists because Jews are typically successful, and jealous people want to take down successful people. Adolf Hitler, the biggest Jew hater of all time, was an unsuccessful artist who could not compete with Jewish artists; and Hitler had significant sexual performance problems.

The United States, where success is virtuous, is at nine percent Jew hatred. The U.S. Jewish population is only

1.5 percent and decreasing, but the hatred persists by a small segment of the U.S. population.

Donald Moskowitz

their families by normalizing breakfast time in school instead of with their families at home.

This program is nothing more than training these easily influenced youngsters and their families to become more dependent on the government.

The school board needs to return the donation to the California based Maurice Amado Foundation and ditch this program altogether. The board also needs to send a clear message to the administration that they do not want any part of this Socialism.

Lori Tutt

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Europe’s Jewish population is 0.2 percent and decreasing, but the Jew hatred persists, even against this miniscule population. Since World War II, European Jews were replaced with 50

More Dependent Dear Editor, Southampton School District is at it again, pushing their progressive ideology on the students with the “free” breakfast for ALL program in the elementary school. Their latest antics include further separating children from

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Walk For Interdependence Photos by Nanette Shaw Around the country, and in our own backyard, marches to show solidarity with immigrant families were held on Sunday, July 14 — known the world over as “Bastille Day,” which commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris and the beginning of the French Revolution.

In Sag Harbor, the walk began with a gathering at the windmill at 3 PM, and was hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork. The theme was “Keeping Families Together.”

Minerva Perez, executive director of OLA of Eastern Long Island (right) was one of the many who showed up for the march.

East Quogue Will Get Public Water Entire hamlet will be eligible to hook up to water authority mains

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com A former landfill on Damascus Road in East Quogue was found to have high levels of contaminants.

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After state lawmakers approved legis- wells. The number of affected houselation allowing municipalities to use holds has continued to climb from 45 money from the Community Preserva- to 70 of the 130 tested. While no source tion Fund for water quality improve- of contamination has been found, a forment projects — such as providing mer town landfill located at the end of access to public water in response to Damascus Road in East Quogue, and groundwater contamination — the a county-owned former police kennel Southampton Town Board gave the facility located in the eastern part of green light for $4 million to be used to Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westfund a partnership with Suffolk County hampton, have contributed to groundWater Authority to provide 10,000 feet water pollution, according to reports of public water main extensions along from both the state Department of public roads in East Quogue.

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Opioid OD Death Rate Dropping Countywide Availability of Narcan helps to drive death toll down, officials say

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Suffolk County has, for the first time in years, experienced a significant decrease in the number of deaths due to opioid drug overdoses, County Executive Steve Bellone and Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart jointly announced last week.

After five straight years in which the number of overdose deaths rose, from 200 reported in 2013 all the way up to 410 in 2017, the number of such deaths reported in 2018 dropped almost 25 percent, to 308.

“I believe our enforcement and

education efforts are saving lives. We will continue to be proactive in ridding our communities of opioids that are hurting the lives of the addicted and their families,” Hart said in a press release touting the decrease.

There was also an increase in the amount of drugs seized in 2018, as the Suffolk County Police Department worked in tandem with District Attorney Tim Sini’s office, with search warrants executed increasing 12 percent in 2018.

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The Suffolk County Department of Health Services has trained “more than 12,650 non-traditional responders in opioid recognition and reversal since 2013,” according to the county executive’s office. In addition, local hospitals “have collectively trained an additional 1570 individuals, bringing the cumulative total to over 14,000 individuals trained.”

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Lt. Susan Ralph of the Southampton Town police said that, while over the past three years, the level of overdoses the department has seen remained level, “we have seen a steady decline in the number of fatalities.” She attributed this directly to the department’s use of Narcan.

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Changes To Mining Law Southampton reviews revisions to groundwater monitoring law

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Mandated groundwater monitoring at all sand mining operations may soon be in effect.

The Southampton Town Board reviewed a new draft of the proposed measure on July 9, and this time, the law saw no pushback.

The original draft was seen as an overstepping of the town’s authority when it came to remediation demands and forcing the shutdown of mining operations if water quality issues were detected. Under the new proposal, miners must still provide a groundwater monitoring program, but mining operations can continue while a plan is being developed. Mine owners would only have to halt operations if they violated the new law

or if contamination was found and they needed to develop a remediation plan. Independent researchers would be hired to show whether contamination is coming from the mine site or resulting from other factors.

“The town can’t tell an operator how to operate its mine,” Assistant Town Attorney Richard Harris said.

“That is reserved for the Department of Environmental Conservation. The town does, however, have the authority to reserve local zoning laws, building regulation, and its police powers.”

Owners have 90 days to provide a plan from the time they receive written notification about the new provision from the town. It would include historical data on site development and

groundwater, a site survey, proposed locations of at least three groundwater monitoring wells, and a schedule for at least biannual water sample testing.

Penalties for offenses considerably increased as part of the changes.

The maximum fine for first-time violators jumped from $3500 to $10,000, and the payment for a “water quality protection” surcharge increased from $100 to $1000. Subsequent offenses now have a minimum fine of $10,000, up from $2000. A subsection was also added to allow the town to seek injunctive relief from the state Supreme Court.

The only person to comment on the new changes at the latest public hearing was Kevin Brown, an attorney representing Westhampton Property Associates, a sand and gravel supplier based in Deer Park.

“It addresses many, many of the concerns we initially had,” Brown said. “I believe we can work through the monitoring plans and the requirement to submit the data and site history we already have, showing what’s related to ambient conditions and to previous site activity.”

The revisions were made based on input from mine owners and their legal representatives who either

“The town can’t tell an operator how to operate its mine,” Assistant Town Attorney Richard Harris said. spoke at past public hearings or submitted written comments to the town, Harris said, along with the town attorney’s department. Implementing the law is meant to help protect the region’s sole source aquifer from potential contamination resulting from mining activities.

The town board closed the public hearing on Tuesday and left the written record open for comments for one week, which closed July 16. The board is expected to vote on the resolution July 23.

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Hampton Bays Could See Infrastructure Upgrades Southampton weighs options to meet water district’s immediate needs

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

The Southampton Town Board may soon authorize the expenditure of half the Hampton Bays Water District’s reserve fund to start tackling long overdue and much-needed infrastructure upgrades.

The board, acting as the district’s commissioners, is expected to vote on the spending measure when it meets on July 23. The money will be used to begin preparing bid and design documents for an iron and manganese filtration system at wellfield four to deal with discolored water, the internal resurfacing of tank 4-2 to

repair chipping, and installation of a booster pump to correct water pressure problems.

Representatives with the water district, vice president of H2M Architects + Engineers John Collins, the town board, and others agreed that a $3 million filtration system is sorely needed. Maintenance crew leader Warren Booth said recent water testing showed well 4-1 at a combined iron and manganese concentration of 0.51 mg/L, and well 4-2 at 1.30 mg/L, both exceeding the state limit of 0.50 mg/L.

The Hampton Bays Water District is looking to spend half its reserve funds, or $500,000, to begin developing plans and preparing bid documents for $6.25 million worth of infrastructure upgrades. Independent/Peggy Spellman Hoey

Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera raised concerns over doing anything prior to receiving a 10year capital improvement plan from D & B Engineers and Architects, a company hired by the board in March to assess the condition of the district’s infrastructure and prioritize items needing attention. Town Comptrol-

ler Len Marchese said he was told the findings would be ready in August, but after speaking with a representative, said he was told the item is high on their priority list. Suffolk County Water Authority also had the filtration system as one of the top three concerns to be tackled immediately.

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One Giant Leap

the following description:

“Houston, Apollo 11. We’ve got the continent of Africa right facing toward us right now, and of course, everything’s getting smaller and smaller as time goes on. The Mediterranean is completely clear. The sun looks like it’s about to set around Madagascar. The equatorial belt of Africa stands out quite clearly. We’re seeing a dark green or a muddy-colored green, compared to the sandier colors of the southern tip of Africa and, of course, the Sahara northern coast of Africa.

There’s a rather remarkable cloud that appears in the vicinity of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s just about to go into the sunset now.

It is casting quite a large shadow. It’s isolated. There don’t seem to be any other clouds. The band of clouds near the tropical convergent clouds down around the equator clearly separate the clockwise and the counter-clockwise cloud formations. Over.”

In 2002, the second man to ever walk on the moon gave something else to well-known conspiracy theorist and moon landing denier Bart Sibrel: A punch in the face.

“Buzz Aldrin whacked him,” recounted Custer Institute and Observatory president Charles Cardova, who blames a 1970s-era film for inaccurately claiming the moon landing was faked. “It

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watched it on TV again.” Lebkeucher remembers seeing that “one small step” for 38-year-old Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, OH, which proved to be a leap for mankind so giant that 600 million people watched along on television.

This Saturday, July 20, the Custer Institute will celebrate that milestone when astronomer Ed Anderson, a member of the Astronomical Society of Long Island and of the institute, will give a presentation at 8 PM about the best times and ways to observe the moon as well as interesting things to look for, including the Apollo landing sites. Anderson will be available for a Q & A after his presentation and, weather permitting, open the ASCLI dome housing a 14” Meade LX200 computerized telescope for celestial viewings.

Armstrong was joined by fellow astronauts Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins. Aldrin was the last of the crew to fall asleep on the second of their four-day journey racing toward the moon at a velocity of thousands of feet per second. Forty-eight hours, 32 minutes, and 35 seconds into the mission, Aldrin awoke from a reported eight hours of sleep and gave

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Among his accomplishments as president, Cardova is responsible for financing a costly upgrade to Custer’s main observatory dome, which houses the Fornax 152 – Zerochromat telescope, one of several viewers available at Long Island’s oldest public observatory, which was established in 1927 with its 1850 Fitz telescope predating the institute itself. Most interesting is that those who want the experience of

building their own telescopes are able to do so through an intensive class offered at Custer Institute and Observatory. Four people are doing so right now, Cardova said.

Custer Institute and Observatory, which is at 1115 Main Bayview Road in Southold, is open every Saturday night with clear skies. There is a $5 suggested donation for adults and $3 for children under the age of 12.

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Ørsted/ Deepwater: We’ll Be On Time But factors are mounting that could cause delays

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com An oceanfront resort is adjacent to the proposed Hither Hills landing site of the cable that would carry electricity from the offshore wind farm. Independent/ Rick Murphy

Developers of the South Fork Wind Farm vowed this week they will deliver offshore wind power to East Hampton by 2022 as promised.

Despite the ever-present optimism, the wind farm has lagged behind its own timetable as it faces a concerted effort to deep-six the project from several opposition groups.

First, a group of well-heeled Wainscott residents banded together and issued an explicit warning to Ørsted, the parent company that purchased Deepwater Wind: Find another landing spot for your offshore cable to land.

The opposition caught the attention of Thomas Borstrom, the CEO of Ørsted, who wrote a letter to the Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott.

“We have always said there are two viable cable landfall and onshore route options for our project,” he wrote. “In response to your requests, our team assessed the viability of a Hither Hills landing site . . . we believe Hither Hills is a technically viable alternative.”

The ink was barely dry on Borstrom’s May 31 letter when Montauk and Amagansett residents and business owners lambasted the idea of bringing the cable ashore in Montauk. “It’s a ter-

rible, terrible idea. It’s going to be terrible not just for Montauk but for everyone who drives,’” said Kathy Weiss, who runs Wavecrest, a 75-unit resort complex, on Old Montauk Highway.

The parking lot for Hither Hills State Park, located adjacent to her property, is the proposed cable landing spot. “Right next to the state camp grounds, where they just installed a new septic system,” Weiss said.

Business owners throughout the Montauk corridor are now banding together.

There are a dozen similar resorts to the Wavecrest along Old Montauk Highway and the Napeague Stretch. The two-lane highway they share has little shoulder space.

Ørsted officials acknowledged at a recent public hearing that it would likely take upward of two years to lay the cable underground and run it to the LIPA substation on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton. That’s a year more than the original timeline, yet Ørsted this week insisted that the wind farm would be operational by 2022.

“The amount of time required for either route will depend on a number of factors, including which route receives fi-

nal approval and the number of construction crews we employ,” said Meaghan Wims, Ørsted’s director of public affairs.

Jennifer Garvey, Long Island development manager for the company, said at a public hearing last month the Wainscott landing could be completed in less than one year. She said, in either case, care would be taken to avoid impeding roadways.

Bonnie Brady, a fishing industry advocate, pointed out that Ørsted has yet to address other factors that could cause significant delays: For example, there may well be fish spawning grounds in areas where the cable is going to be brought ashore. If so, work will come to a halt in those areas, at least if environmentalists have a say.

Other states like Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where commercial fishing interests have more review clout, are coming down against wind farms.

The Edgartown Conservation Commission in Massachusetts voted 5-1 June 10 to deny the construction of two undersea cables that would connect the nation’s first industrial-scale, 84-turbine wind farm, Vineyard Wind, to mainland Massachusetts.

Though not an Ørsted project,

Vineyard Wind’s failure to adequately report on the effect its turbines will have on marine life proved its undoing, and fishing groups hereabouts are livid about the short shrift.

Commissioners sided with fishermen over climate activists — two groups at odds in New York over wind power — and expressed doubts about Vineyard Wind’s propose.

The South Fork Wind Farm has been behind schedule since 2018 when thenDeepwater officials told East Hampton Town officials that it first needed an easement to bring a cable from its offshore wind generators onshore in Wainscott.

A Deepwater vice president, Clint Plummer, told the town Deepwater needed approval by June 30, 2018 as a prerequisite to keep the project on time and begin the state review.

But Town Councilman Jeffrey Bragman checked with the state and was told Plummer was mistaken. The matter delayed the filing almost three months.

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Critics Say Wind Farm Rates Constitute Price Gouging Rate appears three to five times more than comparable rates

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

There are a lot of ways to deflect the criticism, but really none to refute it: The South Fork Wind Farm will charge higher rates for the power it generates — three to five times more than its parent company, Ørsted/Deepwater, will charge in nearby markets.

Despite complaints from all sides, freedom of information requests, and now a lawsuit, neither the Long Island Power Authority nor Ørsted have shed

any light on the matter. East Hampton Town doesn’t even know the cost per kilowatt-hour ratepayers will be charged.

In fact, though, every ratepayer in the PSEG/LIPA system will pay for the wind power generated, and the power will not be earmarked for East Hampton, as many at first believed, but for the entire grid.

In January 2018 , the LIPA board, at the insistence of Governor Andrew Cuomo, entered into a 20-year agreement

to purchase all the power generated by the South Fork Wind Farm. The price per KW hour was redacted.

The cat-and-mouse game to uncover the exact cost has been played ever since, though the 23¢/KwH has been bandied about and never refuted by either side.

When requests for disclosure first poured in officials of Deepwater Wind, which has since been bought by the Danish firm Ørsted, said LIPA requested the confidentiality agreement.

LIPA’s special counsel for ethics, risk, and compliance, James Miskiewicz, wrote on August 31, 2017 in response to a query from a citizens’ group that “Deepwater Wind explicitly asked that the redacted information be treated as confidential, as defined by New York’s FOIL law.”

Miskiewicz said the price being paid constituted a “trade secret” that was a shield from public information requests, a decision backed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tom Falcone, the CEO of LIPA, told East Hampton Town when queried that price confidentiality is a normal occurrence: “Confidentiality provisions, which are standard for all our power purchase agreements, are for the benefit all of our customers,” he said.

But Wainscott resident Simon Kinsella, who is suing to force the state to disclose the rate, said Deepwater and LIPA wanted the price to be confidential because they knew other agreements being negotiated would indeed be public.

The discrepancies are jarring.

The 400-watt Ørsted Wind Farm in Rhode Island charges 7.4¢/kWh, onethird the rate to be charged for the South Fork power. The Avangrid farm in Massachusetts is coming in at 6.5 ¢/ kWh, and the Ørsted 1100-watt wind farm in New Jersey at 4.6 ¢/kWh, four times lower than New York ratepayers will pay. In addition, rates charged can rise over the years according to the terms of the contract.

While Ørsted will mine a rich vein in New York, long-term prices in the rest of the clean energy market are expected to drop to two and 1.3 cents, respectively, according to an analysis

by Jeff McMahon in Forbes (July 1, 2019) titled, “New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels, Buries Nuclear.”

LIPA and Ørsted/Deepwater have methodically recycled the same basic statement when queried about the cost of the wind power:

“LIPA has estimated that the South Fork Wind Farm, including the upgrade, will cost the average ratepayer between $1.39 and $1.54 per month when it starts operating in 2022,” said Meaghan Wims, a spokeswoman. “LIPA determined through a competitive process that this

was the least-costly way to meet the need for new power supply on the South Fork, and that constructing other alternatives, including a new fossil- red plant, solar installations and upgrades to the existing transmission system, would have cost ratepayers more.”

Not true, Kinsella and other critics contend. “They simply deferred some of the costs,” he said. “You can’t just kick them down the road. Their numbers don’t add up.” Ørsted recently reached out to the Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott, a well-funded opposition group that wants to keep the power line from the offshore wind generators from landing in Wainscott. Instead, Ørsted is renewing the possibility that it can come ashore in Hither Hills (see accompanying story). Neither outcome addresses the issue of cost. “Ørsted is asking not to criticize it for price gouging and for its countless material misrepresentations,” Kinsella said.

Correction: EHT Joins Peak Savers The East Hampton Town Board voted to join the South Fork Peak Savers Project after a brief discussion at its July 9 meeting.

The Independent mischaracterized the nature of the discussion in last week’s issue and erroneously reported Southold Town had lobbied East Hampton to join.

South Fork Peak Savers is a program, sponsored by PSEG-Long Island, that seeks to reduce energy demand on the South Fork.

As part of the agreement, East Hampton will use its own generators to reduce demand on the electric grid during the handful of critical periods of peak use each year.

Southold Town also joined the program. East Hampton could net up to $70,000 during the four-year life of the program.

To that end, Peak Savers is offering rebates on energy-efficient pool pumps, free NEST thermostats, and other measures.

The Load Relief program is another of Peak Savers’ initiatives.

The idea is that an entity, such as a municipality, for instance, enters into an agreement by which, during certain peak energy demand times identified by PSEG, it agrees to use its own generators or other power source to provide some of its own power for a period of time in order to relieve demand on the electrical grid.

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Duryea’s, EH Town Have Molotov Cocktail Hour Rowan’s rep accuses town of trying to put Duryea’s out of business

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

Sunday afternoon visitors to Duryea’s Dock enjoy themselves, oblivious to the litigious firestorm raging between the Town of East Hampton and Duryea’s owner, Marc Rowan. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

On Wednesday, July 10, at the same time customers at Duryea’s Lobster Deck may have been sipping a crisp Sancerre or Chablis, enjoying cocktail hour while awaiting the sunset over Fort Pond Bay, 15 miles away, a very different type of vibe was in the air at East Hampton Town Hall. There, the town’s planning board had been scheduled to take up the site plan for Duryea’s. If it was cocktail hour at Town Hall that night, it was Molotov cocktail hour, as an attorney for Marc Rowan, the owner of Duryea’s, blasted the board with a letter that brought the scheduled review to a screeching halt.

In the letter, which had been delivered that afternoon and was addressed to the planning board’s chairman, Samuel Kramer, Gayle Pollack, of Morrison Cohen LLC of Manhattan, accused the board of working in concert with the entire East Hampton town governmental apparatus to “shut down Duryea’s.”

Duryea’s had been seeking siteplan approval which would give it the

go-ahead to install a state-of-the-art septic system across Tuthill Road from Duryea’s Lobster Deck on land the town says is zoned residential. It also is seeking a special permit to allow it, going forward, to legally operate the restaurant that is already onsite.

Duryea’s had launched three separate lawsuits against the town last year.

Early this year, Michael Sendlenski, then head town attorney, had negotiated, and signed off on, settlement between the town and Duryea’s.

After a firestorm of criticism, the town reversed course, and sought to negate the settlement, with claims that Sendlenski was not authorized to sign off on the agreement, and that the town board had not properly taken the settlement up for a vote. New York State Supreme Court Justice David Reilly, in whose courtroom all matters Duryea versus East Hampton Town will be decided, has stayed the settlement, allowing both sides to mount their legal arguments, and Duryea’s to continue operating the

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leaves the island for Narragansett at Crescent Beach to the north. But keeping portions of the cable buried at Crescent Beach has been a struggle.

According to ecoRI News, “The problem has persisted since 2016. National Grid and Ørsted blame subsurface bedrock and boulders from preventing the cables from staying buried at a mandated depth of four to six feet into the sea floor.”

Such a scenario would be a disaster in East Hampton, visually and environmentally, and a PR nightmare for Ørsted.

It all leaves PSEG, the electric provider that was counting on the wind power to meet peak demand in East Hampton, in a precarious spot: What if the project doesn’t pan out?

“We can’t comment on the specifics,” said Jeremy Walsh, a PSEG spokesman. “We are committed to delivering safe, reliable power through 2022 and beyond.”

Continued From Page 18. ter Wind’s construction and operations plan” while the company tweaked the design of the system.

That means BOEM will have to review the company’s draft environmental impact statement, probably in the fall, and open it up for public comment again, a year after it was scheduled to take place. Yet Ørsted officials bristled when it was suggested the project would be delayed accordingly.

Ørsted’s only functioning wind energy project on Block Island has been beset with a recurring problem: The undersea electric cables from the nearby offshore wind facility have been exposed at one of Block Island’s most popular beaches.

The power line from the five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm reaches shore at Fred Benson Town Beach and

restaurant, at least for this season.

Pollack’s letter to the board begins by objecting to a memorandum prepared by JoAnne Pahwul, assistant planning director for the town, regarding Duryea’s. In the memo, Pahwul criticized the applicant’s efforts to further the site-plan review process.

Chairman Kramer read the letter into the record July 10. “The broad scope of Ms. Pahwul’s comments on the application,” Pollack writes, “concerning everything from the zoning districts to apply to the property, to the review of outdoor seating, to requests for additional information about the patents, makes clear that the planning board is reviewing the application outside the requirements of the settlement clause.”

“Further, the planning department’s focus on issues that are not raised in the application, but are central to the article 78 proceedings pending between the town and Sunrise Tuthill, show the planning department’s coordination with, and efforts to support, the town board in its litigation with Sunrise Tuthill,” the letter continued. Sunrise Tuthill is Rowan’s company that owns Duryea’s.

“It is clear that the planning board has joined in the town’s coordinated litigation strategy, along with town board,

the building department, and the zoning board of appeals to shut down Duryea’s.

Given this, Sunrise Tuthill objects to further proceedings on the application” until Justice Reilly makes a final ruling on the stipulation of settlement, Pollack concluded.

Clearly incensed, Kramer first addressed Pollack, who was in the audience, directly, asking her if, in fact, she did not want any discussion of the application to take place. “That is correct,” Pollack said.

Kramer then responded to the letter. In it, Pollack had described that evening’s site-plan review as a “public hearing.” “Today is not a public hearing,” Kramer responded. “This is a work session. If, indeed, we are going to be dealing with the Sunrise Tuthill application, this is not a public hearing that has to be noticed, has to be published, and has to have a specific time to allow the public to be at the public hearing. That is number one.”

Kramer continued, “Number two, the letter makes certain references to the procedural history, the litigation that has gone on. This body was never a party to any litigation to date. We are not a respondent in an article 78 proceeding.

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Ean Frankel, 10, using a drone camera, photographed this humpback whale near the Montauk Lighthouse on Sunday, July 14. Independent/Ean Frankel

Whale Ho! Humpbacks a common sight off Atlantic coast this summer

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Southampton Bay Constables responded to a humpback whale entangled in fishing net about a quarter-mile southwest of Townline Beach in Sagaponack on Monday, July 15, at around 1 PM, according to Southampton Town Police.

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Police Insanity Defense For Alleged Child Killer?

Defense calls for psychological exam; Medford mom on suicide watch

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The 24-year-old Medford woman accused of murdering her twin toddlers during a drive to Montauk on June 27 will remain behind bars for the foreseeable future, after New York State Justice Richard Ambro ordered her to continue to be held. Tenia Campbell has been in county jail in Riverside since her initial arraignment in East Hampton Town Justice Court on June 28.

Her attorney, John Halverson, told Ambro during the arraignment in Riverside on Wednesday, July 10, that, in preparation for a possible plea of guilty but not responsible due to insanity or mental defect at the time of the crime, the defense will be bringing in a psychiatrist to examine the defendant. Prosecuting attorney Kerriann Kelly said at a press conference after the arraignment that the prosecution will bring in its own expert to examine Campbell, as well.

If Halverson and Campbell choose the insanity plea, it would shift the burden of proof from the prosecution, which has to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, to the defense, which has to prove insanity by a preponderance of evidence.

Kelly said at the press conference that Campbell could be sentenced to life in prison without parole if convicted of either of the two top charges she is facing, murder in the first degree. She is also facing two charges of murder in the second degree, which carries a penalty of 25 years to life.

Halverson said that it is too soon to determine whether or not Campbell is mentally competent to stand trial.

Kelly said that it still has not been determined exactly how the twin twoyear-olds, Jasmine and Jaida Campbell, were murdered. “The medical examiner has determined that the two were killed

Hole In Windshield Was The Giveaway Mattituck man allegedly struck and killed a jogger

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By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Tad Scharfenberg, District Attorney Tim Sini’s trial division chief, with lead prosecuting attorney, Kerriann Kelly, at a press conference following the arraignment of the Medford woman charged with murdering her own toddlers. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

with homicidal violence, consistent with manual asphyxia,” Kelly said, “The defendant herself indicated that she did it with her own hands.” That may have been done by placing her hands over the children’s noses and mouths, Kelly said, but a final determination has not been made.

Kelly said that the Medical Examiner’s office has yet to determine the time of death of the two, which could be crucial in concluding when and where they actually died. Campbell had driven from Medford, calling her mother multiple times, repeatedly saying, when her mother asked about the toddlers, “It is too late.”

“I killed them,” Kelly said Campbell told the first officers to arrive at Theo-

dore Roosevelt County Park in Montauk, where she was found and taken into custody after a two-hour search by police across the East End on June 27. “I killed them with my hands. I can’t kill myself, so someone is going to find me, and I’m going to jail,” Kelly said Campbell told police.

Ambro ordered Campbell to be kept on a suicide watch, which she has been on since she was first taken into custody.

Campbell was expressionless as she was led into the courtroom. Court officers had taken the unusual precaution of handcuffing her wrists behind her back.

When she was in custody in East Hampton, she was reportedly both combative and suicidal.

A jogger was found dead on the side of a country road in Smithtown Sunday, and it didn’t take long before Suffolk County Police ascertained a vehicle had struck him.

Who committed the crime was a matter of conjecture, however, until alert motorists on the Long Island Expressway noticed something wasn’t right with a black sedan headed east — there was a gaping hole in the passenger side of the front windshield,

and the operator of the car was driving erratically.

Police said that Keith Clancy, 32, of Deer Path in Mattituck was driving the vehicle in the eastbound lane on the LIE in Manorville just before 1 PM Sunday and police closed in. After being pulled over and questioned Clancy was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and aggravated unlicensed operation of Continued On Page 38.

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Stony Hill Road Rollover Leads To DWI Charge EHTPD charge four men with misdemeanor DWI

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com A rollover accident on Stony Hill Road in Amagansett the evening of Friday, July 12, resulted in the arrest of the driver on a misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge.

According to his statement to police, Michael Gabriel Pina-Barros, 20, had just left a job worksite on Laurel Hill Lane when he turned the 2001 Honda he was driving onto Stony Hill Road. As he approached Accabonac Road, PinaBarros told police he swerved to avoid a pothole, then swerved again to avoid hitting a tree. At this point, the vehicle

went up an embankment and flipped over, ending up in the middle of Stony Hill Road.

The East Hampton man did not report any injuries, police said. Allegedly failing sobriety tests, he was placed under arrest, and taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test, the police reported. Besides the DWI charge, he also was charged with unlicensed driving, and was arraigned the morning of July 13.

East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana told Pina-Barros that his license

East Hampton Village, Sag Harbor Arrests Felony charged in EH, Tekulsky does first Sag Harbor arraignment

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com A Hampton Bays man is facing a felony charge after a traffic stop around midnight in East Hampton Village July 4.

Aidderman Raul Ospina, 32, was pulled over after village police had received a call from East Hampton Town police, warning that a westbound 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe was being driven errati-

cally. The arresting officer said that he spotted the Tahoe and began trailing it west on Main Street, and that Ospina was swerving across lane lines, and accelerated to 40 miles per hour after making the turn onto Woods Lane, where the speed limit is 30 mph.

Sitting next to Ospina in the Tahoe

was suspended for the next year, pending a hearing at the Department of Motor Vehicles, for allegedly refusing the breath test. She released him without bail.

Jose Rodezno, 52, of Riverhead was charged with misdemeanor aggravated DWI after being pulled over by East Hampton Town police a little before 7:30 in the morning, July 8. Police said he was behind the wheel of a 2002 Infiniti on Cedar Street near Hands Creek Road, moving at 54 miles per hour, where the speed limit is 30.

The arresting officer said that Rodezno had an open 24-ounce can of beer in the car.

He took a breath test at headquarters, police said, with a .18 of one percent reading, high enough to trigger the raised aggravated charge.

Rafael Enrique Alvarez, 25, who splits the year living and working seasonally between Miami and Montauk, was pulled over on Industrial Road in Montauk a little after midnight July 11 for allegedly failing to turn on his headlights. Failing sobriety tests, he too was was his fiancée, police said, while in the backseat was the woman’s 12-yearold child. Ospina appeared intoxicated, the officer reported, and failed sobriety tests.

Ospina was placed under arrest on a felony charge of aggravated DWI, as well as a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child.

Ospina was released the next day after posting $5000 bail.

Village police also arrested Thomas John Lobue, 52, of Manhattan and Water Mill, the night of July 6.

Lobue was charged with DWI as a firsttime misdemeanor. He was released the next morning without bail.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested Ramunas Lauzadis, 55, the night of July 8. A patrol car armed with a license plate reader flagged Lauzadis’s 2017 Toyota Rav 4 as having a suspended

Michael Gabriel Pina-Barros, shown here being taken to his Saturday arraignment, survived a rollover of the SUV he was driving, relatively unscathed, police reported, but was placed under arrest on a DWI charge. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

charged with misdemeanor DWI. He also was released the next day without bail.

Jonathan Barros-Guevara, 25, of Springs was arrested Sunday morning, July 14, after being pulled over on Springs Fireplace Road. His arrest happened too late for him to be arraigned that morning, so he was held until the following day, when he was released without bail.

Aidderman Raul Ospina of Hampton Bays was DWI with a 12-year-old child in the car, police said.

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registration, police said. After being pulled over, Lauzadis failed sobriety tests, and was placed under arrest on misdemeanor DWI charges.

He was arraigned the next morning in front of Sag Harbor Village’s new Associate Justice, Steven Tekulsky. He set bail at $500, which was posted.

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But, on the afternoon of July 5, on Old Stone Highway in Amagansett, Kulick, driving a 2004 GMC, was pulled over. According to the East Hampton Town police, Kulick’s driver’s license was suspended and revoked for, respectively, failing to pay a fine, and allowing the insurance on a vehicle to lapse. After Kulick was placed under arrest on a misdemeanor unlicensed driving charge, police searched his vehicle, alleging that they found four small packets of heroin, along with a small amount of cocaine.

That led to two new misdemeanor possession charges.

Kulick was released from headquarters a little before midnight after posting $1500 bail, with an appearance ticket to be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court August 1. Between those two dates, however, was Kulick’s July 8 appearance before Condon.

When Condon learned of the latest arrest, he revisited bail, raising it from the $1000 Kulick had posted in February, to $50,000.

Kulick was first arrested on felony drug charges when he was 17. His case was eventually adjudicated through

the youthful offender program, and the file was permanently sealed. He was arrested by East Hampton Town police in August 2017, and eventually convicted of misdemeanor drug possession.

A codefendant from the December 2018 arrest, Veronica Zill, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a B felony, criminal possession of a dangerous narcotic. She is awaiting sentencing.

Kulick was released on $100,000 bond July 15, and is due back in Condon's courtroom August 13. He is to be arraigned on the East Hampton charges August 1.

Inlet on July 14, police said.

Mi Hua Hsu, 56, died after she was thrown from her boat in Moriches Bay Sunday evening. Hua Hsu and her husband, Jack Chin, 50, of Shirley were drifting when a 50-foot Sea Ray with three people aboard crashed into them a quarter-mile off Cupsogue Beach in Westhampton, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. The accident occurred about 6:30 PM.

Chin jumped from the vessel just moments before the crash and sustained minor injuries. The passengers aboard the Sea Ray did not sustain any injuries, police said. Suffolk County Police could not confirm the make or model of the smaller boat, which overturned on impact.

In other news, Southampton Town Police said they arrested Justin Adamo

of Flanders in Northampton Friday, July 12. Adamo was charged with two felony drug counts, including criminal sale of a controlled substance. He was previously arrested on February 19 for possession of heroin and cocaine, police said. Police said additional charges may be filed by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

Edgar Gonzalez-Carias, 32, of Riverhead, was arrested in Riverside on July 14 at about 3 AM for driving while intoxicated.

Gonzalez-Carias was stopped at the intersection of Cross River Drive and Flanders Road for multiple traffic infractions, police said. When they detected the smell of alcohol, police performed a sobriety test. GonzalezCarias reportedly did not fare well — he was arrested and taken into custody.

East Hampton man spent a week in county jail before posting bond

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com An alleged East Hampton drug dealer spent a week behind bars, unable to post the $50,000 bail or $100,000 bond alternative set for him in county court July 8.

Bernard Kulick, 28, has a history of drug-related arrests, the most serious happening last December in Sag Harbor Village, where, after a traffic stop, police said they found significant quantities of both heroin and an opioid, hydrocodone, as well as more than 14 ounces of marijuana. After Kulick spent a couple of weeks in county jail, the felony charges were moved from Sag Harbor Village

to the Riverside county courtroom of Justice William Condon. The charges include six felonies, the most serious being B felony counts of possession of a narcotic and possession of a narcotic with intent to sell.

In early February of this year, Condon agreed to let Kulick enter a drug treatment program, preparatory to entering into a plea bargain deal. Kulick has had several court sessions since in front of Condon, as he monitored the defendant’s progress. July 8 was supposed to be another one of those conference dates.

Pedestrian Struck And Killed By Train Also, woman dies in boating accident

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com Metropolitan Transit Authority investigators and Southampton Village Police declined to reveal the identity of a man struck and killed by an LIRR train early Sunday morning.

What is known is that about 1 AM July 14, a man on the tracks was struck by a “non-passenger” train.

Train service was suspended in

both directions between Speonk and Montauk between 1 and 5:30 AM according to a MTA official. The death was confirmed by a Suffolk County Medical Examiner. Train traffic resumed the following morning without incident.

A Shirley woman was killed in a boating accident east of the Moriches

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With the nation as fractured and polarized as it is today, it is hard to imagine it being able to muster the single-minded sense of purpose that led to the successful moon landing 50 years ago on July 20, 1969.

You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who was alive at that time who was not awestruck when they watched the mighty Saturn V rocket lift off or justifiably proud as they followed the progress of Apollo 11 as it flew nearly a quarter-million miles to the moon.

Once in the moon’s orbit, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left crew member Michael Collins behind to climb into the Lunar Module, a contraption that looked more like a mechanical insect designed in someone’s garage than a highly sophisticated vehicle that would safely land men on the moon and bring them back to their spacecraft.

But let’s not fool ourselves. Armstrong’s famous quote when he stepped onto the moon’s surface, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” masked the patriotic jingoism behind the space race.

That race began in 1957, during the depths of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik. In simple terms, the Russians’ achievement scared the pants off Americans, and the country was still trailing in the race four years later when President John F. Kennedy challenged it to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

Although the multi-billion dollar effort achieved its goal with nearly six months to spare, the program had its share of detractors. They argued the money could have been better spent pulling millions of Americans out of poverty instead of exploring the barren moonscape.

While that may have been true, the technology developed for the American space program paid tremendous long-term dividends to the economy. Silicon chips, anyone?

But more than that, thanks to the beautiful photographs the astronauts took of Earth from their perch in their spacecraft, for the first time, we could truly comprehend that Earth is our home planet, one that we can never replace, and one we better learn to take care of.

JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

What are you planting in your garden?

Winka Dubbeldam I am planting all kinds of spices in my garden. Lavender, rosemary and mint.

And sage for tea, and of course, parsley, which I put in everything. And the rosemary is to grill with.

Steve Atlas This is the first year I’ve ever planted dahlias. But I saw them and they were just so beautiful I couldn’t resist. I found one plant with the most beautiful wine colored blossoms. I can’t wait to see them on my deck.

Garfield Lewis I’m planting tomatoes. Tomatoes of all kinds. Plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, Roma tomatoes and beefsteak tomatoes, which are very large tomatoes. I’m planting even more varieties than that but I can’t think of their names at this moment.

Leon and Tatiana Valera We are going to plant beautiful and colorful flowers to put in pots around the pool. We haven’t made a list, we just hope to be inspired by the beautiful flowers we see when we shop for them.

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By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

On Friday, August 2, the New York Foundation for the Arts will host its annual East End Studio Tour. This year’s event invites guests to tour the creative studios of Eric Freeman, John Torreano, who received a New York State Council on the Arts/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting in 1991, and Steve Miller, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting in 2004. Founded in 1971, NYFA is a nonprofit organization that awards $650,000 annually in cash grants to individual artists across New York State in the visual, performing, and literary disciplines. The NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship program additionally aids national artists and organizations, raising around $4 million each year.

The event is hosted by leadership council members Carol Ross and Marjorie Silverman and board member J. Whitney Stevens, and is led by the director of the Parrish Art Museum, Terrie Sultan. Once the tours have concluded there will be an intimate, seated lunch at a private residence in Bridgehampton.

Indy spoke with Miller and Torreano.

Steve Miller's studio. Independent/Courtesy Steve Miller

How do you envision the discussion over lunch?

John Torreano: I don’t envision a particular direction for the discussion.

I enjoy seeing how a discussion goes, not planning it. I find people interesting and so am open to what emerges in a conversation.

Why have you chosen to open up your studio to the public?

Steve Miller: I rarely allow people into my studio but at the encouragement of Joel Perlman (a fellow professor at the School of the Visual Arts), it felt like a

good time to do so. This is a period of experimentation, and the opportunity to be in front of an informed audience feels right.

What has been an integral message in your artwork?

SM: Art that I admire has a visual language tied to the time in which that art was made. Perspective and mathematics informed the Renaissance, photography freed painting to explore abstraction and, today, we live in a world that can be viewed through the lens of technology.

Using these tools of science and technology codes my practice to the

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Does living in the Hamptons influence your creative process?

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Blue Parrot Family Fiesta Event held to support Green Beetz

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Blue Parrot in East Hampton hosted its 10th Anniversary Family Fiesta, supporting Green Beetz, on Saturday, July 13. The event offered an afternoon filled with family fun. All drink proceeds from the event went directly to Green Beetz.

Green Beetz aims to help students navigate the complex issues surrounding food in today’s world. The non-profit organization empowers elementary and middle school students to navigate the modern food system, and to make healthy and sustainable

food choices. The curriculum is broken down into four core areas: Food and the Environment, Food and the Body, The Big Business of Food, and Cooking Basics and Culture of Food.

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

Green Beetz currently serves more than 3000 students and in more than 100 classrooms across New York’s five boroughs, focusing on underserved communities.

Raffle items were available including tickets to see “Saturday Night Live,”

dinner at Le Bilboquet, and a Faktion surfboard. An Alex and Ani avocado charm and necklace to benefit Green Beetz were also available. The purchase of one avocado charm provides a full program to a student for an academic year and the purchase of one necklace provides for two students.

The event also served as a kick-off for the fifth annual Green Beetz Day, which will be held on Saturday, July 27, from noon to 3 PM. The family-friendly event, hosted by Anna Chapman and Ronald Perelman, is held at The Creeks in East Hampton. The day includes food and cooking demonstrations, eco-friendly activations, and arts and crafts. Tickets begin at $300.

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“In The Flow” by Edwina Lucas. Independent/Gary Mamay

Edwina Lucas. Independent/Jessica Dalene

Ille Arts in Amagansett presents a solo exhibit by Sag Harbor artist Edwina Lucas titled “Above and Below,” opening this weekend.

The show marks Lucas’s first solo exhibit at the gallery. The artist began showing at the Main Street space, owned by Sara de Luca, two years ago. Her first exhibit in 2017 focused on East End landscape — large oils on panels that featured green lush woods and trees, magnolias, and foggy hidden paths, leading to lakes and clearings.

The artist now focuses on all environments surrounding her. From a perspective of below the water, she paints light reflecting on the surface

of a pool. Her painting “In The Flow” depicts two girls swimming in a pool, lit from above, their skin glowing from the sun reflected on the bottom of the pool.

Above ground, she focuses her attention to spring and summer collections that include flora and fauna.

In the show are two large charcoal drawings — one features a large school of fish, and the other a flock of birds in flight.

The show opens on Saturday, July 20, with a reception from 5 to 7 PM. The exhibit will run through August 13. The gallery is open seven days a week. For more info, visit www.illearts.com.

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The LongHouse Reserve is so many things to so many people. It’s a garden, and a grand one at that. It’s a gallery of art that rivals any museum on Earth.

It’s an educational center that welcomes people of all ages to enjoy the peace and culture one can only find in a place as tranquil and protected as the home of designer Jack Lenor Larsen on Hands Creek Road.

So, it makes complete sense that this year, the LongHouse will honor two artists who have also morphed, as the place itself has, over the years.

The transformative LongHouse honors filmmaker/painter Julian Schnabel and designer/philanthropist Donna Karan at the Saturday, July 20, event, with a special performance by artist Laurie Anderson.

Held on the grounds of the LongHouse Reserve’s sculpture garden, the benefit will begin at 6 PM with a reception, live music, and a silent auction.

Dinner will begin at 8 with an afterparty starting at 10 PM. Schnabel’s film “At Eternity’s Gate” was screened at Guild Hall of East Hampton last week, and the director himself referred to LongHouse during his talk. “I want to thank LongHouse, who actually organized this, and Jack Lenor Larsen,” Schnabel said.

About the grounds of the LongHouse Reserve, he said, “It’s a beautiful place you have over there. I have some sculp-

tures, and I have a couple of friends who are going to play there. I hate to go out. I never go anywhere, but if you go somewhere, you might as well go there.”

Two of Schnabel’s larger-than-life white sculptures will be unveiled at the gala, joining the works of Dale Chihuly, Yoko Ono, Buckminster Fuller, and Willem de Kooning, along with many others.

In addition to having his art in just about every famous museum in the world, Schnabel wrote and directed the now-classic art film “Basquiat,” along with “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” for which he received the award for Best Director at Cannes. The film was nominated for four Oscars.

Schnabel’s “Before Night Falls,” based on the life of the late exiled Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, Javier Bardem, at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. Schnabel currently lives and works in New York City and Montauk.

Dianne Benson, president of LongHouse’s board of trustees, spoke about Karan, who is receiving the leadership award: “Donna Karan will be there with her friends Calvin Klein, Ross Bleckner, Rodney and Coleen Saidman Yee, and of course her wonderful daughter, Gabby — who is doContinued On Page B27.

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The first annual East Hampton TV Festival is slated to take place on July 22 and 23, at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

The inaugural event will introduce innovative and new TV programming from around the globe to an East End audience that includes TV industry professionals.

The festival will feature screenings of 13 shows and documentary films made for TV from Canada, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, and the U.S. There will also be panels discussing important topics in television.

The event’s emcee is actress Anthoula Katsimatides, who is currently playing a recurring character on two shows: CBS’s “FBI,” and “Jessica Jones” on Netflix. She has also held recurring roles on “Seven Seconds,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Manifest.” Her latest role is in the soon-to-be-released feature film “What is Life Worth,” starring Michael Keaton, where she plays herself.

“A TV Festival is an imperative necessity in this new era of TV. Netflix has changed the way we interact with television. I created the East Hampton TV Festival to give new talented filmmakers a place in the Hamptons to showcase their work and to establish

the East Hampton TV Awards,” said EHTVF founder Roberto Rizzo.

Rizzo is also the founder of the New York City International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 10th year, and the New York City TV Festival, which launched in 2018.

East Hampton actor Rebecca Knox from “Orange is the New Black” will be on hand to kick off the opening night. Her film, “Cavity,” a screenplay that she wrote and stars in, will be screened along with four other shows that evening.

Four documentaries will explore fine artists and art institutions. Artist Marcus Jansen, the subject of one of the EHTVF documentary films, “Marcus Jansen - Examine and Report,” will be attending.

Another highlight is singer-songwriter and actor Ameliarose Allen from “American Idol,” who will perform on opening and closing nights.

A VIP opening reception and closing award ceremony and reception will bookend the two days of events and screenings. Nominations for the EHTVF Awards will be posted on the website and the winners will be announced on awards night. For a full schedule and ticket information, visit www.ehtvf.com.

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By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival enters its 36th season, with this year’s theme “Winds of Change.”

Concerts take place from July 21 through August 18, with music by 13 women highlighted.

“Winds of Change” started as a dedication to the wind instrument.

BCMF founder and artistic director Marya Martin, decided to make this year’s festival a dedication to female composers. “We thought we would celebrate women composers through the ages,” Martin said.

With 12 concerts total, there are several works by women, including Louise Farrenc, who was born in 1804.

Farrenc tried to go into Conservatoire de Paris in 1819 but at the time the college was only opened to men. Years later, in 1840, she became a professor there, according to Martin. Farrenc’s “Sextet For Wind Quintet and Piano” will be performed as part of the Wednesday, July 31, 6:30 PM program.

“I thought it was the year to celebrate. There are hundreds of wonderful female composers but I wanted to stick to a sort of timeline. I wanted a cross-section of instruments, and I

Marya Martin, flute, at BCMF 2018. Independent/Michael Lawrence

didn’t want it all Europe. The time span is 1804 to 1980, for when the composers were born,” Martin said.

Amy Beach, born 1867, will also be featured. Martin described how Beach’s husband forbid her to compose. She signed all of her original works as H.H.A., Beach’s husband’s initials. Her work will be featured at the Parrish Art Museum concert on Monday, August 5. The concert “Focus on Frankenthaler” features a program of music by six women. There will be also two works by Lili Boulanger for flute and piano, written in 1911 and 1918.

Music written since the turn of this century includes Missy Mazzoli’s “Death Valley Junction” for string quartet (part of the Parrish Art Museum concert) and Victoria Kelly’s “Good Night Kiwi” for solo piano.

“Good Night Kiwi,” which pays tribute to the beginnings of television, hits a note especially close to Martin, a

native New Zealander. “I remember so clearly, in the ’60s, when TV just came to New Zealand, it was only one channel that used to stop at 10 PM. It used to be a lovely piece of music. And the announcer would come on and say ‘Good night, New Zealanders.’” The performance will take place Sunday, August 4.

Elizabeth Brown’s work “Liguria” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, will also be part of the August 4 program. “I see myself as part of a historical continuum which increasingly includes more women and minority composers; hopefully in another generation no special attention or incentive will be needed to level the playing field, thanks to organizations like BCMF,” said Brown. “I’m very grateful to Marya Martin and BCMF for not only programming my music, but also for commissioning and recording ‘Island Nocturnes’ in 2017.”

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for Piano Trio will be performed on Sunday, August 18, the festival’s closing date. Esmail noted, “When women study the history of classical music, we usually study a narrative that has historically excluded us. We’ve studied a story that is only half the truth. And now we have the chance to look forward into a different future — one that values the full creative breadth of our field.”

The concert series has become an integral part of East End culture. It gives audience members a chance to understand classical music of today and yesterday. Martin aims to make this form of music more accessible.

“It’s all the different ethnic cultures, who have so much to give. We have so much to learn from everyone,” she said.

For a complete list of concerts and to purchase tickets, visit the festival’s website, www.bcmf.org.

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Summer is in full swing and it was another busy weekend on the East End. On Friday, July 12, I laughed my face off at LTV’s Super Salon Comedy Benefit. Creative Director Angela LaGreca hosted a celebrity lineup of comedians including the hilarious Elayne Boosler and Michele Balan at LTV Studio in Wainscott. The night of comedy began with a cocktail hour and closed with a live auction. TV personality and comedian Bill McCuddy served as the night’s auctioneer.

On Saturday, July 13, Blue Parrot in East Hampton hosted its 10th Anniversary Family Fiesta, supporting Green Beetz. The foundation empowers elementary and middle school students to navigate the modern food system, and to make healthy and sustainable food choices. All drink proceeds from the event went directly to Green Beetz.

Next up, the South Fork Natural History Museum presented its 30th Anniversary annual Summer Gala Benefit at the breathtaking museum grounds in Bridgehampton. Each year, the SoFo benefit is better than the last. The event began with a VIP cocktail reception that included chef tastings from some of the best local restaurants. The gala continued with a buffet dinner, live and silent auctions, and honoree tributes. The event honored Dr. Demian Chapman, Trammell Crow, and Greg Manocherian.

Co-Chairs included Carole Crist, Georgia and Dr. Gerry Curatola, Eric Goode, April Gornik and Eric Fischl, Susan and David Rockefeller, and Liev Schreiber.

The Independent was a media sponsor of this event again this year.

After SoFo, I headed over to the 15th annual Hamptons Happening to benefit the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation. This year’s honorees included chef honoree Lidia Bastianich; restaurateur honoree Ian Duke, owner of Southampton Social Club, Union Burger Bar, and Union Cantina; fashion honoree, designer Nicole Miller; and business honoree Antonella Bertello, owner of The Baker House 1650. The food tastings were fantastic. As committee member for this event, I see firsthand all of the hard work that goes into making such a magical night happen.

Meeting Bastianich, after interviewing her last month, was also a huge highlight. The Independent is the newspaper sponsor of this event each year.

To close out the night, I headed over to the Parrish Art Museum for its Late Night party, which takes place following the Parrish’s Midsummer Party at the museum in Water Mill. The event was a festive social gathering of artists, art collectors, curators, philanthropists, and business leaders. Guests also had the opportunity to experience the museum’s current exhibitions including Thomas Joshua Cooper’s “Refuge,” Renate Aller’s “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” and JeanLuc Mylayne’s “A Matter of Place.” This year, the museum honored Louise and Leonard Riggio, and artist Maya Lin. The theme of this year’s party was midnight metallic. Guests danced the night away, while enjoying drinks and desserts — all while shimmering in metallics and enjoying the light-show photo booth (see above).

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Life’s A Beach At Hamptons Fashion Week Runway style trends come to Main Street, Bridgehampton

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com Kimora Lee Simmons and Cesar Galindo. Independent/Courtesy Hamptons Fashion Week

Life’s a beach, and a fashion show, at the upcoming Hamptons Fashion Week “Life’s A Beach” celebration. Inspired by the East End, the event is a one-day experience that will feature fashion, designers, entertainment, and beauty, being held on Sunday, July 21, in Bridgehampton.

“This special day is a unique, fun, and all-encompassing opportunity to share with residents and visitors, and to enjoy local fashion and beauty brands found right here on the East

End,” said event producer Dee Rivera.

“In addition, local fashion-designer participants will get a chance to display new looks and trends.”

The tent will be located on Main Street in Bridgehampton. The evening highlights celebrity designers Cesar Galindo and Kimora Lee Simmons.

Starting at noon, as guests enter, they will be greeted with giant beach balls — keeping with the Life’s A Beach theme — and will enjoy brunch bites and rosé.

A panel at 1 PM will include experts from BeautyPearlCare Skincare, Get Buzzn, Pura Vida Vitamins, and Fedora Lounge discussing trends in beauty and wellness. Guests will also enjoy vegan mini-manicures from GHL Nails. During the event, there will be a live fashion presentation, with models center stage. For those who prefer their fashion with four wheels, Ferrari and Maserati will have cars on site.

Attendees can also shop for runway styles at pop-up boutiques. Those with

VIP tickets will receive a piece of jewelry from Allyu and a complimentary tailored shirt by BookATailor. VIP tickets include a reservation to the brunch, signature drinks, appetizers, entry to the fashion installation and show, plus a Hamptons Fashion Week swag bag.

Tickets are available on Eventbrite. Proceeds from the day will go to The Ellen Hermanson Foundation, which ensures state-of-the-art breast health care and empowers those on the East End who are affected by cancer.

Style On The Streets Of South Five fun and fearless fashion choices

By Carrie Berk Locals and visitors alike are taking their personal style to the streets of Southampton. In the spirit of the new season, the following five ladies are unapologetically themselves as reflected by their fun and fearless summer fashion choices. Below, they stop for a snapshot under the sun and describe what makes their style soar.

Name: Mindy Dehnert Outfit: Current Elliot tee; Elizabeth and James shorts; Gucci shoes; Balenciaga bag; Chanel sunglasses How She Describes Her Personal Style: “I’m a downtown girl who likes the basics. I’m a third-degree black belt martial artist, so I love to mix classics with edgy pieces.”

Name: Chandani Agrawal Outfit: Rachel Zoe dress; shoes from a market in Bali How She Describes Her Personal Style: “Laidback, more now than ever because I’m nine months pregnant. I like breezy clothes and lighter colors.”

Name: Lori Cuisinier Outfit: Kooples men’s tee (she cut the collar); vintage sweatpants; Ancient Greek Sandals mules How She Describes Her Personal Style: “It depends where I am. As a multimedia artist, I like to describe it as ‘funkypunky elegant.’ Today is the beach version of that.”

Name: Julia Heming Outfit: American Eagle top; vintage skirt circa 1960 from her grandmother; Converse sneakers How She Describes Her Personal Style: “Chic and romantic but comfortable.”

Name: Maritza Jimenez Outfit: Mikey & Joey dress How She Describes Her Personal Style: “Beachy Bohemian.”

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• Be nice, friendly, clean, and polite.

You don’t need to be a comedian and entertain your host, but being a nice companion always helps.

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Manners That Matter Most

Ideal Gifts Champagne. The gift of choice to display your appreciation for your host or hostess. Herbert & Rist Wines and liquors in Southampton have something for every situation, from the ubiquitous Moet to Veuve Clicquot to the St. Tropez jet-set favorite Cristal from Louis Roederer. www.herbertandrist.com

Tips on being a courteous guest If you are new to the Hamptons social season or a fortunate guest of a homeowner, here are a few tried and tested pieces of advice, plus, of course, some ideal gift ideas for that host or hostess.

After all, manners can help smooth any situation and we would all hope to be re-invited.

• If you have a busy social agenda, offer to include your host or hostess rather than use their home overtly as a base camp for your personal adventures.

• As William Shakespeare put it, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” In the context of being a guest for the weekend in the Hamptons, try to time your departure early to give your hosts time to decompress before their work week starts, whether locally or at the other end of the Long Island Expressway, in New York City.

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• Your host or hostess may not reside all season at their home. Try to coordinate your arrival to give them a chance to settle in.

• Do not change the dynamics in the house. If the breakfast is served from 8 to 9 AM, try to attend. Also, being too picky in terms of food is perceived as bad manners. Being judgmental is never ok. If the host is a vegetarian and you are not, do not try to change his mindset.

• Do not give orders to the housekeeper (if the host has one). Always communicate your needs through the hostess.

present as quickly as possible following your visit. A flower arrangement, a book you know the host will enjoy, or anything else that may have come up during conversation during your visit will have particular resonance.

On Being The Best Guest, From Mister Manners, Thomas Farley www.mister-manners.com

• Plan your own transportation. Your host may insist on picking you up from the train station or the nearest Jitney stop, but if that offer is not forthcoming, be prepared to take a taxi or rideshare the final few miles to your destination. This is particularly important if the host has invited multiple guests, each of whom is arriving at different times and from different locations.

• You may be fortunate enough to be staying with a host who loves to cook.

If that is the case, make yourself available to help with grocery shopping and/or meal prep and cooking. Do not expect, however, to be waited on hand and foot, and if your host is not a home chef, you will likely be taking many of your meals out — whether grab and go at The Golden Pear or Hampton Chutney or sit-down at John Papas or 75 Main. Be prepared to treat your host for at least a few of those meals, and ideally, one special brunch or dinner that caps your visit.

• Upon your departure, express your gratitude for what was surely a wonderful stay. Think ahead and bring a thankyou note to write out and leave just prior to your departure in a common area where your host is certain to find it. Last but not least, send a thank-you

Chocolate. Just about everybody loves chocolate and New York chocolatier, Mariebelle Chocolat, has a gift-packed patriotic American Flag Box ready for summer to show your host and hostess your appreciation for them, the Hamptons, and the U.S.A. www.mariebelle. com Flowers. The traditional day-after thank-you gift from any serious guest.

Make a beeline to Mark Masone’s store in Water Mill and select from a range of bouquets to deliver something special to your host or hostess. www.designsbymarkmasone.com The Magnum bottle of rosé wine.

Possibly rivaling the mighty dollar as a social currency during the Hamptons summer season, the double-sized wine bottle shows not only how big your heart is but also how your love for your host overflows. Seek out summer brand favorites Domaine Ott or Whispering Angel from the South of France.

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The Future Of Philanthropy Southampton Animal Shelter celebrates 10 years of Unconditional Love

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com On Saturday, July 20, at 6:30 PM, under the tents at the intersection of Wickapogue Road and Old Town Road in Southampton, the Southampton Animal Shelter will celebrate 10 years of Unconditional Love.

The annual event, chaired this year by Jean Shafiroff with host committee members including Antonella Bertello, Amy Cosman, Missy Hargraves, Sharon Kerr, and Randi Schatz, raises money for the no-kill shelter that welcomes all animals, regardless of medical condition, age, breed, or size, serving as a stepping stone for homeless pets until they find their for-

ever home.

While animals certainly hit a soft spot for many, and a decade of caring for community pets is an accomplishment in itself, what makes the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation particularly unique is it’s breeding a whole new generation of philanthropists, as seen through its junior committee. Junior chair is Kate McEntee, and junior co-chairs include Kingsley Crawford, Jenny Dwork, and Merritt Piro.

McEntee, director of adoptions, began at the shelter as a volunteer and after attending the gala, started its ju-

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House & Garden Tour The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center presents its 2019 House & Garden Tour on Friday, July 19, from 11 AM to 4 PM. The tour is self-guided and lunch is provided by Starr Boggs.

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

Sag Harbor House Tour The Friends of the John Jermain Library will host its annual house tour for the benefit of the library on Friday, July 19, from 11 AM to 4 PM. Tickets are $50 in advance at the Wharf Shop on Sag Harbor’s Main Street or at the John Jermain Library at 201 Main Street. On the day of the tour, tickets will be available at both locations for $55. This year’s house tour features a handful of beautiful Sag Harbor homes.

Dancers For Good Dancers For Good will bring worldclass companies, choreographers, dancers, and performers under one roof for one night only for a charity event on Friday, July 19, at 7 PM at Guild Hall in East Hampton. The event will benefit The Actors Fund, an organization that fosters stability and resiliency, and provides a safety net

for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan.

This year’s honorees are director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, who will receive the Dance Humanitarian Award for creating Broadway Bares; and Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, who will receive awards for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. Nicole Fosse will accept the award on her parents’ behalf. Guests will enjoy dance performances followed by a VIP ticket after-party with the honorees and an opportunity to meet the dancers. Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman will host the event.

For tickets, visit www.dancersforgood.org.

East Hampton Antiques & Design Show The East Hampton Historical Society announces the return of the East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on the grounds of Mulford Farm, Saturday, July 20, through Sunday, July 21.

The dynamic design duo of Jonathan Adler, potter and modern American design maverick, and partner Simon Doonan, TV personality, author, and window dresser extraordinaire, are the honorary co-chairpersons of the Friday, July 19, preview cocktail party,

Merritt Piro. Independent/Courtesy SASF

nior committee. “I wanted to invite friends and introduce people my age to the foundation, and having a party is the perfect way to do that,” she noted.

The junior committee, which caps off at 35 years of age, began with a small group and has now grown to 20 young people selling tickets, organizing, and getting auction items. The 33-year-old director claims she has “the best job in the world” with “the most amazing staff” that helps pets find homes in a happy, healthy environment.

Piro, 27, has volunteered with animals from a young age with a program called Guiding Eyes for the Blind in upstate New York, where she trained puppies as seeing eye dogs in her personal home. “I have always had an affinity for helping animals and a compassion for their care, so getting involved came naturally to me,” Piro said.

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which offers patrons an early buying opportunity of the extraordinary array of antiques, jewelry, textiles, collectibles, and timelessly chic furniture and accessories. Ticket proceeds from the preview party benefit the East Hampton Historical Society.

The cocktail party begins at 6 PM. For tickets and more info, visit www. easthamptonhistory.org. Tickets can also be purchased at the gate the night of the event.

over 20 top interior designers from the Hamptons, New York City, and nationwide. This year’s Showhouse will take place in a shingle-style home located at 66 Rosko Lane in Southampton, which has been donated by Paramount Custom Homes.

The Hampton Designer Showhouse opens with a gala preview cocktail party at the Showhouse on Saturday, July 20, from 6 to 8:30 PM. Gala tickets are $225 each. The Showhouse will be open to the public Sunday, July 21, through Labor Day, Monday, September 2. Visit www.hamptondesignershowhouse.com.

Moonlight & Country “Moonlight & Country,” a fundraiser for the New Suffolk Waterfront Fund will be held on Saturday, July 20, from 7 to 10 PM. The evening includes country food, the moon over Peconic Bay, and live music and dancing to local band, Tequila Mockingbird. The event takes place at historic Galley Ho. There will be a catered country barbecue, plus a silent and live auction that includes a villa in Italy. Proceeds from this event go towards the continuing revitalization of the waterfront property. Visit www.newsuffolkwaterfront.org.

Hampton Designer Showhouse The Hampton Designer Showhouse, the showcase for America’s premier design talent, will return this summer in Southampton. Proceeds will benefit Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Jamie Drake and Alexa Hampton serve as this year’s honorary design cochairs. The Hampton Designer Showhouse, now in its 19th year, will feature

Farmyard Fun On Saturday, July 20, from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM, the Children’s Museum of the East End will host its 11th annual Family Fair Fundraiser. This year’s theme is “Farmyard Fun,” in honor of the region’s rich agricultural heritage. With farm-themed arts and crafts, performances, rides, music, and food to enjoy, the museum anticipates a gigantic crowd of children and families. Visit www.cmee.org.

Black & White The Shelter Island Historical Society presents its seventh annual Black & White party on the ground of the Shelter Island History Center. The event will take place on Saturday, July 20, from 6 to 10 PM. The evening includes cocktails, dinner, dancing, and a silent auction. Visit www.shelterislandhistorical.org.

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Can Bad Girls Be Good?

Sally Jay Gorce: a complex heroine who doesn’t meet her moral demise kissandtellhb@gmail.com

Every once in a while, you walk into a bookstore (take that Amazon!) and you just pick a book off the shelf that captures your attention. In my case it was “The Dud Avocado” by Elaine Dundy.

Her hilarious, flawed, endearing heroine, Sally Jay Gorce, is the 21-yearold American girl in Paris who is “hellbent on living.” When we meet her, she has an Italian lover and a thrill for adventure and is caught in the daytime in her evening dress because everything else is in the laundry. But there’s the thing: this was written by Dundy in the 1950s. It has been in and out of print, but a 2007 reissuing exposed it to a

whole new audience.

Having grown up on a steady diet of Jo March in “Little Women” and Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice,” I learned that heroines could be strong and principled but morally conforming. If you were a “bad girl,” unless you ate breakfast at Tiffany’s, things never ended well. You ended up losing Rhett Butler and only shopping at Pottery Barn for curtain dresses, or having to go to Starbucks wearing a scarlet A, or passing up the Jitney to jump in front of the LIRR when your lover discards you. And you definitely had a fear of flying.

So, what of the heroine who is complex, both good and bad, finding her own moral universe because in life, that’s how it happens? Why wasn’t this book on my high school summer reading list? As a literature lover growing up, I would have been thrilled to pass over “Huckleberry Finn” and “Lord of the Flies” for “The Dud Avocado,” but I am sure any Connecticut high school would probably have banned the book.

When it was originally published in 1958, “The Dud Avocado” was a huge hit with readers and critics. The adventures of Sally Jay and her unique voice captured the imagination. Even Ernest Hemingway sent a note of admiration to Dundy and Groucho Marx wrote, “It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which incidentally, is a great name for a law firm).” Perhaps the reason the character was so real was because she reflected Dundy’s own unconventional life experiences — she did have a stint as an actress in Paris and actually got released from a police station because her French accent was so good.

It is interesting to me that Sally Jay Gorce was a contemporary of Holden Caulfield and yet “The Catcher in the Rye” (published in 1951) is the seminal coming-of-age story taught in every high school English class, while “The Dud Avocado” is relegated to underground cult status. Yet the themes of

innocence, identity, belonging, loss, and connection are there for both characters.

It’s a clear double standard in the coming-of-age story that people are fine with male hijinks but uncomfortable with girls becoming women. That they make mistakes and learn hard lessons on judging character. That they are wonderous creatures who need experiences to know which men and situations to avoid. To learn to listen to their intuition and follow their own moral compass so that the wrong man cannot take advantage of them because there’s not always someone there to protect them.

I am saddened that Elaine Dundy passed away in 2008, because I would have loved to have had the chance to invite her for a martini at the American Hotel. As a writer, I would thank her for creating a character who led an adventurous and sexy life without meeting with ruin or penitence or a spirit broken by conformity. Who was a keen observer of human nature, and laugh-out-loud funny, and willing to take risks to live life to its fullest. Who defied the standards of the 1950s and paved the way for all the Bridget Joneses and Carrie Bradshaws who came after her. Who would not be shamed.

To prove that indeed “bad girls” can be very good.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

To The Moon, Alexandria Sending today’s politicians to the moon would be interesting rmurphy@indyeastend.com

It’s fair to say getting to the moon 50 years ago was, at the time, an achievement so overwhelming that it is mindboggling to contemplate.

Oddly, though, the technological advances we have made since make a trip to the moon seem little more than child’s play. I’m guessing it would be a lot harder to accomplish now: Consider getting Congress to agree to releasing the funds to make it happen.

A NASA official at a hearing requesting funding might run into this sort of thing: NASA: We feel this momentous event will heal the country.

Nancy Pelosi: Well, will the pilot be a Democrat?

NASA: Ma’am, our astronauts are not political animals.

Joe Biden: He’s right, Nancy; we typically use chimpanzees in our space program.

Pelosi: Will there be a woman on board?

NASA: We really haven’t decided yet, Ma’am.

Pelosi: Do I look like a Ma’am to you, Sir? NASA: No, Ma’am.

Biden: I’d like to say I’d be honored to touch and feel any woman on this great journey, Mrs. Speaker.

Kamala Harris: Joe. This is what I mean! You don’t get it! You are behind the times! There is no one on this moon shot you will be able to feel! This is about human dignity! This is about uniting as a people! This is about a face shot of me!

Biden: Can we bus some folks in?

Biden whispers to Pelosi, who whispers to Chuck Schumer. Schumer whispers to Donald Trump.

ALL IN UNISON: Oh My God! NASA: What?

ALL: AOC wants to go to the moon!

NASA: She will scare off the moon men.

Pelosi: She will insult the middle-ofthe road chimpanzees.

Biden: She will give all our cheese away.

Trump: She’ll want to bring all the Mexicans with her . . . Hey, we might be onto something . . . I could build a wall around the moon.

Ilhan Omar: I demand People of Color, Women Without Limbs, The Acnechallenged, LGBTQA, PSEG, shellfish, and Midgets with Tiny Borders be included in the trip.

Trump (to AOC): I suppose you want to drive? Do you have any experience piloting a spacecraft?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Do you have any experience running a country? It takes more than being a loud mouth from New York to make it in Washington, DC! Trump: It does?

Pelosi: I think it’s been a productive meeting except for what the Progressives on my left and the Republicans on my right said.

Biden: I’m impressed — I made it through the entire hearing without saying anything stupid — didn’t I? Bill de Blasio: And I made it through without saying anything, just like at the debates.

Bernie Sanders: And I’m still alive! I’m proud to have been a part of what we did tonight. But I don’t remember much of it.

AOC: Are you proud that oppressed Latino children were called chimps and shipped to the moon?

Trump: It’s a national tragedy.

AOC: Thank you.

Trump: Not that . . . That it’s one o’clock and I haven’t played golf yet.

Biden: So, we’re not going to the moon? Why? Pelosi: Donald just imposed trade sanctions on them. We’re not buying any more of their cheese, and we’re not selling them any of those little flags.

AOC: Can I still get a moon rock?

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Indy Snaps SoFo Gala Photos by Lisa Tamburini The South Fork Natural History Museum presented its 30th Anniversary Annual Summer Gala Benefit at the museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday, July 13. The event began with a VIP cocktail reception that included chef tastings. The gala continued with a buffet dinner, live and silent auctions, and honoree tributes.

The event honored Dr. Demian Chapman, Trammell Crow, and Greg Manocherian. Co-chairs included Carole Crist, Georgia and Dr. Gerry Curatola, Eric Goode, April Gornik and Eric Fischl, Susan and David Rockefeller, and Liev Schreiber.

Lifeguard Station Photo by Justin Meinken The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum held its annual lobster bake benefit on Saturday, July 13, at the station, at 160 Atlantic Avenue. A traditional lobster bake was served, including lobsters, barbecue chicken, clams, mussels, corn on the cob, potatoes, field greens, and dessert.

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Indy Snaps Jewish Center Summer Luncheon Photos by Richard Lewin On Friday, July 12, the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton held its annual Summer Luncheon at Moby’s Restaurant at East Hampton Point. This year’s honoree was Harry Katz, now serving his second term as president of the JCOH Board of Trustees. Guest speaker was New York Times correspondent Margot SangerKatz, who explained the possible future directions of health care insurance in the United States.

LTV Super Salon Comedy Benefit Photos by Lisa Tamburini LTV’s Creative Director Angela LaGreca hosted a celebrity lineup of comedians at a Super Salon Comedy Benefit at LTV Studio in Wainscott on Friday, July 12. The evening featured comediennes Elayne Boosler and Michele Balan. TV personality, comedian, and writer Bill McCuddy served as the night’s auctioneer.

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Indy Snaps Thomas Moran Discovers The American West Photos by Richard Lewin In 1884, the Moran Family moved into the Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio and House on Main Street, the first artist’s studio built in East Hampton. On Saturday, July 13, at a private oceanfront estate, the board of the East Hampton Historical Society invited members and supporters to celebrate the studio’s membership in the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the recent opening of their newest exhibition, “Thomas Moran Discovers the American West.”

The Parrish Art Museum’s Midsummer Party Photos by BFA & Patrick McMullan The Parrish Art Museum’s annual Midsummer Party in Water Mill is a festive social gathering of artists, art collectors, curators, philanthropists, and business leaders from the Hamptons, New York, and beyond. This past Saturday, July 13, nearly 450 guests enjoyed dining and dancing, and had the opportunity to experience the museum’s current exhibitions including Thomas Joshua Cooper’s “Refuge,” Renate Aller's “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” and JeanLuc Mylayne’s “A Matter of Place.”

This year, the museum honored longtime supporters Louise and Leonard Riggio, and artist Maya Lin.

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By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

chur will be part of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Lichtenstein Lecture Series at the Arts Center at Duck Creek. Visit www.pkhouse.org.

Magical Jews Southampton Arts Center will offer a talk titled “Magical Jews: Mystery and History” with magician and Sag Harbor resident Allan Zola Kroznek on Monday, July 22, at 7 PM. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

Sparrow Beach On Tuesday, July 23, at 5:30 PM, East Hampton Library will welcome author Shelby Raebeck discussing the novel “Sparrow Beach.”

Jeff Gordinier is next in the IndyLit series at the Southampton Inn on Saturday. Independent/ Andre Baranowski

FILM Stronger Than Pretty The Retreat presents a film screening of “Donna: Stronger Than Pretty” at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Thursday, July 18, at 7 PM. For tickets, visit www.guildhall.org.

‘The Flat’ The Amagansett Free Library will have a screening of “The Flat” on Thursday, July 18, at 6 PM. See more at www. amagansettlibrary.org.

North Fork Film Festival The Manhattan Film Institute welcomes the North Fork Film Festival from July 19 to July 21. For the full lineup and tickets, visit www.manhattanfilminstitute.com.

Southampton Arts Center Southampton Arts Center presents an outdoor screening of “Singin’ in the Rain” at 8:30 PM on Friday, July 19.

Then, on Tuesday, July 23, at 7:30 PM, catch at the Southampton Jewish Film Fest: “HAG — The Story of the Hasidic Actors Guild.” Learn more at www. southamptonartscenter.org.

HIFF Hamptons International Film Festival presents SummerDocs: “Cold Case Hammarskjöld” at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday, July 20, at 7 PM. Go to www.guildhall.org for tickets.

TV Festival Guild Hall in East Hampton hosts the East Hampton TV Festival on Monday, July 22 and Tuesday, July 23. Go to www.guildhall.org for tickets.

WORDS IndyLit Jeff Gordinier, author of “Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World” will appear as part of the free and

currently showing “The Bodyguard: The Musical” now through July 20.

Visit www.thegateway.org.

KidFEST Guild Hall in East Hampton will host KidFEST: Teatro SEA’s “La Cucarachita Martina” on Wednesday, July 17, at 5 PM. Visit www.guildhall.org to learn more.

‘Pippin’ North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck presents “Pippin,” Youth on Stage 2019, July 18 through August 4.

For tickets and showtimes, visit www. nfct.com.

‘My Witch’

open-to-the-public IndyLit series at the Southampton Inn on Saturday, July 20, at 5:30 PM. Gordinier will read sections from the book, and engage in a Q&A. RSVPs preferred, but not necessary, to events@indyeastend.com.

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Bay Street Theater presents, for one week only, “My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories,” written by John Ah-

The Gateway Playhouse in Bellport is

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BookHampton in East Hampton welcomes Chris Pavone, author of “The Paris Diversion” on Thursday, July 18, at 5 PM; Michael Shnayerson, “Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art” on Friday, July 19, at 5 PM; Jordan Kassalow with Jennifer Krause, “Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now” on Saturday, July 20, at 5 PM; and Jeff Gordinier will appear on Sunday, July 21, at 3 PM. Go to www.bookhampton. com for book details.

ICP Talks Southampton Arts Center welcomes ICP Talks: Illustrated Talk with Josh Haner, New York Times Photographer on Thursday, July 18, at 7 PM. Go to www.southamptonartscenter.org for details.

Jay Goldberg On Saturday, July 20, at 3:30 PM, East Hampton Library will welcome Jay Goldberg as he discusses the novel “The Courtroom is My Theater.”

Cate Holahan Berry & Co in Sag Harbor welcomes author Cate Holahan for a sip and sign event featuring her book “One Little Secret” on Saturday, July 20, at 11 AM.

Art As Ecosystem Guild Hall in East Hampton will host Art as Ecosystem: Eric Fischl with Glenn Fuhrman, Dorothy Lichtenstein, and Rick Lowe presented in association with The Church on Saturday, July 20, at 2 PM. Go to www.guildhall.org for tickets.

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Gallery Events 7 At The Hall “7 At The Hall” will be held at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. The show will include new works by seven artists from New York City and the East End. The works will be on exhibit July 19 to 23, from 11 AM to 6 PM. There will be an opening reception Friday, July 19, from 5 to 7:30 PM.

Studio Sale There will be a public sale of the works of artist Beryl Bernay-Kossovskaya on Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20, from 10 AM to 4 PM at 18 Neck Path in East Hampton. Many of the diverse selection of paintings and photographs by the long-time Springs resident were inspired by her United Nations foreign correspondent assignments. Other works reflect her love of the area’s light and ambience, while some included pen-and-ink sketches of Paris, New York City, and her 1940s fashion designs.

Wide World Of Sports “Wide World Of Sports” will open at Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton with a reception on Friday, July 19, at 6 PM. The exhibition brings together artists using sports as a subject matter.

Artists include John Ahearn, Michael Combs, Jerry Cooke, Dario Escobar, Travis Fish, Al Freeman, David Hammons, Royal Jarmon, Brian Jungen, Howard Kanovitz, Deb Kass, Sam Keller, Matthew King, Andrew Kuo, Robert Longo, Charles McGill, Jea-

nette Mundt, Iván Navarro, LeRoy Neiman, Howardena Pindell, Umar Rashid, Carlos Rolón, Tom Sanford, Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Yahnker, Nari Ward, Andy Warhol, and Wendy White. The show runs through August 10.

Quogue Studio Tour The Quogue Library Art Committee presents the first annual Quogue Artists Open Studio Tour. On Sunday, July 21, from noon to 4 PM, nine local artists will open their studios. Visitors are welcomed to come and enjoy the experience of seeing art in the very varied spaces where it is created. The artists are Steve Alpert, Ellen Ball, Maria Boulan, Margot Carr, Donna Levey, Lulie Morrissey, Laurel Susci, Susan Cushing, and Alice Vleck. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the library.

Adam Handler Janet Lehr Fine Art in East Hampton presents Adam Handler “To Feel It, and To Love It,” The show opens on Friday, July 19, with a reception from 6 to 8 PM. The show runs through August 7.

Summer Art Studio Tour The Westhampton Free Library presents a summer Art Studio Tour on Saturday, July 20, and Sunday, July 21, from 11 AM to 4 PM each day. The tour will include visits to 14 studios and 25 local and professional artists, from Manorville, Westhampton, Quogue, East Quogue, Remsenburg, and Hampton Bays. A map will be provided with the purchase of a $10 ticket. Visit www. westhamptonlibrary.net/art-tour.

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Dining Let’s Taco ’Bout Food Mattitaco is more than just a food truck

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

You’ve seen him on the road, literally.

Justin Schwartz is the master chef that runs the On The Road food truck (formerly Noah’s On The Road). Then, he opened up a brick-and-mortar location, Mattitaco, that has become the go-to spot in Mattituck.

As the food truck continues to roll on in popularity, the cozy 840-squarefoot location at 10560 Main Road promises an oasis of choices for those who continue to discover the eatery.

“It’s amazing how many people will come in from around the corner and tell us they had no idea we were here,” Schwartz said of his location, which opened in June 2018. Schwartz said he considers Mattitaco a graband-go establishment, however, the space accommodates 30 patrons outside, 12 seated inside, and 16 people at the countertop bar.

A taco spot wasn’t the original plan, but then a regular at Corey Creek Vineyard approached the food truck suggesting they should open a taco shop in Mattituck and suggested the name “Mattitaco” to honor the community. “Some people come in and ask where is Matt? Of Mattitaco. Locals

too. And I laugh and remind them it’s Mattituck and taco,” Schwartz said with a smile.

The menu features a variety of tacos, so here are some suggestions.

To keep things in the family, bite into the Korean taco, featuring Schwartz’s mother Pennie Schwartz’s kimchi recipe, with hoisin-glazed pork belly, sriracha, and samba aioli. Locals might be particularly intrigued to know that Pennie is also an integral part of Slow Food East End. Next in line would have to be the Scallops n’ Bacon, with Shinnecock sea scallops, applewood smoked bacon, and cilantro lime aioli — a little surf and turf. Vegetarian?

Go guilt free with the Shrooms taco of confit shiitake and oyster mushrooms, diced onion, cilantro, radish, and cotija cheese.

A final two favorites, as the list continues to grow, are the Hawaiian tacos with carnitas, grilled pineapple salsa, and chipotle aioli, and Cheese Burger (you read that right) with grilled Angus beef, provolone cheese, pickled onion, and pico de gallo.

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off with house-made hot sauces, highly recommended by Schwartz himself, ranging from tomato (mild) to holy habanero (scorching).

The menu also offers quesadillas, burritos, and small bites. Coming up, expect Mahi summer specials on the weekend with $6 Mahi tacos, and a shaved summer squash with pulled pork and a mint-lime vinaigrette. Wash it all down with Coastal Craft Kombucha on tap. Flavors include Lemon Earl Grey, Pineapple Jalapeño, Ahoy Mate, or, my personal booch of choice, Strawberry Tomato.

What makes Mattitaco’s menu even more appealing is that Schwartz

is aiming to eliminate food waste. For example, instead of discarding pineapple cores, cooks use them in the almost-too-good-to-be-true Pineapple Jalapeño hot sauce. Also, the outer shell of the cabbage used also goes to feeding Pennie Schwartz’s chickens. It all comes full circle.

There’s also the Taco Cart, that is great for catering. The 10-foot-long cart — with fryer, grill, and steam table — folds to the size of a big tool box.

It’s great for parties, or just for a Taco Tuesday in the backyard.

Follow Mattitaco on social media, or salivate over the entire menu online at www.mattitaco.com.

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18 Bay: An Ephemeral Dining Experience Shelter Island restaurant’s menu choices constantly changing

By Hannah Selinger The first time I ever made the trip to Shelter Island’s 18 Bay was six years ago, during my first summer out east. I met fellow friends from the wine industry for what was supposed to be a short dinner. That wending meal, which included a roasted puck of rare meat and a 1991 Tenuta La Meridiana “Campo delle Piane” Boca, lasted hours, well into the night.

The closing server, sweeping the floors, indicated that it was time to pack our things and go. But 18 Bay had proven an unintentional point, which is that time can get lost in its dining room.

Husband-and-wife team Adam Kopels and Elizabeth Ronzetti opened the restaurant in a Victorian-style building erected in 1893 by decorated Civil War hero Marcus Duval. Duval’s

family had deep roots on Shelter Island, and the building itself was the Island’s original post office and general store, selling everything from ice to butchered meat to lamp oil. The streetfacing windows are original, a nod to that historic character.

It’s impossible to talk about 18 Bay without discussing the food — but it’s equally impossible to talk about the food, because the food is always changing. I remember, quite distinctly, one meal I enjoyed on the restaurant’s front porch, where an intermezzo of fresh pasta with crab, jalapeño, and toasted breadcrumbs disappeared in a flash.

Each week, the chefs announce a new fixed menu, consisting of an antipasti plate (four tiny bites on one composed plate), a pasta course, an entrée course — guests choose one — and a

dessert.

The menu tracks the seasons. As I write this, the antipasti includes duck confit with stone fruit mostarda, I&Me Farm field greens with wild rose vinaigrette, fried local squid with chili and mint, and fluke crudo with agretti and Wickham’s rhubarb. The pasta course is a hand-cut fettuccine verde with oysters, pancetta, and breadcrumbs.

Diners can choose between a roasted striped bass with summer vegetables and green tomatoes or grilled porcelet with local sour cherries and fennel for their entrée. And for dessert? Lemon olive oil cake with roasted stone fruits.

The restaurant also operates a “crudo bar,” which opens each day at 3 PM and serves whatever happens to be freshest from the sea that day, but raw.

Did I mention the pasta tasting?

Keto dieters, beware: It’s a five-course menu, which changes daily. Handmade pasta. Five courses. Imagine, if you will, the infinite possibilities. Is there anything more indulgent than a meal composed entirely of pasta?

18 Bay sources its meals as locally as possible, using Wickham’s Fruit Farm, Zombie Free Farms, The Farm Beyond, Terry’s Farm, P&H Soda Company, Sang Lee Farms, and Southold Fish Market as its purveyors.

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determined, lies in the ephemeral. No matter how many times I return to 18 Bay, the experience is always unique.

You can’t fall too deeply in love with a particular dish, because no dish is long for this world. In the normal circuitry of a restaurant, this is counterintuitive.

Restaurants want you to fall in love with certain dishes. They want you to come back and order those dishes over and over again.

But that’s not the point at 18 Bay. The point is that every single time you walk through the doors, it’s a reinvention. You get to be a different diner, and the kitchen gets to put on a different performance. Maybe that’s why it’s one restaurant I am committed to eating at every single year. I need to see its latest interpretation of the season. It doesn’t even feel like a choice.

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Influencers Gather At Maidstone Brunch attendees will get a ‘taste’ of the East End

By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com Vanessa Gordon of East End Taste and event planners Sean Koski and Brian Kelly will present the second annual Hamptons Interactive Influencer Brunch on Saturday, July 20, from 11 AM to 3 PM at The Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton.

“What I’m most excited about for this year, in particular, is to meet some of my favorite brands in person, while sharing this exciting experience with all of the attendees,” said Gordon.

“The excitement for this year’s event is so abundant and I can already feel the energy of the event coming to life. My event team and I have worked so hard for the last eight months and are looking forward to bring the event to the super-chic Maidstone Hotel.”

Gordon is a lifestyle expert and

influencer whose Instagram @eastendtaste boasts over 46,000 followers. She is a regular radio show host on 102.5 WBAZ featuring all things Hamptons.

Gordon also writes a column for The Independent.

At the brunch, guests will be treated to complimentary brunch-style fare, libations, pampering, shopping, and gifting. The goods come from brands such as Brew Dr. Kombucha, La Croix, Reena Mathur, Intoxicating Beauty, Llama Momma Company, Life Aid Co, Serendipity Brands, Bomani Cold Buzz, and more. Catering will be provided by Cipriani. Notable astrologists and authors, Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, will be on site doing tarot card and astrology readings for VIP guests.

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It is certainly an event not to miss!” said Gordon.

A portion of the event’s proceeds will go to support Bideawee Animal Rescue in Westhampton and a presentation and announcement by Gordon

will take place during the event.

Special guests include interior designer Cara Woodhouse and actress, author, comedienne, and philanthropist Lisa Rowland. Media sponsors of the event are The Independent Newspaper and Long Island Radio Broadcasting.

The event is mostly by invitationonly, but a limited number of tickets are available on Eventbrite.

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Culinary Discoveries In Cancun A Haven for 11 distinct restaurants A new, notable resort where one could discover a variety of international flavors entwined with traditional Mexican cuisine is Haven Riviera Cancun Resort & Spa, located less than 15 minutes away from Cancun International Airport. Haven Resort is an all-inclusive and adults-only beachfront resort.

After its grand opening last fall, Haven Riviera has quickly emerged as the epicenter of “Cancun 2.0,” where the resorts are away from the touristy Zona Hotelera strip and are instead surrounded by mesmerizing ocean views.

Several fine dining options await guests inside the resort. There’s the chance to savor cuisine from its 11 restaurants and bars.

Guests can start their day with

morning yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays at 8 AM, or with a brisk walk along the white sand. Then enjoy a full breakfast at Flavours. Offering a wide variety of artisan and local fare, breakfast includes an expansive selection of culinary stations from traditional Mexican cuisine to a juice and smoothie bar, dozens of options for fresh fruit, a hot and cold cereal bar, granola, freshly made omelets and waffles, breakfast pastries, sweet breads, coffee, tea, and much more.

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salad bar. Its desserts are so delicious as well, and there is also self-serve hard ice cream and toppings. If guests return in the evenings, they can enjoy a full antipasto buffet, a la carte offerings, and fresh seafood all prepared to order.

On select afternoons and evenings, I especially enjoyed the fresh paella and crab legs.

During our first evening, we dined at Satsu, Haven’s Asian Fusion restaurant, and sat at the Teppanyaki station to view the art and show of Japanese cooking. We enjoyed sushi a la carte and freshly grilled meat, seafood, rice, and vegetables from the hibachi grill.

The next night I dined at Olios, the Mediterranean restaurant that features an a la carte menu of perfectly portioned dishes that represent both the land and sea. And if one wishes to enhance the dining experience, Olios offers the special Chef’s Table that features a gourmet tasting menu. My favorites included the beet salad with Arbequina oil crumbs, feta cheese, and pine nuts; and seared seabass in shell-

fish crustacean’s juice with seasonal vegetables, tarragon aroma, and clams.

Desserts that evening were tiramisu and a chocolate brownie.

Next was Agua Bendita, a blend of contemporary Mexican cuisine with a classic steak house. Incredible dishes once again. I started with house-made chips, guacamole, and a variety of four salsas. For my entrée, I had the grilled honey salmon with grain mustard, with sides of rice and plantains.

In the evening, I would enjoy cappuccinos at Mocaccino Deli, which offers freshly brewed coffee, tea, espresso beverages, liqueurs, and hand-scooped ice cream with a variety of toppings. It also offered a variety of cakes, sweet breads, and pastries. My favorite was the Guava Cake.

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Love gala, alongside helping at various other events. This past spring, Piro was asked to join the SASF Board of Directors, where she currently serves as a member. She added, “It’s tough to ever feel fully accomplished when it comes to animal rescue, but spreading awareness among the younger generation out east, and helping people become more involved with volunteer work is important.”

Crawford, 33, got involved four years ago but said this year is the most rewarding, as she joins Unconditional Love as junior co-chair. “At any given time, at my family’s home, there are eight dogs, all rescues. We never went to breeders simply because there are so many animals that need homes, and we knew no other way. Two years ago, my boyfriend Jesse and I adopted Oliver from Southampton Animal Shelter, and he has brought us and our other dog so much laughter and love. We can’t remember what it was like before adopting him,” said Crawford.

As part of her dedication, Crawford and other members of the auction committee have aided in gathering items up for grabs such as experiences, fashion pieces, sporting activities, art, even a restored Classic 1952 MG TD

roast the tomatoes in a 325-degree oven.

After about five minutes, the skin will blister. Remove them from the oven and peel away the skin, then return them to the oven for another 15 minutes.

At this point, the pasta should be ready. Drain the pasta and run cold water over it. Set aside until you’re ready to assemble the dish. In a large sauté pan or a two-inch deep roasting pan, heat two tablespoons of olive oil. Season the shrimp and sear on each side for one minute. Once you’ve finished searing the second side, add the garlic and toast in the pan for one minute.

Now you can add all the other vegetables. Deglaze the pan with the white wine and let it reduce for about one minute, add the butter and the pasta and stir gently.

British automobile. At the event itself, animals will be up for adoption, and money raised at the event additionally goes toward helping veterans in need of companion animals.

Dwork, 34, noted that being involved is about more than donating money. “You can donate your professional expertise, and your network,” she said. She lends her talents to the digital marketing and social media side of things, which eventually led her to adopt a kitten of her own.

“This gala stands out because it is a celebration — it is recognizing everything we did, everyone we helped, and what we are really about — and that is something to cheer about. We are the community shelter and we could never do what we do without the support of our community,” McEntee concluded.

Aimee Sadler will be this year’s honoree. Sadler is the founder and CEO of Dogs Playing for Life. A cocktail hour will be followed by dinner and dancing. The entertainment will be provided by Elan Artists’ Nation. Stone Creek Inn is catering the dinner.

Tickets are available online at www.southamptonanimalshelter.com with auction items listed. To bid on items, register by texting ULOVE19 to 52182.

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Have you ever collaborated with the other chosen artists before?

SM: Mostly, I collaborate with scientists and everyone involved in the process of my making art. That list includes printers, studio assistants, Photoshop experts, the person who shapes my surfboards, the sculpture fabricators, and the two companies that make my clothing line.

Tickets for the East End Studio Tour are $375 and transportation is provided between studios. All ticket proceeds benefit NYFA programs for artists across Long Island and New York State. Tickets are available online at www.nyfa.org.

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Fashion icon and philanthropist Donna Karan believes creativity, collaboration, connection, and community can change the world. This conviction lies at the heart of Urban Zen, the foundation she started in 2007. The Urban Zen Foundation is dedicated to three interconnected initiatives: Preservation of Culture (Past), Integrative Healthcare and Wellbeing (Present), and Education (Future.)

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“And the inimitable Laurie Anderson is performing for her friend, Julian Schnabel, as is Benjamin, which is a name you may not yet have heard but once you see him, you will never forget,” Benson said. “Carissa’s The Bakery is providing dessert like you have never seen before.”

This year’s benefit theme is La Vie en Rose. “Expect unusual rose displays everywhere,” Benson added.

The benefit’s chairs are Dorothy Lichtenstein and Neda Young.

LongHouse Reserve is a 16-acre sculpture museum and garden located at 133 Hands Creek Road in East Hampton. Tickets and more information can be found at www.longhouse.org.

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lin and starring Jean Tafler, from July 17 through July 21.

Follow the incredible journey of the mild-mannered kindergarten teacher from Cleveland who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz.”

Performance times vary. Contact the theater at www.baystreet.org or the box office at 631-725-9500 for more details.

Dancers For Good Guild Hall in East Hampton will have a live performance of “Dancers for Good” on Friday, July 19, at 7 PM. Visit www.guildhall.org to learn more.

Goat On A Boat At Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, Goat on a Boat presents “Sleeping Beauty” by Tanglewood Marionettes on Friday, July 18, at 11 AM. For tickets and times, go to www.baystreet.org.

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Sag Harbor debuts “Safe Space,” directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien and starring Tony & Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl. For tickets and times, go to www.baystreet.org.

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

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 now perform at Paola’s East in East Hampton every Thursday at 8 PM. See more at www.thejamsession.org.

Open Mic Night

Surf Lodge The Surf Lodge in Montauk brings to the stage lovelytheband on Saturday, July 20, at 6 PM and The Rapture on Sunday, July 21, at 6 PM. Nancy Atlas headlines every Wednesday. Head to www.thesurflodge.com for more sounds.

Doo Wop Battle Guild Hall in East Hampton will have a battle of the Doo Wop bands— New York versus New Jersey on Sunday, July 21, at 7 PM. Visit www.guildhall.org to learn more.

BH Chamber Music Festival Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church will host Composer Portrait: Dvořák in the New World on Sunday, July 21, at 6:30 PM. Tickets are sold at www. bcmf.org.

Concerts On The Green

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

On Monday, July 22, Montauk Village Green free outdoor concerts continue with Black and Sparrow at 6:30 PM. Visit www.montaukchamber.com to learn more.

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Suffolk Theater in Riverhead will have Magic of Motown on Friday, July 19, at 8 PM. Tickets go to www.suffolktheater.com.

Pianofest in the Hamptons continues at the Avram Theater in Southampton on Monday, July 22, at 5 PM. Visit www.pianofest.com for tickets.

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Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will have Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes on Friday, July 19, at 8 PM; Stephen Marley on Saturday, July 20, at 8 PM; and The Wood Brothers on Sunday, July 21, at 8 PM. For tickets, go to www.whbpac.org.

Southampton Arts Center Southampton Arts Center will have Outdoor Live Concert: “Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber” on Saturday, July 20, at 7 PM. On Sunday, July 21, at 2PM will be World Music on the Steps: Kevin Kuhn and Justin Rothberg. Learn more at www.southamptonartscenter.org.

At the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, listen to Four Way Street at 8 PM on Wednesday, July 17. Thursday, July 18, will be Black and Sparrow at 8 PM followed by LHT at 10 PM; Friday, July 19, is An Evening with Judy Collins at 7 PM and Hello Brooklyn at 11 PM; Saturday, July 20, at 8 PM is Low Cut Connie and Y2L at 11 PM; Sunday, July 21, catch Yellowman at 8 PM and Majestic Band at 10 PM; Annie Trezza kicks off at 8 PM on Monday, July 22; and The Marcus King Band plays Tuesday, July 23, at 8 PM followed by LHT at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

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Patrick McLaughlin: From Producing TV Programs To Presenting Luxury Properties

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Patrick McLaughlin: From Producing TV Programs To Presenting Luxury Properties

How and why did you move to the East End from New York City?

My partner and I bought our first house out here in 1999. I was here literally every weekend but two that first year. I guess the area just spoke to me.

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

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lic open house, say, 20 years ago.

rosperous Douglas Elliman associate broker Patrick McLaughlin started out as a Jersey boy who found himself living in Manhattan before pivoting to the East End. It was a summer home that brought him to the Hamptons, where he fell in love with the region, though in the city he worked as a television producer on familiar shows such as “Good Day New York” and “The Sally Jessy Raphael Show.” During this phase of his career, he also was a producer for MTV, CNBC, BS-WNET, and Fox News.

Once here, McLaughlin went on to manage Elliman’s Sag Harbor office for over a decade before switching over to sales. Indy caught up with him to learn more about his life and methods on how he’s maintained his success rate as a Hamptons real estate broker.

Patrick, your life before real estate is fascinating.

Can you elaborate on your former career as a television producer?

I worked primarily in news for most of my career in television. It was a wonderful time and I think it trained me for being very particular in how to present a property.

Did working as a producer for over 20 years in any way help with your work as a real estate agent?

Yes, much of television is about creating an interesting visual. Now with the internet, it’s really important to make sure the photographs and the videos are well crafted. This is the equivalent of a pub-

You have a love of animals, particularly dogs. Are you involved in any animal welfare organizations?

I have a relationship with a few different animal organizations. I guess that’s because I own two rescues and I know how much joy they bring me. I also believe they are more sensitive than we humans realize.

Can you tell us about your dogs?

Bella and Russell, two rescues that love the beach and have the best life ever. I take great pride in that. Interestingly enough, I ended up adopting Russell after doing a deal with a Saunders agent who was acting as his “foster mom.”

Why did you choose Elliman as your brokerage?

I actually started with Elliman in the city. When I decided to move out here, they were the only company with a presence here and in Manhattan. I’ve been with them for nearly 19 years. It’s a great company and I love how they foster a collaborative environment.

What regions of the East End do you specialize in?

I primarily cover the areas from Montauk to Southampton. I don’t see how you can effectively serve clients when you stretch yourself over too many areas. That’s why I really try to limit where I cover.

Are there any homes that you’ve sold that you’re particularly proud of?

Every house is unique and different, as is every transaction. I’m proudest when I get a call from a buyer and or seller and they say, “Thanks, you worked really hard to make this sale possible.”

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absolutely love?

Does the Big Duck in Flanders count?

What advice would you give to a seller?

All the marketing, open houses, and advertising in the world won’t do a thing if you’re not properly priced. It doesn’t matter what your neighbor’s house sold for, it’s ultimately the market that decides your value.

Rarely do you get everything you want.

Do you have any favorite trends our readers should know about?

I’m currently in love with the growing popularity of shiplap exterior siding.

I also think it’s great that more new construction than ever before is using green building techniques.

What do you do for fun when you’re not working?

What about advice for buyers?

I love hitting the beach with the dogs and taking nice long bike rides.

No matter how much you spend, buying a home always entails a certain amount of compromise: price, location, or house.

To reach McLaughlin or inquire about his properties, call 917-359-4138 or email patrick.mclaughlin@elliman.com.

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shoreline there, so we devised this restoration project between Peconic Land Trust and Cornell Cooperative Extension to re-build it, not using hardened structures, but kind of the new trend in coastal restoration, which is a living shoreline.

Kids help build a living shoreline in Greenport

How did you start?

By Gianna Volpe gianna@indyeastend.com

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and the Peconic Land Trust recently received a $150,000 grant to restore the shoreline of the 2.3-acre Widow's Hole preserve in Greenport.

Matthew Swain, the land trust's director of Stewardship and Geographic Information Systems,

discussed this spring's rebuilding of "a living shoreline" at the property on Fourth and Clark Streets in the village.

What was the impetus for this project?

Matthew Swain: Hurricane Sandy in particular destroyed the

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The first thing we built up was the dune area. Not the beach area, but more toward the upland.

That involved trucking in a lot of stone and boulders and sand. Once we had that built and sculpted, the surrounding community actually came out and planted beach grass on top of it and then we fenced it off. Along the shoreline we built a small wave break using cobblestone to help control erosion. On the end we planted the spartina. We had Greenport school kids come and help us with that.

How many kids? What was it like for them?

About 30 kids and they were all really excited.

It seems like kids are getting further and further away from nature because they had a whole bunch of questions as to why we were actually doing this and why we have to do it.

We were telling them that we’re trying to bring this area back to the way it was before humans impacted everything, but of course they were running around and stealing crabs.

They’re kids. It’s not easy to keep them focused.

Pretend I’m a kid. Why is this project so important?

Everyone kicks around “global warming” and “increased storms” and all, but to me a project like this — where you can take a small project and bring it to the community — that, to me, is the only way

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you’ll ever make anybody understand the impact of increased storms and global warming because you’re not looking at the polar ice caps every day. You have to bring these things into terms that people can wrap their hands around. That’s what this project does.

How has Widow’s Hole changed since Hurricane Sandy?

The storm came up and washed away half an acre, so we were down to bare bones there. It took us tons and tons of stone — and near 1000 cubic yards of sand — to recreate what we lost. We have a five-year monitoring plan showing the property before and after Hurricane Sandy. We’ll continue to monitor and make any changes we need to in the next five years.

I remember the Army Corps of Engineers were all about hardened structures back in 2012. Are you telling me they’re changing their approach?

Yes that’s right. The DEC actually released guidelines on creating a living shoreline a few years ago.

This is one of the first ones, so the DEC was very involved. They’re the ones that actually somewhat forced us into

Planting beach grass and placing cobble has helped to restore and preserve Widow's Hole in Greenport. Independent/Courtesy Peconic Land Trust

doing a monitoring plan because they want data as to how this is working and the other interesting thing is that when we were coming up with this plan we actually went around all the areas that didn’t have bad erosion and we were saying, “What makes these areas hold up better?” So, we photo-documented all of those spots, did a number of samples and

tried to duplicate them.

more cobble around the shoreline.

What did these successful areas look like? Were they more green? More root structures?

Where did you get the plants?

Yes, they had more spartina, a stronger, more well defined upland with lots of vegetation and honestly, they had

All the spartina and beach grass was taken and re-seeded from this area, so they were grown at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and the seeds are all totally local too.

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Magical Mishegas At Southampton Arts Center Jewish Sag Harbor magician/author gives talk

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com

Abracadabra!

It’s probably the most famous magicians’ catchphrase — but did you know its origins are Hebraic?

Learn this and much more when Sag Harbor magician and author Allan Zola Kronzek (“Grandpa Magic”) discusses the history of “Magical Jews” at the Southampton Arts Center on Monday, July 22, at 7 PM.

From the 1840s through the 1930s, stage magic was an enormously popular form of mass entertainment. Among its most inspired practitioners were an exceptional number of famed international stars and pioneers of prestidigitation were many people of Jewish origins. Kronzek will offer up an intriguing mix of history and mystery celebrating these iconic performers.

This illustrated talk and performance will focus on the lives of eight unique performers and the impact they had on the culture of their times, and

the world of magic.

“The emphasis on Jewish performers is due to two factors. First, I am one,” he joked. “And second, ever since magic became a popular mass entertainment in the 1850s, Jewish performers have been disproportionately represented among the all-time greats, given our small numbers in the general population. This is a curious fact, and one that I’ve been researching for several years.”

Among the oddities explored will be how a Polish immigrant launched a national craze for sawing women in half, how a Renaissance engineer helped shape the art of card magic, and how the son of a rabbi became the most famous, highest-paid entertainer the world.

To get tickets, visit www.southamptonartscenter.org. To learn more about Allan Kronzek, visit his website at www.allankronzek.com.

One of Allan Kronzek's posters illustrating "Magical Jews" at his July 22 talk at the Southampton Arts Center.

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to the town board. We do not answer to anyone but this board.”

Steven Stern of Sokoloff Stern LLP spoke next. He is advising the planning board on the application from Duryea’s.

“There is no coordinated litigation strategy to shut down Duryea’s,” he said.

“This is just about seeing that Duryea’s complies with the law and follows the proper processes involved in light of the stay of the settlement agreement.” Stern

said that it had been his understanding, from discussions initiated by Pollack and Rowan’s’ other attorneys in open court that Rowan wanted the site plan process to move forward, even while all sides wait for a final decision on the settlement.

Kramer again asked Pollack if she wanted that night’s review session to be tabled: she again said she did. “I do note that he represents the town board, the ZBA, and now the planning board,”

she said of Stern. “But in terms of my and his discussions, I don’t think there is any benefit in trying to hash them out. I think that Mr. Stern and I have continually disagreed.”

Both sides are due back in court on the original three Article 78 suits August 16. A fourth suit launched by Sunrise Tuthill against the ZBA and the Tuthill Road Association, is due back in court August 21.

well-liked teacher at Kings Park High School.

Detectives are asking anyone with information on the crash to call the Major Case Unit at 631-852-6555.

All calls will be kept confidential.

A melee on a Greenport beach raged out of control for a time Saturday afternoon, and resulted in five arrests, Southold Town Police reported.

The fight allegedly broke out over a parking dispute and seemed to have petered out when police first arrived, but tempers flared again and punches were thrown.

A teen and a 50-year-old man, both

from Voorhees, NJ, and a 51-year-old Jackson Heights man were all charged with disorderly conduct, a violation.

A 53-year-old Southold man was also charged with disorderly conduct and second-degree harassment, both violations. Police charged one man, Michael Maragopoulos, 44, of Bayside with a misdemeanor and for allegedly obstructing governmental administration. Four others were charged with lesser crimes and released at the scene.

Southold Police charged two motorists with driving while intoxicated.

They said William Fitzpatrick Velez

of Cutchogue was arrested just before midnight Friday, July 12, for driving while intoxicated after being involved in a collision on Peconic Bay Boulevard in Laurel.

Police said they suspected alcohol was a factor and sobriety tests confirmed their suspicions.

Mario Roche-Ruiz of Greenport was arrested for DWI in Greenport Village on July 6 shorty before 1 AM, after police said they observed him leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash. Police said Roche-Ruiz crossed over a double yellow line and struck another vehicle.

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We are not named in any action.”

Number three, Kramer said, Pollack’s conclusion that the planning board was working in concert with the town board and multiple town departments to “‘shut down Duryea’s’ is flatly false. This board, this body is an independent body. We do not answer

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a motor vehicle, police said. He was held overnight at the Seventh Precinct for arraignment the following morning.

The pedestrian may well have never known what hit him. Identified by police as Michael McDermott, 37, of Smithtown, police said McDermott was jogging on the shoulder of the southbound lane of Lake Avenue, north of Oak Street, when Clancy, southbound in his 2014 Nissan sedan, struck him at about 12: 21 PM.

McDermott is remembered as a

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Sports Tarbet Improves Triathlon Time East Hampton swimmer’s seventh event yields best result

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

i-Tri Girls competing in the triathlon were met by their peers at the finish line. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Bella Tarbet was hot on the heels of Peter Sloniewsky.

Hopping off the bikes and readying to run, the two were in lockstep, but it was Sloniewsky, a first-time triathlon

competitor who did not even prepare for the event, who came out on top at Sag Harbor’s Long Beach on Saturday.

“I’ve never ran a triathlon before, so I’d say I did pretty solid,” the

i-Tri girls raise their arms in celebration of completing the triathlon. Independent/Desirée Keegan

14-year-old Setauket native from Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School said, smiling. “I was really stressed out after the biking, but when I saw she was 16, I was OK with losing to her if it did happen.”

He crossed the finish line in 36 minutes, 22.45 seconds. Tarbet clocked in just seconds behind him at 36:44.09.

The Springs resident said she was gassed.

“I was so tired,” Tarbet said. “I really wish I’d beaten him, but this was, by far, the best I’ve ever done it.”

Sloniewsky and Tarbet both swim competitively, and had no trouble navigating the rough, yet warm waters to begin the Hamptons Youth Triathlon July 13.

“I’ve been swimming since I was seven,” Sloniewsky said. “I did cross country last fall, but only ever ran for one school season.”

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East Hampton High School junior Bella Tarbet sprints to the finish line. Independent/Desirée Keegan

entrant will compete for the varsity team later this year.

Tarbet, who swims for the East Hampton Hurricanes, is also a runner, but said this time around she thought the biking helped her the most.

“When I run it’s tiring, and it’s kind of boring sometimes, but triathlons are exciting because you get to switch up between different stuff,” she said. “I love running and swimming pretty equally, and the bike is just something different. Together, it’s a lot of fun. And the weather is Continued On Page 41.

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HCBL’s Shields Sees To It Red Wins

University) started things off for the Blue Team with a lead-off double in the first, scoring later that inning on an error. Pitching kept Blue alive in the middle innings, with North Fork Osprey’s Frankie Giuliano (Pace University) tossing a perfect fifth. His team backed him up when Riverhead Tomcats infielder Bryce Willets (Saint Mary’s College of California) homered deep to right field to begin the bottom of the sixth with a 2-1 advantage.

Following the Shields show, Southampton Breakers outfielder Johnny Hipsman (University of Richmond) singled off the right field wall to score Westhampton’s Chaney Dodge to give the game its final score. But it was the defense that secured it.

Westhampton pitcher Logan Verrino (Florida Southern College) kept the Red Team off the board in the top of the ninth, and Road Warriors’ Mike Mirando (Hofstra University) picked up the save, striking out three straight batters following a lead-off single on a bunt.

“You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do sometimes,” Mirando said, smiling. “After seeing the bunt, it kind of gets you fired up to throw strikes, compete with all three pitches, and really just go after guys. Being in an All-Star game is something not a lot of people get to do, and this is something I’ll remember for the rest of my life.” who would have never done this if it wasn’t for i-Tri.”

McCobb said some girls learned how to swim and ride a bike for the first time. She said she was elated seeing the girls crossing the finish line with smiles on their faces.

“I really believe in the program and I believe it does help these girls with their self-esteem, whatever place they’re getting,” McCobb said. “And I’ve seen these kids go on to do amazing things. It’s about completing it, enjoying it — accomplishing something you never thought you could.”

John Shields needs a title bigger than All-Star.

The Shelter Island Bucks outfielder, fresh off a Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League Home Run Derby win just hours prior, drove in two runs and scored the game-winner in his Red Team’s 4-3 win over Blue. He ended Saturday night seeing double, earning the MVP title following the July 13 defeat at Peconic’s Cochran Park.

“In all honesty, I’ve never taken part in a home run derby before, so I was shocked I was selected but very excited,” the Lipscomb University junior and Tampa native said. “I did not feel that I was completely deserving of the MVP award — there were a lot of other players who showed out with triples or multiple hits — but I was very happy

and humbled to receive it.”

The lefthanded hitter said he wasn’t even tired after hitting 10 home runs earlier that morning. While his father flew up from Florida to pitch to him, Shields ultimately decided to go with seeing coach Jeff Chapuran toss to him, and it worked in his favor. He smacked five in the first round, and fellow lefthanded hitter Anthony Fontana (Chipola College), an infielder for the North Fork Ospreys, hit three in round one to advance. Southampton Breakers Robbie Holmes (Monmouth University) hit two, and all other challengers hit one on six outs. Fontana hit four in the final round, and Shields hit four straight following his first out. What looked to be a fifth consecutive was arguably called foul, and after another out

the junior sealed the deal.

“Once I got into a groove, I knew I was going to be able to get on a good run,” Shields said. “But trying to hit homers gets me into bad habits, so I just stick to hitting the ball hard where it’s pitched. If it goes out, then it goes out.”

He hit a two-RBI single in the top of the seventh to give the Red Team a 3-2 lead in the All-Star Game, and University of Massachusetts catcher and fellow Bucks teammate Dylan Judd’s two-out single brought him home for the 4-2 final score.

“To be brutally honest, I was not feeling great at the plate,” Shields said.

“I had seen six pitches and swung through all six. One of the kids in our dugout yelled at me, ‘We didn’t come here to see you walk,’ because the count was 3-0, but my coach ultimately gave me the green light. I was just happy to put a hard ball in play and there just happened to be two guys on in scoring position. Dylan Judd knocking me in after I stole second was the icing on top.”

Long Island Road Warriors infielder Jon Marti (University of Delaware) tripled to center in the bottom of the second, and scored on a ground-ball hit from Sag Harbor Whalers infielder Matt Woods (Bryant College) to tie the game one-all. Westhampton Aviators outfielder Dan Franchi (Binghamton

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coming,” Tarbet said. “I told her I might be too old for it, and she told me to come out. So here I am.”

The junior, competing in the event since she was 10, ran her fastest time in seven years. She said it all started when McCobb took her and a group of girls out to train for a Montauk triathlon when she supervised a club out of the YMCA East Hampton RECenter.

The coach said she had no doubt what Tarbet was capable of.

The 16-year-old, who has two more years left in which she can race in the

Hamptons Youth Triathlon, said the event was her warmup for the July 21 Montauk Lighthouse Triathlon.

“She does it for fun and she’s an amazing athlete — she’s strong, stays fit all year,” McCobb said. “She has a great attitude. She’s a competitor.”

The Bridgehampton National Bank-sponsored event benefited iTri. While Tarbet said she was never a part of it, many of her friends went through the program, so she knows a lot about it.

“I think it’s helped so many people,” she said. “I know so many girls

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Tarbet said she wouldn’t have signed up if it wasn’t for Sharon McCobb, her cross country assistant coach who is the former president of Old Montauk Athletic Club and current athletic director and triathlon coach for i-Tri Girls, a nonprofit organization that teaches girls about believing in themselves and their peers.

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By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Mental health services, career counseling, and long-term rehabilitative care are provided free for young wounded veterans by the Wounded Warrior Project.

Those in the Hamptons Saturday can show support for these veterans participating in the organization’s Soldier Ride.

“It’s always great to be part of this ride,” said East Hampton resident Nicholas Kraus, who has participated in Wounded Warrior Project events across the country the last 16 years. Kraus is co-owner of The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett. “Working with friends and people that I didn’t know that I now call my friends on such a great event is really special.”

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an from when they first arrive — uncertain for what they signed up for, in a new environment, maybe still even recovering and only out for the weekend to ride with us. Seeing them come out of their shell by the end of the ride, making new friends, realizing they can still do things they doubted they could still do . . . It’s more than riding a bike, it’s often a gamechanger,” Kraus said.

The course cruises along stretches of beach, waterfronts, and farmland from 9 to 11 AM July 20. Registration at Amagansett Farm begins at 7 AM, an opening ceremony starts at 8:30, and there’s a post-ride community picnic to follow the event.

“I’m not sure if people understand the kind of impact Soldier Ride can make

on someone’s life,” said Staff Sergeant Thomas Kowolenko. “It’s not just a bike ride. The influences of that program allowed me to communicate with my wife and family on a deeper and more honest level.”

Montauk Ocean Swim Challenge Water lovers are invited to get wet for a good cause by taking part in the 11th annual Montauk Ocean Swim Challenge on Saturday, July 20, to benefit construction of the future aquatic center at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center.

Three distance categories — half mile, mile, and 5K — are available for swimmers of all ages and abilities. Each distance swim will have separate youth and adult divisions.

Swimmer check-in and same-day registration opens at 5:30 AM in the Ditch Plains Beach parking lot. The 5K ($55 in advance and $70 day of) begins at 6:30 AM, the one-mile ($40 in advance and $55 day of) at 7:30 and the half-mile ($25 in advance and $40 day off) at 8. A medal ceremony and a post-swim breakfast will begin at 9. Complete race details and online registration are available at montaukplayhouse.org/oceanswim/.

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Links at 28 golf courses in state parks, including Sag Harbor and Montauk, will be open free to children 18 and younger on Saturday, July 20, as part of the state’s Junior Golf Day.

Meant to encourage the next generation to take up the sport, the program offers a free, 18-hole round to state residents.

“To the youth out there who already love to play, or might want to learn: This round is on us,” said State Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid.

“We want to encourage as many young people as possible.”

Sag Harbor State Golf Course and Montauk Downs are among those partaking in the program.

“We are thrilled that New York State officials are providing a Junior Golf Day,” said Brianna Sovring, Player Development Director at Central New York PGA. “Golf is a lifelong outdoor sport that teaches core values such as honesty, integrity, and sense of community. A free youth golf day helps break down all entry barriers into the game and allows those from all economic backgrounds the ability to play golf.”

The youth program does not guarantee a tee-time, so participants are urged to contact the appropriate golf course in advance to make a reservation.

Online information on locating a course, as well as program terms and conditions, can be found at www.parks.ny.gov/golf.

Most state parks have a four- to sevenday window for accepting reservations.

Walk-ins are also welcomed, based on availability.

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I’m pretty sure that the number of readers who have attended a true Irish wake is pretty high. For those of you that have, you’ll fully understand that the Irish know how to have a good time. The Open Championship is being played in Northern Ireland, specifically Royal Portrush, for the first time in 68 years, and I can only imagine the incredible atmosphere that will surround this final major of 2019.

The one undeniable fact that I have learned from both my trips to Ireland to play golf and my personal relationships with Rory McIlroy, Darren

Clarke, and Royal Portrush local hero, Gramme McDowell, is that the Irish love to play and to watch golf. I got to know Gramme very well when we were working together on Irish television while covering the Ryder Cup in 2006.

To this day, I always enjoy congratulating McDowell on his remarkable comeback from working television with me to being a U.S. Open Champion just four years later. Certainly, a comeback for the ages.

The tickets went on sale last fall, and it didn’t take very long at all to sell out. Then, last month the R&A decided

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The last time the Open was at Portrush was back in 1951, and a very colorful Englishman by the name of Max Faulkner was the Champion Golfer of the Year. Faulkner, the son of a golf pro, was quite talented in several sports. In fact, while serving in World War II, his assignment was as a physical training instructor. Faulkner was also very interested in boxing, and he was so good he won the base boxing championship.

Faulkner had a lot of talent to play golf and had his own way of playing the game. When he won that 1951 Claret Jug, all his clubs were the same length.

Oddly enough, current PGA Tour player, Bryson DeChambeau, also plays with equal length clubs . . . maybe Bryson has the right idea.

There’s little doubt that Northern Ireland native Rory McIlroy will have the majority of fans pulling for their favorite son. Back when Rory was 16 years old, he crafted a sweet little course record 61 around Royal Portrush to win the Northern Ireland Boys Amateur Championship. Sweet memories for sure.

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this Open, I’m amazed that I just don’t have a feel for who might come out on top. From my media perch, it would be a huge story if one of the Irish boys brings it home or if Tiger could chalk up Major Championship win #16, which would bring him within two major wins of Jack Nicklaus. That would set the golf world on fire and the media buzz would be huge.

However, Tiger has not teed it up since he finished tied for 21st at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and, even though he says the prolonged break will give him the best chance to win, I think he will be very hard-pressed to do well. In fact, Tiger played a practice round this past Sunday on Royal Portrush and sources say he looked stiff and perhaps a little rusty. But, Tiger is Tiger and we never know which one will show up. So, with no great feeling for who is going to win, I turned to my brother Tom for his keen insight. As we were leaving my brother’s house for JFK for our flight to Ireland, Tom said to watch out for Jason Day. I have covered over 125 major championships and all the elements are at Portrush for it to be one of the best ever. I sincerely hope it won’t be another 68 years before it returns.

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William Graham and Kieran McGuire are two guys with a $12,000 toy that anyone can experience for roughly $300. Their company, Elevated East, which officially launched June 1, allows customers to rent a Lift eFoil (that’s the $12,000 toy) for 90 minutes. But what’s an eFoil? In short, it’s a motorized wakeboard that allows riders to hover above the water like

Supergirl (or Superman).

The longer explanation: The Lift eFoil uses a “hydrodynamic torpedo design to raise riders up on the hydrofoil to literally fly above water” using a “lithium-ion battery to power a silent electric motor.” All of this is controlled by a waterproof, wireless handheld throttle that uses Bluetooth technology to power the board for at least one

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hour. As you cut through the water, you will float above the horizon at speeds that can reach over 25 mph.

All of this aquatic technology intrigued me as I met up with the guys at Long Beach in Sag Harbor one morning. After a quick tutorial on the shore, I put my safety booties on (they can’t get stuck in the propeller, which automatically shuts off once the throttle hits the water anyway), life vest, and helmet. The closest thing I came to doing something this unique in the water was flyboarding — that crazy device that rockets you up into the air like Iron Man (I like my comic book references).

The eFoil was a completely different experience.

Like many people on Long Island, I grew up around surfing, and it seemed my muscles remembered the feeling.

As I gently pressed the throttle, I went from laying flat on my stomach to progressing onto my knees before fully standing upright — as instructed. But, as Kieran pointed out, I popped up on the board without much use of the in between. Look ma, no hands!

The Lift eFoil uses a “hydrodynamic torpedo design to raise riders up on the hydrofoil to literally fly above water”

As I glided across Noyac Bay, I felt invincible. My toes guiding the board’s direction, eyes taking in the scenery, arms spread open at times like an eagle. Heart racing, mind calm. Invigorated, yet completely at peace. It was a feeling unlike anything else. With surfing, you need a wave. With wakeboarding, you need a boat. With the eFoil, all you need is open water. I didn’t need to rely on anything other than my desire to keep lifting up.

My legs and abs definitely felt a bit sore the next day from constantly stabilizing the board. As a beginner, I didn’t quite get the air I hoped for. But I still got that natural high, the rush from the experience.

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the window, because we will be abandoning those two sites.� Collins said a filtration system is a “no-brainer.�

“With the iron filtration system, it’s two clean wells that you never have to think about again,� Collins said. “And the iron is not 1.0, it’s not .5. It’s zero.�

The chipping of well 4-2, a one million gallon tank, has been an issue for years, according to Collins. While it does not currently affect the water, he said continued chipping could corrode the tank further.

“It’s coming off in sheets and flakes,� Collins said. “I wouldn’t put it off anymore. You’ll start affecting the substrate, the steel. I think it’s time now.�

Blame was put on the previous contractors, who he said did not sandblast the tank prior to recoating it.

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Another way to potentially solve the problem is to drill two new wells deeper than the originals. First, a $100,000 test well would need to be put in. Between getting the design in order, a contract negotiated, the well constructed, and water samples back from the lab, the district may run out of time to get the issue solved by next summer. The results, according to Collins, could very well come back worse based on the history of the site.

The two wells would cost $2.5 million to install. James Kappers, a maintenance crew leader, said it would be a waste of the $200,000 already spent to refurbish the wells.

“They’re cleaned out and ready to go,� he said. “If we put two new wells in, it’s like we’re throwing money out

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While the low water pressure has not been made a priority necessarily, Supervisor Jay Schneiderman sees it as such.

“The fact that homeowners can’t flush a toilet or take a shower on the second story of their house is a problem,� he said. “To me, we’d want to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to make sure that our customers have the best level of service.�

The installation of two booster pumps costing $250,000 that would service 550 to 600 homes east of the Shinnecock Canal would be the solution, according to Collins. The first pump would run during off-peak hours, and the second, a larger pump, would kick with increased water usage, line when irrigation systems are being used.

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said, adding that the money is either going to come out of the district’s water rates, “or if it goes to Suffolk County Water Authority, that’s going to come out of that.�

Suffolk County Water Authority promised to tackle $14 million worth of infrastructure upgrades under a contract that would make the nonprofit the managers of the district — $6.1 million of which would be completed in the first three years.

Schneiderman said the board is still planning to put the fate of the water district to a public vote, but only after D & B Architects completes its evaluation. “There’s no going to Suffolk County Water Authority without a public vote — customers can weigh the two options,� he said. “We know that people don’t want brown water.

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