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Chauncy Thomas and Joe Pallister in a scene from Bay Street’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” part of the Literature Live! program. Independent/Michael Heller

more important, financial gain or pride in who you are and what you represent?

Even though her children have big dreams, Lena remembers a time when African Americans still picked cotton and were the subjects of lynch mobs and outward hatred.

“Once upon a time, freedom used to be life,” says Lena quietly, in a telling moment. “Now it’s money. I guess the world really did change.”

“It was always money,” Walter responds. “We just didn’t know it.”

Walter Lee, played with blinding brilliance by Chauncy Thomas, is Willie Loman a decade after that play was a hit; a man who has big dreams and ambitions, passionate and volatile, pushed to the brink in a dead-end job.

His sister, Beneatha (Cassia Thompson), is a feminist intellectual 20-year-old on her way to being a doctor and social activist, wooed by two men who are exact opposites — the assimilated and wealthy George Murchison (Michael Chenevert) and Joseph Asagai (Jonathan Farrington), a Nigerian exchange student with plans to go back to Africa, and who provides Benny with a heaping dose of truth about herself.

Walter’s wife, Ruth (Erin Margaret Pettigrew), is the glue of the family, and has her own dreams and secrets. There’s also young Travis (Kaden Amari Anderson), and Justin Jarrell as Bobo. Joe Pallister plays the only Caucasian, Karl Lindner — inside joke to local audiences; Pallister played the same part in Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park,” a spin-off of “Raisin,“ when produced in 2012 by the Hampton Theatre Company.

The whole cast is stellar, and received a standing ovation on opening night, and apparently at the school matinees as well. Lydia Fort directs the 95-minute production with deftness, sensitivity, and vision, and as always, the sets and costumes, lighting, and sound are superb.

The story is based on Hansberry’s own experiences as her father battled in court to reverse “red-lined” communities and move to an all-white neighborhood. She died of cancer at only 34 years old, but not before seeing “Raisin“ translated into more than two dozen languages and performed around the world. And all of this before the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which came shamefully late in this country’s time-

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The title is from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred?/Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Don’t let this one get away. In production through December 1, tickets are available at www.baystreet.org.

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Bay Street’s ‘A Raisin In The Sun:’ Dreams Deferred

Standout cast in ever-timely production

‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is qualified as an African-American play, since most of the cast is black, racism is one of the main issues, and assimilation and segregation are themes explored.

But Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 Broadway hit has always appealed to audiences regardless of color — it’s a hard-hitting look at the American Dream which, it seems, has to do with coming into a large amount of money without actually working for it, a sadbut-true unflinching look at the only country which has the words “pursuit of happiness” as part of its credo.

The play — part of Bay Street’s Literature Live! series which offers matinees over the course of the run to local schools and educators for free, and evening shows for regular theatergoers — centers on the Younger family, living in a cramped apartment in a racially segregated area of Chicago.

Lena, the widowed matriarch, is about to come into a $10,000 life insurance policy from her husband, and her two children who live with her, along with her son’s wife and child, all have plans for the money.

Lena (beautifully portrayed by Cooki Winborn) has a dream is to buy a house for her family, and she uses some of the money to put a down payment on a real home. But it’s in a white neighborhood, as she and her family are painfully reminded when visited by a member of Clybourne Park’s civic association, who offers to buy them out.

The Youngers are then faced with the question, as is the audience: What is

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It’s a hardhitting look at the American Dream which, it seems, has to do with coming into a large amount of money without actually working for it.

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The New Trestle Photos by Richard Lewin There may not have been a ribbon at the MTA/LIRR ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday morning, November 15, at the new North Main Street trestle, but the same feeling of accomplishment was in the air.

Representatives from the MTA/LIRR, East Hampton Village Hall, East Hampton Village Fire Department, MTA Police, and politicians joined a group with the Bridge Replacement Project, to celebrate its completion. Vanessa Lockel from the MTA/LIRR Government and Community Affairs Department moderated, and introduced the four speakers: Chris Calvagna, svp/LIRR Engineering; Anthony Simon, Sheet Metal Air Rail Transportation General Chairman; Assemblyman Fred Thiele; and East Hampton Village Mayor Paul Rickenbach.

Farmers Market Painting Party Photo by Bridget LeRoy The Riverhead Farmers Market reopens November 30, every Saturday through the winter, so there was a rush for many of the founders and vendors to pretty up the space prior to that. Seen here: Kate Fullam of East End Food Institute, Holly Browder of Browder’s Birds, Aki Goldberg Terwilliger of Aki’s Kitchen, Peggie Ehlers of Nuna Knits, Rayna Stephens and Rachel Stephens of Sweet Woodland Farm, Cindy Young of Tend Coffee, and Ludmilla Benevides of Milla’s Puffs.

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Secret Meeting Dear Rick, Jim Denn here from the Public Service Commission.

Read your story about the recent settlement conference in the Deepwater proceeding in East Hampton. Sorry you hadn’t called me before so I could explain the process better to you.

Since you are following this issue, please note the following website, documents.dps.ny.gov, where all documents related to the proceeding are housed, including a public meeting notice issued October 23 that announced the meeting you covered (it was not “secret”).

Jim Denn Editor’s note: Posting the meeting notice on a NYS website does not alter the fact that East Hampton citizens were not told a valuable meeting hall would be summarily closed to the public without warning.

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Impeachable Offenses Dear Editor, Article Two of the U.S. Constitution states “The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

The current impeachment inquiry by the U.S. House of Representatives against President Trump is focusing on the allegation he tried to bribe and/ or extort President Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens in the run up to the 2020 election in exchange for $400 million in foreign aid to Ukraine.

The investigation of the Bidens did not occur and the $400 million in aid was subsequently given to Ukraine. Therefore, no bribery or extortion occurred.

But did President Trump’s actions meet the test of “high crimes and misdemeanors”?

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News & Opinion Flanders, Riverside Receive CDBG Funding Hamlets allot federal money for park projects

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

An aerial view of the proposed 14-acre maritime park along the Peconic River in Riverside. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town

The communities of Flanders and Riverside rejoiced upon hearing a majority of the $250,000 in Community Development Block Grant money will be used toward projects in their hamlets.

Southampton Town Director of Housing & Community Development Diana Weir said $70,000 will be used to cover engineering and beginning planning costs for the Riverside Maritime Park, a $3-million project; $40,000 will be used to add sidewalks, fence, and clean up Riverside’s Ludlam Avenue Park; $40,000 will smooth out the entrance of North Sea’s Iron Point Park and make it Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant; and $20,000 will be combined with matching funds from last year to construct a bus stop shelter along Flanders Road.

“These are going to be great projects,” Weir said. “We’re going to be able to do a lot for that community, and to see it come to life is exciting.”

The director of community development said Iron Point Park’s entrance has been difficult to navigate for some time. That project, done in conjunction with the highway department, will be phased in over two years, with the hope of applying for more funding next year to continue to cover the costs of

repaving and adding a ramp. Weir said she also toured Ludlam Avenue Park with members of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to show the members how the money was used.

“They loved the park,” she said.

“It looks beautiful. And I was proud to walk them around.”

Flanders, Riverside, and Northampton Community Association President Vince Taldone had advocated for three bus stop shelters back in October 2018.

“It’s very much needed there,” Weir said. “That’s a high-traffic area.”

The town will designate $10,000 to the code enforcement department to offset overtime costs for patrolmen and women in Riverside and Flanders.

This was a suggestion made by Councilwoman Julie Lofstad, who was looking to address quality of life issues.

Catholic Home Care, Maureen’s Haven, SEPA Mujer, the Children’s Museum of the East End, and Heart of the Hamptons will all receive $5000. Weir said only a certain amount can be expended to not-for-profits.

“There are several projects we’ve been looking to move forward with parks, recreation, children’s services —

it’s important,” Taldone said. “Money to start making parks accessible and usable is an amenity to the redevelopment work we’re doing here. These communities are growing.”

Juliana Lopez, a Flanders resident and member of SEPA Mujer, a nonprofit working to support immigrant women by giving them a voice and pushing for social change, said the program has been lifechanging, and thanks the town for its support through the funding allocation.

“I just became a citizen,” she said, “and the organization has provided a space for me to become an empowered woman in the Latino community and to give back to my community.”

Another SEPA Mujer member and Bridgehampton resident said she believes funding to keep the educational courses going is important. She is learning to speak English through the program, and can now advocate for her son’s education.

Siris Barrios, SEPA Mujer’s secretary, and a community liaison for Riverside Rediscovered, stepped down to move to Ecuador to work with her family in the dragon fruit business. Barrios had been instrumental in several local projects, including bringing businesses

with upper-floor apartments around the traffic circle.

“I don’t know how we would have done all this without her,” Taldone said.

Barrios was born in El Salvador and grew up in Los Angeles. She said she is keeping her house in Hampton Bays and will visit to see how the projects are progressing.

“Coming together as a community — as one — has been such a life lesson for me,” she said. “The town board members have been great advocates on behalf of the Riverside, Flanders, Northampton community these past few years. The CDBG money continues to support us.”

Weir said the town will renew funding applications for the maritime park in Riverside to help offset the cost as long as pieces of the project are eligible.

The block grant is created with federal funds that is distributed through Suffolk County. When Weir first began working with the town in 2017, it had not applied for any grant money, and received $90,000 her first year on staff.

“We’re going to pump it up as much as we can,” Weir said. “As long as we keep spending, we’ll receive more money in the future.”

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East Hampton Tunes Up Music Law While some call for eliminating permits, town board crafts new bill

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

Legislation regulating music permits, always a hot button issue for the East Hampton Town Board, was on the agenda Tuesday, November 19, with NancyLynn Thiele of the town attorney’s office scheduled to brief the board on an updated proposal.

The topic resulted in sour notes expressed from local musicians the week before, during the board’s November 12 meeting at the Montauk Fire Department’s hall. The meeting was less heated than one that occurred in March, when Town Hall was packed with opponents of the legislation, led by local songwriter and musician Nancy Atlas.

On November 12, Atlas, who introduced herself by her married name, Nancy Atlas Muse, described herself as “a professional musician who makes her living, and quite honestly,

is at the top of the food chain” of the East Hampton music scene. “Music is the essence of this town,” she said. “It brings in tourism, it brings in money.”

The tourists, she said, “want to be entertained.” She called Montauk, in particular, a “music town.”

Joe Lauro, who lives in Sag Harbor but performs often in East Hampton as part of a nine-piece jazz band, The HooDoo Loungers, was worried that musicians were being equated with “leaf blowers” in the portion of the law regulating decibel levels. He said that the 55-decibel level was too low, adding that his voice, as he spoke to the board, probably exceeded that number. He suggested raising the number to 65 decibels.

Another who addressed the board was Lynn Blumenfeld, who performs with the Lynn Blue Band. She said that music venues were being targeted by a

small handful of complainers unhappy with the noise level. “Why do we need permits?” she asked.

Not everyone was a musician who spoke that night. Anthony Sosinski, a commercial fisherman, suggested that the town could charge for parking in Montauk for out-of-towners to help defray the costs of clean up and policing when local music festivals are held.

Lynn Calvo, the owner of Hula Hut in the dock area, said her clientele is family oriented. However, she wants the hours live music can be played to be extended from 9 PM to 10 PM.

After the public comments, Paul Monte, the head of the town’s business advisory committee, read a letter from the committee expressing their feelings about the legislation.

One of the major problems with the law that was proposed in March

regulating the denial of a music permit was that it cited violations against an establishment, not convictions, as the criteria. Board members agreed that denying a music permit based on citations rather than convictions was a denial of due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Monte went on to tell the board that the standard for denial should be three convictions for zoning violations such as noise levels in any calendar year. If a business is denied a permit, it would have the right to an appeal before the town’s licensing review board, a change from the law proposed in March, in which the appeal would be heard by the town board.

“Our goal is not to restrict music,” Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said, but rather to regulate it in an orderly fashion.

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Social Security Scam Nets Millions Phone callers are sophisticated con men

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Sometimes a phone call will come in that is so obviously suspect people realize right away the caller is a seasoned scam artist.

But be forewarned, as attorney generals across the country and many other agencies repeatedly caution: some callers are sophisticated con men who are experts at separating people from their hard-earned money.

The Federal Trade Commission warned about a growing scheme that has been making rounds the past few weeks.

Callers pretend to be from the United States Social Security Administration, and try to get your Social Security number or your money. That scam is now growing exponentially. In 2017, we heard from 3200 people about

Social Security imposter scams, and those people reported losing nearly $210,000. That, as it turned out, was the tip of the iceberg.

The ominous phone caller, a male, begins speaking in slow, measured voice: “Enforcement agencies will suspend your Social Security number on an immediate basis as we have received suspicious trails of information in your name. The moment you receive this message, get back to me on my department-issued toll-free number, 888952-5554. Verify the last four digits of your Social Security number when you call to better assist you with this issue now. A warrant for your arrest will be issued under your name.”

According to the Federal Trade Commission’s Assistant Director of

Consumer and Business Education, Jennifer Leach, the real goal is to engage you in conversation and extract information from you.

“Sometimes, the scammer wants you to confirm your Social Security number to reactivate it,” Leach said.

“Sometimes, he’ll say your bank account is about to be seized — but he’ll tell you what to do to keep it safe. Often, that involves putting your money on gift cards and giving him the codes — which, of course, means that your money is gone.”

Oh, and your caller ID often shows the real Social Security Administration phone number — 1-800-772-1213 — when these scammers call, but they’re faking the number.

On a related front, open enrollment season for Medicare recipients is underway, and so are those related phone scams. Recipients must decide what type of plan he or she wants, or can make changes to existing plans through Medicare or the Affordable Care Act. You have until December 7 or December 15, respectively, to make any changes. As you compare your options, watch out for scams. Anyone who tries to sell you Medicare insurance while claiming to be an “official Medicare agent” is a scammer. There are no Medicare sales representatives.

“Ignore anyone who says you must join a prescription drug plan to keep your Medicare coverage,” the Federal Trade Commission states in a press release. “The Medicare prescription drug plan, also known as Part D, is voluntary and has nothing to do with the rest of your Medicare coverage.”

Never give information over the phone to someone who says he or she needs it so you can keep your coverage. Hang up on anyone who asks for a quick payment, threatens you, or offers you free equipment or services in exchange for information.

If you need help with Medicare, call 1-800-MEDICARE or go to www. medicare.gov.

“You can see how sophisticated this is, and how legitimate they seem to people,” said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, who held a press conference over the winter when the number of phone scams on Long Island began to spike. “If someone is calling, and they seem to be a real source, do not turn over money without verifying through another source.”

Officials said it is imperative to realize your Social Security number is not about to be suspended. You don’t have to verify your number to anyone who calls out of the blue. And your bank accounts are not about to be seized.

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Alternate Landfall Options To Be Discussed Deepwater may unveil an alternative landing site for wind cable

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Deepwater Wind is ready to discuss bringing the cable from its wind farm to an alternate location in Montauk, and away from Wainscott, according to reports. Independent/Rick Murphy

“Settlement negotiations” will continue between Deepwater Wind South Fork and interested parties in the coming week. The talks began in East Hampton on November 8 and will be reconvened Wednesday, November 20, with an additional session the following day.

The meetings are scheduled for East Hampton Town Hall and are closed to the public. The matter of moving the entry point for the offshore cable away from Wainscott and into Montauk will be discussed at that time.

A group of well-funded Wainscott residents have vowed to stop the process if it involves a Beach Lane landing in the hamlet.

“Alternative landfall options and terrestrial routes” will be the subject of the discussions.

A second proposed landing site, on state land in Hither Hills, is also on the table as an alternative landing site to Wainscott, but there is significant opposition from the business community. It entails burying a cable along Montauk Highway for almost 11 miles.

Deepwater is reportedly set to offer yet another landing site with a goal of getting some of the “interveners” — interested parties — to agree to move forward through the process, known as an Article 7 hearing.

According to James Denn, an infor-

mation officer for the NY Public Service Commission, the settlement conference is underway, “to explore what the issues are” and to move the Deepwater application further along by identifying “areas of commonality.” There are currently 63 parties who have signed on as interveners.

Many have agreed to sign non-disclosure forms in return for being allowed to attend the settlement talks. That’s because they may be made privy to information that could rightfully be considered outside the public’s purview, Denn said.

East Hampton’s Zach Cohen is among them.

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Cohen filed an analysis that refutes a recent cost estimate made by the Long Island Power Authority for the Deepwater electricity generated by the wind turbines. He estimated it would cost six times as much. He was also highly critical of the entire project.

“Deepwater Wind South Fork would provide little energy compared to other new wind farms. What it provides is not needed because the other large wind farms will be built soon. The DWSF electricity price is absurdly high.

Its sub-station and cable installation in East Hampton have strong opposition — most of it correct,” he stated.

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Tommy John Schiavoni is a Southampton Town councilman. Independent/Desirée Keegan

Schiavoni Will Run For State Senate Southampton councilman battling popular incumbent

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Stating he was “uniquely qualified,” Southampton Town Councilman and North Haven resident Tommy John Schiavoni announced Friday, November 15, he will run for the New York state senate seat currently held by Ken LaValle.

Schiavoni is a former member of the North Haven Village Board, Sag Harbor School Board, and is a retired teacher.

“Over one-third of the state budget is spent on education,” Schiavoni pointed out. “As a teacher for 30 years in Center Moriches, I can bring new energy and a new vision to Albany.”

A Democrat, Schiavoni, was easily elected to the Southampton Town board in 2017, and will retain that seat should he lose in his bid for senate.

LaValle, a moderate Republican, is 80 and has held his seat since 1976.

He did not immediately return calls for comment.

“I don’t plan on attacking him. I don’t believe in contentious elections,” Schiavoni said. “A lot of enabling legislation needs to happen in Albany.”

Schiavoni spent his entire life in the district, and is now raising his family there. He hopes to take this native knowledge to the state capital to address the environmental, economic,

and public-health issues unique to the communities of eastern Suffolk County.

“The environment is precious and intertwined with the day-to-day lives of all of us here. Our health, small businesses, land values, and peace of mind depend on clean water, tended green spaces and beaches, and a comprehensive approach to eliminating tick-borne illnesses,” Schiavoni said. “We need to reallocate funds for the Clean Water Infrastructure Act while helping municipalities keep taxes low and housing affordable.”

Schiavoni began working in his family’s heating and plumbing business at age 12, and continued in the trade through high school, college, and summers when he began teaching.

“At the top of the list of things to do legislatively is to enable the establishment of local sewer districts for the health of our residents and waterways,” Schiavoni said. “Also, as a retired educator, I’ll be able to examine the funding of public schools, which represents more than 30 percent of the state’s total budget and significant portions of local taxes.”

Schiavoni launched his candidacy for state senate with a website and public relations video, viewable at www.tommyjohnfornewyork.com.

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The Long Island Rail Road runs three trains daily to service commuters who work on the South Fork but live west of the canal. The first departs Speonk at 6:16 AM, terminating at Amagansett; the second departs from Hampton Bays at 8:26 AM and the third leaves Speonk at 3 PM, both traveling to Montauk. The train from Speonk to Montauk operates Saturday through Thursday.

JoAnne Pahwul, the head of the East Hampton Town Planning Department, said business is booming for the program, which launched in March, saying it has spurred significant growth in overall railroad usage.

Pahwul crunched the numbers for the board, saying there were 324 tickets sold the first month. That doubled by the height of the summer season, and there have been 3700 tickets sold to date. Total ridership of those going from one South Fork town or hamlet to another has more than doubled. In the summer of 2018, the LIRR sold 742 oneway tickets to local users between Spedrop can streamline ticket purchases onk and Montauk. That rose to 2538 in while increasing ridership.

2019. From January to August, local rid State Assemblyman Fred ership doubled from 15,000 to 30,000.

Thiele proposed the $1 surcharge be

An audience member at the town dropped after statistics showed ridermeeting asked if there were plans to ship through connected bus services start running the late commuter train dropped when compared to a pilot proon Fridays as well. Town Supervisor gram conducted 10 years ago. Then, the Peter Van Scoyoc explained that is curbus service was free. Thiele got state rently not feasible because of the train representatives to urge the funding be used by thousands of weekenders that secured in the state budget, and the depart Penn Station on Fridays at 4:06 Long Island Rail Road will be rebating PM. The South Fork is a single-track the towns affiliated with the commuter line, so one solution might be for the connection service. The change will LIRR to create additional sidings along take effect beginning Monday, January the South Fork line. The ideal scenario 13. is to run a train between Southampton

East Hampton Town is looking Village and Montauk throughout the Hampton Hopper shuttle bus service to pass a similar resolution, discussed day. fee from the train station to local busiduring a November 12 meeting at the

The Long Island Rail Road has ness centers is included in that cost.

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Opioid Must Be Specified In Overdose Cases Governor Cuomo signs requirement on death certificates into law

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation this month requiring death certificates in cases of opioid overdose specify which opioid was involved in the death, if known. This new law requires that information be recorded so that more data will be available to better address the opioid crisis.

“New York has taken the most aggressive actions to combat the opioid crisis of any other state in the country,” Cuomo said. “This commonsense law will go a great length to ensure we have the most accurate information to be able to stop this public health scourge once and for all.”

Under current law, if a person dies of an opioid overdose, there is no requirement that the death certificate specify which opioid was involved.

The legislation signed took effect immediately.

“The opioid crisis continues to wreak havoc in communities across our state, claiming countless lives each and every year. It has shown us that addiction knows no bounds and will

often hold its victims powerless until it’s too late,” Assemblyman Fred Thiele said. “We must continue to do everything we can to prevent addiction, increase access to treatment, and ensure those suffering are not forgotten or ignored. This new commonsense law requires the disclosure of the specific type of opioid that caused the death of an individual on a death certificate, and provides us with another useful tool to better understand and combat the opioid crisis.”

Senator John Brooks said the nation has been faced with the issue for far too long.

“There was no requirement that the death certificate include the specific opioid involved. This has led to a lack of information about which types of opioids are the most deadly,” Brooks said. “By recording this information, more data will be available to better track which opioids are causing the most deaths, and more communities in need will be better equipped to combat the crisis.”

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SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

The Kid Who Was ‘Different’ An empty chair at the Thanksgiving table denishamill@gmail.com

At age 10, bullies drove him to suicide.

Some kids leave a mark on this world when they leave it.

Such a child was Jamari Terrell Williams, a “different” kid from Montgomery, AL, but he could have gone to any school in the country from here on the East End of Long Island to East L.A. Bullying is a national plague and it affects the struggling students, and the best and the brightest, like Jamari with a 3.8 GPA in elementary school. He was a kid who could dance like a Broadway hoofer, calculate any equation in math, marveled at the infinity of science, and loved reading Goosebumps and listening to old school Motown like The Temptations and watching his favorite TV shows “Law & Order: SVU,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago Med,” and “Chicago PD.” “On Jamari’s last day on this Earth, I wish I had seen the signs to save him,” said Monique Davis, his mother, who has started a national anti-bullying campaign and launched the Jamari Williams Foundation in Jamari’s memory.

“I was the room monitor at his school that day and I remember kids throwing

eating utensils at Jamari. I didn’t single out any specific kid, but I walked to his table and told them all to never throw eating utensils at any child.”

Monique told me she also saw kids trip Jamari, make snide comments about his sexuality and receding hairline and dark skin, and ostracize him.

“That day Jamari asked me to take him home early from school,” Monique remembered. “I had other pressing appointments that day so I told him that I just couldn’t. He said ‘Okay,’ and went back to class.”

That night, when she picked him up from school, Monique had a dinner all prepared. “But Jamari asked if I could make him his favorite meal,” she said. “Baked beans and ground beef. I thought that was odd, because I had a different meal ready, but I said I’d go out and get the dinner he wanted. He also asked me to get three green apples.

I said I’d get a whole bag of apples. He said, ‘No, please just get three.’ I said, ‘Okay.’”

When she came home, Jamari ate one green apple and came out of his bedroom asking his mom if she thought

he was handsome. She said, yes, he was handsome. He ate another apple and came out of his room and asked if she thought his head was too large and his hairline too high.

“I told Jamari his head was larger than other kids because he was so smart and it was filled with knowledge,” Monique said. “I told him he had just as big a heart. He had a roomful of dancing trophies but he never, ever bragged about them. On Christmas, he would not open his gifts until he went to church first to give thanks, and then to the homeless shelter to bring gifts and serve food to poor families. Then, later, he would open his gifts.”

Monique said she once picked up Jamari and a young girl from school together. “The girl was hysterically crying because she did not make the jump rope team,” Monique recalled.

“Jamari told me to pull over and when we parked, he calmed down his friend, promising her that he would use his dance skills to train with her until she was good enough to make the team the next year. That helped her stop crying. And Jamari kept that promise. He trained with her almost every day. I told Jamari that all those things made him different. Especially from the bullies that picked on him.”

On that last night, Jamari ate the third green apple and asked her if his skin was too dark.

“I told him absolutely not,” said Monique. “My other two children were over 11 years older than Jamari and have a different biological daddy than Jamari. He was my miracle child the doctors said I would never have.

So, I told him the darkness of his skin, which was made fun of by white kids and other African American schoolmates in his gifted children class, was something he should be proud of. Every child is unique. We’re all different.

We should celebrate being different.”

After his third apple, Jamari ate all of his favorite dinner of ground beef

and baked beans and went to his room.

“I didn’t hear from him for a little while so I went to check on him,” Monique said.

That’s when Monique Davis discovered that her beautiful and “different” son Jamari had ended his own life at the age of 10.

“On his X-box I saw all these horrible messages from other kids making fun of him, saying he was gay because he was a dancer, ridiculing the shape of his head, and mocking the shade of his skin.”

After recovering from the initial sadness, Monique Davis started the Jamari Terrell Williams Foundation and has persuaded Governor Kay Adams of Alabama to change the antiharassment law on the books to an anti-bullying law. Monique travels the country lecturing school children on the dangers of bullying, telling kids to take pride in being “different” and urging students not to tolerate bullying in their circles.

“I miss my Jamari every single day,” she says. “I never learned the reason he wanted just three green apples.

I wish he had left a note. He didn’t. But he left me with a mission in life that keeps him alive for me.”

She says that when she stares at the empty chair at the Thanksgiving table this year, she will give thanks that Jamari’s suicide wasn’t in vain, that his story might save some other kid from leaving an empty chair at another family’s holiday table.

If one kid isn’t picked on because one bully is put in his place, then Jamari is still alive.

“Remember that little girl who could not stop crying?” Monique said. “Well, because Jamari practiced so hard with her, not long after my son’s death she made the jump rope team. The kid who was different had made a difference. Different is special.

That’s the message I want to spread at Thanksgiving.”

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By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Long Island Sports Park in Calverton will transform into a festival of lights and magic for the second annual Riverhead Light Show on Friday, November 22, at 5 PM and will remain open on select dates and times through December 29.

Guests can expect larger-than-life displays, towering above three stories high, with lengths over 100 feet. Stay warm in your vehicle as you cruise through the dazzling displays for 20 to 25 minutes, the largest drive-through light show in Suffolk County.

“Last year, the light show had amazing attendance, bringing people from every zip code on Long Island. We are happy to bring back this Long Island tradition and hope everyone is excited to see our new displays,” said Amanda Sanderlin, director of events at BOLD Media, the parent company operating the event in Calverton. “This holiday season we plan on bringing back tens of thousands of people into Riverhead, and while they’re here, they will shop and dine throughout the town.”

The event draws in crowds from all over the area, and with crowds come an

influx of business during an otherwise quiet season. New this year is a photo op with Santa at Hotel Indigo and Bistro 72.

Children, and adults, will get the opportunity to have a real heart-to-heart with the jolly man himself and explain why they’ve been especially good this year.

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throughout Light Show’s remainder, including the YMCA of Long Island and the Butterfly Effect Project.

Long Island Sports Park is located at 149 Edwards Avenue. Packaged tickets are available. Carload tickets are $23, in advance or $25 at the entrance.

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Police Patchita Tennant Pleads Not Guilty Attempted murder charged, EH CVS manager remains free on bond

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

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Patchita Tennant, the Flanders woman who allegedly tried to murder her longtime boyfriend by shooting him with a .38 caliber revolver three times September 5, was arraigned on four felony charges in the courtroom of New York State Supreme Court Justice John Collins in Riverside November 13. Through her attorney Austin Manghan, Tennant entered not guilty pleas to all four charges, which include attempted murder, two assault in the first-degree charges, and criminal possession of a weapon. Collins agreed to have the $500,000 bond Tennant’s family posted on her behalf September 10, transferred from Southampton Town Justice Court, where she was originally arraigned September 7.

She had surrendered to police September 6 in the company of Manghan, after a short manhunt by the Southampton Town Police, who had erroneously believed that Tennant was trying to escape and had her three-year-old daughter with her, according to Manghan.

The young girl, whose father is the alleged victim, Andrew Silas Mitchell, turned up safe at a relative’s house before Tennant surrendered.

Collins’s courtroom was packed with friends and family of Tennant, a manager at the CVS pharmacy on

Pantigo Road in East Hampton. Tennant has not returned to work since the incident. One co-worker said, as she left the courthouse, that Tennant was the “best manager I have ever worked for.”

Manghan and many of Tennant’s friends have stated publicly that she was an abused woman, and that coworkers frequently helped her apply makeup to cover up bruises.

Tall and slim in stature, Tennant was calm and composed throughout the arraignment, and even smiled briefly as she left the courtroom. She huddled with Manghan in the hallway for about 15 minutes before leaving with her supporters.

Eric Aboulafia, the prosecutor on the case for Suffolk County District Attorney Tim Sini, said in court that Mitchell was shaving in the couple’s bathroom when Tennant, holding the gun, burst into the room. Aboulafia said that Tennant told Mitchell, “You are not going to marry me. I’m going to kill you, then kill myself.” Tennant then pulled the trigger on the .38 three times, the first two shots entering Mitchell’s chest, he said. Both the prosecution and Manghan agree that there was a struggle for the gun, with the third shot hitting Mitchell’s arm.

Aboulafia said that Mitchell was airlifted to Stony Brook University

Patchita Tennant shown here speaking with her attorney Austin Manghan after being arraigned in county court on an attempted murder charge November 13. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

Hospital, where a three-hour surgery was performed, saving his life. Mitchell remained in the hospital for eight days and had to have a portion of one of his lungs removed.

Collins warned Tennant that she must show up for each court date. Tennant’s passport, which she turned over after her initial arraignment in Southampton Town Justice Court September 7, has expired. The Jamaican-born Tennant is currently awaiting her new pass-

port, which should arrive within days, the court was told.

December 16 is her next court date.

Manghan said afterward that, while Tennant’s story about the course of events that led to the alleged shooting has remained consistent, the prosecution’s narrative has changed.

Manghan previously said that Tennant was “fighting for her life” during the struggle for the gun, and that the shooting was in self-defense.

East Hampton Village Police: Woman Stole Vase From 1770 House A Shelter Island woman was arrested by East Hampton Village police the morning of Thursday, November 14, accused of stealing a Moorcroft vase, valued at more than $3000, from The 1770 House on Main Street. The theft occurred on the night of November 5, the police said.

Kelci Anne McIntosh, 32, was visited at her home on Shelter Island by two detectives, who took her into custody, charging her with grand larceny and possession of stolen property. McIntosh, when confronted by police, allegedly turned the vase over

to the detectives.

McIntosh’s photograph had been picked out by a witness from a series of images the witness was shown. McIntosh was taken by police to the East Hampton Village Police headquarters, where she allegedly waived her Miranda rights, and signed a document admitting guilt.

She was released with an appearance ticket to be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court next month.

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Felony DWI Charges In East Hampton

During his arraignment the next morning, Elze’s driving privileges were revoked again for refusing the breath test at police headquarters.

East Hampton Village police’s arrest came earlier in the week. On the afternoon of November 11, Susan Rieland, 60, of East Hampton, was driving a 2017 Mini Cooper on Montauk Highway when she apparently passed out. The vehicle jumped the curb and crashed into the wall of the CVS Pharmacy opposite the Red Horse Market, according to police documents.

Rieland allegedly appeared intoxicated to the officers who arrived on scene, and she was charged with driving while intoxicated at the felony level, due to a prior conviction at the start of 2015.

She is quoted as telling police she did not remember what had happened in the moments before the crash.

After the crash, bleeding from her face, Rieland was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. There, she

Man’s driving privileges revoked, village police arrest woman after crash

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com East Hampton’s town and village police departments made arrests this past week on felony driving while intoxicated charges.

Town police pulled over David Elze, 37, of Amagansett, on Fort Pond Boulevard a little before midnight Friday. Police said the stop was made because Elze had a burned-out tail light on the 2006 Nissan Sentra he was driving. Police said he failed the November 15 sobriety tests and

was placed under arrest. At headquarters, he refused to take a breath test, police said.

Almost five years ago to the day, on November 20, 2014, Elze was convicted on a misdemeanor DWI charge, making the new charge a felony. Elze’s ability to drive in New York has now been revoked three times over, all rooted in that 2014 conviction. All this added up to an additional felony charge of unlicensed driving.

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agreed to have blood drawn to test the level of alcohol in her system.

Besides the felony charge, Rieland is also facing a misdemeanor charge for driving a car without an interlock ignition device in her car, required due to the previous conviction. The results of the test will likely be known when Rieland appears in court the day before Thanksgiving. She was released without bail.

Town police charged a Springs man with driving while intoxicated early Saturday morning November 16. Scott Raynor, 38, of East Hampton, was pulled over on Springs Fireplace Road in a 2002 Ford for allegedly swerving across lane lines. A breath test he took at police headquarters allegedly showed a reading of .16 of one percent, over twice the legal limit. After suspending his license, town Justice Lisa Rana ordered Raynor be released without bail. Because he took the breath test at headquarters, he is eligible for a hardship license, which would allow him to get to and from work, Rana said.

BWI Charge In Fatal Crash

Police say cell phone was weapon in domestic dispute

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com A Springs woman has been charged by East Hampton Town Police with assault as a violent felony. Syd Buitrago, 27, allegedly slammed her cell phone into her ex-boyfriend’s face, splitting his lip and breaking two front teeth.

The alleged incident occurred the night of November 15. According to the victim, Buitrago and he had recently begun texting each other after breaking up a relationship that lasted several years. When she showed up

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Buitrago did eventually leave, and the alleged victim went to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital to be treated. Buitrago was soon picked up by police.

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Southold Town Police have surmised the operator of a boat that smashed into a bulkhead killing a passenger the night of November 10 had been drinking excessively.

Police maintain Francesco Distefano, 48, of East Northport, the owner of the boat, was at the helm of the 39-footer that crashed into a bulkhead in Mattituck at about 9:15 PM. In addition to the fatality, two other passengers were injured, as was Distefano, who was rushed to the hospital via ambulance and admitted. He was charged with boating while intoxicated the following morning.

Police identified the deceased passenger as Kelley Blanchard, 27, of Riverhead. Megan Blanchard, 29, of New Suffolk, and Nick Soullas, 41, of Jamesport , were both injured and

hospitalized, police said.

A preliminary investigation noted the entrance to James Creek was left of the accident scene. The damage to the bulkhead seemed to indicate the vessel was traveling at a high rate of speed.

Douglas J. Ely, 63, of North Andover was arrested November 12 at about 4:40 PM for driving while intoxicated by Southold police. Officers responded to a report of a gray vehicle with Massachusetts plates driving all over the roadway, heading eastbound on Route 48 in Greenport. Ely was located near Queen Street by an officer who saw him driving in an unsafe manner, crossing lane markings on the road. He was determined by police to be intoxicated.

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Editorial

JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

Mao Munera My mother and stepfather are coming from Orlando, and my stepbrother who’s in college in Utah. It will be wonderful for us to celebrate together.

We’ve had good news this year and difficult news too. A nephew’s had some health problems and surgery but he’s doing well and our fingers are crossed. On the upside I got a wonderful job as the electrical power leader for an international company.

The Sound Of Music

Lee Lawler I don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving because I think that every day is Thanksgiving Day. Despite losing some loved ones we are alive and every day is a gift and a beautiful day.

The archaic music laws in East Hampton village and town have become incredibly unpopular over the past year or so, and for good reason. Countless meetings, whether civic, governmental, or even panel discussions run by newspapers, are focused on revitalizing the main streets of the hamlets in East Hampton, and live entertainment is a good way to do that.

But when the laws prohibiting live music at restaurants went into effect in 2008, it didn’t just spring out of thin air. There were specific complaints that led to that code change. Perhaps not coincidentally, it was the same year that a couple of places in Montauk began to offer up a venue for local bands, and the neighbors were none too pleased.

However, 2008 was a long time ago. It was the beginning of the financial crisis, a time before local businesses were hanging on for dear life, and when the stores were still chock full of tourists and their wallets. Now, the metronome has swung in the other direction, and the musicians — who live, work, and pay taxes here — are letting their voices be heard, and luckily the local boards are starting to change their tune.

When an area starts to die off, it’s hard to bring back the crowds, especially when corporate pop-up shops and empty storefronts leave the local year-round residents with no reason to visit Main Street except to see a movie and grab a slice.

It’s time to bring back live music to restaurants and other venues, and as soon as possible. Villages like Greenport, Sag Harbor, and Patchogue have managed to tread the line between pleasing the residents who want to maintain the beauty of the area and keeping the towns lively. Let’s take a lesson from their songbooks and do the same.

Is it just me?

Perception

Kevin White (left) and Raul Barreneche (right) Raul: We are going to my parents house in Winter Park, Florida for the holiday. Sometimes we go there and sometimes they come here. So we’ll celebrate with my parents and my brother and sister-in-law and my eight-year-old nephew.

Ainsley Schopfer My family is coming here, so we’ll have a cozy holiday at home with family and neighbors. We can’t decide whether to do a traditional turkey dinner or to have a fish dinner. I guess it will depend on how we feel that day.

But whatever we do it will be wonderful to be together.

Reality

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Arts & Entertainment ‘A Raisin In The Sun:’ Dreams Deferred Standout cast in ever-timely production

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is qualified as an African-American play, since most of the cast is black, racism is one of the main issues, and assimilation and segregation are themes explored.

But Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 Broadway hit has always appealed to audiences regardless of color — it’s a hard-hitting look at the American Dream which, it seems, has to do with coming into a large amount of money without actually working for it, a sadbut-true unflinching look at the only country which has the words “pursuit of happiness” as part of its credo.

The play — part of Bay Street’s Literature Live! series which offers matinees over the course of the run to local schools and educators for free, and evening shows for regular theatergoers — centers on the Younger family, living in a cramped apartment in a racially segregated area of Chicago.

Lena, the widowed matriarch, is about to come into a $10,000 life insurance policy from her husband, and her two children who live with her, along with her son’s wife and child, all have plans for the money.

Lena (beautifully portrayed by Cooki Winborn) has a dream is to buy a house for her family, and she uses some of the money to put a down payment on a real home. But it’s in a white neighborhood, as she and her family are painfully reminded when visited by a member of Clybourne Park’s civic association, who offers to buy them out.

The Youngers are then faced with the question, as is the audience: What is

Chauncy Thomas and Joe Pallister in a scene from Bay Street’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” part of the Literature Live! program. Independent/Michael Heller

more important, financial gain or pride in who you are and what you represent?

Even though her children have big dreams, Lena remembers a time when African Americans still picked cotton and were the subjects of lynch mobs and outward hatred.

“Once upon a time, freedom used to be life,” says Lena quietly, in a telling moment. “Now it’s money. I guess the world really did change.”

“It was always money,” Walter responds. “We just didn’t know it.”

Walter Lee, played with blinding brilliance by Chauncy Thomas, is Willie Loman a decade after that play was a hit; a man who has big dreams and ambitions, passionate and volatile, pushed to the brink in a dead-end job.

His sister, Beneatha (Cassia Thompson), is a feminist intellectual 20-year-old on her way to being a doctor and social activist, wooed by two men who are exact opposites — the assimilated and wealthy George Murchison (Michael Chenevert) and Joseph Asagai (Jonathan Farrington), a Nigerian exchange student with plans to go back to Africa, and who provides Benny with a heaping dose of truth about herself.

Walter’s wife, Ruth (Erin Margaret Pettigrew), is the glue of the family, and has her own dreams and secrets. There’s also young Travis (Kaden Amari Anderson), and Justin Jarrell as Bobo. Joe Pallister plays the only Caucasian, Karl Lindner — inside joke to local audiences; Pallister played the same part in Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park,” a spin-off of “Raisin,“ when produced in 2012 by the Hampton Theatre Company.

The whole cast is stellar, and received a standing ovation on opening night, and apparently at the school matinees as well. Lydia Fort directs the 95-minute production with deftness, sensitivity, and vision, and as always, the sets and costumes, lighting, and sound are superb.

The story is based on Hansberry’s own experiences as her father battled in court to reverse “red-lined” communities and move to an all-white neighborhood. She died of cancer at only 34 years old, but not before seeing “Raisin“ translated into more than two dozen languages and performed around the world. And all of this before the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which came shamefully late in this country’s time-

line.

The title is from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred?/Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Don’t let this one get away. In production through December 1, tickets are available at www.baystreet.org.

It’s a hardhitting look at the American Dream which, it seems, has to do with coming into a large amount of money without actually working for it.

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Caitlin Doyle, Dipti Bramhandkar, Luisa Caldwell. Independent/Courtesy Guild Hall

Three Artists To Watch Guild Hall hosts Guild House

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Guild Hall in East Hampton hosts the final days of its four-week fall Artist-InResidence program now through Monday, November 25.

The program, titled Guild House, has hosted 25 artists over the four-year period since its inception in 2016. The mission is to foster the artistic spirit of the East End through connecting nextgeneration artists early in their careers.

It spans across creative writing, visual, and performing arts fields, providing each AIR a living space breeding col-

laboration and ongoing personal development.

This year’s residents are Caitlin Doyle, Luisa Caldwell, and Dipti Bramhandkar.

Doyle received an MFA from Boston University as the George Starbuck Fellow in Poetry. Currently, she serves as the associate editor of The Cincinnati Review at the University of Cincinnati, where she received an Elliston Fellowship in Poetry. She is working on completing her debut poetry collection. Her

skilled writing has landed her in noted publications such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Yale Review, to name a few, in addition to being featured through the PBS News Hour Poetry Series. Other awards and fellowships to her name include from the Jack Kerouac House, the Frost Farm, and the Amy Award. Doyal will give a poetry reading at Canio's Books in Sag Harbor on Friday, November 22, at 6 PM. As a multidisciplinary artist, Caldwell’s works range from paper to large-scale installations. At the core of each installation is her use of reclaimed and collected materials. Her permanent commissions include her award-winning 15 mosaic and art glass panels for the MTA Art & Design at the East 180th Street Bronx Zoo subway station. Recent solo exhibitions list “Triple C” at the Long Island University Humanities Gallery in Brooklyn, and “Prima-

vera” at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York. A recent group show took Caldwell all the way to Bologna, Italy, with “Ondate/Waves” at the Officina 15.

Bramhandkar is a New York City playwright who began writing when she moved from Mumbai to upstate New York. She received a BA from Cornell University, where she began to write creatively, and continued on to receive her MA from Cambridge University. In 2014, her writing went from the page to the stage while she attended the Labyrinth Theater Intensive Ensemble retreat. Her works focus on immigration, identity, and coming-ofage, which is why her plays have been formed at numerous theaters including New York Theater Workshop, Bank Street Theater, and Punto Space, to name a few.

Learn more at www.guildhall.org.

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Community Action Southold Town (CAST) serves North Fork families struggling to meet their basic needs.

It takes volunteers for food pick-ups, unloading, organization, and preparing the bags. Visit www.castsoutholdtown. org.

The Southampton Animal Shelter in Hampton Bays is collecting wet and dry dog/cat food for the four-legged

friends in need through November 30.

See the most requested items at www. southamptonanimalshelter.org.

It’s truly the season of giving at Church of the Harvest (572 Raynor Avenue, Riverhead) with a completely free Thanksgiving Dinner from 11 AM to 2 PM. The organization will also offer pick-up and drop-off transportation and meal delivery. Call to volunteer, 631-727-1977.

Volunteer This Thanksgiving Gratitude through giving back

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

This Thanksgiving, while the fortunate are preparing to enjoy full meals, others are struggling to get by. Here are four places to give back this season through the gift of volunteering.

East Hampton Food Pantry (159 Pantigo Road) serves more than 300 families each week through its East Hampton and satellite Amagansett locations. It participates in food distribution every Tuesday from 1 to 6 PM, and

volunteers are encouraged to arrive as early as 10 AM. Visit www.easthamptonfoodpantry.org.

East Hampton Meals on Wheels delivers meals Monday through Friday to homebound residents in the area.

Volunteers ideally commit to a single morning per weekday by meeting at Dreesen’s on 15 Lumber Lane in East Hampton at 10:15 AM and finishing around 12 PM. Learn more at www.

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Positive About Negatives Three photographers to share their views at Parrish

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host “Gallery Talk: The Artist’s View” on Friday, November 22, from 6 to 8 PM. In conversation will be photographers Tria Giovan, Thomas Hoepker, and Ralph Gibson, discussing their featured work in Artists Choose Artists, a triennial exhibition highlighting the East End arts community with a multigenerational focus.

The youngest of the three, Giovan was born in Chicago in 1961 but raised in St. Thomas. Her images have landed in magazines across various genres, ESPN Sports, Travel & Leisure, Coastal Living, and more. Fine art photography of hers can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, and the Jewish Museum, to name a few.

She splits her time working between Manhattan and Sag Harbor.

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the foundation of her body of work; she spent about six years working in Cuba in the 1990s. She had her photographs published in a book in 1996, and then she revisited the photographs, scanning the polar negatives in high resolution. She whittled the photos down from a collection of 1000 to about 125, which was published in 2017.

“I found that in doing the archiving in the preservation of these negative scans, it opened up another whole world . . . To be able to, for example, zoom in on a big scan on their computer screen and see what’s actually there is exciting and it actually is a translation of the negative to the scan to the printing in a whole new way. It’s just another layer of creative process,” Giovan said.

Based out of NYC and Southamp-

Tria Giovan. Independent/Jenny Gorman

ton, born in Germany in 1936, Hoepker studied archeology and art history before working as a photographer and photojournalist. His publicized works in Muenchner Illustrierte, Kristall, and Stern gifted Hoepker with traveling the world. In 1989, he became a member of Magnum Photos and served as president from 2003 to 2006. In between, in 2005, the Goto Museum in Munich displayed 230 of his selected photographs showcasing his travels throughout Germany and across Europe.

Gibson, born in L.A. in 1939, is currently the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France and is

most recognized for his photographic books, including images with a sexualized or mysterious undertone. His work has been seen across 170 worldwide museum collections and has been incorporated into film and live performances at New York’s Roulette.

His awards are expansive, including a Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Artist Achievement Award in 2015.

Parrish Art Museum is located at 279 Montauk Highway. Tickets are $12, free for members, students, and children. For more information, visit www. parrishart.org.

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What I’m Grateful For A semi-short list jessica@indyeastend.com @hamptondaze

Health, happiness, and love of my family and friends go without saying. That is what I am the most thankful for in life. But here are a few additional items I’m grateful for this holiday season: • The inventor of oat milk. Thank you for forever changing my coffee for the better.

• Christmas music that starts playing on November 1. And Lea Michele for creating a Christmas album this year.

• Rent the Runway, Daily Harvest, and anything else I have delivered to my door that keeps me well dressed and as healthy as possible while navigating a busy schedule. I couldn’t do it without you. I may not have an assistant, but I do have these delivery services.

• “The Real Housewives” and “The Kardashians” for being my preferred choice for reality TV escape. Watching the national news is like being stuck

watching an endless MTV marathon of “Floribama Shore” but instead it’s our government and Bravo has become a ray of hope in this crazy world.

• I’m grateful for a platform to help people, to help charities, and to raise awareness. November is all about giving and you can always find a way to give back in The Independent.

• Billy Joel, for being a national treasure. Nothing feels as right as a drive on the LIE while listening to The Piano Man. • My dog Clementine, our 13-year-old cocker spaniel we adopted from the Southampton Animal Shelter last year.

She is just the light in all of our lives.

• Lizzo.

• Wine. Particularly, $15 bottles of French reds, where the quality far surpasses the average $40 bottle. They do exist.

• Journalism. And readers who know the difference between fake news and the real thing.

• The Wing, my workspace in Soho, for giving me a creative space to write.

It’s filled with wonderful female energy and boss babes who get things done.

• My wonderful group of rockstar coworkers who also get so many things done in a day. I couldn’t ask for a better group of people to work with.

• Our oceans. Let’s make sure we keep

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• People who don’t insult other people on social media. I’m very grateful for you.

• Travel. I’m thankful for $39 flights to Miami and $300 flights to Paris so I can live that broke and bourgeois lifestyle this winter.

• The Greek salad at John Papas. I’ve searched the world and never found a Greek salad as good as this one.

• The fall season. And all things basic fall, like apple picking, pumpkin picking, apple cider sipping, hay-riding.

Hold the PSL, but I’ll take everything else that goes with this fantastic season.

• The coffee at Golden Pear. It speaks to my soul.

• Handmade pasta from Sant Ambroeus, Tutto il Giorno, or Dopo La Spiaggia. Because sometimes you need to (hashtag) treat yourself.

• The hamlet of Mattituck, for being the most adorable. And while I’m here, a shout out to Love Lane Cafe.

• Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon for giving us “The Morning Show,” because it’s brilliant and I can’t wait for Friday to see what happens.

• Levain chocolate chip cookies.

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Gallery Events Compiled by Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

One Stop Virva Hinnemo and George Negroponte bring together 31 artists in a group exhibition at Keyes Art Gallery in Sag Harbor titled “One Stop: The Slow Slope of Modernism.” The exhibition will be on view from November 23 through December 14, with an opening reception on Saturday, November 23, from 5 to 7 PM.

The show will feature work by artists Mary Ellen Bartley, Matthew Bliss, Neke Carson, Barbara Dayton, Eva Faye, Aileen Florell, Betti Franceschi, Barbara Friedman, Denise Gale, Elizabeth Geissler, Janet Goleas, Linda Gottesfeld, Melinda Hackett, Claude Lawrence, Robert Harms, Ted Hartley, Edward Holland, Aya Miyatake, Trina

Michne, Linda Miller, Steve Miller, Ilse Murdock, Michael Rosch, Bonnie Rychlak, Kristy Schopper, Martha Stotzky, Sarah Jaffe Turnbull, Rosario Varela, Karin Waisman, Mark Webber, and Joni Wehrli.

In Boxes MM Fine Art in Southampton presents “In Boxes,” curated by Dan Rizzie. The show features artists Jim Gemake, Susan Lazarus-Reimen, and Jeanelle Myers. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 23, from 5 to 7 PM. The show runs through December 8.

Alex Ferrone Based on the North Fork, artist Alex Ferrone has been gaining international at-

Ilse Murdock's “Ego” at Keyes Art Gallery.

tention lately as her abstract aerial photographs have been awarded by three separate global juried competitions in the past two months. Ferrone will be host-

ing an open studio at 25425 Main Road, Cutchogue on Saturday and Sunday, November 23 and 24, from noon to 5 PM. Refreshments will be served.

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ARF Holiday Pet Adoptions Join the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons for a holiday cat and dog adoption event at Lexus of Smithtown, 700 Middle Country Road in St. James, on Friday, November 29, from 11 AM until 4 PM. Cats, dogs, kittens and puppies will be hoping for a home just in time for the holidays. Free admission for the whole family. Adoption fees apply. If you have a dog at home and are interested in adopting another, bring it with you for a mandatory meet and greet. All ARF animals are spayed/neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated to their age limit. For more information, contact adoptions@arfhamptons.org.

House & Garden Tour The East Hampton Historical Society will host its 2019 House & Garden Tour, showcasing some of the finest examples of historical and modern architecture in the Hamptons. This year’s tour — consisting of five unique houses — is scheduled for Saturday, November 30, from 1 to 4:30 PM. A kick-off cocktail party will be held on the evening of Friday, November 29.

This annual event, now in its 35th year, will be held at the historic Maidstone Club, ringing in the East End holiday season in style. For tickets, visit www.

easthamptonhistory.org/events.

East End Women’s Network The East End Women’s Network is hosting its annual holiday dinner gala and auction. Held at Stonewalls Restaurant in Riverhead, guests will have a delicious three-course meal, mingle with other fun women, and join in on the huge auction, which helps to raise money for a scholarship fund for young women on the East End of Long Island seeking a secondary education.

The event will be held Wednesday, December 4, from 5:30 to 8 PM. The cost is $45 for members and $50 for non-members. See www.eewn.org for details.

Maureen’s Haven Maureen’s Haven Homeless Outreach will host its second annual winter benefit at Seasons of Southampton on Saturday, December 7, at 6 PM. There will be small bites, wine or beer, dancing, and auction items.

Tickets are $50 per person. Visit www.2019winterbenefit.bpt.me.

Lighting Of The Vines The 10th annual Wölffer Lighting of the Vines, which will be held on Saturday, December 7, from 6 to 8 PM,

Federal-Style House by the Bay in the East Hampton Historical Society's House & Garden Tour. Independent/EHHS

will include A Charity Wreath Auction to benefit The Retreat, a shelter for domestic abuse victims. The wreaths are designed by community artists, designers, and celebrities. Enjoy locally-sourced hors d’oeuvres, wine, and more as 15,000 lights illuminate Wölffer’s vines.

Topping Rose Holiday The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center presents its fifth annual Topping Rose House Holiday Dinner on Saturday, December 14, at 6:30 PM. There will be cocktails and a silent auction in the barn followed by dinner in the studio. Tickets start at $200. To reserve visit www.bhccrc.org.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

Giving Thanks . . . and leaving town rmurphy@indyeastend.com Thanksgiving Day will be somewhat melancholy, as it will mark the end of a tradition that has spanned my entire lifetime.

Ever since I can remember, the three major holidays were divvied up between the three daughters of Henry Forcucci of Sag Harbor. My mother, Eleanor, would have the family over for Christmas and my Aunt Adele would host Easter Sunday.

Adele was rich, and she lived at Two Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. She usually had dinner catered by a famous restaurant. Once we got all dressed up and went to a swanky restaurant where they served us a whole pig. Talk about garish. Jesus would have turned over in his grave had he not walked out of it altogether earlier that morning.

My Aunt Lucy and Uncle Tom put on the Thanksgiving extravaganza.

They lived in Brooklyn, which would have been fine had we not had a house in Sag Harbor, where I preferred to spend my time. My Uncle Tom Butler was a mountain of a man, a bit of a con, but he loved sports and loved me. He’s the one that set up a second TV on the Thanksgiving table so we could watch football and initiated the poker game after dinner, played with cold hard cash.

I hardly ever missed the family gathering, but I longed to be in Sag Harbor nonetheless. I used to take the LIRR early Friday morning, but as soon

as we were old enough to drive one of my friends, usually Bobby Vacca, would come into Brooklyn and pick me up after Thanksgiving dinner and poker.

We were pretty fearless. He’d drive his old Karman Ghia, which we dubbed the Death Trap for good reason, and basically dared it to blow up before we made it back to Sag Harbor. Once we took an Ace bandage off his elbow and wrapped it around a leaky fuel line to keep it from blowing.

A few of the guys would come along for the ride. We’d spend the hours giving each other sports quizzes.

I can still name most of the 1959 White Sox off the top of my head.

The next day we were back where we belonged, playing touch football on the Pierson lawn. Pretty girls would huddle on the sideline, watching. One would take out a cigarette she presumably stole from her mother’s pocketbook and they would all giggle mischievously.

That’s what it was all about. A sleepy town, a bunch of 16-year-olds wearing plaid scarves and collecting chestnuts, not a care in the world (other than the Death Trap).

That was a long, long time ago.

Karen comes from a small family. We will both be alone, except for each other, come Thanksgiving. Her brother is headed off to California and her sister is in Colorado. With my aunt and mom gone, my in-laws will spread

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Believe it or not, I used to be the cute baby of the family. Now I’m the creepy uncle.

There were a couple times I couldn’t go to Brooklyn for Thanksgiving and instead stayed home and cooked for Karen’s family. I replicated every dish Lucy made: broccoli and cauliflower au gratin, whipped sweet potatoes with cinnamon, nutmeg, and of course marshmallows on top, corn bread and sausage stuffing for the turkey, and chocolate cream pie for dessert.

Karen finally confided in me she doesn’t even like turkey, and neither did her family. They didn’t want to hurt my feelings.

We’ll figure out something this year. I already reserved a movie Karen has been dying to see, and The Indy came through with a gift certificate for an all-you-can-eat feast upisland. I’m going to get there early and fill two baggies with goodies to go and come home.

We can eat during the football games.

We have a baby, Coco Belle, a rescue dog who survived an 800-mile trek from North Carolina via Texas despite weighing only seven pounds.

Thanksgiving night we’ll cuddle up on the couch and put in the movie, and pull up a quilt. Coco will crawl un-

derneath, laying across both our bodies, and moan contentedly. And a new holiday tradition will hopefully begin, with years of “Fast and Furious” movies to look forward to. I’ll wait a year before I give Coco the bad news: I’m the cute one in the family.

We were pretty fearless. He’d drive his old Karman Ghia, which we dubbed the Death Trap for good reason, and basically dared it to blow up before we made it back to Sag Harbor.

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THEATER A Raisin In The Sun Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and Literature Live present “A Raisin in the Sun” through December 1. For all times and tickets, head to www.baystreet. org.

Compiled by Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

COMEDY

Writers Speak

United We Laugh

Stony Brook Southampton presents Writers Speak on Wednesday, November 20, at 6:30 PM with Philip Gerard.

Visit www.stonybrook.edu.

Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Center for the Arts presents the United We Laugh Comedy Show on Thursday, November 21, at 7 PM. Visit www.sccarts.org.

FILM

By The Grace of God Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center presents a screening of “By the Grace of God” Friday, November 22, at 7:30 PM; Saturday, November 23, at 4 PM and 7:30 PM; and Sunday, November 24, at 4 PM. Get tickets at www. whbpac.org.

The Met Guild Hall in East Hampton will screen “The Met: Live in HD- Philip Glass’s ‘Akhnaten’” on Saturday, November 23, at 1 PM. Visit www.guildhall.org to learn more.

The Blessing Southampton Arts Center presents, with members of the Shinnecock Nation, “The Blessing,” to celebrate Native American heritage on Sunday, November 24, at 5 PM. Get tickets at www. southamptonartscenter.org.

WORDS Phil Keith & Tom Clavin Join co-authors Phil Keith and Tom Clavin for a talk about their new book, “All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard — Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy” from noon to 1 PM on Wednesday, November 20, at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.

See www.myrml.org for details or to register.

Stories Of Gratitude Kate Mueth and surprise guests will share their stories about gratitude during Indy’s Storytelling Sessions at Dopo La Spiaggia on Race Lane on Thursday, November 21, starting at 6:30 PM. Audience members are welcome to share their own tales and a three-course dinner (or just sit at the bar). For more info, visit The Independent’s Facebook page, under Events.

Raconteurs Southampton Arts Center presents Raconteurs, an evening of storytelling with the theme, “Lies,” on Thursday, November 21, at 7 PM. Visit www. southamptonartscenter.org.

Canio’s Canio’s in Sag Harbor welcomes poet Caitlin Doyle on Friday, November 22, at 6 PM and Billy Baldwin on Saturday, November 23, at 5 PM. See more at www.caniosbooks.com.

Artists Choose Artists Parrish Art in Water Mill presents “The Artist’s View: Artists Choose Artists” on Friday, November 22 at 6 PM with Tria Giovan, Thomas Hoepker, and Ralph Gibson. See more at www.parrishart.org.

Race Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor presents “Race: Then and Now, There and Here” on Saturday, November 23, at 11 AM. Head to www.baystreet.org.

Learning To Stay The Theatre at Suffolk County Community College presents “Learning To Stay” from Thursday, November 21 through December 1. For all times and tickets, head to www.sunysuffolk.edu.

Our Fabulous Variety Show Guild Hall in East Hampton and Our Fabulous Variety Show presents “Ms. Lucy’s Singers Fall Concert” on Wednesday, November 20, at 6:30 PM; “1001 Galactic Nights” Friday, November 22, at 7:30 PM, Saturday November 23, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, November 24, at 2 PM; and “I Dream of Genie: Diva Show” on Sunday, November 24, at 6 PM. Visit www.guildhall.org to learn more.

MUSIC Jazz Night The Jam Session presents Jazz Night at Ed’s Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Go to www.thejamsession.org.

Sonic Gumbo Townline BBQ in Sagaponack will have live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM. This Friday, November 22, will be Sonic Gumbo. See www. townlinebbq.com.

The Paramount The Paramount Theater in Huntington hosts New Found Glory on Friday, November 22, at 7:30 PM and Chris Botti on Sunday, November 24, at 8 PM. Head to www.paramountny. com.

Suffolk Theater The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead welcomes The Music of Frankie Valli on Friday, November 22, at 8 PM and Credence Revived on Saturday, November 23, at 8 PM. Grab tickets at www.suffolktheater.com.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett welcomes Born & Raised on Friday, November 22, at 8 PM followed by DJ Snoop at 10 PM. Then, Saturday, November 23, will be The Other Favorites at 8 PM, and Conga Cartel at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

Masonic Music Series The Masonic Music Series continues on Friday, November 22, with Beautiful Mess and Saturday, November 23, with Katherine Che in Sag Harbor at 8 PM. Visit www.masonicmusicseries.com.

Harvest Gospel Concert Series East End Arts in Riverhead presents the 33rd Annual Harvest Gospel Concert Series on Friday, November 22, at 8 PM at the Mattituck Presbyterian Church and on Saturday, November 23, at 8 PM at the Friendship Baptist Church in Riverhead. Head to www.eastendarts.org for more information.

Emily Donato & Walter Klauss The Jamesport Meeting House welcomes Emily Donato and Walter Klauss on Saturday, November 23, at 4 PM. Visit www.jamesportmeetinghouse.org to learn more.

DJ Mister Lama Southampton Arts Center welcomes DJ Mister Lama for Saturday Night Stomp on Saturday, November 23, at 7 PM. Go to www.southamptonartscenter.org.

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By Heather Buchanan

Strangers In the Night It’s all about who you don’t know kissandtellhb@gmail.com

The other day I was walking down the street in Chelsea when a nicelooking younger man approached me.

He smiled and said hello and asked if I might like to get a drink. This never happens. What was different about me that day? Was it the high heels and the blow out from the amazing Russians at the cheap hair salon? I felt both flattered and frightened. The scared part of me wanted to ask, “Are you a serial killer?” and the skeptical part wanted to say, “You’re kind of young. Are you going all Emmanuel Macron on me?”

And if I said yes, I thought, how would I safeguard myself? I could ask if we could call his mother or if he

minded if I took a picture of his driver’s license and texted it to a friend. I could ascertain his Insta handle and quickly troll for any hints of animal cruelty or a wife. It was about 5 PM on a respectable street and he had a nice smile.

Would this just make a funny story for our engagement party? Being picked up on a street? But seriously, is it any worse than Tinder?

It didn’t have the creepy feel of a construction worker cat call, and he did ask if I had a boyfriend, and his shoes looked expensive. But I have binge watched “Dateline” and “Unsolved Mysteries” enough to know looks can be deceiving.

I ultimately said I was meeting someone and couldn’t but added, “Fortune favors the bold.” I didn’t know if he would recognize this translation of a Latin proverb but, provided he wasn’t a dangerous guy but just one willing to take a risk in a world where it seems hard to meet people in person, I didn’t want to kick him to the curb. He wished me a good day and pushed on.

The whole encounter made me wonder about the nature of the world we are living in and meeting people.

It’s not a safe place where you can accept an invitation from a total stranger.

Even in the online dating world, there are lists of safety practices, from meeting in public places to not leaving your drink unattended to telling a friend who you are meeting and where and checking in at the end of the date.

Who knows, maybe my Chelsea guy delivers this line to women all the time and is just playing a numbers game? Or maybe most women in New York have their guard up and face down and aren’t wandering around with a smile just happy to be out of yoga pants and looking at art in the gallery windows?

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all my true crime consumption, sometimes it is the person you know who is the most dangerous.

Most people aren’t meeting via a fix up where a mutual friend knows each other’s entire dating history, credit rating, and phobias of pointed objects, so there is always some risk in going out with someone you don’t know. What’s fate or opportunity or just a really bad idea? Erring on the side of caution versus no risk, no reward. At the end of the day, it’s probably about trusting your gut. Be bold, but be safe.

Love may spring from stranger places.

I have binge watched “Dateline” and “Unsolved Mysteries” enough to know looks can be deceiving.

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Indy Snaps Girls Night Out Photos by Nicole Teitler Gurney’s Resort in Montauk presented “Girls Night Out” to benefit the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and Lucia’s Angels on Friday, November 15.

Women across the East End gathered to enjoy an evening of wine and cocktails, raffles, spa pampering, dancing, hors d’oeuvres, and more.

Under The Radar Photos by Richard Lewin When artist Sabina Streeter moved to the East End, her passion to paint drew her to Montauk’s Camp Hero and its surroundings. On Saturday, November 16, at Amagansett Free Library, Streeter hung her work at the opening of the show she curated called “Under the Radar,” referring to the famed high frequency radar out at the Point.

Painter Michael Holman, who spent much of his childhood in Germany, and German photographer Stephanie Seidl, showed artistic expressions of their shared World War II experience.

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Indy Snaps SAC Exhibits Photos by Tom Kochie Southampton Arts Center hosted the opening of two simultaneous exhibitions focusing on the world of printmaking: “Solar Impressions Juried Exhibition” and “International Masters/Collaborations in Printmaking” on Saturday, November 16. Presented

by SAC and Inspiration Plus, the exhibitions feature giants in modern and contemporary art, along with talented artists from all over the world showcasing printmaking methods that incorporate the Solarplate printing technique developed and practiced by Sag Harbor artist and master printmaker Dan Welden.

Celebrating Georgia O’Keeffe Photo by Justin Meinken The Janet Lehr Fine Arts exhibit welcomed artist Mym Tuma on Saturday, November 16, to celebrate her longtime friend’s 132nd birthday, American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Tuma presented several handwritten letters at the exhibit from O’Keeffe that were addressed to Mym, as well as many of Tuma’s own art pieces that were inspired by O’Keeffe’s works.

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READING OUR REGION

By Joan Baum

A Love Letter To 20th-Century Paris Spy author Alan Furst to read from ‘Under Occupation’ at Canio’s Remember the old analogy game test — X is to Y as A is to . . . ? In that spirit, try this one: Dublin in the 1890s is to James Joyce, as Paris in the early 1940s is to . . . ? The answer, as fans of World War II espionage fiction well know, is Sag Harbor’s Alan Furst, whom The New York Times once called “America’s preeminent spy novelist.”

Arguably, there is no contemporary fiction writer in this country who has detailed so consistently this dramatic, horrific period of mounting Nazi hegemony in Europe, as it played out on the snaking cobblestone streets of arrondissements in Paris and in the furtive underground safe-house movement throughout the country. It was an existential time that tested the mettle of average citizens under siege. As Furst quotes Tolstoy, “When

a war comes to your country, you have to join up . . . You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”

“Under Occupation,” Furst’s 16th book, once again explores Paris (mainly) in 1942, a tale, the author notes, that’s based on true events when émigré Poles — electricians, welders, machinists — were forced to work at a naval yard in Kiel, capital of the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, where U-boats were being built. Some of the prisoners managed to smuggle out intelligence about materiel and navigation routes, and sometimes Resistance operatives were able to send the technical info to Paris, where, it was hoped, it would make its way to the British Secret Service in London.

Spying was, needless to say, dangerous work that required daring and

courage, but it also involved luck. One of the ironies of the Resistance, as Furst and others have shown, was the degree to which the partisans sometimes fell to friendly fire — British aircraft strafing the very areas where they were working. One was either against the Boche (a pejorative for Germans) or willing to act for France, a risk that many ordinary citizens preferred not to take but found themselves morally coerced into. This was the case with Furst’s protagonist, Paul Ricard, a novelist, who reluctantly finds himself drawn into action by accident and then by soulful commitment, even as he keeps on trying to write his new book for his understanding publisher.

Born in New York, Furst lived for several years in Paris, where he obviously fell in love with every street and café. Indeed, it’s been said of his novels that you can use them as maps, the details are — or were —that accurate. Of course, he’s looking back almost 80 years, but as he said recently, “Thank heaven for the internet: I can see photographs taken of cities during the late ’30s and early ’40s.”

Alas, Furst’s style has become familiar, details at times getting in the way of plot and character development.

Extended descriptions of French food, dress, living quarters, class manners and mores interrupt the narrative. It’s nice to have a quotation from Churchill’s “deep, rumbling, and fiercely inspiring voice” at the time of the British and American

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invasion of North Africa — “This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” — but such asides are not necessary. It’s good to be with Furst at lunch at the Sobrino de Botín, “said to be the world’s oldest restaurant —opened in 1725,” but does the reader need to know that the yellowish curved potatoes that arrived with the chicken and wine were known as “rattes”?

Such dilations take away from the action and from the characters who, even when they engage in love making, don’t emerge as flesh and blood creations full of the visual and rhythmic images he lavishes on the city. Furst has said he particularly likes to create strong women characters. Here, they would include the beautiful aristocratic Leila and the bisexual dedicated Polish émigré, Kasia, but his best prose is reserved for setting: “On the wharves work continued, winches straining and grinding, warning whistles sharp in the air as cargo nets swung between the freighters and the dock.” Essentially, “Under Occupation” seems less an adventure-cum-romance than a sensual love letter to Paris of former days — to “the very particular scent the city wore, compounded of age and dust and sewers and perfume and Gauloises smoke and potatoes frying in oil.” Bien sur.

Alan Furst will be reading and signing books at Canio’s in Sag Harbor on Friday, November 29, at 5 PM.

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Seafood restaurant graces former Little Red’s space

By Hannah Selinger

Restaurateur Michael Gluckman, a fixture of the East End who was known, most recently, for East Hampton’s Service Station, has sought to reinvigorate the old Little Red space, turning it into a family-friendly casual dining spot with a nautical vibe. Open for lunch, brunch, and dinner, The Tackle Box is a welcome addition to Southampton’s markedly formal dining scene. Gluckman has signed a 10-year lease on the space, which is proof that he believes in the concept, and intends to stick around for the long haul.

The menu’s emphasis — unsurprisingly, given the name — is on seafood. For appetizers, sea-loving diners can choose between bacon-wrapped scallops with a spiced balsamic honey sauce; a tuna tostada with avocado, jalapeño, and scallions; and a Marylandstyle jumbo lump crab cake with tartar sauce and mixed greens. The crispy Brussels sprouts come with pork belly and pickled onions, the pow pow cauliflower with sweet chili sauce.

Salads are equally seafood-centric. Sure, there’s a beet salad with goat

cheese, as well as a take on a Caesar (here comes that cauliflower again), but there’s also a lobster salad with shaved radish and a toasted garlic-sesame ginger vinaigrette, as well as a crab and avocado salad with citrus, cucumber, and mixed greens.

Entrees are equally diverse. For those who prefer to tread on dry land, there is an organic chicken, served with sautéed kale, honey-glazed carrots, and a pan jus. A burger is adorned with “tackle sauce,” and a skirt steak comes with French fries, as it should.

But besides the sole vegetarian entrée — Brussels sprout tacos with oyster mushrooms and fire-roasted tomato salsa — the rest of the mains are from the sea.

Local sea scallops come atop a butternut squash puree. Sesame-ginger salmon is pan-seared and served over farro and mushrooms. A blackened fish taco enjoys the spoils of the kitchen: pico de gallo, shredded lettuce, and chipotle sauce, all held together in a flour tortilla. The lobster roll is, at $28, among the most conservatively priced

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in town. It comes with French fries, to boot.

I should backtrack here and mention the raw bar: local oysters and clams, both affordable, and both even more affordable at Happy Hour. You can get them at brunch, too, along with $15 bottomless bloody Marys, mimosas, and bellinis. Actually, the brunch menu is compelling in its own right. Pork belly eggs Benedict? Sold.

Although I’m a sucker for a breakfast burger, too; Tackle Box’s comes with a runny egg, bacon, and the regular fixings.

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The menu, as a whole, is smart without being unnecessarily challenging. Prices find the sweet spot. The most expensive entrée, the seared tuna, clocks in at $37. That price tag would get you half a steak at some of the Hamptons’ more upscale establishments. Which is kind of the point. The Tackle Box is attempting to pick up where Little Red left off last year. It’s an approachable restaurant that aims to please — and, with a decade to go, the hope is that it will continue to do so for a long, long time.

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When the onions have browned up nicely, they are ready to be cooled.

The last step is to add the curry powder, brown sugar, salt, and pepper and stir them in, making sure they are mixed in well. Now place the onions in the fridge to cool along with the roasted tomatoes when they are finished cooking.

Once the onions and tomatoes have cooled, chop the onions up into small pieces and place the tomatoes in a strainer to get rid of any excess liquid. Now, in a large bowl, add the veal, cheese, egg, parsley, and breadcrumbs.

Mix well with your hands. After mixing, fold in the tomatoes and caramelized onions. Place the mixed stuffing in the fridge and switch focus to the artichokes.

Find yourself a large container, fill it with water and add lemon juice. To

clean the artichokes, you will need a small knife, about four inches long or so, preferably serrated. First, cut the very top of the artichoke off, about a half inch or so. Then, at the base, where the stem meets the fruit, peel the outer green husk off down toward the stem.

Peel away the tough green leaves on the outside cutting down to the tender yellow flesh of the artichoke.

Now with the tip of the knife, hollow out the inside of the artichoke and throw it into your lemon water, to prevent it from getting too brown.

Do this with all eight artichokes, then strain the lemon water into a large pot, add the bay leaf and the white wine, and bring to a boil.

Once the water is boiling, add the artichokes and cook them until they start to get soft. This should take about seven minutes or so.

When they are partially cooked, cool them in the fridge until you are able to handle them. Stuff each one with the stuffing. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake at 350 for 45 minutes to an hour.

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The spread includes a kids’ menu station, salad bar, artisan cheese and charcuterie board, seafood, a turkey and rib carving station, and other main items, with sides including stuffing and sweet potatoes, with desserts from a chocolate fountain and a Van Leeuwen Ice Cream cart. Call 631-668-1771 for reservations.

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This year, take the hassle out of Thanksgiving and focus on what the holiday is really all about — being grateful. Rather than worry about who eats what and how many loads to put into

the dishwasher, head to one of these 10 East End restaurants on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 28.

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Or what about braised savoy cabbage or the braised veal cheeks with butternut squash? There will also be a two-course option for guests 12 years of age and younger. Beverage, tax, and gratuity are not included. See more at www.1770house.com.

Down the road at The Maidstone Hotel (207 Main Street, East Hampton) a three-course dinner awaits, for $90 per adult and $40 per child. Enjoy apps of a holiday salad, butternut squash bisque, or pimento cheese toast. For Continued On Page B16.

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Continued From Page B15. mains, dive into roasted organic freerange turkey, another classic of smoked ham, or opt a NY strip steak, salmon, or roasted acorn squash. Dessert will have you ending the night right with options including apple crumb, pineapple sweet potato pie, and more. Visit www.themaidstone.com for more details.

Claude’s at Southampton Inn (91 Hill Street, Southampton) is serving a three-course feast with one appetizer, one entree with sides, and one dessert for $38 per adult and $20 per child. Appetizers options include stuffed mushrooms, mini lobster ravioli, or eggplant rollatini; entrees list three items of a roast turkey, pineapple-glazed salmon, or vegetarian lasagna; veggie sides read cauliflower gratin, caramelized Brussels sprouts, and more; then desserts of pumpkin cheesecake, tiramisu, apple pie, or profiterole. See the entire menu at www.southamptoninn.com.

East Wind (5720 NY-25A, Wading River) will host dinner in the Grand Ballroom from 12 to 5 PM. Eat until your stretchy pants cannot stretch anymore with a full buffet dinner with all the traditional fixings, including a cornucopia and soup kettle display, carving board and entree selections, sides,

a kids’ corner, and, of course, dessert.

Kids two and under eat free, three to 10 years of age eat for $29.95, and adults, $54.95. Make reservations at www.eastwindlongisland.com.

The Birchwood of Polish Town (512 Pulaski Street, Riverhead) is hosting a $45.95 per person grand dinner buffet from 11 AM to 7 PM. Partake in 20 hot dishes, three carving stations of prime

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Lulu Kitchen and Bar in Sag Harbor will serve a family style dinner in celebration of Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 28, from noon to 10 PM. A traditional turkey offering will be served complete with Thanksgiving sides. Cost is $36 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Call 631-725-0900.

A feast will occur at Tweed’s Restaurant (17 East Main Street, Riverhead) prepared by guest chef Duane Lewin. For $36 per person, 12 to 9 PM, dive in for a first course of mini crab cakes, Caesar salad, or soup of the day.

The main course is traditional turkey with all the traditional fixings, stuffing, gravy, potatoes, greens, and cranberry dressing. Dessert includes pumpkin pie, chocolate cake, cheesecake, or key lime pie. Reserve at www.tweedsrestaurantriverhead.com.

Jamesport Manor (370 Manor Lane in Jamesport) is offering a $65

per adult, and $30 kids 12 and under, prix-fixe menu. Appetizers list toasted pumpkin bisque, mixed green salad, red beet salad, and pan roasted Brussels sprouts. Entrees include herbed turkey roulade, vanilla scented roast loin of pork, pan roasted salmon, port wine braised short ribs, or wild mushroom ravioli. For dessert, enjoy pumpkin caramel cheesecake, baked apple tart tatin, a chocolate torte, or Madagascar bourbon vanilla créme brulee.

Head to www.jamesportmanor.com.

Stone Creek Inn (405 Montauk Highway in East Quogue) will have a three-course prix fix menu for $66 served from 1 to 7 PM, children under 12 can eat for $30. Some of the many appetizer options include steak tartare, octopus and shrimp salad, and mushroom fricàsee. Entrees list dishes for everyone, ranging from natural turkey to filet mignon, roasted codfish, or even a Tuscan farro ragu. Top it off with a pear sundae or pumpkin crème brulee. See the full menu and make your reservations at www.stonecreekinn.com.

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Baron’s Cove Give thanks at Baron’s Cove in Sag Harbor. Sit fireside in the restaurant for a delicious Thanksgiving Day dinner. A three-course prix fixe menu includes autumn favorites such as roast parsnip soup, Beach Plum Farm heritage turkey, roasted duck breast, and more. It is available Thursday, November 28, from 12 to 8 PM. Adult eat for $68, children, $26. Children three and younger eat for free. Call to reserve a table: 631-7252101. View the menu at www.baronscove.com/dining.

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The Halyard The Halyard at Sound View Greenport is offering a Thanksgiving buffet, which will be available from noon to 8 PM. It’s $55 per person and $28 for children under 12. Enjoy items such as roasted turkey, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes and comté gratin, and much more. Visit www.thehalyardgreenport. com or call 631-477-0666.

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The toys will be used by the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center to enhance its academic and social-emotional curriculum.

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Chris Mead:

The Hamptons Design Renaissance Man

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com The British have bestowed upon the Hamptons several well-known highprofile designers and builders, and Chris Mead is possibly the most recognizable in the region. As the proprietor of the largest home furnishings store on the East End, English Country Home, he is also well-known for his interior design work as well as staging properties for the most successful builders and real estate professionals. In addition to all this, Mead works closely with other interior designers to see their visions come to life through his experience and the endless choices of furnishings in the store.

Did we mention that he has published more than 12 coffee table books on décor, gardens, and epicurean delights, of which 750,000 copies have been sold worldwide?

Mead’s design aesthetic did not start where you think it did. He jumped the pond to study photography with the likes of Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, Helmut Newton, and many others. This naturally shifted him towards fashion photography. It wasn’t until he worked with Martha Stewart that he began his journey into the world of interior design and décor in general.

“I came to the states to work for fashion photographers and many of them had homes in the Hamptons. It was during these shoots that I fell in love with the area,” explained Mead. “I bought my first house here for $50,000 in the early 1980s.”

It was not long before this same house appeared as an eight-page spread in House Beautiful magazine.

As far as being an interior designer, he had arrived. That same year, he started bringing over containers filled with beautiful home furnishings from all over Europe.

Mead’s eye for design spans the gamut of antiques to modern and contemporary. He travels frequently to scope out the hottest trends and denotes that he finds inspiration everywhere. Mead says that we mustn’t be afraid to use pattern and color, and that decoration is back. He especially loves three-dimensional fabrics, Tibetan sherpa, wool felt, and said that plaids are back in style.

“Design is just so exciting right now. I just visited The Fife Arms in Braemar, Scotland,” he said, referring to the luxury hotel. “Inspiration is everywhere, such as art, culture, even food. It’s all very unexpected and unusual at the moment.”

Having sold to New York’s top designers and Hamptons home owners, English Country Home has evolved to sell everything for the home nationwide, and is famous for its ever-changing and carefully curated collections of antique and modern home furnishings.

The regular English Country client often visits every week, looking for inspiration and checking out new trends in design and decoration.

When asked how he balances being an interior designer with working for incredible interior designers, he said there is a good balance in their relationships. “They come to us when they need pieces immediately and can’t get the large selection anywhere else,” he said. “Our service is bar none the best in the industry, our staff is the most knowledgeable, and we change stock so frequently that we are on trend more often than not. It’s very efficient.”

Of late, Mead has been staging some of the most celebrated homes on the market, many of them in the multi-million-dollar range. “Most in the industry have accepted the fact that home staging is the only way to sell a home quickly,” he explained. “Houses of this scale and quality need more than just installing of furniture. It needs to be designed. The buyer is falling for a lifestyle.”

In the end, Mead and his wife, Zoe Hoarde, live a simple and hardworking life. “I love walking on the beach with my wife and our dog. We adore traveling and we’re researching our next trip.

Of course, we love antiquing!” When asked if he ever missed England, he simply said, “No, I don’t miss it. But I do enjoy going back as a tourist.”

To learn more about Chris Mead or English Country Home, visit the store at 26 Snake Hollow Road in Bridgehampton, check outecantiques.com, call 631-537-0606 or follow their Instagram handle, @englishcountryhomeny.

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Elliman Studio: ‘From Montauk To Malibu’ New software is robust and intuitive

By Laura Euler Real estate is a business that usually involves big bucks here on the East End. That’s why the software that helps agents conduct their business is so important to get right.

Fortunately for Douglas Elliman agents, the brokerage is rolling out a new business management platform that will help them crush their businesses. Coming from the largest brokerage in the New York metro area and the second largest independent brokerage in the United States by sales volume, Elliman’s new software is called Elliman Studio.

“Elliman Studio is going to revolutionize the way Elliman agents across the country do business,” said Scott Durkin, president and chief operating officer of Douglas Elliman. “Technology progresses quickly in our industry, and we are enormously proud to be at the forefront of new advances that im-

prove our agents’ ability to serve their customers and clients efficiently and effectively,” he said.

“Elliman Studio is a national initiative for our 7000 agents, from Montauk to Malibu, and part of our commitment to providing them bestin-class service,” added Durkin. “We took the best of what is out there from CRMs, business, and marketing management tools and customized it for all of our agents onto one very robust and intuitive platform.”

The software was developed in partnership with a third-party company and custom built based on six months of testing and input from a beta group of top Elliman agents.

While this sounds pretty good, we were slightly skeptical. We asked Durkin, “Many agents aren’t especially tech-savvy. How easy is the software to use?” He replied, “Elliman Studio

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was developed very deliberately to be incredibly intelligent and intuitive. And while we are, of course, offering very informed training programs for Elliman Studio, I am confident that our agents will find it easy to use from day one.”

The tools included fall into three groups: client management, business management, and marketing tools.

For client management, the software boasts automatic cross-check of buyer and seller profiles, to match people and properties in seconds. Agents can manage leads in one place, consolidating them from sources like Elliman. com, Zillow, Realtor.com, StreetEasy, and so on, and automatically convert them into contacts.

Elliman Studio also allows for simple tracking and tagging of contacts; it can monitor agent contacts’ status and be alerted when to followup as well as auto-populate contact profiles from saved inquiries, searches, and listings. That last feature strikes us as extremely handy, frankly.

Business management tools make it easy to monitor closings and earnings 24/7 via a sales pipeline, identify opportunities to help reach commission and sales goals, and track progress throughout the year. Agents can also sync calendars across Google, Outlook, and other platforms, and be secure that their valuable data is safeguarded.

Every agent knows that marketing their business is crucial to success.

Elliman Studio allows them to crossmarket listings with agents nationwide, auto-send materials by broadcasting updates to clients (keeping the

conversation going), and perhaps most intriguingly, the software lets agents build property websites “in just a few clicks with dedicated domains that will be live on Elliman.com and ready for direct marketing efforts,” according to a statement.

We asked Durkin, “If I wanted to build my own website using the software, how knowledgeable should I be?” He replied, “Building a custom property website on Elliman Studio is as easy as one, two, three; especially upon completion of one of the many online or in person training programs our technology team is offering in the Hamptons and around the country.”

Finally, we wondered how Elliman Studio compares to the other systems.

“There is no competition,” Durkin said. “Elliman Studio combines the best in CRM, marketing, and business management tools in one place. It truly is like no other. With Elliman Studio, our agents are simultaneously maintaining a strategic and comprehensive communications plan with clients and customers, producing important marketing pieces such as exclusive listing websites, and staying ahead of their business to date, their business goals, and day-to-day operations,” he said.

“After extensive research and design, we are thrilled to deliver an agent-facing, feature-rich business management platform that will enhance the productivity and profitability of our agents,” concluded Durkin.

“Elliman Studio is user-friendly and intuitive and we look forward to delivering it to our agents in the next few weeks.”

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Min Date = 10/7/2019 Max Date = 10/13/2019

Source: Suffolk Research Service, Inc., Hampton Bays, NY 11946

Area

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Gustave, M & M Trusts

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AQUEBOGUE

Pham, T & Nguyen, B Dick, A & A Castro, M Simon, H Verderber, M

Beers, K & G Frend, E & K Stanevich, R by Admr Mackiewicz, Diede & Harding, W & C

545,000 645,000 375,000 392,000 495,000

18 Chris Ct 120 Vineyard Way 186 Broad Ave 99 Shade Tree Ln 47 Heritage Ln

CALVERTON

Milian, D

DeBoer, W

445,200

64 Palane N

CUTCHOGUE

Meyer, J & B

Rimor Development LLC

697,792

Harvest Pointe, Home 11

EAST HAMPTON

Greenway Coastal-122 Carey, C & K Ashville Management 17 Wooded Oak Ln LLC 1 Belgrove Dr LLC

Itzkoff & Lee, D by Exr Phelps, D & M O’Hara Orr & Orr by Hrs M&T Bank Lee, B by Ref

840,000 650,000 340,000 615,000 361,000

122 Hog Creek Ln 8 Renfrew Ln 67 Crystal Dr 17 Wooded Oak Ln 1 Belgrove Dr

EASTPORT

Litchhult M & S

Lohse, J & D

550,000

11 East Brook Rd

EAST MARION

Sharko, J & E Costalos, P

Napolitano, A Collura, B & D & E

1,400,000 580,000

200 Cleaves Pt Rd 170 Manor Rd

EAST QUOGUE

Dickson, M Curran, S Campbell, G Londono, A MTGLQ Investors LP

Docherty, J Daniels, R & C Russo, V Deutsche Bank Nat Tr Umpenhour, J&C by Ref

380,000 426,000 1,190,000 430,500 390,000

1004 Aerie Way 2780 Quogue Riverhead Rd 10 Whippoorwill Ct 57 Old Country Rd 16 Box Tree Rd

GREENPORT

Victorian Bay LLC

HSBC Bank USA, NA

556,216

1075 Main St

HAMPTON BAYS

Valentino, A Matts Day Care LLC Citrone, J & P Curro, D & C

County of Suffolk Soleau, A Benson, R by Admr Koleini, F & D

1,100* 144,000 305,000 545,000

Mildred Pl 63 Palo Alto Dr 39 Wakeman Rd 55 Shinnecock Rd

LAUREL

Mann, R & Konforti, B

McKay, M & Moncrief, K

670,000

250 Wendy Dr

MATTITUCK

Ilzar Holding LLC Peoples United Bank

Stern, P Demopoulos, T by Ref

2,150,000 474,800

2400 Ruth Rd 970 Village Ln

MONTAUK

Randall, W 33 CF Plaza LLC

Nacol, B & K White, K & Howes, K

1,410,000 1,500,000

31 Caswell Rd 33 Carl Fisher Plaza

RIVERHEAD

Harris, D & E Katevatis, D Katevatis, D 161-163 Realty Corp

Goodridge, R Larsen, M Willow Trees Acres Cedar Place Realty

150,000 999,000 1,250,000 900,000

6 Goodridge Rd 2248 Roanoke Ave 2224 Roanoke Ave 161-163 Railroad St

SAGAPONACK

324 Hedges Lane LLC

324 Hedges Lane Hldngs

14,750,000

324 Hedges Ln

SAG HARBOR

Phillips, G & A KDKJ Holdings LLC KDKJ Holdings LLC Flaster, R Vandenburg, J

Chromow, H & S Lysander Sag Harbor Lysander Sag Harbor Sag Development Prtnrs Berkower, Rubin & Weiss

1,995,000 995,000 7,805,000 2,425,000 1,250,000

2587 Deerfield Rd 8 Concord St 23 Suffolk St Watchcase #2 Sage Street 15 Church St, Unit W-203

SOUTHAMPTON

Falisse, JS & M Lennon, N One Pond Lane Owner

ABS Real Estate D’Antonio, R & L Hauquitz, F&1 Pond La

920,000 765,000 2,250,000

19 Hillside Rd 51 Hawthorne Rd 1 Pond Ln

SOUTHOLD

Pants View LLC

Butz, M

2,451,000

2022 Hyatt Rd

WAINSCOTT

Mills, G

Jones, E & K

2,195,000

27 West Gate Rd

WATER MILL

397 Upper Seven LLC

Kibler, C

550,000

397 Upper Seven Ponds Rd

WESTHAMPTON

Mendelowitz, S&P Trust Mezibov, B & Klein, J

Nebons, J 8 Jagger Lane LLC

865,000 637,500

165 Jonathan Ln 8 Jagger Ln

WESTHAMPTON BEACH

Pell, R & Grogan, J Cerrone, R & A Garten, L

Valentino, C Finnerty, B Trust Feldman, I

1,612,500 1,425,000 2,050,000

16 Quantuck Bay Ln 64 Bayfield Ln 50 Old Meadow Bend Ln

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Are Better Times Coming?

HANFRA shares take on East End real estate market

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Joan Bischoff van Heemskerck, immediate past president, Hamptons North Fork Realtors Association, has an interesting take on the current East End real estate market, and if he is correct, there may be some good news coming, and wouldn’t that be nice?

“Real estate market statistics usually are based on closed transactions as recorded in the public records. When financing is involved, it can easily take 60 to 90 days to close. Then there is another delay for these closings to show up on public records, which can be substantial,” he opined in a recent article dated November 16.

There are a number of reasons the buyer or seller might want their attorney to “sit on” a signed contract before

turning it into the county for pressing.

One may have outstanding debts; another may not want the adult children or former wife to know there has been a windfall. Negotiating another deal gets that much harder if the other party knows you are flush with cash . . . and so on.

“When a market is turning, such ‘old’ data may not accurately reflect the situation on the ground,” van Heemskerck wrote.

“In our area, there are indications that the market is changing,” he added.

“My report provides data based on signed contracts, a much more current measure of market activity, very helpful for buyers and sellers in this market to make better decisions.”

For example, the North Fork seems ripe for an upward move. Though there is a glut of properties on the market in the Hamptons, North Fork inventory remains low (280).

Van Heemskerck commented: “The North Fork as a real estate market is coming into its own. The area is attractive because of its location adjacent to the Hamptons, more affordable pricing, and increasingly popular aquaagricultural, ‘food to table’ rural nature.

Buyers are still flocking to scoop up the bargains,” he said.

“But bargains are harder to come by in today’s low inventory market with median sales prices now around $575,000,” he acknowledged.

The Hamptons are harder to understand. “The Hamptons of course remain a special market, tied in to the financial markets in Manhattan, defying national trends. But if the Hamptons markets follow Manhattan’s, a slow-down was inevitable since 2015,” he said.

Why? The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created some uncertainty by taking away much of a New York taxpayer’s deduction for real estate taxes, but its impact would ebb later in 2019.

Furthermore, wealthy New Yorkers are moving away in droves. Three states in the Northeast — New Jersey,

“When a market is turning, such ‘old’ data may not accurately reflect the situation on the ground,” van Heemskerck wrote.

New York, and Connecticut — are among the top places from which people are moving the fastest. “The costly living expenses, crumbling infrastructure, and high tax rates are a big problem for residents. If you live in NYC, you are forced to pay exorbitant taxes,” he said.

These kinds of trends probably weaken the local market, at least anecdotally.

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Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice relative to the Monica Lewinsky affair. Richard Nixon was impeached as an outgrowth of the Watergate coverup and charged with obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and defying subpoenas during the impeachment investigation. The House Judiciary Committee stated that “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” goes beyond crimes to include “behaving in a manner grossly incompatible with the proper function of the office and employing the power of the office for an improper purpose or personal gain.”

Going back to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the founding fathers decided the phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” provided “flexibility and guidance” in deciding on impeachable offenses, which references 400 years of practice in Great Britain.

Alexander Hamilton stated in the Federalist Papers that “impeachment is directed at political offenses that proceed from . . . the abuse or violation of some public trust.” Echoing Hamilton, Justice Joseph Story in 1833 stated “impeachable conduct is often purely political, and that no previous statute is necessary to authorize an impeachment for any official misconduct.”

Therefore, it appears the term “high crimes and misdemeanors” refers to officials in high office who commit offenses which violate their oaths of office and can consist of abuse of power. A Harvard Law Review succinctly stated, “The majority view is that a president can legally be impeached for intentional, evil deeds that drastically subvert the Constitution and involve unforgivable abuse of the presidency — even if those deeds didn’t violate any criminal laws.”

I leave it to the readers to decide if they believe President Trump should be impeached.

Donald Moskowitz

Unsafe Stretch Dear Editor, On October 16, by a vote of four-toone, the Pine Barrens Commission submitted a memo advising Southampton’s planning board that a proposed golf course resort in East Quogue known as The Hills/Lewis Road PRD doesn’t conform to the standards of the Pine Barrens Com-

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prehensive Land Use Plan.

The lone objection to the memo was cast by planning administrator, Kyle Collins, on behalf of the Town of Southampton. Collins submitted a response to the Pine Barrens Commission, allegedly to correct and clarify what Southampton believes to be mistakes made by the commission. Collins’s response appears to be riddled with errors and omissions.

In truth, Collins never clarified any information at any time during the lengthy review process of The Hills.

It is my understanding that Collins, who may be the second highestpaid employee in Southampton after the police chief, holds two other jobs, one as Westhampton Beach planner and another as the owner of a private consultancy. I perceive Collins to not always be well-prepared, and his defense of The Hills/Lewis Road PRD may be for reasons of expediency.

It’s also my belief that his response is designed to defend three badly-designed PRDs located directly across Lewis Road from The Hills.

Colleagues of Collins were/are involved in the creation of these three PRDs which reconfigured streets, enlarged a recharge basin that subsequently overflowed, deprived public water to homes located next to that basin, and contributed to street flooding and auto accidents.

The overlap of Southampton town employees involved in the creation of the PRDs includes not only the current lawyer for The Hills, but two current Southampton town planners.

Here’s the problem with Southampton’s land-use system. Many decisions, particularly with regard to zoning changes such as PRDs, often involve subtext. For example, it’s possible Collins and his colleagues blame the Lewis Road auto accidents on bad driving rather than on bad zoning.

If so, Collins should be required to openly address the accidents on Lewis Road. Then, I can debate his argument. Otherwise, my argument that the accidents were caused by bad design must stand along with my larger argument that The Hills/Lewis Road PRD is located in the most unsafe and environmentally compromised stretch of Lewis Road.

Respectfully, Susan Cerwinski

Grim Reality Dear Editor, It is the time of year that I am unfortunately reminded of two articles. The first is titled “There’s A Grim Reality

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Behind Your Thanksgiving Turkey” (Los Angeles Times Editorial Board) and the second article is titled “Torture and Terror: Why Thanksgiving Is Tough For Turkeys” (Katie Rucke).

Judging from the excessive volume of turkey consumption, particularly this time of year, most of us have not given much thought to the process involved in getting a turkey to the center of our dinner tables. It isn’t that we don’t love animals. We spoil our pets and take delight in watching the birds at our feeders or the dolphins jumping out of the oceans. So why the disconnect? As children, we listened with delight to stories such as “The Ugly Duckling” and have natural compassion for animals.

But there is a hidden conspiracy regarding our food. We see packaging and commercials with happy farm animals. For example, smiling cows offering us ice cream and cheese. Our parents, our teachers, and most textbooks do not challenge these images.

The dietary guidelines provided by our government promotes meat and meat products as being our primary source of protein. Do your research to find out which industries influence the nutritional guidelines dispensed by our government. We seem indoctrinated to be complacent about our food sources. It’s time to learn about what really happens to the animals before they end up on our plates.

An article I recently read stated that approximately 99 percent of the turkeys found in our grocery stores, and therefore consumed in the United States, were raised on a factory farm.

A turkey’s life in a factory farm is challenging from the start. The literature consistently states that turkeys are debeaked and detoed shortly after birth without any medications.

This is done to eliminate the physical damage that occurs from fighting resulting from the overcrowded

and unnatural living conditions. The male turkeys also have their snoods removed without medications. The living conditions are so stressful that cannibalism has been reported within factory turkey farms.

A July 2019 article by Martha Rosenberg titled “Are Factory Farmers Winning The Antibiotics War?” stated “Antibiotics allow livestock growers to raise animals in unsanitary, confined conditions that would otherwise kill or sicken them.” Antibiotics are also given to reduce the quantity of feed necessary to raise a turkey and to help them gain weight faster. Many recent articles have expressed concern with respect to human antibiotic resistance resulting from consuming antibiotics via animal consumption, including turkey consumption.

The turkeys grow at very fast rates to weights that are more than twice what they were a few decades ago. Katie Rucke’s article stated “In the report, the investigator said turkeys were bred to grow obese so quickly that the hens were no longer able to mate naturally, and had to be artificially inseminated — a process which involves grabbing hens by their legs, shackling them upside down, and inserting a plastic tube into the bird. These hens will spend their lives being artificially inseminated over and over again to continually lay eggs that will hatch young turkeys to be raised and slaughtered for food, including Thanksgiving dinners.”

How ironic that we sit around the Thanksgiving table with our family and friends talking about what we are thankful for while a turkey is often in the middle of the table. We are not the only sentient animal that inhabits Earth that has feelings and families.

Shame on us for the disconnect.

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Sports Dryden, Cox Send Pierson To States Whalers win Long Island title with 3-1 oust of Oyster Bay

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Gylia Dryden hadn’t practiced in over two weeks due to a concussion, and missed some time earlier in Pierson’s girls volleyball season with a sprained ankle. She wasn’t sure at what level her performance would be, but one thing she did know is she didn’t want to let her team down.

Dryden did anything but. Her 18 kills, four aces, and nine blocks propelled Pierson to a 3-1 win over Oyster Bay Saturday — 16-25, 25-15, 25-11, 25-20 — for the Whalers’ second Long Island Class C title in the last three years. The November 16 appearance at Hauppauge High School was the second time Pierson, which advances to the state tournament semifinals November 23 at Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls, even competed in the cross-county game.

“I really, really did not want to disappoint my team,” Dryden said. “This meant so much to us — I knew how much it meant to the seniors — so I just wanted to help prove we could do it again.”

The junior middle blocker said head coach Donna Fisher kept reassuring her with a “You’ve got this” coming out of every huddle.

“She pushed me, I pushed myself, and there I was,” Dryden said. “A lot of it

was being consistent with my hits, getting my timing down, and snapping my wrists every hit. And we kept the energy up.”

“Once she got the nerves out, she was on fire,” Fisher said. “You can’t stop her.”

Pierson (14-3) dropped the first set with untimely hits and out-of-bounds kill attempts, which senior outside and middle hitter Sam Cox said had to do with the whole team being nervous.

“We weren’t really talking. We weren’t fluid enough,” Cox said. “We were in our own heads. As the game progressed, we grew more comfortable, got more confident, and did what we knew we could do.”

Cox fed off Dryden’s blocks, tips, and kills in the second set to rack up five Pierson points during a 10-5 Whalers run. Dryden also had two kills sandwiching a Cox ace to pit Pierson out front 15-8 in the third.

“Gigi came back 150 percent,” Cox said. “She was killing it and killing it.

She talked, was aggressive. She was insane. She was a star tonight.”

Cox also shined. She finished the game with 21 kills, eight digs, and two aces. After one of her kills, sophomore setter Sofia Mancino (30 assist, six digs) made a diving save to send the ball over,

Junior middle blocker and hitter Gylia Dryden spikes the ball. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

and Cox’s kill was tipped off Oyster Bay (11-7) blockers and into the back of the court to secure a 2-1 lead. The senior also slammed down three straight spikes to tie the fourth set 10-all after Pierson started off down 9-5. Sophomore middle blocker and hitter Grace Brosnan added six kills, four aces, and three blocks in the win.

“We really didn’t get down,” Cox said. “We knew every practice, every game, every team dinner led to this moment, and we got exactly what we wanted. We had high hopes, and knew, if we gave it our all, we could beat this team, take this game.”

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Westhampton Seniors Boast Successful Careers Teammates total monumental achievements despite Suffolk semifinal loss

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com “I’ll never forget this varsity team and the impact we have on the community,” Westhampton Beach senior linebacker Shavar Coffey said.

In front of hundreds of fans November 15, the Hurricanes (8-2) dropped their Suffolk County Division III semifinal game to East Islip, 42-27, but what the boys has done across their careers was not lost on them.

“We prepared all week, but East Islip came out hot,” senior running back Jaden AlfanoStJohn said, “so it was hard to catch momentum, but we fought hard.”

Brandon Miller completed 12 of 19 passes for 252 yards and three touchdowns and rushed 16 times for 80 yards to lead the No. 3 Redmen (8-2). Dylan Rigo rushed for three one-yard touchdowns, including the first two scores of the game, but each time AlfanoStJohn had a response. The senior’s second touchdown tied things at 14-all heading into halftime. He finished the final game of his high school career scoring all four of Westhampton’s touchdowns, the third time he carried the ball that many times into the end zone in a single game this year. Junior kicker Jackson Hulse scored on all but the final extra-point kick attempt, which was blocked.

“I felt good playing, as I do in every game,” AlfanoStJohn said. “I always come through when I need to.”

It proved difficult to open the running game against the Redmen defense, and them going through the air made it that much harder for the Hurricanes to hold them.

The 17 seniors helped Westhampton Beach to its fifth straight semifinal appearance. Senior tight end and offensive linebacker Aidan Cumisky, along with

several others, were part of the 2017 team that won the Long Island championship to cap off a perfect 12-0 season. In 2018, the Hurricanes went 10-0 until a 21-10 loss to Half Hollow Hills West in the Suffolk County final. They subsequently earned two undefeated league titles, and were part of a 22-game winning streak.

“Being part of such a successful program just heightened my high school football experience,” senior nose guard and center Chris Daleo said. “The program has earned a lot of attention, and it made the work we endured worthwhile. It was something to look ahead to when what we were doing was really challenging.”

In his first season as a starter, he, along with senior defensive end and offensive tackle Kevin Dillon, led an almost brand-new offensive line.

“We had some inexperience in some positions,” head coach Bryan Schaumloffel said. “Kevin Dillon and Chris Daleo did a great job of working with the new offensive linemen we had.”

“It was good to help the younger guys on the team and teach them what I’ve been taught over the years,” said senior tight end and offensive linebacker Jesse AlfanoStJohn, Jaden’s twin brother. “It’s also cool to see how we’ve inspired the young PAL players. They look at us and want to be in our shoes one day, under the lights on those Friday nights.”

Coffey, who was part of a Hurricane defense that let up 19 points per game this season, 10 last, said being a Hurricane meant the world to him.

“There’s nothing like it,” said the senior, who is deciding between playing at several Division II schools, and finished his career with 294 tackles, 15 sacks, and three interceptions. “This program has

Manning Right At Home In Louisiana Local earns starting job on top college hoops team

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Jaden AlfanoStJohn finished his Westhampton Beach football career with 3055 all-purpose yards, 47 touchdowns, and 18 interceptions. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

shown me what great leadership is all about, and I hope the other kids learn that success is not something that’s given, it’s earned. It starts with offseason workouts and just participating in everything the coaches have to offer. With this team, I’ve learned to just never give up. Even with hardships, there are lots of people around you to help you fight them.”

The AlfanoStJohn brothers would know about that, too. The brothers lost their mother Rose in September, right before the start of the regular season.

“All season I’m going to play with a chip on my shoulder,” Jaden said previously. “We’re going to play for our mom.”

As with several of the other seniors, he finishes his career 33-3. The running back amassed 3055 all-purpose yards, scored 47 touchdowns, and made 18 interceptions.

“Being a part of this team and program has been an awesome ride,” he said.

“Hopefully my legacy and career inspired the younger kids to see what winning is like, and how to do it with class. I also hope they learned the culture of Westhampton Beach. We’re a family.”

The senior said it started for him learning from the previous greats in Hansen Award-winners Dylan Laube and Liam McIntyre. AlfanoStJohn will be

joining McIntyre, a good friend of his, at Long Island University next season, committing to the Sharks November 16.

“I’m very happy,” he said. “I can’t wait to team up with him again and make some more history together.”

AlfanoStJohn said he chose Long Island University because of the atmosphere and how the coaches treated him each time he visited the campus.

“I chose LIU because I want to be a part of something special,” he said, adding his mother Suzanne was emotional at his decision. “My mom was in tears knowing that all my hard work had paid off, and she is extremely excited I decided to stay on the island so she can watch all my games.”

Schaumloffel is also looking forward to seeing his former athletes compete together.

“I’m proud of both of those guys,” he said. “The friendships and the experience of playing at the next level I think is a great opportunity for those guys who were part of very talented senior groups. They’ve had a lot of success.

They worked hard, although coming up a little short of their goals, won a lot of football games, and did a lot of great things.”

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Charles Manning Jr. didn’t figure to see much playing time for Louisiana State University this season.

After all, the 2018-19 Tigers went 28–7 — tying for the second-most wins in school history — won the program’s first Southeastern Conference regularseason title in a decade, and reached the second weekend of the NCAA tournament for the first time since making the finals in 2006.

Coach Will Wade is back for his third season at LSU, and so are five of

his top eight players. But Manning has a history of winning, and playing at an elite level. He led the Bridgehampton Killer Bees to a New York Class D championship title and was named to the All-Long Island third team despite missing the first month of the season while playing for Lutheran High School in 2016.

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Bonacker Swimmers Singing Sweet Tunes Seniors looking forward to last state trip

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

“You know I know how to make ‘em stop and stare as I zone out. Watchin’ you watchin’ me I go all out. Let’s celebrate now.”

Eighth-grader Jane Brierley said she’s listened to Flo Rida’s “Club Can’t Handle Me” more times than she can count, but she’s excited to hear it one last time as she makes the trip to Ithaca with three East Hampton seniors to compete in the state championships.

“I’ve heard that one a lot,” she said, laughing. “But it’s a lot of fun, gets us pumped. On the bus rides to dual meets, we always listen to 2000s pop.”

Senior Julia Brierley said there’s also a lot of Taylor Swift songs on her playlist.

“I overplayed it, I guess, but no one complained about it,” she said, smiling. “And it seemed to work.”

The Bonackers finished the regular season 4-3 overall and 4-1 in League III behind undefeated Sayville/ Bayport, and placed sixth out of 26 schools in the county.

“We’ve all been swimming on the Hurricanes club team for a long time, so we know what it takes, and the potential we have,” senior Sophia Swanson said. “Taking this last trip, it’s kind of sad, but it’s exciting.”

Both Brierleys, Swanson, and senior Darcy McFarland will compete in the 200-yard medley relay and the 200 freestyle relay at Ithaca College November 22 and 23. Swanson will

also swim in the 100 butterfly and 100 freestyle, and Jane Brierley in the 100 breaststroke.

“The dedication and hard work that the girls put in throughout the season shined through in their efforts in the competition,” head coach Craig Brierley said following the Suffolk County championships. “Throughout the meet, the Bonac girls, again, posted either season-best or lifetime-best times — a very impressive task given the fact that most of them posted best times just a week prior.”

And, heading into states, the girls are looking to shave off some extra seconds. Because Jane Brierley was injured last season, she’s expecting bigger and better results this time around.

She made it to the final heat last year, but wants to place higher than the 25th spot she finished in.

Swanson swam a personal best 59.25 seconds — good for 33rd place out of 90 — in the 100 butterfly last year. She followed that up this past summer with top-place finishes in the United States Lifesaving Association national competition, and represented USA on the 2019 International Surf Rescue Challenge team that competed in South Africa.

“It was mind-changing, a great experience,” she said. “I got to meet all of these amazing swimmers I never thought I’d meet from South Africa and Australia that helped me to see how much potential I actually have.

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It also taught me different ways to change and how I can get better.”

While she said swimming in the ocean instead of the pool for the summer may have backtracked her a bit, she was quick to pick up where she left off, and capped the Suffolk County season by swimming a personal best 24.40 seconds as the anchor of the freestyle relay that placed second. She also finished third in the 200 freestyle in 1:58.31, and third in the 100 freestyle in 53.78.

“Sophia has earned her successes in the pool,” Brierley said of Swanson.

“She’s always a tough competitor and a consistent hard worker in practice.”

But Swanson thinks all the girls are, including McFarland, who took 2019 graduate Oona Foulser’s spot on the relays. McFarland didn’t even know she was going to be competing in the freestyle at counties.

“I swam in it the meet before, but I thought there was going to be another girl swimming in my place,” she said. “I found out the last second it was going to be me, and thought, ‘Oh shoot. I have to find my cap and

goggles because I have no idea where they are.’ But I think I did pretty well.”

Julia Brierley said the team always knew it was going to be her.

“When we qualified the first time this year, she was flying,” Brierley said.

“We were all so excited for her, and thought, ‘We’ve got it!’”

McFarland said the water for her is an escapism — her moment of Zen — kind of like how the end of the season is, as practices taper off.

“We do a lot of meditating to release ourselves from stress,” she said.

“Practices are shortened to get the rest we need.”

While the Bonackers may be relaxing now, in just one short week they’ll be singing their way up to Ithaca.

“I’ve learned a lot from this sport, about what I can do physically, and mentally what I’m capable of,” Julia Brierley said. “I think it gets more exciting as the years go on, and I’m really happy to end it on a high note.”

“I said it. Go tell it. Confetti. Who ready? I’m ready. You ready. Let’s get it!”

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I had reasonably assumed that there wouldn’t be anything of great interest to me inside the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum in Beaumont, Texas, but nothing could have been further from the truth. I truly wish I hadn’t waited so long.

It’s a tribute to the great Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias, who, by the looks of the center, is clearly was one of the greatest athletes this country has ever produced. She was multi-talented, multi-accomplished, beginning her career playing high school basketball on a company team called the Golden Cyclones, which won the national cham-

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pionship three years in a row. The Babe was an All-American for two of those years while still a teenager.

Her attention then turned to track and field. At the national women’s Amateur Athletic Union track meet in 1931, she won first place in eight events and was second in her ninth. She went on to compete in the Olympics, where at the time women were only allowed to enter three events. She broke several world records while winning gold in the javelin throw and the 80-meter hurdles, and silver in the high jump.

Sportswriter Paul Gallico referred to her as “the most talented athlete,

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A common danger for boaters There is a little-known fact that you can drown right in the marina, in the most shocking way. It is called ESD — Electric Shock Drowning.

Most mariners are not aware that such a danger even exists other than in the most blatant way. If there were an electrical cable thrashing about from a downed power wire, well, it is obvious that whether that happens at the dock or in front of your house this is a major danger. If it happens to knock you off the dock as it paralyzes you, you’re going to drown. But how about a charge as low 10 milliamps?

Sources Of Stray Currents There are two sources of stray current

at the marina — faulty marina wiring and faulty wiring on your boat. At the marina, if there is a non-functioning grounding system, or an improper grounding of the neutral-white power conductor, or just unapproved wiring near the water, there can easily be a charge snaking through the waters.

Although these are all violations of the National Fire Protection Association’s 303: Fire Protection Standard for Marinas and Boatyards, it will be cold comfort if you reach into the water to retrieve your cap and your system is shocked into paralysis. The amount of electricity entering the body can be so small that often the post-mortem doesn’t catch that stray current was the

male or female, ever developed in our country.”

Indeed, she seemed to excel in whatever she tried: sewing her own clothes, typing 86 words a minute, competing in tennis and bowling. She once threw a baseball from deep center field to home plate — 300 feet — and even pitched an inning in an exhibition game for the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Babe started her love affair with golf around 1932 and played and succeeded in multiple tournaments around the state, country, and the world. In 1947, Zaharias became the first American woman to win the British Ladies’ Amateur Championship in Gullane, Scotland. Shortly after that, she announced she was going pro and for the next six years dominated women’s golf until her untimely death in 1954.

She was the winner of 17 consecutive tournaments from 1946-47. Between 1933 and 1953 she won a total of 82 titles — yes, it’s a familiar number, as that is the same amount that both Tiger Woods and Sam Snead have recorded. The Associated Press named her “Woman of the Year” in 1936, 1945, 1947, 1950 and 1954. In 1950, AP acclaimed her the “Woman Athlete of the Half Century.”

But how did Mildred Didrikson become known as “The Babe?” Well, cause of death.

And it doesn’t have to be a marina owner who missed his annual inspection. As boats get bigger and the electrical systems get more complicated — with generators, inverters, chargers, and other devices — chances of error compound. Add in the do-it-yourself attitude and you can see where complications could exist.

It’s all the usual errors — poor groundings, reversed polarities, mixing AC and DC wiring, etc. While such practices are violations of the American Boat and Yacht Council’s standards and recommended practices, the boater is not protected by required inspections.

You just must be committed to doing it with licensed and experienced help.

What Can I Do About It? First, stay out of the water in a marina, especially if someone is running his or her generator. If looking to retrieve something from the water, get a boat hook with a rubber grip and snag it.

Second, check with your dock master to be sure that the boats and the marina itself are wired to American Boat and Yacht Council and National Fire Protection Association standards. It is better the dock master has a charge-indicator in the shop for simple boat work. Have him or her check the

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She was the winner of 17 consecutive tournaments from 1946-47.

Between 1933 and 1953 she won a total of 82 titles as an adolescent in the Babe Ruth era, and while playing baseball with her brothers, she hit five home runs in a single game. From that moment on, her nickname became “Babe.”

Meanwhile, as I journey back into the present, Brendon Todd just won back-to-back victories on the PGA Tour — the first in Bermuda, second in Mexico. Previously, his game was in complete shambles — money was short, and worse than that, he had no idea how he was going to recover. But, like “The Babe,” he believed that hard work was the only road to success. waters periodically, perhaps even by staging an electrical safety day at the marina. Have everyone that has a generator turn theirs on, then test the waters. If it shows a charge, turn the generators off one by one until the charge drops out.

He or she will thank you for it — as will everyone at the marina.

If you are interested in joining the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, email me at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com.

Hurricanes Compete In LIC Westhampton Beach’s boys volleyball team, fresh off its first Suffolk County title win in the Hurricanes’ first appearance in the final game, competed in the Long Island Championship Tuesday.

The team took on Nassau’s Long Beach for Division II bragging rights November 19 at Farmingdale State College, but results were not available by press time.

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merce (742 Montauk Hwy), where registration will take place from 8 to 9:30 AM. Proceeds go to The Montauk Food Pantry, The East Hampton Food Pantry, The Springs Food Pantry, and Meals on Wheels. Head to www.montaukchamber.com for more details.

Check-in for the EMO turkey trot is from 7:30 to 8:45 AM at East Moriches Middle School (9 Adelaide Avenue). Rain or shine, this race benefits health and wellness opportunities for East Moriches students. Bringing non-perishable food donations is also suggested. Visit elitefeats.com to register.

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Turkey trots have become as synonymous with Thanksgiving Day as the feast itself. What began as a simple race at the YMCA in Buffalo, NY with only six participants back in 1896 has turned into one of the biggest running days of the year — more than one million people hit the pavement each holiday in the states.

To be part of this caloric offset, here are some races across Long Island happening Thursday, November 28.

Choose by location or by charity.

On the South Fork, Montauk’s 43rd annual “Run for Fun� turkey day three- or six-mile run/walk is a rain, shine, or snow event. It begins at the Montauk Circle/Chamber of Com-

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Shoreham-Wading River’s 39th annual Thanksgiving Day foot races are a 5K and set of one-mile runs at the Miller Avenue School (3 Miller Ave in Shoreham). Those ages 13 and older can choose to race in the one-mile event at 8 AM, or 5K challenge at 8:50 AM. The one-mile fun run for kids 12 and younger starts at 8:15 AM. Proceeds go to the Shoreham-Wading River community program high school scholarship fund.

Visit www.swrschools.org for more information.

The 12th annual Smiles Turkey Trot will happen in Blue Point (at 1 Corey Avenue at Corey Beach) and supports the Sayville-based nonprofit Kids Run Long Island. This event is a fun run with no age groups, but there will be an 8:30 AM slot for children under 10 — who will receive a turkey headband — to hit the ground running.

The 5K run and 1.5-mile walk starts at 9 AM. More details can be found at www.kidsrunlongisland.org.

The Nissequogue River State Park Foundation’s 1K turkey trot and 5K run for the park will begin with a fun run at 8:30 AM (at 799 Saint Johnland Rd in Kings Park) at the Nissequogue River State Park administration building. Check-in is from 7:30 to 9 AM. A 5K run begins at 9 AM. All proceeds benefit Nissequogue River State Park.

To learn more, visit ourstatepark.com.

The Townwide Fund of Huntington will have a fun run at 8:30 AM and a four-mile race at 9 AM at the American Legion (on Route 110 in Halesite).

The rain or shine event benefits local charities. Register online at www.townwidefund.org.

Massapequa will raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in its annual run/walk. A fun run begins at 8:30 AM and a 5K starts at 9:15 AM at the John Burns Park. Head to www. turkeytrotmassapequa.com for more information.

Glen Cove Education Foundation will host an inaugural turkey trot, stepping off at Glen Cove High School.

Check-in begins at 7:30 AM with the kids run beginning at 8:45 AM and the 5K at 9:30 AM. Register by calling 516801-8140.

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most cases come January 1, it can still be set when a charge is deemed a violent felony, though it must be set at a level the defendant can afford.

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On the way to the hospital, the alleged victim stopped at police headquarters and gave a statement.

In court the following morning, East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana issued an order of protection for the man in the case. “There are two sides to this story,� said Carl Irace, Buitrago’s attorney, as he entered a not guilty plea to the felony charge. Rana ordered Buitrago, a lifelong resident of East Hampton, be released without bail.

“If you violate this order of protection in any manner, shape, or form at all, that bail status is going to be revisited,� Rana said.

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Continued From Page 28. ers about bringing the “I.C.E.� —intensity, concentration, and energy — and added if the team can maintain this kind of performance, it can improve on its 1-5 record in the 2017 state tournament.

Senior libero Olivia Cassone (12 digs) thinks so, too.

“When we pulled through with that second-set win I thought, ‘We’re going to do this. We can,’� Cassone said. “We were moving our feet and switching up the rotations, came out of every timeout circle-up staying composed, and with GiGi as our light, were guided through to the end. This team is going to go far.�

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“It was an incredible experience up there and I can’t wait to face those other girls,� Cassone said. “I needed to go back one more time.�

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The buzz had started, and Wade heard it.

“I went to see Charles,� Wade told The Independent. “He was the hardest working player on the floor.�

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