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No Stuffed Dogs Allowed?

Dear Editor, Bravo to Heather Buchanan! Her audacity to go allin in support of a local merchant ensnared under the probative weight of government’s enforcement of its village sign law is commendable. The law, perhaps adopted in a time when wild dogs ran free to eat the remains of dinosaurs, reared its prohibitive head when a small “Welcome” sign appeared, conspicuously hanging from a life-sized replica of a poodle.

Because this flamboyant display was sighted in front of the merchant’s doorway, citations were issued. One was for having a sign outdoors and another cited the mutant dog as an improperly displayed item, it too outdoors. Yikes!

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Publisher & GM James J. Mackin Executive Editor & Associate Publisher Jessica Mackin-Cipro

In this territory, law and order will prevail and violations will be cited, properly adjudicated, and punishable by imprisonment and/or fines. Ay yi yi!

Like many things, businesses either grow or die.

Considering this law only serves to interfere with, rather than aid in the promotion of business, and recognizing what is believed to be a declining business environment in our village, ought we now reconsider such restrictions and seek to better assist the few remaining merchants with a lot less government intervention?

Alex Piccirillo Editor’s note: Heather writes our “Kiss & Tell” column.

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News & Opinion A Town of East Hampton image on file shows what the wind turbine tower at Iacono Farm would look like before and after if AT&T were to mount antennas to it. Independent/AT&T

Northwest Woods Cell Tower In Legal Peril?

Attorney: East Hampton issued permits, here come the lawsuits

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The legal clock that will free AT&T of any obligation to East Hampton town to build a proposed and already approved 185-foot-tall monopole cell phone tower at the old Northwest Woods brush dump site on Old Northwest Road and, instead, allow AT&T to return to its preferred site, Iacono farm on Long Lane, appears to have started ticking, as of February 18.

AT&T prefers the Iacono farm site, according to an attorney for the communications giant, Kimberly Nason, because it would be far less expensive to mount cell signal antennas on the property’s existing 120-foot-tall wind turbine tower, rather than constructing the monopole at the Northwest Woods site. Nason said as much during one of the hearings that were part of the hyper-accelerated 60day approval process by the town for the Northwest Woods site.

The communications company

needs the additional antennas because of a void in coverage across East Hampton, particularly in the Northwest Woods area.

AT&T had proposed to the East Hampton Town planning board in 2015 that it mount antennas at between 75 feet and 95 feet off the ground on the wind turbine at Iacono. Over the next couple of years, AT&T fine-tuned this proposal, agreeing with planning board requests to mount the antennas flush to the lattice tower, and to color the antennas so that they would blend in with either the lattice tower or the sky, with choice of color to be made by the town.

Despite these modifications, in 2016, the planning board made a positive declaration under the New York state’s Environmental Quality Review Act on the Iacono farm proposal, meaning it would have a major impact on the area

around Iacono farm. That finding forced AT&T to generate a 279-page environmental impact statement, which it delivered to the planning board in January 2017 and was modified in March of that year. In the end, a divided planning board rejected the proposal.

AT&T sued the town and its planning and architectural review boards in federal court, citing the Federal Communications Act of 1996. The town brought in outside counsel, Kelly Wright, and capitulated, signing off on a settlement of the lawsuit that heavily favors the plaintiff.

The communications company agreed in the settlement to build the

In Plain Sight

monopole tower at the brush dump site and even allow the town to mount much needed emergency response antennas at the top of the 185-foot structure, but with two major caveats.

Clauses First, the town had to issue all needed permits for the Northwest Woods site within 60 days after receiving AT&T’s application, or AT&T could consider that brush dump application as having been denied. Under the settlement, AT&T would then move back to Iacono.

The application that the planning board rejected in 2017 would be recognized by Continued On Page 29.

On February 12, the East Hampton Town Planning Board issued a permit for AT&T to construct a 185-foot-tall cell phone tower in Northwest Woods. The board was split, but ultimately gave the thumbs up for the project by a 4-3 vote.

Before voting with the majority, Ian Calder-Piedmonte reminded his fellow planning board members that he had been in the minority in 2017 when the board declined AT&T’s proposal to place antennas on the already-built wind turbine tower on Iacono farm on Long Lane.

“There is some irony in that our main concern was the viewshed over agricultural land,” he said of the 2017 vote. The Northwest Woods tower, he said, will be visible from miles away, across many open fields. “You’re going to see this site. On a personal level, I own the farm field close to here.”

Calder-Piedmonte said he has reconciled himself that “the best view of this is going to be from where I work,” and that the Northwest Woods tower will be visible as he works his field from sunrise to sunset.

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February 26, 2020

Pine Barrens Commission Wants More

baseball field, basketball court, four pickleball courts, a fitness center, and a pool in addition to the seasonal homes.

While Discovery Land claims golf courses don’t pollute, “it’s almost impossible for them not to,” argued one speaker at the podium.

“They spray a lot of stuff on there to control the grass and keep the fairways,” said another. “It’s a lot of pesticides.”

The Arizona-based company, which owns 23 other luxury developments across the world, including Dune Deck in Westhampton Beach, has said it will leave more than half of the land in its natural form, comply with all with all regulations, and monitor and clean the runoff before it flows back into the ground.

“We will apply the minimum amount of chemical usage,” Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, LLC development consultant Chic Voorhis told the fiveperson commission made up of the town supervisors from Riverhead, Brookhaven, and Southampton, plus the county executive and a representative from the state Department of Environmental Conservation. “This project is net negative in terms of nitrogen.”

Amper, who authored the 1993 Pine Barrens Protection Act, which limits permitted development, said

Board gives Discovery Land until March 4 for information on golf resort

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The Long Island Pine Barrens Commission wants more information before it decides the fate of a controversial luxury 118-unit golf resort in East Quogue.

The board members at a Riverhead Town Hall meeting February 19 gave Discovery Land Company until March 4 to provide it, although only having until April 20 to decide whether or not the project complies with strict regulations. A simple 3-2 majority is all that’s needed, and if Discovery Land does not receive approval, the battle will most likely end in court.

“The Lewis Road planned residential development and its predecessor, The Hills at Southampton, are the

biggest and baddest development proposals ever presented to the Pine Barrens commission,” Long Island Pine Barrens Society Executive Director Dick Amper said. “Long Island voters have put up more than a billion dollars to preserve the island’s premier ecosystem. What they’re doing is basically urbanizing our natural treasure.”

Some environmentalists say the project would endanger trillions of gallons of pristine drinking water. On the 600 untouched wooded acres next to pastoral farmland — in the Pine Barrens core preservation area and its compatible growth area — Discovery Land is looking to build an 18-hole private golf course, a luxury clubhouse,

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Group for the East End presented a list of violations of state environmental law, including the State Environmental Quality Review Act. Group for the East End is a nonprofit that fights when lands, water, and wildlife are threatened.

“There is a well-documented water quality crisis in the Town of Southampton and across Long Island,” Amper said. “Drinking water and surface waters have been contaminated in almost every hamlet in the town.”

Toxic chemicals like perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) have been detected in drinking water supplied in Speonk, Westhampton, East Quogue, Hampton Bays, Bridgehampton, and surrounding areas.

“Harmful algal blooms and depleted oxygen plague the surface water in these areas,” Amper continued.

“These water quality issues are a public health threat and have also resulted in beach closures, fish and turtle kills, and flooding, which undermine our marine economy. Any new development is expected to increase nitrogen in the area threatening the already impaired water bodies of Weesuck Creek and western Shinnecock Bay.”

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Town Updating Housing Plan Southampton completing comprehensive study to address needs

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

“It’s been 20 years and I think with the crisis we have in housing, it’s time to update our plan,” Southampton Town Director of Housing & Community Development Diana Weir said. “We all know that it’s gotten worse.”

Southampton hasn’t updated the housing portion of its comprehensive plan since 1999, and is now looking for help in doing so. At its February 11 meeting, town board members unanimously approved the hiring of VHB, a team of engineers, scientists, planners, and designers that will create a detailed list of the town’s inventory of affordable housing, see where and how the town is lacking, and come up with new and creative solutions to drive up availability.

“I think we’ve done a lot. This board has been very aggressive moving affordable housing forward,” Weir said, pointing to updates in the town’s accessory apartment law and new developments like Sandy Hollow Cove and Speonk Commons Apartment Complex, among other initiatives. “This company will just give us a more in-depth report of what type of housing we’re missing and gather community input — a needs assessment — and they’ll study traffic and work with businesses and create a plan.”

Southampton put out a request for

proposal and the director of housing said she thought VHB had the most local experience — working with Brookhaven, East Hampton, Babylon, and Islip towns — and their rates were lower. The RFP could not exceed $50,000, with the money coming from the town’s housing opportunity fund.

“Maybe this company knows what has worked in other areas, has interesting approaches we haven’t thought of,” Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said.

“That’s the hard part. We need ways to move forward.”

Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni, who asked the town compare what it does and offers to comparable places like San Francisco or Park City, UT, said the availability of housing connects to many issues — not just traffic, but service jobs and volunteer positions like at ambulances and firehouses. Councilman John Bouvier said the update could connect with legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Fred Thiele and Senator Ken LaValle that would require five East End towns adopt a housing plan before establishing a dedicated fund financed by an additional 0.5 percent increase to the existing two-percent tax on real estate transfers that makes up the Community Preservation Fund. The bill would make the option available, not

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mandatory, to the towns of East Hampton, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Southampton, and Southold.

“The legislation would generate about $18 million annually for housing,” Thiele said. “The money would be used for a variety of options to increase the availability of affordable housing, including assistance for first-time home buyers, construction of new housing, rehabilitation of buildings, employee housing, etc.”

The assemblyman said the bill would increase the exemptions from the tax from $250,000 to $400,000, and decrease the tax liability for all real estate sales under $1 million.

“There are a lot of opportunities here for us to create a policy based on community needs,” Bouvier said. “I believe this legislation will pass next year.

I see this as a template, and it will also help our seniors and veterans.”

The legislation passed both houses of the state Legislature in 2019, but was vetoed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in December. Thiele and LaValle met with the governor’s counsel about the legislation in January and have since re-introduced it.

“Even if that doesn’t go through, this could be helpful,” Schneiderman said. “We’re up against some very large macroeconomic forces. The cost of land is $1 million and up. There’s just no way working people could ever buy a home here.”

Weir would like the study and surveying to be done during the summer, when more people are out on the East End. She said it will take at least a year to conduct a full review.

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Baby, It’s Warm Outside Winter has produced virtually no snow hereabouts

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Don’t say global warming.

That’s a political term, especially nowadays. Besides, there are a lot of factors that go into global warming besides the temperature of the air and water — like Donald Trump being the antichrist, for example.

Let’s just say the big egg-shaped thing with all the continents and water you see from space is, um, getting a wee bit steamy. That means the former Vice President Al Gore was onto something back in 2006, when he was 30 pounds slimmer and a half-billion

bucks poorer.

Politics aside, the first two months of winter — December and January — were the warmest on record across the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

According to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, all big cities of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic — from Boston to Washington, D.C. — have seen less snow than usual or no snow at all.

“Nothing has been normal the past

Village Board Buys Hybrid Vehicle East Hampton saving the Earth, and money, too

By Karen Fredericks karen@karenfredericks.com East Hampton Village Mayor Richard Lawler announced Friday a coming improvement over the police interceptor utility vehicles, currently in use.

At the February 21 monthly board

of trustees meeting, he detailed the purchase of a 2020 Ford Police Interceptor Utility Hybrid SUV, which is a Ford Explorer modified for police use. It could potentially save taxpayers between

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two years,” said Southampton Town Highway Superintendent Alex Gregor.

He said despite the sparse snow accumulations, “we have had three or four salting events,” this winter. Safety is always an issue when dealing with the weather, he pointed out.

The simplest explanation is the cold Arctic air that usually drops down into continental United States and lingers hasn’t come for its usual extended visit this season.

The average cost of heating oil in New York is down 3 percent, to $2.95 a gallon, and — unless we’re keeping the back door open — we’re using less.

Health wise, it’s a dual-edged sword. If you’re allergic to pollen, you probably get a break when the weather turns cold, according to WebMD. On the other hand, when it gets cold and your furnace kicks on, it sends dust, mold spores, and insect parts into the air. They can get into your nose and cause a reaction.

There have been cost savings for the municipalities, though not significant, Gregor said. The way the system works today is the town estimates its use of sand and salt and pays a surcharge if it uses less than the amount estimated. “We don’t have a snow budget,” Gregor said. The money reverts to

town coffers. Some of his crew misses the overtime pay, he acknowledged.

“Some have complained. But some complain when they get the phone call at two o’clock in the morning.”

Those of us who have fallen prey to deer and lone star ticks tend to be under the assumption that a bad winter kills them. Not so, according to a study by the University of Rhode Island. Deer tick adults are not killed by freezing temperatures. Even in the coldest regions of North America, these ticks can still be active on days when temperatures are above freezing and they’re not covered over by snow. It’s most likely to happen if the ground is thawed and the temperature is above freezing.

There is a chance of snow next week, though. A paltry 3.3-inch prediction. The official U.S. Weather Service forecast is: “March is a transitional month in New York, and the first few days may still have winter-like weather, but expect spring weather from midMarch onward. The temperatures remain low, between 33.8°F (1°C) and 48.2°F (9°C), on average. The nights may become colder — at 28.4°F (-2°C) — and snowfall is expected in the first few days of the month. From the middle of the month on, the cold winds will be minimal.”

$3500 and $5700 per year in fuel costs, Lawler said.

“It would also contribute to ‘making the planet a better place,’” he added.

The village hasn’t committed to a full fleet, but will assess the matter down the road.

A $10,000 check was also presented to the board from the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton to be used toward the restoration of the Dominy shops on North Main Street.

The planned exhibition space is filled with Dominy memorabilia, including the East Hampton Historical Society’s collection of tools from the clock shop; many pieces of furniture, including a tall-case clock; and Nathaniel Domi-

ny’s memorandum book, which was purchased by previous Mayor Paul Rickenbach and his wife, Jean, who donated it to the village.

The money will fund the recreation of the original oak workbench. The check was handed over by preservation society board member Mary Busch. Also present was board member Joan Osborne.

Deputy Mayor Barbara Borsack also announced the creation of a new Facebook page for the village.

“It should be up and running within the next few weeks,” Borsack said. “It’s an excellent and easy way for people to contact us. The public can leave comments on the page and ask questions. So be on the lookout for that.”

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Giglio Looking For A Spot In Albany, Too Joins other North Fork politicians in game of musical chairs

By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

Anthony Palumbo, the state assemblyman from the Second District, will seek to replace longtime state Senator Ken LaValle.

His final decision, first reported in The Independent on January 14, (“LaValle’s Retirement May Spur Upheaval”) this week prompted Riverhead Town Councilwoman Jodi Giglio to make a move as well. She will seek Palumbo’s seat in the assembly, where he served for seven years. Both are Republicans.

Giglio, a Riverhead Town Board member since 2010, has reached her term limit, and has been shopping for a new position. She has also been talked about for LaValle’s seat.

Former Riverhead Supervisor Laura

Jens-Smith, a Democrat from Laurel, has also thrown her hat in the ring for a spot in the senate. It is no secret there is no love lost between Giglio and Jens-Smith.

Jens-Smith, 57, was elected Riverhead town supervisor in 2017, besting Sean Walter. She served one two-year term and was unseated in November by Republican Yvette Aguiar, who had Giglio’s support.

“Jodi Giglio has a proven record of fighting for the residents of the Second Assembly District,” Suffolk Republican chairman Jesse Garcia said. “As a councilwoman, Jodi has been instrumental in revitalizing downtown Riverhead, protecting our East End farmland, and improving public safety. As our rep-

Jodi Giglio is looking to take a seat in the state assembly. Independent

resentative in Albany, Jodi Giglio will fight to overturn the wrongheaded ‘bail reform’ imposed upon by the Democratic Legislature.”

Southampton Town Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni; Laura Ahearn, an attorney, social worker,

and executive director of the Suffolk County Crime Victims Center (Parents for Megan’s Law); and Skyler Johnson, a 19-year-old Mt. Sinai resident, have all declared themselves candidates for LaValle’s seat and could square off in a Democratic primary come June.

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Music And Shucking At HarborFrost The 10th annual event presents a new drone laser show

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Sag Harbor celebrates a decade of keeping things extra cool in the off-season. HarborFrost returns on Saturday, February 29, in the beloved South Fork whaling village.

The free, daylong event begins at 10 AM with a hike from Mashashimuet Park. And this year there’s a fresh take on the elements of fire and ice which end the day. Due to the reconstruction of Long Wharf, the traditional fireworks display has been replaced with a new kind of light show.

“We all thought, what’s HarborFrost without fireworks? But people came together and came up with the idea to do a drone laser light show,” said Lisa

Field, president of Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Baron’s Cove is sponsoring the cost of the show, which will light up the harbor sky at 6:15 PM. The laser light show adds a technological twist and ushers in the new decade. “We want to keep the excitement and the momentum going for HarborFrost,” said Field.

Baron’s Cove will also be hosting oyster-shucking champion Paddy McMurray at 1 and 6 PM. McMurray will show off his shucking skills as guests enjoy his labors with raw bar favorites and chowder. There, Tom and Lisa Band will be performing live. Other live events include Jake Lear, the Second Hands, Mudmilla

2019 HarborFrost. Independent/Richard Lewin

and Marcello, and Alfredo Merat.

The HooDoo Loungers will play at Bay Street Theater, tickets available for purchase.

Foodies will enjoy a lineup of culinary activities, such as the Sag Harbor Hysterical Society’s Culinary Stroll for $50 per person — all monies go toward a local charity. Or, enjoy an Oyster Crawl, also $50, and bottomless soup bowls ($10 adults, $5 kids). Other event

highlights include the Frosty Plunge at 2 PM, with a donation to the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance; face painting at White’s Apothecary; Ice Breaker Sailing Regatta at Breakwater Yacht Club; and, of course, the Fiery Sensations fire dancers.

It’s a family fun day for all ages, interests, and appetites. This is a rain or shine event. Learn more at www.sagharborchamber.com.

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South Fork News Compiled by Jenna Mackin

Montauk Library The Montauk Library will be offering two Movie Matinees this week. On Wednesday, February 26, there will be two showings of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” at 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM. Disney’s “Frozen II” will play on Saturday, February 29 at 2 PM. Films are free, and no registration required.

For more information, visit www.montauklibrary.org.

Esteban Vicente Doc As part of the Hamptons Doc Festival, the Amagansett Free Library will host a viewing of the film, “Esteban Vicente, Portrait of an Artist” by Madeline Amgott. In 1940, Vicente entered a period of creative crisis that led him to American Abstract Expressionism. He and his wife lived in Bridgehampton for nearly 40 years. The film will play on Thursday, February 27, at 5 PM.

Westhampton Free Library The Westhampton Free Library invites children ages three to five to bring their favorite American Girl doll to the library and play with the library’s doll supplies on Thursday, February 27, at 2 PM.

As part of its Lunch and Learn series, the library will host a discussion on the birth of the blues on Friday, February 28, at 12 PM. Suffolk County Community College professor Craig Boyd will lead the discussion. For more information, visit www.westhamptonlibrary.net.

Free Movie Night A free screening of the movie “Overcomer” will be offered on Friday, February 28, at 6:30 PM at the Hampton Bays Assembly of God. Everyone is welcome. For more information go to www.hamptonbaysag.net.

Free Civil Service Test The Southampton Town Affirmative Action Task Force, Eastern Suffolk BOCES, and the Town of Southampton will be offering a free Civil Service Test Prep Workshop on Saturday, February 29, at 10 AM at the Hampton Bays

Senior Center. This will be a four-hour workshop that will cover information on how Suffolk County Civil Service works and how to prepare for a civil service examination. Refreshments will be provided to all attendees. If you have any questions, or to pre-register, contact Juan Becerra at 631-702-1921 or for more information, visit www. southamptontownny.gov.

Wellness Fair The Stony Brook Southampton Hospital presents the East End Family Health and Wellness Fair on Saturday, February 29, from 10 AM to 3 PM. The fair will be held at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons in Southampton. Pre-registration is required, call 631-444-2041. For more information, visit www.southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu.

Health Care Myths PEER/NYPAN, and several co-sponsors, will present “Myth Busting: Separating Fact from Fiction in Single Payer Health Care” on Saturday, February 29, at 1 PM at Stony Brook University, Southampton campus. It will be held in the Chancellor Hall auditorium. This discussion is about the myths and fears regarding a single payer health care system and how it will impact the quality and cost of your health care & taxes.

For more information, see the university’s Facebook page.

Rogers Memorial Library The Cross Island Trio will perform a concert on Sunday, March 1, at 3 PM. Works by J.S. Bach, Brahms, Bernstein, Faure, and Gershwin will be part of the line-up.

Jackie Scerbinski, the former director of retail merchandising and professor at CUNY, will be at the library for a discussion titled “Fashion Icons” on Wednesday, March 4, at 12 PM. She will talk about historic, classic, and contemporary fashion icons and our fascination with them.

Mondays in March and April, the library’s walking group will meet outside of Cooper Hall, starting March 2

B. Smith, 70 B. (Barbara Elaine) Smith, known for her effervescent personality, her style, her TV show, and her restaurants, died on February 22 at the home she shared in Sag Harbor with her husband, Dan Gasby. The former model, the first African American woman to grace the cover of Mademoiselle, and owner of B. Smith’s on the Long Wharf, had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in 2013 after fumbling for words on a cooking show. Both she and Gasby were vocal proponents of raising Alzheimer’s awareness.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue of The Independent.

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Rain or shine.

To register for events and for more information visit www.myrml.org.

Qigong In Amagansett Join Kate Zahorsky at the Amagansett Library for Qigong on Tuesdays at 2 PM during the months of March and April. Qigong has been used for health, spirituality, and martial arts training.

Call the library to register or with any questions. For more information, visit www.amagansettlibrary.org.

Call For Artists The Springs School Festival of the Arts fundraiser has put out a Call to All Artists. The school is uniquely situated in the heart and historical connection to the arts. Noted studios of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning are just around the corner. By having the fundraiser, the hope is that this will ensure that the artistic community continues to thrive and to inspire future generations.

The school is looking for artists who would be willing to donate one to four 5” x 7” pieces of work in any medium, including photography, to be exhibited alongside the artwork of the Springs School students.

All submitted artwork will be displayed alongside selected students’ work in one room at Ashawagh Hall on March 27 and 28 for silent auction. A closing party will be held on Saturday, March 28, from 5 to 7 PM.

If you would like to participate, please sign your piece on the back to keep it anonymous. Mail or bring works to Springs School by March 20, attention Laura Marino. For more information, or if you are in need of a 5x7 work surface, email mysteryartsale@ springsschool.org.

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Bridgehampton Construction This Week

The Bridgehampton corridor area is undergoing a transformation to improve pedestrian safety at several locations. The project is in full swing, and during the next few months, the Town of Southampton and state of New York will continue this work along or close to Montauk Highway.

Beginning Monday, February 24, the improvement project affects some parking lots within the hamlet. The town-owned parking lots at Thayer’s Hardware Store, behind Candy Kitchen and opposite the library, is the first to be improved, but at times, this work may limit access to these lots. This first phase should be completed within one week. The other lots will be scheduled for similar work.

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Suspect In East Hampton Town Burglaries Arrested The East Hampton Town police have arrested the man they say burglarized two residences on Sammy’s Beach Road on January 30. Justin Williams, 23, of Middle Island, was picked up by detectives early Monday afternoon, February 24, at 290 Montauk Highway, the address for Highway Restaurant, after being pulled over by police, who had developed Williams as a suspect. Williams was questioned by police, and was placed under arrest on two felony charges of burglary.

Amongst the items stolen by Williams during the two burglaries, police said, were a nickel-plated Remington pump-action shotgun and a large silver Bowie knife, as well as a quantity of alcohol.

The Independent ran a surveillance photograph provided by the police, who were offering a reward for information leading to the capture of the man shown, earlier this month.

Williams was working in East Hampton for a utility company, according to the East Hampton Town police.

Williams was scheduled to be arraigned in East Hampton on Tuesday, February 25.

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Easing Dental Visit Anxiety East End Family Dentistry helps patients smile

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

A visit to the dentist certainly can provoke anxiety, but it doesn’t have to. The team behind East End Family Dentistry in East Hampton turns frowns into smiles through their attention to patient care, use of the latest technologies, and, of course, a strong family ethos.

Dr. John French’s familial roots in Sag Harbor date back to the whaling days. His maternal grandfather worked for the State Highway Department in East Hampton and his maternal grandmother once worked at the Bulova Watch Factory and Rowe Industries, and he takes pride in being active in the community. A dentist since 2003, he’s hosted school field trips to his office and partaken in community dental screenings. He aims to rid the stigma behind visiting the dentist through education.

“People tend to get children all worked up before they even walk in the door,” French said, noting that children ages five to 10 are prone to anxiety. He recommends scheduling appointments early in the day for little ones. Thanks to modern technology, a dentist visit is a much quicker process today than years ago.

In 2017, French joined his Sag Harbor practice with Dr. Terry Jobe. Originally from Indiana, Dr. Jobe has been practicing dentistry for over 39 years and, in 2012, brought his talents to the area. “Not only was the decision to join our practices a success, but it increased

our number of patients to a point we needed to expand our practice to another location,” Jobe said.

Together, French and Jobe came to East Hampton in April of 2018, taking over Dr. Jim Vaughan’s practice upon his retirement. Jobe noted, “During those 40 years, Dr. Vaughan provided a high quality of dentistry for his patients and was so respected and loved. The expansion of our office to East Hampton was a win-win situation for both offices.”

Recently, Dr. Ryan Rhodes was added to the team. Dr. French has been well acquainted with him for over two decades. “Dr. Jobe and I had our eye on him since he showed interest in becoming a dentist. I always kept in contact with him while he was away at school and at his general practice residency.

We were just waiting for him to come home. He has been a perfect fit with our East Hampton office,” French said.

Dr. Rhodes was raised in and now resides in East Hampton. “I had always intended on returning to the East End and I’m very grateful. NYU Dental School was an amazing experience,” Rhodes said. He’s a member of the American Dental Association, New York State Dental Association, and Suffolk County Dental Society, furthers his education through classes, and meets with a study group of dental specialists on the East End throughout the year.

Rhodes admits to having his own

Dr. Rhodes, Dr. Jobe, and Dr. French are the triumvirate behind East End Family Dentistry. Independent/ Courtesy EEFD

fears related to visiting the dentist in his early 20s, but his own dentist eased him through each time. “The feeling I had when I regained my smile was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. Dentistry provided me with the confidence to smile again and I wanted to help people achieve that same feeling,” he said.

East End Family Dentistry’s services include bonding, cosmetic contouring, cosmetic fillings, cosmetic dentistry, extractions, root canal therapy, sealants, veneers, and Invisalign.

For 14 years. Dr. Jobe has used Invisalign as an integral part of his practice. The brand corrects teeth overcrowding, closes spaces, and improves esthetics without the use of wires, brackets, drills, or shots. “Invisalign has been one of the most rewarding standards of care I have provided to my patients,” he noted.

East End Family Dentistry is located at 26 Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton. See more at www.eastendfamilydentistry.com.

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Police New Law Requires Motorboat Safety Course Assemblyman Fred Thiele cosponsored bill named after boating victim

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

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A new law took effect January 1 that will eventually affect anyone who operates a motorized boat or motorized water vessel of any kind in waters in and around New York state, and Assemblyman Fred Thiele is getting the word out.

Thiele, of Sag Harbor, represents the First Assembly district, which encompasses the South Fork from just west of Hampton Bays, all the way east to Montauk Point, and includes Sag Harbor and Shelter Island. It is a district surrounded by water, where boating is a vital part of the culture.

The law is named after Brianna Lieneck, an 11-year-old who was killed in an accident when two boats collided late evening in Great South Bay, off of Bay Shore, in August 2005. According to The New York Times report at the time, the victim’s parents, Frank and Gina Lieneck both “sustained severe head and face trauma and were listed in critical condition.” Both parents sur-

vived, though Frank Lieneck suffered brain damage.

For the last few years, Gina Lieneck has been advocating for Brianna’s Law. Thiele was a co-sponsor of the law, which finally passed last year and was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo on August 5, close to eight years after Brianna Lieneck’s death.

Brianna’s Law ultimately will require that anyone who operates any type of motorized boat or motorized water craft must take an eight-hour boater safety course, for which they will receive a certificate. For 2020 and 2021, the law only applies to younger boaters, those born after January 1, 1993. Come January 1, 2022, that requirement will be expanded to all those born on or after January 1, 1988. By 2025, all operators of motor boats and motorized water craft will need to meet the requirement.

The course can be taken online or in person. It is administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. That office estimates that, by the time the law is fully implemented, over one million people will have taken the course.

Those who already have boating safety certificates issued by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, U.S. Power Squadron, or the U.S. Sailing Association do not have to take the course.

Out-of-state residents who have boating safety certificates from their home states also will be exempt.

“No family should have to endure

a loss like that of Brianna’s family. This new law provides for important safety measures to make our waterways safer and to help prevent future tragedies,” Thiele said in a statement last week.

Anyone who is required to take the course and is found operating a motorboat without a safety certificate is subject to a fine of between $100 and $250.

EHTPD: Help ID Montauk Groper East Hampton Town Police Department’s detective division is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man shown in a composite sketch who they say “forcibly attempted to touch a female while she was in a store at the Gosman’s complex,” in Montauk last August.

The man, police say, is white and has a pronounced eastern European accent, is of thin build, stands about 5’ are seeking the public’s 8” tall, has brown hair, and was wearing a red T-shirt at Police help in identifying this man, who attempted the time of the incident. The actual complaint was made touch a womantoinforcibly a store in Montauk. Independent/ on about September 30.

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Police recently began circulating a flyer with the composite sketch of the suspect, which is based upon a witness’ description of the man, at various Montauk locations.

Anyone with information that could be helpful in identifying the suspect can contact detectives at 631-537-7575. The identity of all callers will be kept confidential.

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Springs Man Charged With DWI For Third Time

These charges are at the felony level because, in 2016, Urizar-Reyes was convicted twice of drunken driving, once in East Hampton Town Justice Court, then in Southampton Town Justice Court.

During his arraignment the next morning, East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana told Urizar-Reyes he is not eligible for any kind of temporary hardship license, because his prior convictions happened within the last five years.

Another Springs man who is facing a felony charge after being arrested by town police is Galo Gustavo Plaza-Tacuri, 25. Plaza-Tacuri allegedly smashed the rear and rear driver’s side windows on a 2008 Honda Civic parked outside a Harbor View Avenue residence a little before noon February 18. Police said Plaza-Tacuri is involved in an ongoing dispute with the owner of the Honda. The cost of repairing the damage was estimated to be $800. The crime of criminal mischief for allegedly damaging property valued at $250 or more is a felony.

Plaza-Tacuri was arrested after police investigated the incident the morning of February 21. He was released the

Felony charged after man is accused of smashing car windows

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com The third time is never the charm when it comes to being charged with driving while intoxicated. A Springs man, Jose Urizar-Reyes, 30, faces multiple felony charges after being arrested by East Hampton town police the night of February 11.

Police said they received a call reporting an erratic driver in a 2010 Toyota headed west on Montauk Highway in the eastbound lane in Amagansett. The caller then reported that the Toyota had pulled into the parking lot in front of Chen’s Garden and Chiquita Latina on the southside of the highway.

An officer found Urizar-Reyes sitting behind the wheel of the Toyota, police said, with the engine on, and the car in park in a handicapped parking space.

He appeared intoxicated, and failed sobriety tests, police reported.

Urizar-Reyes was charged with DWI based on the officer’s observations and was taken to police headquarters, where a breath test produced a reading indicating the amount of alcohol in his system was high enough to trigger another DWI charge, this one at the aggravated level. He was also charged with unlicensed driving.

Early Morning Springs Crash Leads To Arrest EHTPD: Springs man charged with DWI after striking telephone pole

By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com A Springs man who East Hampton town police said crashed a 2002 Cadillac into a telephone pole on Three Mile Harbor Hog Creek Road February 22 was arrested and charged with drunken driving.

Kevin Gustavo Yunga Lopez, 21, reportedly told police he had just left work before the crash early Saturday morning near Gann Road. He said he is a DJ at an area bar. The arresting officer said Yunga Lopez was still behind

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the wheel of the wrecked car when he arrived. Unhurt, the officer said Yunga Lopez smelled of alcohol, and failed sobriety tests.

After being arrested, police said, Yunga Lopez took a breath test at headquarters, which indicated he had almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system. In addition to the misdemeanor DWI charges, Yunga Lopez is charged with unlicensed driving. According to the police, Yunga Lopez only has a learner’s permit, which would forbid him from both driving without a licensed driver being in the car and driving at night.

East Hampton Town Justice Lisa Rana told Yunga Lopez during his arraignment later that morning he could

Already convicted twice for drunken driving, Jose Urizar-Reyes is now facing felony charges.

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next day after being arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court February 22, but not until an order of protection had been issued for the alleged victim that requires that Plaza-Tacuri have no contact with the man. not drive. She suspended his driving privileges in New York, and then he was then released.

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Editorial It’s Not Always Political There has been an uptick of community awareness the past couple of years that all of us need to do more to protect not only our drinking water but also our entire planet.

We’ve embraced plastic bans, will likely do the same for balloons, and planned for a large influx of wind-generated power and the installation of solar panels, even on small houses.

And New York state’s ban on single-use plastic bags at checkout begins March 1.

One negative to watch out for — and yes, this is a hypersensitive political environment — is to turn the green effort into a political debate.

In the past 50 years, the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history. And experts see the trend is accelerating: All but one of the 16 hottest years in NASA’s 134-year record has occurred since 2000.

Just the mere whisper of the words “global warming” turns the facts into a debate. Climate change deniers have argued that there has been a “pause” or a “slowdown” in rising global temperatures, but several recent studies, including a 2015 paper published in the journal Science, have disproved this claim.

Does it really matter? Are there really lines to be drawn? Is it really a campaign issue? Perhaps it is a statistical variant. If so, good for us.

Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gases collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earth’s surface.

This is happening. Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives, and everyone in between is responsible — responsible for causing it, and responsible for doing something about it.

We have already made affordable health care a campaign issue. But to reach an impasse would be a travesty.

Certainly, who is appointed to the Supreme Court will shape the course of this country for decades to come. Those appointees are too often picked based upon their political affiliations. Do we really want to play Russian roulette with a bunch of politicians?

Global warming? They are just two words. Don’t use them if you don’t think they apply. Disregard them entirely if they bear a negative connotation. But the lifestyle we are embarking on in earnest — green, clean energy, and a renewed effort to do what’s best for this planet — doesn’t need a catchphrase or slogan. It needs our unconditional support and action.

First there’s a “glass ceiling” for women. Now there’s also a “glass cliff.”

Failing companies hire a female CEO because no man wants the job. So, when the company fails, a woman gets blamed.

JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

Now that Bloomberg’s in the race, could he win the Presidency?

Sheila Hittman I do think he could win. He knows how to run a city and I think he’ll know how to run a country. He’s ethical. He’s moral. And he’s made his own money.

Nancy Byers I think Bloomberg is a New Yorker and he and Trump know how to go at it.

They’ve already been doing it for quite some time. And without a doubt Bloomberg has the power and the money to take on to win.

Gina Hadley Why not? We already have the billionaire from New York so why not get the right one. Just imagine watching the two of them in the ring together. It would be amazing. It would be the show of the century.

Natalie & Jason Karp Natalie: He was an amazing mayor.

Three terms. And he’s fiscally responsible.

Jason: I think he’s progressive and realistic. And he’s not getting any money from backers so he’s not fiscally indebted to anyone.

Glass ceiling!

Glass cliff!

I need another glass of wine!

Is it just me? © Karen Fredericks

Karen was chosen Best Cartoonist by the New York Press Association in 2017 and again in 2019. She’s the recipient of multiple awards for her illustration of the international bestseller How To Build Your Own Country, including the prestigious Silver Birch Award. Her work is part of the permanent artist’s book collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

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Arts & Entertainment Dava Sobel: A Well-Versed Woman Best-selling author brings poetry back to Scientific American

By Karen Fredericks karen@karenfredericks.com

Dava Sobel is the bestselling author of many books, including “Longitude,” “Galileo’s Daughter,” “The Planets,” and “The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars.”

She’s been a Pulitzer nominee.

She’s been a Guggenheim Fellow. She’s also had an asteroid named after her: 30935 Davasobel.

And she’s just launched “Meter,” a monthly poetry column for Scientific American magazine.

So, what’s on your to-do list today?

The Indy caught up with Sobel, who wrote an astronomy column for The Independent in the late 1990s, and convinced her to take a few moments from her busy schedule to tell us about her newest project.

When did you read your first issue of Scientific American? Did you grow up in a household with a subscription to it?

I saw it in the house before I ever read it. Yes, my parents were subscribers.

I’ve been reading it regularly since I was in high school.

How did the Meter column come about?

On August 28, 2019, I was listening to Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” as I do every day. He mentioned the anniversary of Scientific American in his history notes for the day, and said that the earliest issues had included poetry. That surprised and delighted me, so I looked up the first issue on-

line, and sure enough . . .

I knew only one person on the current editorial staff, Clara Moskowitz, the senior editor for space and physics. I wrote to her that same day to see whether there might be any interest in reinstating poetry in the magazine. She consulted her colleagues, who turned out to be unanimously enthusiastic about the idea. Timing was on my side, too, since this year, 2020, is the magazine’s 175th anniversary — a choice moment for a new feature.

Many would think science and poetry are incongruous.

Dava Sobel. Independent/Mia Berg

They are not at all incongruous. I know quite a few scientists who read poetry, and just as many poets who love science. Our recently-resident musician laureate, Billy Joel, sang of “science and poetry” in the lyrics to his “Two Thousand Years:”

“There will be miracles

After the last war is won

Science and poetry rule in the new world to come”

When did your love of poetry begin?

My own love of poetry started early, thanks to excellent grade school teachers who encouraged us to (OK, made us) memorize poems. I can still recall the first Carl Sandburg poem I committed to memory.

How do you choose the poem for each month’s column?

I have invited several poets to submit

their work. I’ve also canvassed scientists and historians of science who admire poetry to suggest candidates.

A few poets heard about the column and stepped forward. I hope more will do so.

I like to vary the topic from month to month. We started with natural history in January, then went to math in February, astronomy in March, and ecology in April. Coming soon: geology, climate change, archaeology, and astrophysics.

The pages contain such striking images. Who chooses them?

Creative director Michael Mrak. Some months he commissions illustrations to accompany the text, as for the February column, a poem about math demanded an imaginative artist’s treatment. The March poem concerns the “Great American Eclipse” of 2017, so he chose one of the many photographs

taken of that event. I’ve been delighted with his choices.

The Meter column in the March issue features a poem

by Christopher Cokinos titled ‘Eclipse.’ You’ve said you’re a “chaser of solar eclipses” and that “it’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle.” How many have you seen?

As of this year, I’ve witnessed nine, from various parts of the world, including the 2012 total solar eclipse in Australia. I went to Wyoming in 2017 for the one that is the subject of the March poem.

Are you working on any other forthcoming books or other projects?

No new books in the works at this point. Dreaming of a science poetry anthology.

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From Baker Street To Pond Lane Sherlock comes alive in Grice’s production

By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com The game’s afoot in Ed. Lange’s “Sherlock’s Secret Life,” a 2002 take on the famous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories told from the point of view of the aging Dr. John Watson, perhaps the Victorian age’s most famous sidekick.

Although most Doylies may think that “A Study In Scarlet” was the first Holmes and Watson caper, the play — being produced by Bonnie Grice’s Boots On The Ground Theater at the Southampton Cultural Center in March — begs to differ. And no, you don’t have amnesia, but the damsel-in-distress that the young duo help in this theatrical version does.

The Independent caught up with the busy Grice for a few minutes to discuss the show.

How did you learn about ‘Sherlock’s Secret Life’?

I started my theater company in 2016 to recreate and retell stories from history, with a particular emphasis on the 19th Century, a personal passion. There’s so much to learn from the Victorians — the ingenuity, the inventions, the birth of the women’s and civil rights movements, and the birth of the detective.

The first detective story was actually written by an American — Edgar Allan Poe, who’s been called the undisputed master of the detective story with his character Dupin in the 1840s. Dickens, who was obsessed with the detective, had read Poe and was inspired to write his own detective

Inspector Bucket in “Bleak House,” paving the way for Conan Doyle and Holmes later in the century.

Two years ago, I decided to bring Holmes to the East End stage. As far as I knew, he’d never been presented onstage here before. I started shopping the idea around to friends and potential directors and researching/reading more than a dozen Holmesian scripts.

I now have a library of Sherlock for the stage!

Most of the standard stories are a bit old and dusty and very stilted. I wanted something that could reflect a more modern, edgy Holmes a la Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch.

I narrowed it down to five potential scripts and our director Josephine Terisi-Wallace and I chose this one. I invited Josephine to work with me again as director since we’d had such a good experience together on “Red Badge of Courage” in 2018. We both agreed that “Sherlock’s Secret Life” had the perfect combination of mystery, crime, love, murder, and comedy, plus it’s never been done before on Long Island.

I know you have a love of history, and in particular the Victorian/Edwardian age, both in England and the U.S. How did that come about?

For the reasons above, plus I love the costumes and the interiors of the time.

I’ve become an obsessed collector of costumes, fabric, and furniture from

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

Broken Home VSOP Projects in Greenport presents “Broken Home,” a group exhibition curated by Michael Yarinsky of Cooler Gallery + Office of Tangible Space. Broken Home strives to challenge our ideas about what makes a house a home. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 29, from 6 to 8 PM.

The exhibit runs through April 5.

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The cast of “Sherlock’s Secret Life,” at Southampton Cultural Center starting March 6.

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the 19th Century. I think my husband is a bit overwhelmed at times! But he’s super supportive since he shares a passion for the period.

He’s currently working on a book about a company of cavalry from Long Island that served in the Civil War. When you come to the show and see the set, just know that my house has been emptied to provide the set pieces.

The costumes are a mix of history and a bit of steampunk for fun. Jo and I are super excited about the set and costumes and, of course, our rocking cast of East End stars, familiar to SCC audiences. This is going to be a real romp.

Guaranteed to keep even the most rabid Sherlock fans on the edge of their seats. Be prepared for a Sherlock shock at the end.

What do you hope to bring to the audience, besides entertainment?

Boots on the ground theater strives to provide history and entertainment with a nod to our area students. We always provide an opportunity for a student actor to be featured in a main role alongside our veteran actors.

We featured Southampton middle schooler Emma Suhr as Helen Keller in on Eastern Long Island. Each print is available for $1200 on ARTSY.

Fenske And Friends The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor presents “Fenske and Friends Group Show,” including the artwork of Ben Fenske. This is an exhibit of Fenske and his circle of fellow painters. An opening reception will be from 5:30 to 7 PM on Saturday, February 29. The show will run through March 29.

In Plein Site The Wednesday Group and Friends presents “In Plein Site,” a celebration

“The Miracle Worker” in 2018. Thomas Schiavoni was our Henry in “Red Badge,” and he returns for this production as the young Watson. Plus, we always provide at least one free show for students. This time, it’s a free matinee for high school students on Saturday, March 14, at 2 PM, followed by a Q&A with Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa from the Southampton police. She’ll compare detectives then and now.

What do you think makes Sherlock Holmes such a timeless character?

Crime. Solving crime. Exploring the motives, the evidence. A tradition that readers and viewers have enjoyed for centuries. Must be part of our DNA.

And Conan Doyle created characters that had little in the way of forensics or technology. Holmes and Watson just went with their instincts and gathered together clues using mostly grey matter, with an occasional spy glass.

The brilliance of this dynamic duo still shines over a century later. Everything old is new again.

Tickets for “Sherlock’s Secret Life” are available at www.scc-arts.org. The show runs March 6 through March 22. in art of the beauty of the East End at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. Participating artists include Agnes Bristel, Teresa Lawler, Marie Lombardi, Jean Mahoney, Lynn Martell, Deb Palmer, Janet Rojas, Gene Samuelson, Rosa Hanna Scott, Frank Sofo, Bob Sullivan, Ursula Thomas, Pamela Thomson, Aurelio Torres, and Maureen Travers.

The show will run February 29 to March 1. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 29, from 5 to 7 PM. There will also be a glass fusing, watercolor, and collage workshop open to the public on Saturday from noon to 2 PM.

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February 26, 2020

Alan Alda and BCM Artistic Director Marya Martin. Independent/Courtesy BCM

A True Classic Bridgehampton Chamber Music conducts sixth spring series

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

It’s a spring series, a summer festival, and a recording label. The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival is saying goodbye to its old name by dropping the word “festival.” The shortened version was chosen to be inclusive of all the organization offers.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music kicks off its sixth spring season with three Saturday concerts, all beginning at 5 PM, across three consecutive months — March, April, and May — all at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Inside the 1842 church, guests listen from the cushioned pews, as the music reverberates throughout the building, with soulful melodies lifting hearts.

Beginning the series on March 21 is actor and return BCM participant Alan Alda in “Mozart Portrait with Alan Alda.” First performed in 2002, and then a return event in 2016, Alda will explore Mozart’s life, reading letters aloud, as the sounds of flute, piano, and string play in the background, performed by Marya Martin, Joseph Lin, Tien Hsin-Cindy Wu, Brook Speltz, and Orion Weiss.

“I just love being in Mozart’s presence. The best surprise was not just reading his words, but sitting among the musicians while they make music.

To be among them while they do it is an extraordinary thing. It hits you right in the chest,” Alda said.

Artistic director Marya Martin joins with woodwind colleagues, James Austin Smith, Bixby Kennedy, Peter Kolkay, Stewart Rose, and Michael Brown, playing the sounds of Frenchman Albert Roussel, Austrian Ludwig Thuille, Italian Giacomo Puccini, and German Ludwig van Beethoven on April 18 in “Colorful Winds.”

Martin said, “We knew that there were music lovers looking for more opportunities to hear excellent chamber music year-round, and we have been thrilled by the overwhelming response from the community.” Martin has performed all across the globe since 1984, at venues such as the Sydney Opera House in Australia, Casals Hall in Tokyo, and London’s Royal Albert Hall.

The Verona Quartet, making its Bridgehampton debut, will perform the final concert on May 16, with members Jonathan Ong, Dorothy Ro, Abigail Rojansky, and the 2020 recipient of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, Jonathan Dormand.

Visit www.bcmf.org or call 212741-9403 for tickets.

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Indy Snaps Claude’s Gallery Photos by Richard Lewin On Thursday, February 20, Southampton Inn celebrated the opening of Claude’s Gallery. The show, which was curated by ARDT Gallery, featured artists Ceravolo and Candice CMC, with additional works by artists Charles Ford and Robin Morris. Chef Tim Burke supervised the dining experience, and Betsy Hirsch’s piano tunes filled the air. The opening was the first event to celebrate Southampton’s new “Jobs Lane Arts District.”

Matinee Photo by Tom Kochie Sag Harbor Cinema presented a screening of “Matinee” at Pierson High School on Sunday, February 23, followed by a conversation between film critic and curator in the department of film at MOMA, Dave Kehr and Sag Harbor Cinema's artistic director Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan.

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Indy Snaps Layers Of Black History Photos by Justin Meinken The RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton presented an opening for “A Time and A Place: Layers of Black History” on Saturday, February 22. The exhibit celebrates Black History Month and features work by Jules Arthur, Stefanie Jackson, Dean Mitchell and Phillip Thomas, and more.

Winter Art Exhibit Photos by Tom Kochie The Southampton Artists Association opened its “Winter Art Exhibit” of painting and photography at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday, February 22. The show runs through March 1.

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READING OUR REGION

By Joan Baum

Sex, Murder, And The White House A love story blends fact and fiction

Veteran journalist Jesse Kornbluth, a former long-time East End visitor and renter, is one clever guy. Though he adds in small letters “A Novel” to the title of his new book “JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story,” it’s clear he’s playing the genre game: writing a fiction potboiler that’s also nonfiction. The theme? JFK’s unsolved assassination in November 1963 and Mary Pinchot Meyer’s unsolved murder (shot in the head and heart)

11 months later. Mary was one JFK’s many lovers, but, Kornbluth contends, a special one.

The author artfully and confidently feels he’s pulling off “one-ofa-kind” — a fictional memoir and a selective recap of reporting on both JFK and Mary, meaning that he intends to have it both ways: “This is a work of fiction, built on fact” are his opening words. And if that doesn’t get a reader going, the sentences that im-

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mediately follow surely will: “FACT: John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache.

While he was president, he never had a headache . . .”

In his epilogue, Kornbluth with more journalistic care than conviction, cautions restraint about conspiracy theories. Could the murders have each been isolated events? “A demented loner in Dallas, a demented loner in Georgetown?” Shortly after Mary’s killing, a slim black man, purportedly spotted at the scene where Mary regularly went jogging, was apprehended and put on trial, but was acquitted after 11 hours because of inconsistent testimony and lack of forensic evidence. Which leaves open possible alternatives, connected to the CIA. Mary’s ex-husband, Cord Meyer, was a high-ranking official with the agency. The invitation that hangs over Kornbluth’s book is for the reader to do some hard thinking about the “chilly reality” of two unexplained murders: “Two lovers, both shot to death . . . Was his assassination a coup? If so, was her murder just a bit of housekeeping?”

Fact: Mary kept a diary, but her best friend called Mary’s sister, Tony, married to Ben Bradlee at the time, and said “Get it.” They did and burned it. It contained, among various subjects, 10 pages about an affair with an unnamed lover. Fiction: Kornbluth invents the nature of JFK and Mary’s relationship in the form of an extended diary that goes from January 1, 1961 to October 11, 1964 (she was 44 when she was killed).

Mary and JFK shared a bed, but they also talked politics. She knew names, places, plans.

Friends from school days years ago, they travelled in the same set and lived as neighbors in Georgetown. It is Kornbluth’s belief that their affair, which began in 1962, was for JFK a rare bedding. Though he had other liaisons while bedding Mary, he “might have done what he fantasized: divorce Jackie after the ’64 election and marry Mary.” The operative words here are “might have” and “fantasized.”

(Kornbluth also relies on “according to,” even though quoting a source doesn’t necessarily make the quotation accurate or the source reliable.)

His Mary is careful to note, however, when she is recording “imaginary exchanges with Jack” and “gossip.”

“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is structured as a narrative of diary entries, but almost every page contains extensive footnotes that identify people and places and that provide “editorial commentary,” often “tart and opinionated.”

A five-page bibliography testifies to Kornbluth’s reading, though he is the first to acknowledge that “there are 40,000 books about John F. Kennedy, his Presidency, and his family.”

An oddity of the diary entries, however, is style shifts. Sometimes Mary uses phrases and truncated lists, other times, full, nuanced sentences. She miraculously recreates dinner and bedroom scenes, replete with dialogue. Some of the entries also seem unintentionally awkward, as when she shores up her sense of herself as an abstract artist, or when she waxes philosophical, as an acolyte of Jung.

From Kornbluth’s perspective, she was obviously thrilled by her connection to JFK, to the point of expressing guilt for his death: could her having urged him to take more liberal views on race and poverty have “moved him away from safe ideas to dangerous ones?” She saw him as magnetic. “A stone would think about sex if he stepped on it” A footnote quotation ascribed to Clare Booth Luce, however, better hits the mark as when she assessed JFK’s presidency as “came-a-lot.”

Although Kornbluth “set out to write one story and did,” he says that on re-reading he saw that he had also written “another story about power and institutions and the way they intersect to make that power and those institutions permanent.” Like Mary, who doubted the lone-gunman theory advanced by The Warren Commission Report, Kornbluth wonders and wants the reader to wonder if Mary, who “had an insider’s look” at “the process” of cementing power and institutions in The White House, “paid for” that privileged view “with her life.” One senses that this other story may have been the deeper motive for his book.

Arts & Entertainment

February 26, 2020

Entertainment Guide

East End Underground

Compiled by Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

LTV in Wainscott presents Blues and Gospel night on Friday, February 28, at 7 PM, featuring Mamalee Rose and Friends and Heaven Sent. Visit www. ltveh.org.

Suffolk Theater COMEDY Brewery Comedy Tour Jamesport Farm Brewery welcomes the Brewery Comedy Tour at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, February 26. Go to www. jfbrewery.com.

FILM Death By Delivery On Saturday, February 29, at 12 PM, Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center presents a screening of “Death by Delivery” followed by a panel discussion moderated by Rev. Tisha Williams. Visit www.bhccrc.org for more info, or register via Eventbrite.

Handel In HD On Saturday, February 29, at 1 PM, Guild Hall in East Hampton will screen The Met: Live in HD— “Handel’s Agrippina.” Grab tickets at www.guildhall. org.

Young Ahmed HamptonsFilm presents Now Showing: “Young Ahmed” on Saturday, February 29, at 6 PM, at Guild Hall. Grab tickets at www.guildhall.org.

The Sun Is Also A Star On Sunday, March 1, at 5:30 PM, BookHampton in East Hampton will screen “The Sun Is Also A Star.” Learn more at www.bookhampton.com.

WORDS Bedside Authors Weekend Meet authors all weekend long starting Friday, February 28, at Topping Rose in Bridgehampton at 6 PM with Amy Impellizzeri, “I Know How This Ends.” On Saturday, February 29, at 10 AM will be Jennifer Moorman, “The Baker’s Man,” at White Fences Inn in Southampton followed by Laurie Gelman, “You’ve Been Volunteered,” at 12 PM. At 2:30 PM, The 1770 House in East Hampton welcomes Natalie Banks, “The Moments Between,” and at 4 PM, at The Baker House 1650 in East Hampton, will be Hank Phillippi Ryan, “The Murder List.” On Sunday, March 1, at 10:30 AM, at The Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton, will be Kim Sakwa, author of “The Prophecy.” Get tickets to the Hamptons Bedside Authors Weekend via Eventbrite.

BookHampton There’s lots going on at BookHampton in East Hampton as well. On Friday,

February 28, at 4 PM, will be a nonfiction reading collective with Heather Siegel “Out From The Underworld,” Paul Pitcoff, “Cold War Secrets,” and Georgette Van Vliet, “Empowered.” On Saturday, February 29, at 4 PM, Phil Keith will be with Tom Clavin and “All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard — Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy.” On Tuesday, March 3, at 6 PM, will be “Abigail” by Magda Szabo. Learn more at www.bookhampton.com.

Madoo Winter Lectures On Sunday, March 1, at 12 PM, Kate Kerin will discuss “Innisfree: art, science and inspiration” at The Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack. Learn more at www.madoo.org.

THEATER Vivian’s Music 1969 LTV in Wainscott presents “Vivian’s Music 1969” on Saturday, February 29, at 4 PM, at the end of Black History month. Visit www.ltveh.org.

On Friday, February 28, at 8 PM Fast Lane comes to Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, on Saturday, February 29, at 8 PM will be Prentiss McNeill paying tribute to Sam Cooke, and Mary Wilson of The Supremes performs on Sunday, March 1, at 7:30 PM. Grab tickets at www.suffolktheater.com.

Cabin Fever The Cabin Fever Music Festival continues at Buckley’s Inn Between in Hampton Bays on Friday, February 28, with Tom Fitzgerald and Souliztik, and at the Southampton Publick House on Saturday, February 29, at 9:30 PM, with Liam Meaney and Satchel Boogie.

Stephen Talkhouse Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will host DJ Snoop on Saturday, February 29, at 10 PM. See more at www.stephentalkhouse.com.

Soul Spectacular On Saturday, February 29, at 8 PM, The HooDoo Loungers and Mighty Ramon

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and the Phantoms of the Soul will play at Bay Street in Sag Harbor. Buy tickets at www.baystreet.org.

Winterfest Long Island Winterfest presents a list of live music. On Friday, February 28, at 6 PM, James and The Flying Fox will be at Moustache Brewing Company in Riverhead and also at 6 PM, Paris Ray will be at the Cooperage Inn in Calverton. On Saturday, February 29, at 2 PM, Rick Rempe performs at Heron Suites in Southold. At 6 PM Dinny Keg plays at Bistro 72 in Riverhead and Dan Hill at Cooperage Inn, then at 7 PM will be Southbound Country Jam at Hotel Indigo in Riverhead. On Sunday, March 1, at 2 PM, Melanie Morin performs at Long Ireland Beer Company in Riverhead. See more details at www.longislandwinterfest.com.

Masonic Music Series On Saturday, February 28, at 8 PM, Mason Music Series presents Jake Lear and on Saturday, February 29, will be Darcey, at 200 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Learn more at www.masonicmusicseries.com.

Green Hill Kitchen Green Hill Kitchen in Greenport presents Jazz Master Series every Sunday at 6 PM. Visit www.greenhillny.com.

Art Barre The Peconic Ballet Foundation will perform in Riverhead on Saturday, February 29, at 7 PM at the Peconic Ballet Theatre. Go to www.pbfny.org.

Sherlock In Southampton “Sherlock’s Secret Life,” a Boots On The Ground theatre presentation, will be at the Southampton Cultural Center’s Center Stage from March 6 through March 22. For tickets, visit www.sccarts.org.

Wolf Hall At NFCT The stage adaptation of the prize-winning novel, “Wolf Hall,” will be performed at the North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck, March 6 through March 23. Visit www.nfct.com for further info.

MUSIC Jazz Night The Jam Session Inc presents Soul/Jazz every Thursday night at Ed’s Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor at 6:30 PM. See more at www.edslobsterbar.com.

Delaney Hafener Townline BBQ in Wainscott hosts live music every Friday from 6 to 9 PM. This Friday, February 28, it’s Delaney Hafener. Head to www.townlinebbq.com.

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RICK’S SPACE

By Rick Murphy

A Pound Of Food Breaking up with Hungry Man rmurphy@indyeastend.com

When we were young and wild, most of us probably never envisioned the Food Police would reel us in. I was thinking about this after ingesting the usual oatmeal and fruit for breakfast.

It’s a shame, because I’m a bacon and eggs guy all the way, or at least I used to be.

I actually like some of the stuff that I’m mandated to eat now, like al-

mond butter and yogurt. For decades, I subjected my body to all conceivable forms of gastronomical mortal sin, including bacon-flavored sausage.

When I was a little kid, my mom worked two nights in addition to her day job as a nurse. She drove over to O’Connor’s Funeral Home on Lenox Avenue in Brooklyn and fixed up the hair on dead ladies so they would look

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nice at their wakes.

My little joke when she came home would be, “So, what did Mrs. Mullen have to say?”

Mom felt guilty leaving me unattended, so she set up one of those new TV trays by the living room couch and served the latest sensation: a frozen TV dinner. I was completely enamored with it. There I would be, snug in my little cocoon with clearly defined compartments of each food group. Even though I was home alone, there would be no bogymen for Little Rick as long as I had my cranberry apple dessert for comfort . . . even if my mom was playing with dead people.

The concept of frozen dinners came to the fore during World War II as an increasing number of mothers were put to work for the war effort. In the early 1950s, the Swanson Brothers parlayed their knowledge of frozen meals and began selling them to airplane companies. The first TV dinners sold 5000 units in 1953; just one year later, the company sold 10 million units. They tried other flavors, but as we true connoisseurs know, turkey was in a class by itself. There is of course, meatloaf, and Salisbury steak, and hamburger steak, sometimes called chopped steak, also offered. I challenge anyone to tell the difference between them. The only thing I’m pretty sure about is there ain’t no meat in them-there steaks.

QUIZ: What do you add to Salisbury steak to differentiate it from meatloaf? (See answer below.)

A Turkey Hungry Man has three “carved” slices of meat, and it is “mostly white” we are assured.

The meat sits on a bed of stuffing with plenty of good gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed diced veggies, and of course dessert. (Make sure you pull the aluminum foil covering off 10 minutes before you remove the tray from the oven to make it crispy!)

To set the record straight, the meat is “mostly white” like (wink) Mc-

Nuggets are, and you would have to be “mostly brain dead” to think there is anything carved. And that ain’t no giblet floating in that gravy, George.

You don’t have to be a professional chef to prepare one, but you learn quickly if you cook the thing too long the gravy boils away, and if you take it out too soon, the stuffing is cold. My little chef’s secret is to put a pat of butter on the veggies and butter and milk on the potatoes to make them creamy.

A little cooking sherry in the gravy is a nice touch (even then I knew).

The end came suddenly and unexpectedly. The Food Police have proclaimed that Hungry Man is off limits to me. It seems that a certain blood test — surely not mine — turned up with a high “Lard” reading. Also expunged from the freezer: Marie Callender’s Pot Pie, which delivers 510 calories, 14 grams of saturated fat, and 720 milligrams of sodium. (“So, what’s the down side?” I asked.)

It wasn’t just the abrupt end of a half-century love affair but the cruelty of the break-up. I came home to an empty freezer, to recycling hell. My guess is they made seagull food with the mostly white meat.

All the monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed corn gluten, sodium acid pyrophosphate, mono and diglycerides with BHT di-alpha-tocopherol, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid ascorbic acid, L-cysteine monohydrochloride fat, disodium guanylate and disodium inosinate, just a few of the chemicals listed on the package, are probably waiting for the new artisan pizza rollout.

It sounds bad, but as a bar maid I used to know once said, “I’ve had a lot worse in my mouth.”

She was talking about liquor — I think.

(Re: Quiz — Anyone who told you a tale about the Duke of Salisbury was lying. Take a standard meatloaf recipe and add a package of French onion soup mix and presto!)

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KISS & TELL

By Heather Buchanan

Books To Save Your Life Bibliotherapy prescriptions kissandtellhb@gmail.com

When I was a kid, I had the chance to audition for a Kodak commercial. There was a table with some pencils, a book, and a new camera. The spokesperson asked me which item I would choose if I could pick any one of them. I smiled broadly and replied with confidence, “The book.” Thus, a lucrative childhood career was summarily ended.

I consider books to be my good friends, happy to snuggle in bed with me and invite me to hold their hand and travel through different places, cul-

tures, times, and emotional landscapes.

To be a good writer, I believe it is essential to be a good reader. A powerful book has seen me through many a bad time. There is actually a word for this: bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is described as “the use of reading materials for help in solving personal problems or for psychiatric therapy.” And this is beyond the realm of self-help books, but memoir or fiction, where mental health professionals see the benefit of identification, catharsis, and insight —

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the feeling of, “I am not alone in the world.”

This idea goes back to the beginning of time. King Ramses II of Egypt established the oldest library motto of “The house of healing for the soul.”

Ancient Greek libraries were considered sacred places with curative powers. And hospitals treated returning soldiers from World War I and II with books to help them with the trauma they had suffered. There is now even the International Federation of Biblio/ Poetry Therapy which certifies instructors.

I like to think of the concept as portrayed in one of my favorite books, “The Little Paris Bookshop,” where Jean Perdu runs a store which he considers a “literary apothecary,” choosing books to soothe the troubled souls of his customers. I believe in literary lifelines and their power to connect us with a deeper collective consciousness.

There are so many wonderful books I would prescribe for certain issues but here is a short list: Alcohol issues: “Drinking: A Love Story” by Caroline Knapp, “Dry”

by Augusten Burroughs Messed-up family life: “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, “The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen Grief: “The Year Of Magical Think-

ing” by Joan Didion, “The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende Female friendship: “Snow Flower and The Secret Fan” by Lisa See, “The Group” by Mary McCarthy Good and evil: “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis, “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Love: “Daisy Jones & The Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, “Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt” by Anthony Sattin Mothers and daughters: “White Oleander” by Janet Finch, “One True Thing” by Anna Quindlen Losing your mind: “Darkness Visible”

by William Styron, “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness” by Kay Redfield Jamison Ph. D. Guilt: “The Door” by Magda Szabo, “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay Painful childhood: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou, “Geek Love” by Katherine Dunn Betrayal: “The End of the Affair” by Graham Greene, “Atonement” by Ian McEwan Sisters: “Practical Magic” by Alice Hoffman, “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver Brothers: “A River Runs Through It “by Norman Maclean, “We the Animals” by Justin Torres

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Sweet Charities Compiled by Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Love Bites The annual Love Bites event will be held on Saturday, February 29, from 7 to 11 PM at the Bridgehampton Community House. It will benefit Katy’s Courage, a local organization dedicated to supporting education, children’s bereavement support, and pediatric cancer research. The event will include tastings from chef Peter Ambrose, Art of Eating, Bell and Anchor, Bostwicks, The Clubhouse, Green Hill Kitchen, Silver Spoon Specialties, Dreesen’s Donuts, and many others. For tickets and more information, visit www. katyscourage.org.

Our Fabulous Variety Show An evening of raising funds for Our Fabulous Variety Show will be held on Saturday, February 29, at 6:30 PM, at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.

There will be fabulous drag queen divas RaffaShow and Naomi; singer Lucy Caracappa; Anita Boyer, Kasia Klimiuk and Joe Pallister of the improv team Glitter Robot; and more.

Auction items include prizes from the Hamptons Film Festival, Sag Harbor Inn, Chef Damien O’Donnell of Harbor Bistro, Smokin’ Wolf, John Pappas, Hamptons Princesses, WHB Performing Arts Center, Hampton Coffee, and more. For tickets, visit www. ovationtix.com.

Katy’s Courage At Buckskill Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton will also host a benefit for Katy’s Courage, on Sunday, March 1. The event, which starts at 12:15 PM, includes ice skating classes, a skate-a-thon, raffle, and an all-day bake sale, among other activities. For tickets and more info, visit www.katyscourage.org.

Grapes Of Roth A Wölffer Wine Dinner, Grapes of Roth, benefiting Fighting Chance will be held on Sunday, March 1, from 6 to 9 PM at Wölffer Kitchen in Sag Harbor. The dinner will be hosted by winemaker Roman Roth. Enjoy wine pairings and a four-course meal prepared by chef

Michael Rozino. Fighting Chance is America’s oldest and largest free cancer counseling center. The cost is $162.71 per person, which includes service charge and taxes. Find out more at www.wolffer.com.

Academy Of The Arts Guild Hall in East Hampton has named the recipients of the 35th Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards. This year’s honorees are Barry Sonnenfeld for Performing Arts, Dorothea Rockburne for Visual Arts, and Salman Rushdie for Literary Arts. Ted Hartley will receive the Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropy.

The awards ceremony will be held during a benefit dinner on Tuesday, March 3, at The Rainbow Room in New York City. For more information, visit www.guildhall.org.

City Fête The Children’s Museum of the East End is headed to restaurateur Laurent Tourondel’s event space, SECOND., for “a festive night out for grownups” on Tuesday, March 3, at 6:30 PM. The City Fête marks the museum’s first fundraising foray into Manhattan in more than three years.

Celebrating the contributions of longtime museum trustees and sup-

porters Aima Raza and Agha Kahn and Wednesday Martin and Joel Moser and the support of J.P. Morgan Private Bank, the event is curated to convey the type of “playful experience” CMEE promotes in its mission.

All proceeds from the evening will support the museum’s educational outreach efforts throughout the East End community. Individual tickets for the City Fête begin at $375. Visit www. cmee.org.

Rock The Retreat Rock The Retreat to benefit The Retreat will be held at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Thursday, March 5, at 7 PM. There will be music by Jay Schneiderman & Friends, The Rum Hill Rockers, and Sup de Jour with Peter van Scoyoc. Tickets are $25 or $30 at the door. The Retreat supports victims of domestic abuse. Visit www.theretreatinc.org.

Italian Night Dinner The Rotary Club of Southold will host an Italian Night Dinner on Monday, March 9, from noon to 8 PM at Touch of Venice in Cutchogue. All proceeds will benefit community projects. A donation of $25 will include your choice of four gourmet pasta entrees. Visit www.eventbrite.com for tickets.

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Dining Saigon Social Offers Winter Respite Carissa’s sold-out Valentine’s pop-up event

By Hannah Selinger

I was lucky. That much was clear from the moment I walked in the door. Carissa’s, the minimalist bakery and restaurant space on Pantigo Road that baker-restaurateur Carissa Waechter opened last July, was hosting a popup event called Saigon Social. Three nights of seatings (Valentine’s Day and the two days following) had sold out almost immediately. My seat at the bar was coveted real estate.

Group dinners as a blend of theater and culinary boundary pushing have gained traction on the East End. At Almond, in Bridgehampton, Jason Weiner has hosted more than a few.

Last fall, Jeremy Blutstein cooked a coursed meal with wine pairings at Showfish, in Montauk. Just a few weeks ago, Nick & Toni’s hosted a collaborative game bird dinner that showcased the birds of D’Artagnan and the prowess of several local chefs.

For these dinners, guests are often seated with strangers, encouraging a communal experience. Menus are set.

Drinks are extra. The experience itself is the curated product of a chef’s inven-

tion and the capability of the restaurant.

In the case of Carissa’s, the popup showcased the work of Helen Nguyen, a Daniel alum known for her Saigon Social dinners. Her brick-and-mortar restaurant in the city is slated to open this spring. For $100 per person, diners were treated to five courses, as well as desserts and appetizers. The room was full, the buzz palpable. This might have been the hardest reservation in town to land that holiday weekend.

This particular pop-up started with a wooden board of small bites: Goi Cuon (a tiny garden spring roll), Boi Tai Rau Ram (heady beef tartare, dry-aged); and Ca Ri Ga (chicken curry served atop a dissolving chip). The flavors reminded me of my travels in Vietnam, aromatic all. Two specialty cocktails — one made with mezcal and chiles, the other with vodka and Thai basil — were the undeniable hits of the dining room.

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lots. The ruby red segments of pomelo were a bright and lovely surprise on a dismal February evening. So was the So Diep Nuong Mo Hanh, a trio of perfectly seared, butter-bathed scallops.

Is there a better antidote to cold weather than phở, the Vietnamese soup consisting of rice vermicelli and aromatic broth? The beef version we enjoyed came topped with two pucks of meat, but the broth itself was the true stunner: a translucent soup betraying the complexity of its ingredients, like beef bones and star anise.

The final two savory courses — shiso-wrapped beef and bún chả — arrived together. Bún chả is a famous northern Vietnamese dish: grilled pork, herbs, and a piquant dipping broth. In Chef Nguyen’s interpretation, the dish involved not only noodles and dipping broth, but also two succulent pork meatballs, a fried dumpling, and pickled carrots, all of which could be eaten

together.

For dessert, we were served ceramic mugs of Vietnamese coffee over ice cream — a take on the Italian affogato, in which espresso is poured directly over vanilla gelato. The final course was a bright green coconut-pandan crème brûlée, with a sugar top so hard and satisfying I had to knock it with my spoon, until it broke into mouthfuls of caramel candy.

The East End can feel, at times, like a place suffering from an ethnic food drought. To that end, a Vietnamese popup, rooted in traditional cuisine, was a refreshing respite, especially in winter.

The beautiful and delicate flavors of Vietnamese food, as translated through chef Nguyen, could not have been more welcome. Can we expect more events like this in the future? If turnout is an indicator of success, Saigon Social’s sold out performance may mean good things for us way out here.

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The Not-So-Basics Of Burgundy Four favorites of this complex wine group

By Kylie Monagan of Calissa Restaurant Like a pilly sweater that endures winter after winter, a go-to coffee order at the corner deli, or a special “friend” that you find yourself texting on those cold nights, Burgundy can be reliable, comfortable, and familiar. Another metaphor to consider: like pizza (and other things often compared to pizza), a glass of Burgundy is always good but, when it’s great, it can be magical.

The white wines, made exclusively from Chardonnay, are classically paired with buttery dishes (roast chicken, sole meuniere, pot pie), rich seafood (scallops, crab, Barbounia, lobster, monkfish), and umami vegetable dishes (wild mushrooms, cauliflower, fennel).

Called the world’s most flexible food wine for its high acidity, medium body, low tannins, and medium

alcohol, red Burgundy Pinot Noir is ideal for sharing in a restaurant among friends ordering many different types of entrees. Naturally, rich and umamiforward dishes like duck, truffle, and mushrooms are perfect with these wines. The queen bee of the Pinot Noir world endures because it is light, elegant and complex, but not so in-yourface that it obliterates everything but a massive steak.

As Gerald Asher once said, “Bordeaux is a hierarchy, whereas Burgundy is a democracy.” Napoleonic Code, which did away with a single heir system, instead mandates that a vineyard is split equally among all heirs. Democratic? Sure. Confusing? Absolutely.

Imagine if Joseph Phelps was split among 80 different winemakers, each legally able to call themselves Joseph

Phelps, but differing wildly in production and fermentation methods.

Here are some of our favorite regions in Burgundy:

Chardonnay: Meursault A classic Meursault is akin to licking a marshmallow while smelling a vanilla bean: it is rich, decadent, and powerful.

Though the French oak characteristics certainly differ from the American sort, California Chardonnay fans will find a lot to love in these wines compared to their more austere cousins to the south.

Chardonnay: Chablis The black sheep of White Burgundy, Chablis is actually closer to the Champagne region of France than to Burgundy. Similar to Sancerre, Chablis’s soil

was once home to an ancient seabed that gives the wine notes of salt and fossilized aquatic life.

Pinot Noir: Gevrey Chambertin The gold standard for red Burgundy wines, these wines have the characteristics of a classically dressed country Frenchman; elegantly rustic and smelling of smoke.

Pinot Noir: Fixin More intensely powerful than most other Burgundies, Fixin (pronounced Fissin) is our favorite for either a village-level table wine or a finessed Premier Cru. With notes of inky pomegranate, gamey charcuterie, and sensual violet flower, this wine was made for the winter dinner table.

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A Night Out With Melinda Hackett

Spring Lecture Series

Nick & Toni’s and The Golden Eagle Studio 144 in East Hampton are continuing the artist series, “A Night Out With . . . (Artist of the Evening).” The series of art workshops followed by dinner with the artist at Nick & Toni’s continues with Melinda Hackett on Wednesday, March 4. The workshop will begin at 5:30 PM at the Golden Eagle Studio 144. The artists and guests will dine on a two-course dinner at Nick & Toni’s over conversation.

Space for each event is limited and must be reserved online by noon on Monday, March 2, at www.goldeneagleart.com. The cost is $85 per person, which includes the art workshop (with all materials provided) and the specially priced dinner including tax and tip.

The Peconic Land Trust’s seventh annual Spring Lecture Series at Bridge Gardens, featuring Sunday afternoon presentations focused on local farmers, chefs, and producers of specialty items, is beginning soon. The series is moderated by Laura Donnelly. Guests will hear stories of the dynamic men and women who are growing and producing food across Long Island, and learn about the innovative and entrepreneurial approaches they are taking.

The series will begin on Sunday, March 1, with Patty Gentry of Early Girl Farm, chef Christian Mir of Stone Creek Inn, and Will Peckham of West Robins Oyster Company.

On Sunday, March 15, it’s chef George Giannaris of Hellenic Snack Bar & Restaurant, farm director Lay-

Japanese RestauRant and sushi BaR Art by Melinda Hackett

ton Guenther of Peconic Land Trust’s Quail Hill Farm, and Greg Kessler of Springs Fireplace Hot Sauce.

Sunday, March 29, is chef Matthew Boudreau of Green Hill Kitchen, Chris Browder of Browder’s Birds, and Marilee Foster of Sagaponack Farm Distillery.

To finish the series, on Sunday, April 19, join Ira Haspel of KK’s The Farm, chef Jay Lippin of the East End

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Food Institute, and Charity Joy Robinson of Kombat-cha.

Presentations begin at 2 PM. Individual tickets are $40 per person and $30 for Bridge Gardens members. Purchase the full series for $140 per person or $100 for Bridge Gardens members.

Space is limited. For more information and to get your tickets, visit events@ peconiclandtrust.org or call the Trust at 631-283-3195, ext. 17.

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Project MOST Fills Empty Bowls Fundraiser benefits student enrichment programs

By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Local chefs will prepare 25 delicious soups for Project MOST’s popular Empty Bowls fundraiser on Sunday, March 8, at the American Legion in Amagansett. From noon to 3, guests can meet student leaders and their families and learn about the benefit the program has had on the community.

Based out of East Hampton, Project MOST is a non-profit organization providing after-school, evening, and weekend programming across arts and culture, STEM, and health and wellness, along with a nine-week summer learning program for children ages five to 13. In addition, the organization offers tutoring and academic assistance.

Over 450 students are served annually at Springs School and John Marshall Elementary School. Beyond these programs, 45 high school and college students (55 during the summer) become Project MOST student leaders, mentoring the younger children. The paid opportunity allocates for 20 hours of training and hands-on experience through an “expert-in-residency” program, introducing leaders to a study or interest. Additionally, student leaders get free college admissions counseling.

“The interest and turnout for this event are a shining example of the farreaching impact that our program has had on the entire community. Since

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2000, our enrichment programs have touched the lives of over 6000 students — 350 students daily — and their working families who are the backbone of this community. We are very grateful,” said Rebecca Morgan Taylor, the executive director of Project MOST. “The restaurants, chefs, and local businesses should be applauded for their continuing participation each year.”

Bring your own bowl, although there are “to-go” quarts available for favorites.

The American Legion Post 419 is located at 15 Montauk Highway in Amagansett. Tickets are $25 per adult and $5 for children 13 years of age or younger. Kids younger than five eat free. Visit www.projectmost.com for tickets and more information.

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Art Meets Woodworking: Rustic Nature Design Master craftsman, Michael Vlahadamis, details how passion drives his work

By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com

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aster woodworker, Michael Vlahadamis, comes from the local family that owned the Hampton Bays Diner for over 30 years before it closed in 2015. In fact, his work is in several restaurants because the modern lines in the work complements hospitality, though residential clients adore his work so much they rarely eat on the river tables that he has perfected.

Vlahadamis sources the wood, cuts it down, shapes it, puts the logs together like a puzzle, and for the river table, creates the space in which the tinted resin or glass will fill the void — creating the illusion of a river running through the natural lines of the tree’s offering. We met with the Noguchi-esque artist in his studio in Hampton Bays to see one of the river tables as well as one in the works. Don’t be surprised if his pieces are on display in a museum someday.

Michael, your work looks like you’re experienced in everything from carpentry to engineering. How did you come to create Rustic Nature Design?

I have a background in a vast amount of trades that I have honed over the years.

Since childhood, I’ve had the knack for a hands-on approach to learning, whether from observation or self-taught. Drawing, designing, and building became traits of mine from a very early age, which were noticed and encouraged by my parents and elders around me.

Although being a mechanical engineer major through my college years, particularly machining, woodworking has always been a passion of mine since my childhood visits to my grandparent’s neighbor’s basement woodshop.

Through my life experiences, I came to the realization that I could bring a dying art and skill of handcrafted woodwork back to life in an environment where mass production has diluted the quality and appreciation of furniture. This is the drive behind what has now become Rustic Nature, not just a company but an atmosphere that I have created that fills the void of handcrafted one-off pieces.

Do you locally source these beautiful slabs?

Most of my lumber, as much as possible, whether it be live edge slabs or dimensional, I have obtained as logs from a local arborist and milled into usable lumber myself via a massive sawmill.

This is how I am able to set myself apart from others in my trade. Milling lumber has been a self-taught trial and error endeavor over many years, which now allows me the ability to yield such unique stock to work with.

Does the wood’s natural nooks and crevices that hold the tinted-resin dictate the design of the river table?

River tables uphold a high level of uniqueness. They are definitely one of my favorite pieces to make. Mother nature is something we have no control over and with river tables each individual live edge slab dictates its own direction. It is only with vision and skill that can you assist in bringing mother nature’s beauty into a piece. If the slab’s natural live edge is not appreciated and utilized, the final product would just lose its value in my opinion. Just let nature take its course.

What kind of wood are you using for the tables? Is it the same for the other products, like the cheeseboards?

My lumber consists of all types of hardwoods to create pieces, both indigenous wood species as well as exotics from various regions and continents. I have favorites, but I love them all. Certain pieces and applications will narrow the selection of lumber species. For the most part, all hardwoods will suffice for projects, from a table all the way down to a charcuterie board, though vision and skill must always take a role in choosing the right wood for the project.

Do you handle the process yourself start to finish?

Rustic Nature carries the statute of

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providing a 360-degree process, meaning from soil to home. It’s in my hands 100 percent. From raw-milled lumber to hand-planed surfaces, even metal fabrication, I cover it all.

Can you map out a sample timeline?

River tables are a tedious project to tackle using either glass or resin. Everything has to be done right to deliver a quality, long lasting product, as you only get one chance to do so. Assuming the extensive and precise drying process of live edge slabs is out of the way, a slab can then be planed and flattened to the desired thickness. The slab is then cut in half down the length, put into a fabricated mold particular to that slab with live edges facing each other and then the highest quality epoxy resin, tinted with either mine or a client’s color selection, is poured into the mold to cure for five days in a climatecontrolled room.

When cured, the table is planed, then put through stages of sanding until every square inch is flawless and ready for finish. A finish is applied to magnify the wood’s natural grain patterns and beauty. Leg style chosen for a particular piece are fastened, and off it goes to a client.

Can you tell us all of the products you offer, from fine furniture to décor?

Rustic Nature can design and build any style, type, or application of furniture one desires. I have completed a vast array of projects including tables of all sorts, bars, bed frames, barn doors, custom doors, outdoor furniture, cutting/ charcuterie boards and wall art/décor.

Whatever you can think of, I can bring to life. “From soil grown roots to beauty in your home, Rustic Nature will deliver.”

Are your products sold online or any retail outlets?

How would someone purchase, say a table or cheeseboard?

My products are only obtainable through direct contact or via my network of interior designers, architects, and builders who I work closely with.

When you’re not designing and building these gorgeous pieces, what do you do for fun?

That means that every piece is one of a kind?

If I am not living out my passions in the shop or enjoying time with my daughter and family, I spend my free time as an avid outdoorsman big game bow hunting all over the country or enjoying certain motorsports.

When pertaining to live edge furniture, every piece is one of a kind. No two slabs are the same, regardless if from the same log.

To reach Vlahadamis or inquire about his pieces or to commission your own, call 631-644-5839 or visit www.rusticnaturedesign.com.

News & Opinion

February 26, 2020

SAND IN MY SHOES

By Denis Hamill

The Non-Winter Of My Discontent Hey, what the hell happened to winter? denishamill@gmail.com

I’m standing here on the LIRR platform waiting for a Penn Station-bound train in mid-February wearing my fleecelined hoodie, winter coat, wool gloves, and boots.

And sweating my buns off.

The sun pours from a baby blue sky like smelted gold and I frisk myself for my shades. The train is late but not because of inclement weather. I wish I’d swabbed on sunblock for my Celtic skin that is like kindling. I listen to confused birds chirping at each other across the tracks from leafless trees.

I’m guessing the birds are asking each other, “Yo, is this weather another stupid human trick?”

I wish I was smart enough to whistle back that the two-month-early spring is a dirty human trick called global warming that is turning the planet into a patty melt. And that just like 40 is the new 30, it’s now safe to say that, with exceptions of a few rude cold snaps, winter is now the new spring.

Forget April showers.

It rained all through February. I carry an umbrella in my computer case.

The last time I wore a hat was at my grandkid’s birthday party.

As I get older, I like winter and snow even less. So, part of me feels silly complaining that I only had to shovel my driveway once all winter, that I didn’t need to call AAA to jump start my frozen car battery, and that I didn’t skid a figure eight on black ice and plow into a nine-car pile-up on Sunrise Highway.

I should be doing a dance to spring.

According to the Northeast Regional Climate Center, the first two weeks of February were the wettest and warmest on average in Long Island history. We’ve enjoyed glorious days that are, on average, seven degrees higher than normal February temperatures.

If Cupid fired his arrow from Montauk Point on February 1 and it landed in Westhampton on Valentine’s Day it would not have pierced a single snowflake.

There hasn’t been enough overtime all winter for a snow plow worker to pay off Christmas bills.

Back in my drinking days, in a century gone by, I once attempted skiing after a few hours at the ski lodge bar.

I couldn’t get up Hunter Mountain on the T-bar. The guy supervising the T-

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bar told me to go turn in my skis and go back to the bar. I took his advice. All weekend. I never went skiing again.

So, I’m not sweating the lack of snow on the slopes. I also don’t climb snowcapped mountains because I don’t want my human journey to end buried in an avalanche on Kilimanjaro. I’m perfectly happy to re-read Ernest Hemingway’s masterful short story about that mountain by a roaring fireplace.

Growing up in Brooklyn, I used to love sleigh riding down Suicide Hill in Prospect Park, so I feel kinda sorry for city kids who can’t do much of that this winter. But the sleigh-riding children of the yuppies in the “new Brooklyn” would probably make their kids wear crash helmets and body armor and send them for $80-an-hour sleigh riding lessons first.

So those brats ain’t missin’ much.

But I do miss a great old-fashioned snowball fight.

But instead of snow, there were 2.29 inches of rain on Long Island in the first half of February, which the Islip weather station claims is a 129-percent increase of the 1.63 average.

It was too warm to fall as snow.

That is called global warming.

So are the rising seas on our priceless coast.

And there doesn’t seem to be much of a winter on the horizon. The forecast for this week is mostly 40s and cloudy, and the 15-day forecast out of Islip lists four days in the 50s, four days in the 40s, and not a single day below freezing.

So, I’m gonna dig out my green shorts for St. Patrick’s Day. I will admit that a part of me loves global warming. But I also love all the sweet treats in the window of Tate’s Bake Shop. Which reminds me of a brilliant, portly sportswriter friend in Los Angeles named Alan Malamud who often told me his drug of choice was pastry. I asked him if he had a sweet tooth. “All 32 of them,” he said,

laughing.

On his way to work one day, Alan passed a bakery with the most delicious looking birthday cake he’d ever seen on display in the window. The cake had a SOLD sign on it with the inscription: HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHEN. Alan stopped in front of the bakery window, ogling the seven-layer cream cake with strawberry florets the way some men regard a pole dancer.

He grunted and thumped to work, banged out a marvelous column on the LA Dodgers, and at lunch time he found himself back at the bakery.

The cake was still in the window. Alan stepped in, little bell dinging over the door, and said to the smiling counter lady, “Hi, I’m Stephen. I’m here to pick up my cake.”

Alan took the cake out to his car and ate it all.

My good buddy Alan Malamud, who was as sweet a man as were his teeth, also died of a heart attack two months before his 55th birthday.

All these warm, snowless days are as enticing and delicious as that birthday cake.

But the global warming is killing us as rapidly as pastry caught up with my pal Alan.

As I stand waiting for the LIRR in the balmy sunshine of mid-February, I can’t believe there are some people who still deny the perils of climate change. People like Rush Limbaugh, a cigar aficionado who denied climate change and also denied the perils of second-hand smoke. Until he was recently diagnosed with lung cancer.

Some people are willfully ignorant.

But even the birds in the trees know that springtime in February is a stupid human trick.

By the time I board my LIRR train, sweat drools down my back and I remove my gloves, coat, and unzip my hoodie wondering what the hell happened to winter.

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Historic Axe Murders Re-examined The Wickham story comes to North Fork library

By Brittany Ineson

One fateful night in June 1854, Long Island farmer James Wickham and his wife, Frances, were brutally murdered by their former farmhand, Nicholas Behan. In her book, “Murder on Long Island: A 19th-Century Tale of Tragedy & Revenge,” co-written with Geoffrey Fleming, author and local historian Amy Folk tells a tale of blood and betrayal, bringing a piece of North Fork history back to life.

The Wickham axe murders happened in the 1800s. Why are we talking about this now, in 2020?

I have been giving a lecture on this particular topic for a couple of years now.

A lot of people like true crime, but it’s local history and I generally do lectures on local history.

I think people have always had this fascination that it happened to someone else and not to me so therefore I can learn about it. “I feel lucky that it didn’t happen to me” kind of thing.

I think also people, because of a lot of modern technology nowadays, have become a little hardened to it. We hear something in the news and we spend three seconds going “that’s terrible,” and then move on. But at the time of the Wickham murders there weren’t quite as many murders and things like that going on, at least not on Long Island.

What, if anything, makes the Wickham axe murders different from murders we hear about today?

Well, they convicted Nicolas Behan

on what we would consider nowadays circumstantial evidence. It all came down to a hat being left behind and the fact that he was an Irishman and was a troublemaker to some extent.

Why did he commit this murder?

Nicholas had anger management issues. He injured the wife of the house when the husband was away, so he got fired and was kicked off of the farm. He got his things and he moved to Greenport, got a job, and then went to his boarding house. It was that night he snuck back to the farm.

How did Behan commit the murder?

He got an axe and snuck inside the house. He left his shoes outside and he put his hat down on the furnace.

He knew the dog — they had a big Newfoundland dog —so the dog didn’t bark. Behan snuck upstairs and attacked the other farmhand, Steven Winston, who was a kid, a 12- or 13-year-old kid. Frances Wickham, hearing the noise, opened the door, and he was right there in her face and that’s when he attacked her. And then attacked her husband.

Did Frances and James Wickham die right there?

Frances Wickham died of a massive brain injury. Behan whacked her with the axe in the head and her body kept going but she was more or less in a coma. James died of blood loss because there was no such thing as

The Wickham house today. Independent/Courtesy Amy Folk

blood transfusions at that point in time. And he never regained consciousness to name his attacker.

And this happened all because Behan was angry at Wickham for firing him and kicking him off the farm?

Well, Behan was not even looking for the Wickhams. He was looking for one of the girls that worked there, Ellen Holland. She basically said, “I don’t want anything to do with you,” even though he had given her shoes and a pin and a bunch of other things that she kept.

What happened to Ellen Holland?

Ellen Holland lived in the attic with Catherine Dowd, another maid. The girls had heard the whole commotion going on downstairs because they slept right over the Wickhams’ bedroom.

They realized that something horrible was going on get with all the screaming. Ellen Holland said to Catherine Dowd, “You need to go out the window, you need to go get help.” She got her to go out the window, then out onto the road to try and to find somebody.

Ellen Holland went out the same way and ran to a different neighbor for help. When Behan eventually made it upstairs to find out where Ellen was staying, the girls had left. So he grabbed his shoes, leaving the hat behind, and ran into the cornfield. Meanwhile,

the girls got help from the neighbors.

What eventually happens to Nicholas Behan?

Behan gave a full confession on his way to the prison, which was in Riverhead at the time, to the doctor who patched up his injuries, who was also the doctor who was with the Wickhams as they died.

And Behan was executed, right?

Yes. Executions used to be public. And that was a very lucrative sideline for the jailer at that time. Executions used to be like a fair. They would set up food tables and people could buy trinkets and stuff.

When you go into Riverhead, there’s a big brick building by the traffic circle near Main Street. The brick building is where the Suffolk County Courthouse used to be. The courtyard there was where they used to have executions and Behan was the last guy to be executed there. People actually paid to watch him hang.

It’s a horrible thing that happened, but it’s a great story. These are all part of the things that make up history and who we are and what we are.

Folk will be discussing the book, and the murders, in the Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library community room on Sunday, March 29, from 2 to 3:30 PM. The event is free and open to the public.

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Sophomores score five points apiece in fourth quarter to help Hurricanes pull away

By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Olivia Rongo saw the ball getting passed through midcourt, but she wasn’t going to let Hauppauge take the lead again. So, the Westhampton Beach sophomore stepped in toward the transition on the right side of the court, intercepted the pass, carried the ball up to the basket, and scored a layup with 3:32 left in the game to put up her No. 1 Hurricanes out front for good in a 57-53 Suffolk County Class A semifinal victory Friday. The February 21 win sends the Hurricanes (20-2) back to the finals for the second straight season.

“Olivia came through,” head coach Katie Peters said. “She plays great defense, always. She’s fast. She’s athletic. She went up for that layup and I knew it was falling.”

Westhampton Beach, which made it to the county championship game as the No. 6 seed last year, played No. 2 West Babylon for the Class A title Tuesday, February 25, at St. Joseph's Col-

lege, but results were not available by press time.

“We’re ready to go in and get a win,” Rongo said. “It’s good to know I helped the team in such a close, crucial moment to get us there.”

The Hurricanes found themselves down by 13 points at their worst, and a rather unlikely duo stepped up to get the job done. Sophomore Molly McCarthy (13 points, four rebounds, four steals) hit her third three-pointer of

the game with 4:05 left to tie the game 47-all before Rongo sank her go-ahead shot off the steal.

“I shocked myself,” McCarthy said. “I’ve never done this before. Ever.

It was really nerve-racking. It was a fight, and we had to keep going.”

McCarthy, who scored back-toback threes to help the Hurricanes close No. 5 Hauppauge’s lead to 25-18 lead midway through the second, and Rongo hit back-to-back field goals after

her make which proved crucial before senior standout Layla Mendoza (18 points, three rebounds, three steals, three blocks) fouled out with 48.3 seconds remaining.

“It was amazing,” Mendoza said of McCarthy’s shot from beyond the arc.

“I knew she was going to do it.”

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Nae’Jon dominated this Ward.

The former force in Bridgehampton scored a game-high 22 points in Center Moriches’ 107-55 win over Southold Saturday, February 22, for the school’s fourth straight Suffolk County BCD title. He also had seven assists and collected five rebounds.

Jaden Kealey had a double-double on 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Emond Frazier added 18 points, eight rebounds, and six assists.

Center Moriches faces Class A’s Amityville in the small school championship Friday, February 28, at Farmingdale State College at 6 PM. The winner will face the Class AA winner in the overall county title game at Ward Melville High School March 5 at 7:30 PM.

Ward was on the Killer Bees team last year that lost to the Red Devils in the same BCD game. The then-junior

hit the game-winner in an 87-85 win over Greenport to get there. Oddly enough, Ahkee Anderson, who scored 40 points in that February 16, 2019 victory, is now Ward’s teammate. Anderson, who just a few games ago reached his 2000th varsity career point, finished with 14 points, five rebounds, and six assists in the win over Southold to bring his varsity point total to 2048.

Center Moriches head coach Nick Thomas is also no stranger to the East End. The former Killer Bee, who played point guard from 1992 to 1996, helped Bridgehampton win the first of the three straight state crowns.

Nick Eckhardt led the Settlers with 12 points and sank two threepoint shots to Ward’s three. Anderson also made two. John Kaelin finished with 11 points, Nick DeNicola, nine, and Nick Grathwohl, seven.

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Nae’Jon Ward on last year’s Bridgehampton basketball team. Independent/Gordon M. Grant

Suffolk County Class C girls basketball qualifier Pierson (13-8 overall, 13-3 in League VII) played Class B champion Port Jefferson (15-6, 13-3) Tuesday for a chance to compete in the small school championship.

Results of the February 25 game were not available by press time, but check www.indyeastend.com for results and photos.

The winner goes on to play the Class

A champion for the recognition Saturday, February 29, at St. Joseph’s College at 5 PM. The team that takes that game will face the Class AA qualifier for the overall county crown. That game is currently scheduled to be played at Ward Melville High School March 5 at 5 PM.

The Whalers will also be competing against East Rockaway in the regional semifinals March 9 at Newfield High School at 4:30 PM.

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Southampton’s boys basketball team may not have come away with the Class B championship title it was hoping for, but the Mariners made Center Moriches sweat for it.

Southampton tied the game twice in the fourth quarter, and was down by just two points at halftime during the 72-65 loss at Centereach High School February 19.

The No. 1 Red Devils (20-1), which won their 17th county crown, were led by senior guard Ahkee Anderson, a former Greenport standout, who scored 14 of his 34 points in the final six minutes to get Center Moriches back into the state tournament. The senior hit

2,000 career points on the nose before entering the title game. The team also boasts former Bridgehampton point guard Nae’Jon Ward.

Center Moriches faces the Nassau Class B champion on March 10 in the Southeast Region semifinal, and Suffolk County Class C title-winner Southold on Saturday at Walt Whitman as the team seeks to defend its overall county championship title.

Anderson (five rebounds, four assists) answered sophomore small forward Lebron Napier’s layup with a putback off his own layup miss to regain the lead for Southampton, 54-52. Napier had scored on a feed from senior

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game that gave Hauppauge its largest lead, 25-12, with 4:53 left in the second.

“We knew it was going to be tough.

We knew they were going to be aggressive,” Rongo said. “We had a target on our back the whole season and we had to push through.”

“Game in and game out there’s been moments we’ve been down and come from behind,” Peters added.

“Grit, and resiliency, is something you have or you don’t, and these girls have it. They’re hungry.”

The Hurricanes switched from a 3-2 defense to man-to-man coverage to extend the zone and get out on those long-distance shooters. Mendoza

Continued From Page 25. shots as of late.

“This team is used to her hitting those threes, and this game was a comeback moment for her,” Rongo said. “She stepped up. We all just came out stronger in the end.”

Hauppauge (15-8) sank five three-pointers across the first 16 minutes, with the game’s leading scorer Maddy Torres swishing two of them.

She racked up 12 of her game-high 19 points during the first half to help her Eagles to a 30-26 lead at the break, but it was Kayla Bullard’s first of two in the

James Malone muscles his way to the basket between two defenders. Independent/Christine Heeren

point guard Dakoda Smith, with 6:28 to play, to tie the game for the second time in the final eight minutes. Senior shooting guard Artemi Gavalas’s threepointer from the corner brought the score to 50-all.

Southampton (15-5) missed a pair of free throws after Anderson’s make, and, after fouling the senior, he secured two free-throw points. Anderson made all his six free throws down the stretch, and scored 14 of Center Moriches’ last 20 points of the game. The Mariners were never as close the rest of the way.

Anderson also connected with junior

forward Jaden Kealey (12 points, 15 rebounds) for an alley-oop dunk, with 3:10 left, to stretch the lead.

Southampton, which trailed 3028 at halftime, was hit hard with the early loss from senior Sincere Faggins. The shooting guard picked up his fourth and fifth fouls less than three minutes into the third quarter. Eight of his 10 points came from the freethrow line.

Napier racked up 13 points for the Mariners, and Gavalas, Smith, and senior small forward James Malone picked up 12 points apiece.

made a block to open the third, and senior Belle Smith (17 points) scored on a jump shot before Mendoza’s field goal closed the gap to 31-20. McCarthy found Mendoza under the basket with 4:56 left in the third to tie the game at 32-all, but Westhampton came within a score eight more times before McCarthy knotted things up.

“That was a moment for Molly I was so excited to see happen,” Peters said. “Molly is a great basketball player and a key component to us winning big games.”

After Smith made both her free throws with 6:17 left on the clock, Mendoza went coast-to-coast to once again

close Westhampton within one, 45-44, and Torres secured two free throws.

Smith finished the quarter going 5-for8 from the charity stripe.

She and Mendoza talked to the team at halftime about refocusing on its goal. Mendoza said although nervous down the stretch, she never doubted what her team could do.

“We pulled through, and I knew we were going to do it,” Mendoza said.

“This is our year. We want to leave a legacy.”

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Cell Tower

Continued From Page 6. the federal court as having been fully approved, and binding on the town.

The town made it through the 60day approval window, barely. The planning board, which had forced AT&T to do an EIS for the Iacono farm proposal, did not ask for one assessing the tower in Northwest Woods’ impact on the surrounding neighborhood, despite the fact that it will rise 145 feet over the tree line, according to AT&T’s application. Board members were clearly troubled by the new proposal, but still voted 4-3 to approve it. That vote came just days before the deadline would have lapsed. A building permit was issued for the project on February 18.

That was the easy part.

Another clause in the settlement states that if the town or its planning or architectural review boards’ “authority . . . to have approved the brush dump facility� is challenged in court, and that challenge is not resolved in 90 days of the date of approval, AT&T, without consulting with the town, can dump the brush dump site and begin work at Iacono farm, installing its antenna, with the town having no say on the matter.

The lawsuits challenging the town’s authority to approve the brush dump site are beginning to roll out this week. Attorney Andrew Campanelli said Monday that he has been retained by nine of the neighbors who live near the brush dump site. It was his intent to file an article 78 lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Riverhead by February 27 against East Hampton town and its zoning board of appeals, which issued variances regarding the distance of the proposed Northwest Woods tower to neighboring residences.

That suit is to be followed by another article 78 suit in state court, to be filed within the next two weeks, against the town’s planning board, Campanelli said.

After that, he said, is yet another suit, this one in federal court, claiming the town’s rushed approval process denied

his clients their First Amendment right “to petition the government� for redress against the damage the proposed monopole cell tower will cause them.

New Deadline Campanelli said the actions of the town are directly injuring his clients, who, according to his experts, will see the value of their properties decrease “$750,000 to $1.1 million, each.� He called the town’s rushed public hearings regarding the brush dump site before the town’s planning and architectural review boards, as well as the ZBA, “kangaroo hearings.�

Because of the wording of the clause in the settlement regarding legal action, the duration of the 90-day period in which all litigation must end does not begin on the date the first lawsuit is filed: rather, according to the language of the clause, it is retroactive, starting at the time the approval for the brush dump site was issued by the town. The building permit was issued on February 18, so it appears that the final deadline for all litigation to end is on or about May 18.

Article 78 lawsuits are generally not resolved in a matter of days. In fact, there are several such lawsuits against the town currently being litigated in state court that have lasted for years, with no end in sight, such as that of the owner of Duryea’s Dock, Marc Rowan.

Campanelli said he is not going to seek a temporary restraining order to stop the erection of the Northwest Woods tower. That is because, he said, if AT&T proceeds with building the tower, and the courts find against the town, there will be a simple remedy for the court to order to repair the damage done to his clients: tear the tower down.

The Independent reached out to both Wright and Nason for comment on February 21. Wright had not responded as of the evening of February 24. A spokeswoman for AT&T, Brandy BellTruskey, did contact The Independent, saying that she could not immediately comment on the matter.

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The Independent has an opportunity to create awareness via the recipes and articles they choose to publish instead of promoting carnism. Sharing literature like the article cited above rather than promoting unhealthy animalbased recipes would reduce both environmental and healthcare costs, and provide a community service by educating your readership rather than catering to their unhealthy eating practices.

Randy Johnston

Continued From Page 4. reviewed literature from around the world, which clearly establishes that choosing to consume animals and animal products is unhealthy both nutritionally and environmentally. Unfortunately, it seems as though this literature is not known or believed or people just don’t care given that the majority of people choose to be carnist. Sadly, many newspapers excessively promote carnism via their food columns, including The Independent.

A January 22, 2020 article titled “Healthy and Climate-Friendly Eating Patterns in the New Zealand Context� by Drew et al. published in Environmental Health Perspectives concluded: “This research has characterized healthy and climate-friendly food choices and eating patterns in the New Zealand context and demonstrates that local trends are not dissimilar from those found globally. This has important implications for other countries where uncertainty remains regarding the applicability of international evidence. Eating patterns emphasizing the consumption of whole, plant-based foods offer an opportunity to achieve substantial emissions reductions while simultaneously realizing considerable health gains

Chuckle Dear Rick, Life sucks may be putting it too mildly.

[See “Rick’s Space� in our February 12 edition.]

At the very least it requires a profane adjective, but I suppose it’s all a matter of time and place.

We do get our moments, sometimes earth shaking more often not.

You’re a funny guy, this week anyway.

Thanks for the chuckle.

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