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It’s not as if Nicole Delma — founder of the “Air, Land, + Sea” environmental film series of HamptonsFilm; founder of FOND Group, a full-service email consulting firm, a “Survivor” survivor; a surfer, wife, mother — doesn’t have enough on her plate. She just has a really big plate. In addition to all of the above, she also added a “two sides” of a petition which as of now has about 356,000 signatures, and a brand-new company, Mind Offline. So first, there’s the petition which Delma started about six months ago, asking Amazon to offer a plastic-free packaging option. “This isn’t to get them to ban plastic altogether,” she said. “It’s just about giving their customers a choice. A box to check when they order.” When the non-profit Oceana got on board with Delma, the numbers soared. “I grew up in the Seattle area,” she said. “I was just raised feeling passionate about the environment. As a kid, we celebrated Earth Day. It’s just part of my DNA, I guess,” Delma offered.

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Also, just before the novel coronavirus hit, Delma started a company with an almost eerie prescience — maker’s kits for people to create their own arts and crafts, all finely curated, featuring local artisans and, of course, eco-friendly packaging. It all came, she said, from a sudden obsession with knitting. “I started creating with my hands,” she said. “I think it’s part of our nature to want to do that. And as I knitted, it also freed my mind and slowed me down.” “Mind Offline’s mission is to reconnect people with their innate drive to create, and to the undeniable joy that comes from developing one’s analog faculties,” reads the website. “In a world where false stimuli surround us — influencing our priorities, our use of time, thoughts and even our moods — we are here to help you navigate back offline. In doing so, we trust you will find a meaningful, persistent connection to the physical world around you and will discover a purpose that goes beyond what you’ve become

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Mary Jaffe's Vase Glazing Kit; Nicole Delma picking up inventory for Mind Offline. Independent/Charlotte DeFazio

accustomed to in the digital world.” “We want people to go on and visit the website,” Delma said with a laugh. “But then get offline again really quickly! That’s the point.” And while going offline, in the traditional sense, may not seem challenging as one can head out for a walk or pick up a book, Mind Offline’s focus is specifically on the producer part of us as humans. “It is the active creator state of mind that is sustainable, lasting, and can fuel a lifelong passion or even livelihood for some,” Delma said. The kits range in price from a collage kit from Amagansett’s Stick + Stone for $30 all the way up to a big loop Merino wool blanket kit, with yarn from Beacon, NY-based Loopy Mango for $440.

In between are kits provided by cartoonist Peter Spacek (Draw Funny), Grain Surfboards (a DIY skateboard), ceramist Mary Jaffee of Bridgehampton (Vase Glazing Kit), a Southampton Soap felting kit, and more. Delma also points out that although the kits are family-friendly, they are “to help release our own creativity,” she said. “Creating and making allows us to access parts of us that sometimes we forget we all possess. It raises our joy level — and we end up with something to show for it too,” she said. Those interested in signing the petition can visit www.change.org and search for “Get Amazon to Offer Plastic-Free Packaging Options.” To visit the Mind Offline website, go to www.mindoffline.org.

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Re-Entry Planning Dear Editor, It seems that our goals from before the pandemic are now a distant past, as teachers and leaders begin to tackle yet another challenge brought on by COVID-19 – re-entry planning. Just before most of us knew what COVID-19 was, we were all engaged in conversations about inclusive excellence. We aimed for equity and were busy building school cultures to support students’ social-emotional health, as well as their rigorous and engaging academic experiences. Our dreams were of schools and classrooms that were carefully constructed for all students, and we charged toward this mission. For those of us who serve communities that include students with special needs, stu-

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dents living in poverty, and students with a variety of immigrant experiences, we have been aware of the flawed assessment system that has been in place for far too long. We always understood that the achievement gap has everything to do with the “haves” and “have nots.” We’ve also understood that standardized testing only proved to illuminate those gaps and divide our children. We marched forward despite labels placed on us, our schools and, most important, our students, because we did not quite measure up according to “the tests.” However, we still left our office each day thoroughly exhausted yet rejoicing at the true privilege of teaching and leading our students the very next morning. We have always celebrated this honorable profession because it is truly a great reward to make a difference in the life of a child and have an impact on generations to come. We have not and will not forget that. Continued On Page 32.

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News & Opinion Riverhead Protestors Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ Sunday gatherings held in wake of George Floyd’s death By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com

Hundreds turned out Sunday afternoon, May 31, in Riverhead in support of George Floyd, delivering a message that systemic racism and police brutality cannot be tolerated any longer. The Enough is Enough Rally’s assembly in the parking lot of Stotzky Park drew well over 100 people to show solidarity in their outrage of how Floyd, handcuffed, died when a Minnesota police officer kneeled on his neck, suffocating him May 25. About a dozen speakers urged the crowd to incite change rather than violence, as some protestors have recently in cities around the country. Later, in a non-permitted assembly organized by a Riverhead teen and billed as a Black Lives Matter protest, at least 200 people marched through the streets of downtown Riverhead. They convened at the riverfront, walked up Main Street chanting things such as, “No justice, no peace,” and congregated by the gazebo at Riverhead Town Hall, where the names of known victims of police brutality were read. “They are trying to rule George Floyd’s death as underlying disease. He was murdered,” an organizer who only said her name was Anubia, from the gazebo. Despite charges brought against the officer, “They’re still trying to say that the police were not in the wrong.” “No more silence. Silence is violence. Silence is loud,” she said. “To all my Americans here today — speak up.” At both events, most attendees wore masks to prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus. Gatherings of more than 10 people is technically still prohibited under New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive orders. During the group’s march back into

town, they demonstrated in the middle of Main Street. Some sat, others kneeled, and some laid prone with their hands behind their backs — Floyd’s position while he pleaded with the officer to get off of him. The police presence was a stark contrast to the rally earlier in the day, where there had been very little. State police officers, as well as those from Riverhead and Southampton towns, stood by wearing helmets and holding shields. A command van was parked around the corner from the police department at the ready. Some protestors yelled at police officers. No violence was reported, though.

‘I’m Protecting You’ Organizers asked to hear from the police, and Riverhead Police Chief David Hagermiller, who had been keeping an eye on the protest from a vehicle, addressed the crowd. “I’ve been here 38 years. I’m protecting you every day. These guys are protecting you every day,” he said, motioning to the officers behind him. “We’re doing our jobs. If there’s a problem with us, you come to me and we talk about what happened.” Some people screamed about their grievances with local cops, with one woman saying an officer told her, “You’re next,” during an altercation amid the march. Another man questioned why there is a lack of minorities on the police force. The chief said he would like to hire more, but there are not many on the county’s Civil Service list. At the rally in the park, Malyk Leonard, a Riverhead native, said the answer lies within the community, which he not-

Malyk Leonard urged people to get involved in their community and in politics. Independent/Christine Heeren

ed is predominantly black and Latino. “Do we have police that actually represent the community? If not, go to the police station and sign up to become a police officer,” he said. “We talk about inequity in education, but let’s ask ourselves, do the board members represent us? Do they look like us? If not, run for the board.” “If you don’t want to run for office, vote,” Leonard continued. “If you’re not registered to vote, go to the post office, go to the DMV, go to town hall and vote out the people who are not doing anything for us and vote people in who can actually do something for us.” Evelyn Hobson, a Riverhead police officer, said as a black woman, and mother of a young black man, she “checks all the boxes of who is affected by systemic racism, and questions actions of some officers.” “I understand the pain, the rage, and the anger, but expressing it through violence and damage to property is counterproductive,” she said to the crowd. “If your house is on the verge of falling down, you don’t snatch away the cornerstone, you reinforce it, you work together to strengthen the foundation.”

‘Peacefully, Together’ Eric Williams, a security guard at Riverhead High School who helps organize the annual “Stop the Violence” basketball game in Riverhead, put the rally together, getting the proper permits and promising a peaceful protest. But, he said, he refused to bring his 10-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter out of fear it would turn violent. “Let’s do this peacefully, together,” said Lawrence Street, the president of the Eastern Long Island branch of the NAACP. “This is nothing new,” he said of police brutality. “I could stand here and talk about the problems to you guys, but it’s about a solution to the problems. We need to start thinking about: What do we do about this?” “The only way that we can make a difference right now is that we need to vote,” he added. “Get out and vote.” Several local politicians were also in attendance. Riverhead Councilwoman Catherine Kent quoted James Baldwin, who said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Continued On Page 38.

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Riverhead Protests Photos by Christine Heeren Two protests took place in Riverhead on Sunday afternoon. The first, held in Stotzky Park, included speakers. Hundreds marched in the second protest from the Riverfront to Riverhead Town Hall, next to the police station, where they gathered briefly. On the return to downtown, some of the protestors demonstrated by laying down in the street, in the position George Floyd was in when the officer kneeled on his neck.

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Suffolk Sets Table For Outdoor Dining Just days after Phase 1 reopening, county looking ahead By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com

In the days after Long Island began the first phase of its reopening after the COVID-19 shutdown, Suffolk County began looking ahead to the next steps. Among his top priorities, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone wants to help restaurants expand outdoor dining this summer in anticipation of when restaurants are able to start serving inperson meals. “Of course, as we start Phase 1, this is a new beginning. We have been through some really trying times for more than two months now,” Bellone said on May 27. “This has been a period like we have ever seen before. It really put us to the test in every way imaginable. The impacts of it are devastating.” Dining outdoors is an activity that Bellone said he feels can be done safely. While restaurants were deemed essential businesses under New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order in mid-March, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they were limited to takeout and delivery. Reopening restaurants to seated diners, even outdoors, would not be allowed until Phase 3 of the governor’s reopening plan — or if Cuomo gives the green light sooner. Even then restaurants will be relegated to 50 percent of their regular capacity. Long Island is currently one week into Phase 1. Progressing to the next

phase is expected every two weeks, if infection rates continue to decline, but Cuomo has suggested the process could be sped up, if appropriate. “This is one of the areas we can see this accelerated,” Bellone said as he announced he was issuing an executive order that allows the Suffolk County Department of Health Services to automatically approve expansions when restaurants look to add seating outdoors, even if it is not currently permitted. Restaurants will still need local approval for the extra outdoor seats, in part because many will be looking for use of municipal sidewalks. The executive order ensures that none of the county approvals hinder a business from expanding its seating outdoors. “We have been communicating with a number of different associations representing the restaurant industry, speaking with individual entrepreneurs,” Bellone said. “They understand the importance of doing this safely.” The county executive said town and village government officials are looking for creative ways to allow restaurants to offer outdoor dining on sidewalks and in back areas, possibly even under tents.

Virtual Job Portal As construction, manufacturing, and

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the fishing industries got back to work May 27, as well as limited curbside retail, Bellone announced Suffolk is launching a new virtual job portal to help others as a way to help small businesses get back to work. Created through the Suffolk County Department of Labor and the Suffolk Forward Main Street Initiative, the Virtual Career and Talent Portal will serve as a “one-stop-shop” to provide residents access to regional job opportunities and a pool of perspective employees for businesses looking to hire. Veterans will get priority. Employees can even get an alert when a job is posted. It can be found at https://scnyforward. info/vosnet/default.aspx.

No Mask, No Entry The governor issued an executive order May 28 allowing businesses to deny entry to those who do not wear masks or face coverings. Masks are mandatory in New York if proper social distancing protocol cannot be met.

Say ‘Ahhh’ Cuomo also gave dentists statewide the go-ahead to reopen on June 1. Dentist offices are still subject to state guidance on best practices for safety and social

distancing.

DMV’s Reopening Plans Officials at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles have revealed some of its reopening plans after offices shutdown in mid-March. While in-person transactions will not begin just yet, starting Monday, June 1, state-run DMV offices in several counties, including those on Long Island, started offering remote services. Offices in Suffolk and Nassau County, Albany, Onondaga, Rockland, Westchester, and the five boroughs of New York City began to process vehicle registrations and other transactions by mail Monday. On Thursday, June 4, those offices will start to accept transactions through new secure drop boxes at each location, including at the Riverhead office. The drop boxes will be available Monday through Saturday during regular business hours. The DMV, which closed all 27 of its offices and suspended road tests on March 23, will no longer offer certain services in-person, such as surrendering license plates, sales tax-only transactions, and vehicle registrations and license plate transfers. Instead, customers Continued On Page 38.

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small businesses. Schumer said the second round of stimulus money was distributed differently, and that 58 percent of the applicants got some financial help. He urged those in need to continue to apply. “There is more set aside,” he said. The senator said there is a sentiment in Washington more assistance is still needed, especially in the House. However, the Senate has been hesitant. U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell wants to assess the initial rounds of financing, Schumer said. He promised to set aside more for businesses with less than 10 employees and expand the bill so more companies are eligible. Schumer also said he would press for business interruption insurance. He cautioned the recovery was contingent on many other factors, including, of course, relaxing laws that limit social gatherings. Scott Wexler, executive director of the Restaurant & Tavern Association, said he is urging leniency for sidewalk dining and a quicker reopening for restaurants

Deflated industry hit hard by novel coronavirus mandates By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer told members of the press and representatives of the Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association during a virtual meeting May 27 that he realizes the industry needs federal assistance — and needs it in a hurry. Actually, Schumer acknowledged an immediate need for funds to stabilize many restaurants that for whatever reason didn’t qualify for stimulus money the first time around or were passed

over for businesses with better banking contacts. He said restaurants “are the heart and soul of New York. We have to save this industry by getting you back on your feet.” Schumer pointed out because so many businesses have parttime employees, many didn’t even qualify for unemployment. The senator said the first stimulus package provided a lot of money for hospitals, offered eviction protection, but provided little for

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer hosted a virtual meeting Friday morning to discuss the state of the restaurant industry.

in general. Schumer said the coming years would bring prosperity to the industry. Those in the business hoping for better news may have been disappointed, however. Schumer said it could take three years for restaurants to reach prepandemic levels.

Governor Releases Phase 2 Guidelines Long Island officials hope to gather info from upstate counties By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Friday, May 29, that New York City will begin to reopen on Monday, June 8, and released guidelines on Phase 2 opening while giving the green light to upstate regions to move deeper into the reopening process. The number of COVID-19 deaths has declined to the lowest level ever — 56 — and the number of new cases is dramatically lower than it has been. But New York City is the only region in the state not to have begun Phase 1. “Reopening in New York City is more complicated, as we know, but we are on track to meet all the metrics,” Cuomo said. Targeted testing is being ramped up and face coverings handed out in hot spots throughout the city. When it does reopen, 400,000 people will go back to work. Under Phase 2, office-based jobs, in-person retail, barbershops and hair salons, and real estate services will re-

open, all with restrictions. The Finger Lakes, central New York, the Mohawk Valley, North County, and Southern Tier entered Phase 2 late last week. Western New York was expected to move to Phase 2 on Tuesday, June 2. Each industry is subject to specific state guidelines to maximize safety and social distancing, giving Long Islanders a glimpse of what is to come when it is allowed to move out of Phase 1. For instance, retailers can open with 50 percent occupancy and store owners can refuse shoppers entry if they are not wearing a mask. Malls with 100,000 square feet or more of retail space, where shoppers may enter only from indoor, enclosed spaces, will remain closed. Stores in shopping malls that have their own external entrances — separate from the general mall entrance, like strip malls — may open. Barbershops and hair salons will be open by appointment only and em-

Governor Andrew Cuomo is focusing on reopening New York City. Independent/Courtesy Governor Andrew Cuomo's office

ployees are required to be tested for the novel coronavirus every two weeks. “We recommend that the professionals get a test before they reopen, that’s not a mandate — that’s a recommendation,” Cuomo said. “And we recommend to customers to ask the barber or professional in the hair salon if they had a test before you use their services.” The governor stressed entering the second phase does not mean things will go back to the way they were. “Life is not about going back,” he said. “Nobody goes back, we go forward — and it’s going to be different. This is about reopening to a new normal, a safer normal. People will be wearing masks and people will be socially distanced — it’s a new way of interacting, which is what we have to do.”

Nassau and Suffolk County officials hope Long Island will begin Phase 2 within the next week or so, as long as the numbers continued their downward trajectory. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said during a briefing last week county officials are in contact with others in upstate regions to learn how reopening went elsewhere, in hopes of learning more to get Suffolk transitioning smoothly to the next phase. “We are in this position, having been impacted more significantly than just about any other area of the country,” Bellone said. “Fortunately, we’re now in a position to be able to see the experiences of those jurisdictions that have begun to open, and opened earlier than us, and learn from that.” Kyle McKee contributed reporting.

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Southampton Bans Day-Trippers From Beaches Only town residents, renters allowed at its beaches through June 5 By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com Through executive orders, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman has banned outside visitors from town beaches through Friday, June 5. His original order reserving the beaches for residents and renters ran through May 31. “Southampton Town Supervisor Issues Emergency Order Temporarily Closing All Beaches to Day-Trippers,” read a press release sent out the morning of May 27, going on to say, “After Hellish Holiday Weekend, Town Beaches Restricted to Local Residents and Renters.” Southampton Town saw an influx of hundreds of visitors Memorial Day weekend, many of whom parked their

cars along roadways near beaches, where parking was not restricted. The town had spent weeks preparing to open several popular bathing beaches for the holiday, including Ponquogue Beach in Hampton Bays, Sagg Main Beach in Sagaponack, and Long Beach in Sag Harbor. They were busy, the town said, but not overwhelmed, according to Schneiderman. Weather conditions were not ideal for sunbathing, which limited beach attendance, but, even in the rain, people flocked to other beaches to go fishing and offroading. “Weather didn’t encourage quite as many people — the cloudiness and colder days,” town Public Safety &

Beachgoers in Southampton. Independent/Rob Rich/www.societyallure.com

Emergency Management Administrator Ryan Murphy said during the May 26 town board meeting. “By and large it was a successful weekend, but those homeowners near those road endings saw congestion. It was a litmus test for us to see how we can do this successfully — opening up what we can safely and proceed forward.” Schneiderman said some of the congestion was likely due to beaches being closed in other areas. The problem became acute in North Sea where nearly 500 people congregated on a narrow stretch of

beach on Saturday evening. Police were forced to close the beach after determining that social distancing could not be achieved based on the number of people. “It’s unfortunate that we have to enact these restrictive measures,” Schneiderman said, “particularly as we enter Phase 1 reopening, but after what we experienced last weekend with droves of visitors overcrowding our beaches, we are left with no other choice to prevent the resurgence of coronavirus in our community.” Continued On Page 33.

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Still Mulling Over Moratorium Southampton’s town board discusses action plan in wake of COVID-19 delays By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The Town of Southampton’s pending legislation on a mortarium proposal for construction in areas of Shinnecock Hills may be thrown out due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Part of the moratorium concept was to give the town ample time to study this area and see if additional restrictions are necessary,” Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said. “There’s no reason why the planning department and the town attorney’s office cannot be doing that now. If they develop a set of criteria, we wouldn’t need a moratorium, we’d go right to the criteria.” “Normally, moratoriums are put in place very quickly,” the supervisor added. “With COVID-19, this is creating a longer hearing process.” Public hearings on two separate moratoriums and a potential zoning change for the protection of unmarked Shinnecock Indian Nation graves have again been adjourned, this time, to July 28 at 6 PM, as the supervisor has been continuously pushing the issue to be discussed a time when residents can make comments on the matter in person. Schneiderman may be unsure the moratoriums will still be needed, but unlike previous meetings where the public detailed support for the legislation, several homeowners also debated the need. David Donohue, who owns three properties in the Shinnecock Hills area, once again voiced his concern over the timeline for cessation of work under the gravesite protection plan, which lists protocols to follow should human remains

be encountered within the town during construction activities. “A lot of people finance projects,” he said. “I find this to be an overreach of the board. I’m feeling threatened by the process. To be held up by new laws that would restrict anybody from expanding their house, digging a pool, improving their property — there are timelines on the bank, it’s an expensive process.” Schneiderman said the intent is to move as quickly as possible, noting the code would apply to the entire town. “It’s designed to move quickly if you do inadvertently disturb a gravesite,” he said. “It is tricky and sensitive.” The supervisor said he will have town Planning and Development Administrator Janice Scherer at the next meeting on the topic detailing what is involved and the costs for an average piece of property. Town attorney Jim Burke said the law is based on existing laws in other parts of the state, reiterating the goal to move swiftly. He said the timeline details a day for an archeological review, and a 36-hour notification window to respective committees of the results. “Everything is supposed to be moved in a very expedited fashion so as to address if there’s a discovery of archeological items — a significant discovery of bones or artifacts — not holding up a particular project unnecessarily,” Burke said. Donohue reiterated comments that excavation already happens, and a law Continued On Page 32.

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The Perfect Time To Elect A Scientist? Nancy Goroff makes her case By Rick Murphy rmurphy@indyeastend.com

A scientist in Congress? Kind of makes sense, doesn’t it? It does for the supporters of Nancy Goroff. “When people hear about my background, yes,” she said in an interview this week. “I’m a scientist. I want to make people’s lives better.” Goroff is running against Perry Gershon and Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming in the Democratic primary to decide who will take Congressman Lee Zeldin on for the First Congressional District seat. It is considered one of the most important and contentious races in the country. “Now more than ever we need sci-

entists in Washington who have professional training needed to solve complex problems,” she said. Goroff taught at Stony Brook University and served as associate provost, interim dean of the graduate school, and most recently chair of the Chemistry Department. She has lived in Brookhaven for over two decades – 23 years — where she raised her two daughters. Though there is some perception her Democratic opponents have a name-recognition edge on the East End, she is confident she can hold her own. She is well aware it is up-Island

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where the majority of the votes are. The primary is, “introducing me to voters, helping me get my message out,” Goroff said. “We know [President Donald] Trump and the national GOP will do whatever it takes to protect Zeldin, but we can win if we fight back with the truth. He doesn’t have the ear of everyone in the [White] House.” Zeldin supported Trump in his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, stood by his side during the impeachment inquiry, and joined the science-denier-in-chief at Camp David last month. Most of all, Goroff mentioned a Zeldin stance that she feels should be reason alone not to vote for him: “He’s against reproductive rights.” Among the primary candidates, Goroff believes she is best suited to take on Zeldin. “My background presents the strongest contrast,” she said. “I deal with facts and reality.” Though Zeldin deems himself a difference-maker and takes credit for a lot of accomplishments, that’s not the case, Goroff opined. “He’s in the majority,” she said. “He took credit for Brookhaven Lab but he had nothing to do with it. If he were stronger, he’d be able to do something about Plum Island.”

Nancy Goroff is running against Congressman Lee Zeldin. Independent/Goroff for Congress

The primary election is Tuesday, June 23. Gershon was defeated by Zeldin in a close race last time out; Fleming is also former Southampton Town councilwoman. “If we had a federal government that was actually functioning, the coronavirus nightmare would have been less severe,” Goroff concluded.

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June 3, 2020

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Surrounded by his family, Lubin Hunter celebrated his 103rd birthday on May 30. Independent/Taylor K. Vecsey

Oldest Shinnecock Man Turns 103 Years Old Drive-by celebration honored the eldest veteran in Town of Southampton By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com Lubin Walter Hunter, the oldest living member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and oldest living male veteran in the Town of Southampton, according to a Southampton Village proclamation, turned 103 last week. In fact, Hunter may just be the eldest Native American veteran in New York, his family said. In the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, his family did not want to pass up the opportunity to celebrate his accomplished life and longevity, organizing a drive-by parade with his friends and community members. Hunter sat

regally in a chair, draped with a blanket, at the end of his driveway, surrounded by his children and grandchildren — who wore masks and gloves to protect him from COVID-19. He stoically took in the well wishes one by one as the procession passed by. Shinnecock Nation public safety vehicles led the way, followed by the Southampton Fire Department, which turned out in force with many of its antique trucks. As Chief Anthony Stevens presented Hunter with a proclamation from Southampton Village, he told him it is

“honoring you for 103 years of living. And, tell you what, you deserve every bit of it!” “He loved the celebration and was so surprised by the turn out and love,” his granddaughter Sienna Hunter-Cuyjet said. His family streamed it live on Facebook for other family members who could not attend. Hunter was born on the Shinnecock Reservation on May 28, 1917. His mother, Marianne, was a domestic worker and his father, Walter Lubin, who worked as a gardener and laborer on several wealthy East End properties, served in World War I with his citizenship listed as “alien friendly to the United States.” American Indians were not even granted U.S. citizenship until Hunter was seven years old. He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse, before going to Southampton High School. He left following graduation in 1936 to attend college. He worked as a “shipper and corker” on both the USS Iowa and the USS Missouri battleships in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He served as a navigator gunner on B-17s with the Army Air Corps — before there was the Air Force — in the Pacific Arena.

His military records list service from 1938 to 1946, with active duty from 1943 to 1946. He was listed as white, as there was no category for Native Americans. When he returned from war, he went to Brooklyn College on the GI Bill and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1953 while working as a social worker. His granddaughter said he was denied housing in the newly-established suburb of Levittown, built for returning veterans and their families, due to segregation. He was still able to use the GI Bill to get a mortgage for his first house in the Baisley Park section of Jamaica, Queens, she said. For most of his career, he worked with the New York Housing Authority, in management, and oversaw the public housing in Queens and Brooklyn. He advocated for fair and adequate housing for low socioeconomic communities. He retired in 1973, but soon took a job with the Internal Revenue Service in Manhattan until the 1980s. He and his wife, Elaine, raised four children in Queens, having later moved to Springfield Gardens. They eventually moved to Hempstead, and spent summers on the Shinnecock Reservation, where they had planned to retire. They were building a house when he was widowed in 1987. He now has eight grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. He became an elder at the Shinnecock Presbyterian Church, serving as director of the Senior Nutrition Program, and was also elected a member of the Shinnecock Tribal Council, serving as a chair on the health committee and on the advisory board for the Shinnecock Family Preservation Center. His family said he also proudly helped with Southampton Village’s annual Fourth of July parade for well over a decade, lining up floats, bands, and marchers. Hunter, who learned how to play golf while caddying at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club as a teen, loved the sport and Continued On Page 38.

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Sand Land Issues Cease And Desist Order Southampton Town’s code enforcement also handed out notices of violation By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The Sand Land mine has dug its hole even deeper. The company has been continuing illegal operations, and Southampton Town issued a cease and desist order last week, along with code enforcement delivering notices of violations. Town attorney Jim Burke said he contacted the state Department of Environmental Conservation at the regional office and in Albany to express town concerns over the modification of a permit to allow Sand Land to bring in stone, concrete, and aggregate to sell. Those issues were reinforced when Noyac Civic Council President Elena Loreto sent a letter to the town asking, “What is being done to stop the Sand Land mine from con-

tinuing its illegal operations?” “The tickets are not doing anything to stop them,” she said. But Burke assured her the town is preparing to continue to take the issue up with the Supreme Court if necessary. He said he has a phone call scheduled with Sand Land operators to discuss the issue. “We’ve been working pretty closely with Elena over the years on this,” Burke said. “She’s been terrific.” The town has gone to the Appellate Division twice, and came back with two positive decisions about the specific issue of bringing in the materials. “They eliminated the implication of the vegetative waste, so I guess from the DEC’s point of view they did

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Drone footage captured the whale in the ocean water. Independent/Tanner Smith

Dead Humpback Whale At Amagansett Beach Second whale to wash up on East End By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com

A dead humpback whale washed ashore at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett Sunday morning. The whale, a 33.8 feet long subadult female, according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, was first seen Saturday night about 150 yards off the beach. Tanner Smith of East Hampton went down to see it, and said the waves were not strong enough to bring it in right away, but by May 31 it made landfall. East Hampton Town Marine Patrol and ocean lifeguards secured the area and contacted environmen-

tal agencies, including the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, according to a statement from town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc’s office. Scientists with AMSEAS responded and performed a necropsy to try and determine cause of death. They found that it had “a decent layer of blubber and food in its stomach, indicating that the animal had been eating,” according to a Sunday afternoon statement. “Biologists found some suspect bruising, and collected tissue samples to send to a pathologist to determine if there

is any evidence of trauma.” The results may take several months to come back. Heavy machinery hauled the whale offsite to a disposal facility, in accordance with East Hampton Town protocol. “Each large whale stranding is always a unique case,” said Robert A. DiGiovanni Jr., the chief scientist at AMSEAS. Examiners maintained social distancing while conducting the necropsy. “With the addition of COVID-19, we’ve had to adapt to a new set of challenges in our response efforts,” DiGiovanni Jr. said. “Safety has always been and will always continue to be a top priority, and we have worked diligently to ensure our work falls within the guidelines of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ‘New York State on PAUSE’ policies.” Since January 2016, increased humpback whale mortalities have been documented along the Atlantic coast from Maine through Florida, and several have occurred on the East End. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 124 humpback whales have died between 2016 and 2020. It has been declared an unusual mortality event. The whale in Amagansett is the third large whale death the AMSEAS

has responded to this month, and the fourth this year. The body of a minke whale was found in Oyster Bay earlier this month, and over Memorial Day weekend, a moderately decomposed 32foot humpback whale floated ashore at Cupsogue Beach County Park in Westhampton Beach. It had been found floating approximately one mile offshore near Moriches Inlet on May 22, and officials towed the carcass near the shore so it could wash up on the beach by the next morning. AMSEAS had conducted a necropsy of the whale to determine its cause of death, but it was inconclusive. The whale was said to be robust, but there was evidence of a previous entanglement, orca predation, and healed wounds on its fluke. Samples were taken and sent to a pathologist, but results can take several months. In that case, the whale’s remains were buried on the beach. The organization’s first whale response in 2020 was a humpback whale that had washed ashore at Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway Park on March 31. At the height of the novel coronavirus pandemic, biologists were not able to conduct a full exam. Whale sightings can be called into the New York State Stranding Hotline at 631-369-9829.

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Jay Wesnofske and Mike Fedele were manning the Wesnofske stand at the Springs Farmers Market on May 30. Independent/T.E. McMorrow

East End Farmers Markets Back Ones in Sag Harbor and Springs are open, East Hampton to follow By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

The Sag Harbor and Springs weekly farmers markets are active now, with social distancing protocols in place. Katie Plumb, the manager of the East Hampton Farmers Market was hoping, as of Monday, to be able to open this week, but at a new location, though approval from the town must be obtained first. Plumb spoke about it on Saturday while assisting at the Sag Harbor market. “After 14 years of being in Nick & Toni’s parking lot, we are moving to the Calvary Baptist Church on their lawn.” She expressed thanks to the trustees of the church for allowing the market to make that move. The church is located on Spinner Lane. The church will be charging a nominal rent. Plumb said she is exploring how to raise that money, because it was not budgeted for. That is because Joe Realmuto, executive chef of Nick & Toni’s, had allowed the market to operate in the parking lot free of charge. Because of the social distancing rules caused by COVID-19, the old site was simply too small to allow the farmers market to operate there this year. Plumb is exploring two options, raising money from the public for the rent by putting a donation bucket at the entrance,

or by charging vendors a small fee. One of the attractions of the East Hampton market, which is held on Fridays, Plumb said, is the various farmers who travel there from the North Fork, such as Sang Lee Farms, a certified organic farm, or Wickham’s Fruit Farm, to join the South Fork farmers. Plumb said the various farmers and vendors will be spaced 10 feet apart to allow for social distancing. Eventually, the goal for the East Hampton market is to set up on the town-owned farm museum property across from Nick & Toni’s. Because the land was purchased using Community Preservation Fund money, any market set up there would have to produce at least 50 percent of the product sold, under current state law. Assemblyman Fred Thiele is working to change that law in Albany, Plumb said. Plumb still needs to obtain approval for a special event permit from the East Hampton Town Board for the market to open, which she was hoping would be issued this week. Springs Market, managed by Paul Hamilton, opened May 30 and will be held each Saturday. He had received approval from the town board earlier that

week, when it passed a resolution containing language based on the state’s guidelines for farmers markets. The state has ruled farmers markets to be essential businesses, but the guidelines and town code requirements must still be met. Located on the grounds of Ashawagh Hall, the market has a new layout this year. It has expanded from just a portion of the grounds surrounding the hall to the entire property. That allows Hamilton to space the vendors out, so they can easily create ample social distance between stands. When he was setting up the market May 30, Hamilton rolled out soft mesh fencing for the perimeter. Customers would enter from one side of the hall, and walk along a one-way path to each stand, which circled the property. Walking in a clockwise direction, shoppers then exited at the opposite side of the hall from the entrance. There are many different purveyors. Jillian Griffiths runs Hamptons Barkery, creating tasty organic delights for dogs. The Sweet Woodland Farms booth was run by Rachael Bristel. The business is based in Hampton Bays, with farmland in Southold, “We have two acres of an herb farm,” Bristel said. Sweet Woodland Farms sells both fresh and dried herbs, as well as herb products. Carrie Clark stood at the entrance to the market, tasked with keeping count of the shoppers who were on the property at any one time, to ensure a safe distance could be maintained. There did not appear to be a problem during the first half hour of business May 30. Kate Hildebrandt, a customer at the Springs Market, was ecstatic. “Yeah, I’m thrilled about this. The fact that they have organized it in a way that we can make it work is just fabulous. It’s great to see all the regulars.”

The same could be said for Sag Harbor’s farmers market on Bay Street. Managed by Brian Halweil, the market was busy, but well-spaced to allow distance between shoppers May 30. Also held on Saturdays, the hours are 9 to 1 PM. A one-way traffic pattern is encouraged, with a separate entrance and exit. “In 2005, we started down the street over there in front of the Dockside Restaurant,” Halweil said. He worked in the food industry, and purchased from farmers, leading him to open the market. He was asked if he farms land now. “Nope. That is my dream. Some day to become a farmer,” he said. Susan Dusenderry, a North Haven resident, was excited to be able to shop at the Sag Harbor Farmers Market. “They do a great job every year.” Dusenderry bought a couple of colorful plants. When asked what type of plants they were, she said, “I have no idea. I think they are pretty. There’s a tag in there but I can’t dig in there to find it.” The Montauk market is expected to open later this month. The Good Ground Farmers Market in Hampton Bays will be open every Thursday from 3 to 7 PM, starting June 11, running through October 8. “All market staff, farmers, and producers are dedicated to adhering to health and safety standards, and providing safe and reliable access to nutritious foods necessary to a healthy community,” the market said on its website. “Per New York State Executive Order 202.17, all market participants will be required to wear a mask or cloth face covering when unable to maintain social distancing.” Tents will be farther apart to leave room for safe movement. The market will have a designated entrance and exit, with arrows pointing in one direction. The Westhampton Beach Farmers’ Market, located on the Village Green, hosts over 60 vendors, growers, and producers. Starting June 13 the market will pop up every Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM through November. The Southampton Farmers Market is open currently from 9 to 3 PM each Sunday at Agawam Park. The Shelter Island Havens Farmers Market will be held every Saturday, starting June 6, from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. The market is held rain or shine on the grounds of the Shelter Island History Center. Procedures will be in place for social distancing and sanitizing and a full list of guidelines will be posted. Guests must wear a face covering and bring their own shopping bags. There will be no sampling or restroom facilities available. Additional reporting by Kyle McKee and Jessica Mackin-Cipro

June 3, 2020

Police All Courts Opening On Limited Basis Virtual court proceedings wave of the future, local attorney says By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com

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Local courthouses across Suffolk County opened on a very limited basis, starting Friday morning, May 29. According to one local attorney, Brian DeSesa of the Adam Miller Group, the new normal may become the permanent normal. Lisa Rana, senior justice in terms served in East Hampton, and the village justice for Sag Harbor, said Friday there will be no actual court proceedings, but that “people can now file small claims in civil court.” She said court dates will not be calendared yet. People who want to plead guilty to a parking ticket can do so at the clerk’s window, and immediately pay the fine. If you have been charged with a moving violation, you can enter the courthouse in the jurisdiction the citation was written up in and enter a guilty plea, but you will not be able to pay the fine. Fines or penalties for violations will have to be assessed at a later date, Rana said. Anyone entering a courthouse will have to wear a face mask, according to a

East Hampton Town Justice Court opens its doors to the public for the first time in two months. Independent/T. E. McMorrow

press release sent out Thursday from the office of state Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence K. Marks. All staff members who interact with the public will be wearing masks as well. The halls of the courthouses across the state will be carefully marked to ensure social distancing. Courthouses across the state will be regularly sanitized, and safety equipment, such as hand sanitizer dispensers and acrylic barriers, where needed, will be installed. The full staff will be on-hand in the clerk’s office at East Hampton Town Justice Court, as it is spacious and allows for social distancing. The same cannot be said for the clerk’s office in Sag Harbor. Part of the waiting room next to the courtroom in the Municipal Building on Main Street is being isolated and converted into an office, to allow for the court’s two clerks to maintain social distancing from each other. Looking down the road, Rana foresees a very different type of court calen-

dar, with far fewer cases during any one session, to allow for social distancing. One possible alternative would be to allow more court proceedings be done via teleconference. Currently, all arraignments on criminal charges of defendants being held on criminal matters are conducted in such a manner. According to DeSesa, the alternative possibility of doing more court business remotely makes sense as a permanent solution. “Almost everything can be handled remotely, in my opinion,” he said Sunday. For example, one of DeSesa’s clients, Abraham Romero-Gonzalez, had pleaded guilty on March 6, just before the court system was shut down, to a felony charge of conspiracy to distribute drugs. DeSesa already had a deal in place with the district attorney’s office, which had New York State Justice Fernando Camacho’s blessing. Romero-Gonzalez, who was arrested by Suffolk County police on New Year’s Day in 2018 as part of a roundup of alleged MS-13 gang members, wasto be sentenced to six months in

county jail under the plea deal. He would be released after serving four months with good behavior behind bars. Romero-Gonzalez agreed to start serving that time immediately, without waiting for the actual sentencing date. That sentencing date was June 1. There was no need for an in-person court appearance for what was a formality, DeSesa said. The proceeding was done remotely. Romero-Gonzalez is scheduled to be released this week. Many court proceedings are, in fact, procedural in nature. “Other states do everything via video conferencing. New York State should catch up with the times,” DeSesa said. “There is no commute time. There’s no waiting time.” If a defendant is incarcerated, video conferencing also means the prisoner does not have to be transported. The one exception, of course, DeSesa said, are trials. Whether it is a jury trial or a bench trial, those will always have to be done in open court, he said.

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Jeep Plows Into East Hampton Village House Driver charged with DWI By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com

A drunken driver behind the wheel of a Jeep crashed into a house in East Hampton Village Sunday afternoon, Police Chief Mike Tracey said. Police said Favian Ventegeat, 28, of New York City, was speeding in a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee northbound on Buell Lane when he crossed over lane lines into oncoming traffic, and through the first part of the Five Corners intersection with Toilsome Lane. He struck a light post before crashing into hedges, a fence, several trees, and a portion of a house on Toilsome Lane at about 2:15 PM on May 31. Tracey said no one was injured. No one was home or on the property at the time.

Eyewitnesses said they saw Ventegeat in the driver’s seat with a 1.75-liter bottle of Johnnie Walker Black. When he climbed out of the passenger side, with his passenger, he emptied out the liquor bottle, according to a police report. When an officer arrived, he was standing at the intersection, appeared intoxicated, and failed all field sobriety tests, but refused to take a breath test, the report said. Police also allegedly found 10 Endocet oxycodone pills inside a small baggie, leading to a drug possession charge. Ventegeat was arrested on a slew of charges, including driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, both misdemeanors, as well as

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aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, as his driving privileges were suspended in New York on multiple occasions. He has no license, police said. Police also hit him with a litter charge. The Jeep, which was impounded and had temporary New Jersey tags, seemed to be registered to a man in Minneapolis, though police are still tracking down the owner. Ventegeat was held overnight for arraignment on Monday morning, when he was released on his own recognizance. The East Hampton Fire Depart-

ment was asked to assist village police with securing the Jeep, which had come to rest against electric and gas utilities for the residence, Chief Gerard Turza Jr. said. Firefighters responded with a heavy rescue truck and an engine. Fire police personnel directed traffic around the busy roundabout at the Five Corners as firefighters removed numerous tree branches from the vehicle. They assessed both the SUV and the structure to ensure that it was safe to move it. The Jeep was towed off the property by 4:30 PM.

Jamesport Man Injured After Firing At Police Father-son dispute leads to a shooting exchange with cops By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com

A Jamesport man was injured in a policeinvolved shooting after he fired shots at Riverhead Town police officers who were responding to a domestic incident on the night of May 27. Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating. According to police, the Riverhead Police Department was called to a house on Manor Lane for a domestic dispute between a father and son at 7:47 PM. Officers were speaking to William J. Klatt in his driveway when his 32-year-old son, William G. Klatt, removed a screen from a window and fired multiple shots from a shotgun. “As the officers and father took cover, William G. Klatt exited the home with

the shotgun and exchanged gunshots with police,” Suffolk police said in a statement. The younger Klatt, who lives at the home with his father, was struck once. His injuries were not life-threatening. He was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead for treatment. Three Riverhead police officers and the 60-year-old father were also transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries. The younger Klatt was charged with second-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment. Once released from the hospital, he was arraigned at Riverhead Town Justice Court on May 29.

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At approximately 1:30 PM Monday, June 1, Southampton Town police responded to a call of a subject with a handgun at Meschutt Beach in Hampton Bays. Southampton Town patrol officers, members of the Detective Division, an emergency services unit, Southampton Town bay constables, New York State police, state K9s, an East Hampton emergency service unit, and the U. S. Coast Guard responded to the scene where police say Paul Zieser, 51, of Hampton Bays, barricaded himself. All involved units ensured area residents, beachgoers, and boaters remained a safe distance away from the area so the incident could come to a peaceful resolution. The scene was not fully under control until approximately 4:51 PM, when police arrested Zieser, who will face several charges, Southampton police said, to be specified at a later time. DK Gregory Lee’s Buick SUV rolled over after hitting a heavy truck in Northampton on May 29. Independent/Courtesy Southampton Town Police Department

Mastic Man Ejected In DWI Crash Rollover leaves alleged drunken driver seriously hurt By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com A Mastic man who Southampton Town police said was driving drunk was ejected from his SUV after it rolled over in a Northampton crash on

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Editorial

JUST ASKING

By Karen Fredericks

Do you see any silver lining in such difficult times? Amanda Sheplee The silver lining is that all of this time gives us a chance to reflect on how valuable our connections and our relationships are, and to value our friendships with the people that we are unable to be actually, physically close with right now.

The Summer Nobody Wanted We write to respond to the editorial “The Summer We Wanted” from our friends and journalistic colleagues at The East Hampton Star. This is an extraordinarily challenging time for local news and we do not take to criticizing our peers lightly. But their claim that this is the summer that anyone would have wanted is preposterous and offensive to all of those who have suffered during this terrible pandemic. The Independent celebrates Everything East End and stands for independent and thoughtful journalism. We understand the issues facing our community that The Star is trying to address. They merit thoughtful public debate and responsible action by our community and its leaders. However, to suggest that the death and destruction caused by COVID-19 has been helpful because it advances a political agenda or some nostalgic view of what one group of people thinks our community should look like ignores the disastrous impacts this pandemic has had on our families, our neighbors, our frontline workers, and our economy. Nearly 40,000 people in Suffolk County have been infected and close to 2000 people have died. This is not the summer the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, and colleagues of those 2000 souls would have wanted. We do not think our frontline heroes – doctors, nurses, EMTs, firefighters, police officers, and cleaning professionals – who worked endless days and nights away from their own families caring for the 40,000 people who got sick would say “Why can’t we have more like this?” Thousands of people on the East End have lost their jobs and so many of our local small businesses have had to close or be put on pause. The Suffolk County unemployment rate is a staggering 16.4 percent and the demand at our local food pantries has increased exponentially. Those friends and neighbors who are spending every waking day and sleepless night worried about how they are going to feed their family because they lost their job or had to close their business probably do not take much comfort in the air being “mellower.” The high school and college seniors robbed of their graduation do not think a “sweetly dull” virtual ceremony is much of a substitute. This is not to mention the countless young people who have been separated from their friends and deprived of the joy and camaraderie of their sports teams and social activities. They will also likely go months without seeing grandparents or other vulnerable family members. As parents, we can tell you they do not enjoy being this “sedate.” Continued On Page 33.

Matt Cannington For me, the silver lining is perspective — coming to realize and understand what really matters. It's easy to think it's all about things and money and jobs. It turns out I don't think that matters as much anymore. What really matters is relationships, the people we love. My perspective on everything has shifted. Ben Keren I've been getting to spend a lot of time outside with my dog and being in nature. So, while it's been a terrible situation, there has been some good that has come of all the time that it has presented to us. It teaches you that it's important to try and appreciate the good things we have no matter what is going on around you. Josh Kanuck This situation makes you take a look at your fast-paced life in a way you couldn’t, until it all slowed down. Now that it has, you realize how wonderful it is just to be on the phone with friends, or doing something simple like making bread.

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Fowler House, c. 1887-1915. Independent/East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection

Understanding Montaukett Past Through Archeology A virtual lecture at library reveals indigenous Freetown family By Bridget LeRoy bridget@indyeastend.com Archeologist and anthropologist Dr. Allison McGovern will give a virtual lecture on the 19th-Century saltbox structure that was owned by Montaukett George Fowler on June 7 via Amagansett Library. Fowler’s family was displaced from Indian Fields in Montauk in the 1870s. The Fowler House is now owned by East Hampton Town and has been stabilized. Dr. McGovern is Senior Archaeologist at VHB Engineering, Surveying, Landscape Architecture, and Geology, P.C. She earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and has worked extensively on Long Island archaeological and historic sites. Dr. McGovern spoke with The Independent this week.

What is it about the Fowler House in Amagansett that is of interest to an archeologist? The Fowler house is in the Freetown neighborhood of East Hampton. From an archaeological standpoint, the site is interesting because it can demonstrate how sites from the recent past can yield archaeological information during a well-documented period, about people who are not well-represented in local

George Lewis Fowler, Anthony Beaman and Eliza Fowler Beaman, c. 1910. Independent/East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection

and national histories. The Fowler house was inhabited from circa 1885 to circa 1980s by a Montaukett family who witnessed significant change in the Town of East Hampton. They were dispossessed from their ancestral village at Montauk, and when they went to court to regain their land, New York State detribalized the Montauketts. So, this site is incredibly significant as the only Montaukett landmarked site, and because it continues the narrative of Montaukett survivance by representing materially one Montaukett family’s histories.

How can archeology be used to better understand history? The East End is incredibly rich in indigenous history, and one of the resources for understanding that history is archaeology. Archaeology can tell us much about the unwritten, pre-Columbian past. But archaeology is also useful in learning about the lives and lived experiences of people during the colonial and historic periods. For instance, archaeological sites often yield information, such as broken pieces of ceramics and animal bone fragments, that can help us understand socio-economics and consumption for people in the past.

Which are your favorite archeological sites? The Fowler site is one of my favorite archaeological investigations. With the help of descendant connections and documentary resources from the local libraries, this site represents an interesting time period in Montaukett history. I continue to learn about the site from people who are connected to it, and the personal connections that some people have with the site makes the work feel both personal and powerful.

What is the coolest thing you’ve ever found? One time, when I used to work for Stony Brook University, we were digging at a site in Head of the Harbor and as we were digging down in our square unit, we came down on a set of slatelined brick steps that were completely in line with our excavation unit. It turned out to be a front entrance to a 19th-Century residence.

What is your connection to the East End? I’m a Long Islander (born and raised). I guess I became more interested in East End history when I began working in archaeology 15 or so years ago. My

work as an archaeologist is connected to land development. The work I do is considered compliance archaeology and it’s regulated by federal, state, and local laws. If development is occurring in an area of archaeological sensitivity, then state laws and/or local regulation may require an archaeological investigation. Through this work, I have learned so much about Long Island pre- and post-Columbian past. Then about 10 years ago when I started doing my dissertation research, I began working with an archaeological collection from the Indian Fields site in Montauk. Since then, I’ve become more interested in how we can make connections across the East End using data from archaeological sites.

What can people who tune in to the Amagansett Library talk expect? If you tune in to the presentation, you will learn about the Fowlers who lived at the site. You will also hear about how archaeology was done at the site, and what we discovered about Montaukett life. You will get glimpses of artifacts from the site, and you will learn about how the site became a town landmark. Register by sending an email to director@amagansettlibrary.org. The talk is scheduled for 3 PM on Sunday.

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Pausing At Duck Creek Open concepts encourage creativity and community By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com The Arts Center at Duck Creek, located in East Hampton, has become a place to pause for the community. Until recently, Place To Pause Projects were only public through the center’s Instagram account, but they are now open for socially distant in-person visits. “This initiative was born of my own aversion to screen time and Zoom meetings. The outdoors were the only solace I found from the barrage of sad news and manic media,” Jess Frost, Executive Director of The Arts Center at Duck Creek said. “We wanted to give our neighbors something creative and uplifting to do, something that was socially distanced but also offered a sense of community and collaboration.” Prior to the novel coronavirus outbreak, Frost thought up ways to utilize the property in collaborative ways between artist and public — the Mandala

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was born as a community project. Since then, it’s been growing while still respecting social restrictions as others contribute with sea shells, twigs, flowers, and more. Another pause project, Bring Us A Bird, came to fruition after a conversation between Frost, Nicole Delma, and Edwina Von Gal far before the pandemic, out of Frost’s desire to make the grounds “a birdwatching hot spot.” Frost hung a few origami birds on a giant Black Chestnut tree by the historic Edwards farmhouse. From there, others contributed, including artist Hiroyuki Hamada and his family. Inspired by the Willem de Kooning Foundation, Duck Creek will donate $10 for every paper bird added to the flock, an ongoing project open to the public. With minimal overhead and nonreliant on ticket sales to operate, Duck Creek remains flexible with operations,

Art by Scott Bluedorn. Independent/Duck Creek

continuing to pivot as restrictions change. One such direction includes the COVID Commissions, a series of stay-at-home concerts to support struggling musicians curated by Peter Watrous and supported by the Willem de Kooning Foundation. Talents include Alexa Barchini, Jackson Fitzgerald, Joel Ross, Caleb Curtis, Noah Garabedian, Vinnie Sperrazza, Jacob Sacks, Caroline Davis, Jay Sawyer, Sam Newsome, Carmen Rothwell, Ryan Beckley, Christian Li, Simón Willson, with more to come. “Creativity and wonder is a huge part of remaining resilient, and art is a priceless form of personal freedom and

expression. It is way of reminding us that life is worth living. At its best, a crisis will bring people together, and while this one forced us apart physically, I sincerely think it has brought us back to our humanity, to nature, to a responsibility for our future both individually and collectively.” “Le Deuce Deuce” by Mason Saltarrelli and Bill Saylor, will be installed in the Barn, open virtually June 13 through July 5. Both Saltarrelli and Saylor worked as assistants to Julian Schnabel in Montauk. The Arts Center at Duck Creek is located at 127 Squaw Road in Springs. Visit www.duckcreekarts.org.

ture a Rosé All Day farmers market, happy hours, rosé themed carry-out restaurant tour daily from 12 to 6 PM, world class online shopping, a daily job fair, and a DJ pink dance party with noted special guests. Guests will additionally have the option to purchase tickets for a charity raffle, priced at $30, for a chance to win stays at luxury hotels, bed and breakfasts, inns, retailers, and restaurants, all valid for use in 2020 and 2021. Erin Finley, owner of Westhampton based Sydney’s Taylor-Made Cuisine, said, “It’s tremendously important for all of us to work together during this time. We are grateful for everyone’s continued support for each of our communities.” Finley will host a virtual happy hour on Thursday, June 11, from 5 to 6 PM on Facebook Live with a rosé and vodka cocktail mixology class.

Other notable live events include an oyster demonstration and rosé pairing with Paul McCormick of Great Gun Shellfish at White Fences Inn from 5 to 6 PM on Saturday, June 13, and a “Do You Even Brunch” day party from 12 to 2 PM on Sunday, June 14. “The Hamptons are a tried and true destination for everyone who loves and appreciates the region’s scenic charm and culinary bounties. I would do anything for my community and am proud of the resilience we have displayed thus far. It is now time to think ahead to the summer season and lift our glasses and spirits while being mindful and diligent in light of the current situation,” said Vanessa Gordon, publisher of East End Taste magazine. Visit www.discoverthehamptons. net for tickets or call 631-318-3042 for further details.

Celebrate National Rosé Weekend Discover The Hamptons supports COVID-19 recovery By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com Discover The Hamptons will host a virtual National Rosé Weekend, presented by East End Taste and The Shopkeepers, Thursday, June 11, through Sunday, June 14. The entirely digital event coincides with National Rosé Day, which lands on the second Saturday of June. All proceeds will support the year-round business community’s COVID-19 recovery. “Travel and tourism has been immensely impacted in our community, like most of the world right now. The financial hardship caused by COVID-19 will accelerate social and health issues from depression, isolation and more,” said Glenn Vickers, president and CEO of Discover The Hamptons. “Our efforts will help lift spirits and keep people working during this unprecedented time. We couldn’t be more grateful from our network of partners that sup-

port our charitable work.” Discover The Hamptons is a nonprofit formed in 2019 to support the year-round economic development, community enrichment, and workforce inclusion of the Hamptons. The weekend-long event will include engaging in-home tastings with discussions about flavor profiles and pairings, which can be accessed through a special Zoom code for limited ticket holders. Wine bottles will be shipped to ticket holders’ doors prior to the event date. “Today, shop local is more important than ever. We want to support and promote our community, so the Hamptons will continue to thrive as a premier retail destination that is admired around the world,” said Paula Flynn, founder of The Shopkeepers. Virtual experiences will also fea-

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Virtual Entertainment

National Theatre Live

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Guild Hall in East Hampton will host @ Home National Theatre Live: “Coriolanus” from Thursday, June 4, at 2 PM through June 11 at 2 PM. Go to www. guildhall.org.

East End Arts will have an open mic night on Friday, June 5, at 7 PM on its Facebook Live group. Visit www.eastendarts.org.

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East Hampton presents free, live events. On Saturday, June 6, at 2 PM will be a 75-minute live concert “Tennessee Walt: A Distant Country 3” Visit www.eastendlibrary.org.

HamptonsFilm will have links available to its Now Showing series every Monday online. Go to www.hamptonsfilmfest.org.

Sag Cinema At Home Sag Harbor Cinema presents films to watch remotely with “Shirley,” “A Father . . . A Son . . . Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “What Sex Am I?” “Zombi Child,” and “The Grey Fox.” See them at www.sagharborcinema.org.

‘Sisters’ East Hampton presents free, live events. On Friday, June 5, at 6 PM will be a discussion on Brian DePalma’s 1973 film “Sisters.” Visit www.eastendlibrary.org.

WORDS The Ripple Effect Southampton Arts Center will have a Zoom panel discussion on Friday, June 5, at 7 PM on The Ripple Effect: small actions impacting larger scale change. Visit www.southamptonartscenter.org to register.

Jazz Inspired Judy Carmichael’s NPR radio show Jazz Inspired is now online. Go to www.jazzinspired.com.

BookHampton BookHampton in East Hampton will have virtual events Friday, June 5, at 5 PM with Marian Lindberg, “Scandal on Plum Island” in conversation with Colin Bertram and on Sunday, June 7, at 5 PM with Barbara A. MacAdam and Helen Harrison as they discuss “Lee And Me” by Ruth Appelhof. Get the links at www.bookhampton.com.

Sip And Sing Every Friday at 5 PM, Bay Street Theater will host a virtual sing-along broadcasting via Zoom right to the comfort of your own home. To receive the Zoom link, go to www.baystreet. org and sign up for the newsletter.

The Red Show Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor, in collaboration with the Bert Stern Estate, presents the release of new, limited edition prints from “The Last Sitting” with Marilyn Monroe by photographer Bert Stern, that took place at the legendary Bel-Air Hotel in Beverly Hills. “The Red Show” will open on Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14. The photographic artworks will feature black and white, along with sepia toned prints and themes of red. The show runs through July 6. Complimentary red silk masks and hand sanitizer will be available at the door and social distancing will be observed.

Darius Yektai The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor presents a solo show by Darius Yektai, called “RESINance.” A virtual opening reception and intimate chat and first look will be held on Saturday, June 6, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM via Zoom. The show will run through June 21. Visit www.grenninggallery.com for more info.

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Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center has screenings available on its website for a fee: through June 15 is “The Whistlers,” and through June 16 is “Once We Were Brothers.” Go to www.whbpac.org.

Guild Hall in East Hampton will be posting new content every day taking a look back at some of the great moments in its history of arts and education programming. Go to www.guildhall.org.

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READING OUR REGION By Joan Baum

A Comical Look At ‘The Mueller Report’ Barbara Slate’s graphic novel visually adapts Presidential investigation Comic book artist and writer Barbara Slate’s latest graphic novel, “The Mueller Report” came out right before the pandemic, which just about eclipsed all other news. But then, this past April, one year after the Mueller Report was published, the Supreme Court announced a block on the release of redacted portions as requested by the House Judiciary Committee. So back it is to Mueller’s two-part investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, and obstruction of justice. But how many people slogged through the report’s 448 pages of dense legalisms and ambiguous, guarded conclusions? Not a lot, I’d bet. For sure, though, Slate read the report, word for word, some parts repeatedly. For sure, also, her slim visual adaptation can lay claim to providing a public service because most of us will never (completely) read the original report, a complex and at times daunting detailed inquiry. So, here is a version of the report,

in two parts, just like Mueller’s, and in the form of comic-book panels that present direct quotation from the report, as well as copies of emails, tweets, and official documents. There are also talk (and thought) bubbles that mimic exchanges between the major players whom Slate captures with minimal strokes and subdued expressions. A “cast of characters,” alphabetically arranged, is helpfully included at the end. A reader has to marvel at Slate’s almost neutral depictions, especially of Mueller, whose pensive expression, fingers on lips, adorns the cover of the book, and whose slightly satisfied look appears at the end, as he testified before the House Judiciary Committee last July, his closing words set off with three horizontal rectangles that encase the report’s conclusion: “1) If we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so; 2) Charging the President with a crime was not an option we could consider. You cannot

charge a sitting president. It is unconstitutional; 3) And I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments, that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. And that allegation deserves the attention of every American.” A lone rectangle, on the opposite page, though, emphasizes what Slate wants readers to know and remember: “Obstruction of justice is punishable whether or not an underlying crime has been committed.” This reminder, as the Presidential election season heats up amid demonstrated attempts to revisit absentee mail voting, could not be more timely or significant. Slate wants not just to remind readers of events that prompted the Mueller inquiry but to inform with an entertaining, easy-to-follow narrative, including the now heightened awareness of the redacted portions of the Mueller Report which here stand out as empty black space. To that end, she developed a “new drawing style” (one she had started with a memoir in mind) that was different from her other comic-book work. The cast of characters was the most “challenging,” she writes, but luckily, so many figures seemed “out of central casting,” or immediately recognizable, especially Trump’s open bud-mouthed look, eyes closed, hair sloping down. In one panel, he and James Comey, the former and dismissed director of the FBI, are having hamburgers — Comey’s regular, the President’s, a double. Slate, an award-winning, nationally known illustrator and cartoonist for both mainstream and alternative

media, has an impressive, extended resume that includes a long career with DC and Marvel comics, Disney and animated segments for NBC’s “Today” show, and her late ’70s strip Ms. Liz, a feminist cartoon character, ran for several seasons in Cosmopolitan. She is one of only a few women cartoonists to have entered and prevailed in a male-dominated field. Though she did Betty and Veronica stories for Archie comics, her more sophisticated work includes strips and graphic novels that feature strong, successful women. Her professional life embraces teaching as well, including a course she has given at Cooper Union called “You Can Do a Graphic Novel.” East End art lovers may also remember her work on exhibit at the Benson Gallery and Guild Hall. Though critics may cavil that Slate’s selected text takes quotations out of context, much media commentary on the Mueller Report noted that very problem in Attorney General William Barr’s preemptive “summary” of Mueller. The irony of Slate’s version is that in this condensed, compressed form, the Mueller Report becomes accessible and understandable. And, though sympathetic to reasons for the investigation in the first place, Slate manages a passionate but restrained critique, hoping that citizens will not only be “more informed” after reading her graphic novel but also motivated to read the original and perhaps now mull over the recent decision to suppress redacted passages. Somehow, I think Robert Mueller III himself might be pleased at what she accomplished.

This week’s market page isn’t so much for shopping as it is for gawking. Worldrenowned purveyor of fancy things, Sotheby’s Auction House, recently marked the 100th anniversary of Prohibition by auctioning off some of the most coveted barware on the planet. In their heyday, each of these rare specimens was designed to conceal

their use (cocktail mixing!) and contents (booze!) thanks to prohibition law, but these days, the pieces are a one-of-a-kind trophy of sorts to have on your bar cart. From “Thirst Extinguisher” cocktail shaker to a pair of flasks disguised as a pair of binoculars, you’ll need a stiff drink or three to stomach these four and even five-digit price tags.

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Spirited Bids Sotheby’s auctioned off Prohibition-era barware

Tiffany & Co Mid 20th Century Silver Ice Bucket, $27,500

Lighthouse Cocktail Shaker, $17,500

Ruby Red Glass Penguin Form Cocktail Cocktail Shaker, $9375 Shaker, $7500

Bell Form Cocktail Shaker, $2375

Binocular Form Double Spirit Flask, $5250

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HAMPTON DAZE By Jessica Mackin-Cipro

Black Lives Matter “If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” — Desmond Tutu “This is not a civil rights issue — this is a human rights issue, and the fact that black people’s humanity is being denied constantly.” — Leslie Redmond, president of the Minneapolis chapter of NAACP “The world will say to you: we need to end racism. Start by healing it in your own family. The world will say to you: how do we speak to bias and bigotry? Start by having the first conversation at your own kitchen table. The world will say to you: There is too much hate. Devote yourself to love. Love yourself so much that you can love others without barriers and without judgment.” — Cleo Wade “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” — Martin Luther King Jr. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.” — Nelson Mandela “Don’t ignore something because it makes you uncomfortable.” — @domrobxrts

“I’m not black, but I see you. I’m not black, but I hear you. I’m not black, but I mourn with you. I’m not black, but I will fight for you.” “A heart to cultivate empathy for the oppressed. Ears to listen to the experiences of people of color. Eyes to identify privilege. A nose to sniff out implicit bias. A mouth to speak out against injustice. Hands to take action and make change.” — “Anatomy of an Ally” by Danielle Coke, @ohhappydani These are just a few of the statements I’ve viewed on social media this week that I wanted to highlight and share in this column. They can say it all better than I ever could. But I also acknowledge that I need to use my own voice for positive change at this time. I acknowledge that as a white woman with a platform, it is important for me to speak up. Even if speaking up means being muted on social media to #amplifymelanatedvoices, while listening and learning. I stand with you. I will be an ally. My heart hurts when I see your pain. It is time for everyone to use whatever platform they have to right the wrongs caused by systemic racism in this country. We must remember George Floyd and also remember the horrific instances of police brutality that came before him. In many ways, as a country

we need to reform the way we police, and we need to reform our own lives. It’s about human rights. It’s about being human. I understand and couldn’t agree more with the statement that it’s not enough to say, “I’m not racist,” we need to be actively anti-racist. Ask the important and sometimes uncomfortable questions. Talk about it at your dinner table. Do you see diversity in your own life? Have you profited from your privilege and what have you done to help others? What does your place of employment look like? What are your children learning from this experience? Is a business only marketing products to a certain group of people? Are you supporting businesses owned by BIPOC in the same way you’re supporting white owned businesses (take the 15 Percent Pledge)? Have you taken the time to sign the petitions, to donate money, to share on your social media? The power and influence that the East End has, and the willingness to do good, is strong. It’s time to have the conversation. Take the time to learn how to be actively anti-racist and understand that by helping each other, we are stronger together. There is so much love in the world that can result in real positive change, but we need to put in the work. I don’t pretend to have the answers but I do know that I’m here to help, to lend my voice when appropriate, and to acknowledge my history and privilege. I do know that we should be much further along in the fight for basic human rights. Educate yourself. Know the history. Learn from film, podcasts, books, hashtags. Be part of the change needed in this world. Because black lives matter. Black futures matter. Donate: NAACP, George Floyd Memorial Fund, Color of Change, National Bail Fund Network

Hamptons Heart Ball American Heart Association is embracing the new normal and moving its Hamptons Heart Ball online on Saturday, June 20, from 7 to 8 PM. The ball, now in its 24th year, is a fun and meaningful way to celebrate the mission of the American Heart Association with friends and colleagues. “Now, more than ever, we’re all looking for ways to connect with others and stay encouraged,” said Cristina Civetta, 2020 Hamptons Heart Ball chair. “We are grateful for the support from our community and can’t wait to see how everyone makes the Hamptons Heart Ball their own.” This year, the Hamptons Heart Ball will honor Ingrid Arneberg, Community Impact Honoree and Arthur Klein, MD, President of the Mount Sinai Health Network as its Medical Honoree. Susan Lucci will emcee the event. “We’re proud to work with the American Heart Association,” Civetta said. “The AHA is fast-tracking a special $2.5 million fund for rapid response scientific research projects to investigate the specific cardiovascular implications of coronavirus, investing in short-term projects that can turn around results quickly — within 9 to 12 months. It’s critical that the Long Island community keep supporting the American Heart Association, since heart disease and stroke remain the No. 1 and No. 5 killers in the country.” The funds raised from the Hamptons Heart Ball go towards research, advocacy, CPR training, and to promoting better health. Everyone is encouraged to dress in their Hamptons best and post pictures and videos to document their activity, using the hashtag #HamptonsHeartBall, and tagging the American Heart Association. To register, visit www.hamptonsheartball.heart.org.

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INDY SCENE By Norah Bradford

Hamptons At Home How to stick to your summer season With every passing day, hope springs anew of the lifting of the lockdown and confirmation that the curve has been flattened. Get a head start from your couch in the Hamptons and arrange mobile orders and deliveries of delicacies, and get involved with the causes dearest to your heart.

Mobile Must-Haves What is summer without Golden Pear flavored coffee? Get yourself to one of the outposts of the iconic coffee and pastry purveyor and bring home a classic taste of the Hamptons. www.goldenpearcafe.com Are you craving Round Swamp’s baked goods, including Lisa’s cinnamon rolls? Although the stores are closed to shoppers at time of writing, you can order online for delivery between Wednesday and Saturday. www. roundswampfarm.com The Clamman in Southampton is open to help you figure out the menu for that social-distancing clam bake. Through Seasons of Southampton, you can order an entire family dinner for four or eight, with a list of classic dishes such as linguini with clam sauce or flavorful BBQ ribs. www.clamman. com Peconic Prime Meats is currently open daily and worth the time to visit for its outstanding butchery skills, which will elevate any socially-distanced BBQ (and probably have more than your maximum of nine guests

smelling the aromas and hoping for an end to this lockdown. www.peconicprime-meats.business.site

Delicacies For Delivery Why not order a box of MarieBelle New York’s signature chocolate ganache as an ideal Father’s Day or birthday gift? Or order its world-famous hot chocolate, such as its popular 65 percent dark Aztec, and enjoy a cozy cup of hot chocolate with your family while you are nestled together in your home or socially distancing outside. www. mariebelle.com Who would say no (responsibly of course) to a choice bottle of spirits or vintage of wine from Herbert & Rist Liquors in Southampton? Entering the store imparts a feeling of Prohibition en-route to ordering one of its 50 varieties of rosé wine. www.herbertandrist.com South of France a no-go this summer to break up the stress of your Hamptons season? Fear not, Le Bilboquet has online ordering this season as well as some top merchandise to go, including its “C’est la vie” face mask and a six portion Old Fashioned cocktail. Summer could pass quickly. www.lebilboquetsag.com And if you wish to spoil yourself, luxury service Ikraa caviar will deliver anywhere in the Hamptons within four hours of ordering its VIP package of its premier $1600 tin of Premium Ossetra caviar. It comes with such good-

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Giving Is Good The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons’ annual gala is one of the staples of the Hamptons season, raising funds to support its work helping wildlife in our environment. This season, celebrating its 20th Anniversary, the need is greater than ever. You can donate directly through its website www.wildliferescuecenter. org. Aside from spending a good amount of her time quarantined — yes, making cocktails with her Macchu Pisco — Lizzie Asher has also worked with several good friends to create a new nonprofit. Cura Collective is based out of their mutual desire to help and make a tangible impact. It’s a gratifying extension of the day-to-day work of the five women, who work on philanthropic efforts, the arts, media, and

consulting. Their goal: To identify gaps in the current system and fill them on a need basis. www.curacollective.org While the novel coronavirus has captured the news headlines, cancer remains one of the biggest health scourges of our world. Samuel Waxman M.D. and the team at the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation battle to eradicate cancer by funding research grants for critical areas of study. Its annual Hamptons Happening may not yet have a date but the race to cure cancer still requires your support. Visit www.waxmancancer.org. Hollywood actress-turned-philanthropist Leesa Rowland is the author of the best-selling self-help/motivational book “Discovering the It Factor within You: Developing Your Charismatic Personality,” which is a perfect read while in quarantine. Rowland has also been active with the national nonprofit organization Last Chance for Animals for over 20 years and is the president of the New York nonprofit group Animal Ashram, which she founded in 2013. www.leesarowland.net

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KISS & TELL By Heather Buchanan

Matchmaker, Matchmaker Quality over quantity, and be honest with yourself kissandtellhb@gmail.com If there’s one thing we are learning in this crisis, it is that life is precious. And who you want to spend your life with is just as important. With all the dating apps and hook ups, we have been snacking at the buffet of casual connections, consuming loveless calories. So, what would it be like to sit down for a full healthy meal of true romance? What about ditching digital to go old school and turn to a matchmaker to help find “the one?” I tracked down Peter Torre and Lisa Jordan of Infinite Matchmaking, a highend bespoke service, to get their take on love in the time of COVID and where we go from here. Their advice? Quality over quantity and being totally honest with yourself and others about what you really want in a relationship. Far from the

overbearing fairy godmother, they function more as really cool and connected friends. The two met in a bar when living in Beverly Hills and found a kindred spirit in one another, comparing their post-divorce dating experiences. They decided to launch Infinite Matchmaking, combining their amateur matchmaking success with their more formal marketing and analytics background, Jordan in a large pharmaceutical firm and Torre in luxury brand management. Jordan even developed an algorithm to match key characteristics of their clients. The duo who bring both the male and female perspective use a combination of an indepth questionnaire, in person or Skype meeting and one on one empowerment/

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tough love coaching. They both ended up moving to New York and used their international connections to ultimately reach to New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Mexico City, Tokyo, Montreal, and Dubai. Get rid of an image of a bunch of would-be model pictures on the walls but instead an international network of carefully referred and vetted clients. Many of us would think that an attractive, successful man would have a pupu platter of options of available women, so why would he pay a matchmaking service (the women they take on without charge)? They find that many of them are tired of the Instagram influencers or someone looking for a sugar daddy and looking for a woman of substance. As such they set a high standard for the women as well, including income requirements. Torre speaks of being raised as a gentleman and how that is not just opening a door for a lady, but a lifestyle. While they can’t change a pumpkin into a Porsche, they can help their clients with everything from an exclusive tailor, Tom James Clothing, to a first date that would delight his particular match. The emotional end is just as important, since confidence is the best aphrodisiac and dating can be a perilous journey where men and women can often feel that they just aren’t enough. Add in a culture which has an unattainable beauty

standard for women and financial success standard for men and finding a truly compatible soul is even more difficult. The duo follows a set regimen with their clients. First a profile is presented and if there is interest, the picture comes second. No talking, texting, or Zoomances allowed. The next step is in person. With all the pitfalls of virtual relationships, this gives true IRL chemistry its best shot. Although they respect their clients’ deal breakers, they also push them to dig deep to their core values and to be truly honest with themselves. While not trained therapists, Torre and Jordan spend the time to uncover their clients’ true desires, and in return, their clients find them down-to-earth and trustworthy. In the time of COVID, where people aren’t meeting in person, they find there is a silver lining, a time of introspection to think about who would make you happy in quarantine, not just on the yacht. They recommend working on yourself and being comfortable in your alone time (a crucial element of success in a relationship.) It could be adding in yoga or meditation or studying a new subject or looking at your finances and figuring out a new budget. This is the time to focus on being your best self and know that someone else doesn’t save you, they simply complement you. And Torre and Jordan are already thinking about that perfect match.

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RICK’S SPACE By Rick Murphy

And The Winners Are Thanks for keeping us alive rmurphy@indyeastend.com

I’m not going to pretend I’ve experienced real hunger because that’s a slap in the face to the too many millions of people who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. I’m Italian, for God’s sake — if we don’t have sausage, meatballs, and pork in our gravy we feel like we are starving to death. We did not go into the quarantine unprepared, but eventually we were down to the barest of supplies, frozen chicken soup I keep for medicinal purposes. We improvised. The apple and almond butter I had for dinner one

night really hit the spot, and I haven’t had an apple since I was six. And the French toast I made with challah bread stuck on the back freezer wall with real bacon instead of that microwave kind was a highlight of my life. But being in isolation, even with the wife, plays tricks on a man’s mind after a few weeks. We just got a Peapod delivery, which, in the beginning, was impossible. We paced, nervously checking our watches and the email to make sure we had the right day.

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Part of the mystery of Peapod is a lot of the stuff you order you don’t get, and they substitute other stuff instead, so I get prune juice instead of orange — is someone trying to tell me something? Karen and I are basically children, our maturity level stuck around eight. She draws cartoons. I read comic books and play with baseball cards. We whine. Apparently somewhere along the way we gave up all semblance of eating rational, sensible food to the wind. Part of the problem is she can’t cook, and I refuse to clean up. After a while, we decided only stuff you can eat out of the package be served, and that works well. Talk about regressing: I think this fascination with junk food started out innocently enough and accelerated. As we waited in vain for the Peapod truck, we kept adding goodies onto the list as if Willy Wonka was filling it. We went from pot to heroin in a matter of weeks. We didn’t even remember ordering half the stuff we got today: Entenmann’s frosted and chocolate donuts, Frosted Mini-Wheats (family size), four three-packs of Kozy Shack rice pudding, Utz family-size potato chips, and so on. I got three bags of Russell Stover candy out and hid them before Karen even knew they were in the house. I also ordered all kinds of cake mixes. Then I noticed: two full bags of Milano double chocolate cookies were missing. “OK, where are they?” I asked. “The Milano? I don’t know what you are talking about,” she answered. Three months ago, buying even one item like that would have been an anathema to health and diet alike. Today, in the world of Little Rick and Little Karen, our parents have left us alone and therefore we’ll eat what we want, and it is their fault. I’m only going to address the East Hampton area because this is where we

live, but here are a few of the folks that kept us alive during the ordeal. SEAFOOD: I’ve been going to Stuart’s since well, Stuart. I can honestly say I’ve never been helped by anyone who didn’t have a smile on his or her face. Two one and half pounders lobsters steamed, huge container of clarified butter, still piping hot at 6 PM. Pick up at back of store. Happy birthday to me. I hesitate recommending Eli Zabar, but we were at our wits’ end waiting for Peapod and Mercato (North Main Street IGA) or anyone. We were hungry as hell. “Do you deliver to the Hamptons?” Yeah. “When?” Today. No prices. No bill. No discussion about money. But a few hours later, there was a new Lexus in the driveway. Oh My GOD I said to Karen. Loaf of bread $14.95! Dozen eggs $10. Paper plates $9 for 10 (even though they were better than my china). The napkins cost more than my Ralph Lauren shirts. Two steaks, $106. The one bag of groceries came to $246. And then I grilled the steak: You could look at it and tell it was going to be something special, but this went beyond that to orgasmic. Was that steak worth it? Your damn right it was. Other highlights: meatloaf, mashed, spinach with garlic gravy at 1770 House, pickup, $20. Villa Italia, drop off on your porch, great big salads. Lasagna: $13.95. Race Lane Liquors: How do you thank someone for a bottle of wine on your birthday that was obviously picked out just for you? And ta-da, Round Swamp Farm. Is it the best pea soup ever? It’s the best pea soup ever. Steaks are good, too, but nothing prepares you for Lisa’s crumb cake muffins. Imagine: all four in our order were devoured by ants before I got a single one (at least Karen said). I’m ready now. I want to go to the market, get the newspapers. Please don’t cough on me. I’m going to need you to be gentle at first. Anyhow, we’re out of Fig Newtons.

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Dining Casual Comfort Of Communal Food Almond’s Taco Tuesdays take on a Korean twist By Hannah Selinger Taco Tuesdays, at my house, are decidedly uninteresting. When I’m hardpressed for inspiration (or haven’t made it to the grocery store in a while), I fall back on my old friend, the hard taco kit. Any Tuesday looks a little less grim with 12 crunchy tacos, ground meat, a seasoning packet, and a can of black olives at your disposal. But wait just a second. Your friends at Bridgehampton’s Almond want you to know that you do not have to do as I do. There is, in fact, a better way. Save tacos from the fate of boring — or, worse yet, obscurity — by allowing someone else to do the dirty work. Keep disappointment at bay. As part of its ode to these wide and wandering days (Corona Days, as they’ve been calling them), Almond has rolled out a new fun menu, including a ramen night and a Halal cart night. The newest addition, of course, is taco night, appropriately billed for Tuesdays. This taco night has a Korean twist. Meant for two people, the $60 meal includes a choice of three different kinds

of tacos: chicken adobo, crispy pork belly, or salmon yakitori. The meal also comes with an avocado salsa verde, cilantro, radishes, charred scallion, black bean ssam sauce, kimchi, sesame seeds, pico de gallo, salsa roja, crema, lime, onion escabeche, yellow sriracha mayonnaise, and warm tortillas. It’s a cultural marriage, and one that might make you think about all of the places you’ve been and might like to go again someday, and about the broadness of the American pantry, foraged in the wide world — a world that we have been lucky enough to see through the telescope of so many chefs’ passports. Travel is on pause, but food isn’t. In this way, we have been extremely fortunate. Almond’s pop-up meals have garnered enough buzz to be considered “popular.” Its ramen night routinely sells out, and one imagines that Korean taco night will suffer the same fate. Luckily for the fast-fingered among us, you can order your tacos in advance, beginning on Mondays at 6 PM, through the L&W market website.

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Pickup takes place between 5 and 6 on Tuesdays. One thing I’ve noticed, as I’ve continued to study, think about, and write about food in these weeks of restaurant-less dining is our evolution. What has surged in popularity is not the high-concept dining that I cut my teeth on, but, rather, the casual comfort of communal food. It’s fitting that these tacos come in packages for two, maybe. We can’t commiserate in large groups yet — but we can still commiserate. Food is still for sharing, even if that sharing arrives on different terms. When occasions arrive, in the hopefully not-too-distant-future, for formal outings and tableclothed dinners at formal restaurants, I expect we’ll embrace them, too, but for now, the moment feels ripe to kick our shoes off

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(if we were wearing any to begin with) and dig into the foods that bring us unsullied joy. Which is why the taco feels particularly of-the-moment (no more so, though, than a bowl of ramen, if you can manage to get your hands on one). As for my crunchy tacos, a throwback to my 1980s youth, I’m not yet willing to disown the failures of a semi-homemade childhood, and I will confess that even bad foods have redeemable qualities. But I’ll say, too, that Almond’s tacos surpass my own bad version nine times out of ten. Still, my suggestion is a broader one here: enjoy this kind of food, as a note of where we are. Casual dining is a point of reference, a jumping off point, a place in which it’s ok to float for a while. A sea of tacos? I’ll float there for eternity, if you let me.

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EAST END TASTE By Vanessa Gordon

Takeout Dishes You Must Try This June The adventures-in-takeout is in full swing as we head into the summer season. I am eager to share some newly launched dishes, drinks, and concepts at some of our favorite restaurants on the East End.

A Local Blend The 1770 House’s Tavern Bacon Cheeseburger by chef Michael Rozzi is made with a new local beef blend by Acabonac Farms. Long Island based, pasture raised and grass fed, its beef blend includes the ideal amount of 45day dry-aged sirloin for a rich flavor. Paired with freshly hand-cut crispy French fries, house pickle, and traditional condiments. Call any time after 12 PM. Pickup is 4:30 to 8 PM daily except weekends till 8:30 PM. 143 Main St, East Hampton, 631-324-1770

A New Catch The Clam Bar’s most recent menu addition is the Fried Calamari Salad. It is a frisée salad with a light lemon vinaigrette and a side of gochujang dipping sauce. Gochujang is a Korean-inspired red chili sauce that is the ideal contrast to the typical marina side sauce. Takeout available seven days a week, Monday through Thursday from 11:30 AM to 6 PM. It is open until 8 PM Friday through Sunday.

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BBQ Goes Vegan The “Smoked vegan” pulled jackfruit sandwich at Green Hill Kitchen & Que is served with harbor sauce and spicy radish slaw. Perfect for anyone who is vegan or vegetarian! 48 Front St, Greenport, 631-477-4900

Tutto To Go Tutto Il Giorno in Sag Harbor and Southampton has introduced their Tutto Mercato Spuntino to go. Feast on fast casual Italian fare at home Friday through Sunday from 12 to 4 PM. Enjoy dishes such as Tutto insalata, burrata, avocado toast, and more. Delivery options are also available. 16 Main St, Sag Harbor, 631-919-5353 56 Nugent St, Southampton, 631-377-3611

Take On Tzatziki A vegan twist on traditional tzatziki is the Avocado Tzatziki by Calissa. Make the dish gluten free with cucumber instead of pita. A healthier take on the classic tzatziki, this version subs creamy avocado in place of Greek yogurt. Flavors of dill, garlic, lemon, and cucumber make it taste surprisingly similar to the original. A secondary choice is the Crispy

Zucchini: sliced zucchini lightly crisped and topped with oregano and dill, perfect with a squeeze of lemon and dipped into tzatziki. Calissa is open daily for delivery and takeout from 4 to 8 PM.

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Pasta Ready Fresno’s orecchiette is a perfect complement for evenings in. It is served with hot Italian sausage, broccoli rabe, roasted garlic, and crushed red pepper. Fresno is open for dinner for takeout only Thursday through Monday, beginning at 5 PM. Curbside pickup is available from 5 to 7:30 PM. 8 Fresno Pl, East Hampton, 631-324-8700

Celebrate With A Lobster Bake An exciting to-go option is the introduction of Gurney’s Montauk and Gurney’s Star Island’s Lobster Bakes, for both guests and visitors. The lobster bakes feature lobsters, biscuits, clams, corn, and steamed Yukon golds. For dessert, there’s delicious apple & rhubarb pie, and peach cobbler. Another fun addition is the lemonade cold brew drink created exclusively by Jack’s Stir Brew Coffee. The drink is available at Gurney’s Star Island and Gurney’s Montauk. Perfect for a refreshing perk-up by the water! Gurney’s Montauk: 290 Old Montauk Hwy, Montauk, 631-668-2345 Gurney’s Star Island: 32 Star Island Rd, Montauk, 631-668-3100

Poke On Wheels The Plaza Café’s Tuna Poke Nachos are made with wasabi mash, mango salsa, Asian crema, and micro cilantro. It is the “must have” dish on its food truck, The Plaza Café on wheels, which

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Nick & Toni’s Sea Scallops, with roasted garden carrots, asparagus, baby kale salad, and ramp pesto, is perfect for any day of the week. It is currently open for takeout and curbside pickup Wednesday through Sunday from 5 to 9 PM. Call after 1 PM to place your order. 136 North Main St, East Hampton, 631-234-3550

Spiced Up Reuben Carissa’s pastrami-spiced beet Reuben sandwich with Swiss cheese and kimchi chaw on house-made sourdough is available for pickup from the bakery. An order is never complete unless you have a few loaves of its famous bread in the cart. Open Thursday through Sunday from 9 AM to 5 PM, and Monday from 9 AM to 3 PM. 221 Pantigo Road, East Hampton, 631-604-5911

In Great Spirits Cheers at home with Moby’s Leaving Tijuana, crafted with Casa Dragones Blanco, lime, and honey (serves six). Open Thursday through Monday from 4 to 9:30 PM. Place your orders online only at www.mobysny.com. 341 Pantigo Rd, East Hampton Don’t forget to continue to share your favorite take-out dishes as well as dishes you are cooking at home. Businesses are encouraged to share as well. When sharing, please tag @EastEndTaste and @ IndyEastEnd with the #EastEndTaste. We look forward to seeing what you recommend too!

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chef Joe Cipro

Roasted Mushroom And Kale Pizza Ingredients (Serves 2) 10 oz pizza dough 3 c lacinato kale (washed, chopped, blanched & shocked) 1/2 c oyster mushrooms 1/2 c shiitake mushrooms 1/2c shaved manchego cheese 1/2c fresh mozzarella 2 Tbsp olive oil Extra flour for shaping the dough Salt and pepper to season Pizza stone or large cast iron pan

Directions Begin by heating your oven to 500. Don’t worry if it doesn’t get that hot, just turn it up as high as it will go in that case. Pre-heat the stone for 40 minutes or so once the oven is at temp. While this is happening, you can toss the mushrooms in one tablespoon of

olive oil, season them with salt and pepper, and roast for five minutes at 500 degrees. You can also blanch and shock the kale at the same time. Place the chopped washed kale directly into a pot of boiling salted water for 45 seconds, remove, and place directly into an ice bath. Once it’s cool, gently squeeze out any extra water and set aside. Once the stone is heated for about 30 minutes, begin to shape the dough on a lightly floured pizza paddle. This is important, you will slide the pie directly from the floured pizza paddle onto the hot stone or cast iron once you’ve assembled the pie. If you do not have a paddle, use a cutting board. I recommend buying store bought dough, or better yet call Sag Pizza, it is selling pizza dough also.

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Ok, now you have shaped your dough and it’s ready for the ingredients. Spread them around the dough, leav-

ing room around the edge for a proper crust. Then, slide it on to your stone and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. Enjoy!

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Help lessen the burden on our ﬁrst responders. Gift them a restaurantquality meal for $35, vouchers will be issued to our local heroes at EMT stations, East Hampton Police department and Southampton Hospital. These vouchers will not expire and can be used on or off duty, to provide a great take away meal anytime they like.

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Tastings 2.0 A virtual catered cocktail party experience By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

In 2001 Alexandra Morris launched her own catering company to reinvent French-American cuisine, with executive chef Cédric Durand. After nearly 20 years of catering to clients in New York City, Miami, and the Hamptons, Tastings is adapting to challenging times in an inventive way with Tastings 2.0, an organized virtual cocktail gathering experience delivered simultaneously to each varied guest.

When did Tastings 2.0 launch? Tastings 2.0 launched in April 2020 and it has been responsive to the Hamptons community and residents. We have

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seen success during this climate. People are using Zoom, Google Chat, and House Party, but they’re only sharing a screen, not food and beverage. Tastings 2.0 brings meals and beverages to their guests’ house, organizing an event that can be shared with attendees whether in the Hamptons, New York, or Miami. Sharing a meal together brings a sense of normalcy.

It’s unique and perfect for the current times. Yes, I agree, in the current times, it’s truly unique what we are offering. We had to come up with a creative and unusual way to entertain our guests. Whether you are celebrating a virtual birthday with family or a happy hour with colleagues, we can send you a bite size, lunch, or dinner to choose from. Once the food selection is made, we can create the menu to be bespoke and compare with our wine and champagne selections, mixology kit, cakes, and flowers. We will deliver individual packages to every attendee’s home before the virtual celebration. If the client wishes to have one of our safe trained staff to service during the event, we can arrange that too.

Is there a limit to the number of guests? Each event is handled on a case-bycase basis for logistics and accuracy for the virtual event. We can service up to 50 in the Hamptons, depending on lunch or dinner or for a cocktail reception.

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How often is this service available? Tastings 2.0 is available seven days a week and we also offer our weekly menu subscription “Let Us Cook for You” that can be paired with wines delivered on Wednesdays and Sundays to the Hamptons.

How did you and executive chef Cédric Durand partner up?

We worked together for many years. I first brought him to America on a visa in 2005 to work at Payard. From Payard, Cedric came to Tastings NYC and later became the executive chef of Tastings. He later came to our restaurant Gaudir, where he and I partnered together.

When did you launch in the Hamptons? We have been assisting clients in the Hamptons for 20 years. Many of our clients from the Hamptons have residences on the Upper East Side and West Side, and entire Manhattan. Tastings has also partnered with Polo for the summer season, offering lunches for private cabanas.

What type of food do you offer? We are bespoke and customer oriented. We love to listen our clients’ ideas and build menus around their expectations. Our multi-cultural team always strives to surprise our client’s palate with innovative dishes yet keeping the classic French cuisine techniques as a strong foundation.

From where do you source your ingredients and wine selections? Local distributors for the high-end products. Long Island farms for the fresh produce. Tastings sources wines and champagne are sourced from Pommery, where we have an exclusive partnership. Book at www.tastingsnyc.com.

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Food & Beverage News Compiled by Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Cooking With The Countess The Southampton History Museum presents a monthly live Zoom cooking show in the kitchen of one of the last, private Gilded Age estates in Southampton. The program takes place on the first Thursday of every month beginning June 4 at 11 AM. The first Zoom installment will feature how to make a rhubarb pie using organic, homegrown produce. The show features The Countess von Salm-Hoogstraeten, and her private chef, Brian Hetrich. The vast kitchen is located inside the Port of Missing Men, which was built by H.H. Rogers, Jr., whose father was the richest man in 1910. Chef Hetrich is a raw vegan chef, Master Grower, speaker, and author from West Palm Beach. He’s been living and counseling others on the raw food lifestyle for over 13 years. “In my practice, I emphasize the harmonious integration of body, mind and spirit,” said Hetrich. “I feel very strongly in using superior nutrition combined with the judicial use

of select herbs, pure water, sensible exercise, effective detoxification protocols, and other lifestyle factors in order for anyone to realize superior health.” The Countess has a well-cared for, organic vegetable garden, which is the major source of produce for all meals served at the estate. Like Hetrich, she promotes healthy living and consumption. She often lends her home to organizations like Peconic Land Trust, Southampton History Museum, and others. The Countess “is an enthusiastic preservationist for nature and culture in Southampton,” said Tom Edmonds, executive director at the Southampton History Museum. “This cooking show offers a unique experience for natural food and history lovers inside one of the most majestic, historic homes that I know of.”

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can be placed over the phone by calling 631-537-2271 between noon and 8 PM, or until the ’que runs out. Take home special kits serve 4 to 6 or 8 to 12 people. In lieu of gratuity, diners may choose to donate to the Honest Man Employee Relief Fund. Credit card payment is preferred.

Supper Club Art of Eating in Bridgehampton is

moving its Supper Club prepared dinners to Thursday night. This Thursday will feature local fish, organic produce North and South Fork farms and farmstands. The Lynn Blue Band will perform acoustic favorites while patrons wait in their cars for pick-up. A full menu of takeout options – in addition to the Supper Club offerings - is available online at www.hamptonsartofeating.com.

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War, 1918 Pandemic Reshape The World USA withdraws from world stage; Germans hear promise of greatness By T. E. McMorrow t.e@indyeastend.com This is the conclusion of a series on the H1N1 Influenza A virus known as Spanish influenza, that killed 675,000 Americans between 1918 and 1919. We are telling the story, as much as possible, through the words of reporters of the time. Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt Germany, Germany above all. Above all in the world. — “Das Lied der Deutschen” (“The Song of the Germans”) The New York Times PARIS, April 4, 1919, 7:30 PM — “President Wilson is supposed to have an attack of influenza. On account of what was diagnosed as a bad cold, he was kept in bed today by Admiral Grayson, his physician and naval aid. This evening, there were indications that he had contracted influenza in a mild form.” Wilson had left the U.S. for Paris shortly after the end of World War I, to pursue his belief that he could lead the way towards the creation of a League of Nations that would guarantee the end of all war. Dr. Gary Travers Grayson, a Rear Admiral in the Navy, and Wilson’s confidant and physician, had good reason to mislead The New York Times by calling Wilson’s affliction “a bad cold.” Because the Spanish Influenza pandemic conflicted with the war effort, as well as the peace effort under Wilson, the president never addressed the nation about the deadliness and severity of the viral pandemic, fearing it would hurt the country’s morale. At least 675,000 Americans died from the disease, and more troops were killed by the viral flu than by German bullets. Fifty million died worldwide. On April 5, 1919, Admiral Grayson fessed up to The New York Times, while putting a positive spin on the president’s influenza attack. “Grayson Says Submission to Orders Saved Him from a Serious Illness,” the Times reported. On May 2, 1919, on the front page of The New York Times was a story covering the destructive Mayday riots in Paris, and in Boston, and Cleveland. “1 DEAD, MANY HURT IN

CLEVELAND RIOT . . . DISORDER IN OTHER PLACES Radicals Battle with Police in Boston Streets . . .” “One man dead, twelve policemen and scores of civilians injured were the causalities in the Socialist May Day celebration in Cleveland tonight following a series of riots in which army tanks and motor transport trucks were used by the police, soldier, and civilians in their efforts to suppress the disturbances which broke out in various sections of the city during the afternoon.” On the morning of May 1, 1919, Munich was in the hands of Bolsheviks. The Freikorps, composed of professional German soldiers, swept through the city, rooting out the revolutionaries, and executed hundreds, according to John Toland, author of “Adolf Hitler,” published by Doubleday in 1976. Hitler had joined a small group called the Social Revolutionary Party, a precursor of the National Socialist Workers Party, better known as the Nazis. He began speaking to groups in the street and in pubs with his guttural voice; he appealed to the working man. Germany had been betrayed, he told them, by the Jews and the Marxists. Someday, Germany’s greatness would be restored, he promised.

Third World Destruction The 1918-19 pandemic was particularly destructive in the Third World, though it took many months for the truth to emerge. London Associated Press April 17, 1919: “Almost 5,000,000 persons have died in British India from Spanish influenza, and fully a million others are believed to have died in the native states from the same cause, according to a report of the Indian Government made public here . . .” “The hospitals were so choked it was impossible quickly to remove the dead to make room for the dying. Streets and lanes of the cities were littered with dead and dying people . . .” The New York Times: Brussels, April 24, 1919: “Belgian Congo Swept by Influenza: Great loss of life of the natives of Belgian Congo, as a result of an influenza epidemic, is reported in dis-

patches. Some estimates place the number of deaths at 500,000.” From the beginning of the pandemic, vaccines and cures were promised by men like Dr. Royal Copeland, the Commissioner of Health for New York City. None were ever found. During the pandemic, Copeland refused to close New York City’s theaters or schools. He did take one action, however, that New York City is considering implementing now, when it gets the okay to reopen: he asked businesses throughout the city to stagger the hours of their workers, to prevent crowds forming in the city’s mass transit system. The Spanish influenza lingered in pockets around the world well into 1920. During an interview with Dr. Bruce Polsky, the epidemiologist advising East Hampton Town in its effort to recover from the current COVID-19 viral pandemic, he spoke about the 1918-19 viral disease now classified as H1N1 influenza A. He agreed that Spanish influenza likely did not come from Spain. Spain was neutral during the First World War, allowing its press to freely report news about a disease that the warring nations suppressed. Some researchers believe that a mutated virus crossed over from a bird or a pig to a human somewhere in the farm belt of America. They point to an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza at Fort Riley in Kansas on March 4, 1918. “It’s not a farfetched idea that it could have originated (in Kansas) but in terms of knowing with any real precision, I don’t think we can say,” Dr. Polsky said. “There is really not universal consensus as to where the virus originated or as to the source. But we do know that birds and swine do have influenza viruses.” So, Dr. Polsky was asked, what happened to the Spanish influenza virus at the end of the 1918-1920 pandemic? “I think that by the end, about a third of the world’s population was infected,” he said, meaning 500 million out of 1.5 billion. “Once you have a substantial proportion of the world’s population infected and you have antibodies present, then you are in better shape, you can call it herd immunity if you like. You go from a situation where there is no immunity in the human population in the world to having one out of three people with immunity. The virus loses in that circumstance and ends up petering out over time.”

League Of Nations Woodrow Wilson finally succeeded in creating the League of Nations, but it was a Pyrrhic victory. European nations signed on, but only after forcing

Germany to agree to extreme conditions that included an unstainable reparation payment plan. Wilson could not get his own congress to ratify it. Awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize, he returned to the U.S. from Paris. Despite being weakened by his bout with influenza, he campaigned to pressure Congress to ratify the treaty. On October 2, Wilson suffered a severe stroke. The headline on The New York Times’ front page on October 3 announced that Wilson was “a very sick man.” The lead story the next day was quite different. “President Wilson Better, Sleeping Naturally Once More.” The fact that their president was incapacitated was concealed from the American people by Admiral Grayson and the First Lady, Edith Wilson, almost to the end of his second and final term in March 1921. He died in Washington less than two years later. America withdrew from the world stage. Wilson was not the only wartime president to contract the influenza virus during the pandemic. On September 20, 1918, The New York Times reported, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who has been abroad for two months, arrived in New York yesterday and was taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, 47 East Sixty-fifth Street, suffering from a slight attack of pneumonia caused by Spanish influenza which he contracted on the ship, Mrs. Roosevelt said last night.” Roosevelt eventually recovered. In August 1921, FDR was struck by a second viral disease, polio. He recovered from that disease as well, but it left him a paraplegic. Despite that fact, FDR was elected governor of New York State in 1928, then President in 1932. He guided the nation back from 12 years of isolationism, through the Great Depression, and most of World War II, dying in office April 12, 1945. In 1932, the Nazi Party solidified its political grip on Germany by winning two national elections. Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, shortly before Roosevelt officially took office. In May 2020, Kristian Blickle, a financial economist, wrote a preliminary staff report for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the impact of the influenza pandemic on German politics. “The deaths brought about by the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 profoundly shaped German society going forward,” she wrote. In her analysis, the far right benefited greatly. “The disease may have fostered a hatred of ‘others,’ as it was perceived to come from abroad.”

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Real Realty Jackie Dunphy A life well traveled

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Jackie Dunphy: A Life Well Traveled A global and glamorous life means skills for the discerning homebuyer By Ty Wenzel ty@indyeastend.com It’s always a mystery when you meet someone new, learning where they are from and how they got to the East End. Unless they were part of a local historic family, most found their way here with their own stories to tell - and Corcoran sales agent Jackie Dunphy’s story is an odyssey.

Jackie, your life story is so surprising! You were born in Hollywood? My father moved from Oklahoma at a young age and my mother from Texas. My father’s family are Choctaw American Indians who were forced from Mississippi to reservations in Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. My mother’s family were plantation owners who fled to Texas after the Civil War. My parents met in college. My sister and I were both born in Hollywood and when I was eight weeks old, we moved to Hawaii, where my brother was born.

You were raised also in Spain, Italy, Jordan, Japan, and Australia! Can you explain why you were raised all over the world? My father worked for Lockheed as a tech rep and was sent all over. The experiences that this life afforded me were more than most people encounter. We moved to Spain when I was five. My siblings and I were put into Spanish speaking schools and we were fluent in three months. Dinner was always at 10, bullfights every Sunday, and flamenco on Friday nights at a local club after tapas. All of us kids took flamenco lessons weekly. After a few years we moved to Italy and were placed into Italian schools. Since we already spoke Spanish, picking up Italian was a lot easier! We lived in a small resort village in Tuscany right on the Mediterranean. It was very similar to the Hamptons. Not only did we learn a lot about Italian culture and customs, we shared a few American ones. After a few years living there, it was back to Spain, this time to Madrid.

My parents realized we probably needed to go to an English-speaking school at this point, especially after we were heard reading English and pronouncing everything phonetically! After four wonderful years, my father was transferred to Amman, Jordan and we had 10 days to pack up and leave. In those days, corporations never really took into account that their employees were married with kids. Sometimes they were given a mere matter of days to pack up and move. Jordan was quite the experience. Such a different culture and customs. One of the most interesting ones that stands out was that you must never show the sole of your shoe to another person. It is a sign of extreme disrespect. Being a female in the Middle East was quite restrictive and we all had to wear modest clothing when going to the souks downtown. Civil War broke out while we were there and we ended up living in our bathroom for a week as that was the safest room in the house against gunfire. We lived behind the British Embassy so there were royal Jordanian soldiers with machine guns in our backyard shooting at the Fedain, who were on a rooftop next-door shooting at the Embassy. One day there was a knock at the door and it was the Red Cross coming to evacuate us. We were told to grab one coat and our passports and run to the Red Cross van while being shot at. My feet never touched the ground running to that truck! We had a small poodle and were told we had to leave him, but my father scooped him up in his coat and smuggled him out. That dog had been with us since I was four years old and was a member of our family. There was no way we were leaving him. We raced to the Amman International Airport and our airplane, which was a medevac that had rows of two seats on one side and stretchers on the other, was the last airplane out before the Fedain took control and closed down the airport. We landed in Athens, Greece, where we were reunited with several of our friends who also managed to get out. We spent a wonderful month in

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Athens but were so shell-shocked that we were hitting the ground whenever a car backfired, so my father decided to rent a villa on Spetzai, a very tiny Greek island with no cars. We spent an incredible month relaxing and hanging out and destressing. Then it was back to California to regroup. This is where Lockheed was located at the time. Not six months after moving to California, we had a massive earthquake. I woke up to my bed jumping across the room. I was beginning to think that disaster was following us everywhere. My dad was then transferred to Tokyo, Japan, but I stayed behind to finish up college. The summer after graduation, I decided to go visit my parents for a month or so, and ended up staying in Japan for six years. It was a tremendous learning experience as the Japanese culture is so very different from anything else I had had encountered. After six years I began to feel antsy and needed to move. I had an opportunity to model and act in Australia, so within a matter of weeks, I packed my bags and off I went and spent two years living in Sydney.

You have such a powerful yet inclusive persona. Growing up without a home base taught me to be a mediator, diplomat, and negotiator from an early age. We never knew how long we were going to be in any given country, so I learned to dive right in, make friends quickly, and get the lay of the land. Learning to live in so many different types of cultures made me realize that there are always two sides to a story and there is always another way of looking at life. My siblings and I became chameleons – adapting to whatever situation we were thrown into. I am still in touch with people I have met along the way. Living in a culture entirely different than one’s own creates survival skills and the most important one is diplomacy. Modeling and acting are natural outcomes. When you act or are in front of the camera, you are essentially creating a new persona.

How or why did you end up landing in New York? After moving to Sydney, I met my first husband on a TV commercial shoot. He was the director. He was given an opportunity to work in New York City so I packed my bags and off I went

again! I continued my work as a model through the Ford agency. One day I was doing a shoot for jewelry when the photographer said I had lovely hands and he had some rings he needed to shoot and would I be interested in doing some hand modeling. I had no idea what that meant but my agent told me it would be a great segue into a new career once I aged out of modeling. I turned it into a great second modeling career for another two decades. My claim to fame was poking the Pillsbury doughboy.

How do you think these amazing experiences have helped you professionally? From a very early age, I was exposed to many different types of people and cultures. One night we would be dining at the ambassador’s residence with heads of state or at King Hussein’s palace, and the next night we would be eating at a friend’s house of modest means. My parents were avid entertainers and always invited a nice mix of people from all walks of life. They taught us that no matter the circumstances of anyone’s life, everyone was to be treated with kindness and respect. I have used these valuable lessons in dealing with customers and clients. Each deal, no matter the money involved, is treated the same way. All of my customers and clients deserve respect, courtesy, and kindness. Diplomacy is also very important and a good agent sees both sides of the coin and understands and respects what people may be going through emotionally and/or economically. Real estate is not merely a transactional business, rather it encompasses a whole spectrum of emotions and needs.

We imagine the ability to speak five languages helps matching international homeowners with their dream home here? Although I speak Spanish as fluently as English and my French, Italian, Japanese, is quite good, I find it is best to either conduct business in English or make sure they have a lawyer who is fluent in their language. This interview is abridged. To read Dunphy's full story, go to www. indyeastend.com. To reach Dunphy or inquire about her portfolio of properties, call 631-324-1820 or email jackie.dunphy@corcoran.com.

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Deeds

Min Date =5/2/2020 Max Date = 5/8/2020

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

Featured For Sale 63 Cove Hollow Road East Hampton

$1,275,000

Web ID: H351598

Kyle Rosko

Lic. R.E. Salesperson

631-537-5900 631-678-7179 kyle.rosko@ elliman.com

Marcy Braun

Lic. R.E. Salesperson

631-537-5900 516-375-6146 marcy.braun@ elliman.com

Area

Buy

Sell

AQUEBOGUE

Terraciano & McCann

Keller, G Trust

1,225,000

413 Peconic Bay Blvd

CALVERTON

Hughes, E & Romano, K

O’Donnell, J

343,000

1701 Bluffs Dr S

Kenney, D

Garrido, D & M

426,500

3202 Bluffs Dr S

Hewkin, K & C

Moore, J

615,000

34 Baiting Hollow Ln

Anderson, J & Peragallo

Wulforst, J

364,000

26 Timber Dr

Yakaboski and Sons

Kahn, A Trust & Lewin

261,000

1807 Middle Rd

CUTCHOGUE

Vaudo, A

Karolidis, S & R

755,000

2395 W Creek Ave

EAST HAMPTON

Jimenez Romero & Jimene

US Bank National As

707,000

103 Waterhole Rd

Newman, C

Presti Family LLC

692,550

171 Underwood Dr

Duke, M

Duong, A

2,200,000

290 Old Stone Hwy

Wagner, T & Flynn, R

Manning, T

1,780,000

1 Scoy Ln

Valdivieso, H & Flores

Contreras, R & Libin, K

880,000

11 Harbor View Dr

15 Owls Nest LLC

Hills, S & L

950,000*

15 Owls Nest Ln

Tillman, M

Zied, B & E

3,200,000

10 Eileen’s Path

Attea, M & L

DeSanti, R & C

1,650,000

11 Stratton Sq

32 Windmill Ln LLC

Evans, J Trusts

37,000,000

32 Windmill Ln

EAST MARION

Robbins, A & Timarchi, M

Johnson, J by Exr

438,000

450 The Short Ln

EAST QUOGUE

MT Columbine LLC

Dodson, P

440,000

38 Deerfeed Path

De Guzman, S & Duenas, M

Griffing, J by Exr

425,000

2816 Quogue Riverhead Rd

Zustovich, F

Schwahl Jr, F & J

430,000

10 Whiting Rd

Chausow, R & Semler, M

Nicholson, B

796,000

495 Linnet St

Crossroads Atlantic

Baiz III, C

75,000*

1435 Albertson Ln

Crossroads Atlantic

Baiz III, C

725,000

1435 Albertson Ln

MATTITUCK

Kalish, J & Callahan, C

Maul, G & M

615,000

2095 Elijahs Ln

MONTAUK

Dayton, E & Demasco, C

Anderson, S & C Trust

880,000

147 Soundview Dr

REMSENBURG

Moskowitz, S & L

Kopf, J

3,499,000

26 Ring Neck Rd

RIVERHEAD

Plaza 58 Realty Inc

177 Old Country Road

825,000

177 Old Country Rd

Row In Oak LLC

Sagendorf, Finlay &

350,000

810 Roanoke Ave

Heitner, G & Wade, M

Kulp, D

389,000

275 Newton Ave

Valued Property Buyers

Coone, A by Ref

145,001

42 Old Quogue Rd

Bank of America, N.A.

Reid, J et al by Ref

485,764

80 Anchor St

GREENPORT

Price

Location

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Deeds Featured For Sale 6 Pondview Lane

East Hampton Village

$4,900,000

Web ID: H351520

Martha Gundersen Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

631-537-6535 631-405-8436

martha.gundersen@ elliman.com

Paul Brennan

Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

631-537-4144 631-235-9611 paul.brennan@ elliman.com

Area

Buy

Sell

SAG HARBOR

Baccas-Newell, L

O’Connell, S & A

468,500

5 Bay Ave

80 Grant Avenue LLC

N2AC Realty LLC

1,350,000

20 Mashomuck Dr

Eckler, S & Belgray, L

Zamoyska, P Trust

1,999,999

38 Howard St

Gora, M & Leblanc, D

JG Farrell III RealEs

1,575,000

16 Lincoln St

SHELTER ISLAND

Galasso, J

Klupka, J & L

1,250,000

9 Wheeler Rd

SOUTHAMPTON

Schwehr, K

Fairfield Southampton

350,125

24 Village Green Dr #37U

Thomas Jr, J &Palumbo

203 Shinnecock Hills

1,125,000

203 Shinnecock Hill Rd

48 Cheviot LLC

Biancaniello, F & C

420,000*

48 Cheviots Rd

Day, J

Gatto, Schwarz & Garton

593,750

23 Lenape Rd

176 HNL SH LLC

176 Halsey Neck Lane

18,000,000

176 Halsey Neck Ln

Alberts Corner LLC

Rothman, R Trust

675,000

54100 Route 25

Antonison, G & S

Sutton, A & T

231,000*

p/o 1160 North BayviewExt

Ruggi, C & K

LaGrego, K Trust

573,500

5025 N Bayview Rd

Daccordo, A & F

Ford, P & A

661,000

1450 Longview Ln

Twasutyn, R

Drury, A

350,000

136 Beach Rd

Fischer, R & M

Schillmaier, I

392,000

50 Breezy Point Rd

Carbone, J & C

Longo, J & G

435,600

79 Josephine Dr

Perez, F & Pillco, B

Gould, E Trust

700,000

7 Debra’s Way

Dostal, D & Pedersen, C

Friedman, J

2,475,000

123 Sayres Path

Mani East Hampton II

Gerald Lee Holdings

10,500,000

60 Beach Ln

WATER MILL

Lawrence Court Realty

30 Lawrence Court LLC

7,550,000

30 Lawrence Ct

WESTHAMPTON

WHDGV LLC

Stelcer, D & C

1,535,000

6 Bay Meadow Ln

WESTHAMPTON BEACH

Young, C

Rozbruch, J & J

1,870,000

6 Michaels Way

Schwartz, M & Shirazian

Wolf, P

1,700,000

3 Stacy Dr

96 Main Street Holding

If 6 Were 9 Realty

655,000

90 Main St

Alchas, P & C

Mazzei, M Trust

3,150,000

159 Dune Rd

SOUTHOLD

WADING RIVER

WAINSCOTT

*Vacant Land

Price

Location

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Southampton Town Announces Creation of Litter Crew Looking for help picking up added debris By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

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The Town of Southampton is looking to address increased litter concerns over the last several months, due in part to not disposing of COVID-19 protective garments. The town board unanimously voted to establish a litter crew May 26, leasing three pickup trucks and hiring a full-time seasonal crew of six to pick up debris strewn across the sides of roads, at parks, and on beaches. Much of the increased litter, which the town has been hearing about from constituents, seems to be personal protective equipment, such as masks and gloves, Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said. “There’s an awful lot of litter out there,” he said. “There seems to be a real disregard — a sense of wild abandon during COVID-19 that people are just tossing things about.” While many avid beachgoers take morning walks to pick up trash like bottles, Styrofoam, balloons, and straws, Schneiderman said there’s now a legitimate fear over touching refuse thanks to the novel coronavirus. “I’d like to address that; I feel we really need to do something about it,” the supervisor said. “Make a dent in the pollution that’s occurred. There’s just too much litter out there.” “We live in one of the most beautiful places on earth,” said Councilman

Rick Martel, “and we need to keep it that way.” Martel was forced to cancel the town-wide volunteer beach cleanup earlier this year because of the pandemic. “The amount of litter throughout our town has noticeably increased these last several months,” Councilwoman Julie Lofstad said. “We shouldn’t have to see bags of household garbage thrown on our streets or at our beaches. With the unbelievable increase in the amount of garbage everywhere, ‘TLC’ — town litter crew — can be the workhorse to help keep our town beautiful.” Schneiderman said he wanted to first ensure the town wasn’t taking any work away from anyone else, and said there are no designated employees that pick up litter in the town, although this will supplement the work the Community Preservation Fund already does in maintaining preserved parcels, sending the workers to those properties as well. The supervisor, who hopes to get the litter crew up and running in two weeks, said town Director of Public Transportation & Traffic Safety Tom Neely is already working on getting permits to pick up trash along state roads — right-ofways and road shoulders — as well as county roads, and village roads. “Wherever it is needed, and where we’re given permission,” Schneiderman Continued On Page 42.

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SAND IN MY SHOES By Denis Hamill

We Need A Magic Bullet For Jobs As we reopen, so much will stay closed denishamill@gmail.com

I just heard the passing thunder of a LIRR train from the deckchair of my back yard. The ground shook like my mother waking me for school. It felt like the crazy pulse of life returning after a 10week deep freeze of cryogenics. I have only started going onto my back deck in the past week after the long hibernation of COVID-19 in 2020. It’s like getting paroled. Birds sing in verdant trees like street corner a cappella doo wop groups. The air is loamy with the marvelous smells of the summer earth. Bees barhop from blooming roses to blossoming lilacs, zigzagging and stoned on 100-proof pollen to bring back to the hive where there is no social distancing. Every now and again, a jet plane rumbles through overcast skies, where the sun plays a tireless game of peek-aboo with a world coming back to life. I hear cars whispering down the streets now and a Mr. Softee truck just jingled past a construction crew that has arrived to work on a half-completed house down the road. A roaring parade of earth movers, Bobcats, and cranes enter the site where workmen celebrate a return to labor with whirring saws and drills and nail guns and the clattering planks of lumber. From the opposite direction, two landscaping crews have arrived to mow lawns and trim trees and hedges. I have been on Zoom meetings all week, working virtually in the entertainment business, and my son just got an email from his upstate college announcing that they intend to open for live in-person classes in late August for his senior year. I might actually see my kid graduate. But as we reopen, so much will stay closed.

Financial Damage There are 40 million people unem-

ployed across the nation since the pandemic hit in mid-March. Unemployment in Suffolk County is estimated to be between 10 and 15 percent and there have been over 39,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus with almost 1900 deaths. They tally like the stats of a depression and a war combined. There is no telling yet how many businesses will fail to reopen because of the virus or how many people will be evicted, or foreclosed upon because their COVID financial damage has overwhelmed them. About 240,000 Long Islanders applied for unemployment during the lockdown. Many will not have jobs to go back to. Suddenly the bloom was coming off the roses that those bees were feasting on in my back yard. I remember as a kid when my dad’s factory moved from Queens to New Jersey and he was forced to go on unemployment. He was a proud, gutsy guy, with a wooden left leg, who took pride in overcoming his handicap by going to work each morning with his lunch that my mother made for him in a brown paper bag. He toiled all week in the factory making electrical appliances on an assembly line. He felt like a worthwhile man when he came home on a Friday night and handed over his pay envelope to my mother, who budgeted $100 to feed and clothe seven kids. She worked too, of course, and so did all the kids when they were old enough to deliver orders for the local butcher, fish store, and corner grocer. My sister worked in the local five and dime. My old man would keep a 10 spot for himself every week for cigarettes, car pool money, and to “decorate the mahogany” as he called putting a five dollar bill up on Rattigan’s bar where beers were 10-cents, every fourth one free.

After giving my mom his pay, she’d feed my dad a bowl of Irish beef stew and then he’d go take a bath and a shave and pull on a fresh white shirt ironed by my mother. He’d pay me a dime to shine his leather loafers, the left one filled with an oaken foot. Then he’d knot on a tie, shrug on a tweed jacket, and fix a fedora on his full head of dark hair and kiss my mother goodbye and descend the three flights of Brooklyn tenement stairs two at a time by gripping the banister and hopping on the good leg. Then Billy Hamill would limp across the avenue to the roar of Rattigan’s saloon and drink his beers and sing Irish rebel ballads after a hard week of work. That was his reward, his immigrant’s American dream come true. He came to America seeking the dignity of a j-o-b that paid the rent, and put hot home cooked food on the Formica kitchen table for his kids and let him decorate Paddy Rattigan’s bar.

Impact Of Unemployment When his factory moved, he became unemployed. He felt suddenly valueless in a job market that wasn’t friendly to an amputee long before the People with Disabilities Act. My father was a man with a fierce work ethic that he passed down to his kids, but when he couldn’t work and watched my mom become the breadwinner as a movie cashier, he became quiet and laconic and introverted as he searched the daily Help Wanted ads. Without an extra nickel to spare, he no longer could decorate the mahogany. He became homebound. He went on, well, lockdown. When he finally landed another job many months later, and it was organized by Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, with health bennies and sick leave and paid holidays and overtime, he rallied back to the joyful man we all so badly

missed. I couldn’t wait to shine his shoes again on a Friday night. That’s what unemployment does to a person. Those harrowing numbers you see every week scaling to over 40 million across the land, those are good, hard-working people, most with families, whose souls are being sucked out of them. All this condescending talk about how working people would rather be on unemployment than working because of the $600 federal pandemic relief is an insulting political talking point that voters should force feed to them on Election Day. That sugar high of extra unemployment — that will soon vanish — is not how proud working people live their lives. Working people plan their lives around a paycheck. And so, behind those weekly unemployment numbers and the political venom of a campaign, you will find working men and women searching for a purpose in life, a way to feed and shelter their kids, and maybe a reason to shine your shoes on a weekend evening before splurging on a glass of beer. As I sit on my deck listening to the birds sing and the bees work and the roar of workers back at their crafts, I feel that sense of joy I had as a kid when my proud father went back to work. But I know those are the lucky ones. Many people will not have jobs to return to and they, too, are lasting victims of COVID-19. I hope the economy does come roaring back in a floodtide if and when this horrible virus dissipates. But that isn’t gonna happen. I see years ahead of people like my father trying to find a dignified purpose in life by way of a decent job. That’s the other magic bullet that we desperately need, along with the COVID-19 vaccine. Otherwise, as the world reopens, for countless others it will remain closed.

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The Greenport Project Illuminates Community Business owner Ian Wile starts initiative to save his local economy By Nicole Teitler nicole@indyeastend.com

Business owners, their employees, and the residents that support them are like nautical knots, interwoven and tied together, making up an integral part of their communities. With an unprecedented summer season ahead, the Village of Greenport is looking to shed light on the faces that make up that community through The Greenport Project. Ian Wile, and his wife, Rosalie, migrated to the area 20 years ago, and have built a beautiful life. Their son is part of Greenport High School’s Class of 2020, and their business, Little Creek Oysters, operates out of an inconspicuous little bait and tackle shop on Front Street, which has become a dockside staple. When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit, they, like so many others, bore down for the economic storm that would inevitably hit. Then, in a single day on Memorial Day weekend, Wile created The Greenport Project to “see the broader scope of what it means to save the Greenport economy engine.” The new initiative is an online platform featuring the faces and stories of the people that make up the village. It welcomes all submissions with the basic criteria that individuals be a business owner or principal of a business in Greenport — regardless of residence — an employee of the Town of Southold, or a person whose livelihood depends on Greenport’s economy to survive. Since its inception, there have been roughly 40 submissions. “I have not edited out a single

word. These are self-submitted bios, some self-submitted photos,” Wile said. “In some cases, people have asked if I could come take a new photo for the project. I think that is a fantastic part.” He takes the photos in front of a “Hold fast, stay true” sign, designed and painted by Alexa Suess on the Little Creek building. The words refer to the nautical phrase used by sailors to bear down and fight through a storm, coming out on the other side stronger than going in. But the hardest part of the project has been including individuals who are currently unemployed due to COVID-19. “Those are the faces and stories that need to be added,” he said. Greenport is an inherently quiet village, but with pandemic precautions still in place, its morale has swiftly switched to fearful self-preservation. “I believe we have been at the edge of an economic crisis downtown for a bit as commercial rents went parabolic. This has simply been a catalyst. A tide has gone out and a bunch of us were swimming naked,” Wile said. “If there is anything to be gained here, it will take some grand vision and planning. It is a time full of opportunity to change what was breaking.” The economy, reliant on summer tourism, driven largely by food and beverage, is still on hold until Long Island can enter Phase 3 of reopening. That phase could roll out in mid-July, with a potential six-week setback adding more pressure on an already struggling community.

Greenport Harbor Brewing Comapny co-founder Rich Vandenburgh. Independent/Courtesy Rich Vandenburgh

“The Greenport Project is the perfect way to put a face and simple statement behind the interconnected fabric that makes up our community,” said Richard Vandenburgh, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company co-founder and president of the Village of Greenport Business Improvement District. “The Business Improvement District in Greenport is so much stronger because of this fabric, and in this time of commercial and community stress, we need to do everything we can to reinforce the tapestry we call the Greenport community.” Wile has been cross-promoting stories to social media and the community Facebook group “Hold Fast Greenport,” there are hopes to turn the project into a Hold Fast Fund, operating as a micro-finance tool to stabilize local Main Streets.

“In order for our business to succeed, we need others to succeed also,” Wile said. “Ideally, we could create a fund which would make targeted investments in local entrepreneurs who would then help guide each other next round.” Former Mayor Dave Kapell said The Greenport Project helps dispel the myth that Greenport merchants and businesspeople are not reflective of the community at large. “The project underscores the fact that our friends and merchants are our neighbors in the residential districts,” Kapell said, “and that our futures are inextricably linked in confronting the tsunami threatening downtown Greenport and the entire village with it.” Read all about the individuals at www.thegreenportproject.com or @ TheGreenportProject.

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Rolling Roadcaster Stops For Dance Break WLNG Radio thanks SBELIH ‘For Being A Friend’ By Jessica Mackin-Cipro jessica@indyeastend.com

Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital staff, the WLNG team, and local officials pose for a photo in front of WLNG’s Rolling Roadcaster Bus. Independent/Courtesy WLNG

On Tuesday, May 26, WLNG 92.1 FM stopped by Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport in its Rolling Roadcaster Bus for a dance break to show their appreciation for the hospital’s healthcare heroes. “You’re heroes!” said New York State Assembly Member Anthony Pa-

lumbo, who was on hand to honor essential workers. “A round of applause for all of you. Thank you for all your great work.” WLNG’s Gary Sapiane and Bill Evans emceed the event, while the bus sported a banner reading “Where the ‘G’ stands for gratitude.” The song of

Temporary Outdoor Dining Permits Riverhead Town accepting applications By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

In recognition of the contributions that restaurants provide to the health of the local economy, Riverhead Town Supervisor Yvette Aguiar and the town board have launched an initiative to allow patrons to dine outdoors through the issuance of a temporary outdoor din-

ing permit. The State Liquor Authority has agreed to fast-track liquor licenses and the Suffolk County Department of Health has authorized temporary outdoor seating, not to exceed overall maximum seating capacity. The permit is available to establish-

choice was Andrew Gold’s “Thank You For Being A Friend,” which played at 7 PM. The WLNG team has been making their way across both forks to thank essential workers in response to COVID-19, including Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

“Our community has shown the hospital such tremendous support in response to the pandemic,” said Paul Connor, the chief administrative officer of SBELIH. “Many thanks to WLNG for stopping by, playing some uplifting music, and honoring our staff for their continued hard work.”

ments holding a valid use permit and will expire on December 31. “It is intended to allow restaurants to safely increase operations while maintaining appropriate social distancing protocols as mandated by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health,” Aguiar said in a statement. “A fire inspection will be made prior to granting the permit. We anticipate restaurant reopening to be moved to Phase Two, and ask all restaurants to commence on following all the reopening protocols.” It is currently slated for Phase 3 of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s reopening plan. Councilwomen Jodi Giglio and Catherine Kent have been tasked with coordinating the effort. Applications for the permits can be accessed through the town website at www.townofriverheadny.gov, the Riverhead Business Improvement District

Management Association, and the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce websites. In addition, applications may be submitted to the Riverhead Building Department at 201 Howell Avenue, Riverhead, NY, 11901. Business owners can call 631-7273200 or visit the website to answer additional questions. “Applications will also be accepted virtually,” Aguiar said. “All applications will be fast-tracked.” Prior to the issuance of a temporary outdoor dining permit, all applicants must complete and submit an online business affirmation to the state. A COVID-19 Reopening Safety Plan must be completed and retained on premises. The forms must be made available upon request by the Department of Health and/ or local health or safety authorities in the event of an additional inspection. Both documents may be located at https://forward.ny.gov/phase-one-industries.

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Continued From Page 4. We realize that COVID-19 and the crippling impact that it threatens to have on education is imminent. Potential mid-year cuts to state aid will cripple many districts that were already struggling to provide the education that ALL children deserve. Re-entry comes with many challenges, like social distancing in schools that were crowded to begin with. The thought of holding schools and districts to the same standard after COVID-19 is simply unthinkable. The state must realize that the postpandemic achievement gaps are even greater, and we will see challenges that will be impossible to overcome. How do we, in the long term, hold students accountable for work when not physically present or assist students who struggled and were chronically absent? What about the countless number of students who were already struggling in poverty or those with anxiety and depression? How can we ever think about measuring student progress in the same way ever again? What about our students with special needs and the impact this pandemic is having on them and their families? The only logical solution: Use this as an opportunity to re-evaluate how we assess our students and understand that assessments need to be as diverse as the students we serve. Let’s stop the charade and have real discussions about what equity looks like. Let’s engage the state Education Department in a real conversation about rethinking assessment and progress monitoring so that students truly can reach their greatest potential. This is perhaps an extraordinary request, but these are also extraordinary times. If we aim to find a positive from this awful situation, COVID-19 has certainly shined a light on the inequities that have existed. The only problem is it has simultaneously made those inequities even greater. You see, standardized testing has been hurting diverse communities for many years. True reform is essential. We can only hope that the powers that be are paying attention. Riverhead Central School District Superintendent Dr. Aurelia Henriquez Port Washington Union Free School District Superintendent Dr. Michael Hynes Shenendehowa Central School District Superintendent Dr. Oliver Robinson

Dear Editor, Absolutely correct about The East Hampton Star editorial. It was tone deaf, elitist, and alarmingly out of touch with the painful reality of regular working folks. I can only envision David Rattray enjoying the quiet weekend at his waterfront home and thinking how this pandemic thing isn’t all that bad. Shameful, really. The Indy response, however, missed what was the only redeemable point in The Star editorial: that perhaps the damage this pandemic has wrought on our tourism-dependent economy ought to teach us a lesson. That maybe our leadership — not to mention the voters — should consider developing some other type of economy, one not dependent on the fickle nature of tourism, but rather on something more stable. One that rests not so much on a three-month season, but rather on more year-round jobs, more professional jobs, and thus perhaps fueling a more stable and affordable housing market. I’ve lived here a long time. I wish I had a dollar for every elected town official who promised to attract more white-collar and year-round businesses. They have all known tourism and second-home economy is a fragile façade. I can’t help but wonder whether pandering to the owners of tourism-related businesses, like hotels and restaurants, as well as the builders of McMansions and wealthy second homeowners, hasn’t just been much easier than keeping those promises to the rest of us. Julia C. Mead

An Idea Hi Desirée, I wanted to get in touch with someone at The Independent regarding an idea I had to assist in raising money for various organizations. As I assume you are aware, we are not allowed to return bottles or cans for the $.05 deposit — though they are still charging it! And I also assume others, like myself, have accumulated quite a lot, and when the option to return them opens, it will be a nightmare of both crowds and time to deal with each individual item. So, my thought was that some organization could set up a drop-off point in each town so we can drop everything knowing someone will return the cans/ bottle and get the deposit refunds to help fund something. Obviously, we can take them to the dump, but that seems a waste of money. Anyway, I assume you have the resources, if you think the idea makes

sense, to contact the various organizations that are taking donations and redistributing food, clothes, etc. Thanks for your time and stay safe. Bob Hertzka Resorts Online

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Continued From Page 11. should be in place beforehand with a plan so no moratorium is needed. “It saddles residents,” Donohue said. He also believes there is a hidden motive, particularly behind the moratoriums. “The fact that everyone in the community is paying the same taxes as everyone else, and we know that the remains could be found anywhere in the Hamptons or on the East End or even on the North Fork — this small section that you’ve segregated seems to be an area that’s isolated for other reasons. There seems to be a political climate,” Donohue said. “There’s a sign that was erected on the highway, there’s a proposal from the Indians to get a second sign up at some point,” he noted, referring to the bill board monuments on Route 27. “I think we’re being put in a position of a pawn for political aspects,” Donohue said.

Archeological Review Three hearings have been held on the topics over the past few months. The moratoriums would expand protection within the Sugar Loaf and Fort Hill areas, where remains have previously been discovered. The first is a six-month moratorium on any construction while the town reviews its policies regarding development in the areas. Sugar Loaf is state-recognized as primary Shinnecock Nation burial grounds. For any homeowner wanting to be exempt during the moratorium, Schneiderman said Stage 1 archeological reviews would need to be conducted. Stage 1 A is a literature search and Stage 1 B is a field investigation determining the presence or absence of cultural resources. “It decreases the likelihood that while you’re building you’re going to encounter cultural artifacts,” Schneiderman said. “It would apply to really any excavation that requires a building permit.” The second moratorium expands protection of the Fort Hill area, but would only apply to new construction. The field investigation could add several thousand dollars to the cost of any project and would be conducted only where construction would be taking place. Erik Thomsen questioned the process and cost for archeological review. Councilman John Bouvier said in many cases it’s noninvasive — done through

the use of ground penetrating radar, so test holes may not be required. “There are several ways to look beneath the ground to make a determination as to whether a dig is even required,” Bouvier said. “They’re very careful about how that’s done, not to tear up ground, but to be able to specifically identify sites. It’s not always perfect because of the different natures of soil, but for the most part the first stage is a noninvasive review of the property.” In the two instances where remains were discovered — on Hawthorne Road in Fort Hill in 2018 and Montauk Highway in 2019 adjacent to the Sugar Loaf area — properties were purchased under the Community Preservation Fund since the owners were willing sellers. Donohue said with the issue arising twice in the last 20 years, “there seems to be a large swath of the area being impacted for a few undisturbed properties.” Sag Harbor resident and realtor Michael Daly said the board can’t base its decision off the number of properties where the town is certain remains have been found. “There are factual accounts of bags of bones being dropped off at the Shinnecock Nation’s historical museum in the past. Just a bag of bones,” he said. “There are numerous accounts of contractors reporting remains have been found and put in the dumpster. This is something that will pay long overdue respects to members of our community in an appropriate way. I totally support what you’re proposing here, and if this was happening in Sag Harbor, I’d equally support it at this point.” If remains are found under the proposed legislation, several things could happen. It’s possible a building or project could be moved on a property so remains could stay in place, the remains could be relocated on the property, or even removed to a more fitting burial site. Schneiderman said besides Native American remains, Colonial could be discovered as well. “It’s important to protect the sanctity of those remains, whether it’s my great grandmother or your great grandmother,” Schneiderman said. “We hope, with these moratoriums, to avoid the disruption of these sites by flagging the remains before they’re disturbed.” Dan Malone, a North Sea resident, said he’s afraid of the moratorium creeping eastward. Donohue believes amid the novel coronavirus crisis now might not be the time for a moratorium. “To jump through the hoops of this additional or potentially restrictive process without a plan doesn’t make sense,” Donohue said. “And why create a moratorium in a time where people are struggling to make a living? This is what the town relies on for tax dollars.”

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Dead ‘Baby’ Shark Found In Southampton Juvenile was a significant find for research scientists By Taylor K. Vecsey taylor@indyeastend.com

A deceased, juvenile female great white shark washed up on Cryder Beach in Southampton. The fully intact juvenile — though some may consider it a baby because of its size — was 6.9 feet in length and weighed about 175 pounds. Great whites are born at about four feet long. While unfortunate, of course, the find was beneficial to Greg Metzger, a marine biologist and Southampton High School teacher who founded the South Fork Natural History Museum’s Shark Research and Education Program. “The scientific shark community has very few opportunities to perform necropsies on white sharks as we just

don’t get many. Most, in my limited experience, have been very decomposed. This one was almost pristine,” he said, noting the internal organs are in excellent condition so scientists studying them can get “an excellent idea of what a live one may look like. This was a very significant individual for the understanding of white shark’s biology.” Whenever he is alerted to a shark on the beach, he is in touch with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. A pathologist conducted a necropsy. Metzger said as of now there is no indication why it died.

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entering the beach, or on the beach, may be asked to provide proof that they are living or renting within the town. The ban does not apply to those visiting friends or family, or hotel guests. Acceptable proof would include a valid state driver’s license or non-driver ID showing a Southampton Town address; a valid car registration showing a Southampton Town address; a utility bill showing a Southampton Town address, or any proof of a legal rental. The supervisor said the police would only ask for identification when overcrowded conditions exist. Parking on East Landing Road, West Landing Road, and Petrel Lane in the hamlet of Hampton Bays, has also been restricted in the emergency order to parking by permit only. Violators will be asked to leave and could face a penalty if they refuse. Cars not displaying the proper sticker will be ticketed. Cars parked overnight may be towed. Schneiderman also asked that East Hampton begin to issue non-residential parking passes for renters. He said renters in Wainscott will naturally migrate to Sagg Main Beach if they can’t park at an East Hampton beach.

Continued From Page 10. “We have to get a message to the people coming from New York City,” the supervisor added. “We finally got to Phase 1, and we don’t want to go back.” The town received numerous complaints of people not wearing masks, not obeying social distancing rules, about litter, public urination, juvenile fish being caught, bonfires, and people camping on the beach. “We are being inundated,” Schneiderman said. “I can’t fault people for going fishing. They love to fish, God bless them. But, we are overwhelmed.” The newly-issued emergency order extends the beach parking restrictions to include all town roads within 1000 feet of a road-end directly leading to a public beach or water body. This change is aimed at stopping the parking of cars throughout town neighborhoods that are within the vicinity of beaches and road-endings leading to the beach, but were not restricted. Those parking at or near the beach will need to display a valid town parking sticker on their vehicles. Anyone

The juvenile shark was 6.9 feet long and 175 pounds, according to Greg Metzger, a marine biologist. Independent/Merritt Piro

His work has focused on this age class of shark for the last five years. “We have confirmed that Long Island is a nursery for white sharks,” Metzger said. “So, these little ones are found in our waters based on our

research from mid-April to the end of October.” Parts of the shark are being used for his education program, and Metzger shipped samples to scientists elsewhere for analysis.

Southampton Town Police Department, code enforcement, fire marshals, and Department of Parks and Recreation personnel will all be responsible for enforcing the new restrictions. Emergency orders like this, suspending local laws, are limited to no more than five days. The town indicated in a press release issuing the first extension that the order is “likely to be extended” again. T.E. McMorrow contributed reporting.

who lives, works, and visits the East End, not just “tourists,” who will continue to be frightened to leave the house without a face mask this summer. Our community – like so many others – has endured a devastating blow and we are all in mourning for the loss. What will get us through this difficult time and help us build back better than before is a sense of unity and common purpose. We all need to come together to support the grieving, celebrate the frontline and essential workers who cared for and saved us, and work together to restart our economy so people can go back to work. We are disappointed that The Star – or anyone else – would seek to take advantage of this terrible moment in our history. This is not a time for pettiness or partisanship, ideology or score settling. The divisions in our community can, at times, be raw but now we need to put them aside. East Hampton was never Mayberry (despite what some may think or want) and we like to listen to “a sweet birdsong” as much as anyone. The “rest of us” would gladly wait in a little traffic if it meant we could have those 2000 lives back.

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Continued From Page 22. This summer will certainly not be “a rare treat to savor” for the East End’s great cultural institutions, forced to shutter their doors, blocking the world from enjoying their wonderful art and performances that are the lifeblood of this community. The North and South Fork restaurants, bars, wineries, and breweries we think would disagree with the assertion that they like being “busy, but not too much,” facing a summer of turned up tables and takeout. We doubt our iconic hotels and inns are thankful to be “partially full.” And it is every single person

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Sports NYSPHSAA Fact Sheet Organization details COVID-19 response and answers to frequentlyasked questions By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com

Given the New York State Public High School Athletic Association’s cancelation of the spring 2020 season due to COVID-19, the organization provided a FAQ sheet to assist member schools, providing up-to-date information related to response and rules, and the New York State Education Department’s regulations. First, the NYSPHSAA COVID-19 Task Force is convening for the first time June 10 to examine potential impacts of the novel coronavirus crisis on the fall 2020 season and the 202021 school year. “It is anticipated the COVID-19 Task Force will meet throughout the summer to analyze available information from the New York State Department of Health, New York Governor’s Office, and local health departments,” NYSPHSAA said in a statement. “The COVID-19 Task Force will review all aspects of the fall 2020 season and the 2020-21 school year related to the COVID-19 crisis, such as practice requirements, fan attendance, resocialization efforts, protocol, procedures, transportation, etc. The COVID-19 Task Force will not have the authority to make rule changes. The task force will be in place to examine available information and make recommendations to NYSPHSAA’s Executive/ Central Committee, 11 sections, and

the membership.” At this time, NYSPHSAA is not planning to make any changes to the start date of the fall 2020 season, with practices scheduled to begin August 24. Anyone concerned about reconditioning of football helmets should know reconditioning plants are beginning to open throughout North America. It is recommended to contact a company immediately. The NYSPHSAA is planning to conduct the eligibility workshops in person in the fall, as scheduled. The National Federation of State High School Associations Sports Medicine Advisory Committee has released a position statement on preparticipation physical exams recommending a one-year extension on all physical exams. The NYSPHSAA Safety Committee will review this recommendation. “The requirement for annual physical exams is a regulation of the New York State Education Department,” NYSPHSAA said. “Any revisions to this requirement would be made by NYSED. NYSPHSAA Executive Director, Dr. Robert Zayas, will also seek guidance from the New York State Education Department on this regulation.” Dr. Zayas is also working with the state to determine options to ensure coaches are able to recertify in prepa-

New York State Public High School Athletic Association Executive Director Dr. Robert Zayas. Independent/ Courtesy NYSPHSAA

ration of the fall 2020 season and the 2020-21 school year.

Eligibility As per the education department’s Duration of Competition Regulation, students are limited to four consecutive years of athletic eligibility upon entering ninth grade — five years for students who participate at the high school level as an eighth-grader and six years for students who participate at the high school level as a seventhgrader. Students are able to apply for an extension of eligibility, as per the regulation, if the student experiences an illness, accident or social/emotional condition which causes the student to miss a semester of eligibility and the illness, accident or social/emotional condition requires the student to take additional semesters to graduate. The current interpretation is students who repeat a grade because of the COVID-19 crisis would not be candidates for an extension of eligibility since school has continued to occur and credits toward graduation have not been interrupted. Currently, Dr. Zayas

is seeking guidance from the state on this regulation. There will be no impact upon the NYSPHSAA transfer rule or representation rule as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Some institutions of higher education and other organizations that provide the Dignity for All Students Act training — addressing harassment, bullying, and discrimination prevention and intervention in schools — are no longer holding classes in-person due to the novel coronavirus, preventing them from conducting the required minimum three clock hours of face-toface instruction in the DASA training. “To allow DASA training to continue, all approved DASA training providers, and institutions of higher education that include the DASA training in their educator preparation program curricula, may offer the DASA training entirely online during the time period of the state of emergency in New York State for the COVID-19 virus,” the New York State Education Department said in a statement. Continued On Page 42.

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Virtual Olympic Challenge i-tri transforms its triathlon into online competition By Desirée Keegan desiree@indyeastend.com The i-tri Girls Hamptons Youth Triathlon has gone virtual. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit, committed to the empowerment of adolescent girls through the sport of triathlon, has transformed the annual BNB Bank-sponsored event into a virtual Olympic challenge. “We are truly inspired by the i-tri organization and its efforts in helping young women across Long Island succeed in sports and in life,” said Theresa McCarthy, vice president of commercial real estate lending at BNB Bank. “As a community bank dedicated to improving our communities, we are thrilled to show our continued support and be a part of i-tri’s transformational program.” The event will take place June 20 at 11:30 AM on Zoom and simulcasted via Facebook Live. The event will feature three 10-minute sections, each simulating parts of a triathlon — upper body exercises for swimming, leg and core exercises for biking, and high-intensity cardio for running. In keeping with social distancing rules, the girls will be led by i-tri trainers in participating in these activities from their homes. Throughout the event, the girls will be cheered on by Olympic athletes Katie Zaferes, Gwen Jorgensen, and Dara Torres, and professional triathlete Sara Piampiano. The challenge will culminate in a one-minute virtual “sprint to the finish,” featuring Zaferes, a professional triathlete since 2013 and current World Triathlon Series Champion. “Sara, Katie, and Gwen have record-

ed videos of themselves doing the exercises that the girls will be doing, and Dara Torres is actually going to be working with and spoke to the girls Saturday on our weekly triathlon training session on Zoom,” said i-tri Girls Development and Events Manager Jennifer Fowkes. “Even if social distancing rules are relaxed, we did not anticipate that we would be able to hold our traditional triathlon, so we have spent the last few weeks trying to come up with a plan that would challenge the 145 girls who are participating in i-tri that could be completed safely at their homes. And, if we do say so ourselves, we think we’ve come up with a pretty great alternative. It’s been such a pleasure and an honor to work with all of these athletes, and we are hoping that the list of those participating continues to grow.” Torres, the most decorated U.S. female Olympic athlete of all time, is also a New York Times best-selling author, fitness advocate, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and mother who started her career on the international stage by breaking her first world record at the age of 15. Jorgensen is an Olympic gold medalist, winning the triathlon at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was World Champion in 2014 and 2015. Piampiano is a board member of itri who in 2012 left her corporate career at HSBC Holdings to train and compete as a triathlete full-time. Later that year, she won the Ironman New Orleans 70.3, and since turning professional, has accumulated seven 70.3-distance wins, four

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amazing Olympians and professional athletes care enough about them to share in this journey. We hope everyone logs on to cheer on the girls to the finish line.” While the Olympic challenge is being held online, i-tri Girls also announced the return of the TurboTri triathlon, albeit virtually. This triathlon, which will consist of a 300-yard swim, a six-mile bike, and a 1.5-mile run, can be completed any time from July 1 to 31. More details about the event will be forthcoming, but those 10 and up can register at events.elitefeats. com/turbotri20.

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Hampton Classic Executive Director Shanette Barth Cohen said last week the event is still on. “As of now, we are planning on having the horse show as scheduled, but are, of course, keeping a close eye on New York state and local guidelines,” she said. “We will need to make a final determination about the feasibility of holding the event no later than mid-June. That announcement will be posted across our social media channels as well as on our website, when it gets made.” Cohen said, should the show go on, grandstand tickets will go on sale July 1 and a prize list will be posted online June 30. There will not a printed prize list this year. “We will outline all procedures regarding social distancing, sanitizing, and other pertinent information in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in the prize list,” Cohen said. “Please do not hesitate to reach out to us with any questions. We will continue to keep you updated, and are hopeful to welcome everyone back to the classic at the end of August.” DK

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Charter boats were back on the water and back in business as of May 27, and captains in Montauk say the fishing is good. Mike Vegessi, captain and owner of Lazybones, has been going out for 37 years. He said May 29, “The feeling of fishing with everyone with a mask on is almost eerie. I can’t read your expression. Are you smiling? It’s a different feeling when we go out.” Still, people are excited to get back out on the water and fish. The deck of the Lazybones, a 55foot Bruno & Stillman, has been marked for social distancing. Vegessi had to cut back on the number of passengers he can take out — from 40 to 16 — due to the COVID-19-related restrictions. “I got my arrows. I got my sanitizer. I got my marks,” he said. “I got my temperature gauge — all that good stuff.” Lazybones didn’t go out on May 29 due to weather conditions, but Vegessi said the boat left the dock the day prior. “There’s lots of striped bass and there is bluefish around. But we target fluke,” he said. “We caught some big

ones. We caught an eight-pounder, a sixpounder, a four-pounder.” He said passengers just wanted to get out of the house, or get on the boat and see friends again. “A lot of my customers, they come on the same day. The same trip,” Vegessi said. “They socialize and enjoy the interaction with other people, laugh and have fun. Enjoy the sunshine and fresh air,” adding, they left the “virus thing on land.” Captain Tom Casimano owns the Sea Wife IV, a boat he’s had for 21 years. He’s been on boats since he was 12 years old. After returning to shore May 31, he said the striped bass had been plentiful, but many still undersized. “There’s a lot of fish around. A lot of bluefish,” he said. “The fishing’s been good — just waiting for another run of fish to come through. Maybe they are a little bigger.” He, too, keeps his passengers waiting, taking temperatures before letting anyone on his boat. He even fills out a COVID-19 log if tracing ends up being needed.

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“Everybody has to have a mask and gloves,” Casimano said. “If they don’t have them, I supply them.” He also supplies hand sanitizer and watered-down bleach to cleanse with. One of the new rules? No highfives when somebody catches a big fish. At the end of the day, the entire boat is sanitized. That includes the deck and cabin. Casimano is licensed to have up to 20 onboard at a time, but is now going out with groups of less than 10. Captain Mike Elling, captain and owner of charter fishing boat CUJO, a Bertram 46-footer, was ecstatic when he heard that charter boat industry had been

moved up from one of the final phases of reopening under New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s directive, to Phase 1. “Very surprised,” he said. “Very happy.” The captain has been fishing on a charter boat out of Montauk for about 20 years. He said calls for reservations are slowly picking up. “We had a lot of cancellations of course,” Elling said. “But I think everyone is going to come back. I’m looking forward to a good year, actually. It is going to turn around. It is going to be exciting. There is good fishing, as always.”

it comes to working out. Going for a run with a mask on is stifling, but forgoing a mask altogether seems inconsiderate. As fitness and wellness businesses begin to open their doors again, it’s important to comply with regulations while also feeling as comfortable as possible. Here are three brands that are working to get you outside. Athleta Girl sells a pack of five non-medical face masks for only $30 in a variety of colors. The polyester/ spandex material with a cotton liner has three layers of fabric that are lightweight and breathable. They’re also machine washable. The company is also committed to making a change by donating 100,000 of these masks to major health care organizations to support frontline heroes. Find out more at www.athleta.gap.com. Onzie is selling what it’s calling mindful masks. A two-pack sells for $24 and they’re made from upcycled fabrics the company uses to

make its yoga clothing. The nonmedical masks are made of full flex spandex on the exterior with a highperformance inner lining, making it stretchy, comfortable, breathable, and quick to dry. Proceeds from these masks will be donated to American health care workers through the Center For Disaster Philanthropy. Visit www.onzie.com to learn more about the initiative. Carbon38 is getting technical with a multilayer face covering that comes in large and small sizes. A two-pack sells for $29. Using Fuze technology, the filtering system includes 100 percent certified cotton, a filter screen, and Oeko-Tex-certified microfiber four-way stretch fabric. It’s antibacterial, antimicrobial, UV protecting, and fast-drying. All of the profits will go to Frontline Foods, supporting local restaurants impacted by the pandemic and feeding frontline workers. For more information check www.carbon38.com.

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I have heard it said many times . . . boredom is the root of all evil. I’m pretty sure that we have all been put to a test at some point during this pandemic that has required a variety of coping methods. My personal choice is to focus on the pleasant memories I’ve banked over the years — that seems to work best. Before I share two of those very timely recollections, I have to say I’m excited about the prospect of real tournament play starting soon. June 8 will be the start The Charles Schwab Challenge week that will take place at the historic Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, TX, and will mark the official resumption of competition on the PGA Tour. Play was suspended at The PLAYERS Championship in March due

to COVID-19. “The Colonial,” as it is often called, was first held in 1946 and is the longest-running event played on the same course on the PGA Tour. Adjacent to the first tee is a Wall of Honor that lists all the winners from its inception, including the trio of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Lee Trevino as well as Phil Mickelson, Sergio García, and Tom Watson, among many others. The one name that appears the most is Ben Hogan, who won Colonial a recordsetting five times and is honored with a statue on the grounds of Colonial CC for all to see. In 2003, the Colonial was packed with spectators as LPGA Superstar Annika Sörenstam made the history

books with her one and only start on the PGA Tour. It was truly a memorable occasion. Sörenstam played well and brought a lot of attention to the event and the charities associated with it, but unfortunately missed the cut. There was certainly a party atmosphere that night in Fort Worth, especially in the famous Ft. Worth Stockyards. While I happened to be in one of the local watering holes, a cowboy arrived on horseback. I noticed that he was throwing back quite a few adult beverages, so I asked him if he had any worries about getting stopped for drunk driving. His response was priceless: “Not unless my horse gets drunk!” Fans will be allowed inside the Colonial gates this year, but at least it will be a real PGA Tour competition that we can enjoy on television. The field is strong, with the top five ranked players in the world signed up to play. Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, and Dustin Johnson have all entered, but not Tiger Woods. It is rumored that Tiger won’t return to the Tour until July at the Memorial Tournament hosted by Nicklaus. Now, digging back into my memory bank, as I recently watched the incredible SpaceX launch, two fond memories came to mind. First, the most memorable and greatest golf shot ever hit came

from the homemade 6-iron that Alan Shepard hit after he stepped onto the surface of the moon. A few years later, in my interview with him, I was lucky enough to discover how he managed to sneak the club on board along with two golf balls without anyone at NASA knowing about it. I promised not to tell, but it was quite a story. And secondly, all I have to do is just close my eyes and focus and I can vividly visualize a magical moment that took place in January 2002. As it happened, my return trip from London to New York was on the supersonic Concord. Being able to fly on the Concord was exciting enough, however luckily for me, arrangements had been made in advance that at some point during the approximately three-hour flight I would be invited to visit the cockpit. Shortly after the captain announced that we had leveled off at 76,000 feet and were traveling at a speed of 1450 miles per hour, I was escorted upfront. When that cockpit door opened and I got to see the curvature of the Earth, I was simply spellbound. To this day, I can close my eyes and see the Earth as very few ever have. When people say I have been blessed in my life, they get no argument from me.

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Continued From Page 6. “We cannot begin healing unless we honestly face our problems,” she said. The Rev. Arthor L. Faber said the time to stand silent is over. He told a 25-year-old story about the time he was on his way to work at Stotzky Park. The then-14-year-old was walking, holding an egg sandwich and an Arizona iced tea when a sheriff pulled over and made him sit on a curb while he dumped out the can. “He wanted to make sure that I knew who I was, and who he was, and to never forget this experience,” Faber said. “I can’t say that I’m Mr. Floyd, because I’m still here talking. And I can’t say what his intentions were, but I can tell I felt violated . . . I can tell you I felt humiliated over a can of iced tea.” Just nine months earlier, Rodney King had been dragged out of his car and beaten by Los Angeles cops. When Faber told his mother, a po-

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Summer Activity Summer sports is not regulated by the NYSPHSAA, so the organization is advising to follow regulations detailed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s phases that businesses and organizations should rely upon when evaluating reopening. Schools allowing open gym or weightlifting sessions during the summer is an individual district decision based upon New York state directives and Cuomo’s phase-in plans.

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