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School’s Out!

By Emily Toy

Well, outside that is.

It’s been up and running for less than a year. It only has 15 students, so far. It’s owned and operated by three mothers. And it’s just getting started.

It Takes A Village, a Hampton Bays pre-school focused on progressive education, is bringing something new to the East End. The small, privately operated, non-profit school, located on West Montauk Highway, will feature the first certified outdoor classroom in these parts.

“Our plan is to strengthen the bond between children and nature and bring lessons outside in a more natural environment,” said co-owner and teacher Mary McCormack. “The goal is to be able to teach outside all year round.”

The new outdoor classroom will be divided into sections, much like a common indoor classroom.

McCormack described certain sections being dedicated to music, stage, growing motor skills, and gardening to name a few. ITAV offers both morning, afternoon, and full day sessions concentrated into two, three, or five day programs. It offers

three and four year old pre-school programs, which focus on young students developing fine/gross motor skills, community awareness, and multicultural experiences.

According to their website, ITAV’s enrichment classes will vary every month, with classes including dance, karate, painting, music, singing, foreign language, and sports.

McCormack, along with partners Hilary Rose and Michelle Kelly, is collaborating with Nature Explore, the Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute, to help with the concept plan and implementation of ITAV’s new, outdoor classroom and nature-driven programs.

Certified Nature Explore cl a ssro o m s a re d e s c r ibed a s dynamic, nature-based play and learning spaces. Nature Explore applies research-based, fieldtested design principles to create the outdoor spaces anywhere a school, child care center, park, or other community site may have a traditional playground.

Nature Explore has already done similar work in school districts further west, such as Huntington and Islip. Testament to their efforts, there is a growing number of

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ITAV. “A concept plan will be put into place, along with other logistical plans necessar y for proper construction; things like drainage, etc.,” McCormack said in an interview.

“This is a chance to really bring families and kids together.”

The important thing, McCormack stressed, was for this classroom to not just focus on “free play.”

“It’s just a fact that kids learn so much better outside,” McCormack noted.

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Funding for the newlyconstructed outdoor classroom will come from tuition, as well as local fundraisers and community efforts.

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Tuckahoe School On April 15 both Pre-K classes at the Tuckahoe Common School District took a field trip to the Children’s Museum of the East End. The students had the opportunity to work in the garden, plant seeds, and enjoy the museum as a whole. A picnic lunch was also enjoyed by all.

Our Tuckahoe PTO will be having their annual Mother’s Day Plant Sale from 8 AM to 3:30 PM on Thursday, May 5, and Friday, May 6, on the front lawn of the school building located at 468 Magee Street, Southampton.

The Cinco de Mayo celebration will be Friday, May 6, from 6 to 8 PM. This event is sponsored by the Tuckahoe Educational Foundation and will be held at the Tuckahoe School. There will be a Mariachi Band, food, games, and Mexican Dancers. This event is open to everyone. The cost is $7 per person (includes food) – children aged five and under are admitted for $3 per child. Volunteers are welcome and you can contact Iliana at 631-8855114.

Tuckahoe’s Spring Concerts this year will be on Tuesday, May 17, at 6:30 PM for grades Pre-K to three Chorus and Thursday, May 19, at 6:30 PM for grades 4 to 8 Chorus and Band.

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WHB High School Members of the Westhampton Beach High School Gay-Straight Alliance refrained from speaking on April 15 as part of the 20th annual National Day of Silence movement.

The students took vows not to speak to bring attention to the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

To f u r t h e r t h e i r e f f o r t s , participants signed a Day of Silence poster, pledging their support against harassment and bullying, and provided information to their peers during lunch periods.

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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease Gonna make a sentimental journey To renew old memories.

-Performed by Doris Day, Sept. 1944

So a few weeks ago our kids Jessie and J.T. devoted a weekend to showing us the wonders of the new Brooklyn. Forget that both my wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, and I were born in Brooklyn, four miles apart in distance and God knows how far apart financially.

My kids now live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Williamsburg went from being a poor Polish community to looking like as much of a college town as Cambridge, Mass.

To begin with, no one walking the streets of Williamsburg is over 26 years old. And being young, they have different eating habits than most of us.

The time they eat dinner is closer to that of Spain than the United States.

Go to any restaurant in Williamsburg at 11 PM and it will be packed to the rafters. We went to a Chinese restaurant called Kings County one Saturday night and at 10:45 PM there was a one-hour wait for a table.

Did I say Chinese? Yes, the food

was delicious, and very Chinese, but there wasn’t a single Asian in sight.

Waiters, cooks, owner, kitchen help – all Caucasian.

On Sunday the kids decided, “We want to see where you grew up.” So with Jessie driving, we headed to East 17th Street near Avenue H, where Judy grew up. The houses are still large, stately and beautiful. The ethnic make-up of Judy’s old neighborhood is Hassid Here, Hassid There, and on some blocks, Hassids Everywhere.

Then we headed for the home where I grew up a hundred years ago, on West 7th Street in the Gravesend section. My old neighborhood, once completely Italian, is now a mixture of Italian and Chinese, going heavier on the Chinese every time an old Italian dies. The houses, all attached the length of West 7th Street, are all tiny.

As it turned out, 2240A West 7th Street, the house my parents rented for $22 a month, was for sale, and there was an “Open House” sign.

Quickly we all piled into the house, which was only 950 square feet. We all started to feel like Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians, as each room was 7-feet by 8-feet or smaller. There was only one tiny bathroom. The four

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of us couldn’t fit into the kitchen.

My kids were shocked.

“How could you live here?”

“It’s so small.”

When I pointed out that the house once held my mother, my father, my grandmother, my grandfather, my uncle, my brother Joe and me, they started to laugh.

The thing is, I explained, we didn’t know we were poor. No one in the neighborhood knew they were poor.

So we weren’t poor. What I thought, but didn’t say out loud, was not only were we not poor, we were actually rich in so many ways.

All the things we didn’t have made our lives so much better than what people have today. We didn’t have things to pull the family apart.

We all ate together — every meal.

We all laughed together. No one left the table to watch television — there was no television.

No one spent his or her meal staring at their cellphone. We didn’t even have a telephone. If someone wanted to reach us they would call Barney’s, the candy store on the corner, and Barney – a kind man – would send a kid to tell us we had a phone call.

That was a source of great tension, because you only got a telephone call when someone died.

We didn’t own a car so we didn’t have to worry about parking and gas prices. The Sea Beach subway was right behind my house, so for a dime we could get on a train and we owned the city. When the Sea Beach Express came barreling past, my entire house shook. We didn’t even notice.

Every day in the summer, my mom would take my little brother Joe and me to Coney Island, which

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was just one train stop away from my home. For me, it was like traveling to Oz. For free.

I remember being seven or eight years old and my mom telling me to go under the turnstile with my brother.

“He’s only five,” she would say, because children up to age five could ride free.

“Sure, sure,” the man in the tollbooth would say. Then he’d say, “He’s big for his age,” and laugh as I rode free again.

Coney Island in the summer was magic.

When you walked off the subway, some incredible smells fought with each other to get into your nose. The first was the smell of raw clams being squirted with lemon. And then there was the smell of ice-cold beer foaming up and out of the glass in the clam bar that was in the promenade of the subway terminal.

As you walked across the street you smelled the sweetness of cotton candy, and two seconds later you smelled the garlic and spices of those sizzling Nathan’s hot dogs that made your mouth water. By the time you got to the boardwalk, you were starving and reaching into your bag of homemade eggplant parmigiana sandwiches to sneak a bite.

The walk on the beach was a joke.

There seemed to be millions of people on the beach; consequently, there was no beach. We stepped on one beach blanket after another. Finally, my mom staked out a claim and we parked our blanket, touching four other blankets, and rushed to the water.

To be honest, the water in Coney Island was just slightly cleaner than the Ganges in India. Long after World War II was over, the water in Coney Island was filled with oil chunks that blackened our feet. I remember my father telling me that it probably came from one of the ships that had been blown up nearby during the war. I remember wondering if it was one of ours or one of theirs.

But now the smell in the air was suntan oil, and as a kid I remember staying in the water for hours to fight the waves. Invariably, my mother would call me in because “Your lips are turning blue.” She never came into the water. She just joined all the other mothers who were standing on the shore on “blue lip patrol.” When the time came to go home, I always begged for another half-hour. They always gave it to me.

Summer is so much longer when you’re young. I want my kids and grandkids to know about my Coney Island.

Back in the days when I was really rich.

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Alliance Wins Grant The Flanders, Riverside, Northampton Community Association in partnership with the newly formed Peconic River Community Development Alliance has been awarded a $20,000 grant through the Long Island Community Foundation.

Formed in January, the Alliance is a community group with representation from Riverhead and Southampton towns, community members and business leaders.

It submitted a competitive grant application in January. The grant application proposes to employ a community organizer to develop a community engagement and outreach campaign, recruit volunteers to engage in the outreach process, and to work with local partners to create a website and social media presence.

The focus of each of these components of the grant will be to engage community members in Peconic River community events and opportunities, and to spur economic development.

The Alliance has partnered with the Flanders, Riverside, Northampton Civic Association

and the Town of Southampton as co-applicant on this grant. Vince Taldone, president of FRNCA and a member of the board of the newly formed Alliance stated, “We are very pleased to have received this grant. It is another significant step in the overall revitalization effort within the Riverside/Riverhead communities.”

Siris Barrios, also a member of the Alliance board, and the

coordinator of the Revitalize Riverside effort added, “The work of the Alliance, through this grant opportunity, is a natural outgrowth of and complement to the work our office had done in Riverside over the past several months.”

Larry Oxman, a member of the Riverhead Business Improvement District, and an Alliance board member further added, “This grant is a wonderful first success for the

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Alliance. We are very grateful to LICF for their commitment to our efforts.”

Other members of the Alliance Board include Diane Tucci, local resident and media specialist, Chris Kemper, Director, Town of Riverhead Community Development Agency, and Frank Zappone, Southampton Town Deputy Supervisor. The Alliance is actively seeking community members and local organizations to join its board of directors.

The Alliance will post a job description and employment listing for a part time community organizer shortly after its next meeting in May.

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Committee Week The Suffolk County Legislature will hold its committee meetings in the Evans K. Griffing Legislative Auditorium in Riverhead next week.

It is the first time that committee meetings will be held in Riverhead.

The change came at the request of First District Legislator Al Krupski and Second District Legislator Bridget Fleming, who argued that holding some committee meetings in Riverhead would make Suffolk County government more open and accessible for residents in the eastern portion of the county.

Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory agreed.

“County government is local government, and local government must be accessible to its constituents,” said Presiding Officer Gregory. “That is why the Suffolk County Legislature has decided to hold two cycles of Committee Week meetings this year in Riverhead, giving East End residents who can’t travel to Hauppauge easier access to the legislative process.”

Meetings scheduled for Monday through May 5 will be held in the Riverhead Legislative Auditorium in the Evans K. Griffing Building (300 Center Drive) in advance of the May 10 General Meeting, which will also be held in Riverhead. One other Committee Week cycle this year will be held in Riverhead, from August

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Keep It Clean The Great East End Clean-up, now in its tenth year, is a communitydriven effort to remove debris and litter from public areas throughout Southampton Town. This year volunteers will gather on Dune Road in Westhampton Dunes on Saturday morning at 10 AM.

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Teen Job Fair The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the John Jermain Library in coordinating a Job Fair for high school students.

On Thursday, May 5, at 6 PM in the library, there will be a Resume Writing Workshop. On Thursday, May 12, a job fair will be held from 6 to 8 PM in Dodds & Eder.

Cathy Creedon will host the Resume Writing Workshop in conjunction with the Library’s Teen Program. David Brogna (Professor, New York State University at FIT) has volunteered his services for the instruction of the resume workshop and the coordination of the businesses for the Job Fair.

The Job Fair is open to all Sag Harbor Chamber Member Businesses. RSVP your interest in participating in the Job Fair by emailing David Brogna at vp@ sagharborchamber.com.

This is a great opportunity to follow up the Speak-Out held at Bay Street Theatre where the students identified the need for greater involvement with the business community. It is also an opportunity for the Chamber to follow-up and get involved in showing the many opportunities available to our local teen population.

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Mother’s Day is on the horizon and on May 8, you’re not thinking about showing up with some lame grocery store flowers again, are you? Get some inspiration from the words of famed folks and show mom the respect she deserves.

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” -- Abraham Lincoln “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

-- Rudyard Kipling “The most important thing a man can do for his children is love their mother.” -- Theodore Hesburgh “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” -- Milton Berle “By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.

They are the great vacationless class.”-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh “No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell “If you bungle raising your

children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” -- Oscar Wilde “Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.” -- Rita Rudner “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” -Phyllis Diller “A lot of things have been done in bed in the name of love . . . but nothing comes close to the traditional Mother’s Day breakfast in bed.” -- Erma Bombeck “When I had my baby, I screamed and screamed. And that was just during conception.” -- Joan Rivers “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” -- Jane Sellman “The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.” -- Dorothy Parker “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” -- Bette Davis

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Each child adventurer will borrow a SoFo backpack of naturalist tools to use as they walk through Wolf Swamp’s three-quarter mile round trip trail through a freshwater swamp near Big Fresh Pond. Starts at 10 AM. Advanced registration is required. Call 631-537-9735. Museum is located on Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike.

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starting on Sunday. Girls ages eight to 12 will explore issues they care about through exercises, journaling and theater games to create their own mini-dance theater pieces for which they will direct and perform.

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North Fork News best way for people to get to know us is to try some for free.”

Free activities to sample on Riverhead Community Day will include: Mini-Golf, Foot Golf (instead of using clubs, players kick a ball into a 21-inch cup), No Put Golf (players use only wedges to chip the ball into a 21-inch cup), Paint Ball Shooting Booth, Bubble Palooza Party Pit, Survival Race Demonstration, Kids Obstacle Course, Face Painting, and Make-Up Artists.

In the months ahead, Long Island Sports Park also plans to hold music and art festivals, offer Bubble, Mud, Color and other theme runs, host a Zombie Festival and lay out a

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Riverhead Community Day Family fun, fitness and adventure are the name of the game at the new Long Island Sports Park in Calverton. The 80-acre facility will open on Saturday with a “Riverhead Community Day” during which all are welcome and visitors can sample a wide variety of games and activities for free.

“This is just a fun way to introduce ourselves to the local community and let everyone see what we’ve done to get up and running,” said owner Dean Del Prete. “There are so many activities going on here that we figured the

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Plum Island Update

Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) hosted a press conference Sunday to announce a major breakthrough on legislation he introduced in Congress just over one year ago, on April 17, 2015. H.R. 1887 would prevent the sale of Plum Island by the federal government to the highest bidder.

Joined by supportive local elected officials, environmental groups and residents who are concerned with the sale of Plum Island, Congressman Zeldin announced that his bill will be marked up with an amendment and voted on in the House Homeland Security Committee tomorrow, releasing the bill from committee and allowing it to come to a vote on the House floor this year.

The bill as amended will commission the Government Accountability Office, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, which currently owns the island, to formulate a comprehensive plan for the future of the island.

This plan will include possible alternative uses for the island including a transfer of ownership to another federal agency, the state or local government, a non-profit, or a combination thereof for the purpose of education, research, and conservation.

Since World War II, Plum Island has been utilized as a research laboratory. The facility, which has been under federal jurisdiction since 1899, has since grown to become what is known today as the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security, which currently has jurisdiction over the island, announced that the Animal Disease Center research would be moved to a new federal facility, the Bio-andAgro Defense Facility in Kansas. To offset the cost of this relocation, a law was enacted that called for the private sale of Plum Island to the highest bidder.

However, due to the costs associated with the cleanup and closure of Plum Island, and because of Southold Town zoning restrictions, the federal government would receive little compensation for the sale of Plum Island.

Allowing for continued research, public access and permanent preservation of the island, Congressman Zeldin’s bill, will

reverse a 2008 law that mandated the public sale of Plum Island by the federal government.

“Situated at the gateway of the Long Island Sound, Plum Island is treasured by our local community,”

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Congressman Lee Zeldin (at podium, center) announces a breakthrough in the effort to protect Plum Island.

he said. “As a critical resource for research, approximately 90 percent of the land on Plum Island has been sheltered from development, offering Long Island a diverse wildlife and ecosystem and a critical

habitat for migratory birds, marine mammals, and rare plants.”

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Continued from page 5. inductees into the Honor Society.

The National Foreign Language Honor Society is more than just an honor roll.”

The World Language Department seeks to promote a supportive environment, which enables their students to attain sufficient learning in a language other English in order to prepare the students for a productive role in the global community. The purpose of the National Foreign Language Honor Society is to recognize those students who have excelled in the study of

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their chosen world language.

At the ceremony the audience enjoyed a prelude from a musical offering by award winning musician Yasmine Kocan on cello, greeted relatives and friends as they entered the school before the ceremony began.

“Sixty-two students were inducted this year,” states Director of K-12 ENL, Bilingual Programs and World Languages Director Liz Scaduto, who congratulated the students, parents and teachers on their accomplishment and encouraged the language students to continue their studies in world languages.

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Members of the Westhampton Beach High School Gay-Straight Alliance refrained from speaking on April 15 as part of the 20th annual National Day of Silence movement.

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Spring Concert The Jamesport Meeting House Chorus will have their spring concert at the Meeting House on Saturday at 7:30 PM. The theme for this concert is You’ve Got A Friend and the songs all reflect on helping each other, being friends, and part of a family.

Songs will include: You’ll Never Walk Alone, Together Wherever We Go, Family, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough and others.

Tim and Wendy Morrin will be featured in a medley of friends songs, Sandy Fayette is the piano accompanist, Michael Bennett will be on drums, Michael Murphy on bass and it is all directed by George Moravek. He reports that he and the chorus “have had great fun singing and rehearsing for this concert.”

Suggested donation is $10.

The Jamesport Meeting House is located at 1590 Main Road, on the corner of Main Road and Manor Lane in Jamesport. Built by Riverhead’s Puritan pioneers in 1731, it is the oldest standing public building on the East End of Long Island.

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Continued from page 11. historical resource as well,” the congressman continued. “To protect this precious land, I introduced legislation in Congress last year that would prevent the sale of the island by the federal government to

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early as Thursday, April 28, of this upcoming week. Working with my colleagues in the House and Senate, and supportive groups in the tristate area like the Preserve Plum Island coalition, I will continue pushing for passage of this critical bill out of committee and on the House floor so that we protect Plum Island.”

“Protection of Plum Island is critically important to the people of the East End. The Congressman’s leadership and vision on this important issue lets us all know we have a champion for our cause in Washington,” said Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell.

Erin Crotty, Director of the Audubon New York, informed that More than 210 bird species breed or forage on Plum Island and in adjacent coastal waters,

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including many threatened and endangered species. “As the human footprint expands, natural and critical habitat like that found on Plum Island becomes increasingly scarce.. It’s urgent that the island be permanently preserved for conservation, recreation, education, and research,” he said.

“Over the past six decades, the current Plum Island operation has served not only the region and the nation well, it has served the best interests of the whole world,” North Fork Environmental Council President Bill Toedter opined.

As the mission of the current lab transitions, it’s in the hands of elected representatives to ensure that the island continues to serve the best interests of the region and nation, he remarked. “With its unique location and its diverse and dynamic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and the animals they support, Plum Island is a national treasure which must be protected and preserved. Only by doing so, can this unique and important national treasure continue to flourish and serve the interests of nature, science and the public,” said Toedter.

“As we celebrate Earth Week, we are reminded that the perpetual protection of Plum Island is an incredible opportunity to preserve a significant natural and historical asset of our East End community.

We urge the Federal government to adopt a conservation plan for the island that will benefit all! It’s a rare opportunity - one we should not miss,” said John v.H. Halsey, President of the Peconic Land Trust. “ We applaud Congressman Zeldin for taking bold steps to enact legislation to protect Plum Island — a national treasure. With seven miles of natural shoreline, hundreds of bird species, seals, rare plants, and 700 undeveloped acres, it’s considered one of The Nature Conservancy’s top land preservation priorities for Long Island,” said Nancy Kelley, Executive Director for The Nature Conservancy on Long Island.

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The Hamptons First Gay Bar

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The Elm Tree Inn circa 1955.

By Rick Murphy

Long before the The Swamp, even before the Millstone Tavern, there was a gay bar in the Hamptons, back in the early fifties no less.

In those days the words “gay” and “bar” didn’t even go together; the Elm Tree Inn in Amagansett was a place where the intelligentsia roamed. Artists, writers, political activists of all color gathered for

conversation and more than a few heated arguments.

It was also a place people, regardless of color, creed, or sexual orientation, went to unwind, including more than a few boldfaced names – yes, the Hamptons were a place where celebrities gathered even back then.

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Kathryn and Rick Liss, brother and sister, have vivid memories of the childhood years they spent there, some good, some not.

Their parents, Sam and Terry Liss, were controversial figures at the time but through no fault of their own. They opened the tavern in the building that later became Martels, Tomatoes and Ocean’s. The

building eventually burned down (see accompanying article).

Rick Liss was just a young boy during the days of the inn, but the memories linger. His parents both worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Just two years from retirement and a pension, both parents became a victim of the anti-communist paranoia of the CONTINUED ON B-3.

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You Can Come Home Again

Rick Liss.

By Rick Murphy

Rick Liss knew in his heart that an important piece of his life stayed at the site, even after his parents sold the Elm Tree Inn. Soon, it will be home again.

Liss, an artist and filmmaker, b u s e d t a b l es in Amaganse tt during summers after his parent’s shuttered the Inn. He graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York City and received a BFA from Cooper Union. His East End roots served him well – he was mentored as a teenager by Willem de Kooning.

Liss’s birth parents were an Indonesian Ambassador to the UN and his American translator. But Sam and Terry Liss adopted him at birth. They were both agricultural

economists who worked for the federal government in Washington, D.C. Both were blacklisted during the McCarthy era and ended up running the Inn in Amagansett in 1953.

East Hampton was home to a growing congregation of freethinkers, including others affected by the blacklist. “During my childhood my parents’ world was peppered with a colorful mix of political activists, artists, writers, actors, filmmakers and painters,” Liss recalled.

A painting major/film minor at the Cooper Union art school in New York City, Liss established himself in the burgeoning loft life of lower Manhattan. At that time, New York City was wracked by financial crisis.

Artists and other young people were happy to find new homes within the dilapidated industrial loft buildings. There was a new bohemian subculture forming.

Artists revitalized downtown New York and briefly transformed it into the art capital of the world.

According to Liss’s biography, “The downtown energy was electric.

Painters, sculptors, musicians, theater-makers, photographers, and videographers were shoving aside the old ‘isms’ of the art world and soaring into a new realm of artistic possibility.”

Liss worked as a plumber for a time, and would buy a loft, develop it, and sell it. All the time he would

stash the proceeds away.

Meanwhile he never lost sight of his master plan – tear down the old saltbox in Amagansett and build the home he would spend the rest of his life in. “I’ve been planning this since the day my

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mother died. When I finally raised $30,000 I found out it would cost $50,000, and that’s how it went.”

Finally, though, all the pieces have come together. The new house is being erected where the old house stood.

As for Liss, he found a temporary place on Gansett Green – where he lived as a young child some 60 years ago. “It’s fabulous to go back to where I spent the first years of my life,” he said.

What Became Of The Inn The Elm Tree Inn located by the Amagansett firehouse, dates back to 1825, when it was a general store. There were add-ons over the year.

In the early 50s Sam and Teresa Liss wanted to buy and operate a summer camp and they were interested in the property because there were cottages on it – about 30.

Instead, they opened the Inn and either rented out or provided, free of charge, the cottages to patrons, friends, and transients.

Sam and Teresa (Terry) were hounded on several fronts. They were blacklisted, falsely accused of being Communists, and harassed by the FBI. Locally, the bar developed a gay clientele, incensing locals.

In 1957 the Lisses were denied a renewal of their liquor license, ostensibly for serving a minor.

They sold off five acres to the fire department, which only had three bays at the time but was contemplating expansion.

The family built a saltbox on the remaining one acre.

The business changed to Martell’s in the ‘60s and became one of the busiest of the East End hotspots, drawing young singles and featuring live music – Larry Rivers was one of many who played there.

A fire damaged Martels in 1972. It reopened with a new name, Tomatoes, but was again decimated by fire in 1983.

Later in the ‘80s it became Oceans, and then Pacific East. One night it burnt to the ground, and though tongues wagged the fire was suspicious, no charges were ever filed.

Rick Liss, the son of Teresa and Sam, lived in the saltbox on the property.

He said almost 30 years after the fire he ran into someone who purported to know for a fact that the old Inn had indeed been torched.

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One of the original cabins from the Inn is in Rick Liss’s yard.

Harold Rosenberg. Before long, Sam and Terry Liss counted them among their friends and they included Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, and Jimmy Ernst, Miller and his wife, Marilyn Monroe among many more. Two of the celebrities Liss still remembers fondly were Monroe and Pollock. “They would look you in the eye. Most adults don’t do that to children. They treated me like a person.”

The Elm Tree Inn prospered in its heyday and the Lisses ran it for five years, from 1953 through 1957. “It

was considered a gay friendly bar but it was much more than that,” Rick said. “There was a serious mixed crowd of artists, writers, actors, show people, political people and civilians.” Many were gay. “In those days to cater to and accept the homosexual community was extremely unpopular to the status quo of East Hampton in the age of McCarthyism which was the catalyst for my parents opening the bar in the first place,” said Rick.

There were some awkward times.

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McCarthy era.

“My parents were not communists,” Rick Liss recalled.

They were, though, passionate about politics and world affairs.

“My mother was raising money to overthrow Franco in 1951. They landed on the House Un-American Activities List.”

Liss was born in 1951. “I was too young to remember the anxiety of the blacklist and the FBI hounding our family by telephone,” he recalled. “There were letters to the East Hampton Star falsely accusing my parents of being Communists which they never were, in their words they were ‘humanists’ a label which only today is starting to gain acceptance.”

“We knew that Dad had been blacklisted,” remembered Kathryn, Rick’s older sister. “We knew that the day that Rick was born, Dad was celebrating with his best friend, Herb Benjamin, a known Communist, and they were followed

by FBI agents.”

Kathryn, five years older than Rick, felt the sting of being different.

“My parents had a gay bar, we were Jewish, and I had an Asian brother,” she recalled. “I was a pariah. I was

an outcast.”

The Lisses decided to move out east where Sam’s brother Joe was ensconced. The plan was to open a children’s camp, and the Elm Tree Inn was the only available property that fit the bill.

Joe’s friends – he was a writer in the burgeoning television industry -- were an eclectic mix to be sure, and they were to become regulars at the bar. As were Arthur Miller and

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An analysis of the real estate market for the first quarter of 2016 prepared by Brown Harris Stevens shows a surprisingly active market for moderately priced houses on the East End. For example, 42 percent of sales

in The Hamptons west of the Shinnecock Canal were houses selling for $500,000 or less. On the east side the number was 11 percent.

On the North Fork, the median price for two houses sold was only $164,500. In all, 44 houses sold for $350,000 or less on the North Fork

during the first quarter of this year.

The average price of a house sold in The Hamptons during the quarter was almost $2.1 million, almost 10 percent more than the same quarter in 2015.

The median price rose 4.4 percent, but sales volume was down more than 21 percent, a surprising number when the historically bad weather the area experienced last winter is factored in.

The numbers were kinder to the North Fork. The average price rose 34 percent and the median price was over 16 percent higher. Sales volume was up 13.4 percent.

A three-year comparison of first quarter sales shows some possible trends emerging. For example, the average price of a house sold in Hampton Bays has declined from

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In Montauk the median price and the average sales price have risen for three consecutive years. The average price has gone from just over one million to $1.65 million over that span. The median price has risen from $860,500 to $975,000.

A look at 15 year trends shows the dollar volume of all transactions, in millions, has more than doubled, from $1,864,000 in 2000 to $4,419,000 in 2015, though that number was slightly down from the 2014 figure of $4,554,000.

The total number of sales has yet to produce the selling/buying frenzy experienced in earlier years. For example, almost 2900 properties exchanged hands in 2000 and again in 2004. The numbers dipped markedly during the correction of 2008, to 1208, and 1154 in 2009. The number rose gradually to 2335 but retreated slightly in 2015 to 2224.

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Leandra’s Law A Wading River man was charged with violating the state’s Leandra Law after a car accident in Calverton Saturday morning.

Riverhead Town Police said Michael K. Winters, 45, was driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol when his pick up truck smashed into a utility pole on Route 25 around 10 AM. Winters was charged with DWI but, because there was a six yearold in the car, he was hit with the felony Leandra violation. He was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

Winters was arrested and held for arraignment.

Not Again East Hampton Village Police and firefighters responded to the J. Crew store on Main Street in the village around noon on April 18 fearing another fire had broken out. The store suffered significant damage from a fire last year. This time, a faulty light fixture was found in the basement.

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RICK’S SPACE Don’t You Forget About Me! For more than two centuries little kids in schoolhouses all over America were tasked with learning the names of all of the U.S. Presidents. There were puzzles.

There were coin collections and stamps.

All in all there have been 44 of them.

I am one of them. I am Andrew Jackson.

Okay, I don’t have a big memorial like Lincoln and Washington, which annoys the living hell out of me. I knew George – he had wooden teeth. He wore a gray wig.

He reminded me of a barmaid I knew in Georgetown.

I guess I’m a bit nondescript. I ain’t the dumb one, that’s fer sure.

The Bush kid’s got that sewed up. I ain’t some high fallutin’ Hollywood star like Reagan. But I do have a cool nickname: “Old Hickory.”

Maybe you don’t think it’s cool but consider we called John Adams “His Rotundity.” They called Zachary

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Maybe they should have called him “Sickly and Unprepared.”

You would think a manly man like me wouldn’t be remembered for the “Petticoat Affair” but I am.

That’s because vicious Washington gossip mongers spread the tale that the wife of my Secretary of War, Peggy Eaton, had been a prostitute. I convened a joint session of congress and famously bellowed, ”She is as chaste as a virgin!” Notice I didn’t actually state she was a virgin -- that might have been stretching things a bit.

So, you see, I have a history of defending women, just ask my wife Rachel – well, she’s dead but if she were alive she’d tell ya. I actually loved her so much that I married her while she was married to someone else — true story. That’s why she had a nickname too -- “Old Bigamist.”

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how I got my nickname, doncha?

Barbecue sauce and bourbon. I’m the one that mixed them together.

“Smells like old hickory,” someone said. By the end of the night I was puttin’ the bourbon on the chicken and swigging the sauce. Same difference.

Now let’s get to the reason I’m writing to you. That’s why I understand they want to put some of our women folk on dollar bills.

No one understands that more than Old Hickory Jackson. Hell, the closest thing to a girl we’ve ever had in the White House was J. Edgar Hoover when he dressed up to visit.

Look folks, I was an Army general, fought in three wars. I was a Prez, for two terms. I earned my spot on the $20 bill.

Here’s one fer ya: guess what Prez is on the $100 bill? Don’t matter who you answered, you’re wrong, because Ben Franklin is on a C-Note. He ain’t no president and never will be, ‘cause he’s dead. How did his face get on that bill? He invented the kite. That’s right, the kite. Big freakin’ deal.

It gets worse. He went to Paris to live and ate himself silly on all that fancy French food. I say make them Frenchies pay their war debt back and until then take Benjamin off the C-note.

Lincoln is keeping his fiver,

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which we call a “Fin.” Why isn’t Mark Twain on it?

This is what I mean. It’s just plain dumb. Might as well put the fellas who invented the Hula Hoop on there. Yes, I know who invented the Hula Hoop. My mind is filled with such knowledge. It was Arthur K. “Spud” Melin and Richard Knerr.

How do you figure that? Man invents a toy and they name a potato after him.

Do you know there is a $1000 bill? You don’t know whose picture is on it, do you? Well, it’s Grover Cleveland. They already named a whole city after him, ain’t that enough?

Salmon Chase. That’s the answer.

The question? Whose picture is on the $10,000 bill? Who was he?

Google him – he was a charter member of the “Semi-Colon Club.”

The way I figure it if he wasn’t good enough for the Whole Colon Club he shouldn’t be on a dollar bill. Put some woman’s face on the damn thing so they quit squawking.

And I’ll tell you somethin’ else – that Grant was an ornery old mule. None of us could figure how he got himself on the $50 bill. I say put Jayne Mansfield on it. She may not have done a lot for womenfolk, but she sure as hell played an important role in the development of adolescent boys.

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Kathryn did not enjoy her days in the Amagansett School. I was teased in school not only because my father ran a bar and restaurant which was mostly patronized by gay men,” Kathryn recalled. “There was this little group of people and I didn’t belong. I’ve spent the rest of my life trying to overcome the hurt I felt.”

Some of the locals were more vocal than others when it came to the Lisses, a polarizing family through no fault of their own.

“There was talk that even when he applied for a liquor license and again when he applied for a real estate broker’s license, there were letters to the editor asking why these were being given to a ‘Communist,’” Kathryn said.

Kathryn said she sometimes hitched a ride to school with Robert Q. Lewis, who was openly gay. “I also remember being very confused that the children I went to school with would say Robert “Queer” Lewis, but when he drove into town in his Rolls Royce and stopped to talk with me, they wanted his autograph,” she remembered.

The cottages, between 24 and 30, created a whole social scene of their own.

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(Williams) had another orgy in the back last night.’” Rick related, “I feel very lucky to have had such visionary parents to have been so nonchalant and un-judgmental about that concept in the mid 50s.”

Both siblings knew Monroe and Miller well. “I remember when Arthur came out and Dad arranged for him to rent a place. He drove up with Marilyn Monroe in the car and I got to shake her hand. Mr. Miller was concerned about listing his phone number, and Dad told him that there were dozens of Millers in the area,” Kathryn said.

They were wonderful years for the family. The Inn was located directly behind the flagpole just east of the Amagansett Firehouse.

At first the family lived in the front house on Gansett Green. In 1957 they erected a saltbox next door to the Inn. But the McCarthy witch hunt, and the fact that East Hampton circa 1957 was still a small-minded place, conspired against the Lisses. ”The bar was closed because they lost their liquor license which was a reaction to the gayness of the bar,” Rick asserted. “The technicality for losing the liquor license was for serving minors.”

Terry Liss had just about had enough with the whisperers and critics. Vibrant, passionate and politically active, she was glad to return to New York City when the liquor license was rescinded.

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They continued to spend the summers in Amagansett in the house, which Rick just tore down. “My father died in a Democratic Party meeting when he was 66,” Kathryn related. “My mother lived for another 13 years till she was 75."

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barn. That barn is now part of the East Hampton Town Hall complex, which de Menil donated to the town decades later. She died in the house there.

"My mother didn’t have many people to share her politics with.

She didn’t have intellectual stimulations in Amagansett,” her daughter opined.

The Inn was sold after the license was lost, but the owners never paid off the full price.

Rick Liss, drawn to the site and the memories, was never able to say goodbye. He moved in the day his mother died.

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Not that long ago, buying a new car was a great experience for the whole family. Unfortunately, not so much anymore for some people.

That’s because some local dealers have been using dubious tactics like the old bait-and-switch or confusing payment plans and extra charges.

Not at Buzz Chew. You only need to know three things. First, the price you pay when you pick up your new car or truck is the same as the day you looked at it. Second, Buzz believes it’s only a good deal if both parties are satis�ed. Third, Buzz’s name is on every car and truck.

As April comes to a close, and the weather is (finally) warming up, the time has come for people’s gardens to be flourishing.

This week’s tips come from The New York Botanical Garden, which is celebrating its 125th year. NYBG offers gardening tips each month. As far as chores and maintenance go, NYBG experts say it’s all about digging and dividing soon to be blooming flowerbeds.

Mulching planting beds is recommended, using acid mulch for azaleas, rhododendrons, and other ornamentals. This is also the time to begin the application of deer repellents.

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“We all know that driving under the influence can have devastating consequences,” said Assemblyman Thiele. “That’s why I’m encouraging young people to take this pledge and reminding them to never drink and drive or ride with someone who has been drinking.”

The pledge asks parents and guardians to drive teens home at any time of the night - with no questions asked - and for teens to refuse to drink and drive or accept a ride from anyone who has been drinking.

Thiele noted that car accidents are the leading cause of death for teens, with a quarter of those crashes involving an underage driver who has been drinking.

Statistics collected by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) also show that 4700 people die each year as a result of teen alcohol use and one in seven teens binge drink.

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Oh, dear Lord!

Yesterday was National Pretzel Day, Richter Scale Day and “Hug an Australian” Day. We weren’t quite sure how to celebrate.

Today is National Administrative Professional Day. It’s also Babe Ruth Day and National Prime Rib Day, too. And “Tell a Story” Day. You could celebrate by giving your secretary a pair of (Boston) Red Socks or Yankee Hankies, some meat and a tall tale.

Tomorrow is International Astronomy Day, Great Poetry Reading Day, Kiss Your Mate Day and Take Your Daughter To Work Day. Sneak a smooch under the stars while your kid’s perusing some Shel Silverstein. Easy peasy.

We can’t wait till Friday. It’s Arbor Day and Greenery Day, sure, but it’s also National Shrimp Scampi Day. Saturday closes out the month of April with a tricky set of national holidays. It’s “Hairstyle Appreciation Day,” but it’s also “National Honesty Day.” “It’ll grow” is an honest answer, as is “Have a tic tac” to those with scampi hangovers.

Sunday kicks off Date Your Mate Month, Foster Care Month, National Barbecue Month, National Bike Month, National Blood Pressure Month, National Photograph Month, National Recommitment Month, National Salad Month, and Older Americans Month.

Whew! That’s lot to celebrate. Let us know how you’re putting them all together – taking a picture of grandma having a burger hot off the grill perhaps? Let’s see who can get all May’s “months” into one big soiree. (Email news@indyeastend.com.)

Wait, there’s more.

Next Tuesday is Lumpy Rug Day and National Candied Orange Peel Day follows, as does Star Wars Day. (May the Fourth Be With You.) Oyster Day. International Tuba Day. No Diet Day. No Socks Day, followed by Lost Sock Memorial Day. Blame Someone Else Day, Dance Like a Chicken Day, and National Sea Monkey Day are coming up in May. Pack Rat Day, National Bike To Work Day and National Waiters and Waitresses Day are coming, as are World Goth Day and National Escargot Day. Days celebrating wine, tap dance, sunscreen, jazz, composting, flowers and macaroons loom.

But around these parts the day that inspires the most excitement, and hope, is Memorial Day, May 30. It will be here soon.

Can’t wait.

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End Of An Era?

Dear Rick, Coach Bill McKee’s recent retirement from his position as East Hampton High School Varsity Basketball Coach may mark the end of an era that started in 1959, when Coach Ed Petrie began his outstanding

basketball coaching career at Pierson with Coach Bob Vishno.

For ten years Coach Petrie and Coach Vishno had great success at Pierson. When Coach Petrie became the varsity basketball coach at East Hampton, Coach Tom Bubka was his right hand man for twenty years.

When Coach Bubka retired, Coach Bill McKee became Coach Petrie’s assistant.

When Coach Petrie retired five years ago, Coach McKee became the head coach, and I became one of Bill’s assistant

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By Ed Gifford coaches, along with Bill’s younger brother, Joey McKee. Coach Bill and I would often kid each other that the assistant coach has it made in the shade because he never loses games and he never loses sleep! Over the past five years Coach Bill lost his share of both because he cares. He cares about winning on the scoreboard as much as anyone, but he cares just as much about being fair and building good character for

Is it just me?

Let’s watch The Revenant. It’s on DVD. Leonardo DiCaprio ate a real buffalo heart to make his performance convincing! He won the Academy Award for Best Actor!

It sounds gruesome.

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young men to be successful in life.

Coach Bill McKee has experienced several deeply disappointing losses.

Rather than blame the players for how they performed, he always took full responsibility for the outcome, unless we won, in which case he always gave full credit to the players.

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If he’s such a great actor why did he have to eat a real buffalo heart to be convincing? Couldn’t he just act like he was eating a a real buffalo heart?

I guess that’s a no.

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Continued from page 17. potential, and he never distracted himself from that vision. Once or twice I thought he might be overestimating our talent; but once the players started believing in their ability as much as he did, talent came out that they didn’t even know they had.

In conclusion, I have seen much in my experience as a coach and as an observer of coaches. Some say it is difficult to coach in the shadows of a legend, but it was not difficult for Coach Bill McKee. This past season, Coach McKee’s first after the death of Coach Ed Petrie, he honored his mentor by leaving the head coach’s chair vacant for games. Not only was this a classy gesture, but it is also possible that he was getting some valuable instructions from a higher power.

Given the far-reaching legacy of Coach Petrie, perhaps the end of the 57-year era he started has not yet actually arrived.

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Cicadas Dear Editor, Cicadas, who will emerge this spring in the Northeast after 17 years underground, are causing quite a buzz. In some parts of the world, these musical insects are considered good luck, and they’re good for the environment, too.

Cicada nymphs’ tunnels aerate the soil, allowing more water to reach trees’ roots.

Female cicadas perform a natural pruning service for large trees. When cicadas die, their bodies provide a nitrogen-rich fertilizer—resulting in trees that grow faster and flowers that produce larger seeds.

If you’re lucky enough to hear the cicadas’ love song this spring, please respect these beneficial insects and let them complete their life cycle in peace.

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Homesick Dear Editor, Spring of 2016, I travel the ocean in a bright orange Jeep, with a man that has shoes to match.

I see no trucks with wooden backs, I see no men running up and down the beach tying on the net that is being pulled up onto the shore with skill and precise movements.

The buoy that once shows in the surf before the catch is pulled in. The excitement in the air with each pull of the mighty net that holds the bounty of the sea that feeds their families.

I ride to the bays, I see a small dragger

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What did you think hearing the news about Prince?

Leon Day I was devastated to hear the news. Only 57!

That’s so young. He accomplished so much though. For us, he represented the younger generation, the peace movement. His songs are about those good, “let’s all get along” messages. He was The Prince of Peace.

Sara Goldfarb I remembered when I was at the University of Pennsylvania, one night at four in the morning and someone was blasting Purple Rain over and over. So I will never forget that song. He was a legend and he’ll be remembered eternally.

Josh Goldfarb What sad news. I grew up listening to his music. He was an incredible icon of our time. I can’t say I had a favorite song. I loved all of his music. Our personal homage to him, my wife and I decided, was to watch his movie last night, Purple Rain.

Patricia Prado.

I felt terrible! Of course I’m a Prince fan. Purple Rain was my favorite song. And I didn’t know that he died until two days later when I saw a post on Facebook.

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out working the bay, I see a few local men digging clams. I see the traps standing tall in the water, I hope they’re filled with fish.

Where have the all the fishermen gone?

When I was young, I really took it for granted, the fishing world around me.

Never gave it too much thought, it might one day be gone. As years slipped by, I watched the struggle, of the men fighting to be able to fish, slowly seeing less and less men fishing and clamming.

It sure does seem stupid to have to fight to do something that was being done for centuries. The rules and regulation, the fees paid to hold a license that should be for the taking. After all, it takes a special kind of person to fish for a living. The average Joe might make a go of it a couple days but true fishermen around the world will tell you some folks are not made of the stuff it takes to be a fisherman.

The people that have invaded the town, slowly taking over, now I might find it hard to ride the beach, to sit and enjoy the waves pounding on the shore, theses strange people that invaded East Hampton

are going to try and stop beach access.

They want that beach to themselves, yes! They are trying to make the beach private. Who would have ever thought people would be that greedy? Yes, it’s all about them. They have the dollars and the fancy pants lawyers. How do these people sleep at night? I guess if you’re a lawyer and get paid your morals of what is right and wrong don’t matter. We have to stop them because if not they will slowly take control of most of East Hampton Beaches, making them all private and we will be left with very few spots to enjoy having that picnic on the beach with family on a Sunday afternoon.

I ride around and see houses being built so large, every inch, of land being bought up by the wealthy. Huge houses, where the potato field used to be. I don’t see the farmer riding the streets going from one field to another. Cornfields are half what they used to be. What happened to them?

Our children being lost in a world that is nothing like it was when I grew up, the Continued on Page 19.

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or spades. The second highest score on the hand went to the only team that ended up in 5 hearts making eleven tricks.

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East could now see that his hand was worth much more knowing that he and West had both majors and that his 5 hearts and singleton diamond would give his partner great ruffing power.

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enough to double when you have been too aggressive. A second thought: Reevaluate your hand (sometimes up and sometimes down) after your partner has bid.

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This hand was played recently at the Water Mill Bridge Club. There were three different outcomes to the bidding. Most EW teams ended up in a 4S contract, which usually made exactly ten tricks. One NS team got a little frisky and ended up in a doubled contract of 5D! Generally a team is careful about making a sacrifice bid when NS is vulnerable and they (EW) are not.

That NS team earned a bottom score on the hand when they went down 3 tricks doubled, giving EW a top score of 800 points. Note that EW can only make 400+ points even if they make a game in hearts

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Forget the lush green of growing things. This spring, orange, as in traffic cones, is the on trend hue, with road projects underway all across the region. Above, pole replacement work continues on the North Fork.

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locals that are older than myself just shake their heads not even believing what has happened to the lovely little towns that they call home. Our children will never know and feel the freedom we had.

So many have moved away to other states because they have a chance to own homes and have the American dream.

Their children never knowing of our sweet little hamlets of life in East Hampton as we knew it.

The stories will be passed down and our grandchildren might get a glimpse into the old world of East Hampton through the stories, but they will never truly know the life we use to have.

The East End of Long Island and many, coastal fishing towns are being destroyed and raped of a way of life. Due to the rules and regulations and the greedy rich. I for one am feeling raped and I thought that was against the law.

I’m just homesick for the life that once was East Hampton.

EDIE SMITH

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The beginning of last year’s race.

The 2nd Annual Back to the Bays 5K and Family Fun Day, hosted by the Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program is set for May 14.

The epicenter of the event will once again be the Suffolk County Marine Environmental Learning Center in Southold.

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5K was held last year with great success, organizers said.

The picturesque course featuring beautiful views of the Peconic Bay and its tributaries drew scores of runners. Proceeds will directly support the marine and coastal habitat restoration, shellfish enhancement, and youth education programming carried out by CCE’s Back to the Bays Initiative. Online registration is available. The race begins at 9 AM. Following the race, participants and members of the general public are welcome to explore the Suffolk County Marine Environmental Learning Center, where CCE’s researchers and educators will host an Open House and Family Fun Day. This event is free, open to all, and will feature opportunities to tour the Shellfish Hatchery and play in the Touch Tank Room.

There is also a marine and coastal plant greenhouse on site

and an opportunity to learn how to grow your own shellfish in the CCE’s SPAT Program.

For more information about the Back to the Bays 5K and Family Fun Day, please contact Kimberly Barbour at 631-461-5294 or kp237@ cornell.edu.

This CCE initiative represents a collaboration of scientific research and restoration efforts with effective public involvement campaigns and stewardship initiatives.

Through this program residents, school groups, and community groups are provided with educational and hands-on opportunities to get involved with CCE’s science-based efforts to: Protect and enhance water quality of our bays and rebuild coastal and marine habitat and create resilient shorelines. The longterm goal is to restore and enhance populations of commercially and recreationally important finfish and shellfish.

Softball Teams Find The Going Tough

By Rick Murphy

East End softball teams have had a hard time of it this season – if the season were to end tomorrow only Southampton, Westhampton and Hampton Bays would qualify for post-season action.

Southampton is currently 7-5 in League VII (8-5 overall) after winning two of three last week, though the Lady Mariners ended it

on a losing note, falling to Center Moriches 14-2 Friday.

On April 19 Southampton looked more the part of a playoff team, routing Port Jefferson 10-2 on the losers’ field. Maxine Loebs was the offensive star, going 3-for-4 with two doubles. Samantha Wesnofske as usual was on the hill.

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Settlers Still Unbeaten, Pierson Surging

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The Dream Season Continues.

The Southold Settlers improved to a perfect 12-0 by completing a three game sweep of Stony Brook Thursday.

This is a team filled with star players; on this day Greg Gehring moved to the forefront hurling a two-hit shutout against the Bears as the Settlers cruised to a 14-0 victory on the loser’s field.

Gehring did some damage on the offensive end as well clubbing three hits good for three ribbies and scoring three times. Dylan Clausen also went 3 for 5, knocked in two and scored twice.

Two days earlier the Bears played the Settlers tough but succumbed 2-1. Clausen, on the bump, turned in a domineering performance, notching 16 Ks while giving up only one hit. Clausen also delivered the clutch hit of the day, a double that

drove in Pat McFarland to break a 1-1 tie fifth inning.

Southold plays at home against Port Jefferson tomorrow at 10 AM and upisland Friday against the same squad.

The Settlers sit atop League VIII, but as was the case in most years, Pierson is making a run at the top. The Whalers have made a determined move up the leaderboard with six straight wins, the latest a 16-8 throttling of Port Jefferson at home Friday.

Tommy LaGrassa went 3-for-5 with a double and four RBIs and Jonathan Severance added two hits good for three RBIs. Ryan Chisholm picked up the win.

A day earlier the two teams met

upisland and Pierson prevailed 5-4 in a nail biter. Sam Warne hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to plate Angelo Toscano with what proved to be the winning run.

Jonathan Severance was brilliant in relief, going 5-1/3 innings. Chisholm got the final four outs, three via strikeout, to secure the victory.

Pierson plays Smithtown Christian tomorrow at home (4:30) and has a road game against the same opponent Friday. Tuesday Southampton comes to Sag Harbor for a 4:30 affair. The locals are 9-3 on the season, nestled in third place along with Babylon.

Mattituck is even hotter than Pierson, having won seven in a row. The Tuckers completed a three

game sweep of Babylon Thursday, 7-3. Brandon Kent threw a four hitter with five strikeouts to earn the win. Victor Proferes and Bryce Grathohl supplied the offensive fireworks. Proferes laced two hits including a double and batted in two runs. Grathohl went 2-4 with a ribbie.

Two days earlier, playing the same team at home, the Tuckers prevailed 6-2. Christian Figurniak won for the fourth time this season, striking out nine and tossing a complete game. John Dwyer went 3-4 for the winners.

Mattituck plays Center Moriches at home tomorrow – first pitch is scheduled for 10 AM. The two teams move upisland for the rematch Friday.

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Sita Cadash and Carly Cenzoprano both went deep for the winners and Wefnoske recorded the win despite taking a few innings off.

Southampton, currently in fifth place, gets Southold/Greenport (5-7) at home tomorrow (4:30 PM) and plays Mercy Friday (7 PM).

Hampton Bays, playing in League VI, is also looking to firm up a berth in the playoffs despite losing three of four.

Islip, playing at home, ov e r whel med t he B a y w o m e n 13-4 on Thursday; a day earlier Westhampton beat Hampton Bays 4-3.

The Baywomen edged Baypoint/ Blue Point 4-3 on April 18. It turned out to be the Mackenzie Tyler Show – she doubled leading off the seventh inning and came around to score the winning run. Tyler went 3-for-3 and scored three times: Hannah Reed went 2-for-2 with a pair of ribbies.

The locals look to get back to their winning ways today at Amityville.

Friday, Glenn comes to town for a 10 AM encounter. Saturday the team is on the road in Harborfields, and Monday, comes to East Hampton (07) to face the Lady Bonackers.

Mount Sinai is holding down first place in League VI with an 8-0 mark (11-0 overall). Hampton Bays is 6-3 in league play and 7-4 overall.

Westhampton is 5-4 in the league (5-6 overall) after falling to Mount Sinai 9-4 on Friday.

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Boat’s Ready – Is It Safe As Can Be? If you saw the movie Marathon Man you will surely remember Sir Laurence Olivier holding a dentist’s drill over Dustin Hoffman’s tooth and asking, “Is eet safe? Is eet safe?”

Poor Dustin Hoffman kept asking “safe about what?” – until he started screaming. Your boat may pass its vessel safety check – which means it at least meets federal minimums. But is eet safe?

This column is about that.

Safe For What?

Admiral Halsey is famous for many things but one is noting that, for a thousand years, safety starts at the dock. What are you intending to do with this boat, on this passage, with a certain mission or task in mind – and it is properly outfitted for that.

Certainly, meeting federal minimums sounds more than a

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little short of the mark if you’re intending to head out to the Hudson Canyons for an over-night fishing trip. OK, you’ve got your required number of flares for the size of your boat and a life jacket for everyone.

But are you really prepared for what God’s great ocean can throw at you?

What are the optional items that could open up the safety window for you while the USCG comes charging out to get you?

Cell Phone vs VHF Radio In my mind, the greatest piece of safety gear that you have on your boat is a simple VHF radio. Last summer, my crew and I off-loaded a father and son from a vessel by buoy 14 in Moriches Bay whose engine was afire.

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oxygen from re-igniting it, we had him set the anchor and off-loaded him to our vessel. How did we happen to be there? Another boater radioed us as we were returning from sea via the Moriches Inlet and said, “I think there is a boat on fire over by buoy 14!”

The more prepared skipper might have pressed the “Digital Selective Calling” button on his radio (they all come with that button now) and, hopefully he had had it connected it to his GPS, it would have sent his GPS coordinates directly to USCG rescue personnel.

Station Shinnecock, our controlling station that day, would have likely dispatched us, or another of their vessels directly to the stricken vessel.

What if they hadn’t had a GPS hooked in to their DSC-equipped radio? Frankly, much the same result would have happened.

Rescue-21 would have been able to generate a line of bearing to the boat and the USCG would have had a boat race down that line until they came upon the vessel.

What about a cell phone call?

To who – your wife? “Honey, send help!” How about the fishing vessel that is a half-mile away – but you don’t have his cell phone number.

Maybe you can strap the cell phone to a rocket flare and try to hit him with it.

Getting Back Aboard If you do manage to lose a crewman overboard, or even yourself, how will you get back aboard? If you don’t have a collapsible boarding ladder attached to your stern or your swim platform, you’ll never get back aboard unless you can pull a “Flipper the Flying Porpoise” and jump into the boat.

Get a good one, with at least 3 steps that pull out so you can get your cold and cramped legs onto the bottom step. If you have to pull yourself up to steps that are just too high, you may find it impossible to save yourself.

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It always strikes me as pennywise and pound-foolish to skimp on safety equipment – such as a GPS – but the reality is that not everyone is in a position to afford $5/gallon gasoline and a $500 GPS or $900 EPIRB. Of course, we are talking about saving the life most important to you – yours!

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