By Jim Marquardt
Fifty or sixty years ago, we eagerly looked forward to summer just as you do now, but our memories of those carefree days is tempered somewhat by recollections of the miseries we suffered, believe it or not, from our bathing suits. In those primitive times bathing attire invariably was made out of thick, [...]

By Richard Gambino
 
I recently celebrated a landmark birthday. As a character in the musical, Chicago, says, “I’m much older than I ever intended to be.” So it’s no surprise, I guess, that I’m seeking to understand who I am now that I am a long-term “senior citizen” in 2009. I don’t mean self-obsession or even [...]

By Robbie Vorhaus
Up in the northeast corner of Indiana, about 25 miles south of Fort Wayne, Sag Harbor’s Colleen Saidman Yee grew up wanting to work with Mother Theresa.
“I remember being in the fifth grade and reading a Life magazine article on Mother Theresa and thinking, ‘I want to work with her,’” Colleen said, sitting [...]

by Jean Held
Sag Harbor celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2007 referring back to 1707. But why, of all the pivotal dates in Sag Harbor’s history, was 1707, selected for its settlement or founding date? Then we might ask, And when did Sag Harbor know it? The final question is whether or not 1707 is accurate.
The [...]

By Jim Marquardt
When it met in New York City in the summer of 1789, the First Congress of the infant United States found itself facing bankruptcy, with a debt of $77-million. Under the original Articles of Confederation, the Federal Government had no power to tax and had borrowed from France and Holland to finance the [...]

By Julie Penny
I had to go away to find out something about home. Not that I went that far. It was serendipity that brought me to the Rocky Point Jewelers on a bitter cold day last year, and serendipity that I ended up speaking with the store’s owners, Anthony Bongiovanni junior and senior. It was [...]

by Joseph Hanna
“No, you are wrong!” said my boss. “Radio is the most intimate medium there is. You are speaking into someone’s ear, right into their head. Try it again from the top, and speak like you are talking to someone you know.”
The exchange had begun while I was attempting to read some copy for [...]

Has the world turned black and white or is it me? I rarely complain in print. I save my griping and moaning for my small (and strangely dwindling) circle of friends. In fact, I gripe and they moan.
“You know what ticks me off?” I said the other day.
“Oh no, what?” they said in unison. One [...]

There was electricity in the air as the orchestra’s maestro raised his baton and then gave the signal for a downbeat. A line of song and dance people on stage went into their act. They were all members of the Long Island Association of Developers, Realtors & Overdressed Lawyers. (L.I.A.D.R.&O.L.) The developers were in coveralls, [...]

By Hope Harris
What is wrong with this country?! With us? What led us to believe that each one of us could have anything he or she wanted? What made us believe each of us could own a 40,000 square foot house, or a $40,000 car or write a great book or be a great artist? [...]