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About Sag Hampton
All politics are local, but not all locals are political, so to help out, Sag Hampton offers analysis and discussion of local politics and the issues affecting the lives of residents and visitors to Sag Harbor and the Hamptons. We pay special attention to preserving and protecting our environment since no issue is more vital to the community and more challenging to our politicians.
Sag Hampton is also an idiosyncratic, sometimes irreverent, sometimes irrelevant view of the goings on in Sag Harbor, NY and the surrounding area. Sag Harbor is one of the communities that comprise the part of eastern Long Island commonly referred to as the Hamptons. Within recent memory, Sag Harbor was known as the “un-Hampton”; populated mainly by working stiffs, writers, artists, bikers and other folks who were either born here, or chose the place because it was in, but not of the Hamptons. That, unfortunately, is no longer true. Present day Sag Harbor reflects the attributes, both positive and negative of the surrounding area. Bound together by geography, history and, now more than ever, economics, we are inextricably linked with our neighbors to the East, West, and South. North of us is Shelter Island and Long Island’s North Fork, but that’s a different story.
And, of course, we are an American community, so the issues that affect us here on Long Island’s East End, are very much the same issues effecting the rest of the country. Sometimes those issues get distorted here by the the things that make this area unique. One of those is our geography, remote and surrounded on three sides by water, yet convenient enough to be a prime vacation destination for the rich and powerful from New York City and elsewhere who bring with them their own craziness.
I’m calling the blog Sag Hampton because I can’t write about Sag Harbor without writing about the Hamptons, and I can’t write about he Hamptons without bringing my own Sag Harbor viewpoint to whatever story I’m telling.
About Sag Hampton’s Relationship with the Sag Harbor Express
Sag Hampton has an informal relationship with the Sag Harbor Express, the newspaper of record for Sag Harbor, NY. The relationship calls for the Express to, at its editor’s discretion, print or link to posts and/or comments on this blog in the weekly paper and/or its web site.
The Express has no editorial control over what appears in this blog, other than the right to choose which posts appear in the newspaper. Sag Hampton, and its creator, Eric C. Cohen, have received no compensation from The Express, nor will we in the future. If that changes, I’ll (happily) let you know.
If you discovered Sag Hampton in the pages of The Express, or on their website, and this is your first visit here, welcome.
About the Blogger
Most of the posts in the blog are written by me, Eric C. Cohen, sometimes using the nickname Saltbox. I make a point of using my middle initial, because I’ve discovered that there are at least two, possibly three other Eric Cohens living and working in the Sag Hampton area. I don’t know how long the others have been here, but I’ve lived on the East End of Long Island for the past 36 years, and in Sag Harbor for the last 30 of them. I am a past member of the Board of Education of the Sag Harbor School District, and the District’s Shared Decision Making Steering Committee. Currently, I am a member of the Sag Harbor Citizens Advisory Council to Southampton Town, and serve on the Southampton Transportation Commission. I am also active in politics, but you’ll have to read the posts if you want to know which way I lean.
Hi I like your blog. I’m a poet and photographer.
I take pictures on Dune Road and write poems there.
I thought you would like this one .
fog
lone
bay-man
cut
deeper
into
chilled
cotton-fog
arousing
island’s
wild-life
laying-low
under
a-thick
calm
haze
blanket
deer
bounded
into
tall
marsh
grasses
to-hide
nesting
white
sea birds
scattered-
hovered-
yelled-
dove-
in-defense
of-territory
mallards
periscoped
orange
ringed
necks
to-follow
unfocused
mirages
appeared -
disappeared -
reappeared
- as
he
chugged
along
the
beach
feeling
the-way
towards
his
markers
://duneroadwhb.blogspot.com/
Thanks for posting your delightful poem here. Glad you like Sag Hampton. I also enjoyed the photos on “Dune Road Blog,” especially the Kite House. Where is that? I’ve added your blog to our “Sag Hampton Flavored Blogroll.”
Eric,
Enjoy the nice local perspective you have on the Sag Harbor community. I believe a few clients of mine would be interested in making a donation of about $50 each to the John Jermain Memorial Library in exchange for a small hyperlink in your right nav. Let me know if this is of interest to you. The clients range from a DIY home store to a home medical supply website. Let me know if you are interested.
Sincerely,
David Patterson
President – Elbrus Consulting