A few days ago, a Sag Hampton resident I’ve known for years said to me, “The Long Island Railroad should be running shuttle trains in the Hamptons. There should be a train at least every half hour.” I started to tell him about Five Towns Rural Transit (5TRT) and the East End Transportation Council (EETC), and the $400,000 grant from the State that those organizations got to study that very situation, but he interrupted me. “Study? What a waste of money. Why doesn’t the railroad do it? It’d be a great thing, and they’d get a lot more people using the trains out here that way.” …
Posts under ‘Our Town’
98.6 miles
Google Maps says it’s 98.6 miles from the library in the middle of Sag Harbor to the Empire State Building, which I think of as being the metaphorical middle of New York City. Interesting…take the temperature of any healthy person in Sag Harbor, and you come up with the distance we live from Manhattan. I’m sure there’s a correlation there. Maybe the key word is “healthy,” in that our health is somehow tied to living almost 100 miles from one of, if not the, greatest city in the world.
Sag Harbor is a ___________ Town
Right now, I’m thinking “theater-lover’s”, thanks to the glorious reading that was given to Susan Merrell’s excellent new play Unused Characters at the Bay Street Theatre today. But, the blank in the sentence that is the title of this post could be completed in so many other ways.
An Inconvenient Truth (With apologies to Al Gore)
Are there things you love about Sag Hampton? Well, they’re about to change. What are you going to do about it?
“Are you talking to me?” you’re probably thinking in your best Robert De Niro Taxi Driver imitation.
Darn right, I’m talking to you.
Here’s another question: did you know that there are heroes here in Sag Hampton? There are — lots of them, but probably not enough.
Dahlonega, GA
Please excuse the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks. Last weekend my family went to a wedding in Dahlonega (pronounced like harmonica, with the accent on the second syllable), Georgia. Prior to that we were caught up in preparations for the trip, and after getting back there was recovery time, catching up on things we didn’t get to do because of the trip, etc. Anyway, I didn’t write for a while, and let myself get out of the habit of writing. Time went by. So, today I decided I had to force myself to start writing again. This is the result…
Sidewalk Sentiment
I love fall. If there’s anything better than being outside on a sunny, crisp fall day, I can’t think what it would be. Happily, we had our first real fall days this past weekend, just in time for the sidewalk sale in Sag Harbor, a new tradition that I am already very fond of. Actually, memory may fail me here. …
Sag Harbor’s New Look
Today, we look at some pictures of the changing face of Sag Harbor, and ask some hard questions…Is bigger better? Is newer nicer? One family or two?
Safe Routes to…the Library?
My friend and fellow EETC and CAC (East End Transportation Council and Citizens Advisory Committee) member, Ken Dorph has been traveling hither and yon trying to stir up interest in a very fine program called Safe Routes to School, which is sponsored by the federal Department of Transportation. I promise to write about that program in more detail at a later date. However, I was reminded of it today when reading part of the final report of the Community Library Committee…
What a Week!
There is so much going on in Sag Hampton right now, and I’m not referring to Labor Day weekend fund raisers. Since I devote a lot of space in this blog to the problems we face in our area, I thought I’d stop whining briefly, and comment instead on some recent positive developments.
- The John Jermain Library’s Development Committee is …
A Nice Little Film About Sag
Lauren, a former Sag Hampton resident and current art-blogger over at Sketchlabc brought this charming little film by Amanda Switzer to our attention. My hat’s off to Ms. Switzer whose camera work successfully captures much of the charm of our little village. In the film, commentary is offered by a fishing guide, a gallery owner [...]
