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Category Archives: Our Town
What We (May) Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate
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.” …
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Posted in Behavior, Our Town
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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.
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Posted in Near By, Our Town
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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.
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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.
Posted in Dear Reader, Our Town
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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…
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Posted in Our Town, Travel
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