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A night in Cutchogue: At the 2013 Douglas Moore Music Festival

August 11, 2013August 16, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_1863" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Moore Festival Singers sing Douglas Moore's "Down at the North Fork Country Club Cabaret."[/caption] For the past 34 years, members of the Cutchogue community have come together the second weekend in August to pay homage to the composer Douglas Moore, who wrote much of his work in a small writing studio overlooking Downs Creek on Moore's Lane in Cutchogue. Mr. Moore was born August 10,

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The man who saved Long Island’s ospreys

August 5, 2013September 15, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_1736" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Suffolk County Historical Society is hosting an exhibit of Dennis Puleston's bird paintings.[/caption] Dennis Puleston did an awful lot of things in the 95 years that he walked this earth. He ate flesh with cannibals in New Guinea. He flirted with virgins in Samoa. He managed a derelict coconut plantation in the Virgin Islands. He adopted a pet boa constrictor. He tattooed his arm with

Arts Music

Caroline Doctorow’s “Little Lovin’ Darling”: Electric sitars and southern skies

July 19, 2013July 30, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_1386" align="alignnone" width="600"] Caroline Doctorow with the Steamrollers: Gary Oleyar, Max Johnson and Andrew Carillo, at Infinity Hall in Norwalk, Conn.[/caption] Bridgehampton musician Caroline Doctorow has always been a student of the folk process, in which the heritage of stories and songs are carefully studied and expanded upon by newer generations of folk artists. She aptly describes her new album, "Little Lovin' Darling," released June 29, as "one part

Arts Visual Arts

At the center of it all…a new venue for art in Southampton

July 14, 2013July 22, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_1281" align="alignnone" width="600"] The excitement in the air was palpable at Southampton Center's opening night.[/caption] There was something fresh and exciting in the air in Southampton Village Friday night at the opening exhibition for Southampton Center, the new non-profit arts center run by the village at the former Parrish Art Museum on Jobs Lane. The art on display is cutting edge: Each of the three main rooms in the

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Rick Gold’s eyes have seen so many things

July 12, 2013July 18, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_1239" align="alignnone" width="600"] Bridgehampton Potato Fields | Rick Gold[/caption] Sag Harbor photographer Rick Gold has been many things in his life: a high school science teacher, an aerospace engineer, a stock boy at Willoughby's Camera, a tree surgeon and a vending machine repairman. But on Aug. 29, 2005, he was just a man sitting in Dr. Robert Semlear's office in Noyac receiving bad news. "Dr. Semlear said 'you're having

Arts Literature News

Chronicling the North’s hidden history of slavery

June 26, 2013July 4, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_758" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Sylvester Manor house circa 1870[/caption] Historian Mac Griswold has been on a quest for the past decade and a half to tell the half-forgotten story of slavery on Shelter Island. Ms. Griswold, a landscape historian, first saw Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island while she was rowing in a nearby creek in 1984. She was intrigued by the age of the large boxwoods she could see

Arts

Bloomsday in the Harbor

June 17, 2013June 22, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_650" align="alignnone" width="600"] Swans don't celebrate Bloomsday, but they should.[/caption] I almost went blind trying to read Ulysses. It was just after I'd finished graduate school. I packed up my son and my dog and a box of books and left Sag Harbor headed for Montréal. I was bitten by a deer tick the day before I left. No big deal. I've had Lyme Disease for years. So has

Arts Performing Arts

North Forkers to dance their butts off?

June 10, 2013July 5, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_511" align="alignnone" width="600"] Nile Rodgers wants YOU to dance! | publicity photo AFTEE[/caption] The East End has more than 1,000 registered non-profit organizations, and, despite the fact that they obviously can't make a profit, they need money to do their work. Music producer and New York native Nile Rodgers has had a long and legendary career that spanned his authoring of dance hits including "We Are Family" and "Good

Arts Literature

Bookshelf: The View from Lazy Point

June 7, 2013June 13, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_435" align="alignnone" width="600"] This is the view from Lazy Point.[/caption] It's been more than a year since nature writer Carl Safina's "The View from Lazy Point" was published, but the cautionary tale of this book is haunting enough to deserve a second read. Mr. Safina, who lives on the peninsula in Amagansett at the entrance to Napeague Harbor that gives the book its name, has made a global name

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Seeing Riverhead with fresh eyes

June 5, 2013June 10, 2013 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_373" align="alignnone" width="600"] Looking out on downtown Riverhead.[/caption] Wednesday was a typical morning in downtown Riverhead. Police and EMTs were bandaging up a motorcyclist who'd been struck at the corner of Roanoke Avenue and Main Street, in preparations to take him to the hospital, while further east on East Main Street, women who were walking alone heard the booming jeer of a catcalling street denizen asking them where they