September 11 Remembered, Ackerly Pond Chicken Farm Changes, Foodie Tour & Weekend Arts
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting mostly sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 78 degrees and a northwest wind 5 to 7 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 53. Saturday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 77, and we’re expecting rain on Sunday, mostly before 2 p.m., with a high near 79.
• Events commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 are being held throughout the East End today. We are attending, with great respect and humility for those who responded and were killed that day, and how it has changed all of our lives here in New York. Here Are The Details on the Commemorations.
• The owner of a property on Ackerly Pond Lane in Southold who had proposed an egg-laying chicken farm earlier this year is planning to instead begin an “organic produce farm focused on fruits and/or vegetables in,” according to a Sept. 3 letter from the applicants’ attorney on file with the Southold Town Planning Department. Read Our Coverage.
• The Rites of Spring Music Festival hosts a weekend-long series of performances celebrating Latin American song and dance, Energia Internacional, this evening through Sunday, with chamber music at the North Fork Flower Farm this evening, tango at the North Fork Arts Center in Greenport on Saturday and a celebration of Brazilian music and dance in Greenport’s Mitchell Park on Sunday. Find Out More.
• Metafloric, a new exhibition of works by Bill Albertini and Ellen Wiener, opens this Saturday, Sept. 12 at East End Arts’ new Andy Tarshis Gallery at 48 West Main Street in Riverhead. Find Out More about this fascinating exhibition.
• You’ll definitely learn something if you embark on the North Fork Foodie Tour this Sunday, Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s is a day full of farm and food purveyor tours, lectures and cooking demonstrations at 20 locations throughout the North Fork, now celebrating its 20th anniversary. Read Our Coverage.
• We’re planning to have a blast this Sunday from Noon to 2 p.m. at Panoramica in Peconic, where DJ Spectre (our progeny …. shhhh) will be stirring up the tunes for a brand new raspberry-cardamom jam release from Blossom Meadow Farms… Come by, dance, get some jam…. Then we’re heading to the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport at 3 for a concert of new compositions by members of the Long Island Composers Alliance. Tickets may be sold out for “The Guys” at the North Fork Arts Center Sunday, but here’s our feature on what this play about eulogizing firefighters who were killed on Sept. 11 still means to us today.
• If you’re out near Baiting Hollow Sunday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., stop by the Baiting Hollow Country Club to tip your hat to the riders of the FDNY’s 343 Ride, which will have left Ground Zero that morning on a two-day ride to Montauk in honor of the firefighters who lost their lives on September 11. Riders leave Riverhead for Montauk Monday morning. Find Out More.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
September 11
Plum Gut Harbor: 10:31 a.m., 10:52 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:31 a.m., 9:51 p.m.
Greenport: 11:23 a.m., 11:50 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:06 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 11:17 a.m., 11:42 p.m.
New Suffolk: 12:22 p.m.
South Jamesport: 12:24 a.m., 12:45 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 9:44 a.m., 9:59 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 8:09 a.m., 8:30 p.m.
September 12
Plum Gut Harbor: 11:15 a.m., 11:36 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 10:16 a.m., 10:37 p.m.
Greenport: 12:06 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:30 a.m., 12:51 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 11:59 a.m.
New Suffolk: 12:42 a.m., 1:07 p.m.
South Jamesport: 1:09 a.m., 1:27 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 10:27 a.m., 10:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 8:54 a.m., 9:14 p.,m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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