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October 26, 1989 - A Final Autumn CruiseB12 Bridgehampton Realty Main Street ' 537.1177 WATERFRONT SPECIALISTS ACREAGE LOTS HOUSES SHINNFCOCK HILLS CONTEMPORARY Custom built home on 1 1/2 acres with well planned living arrangement of 5000 sq. feet. 5 BR each with a full bath. Family room, living room, gym, Andersen windows, eat -in designer kitchen, Jen Air, Refg., microwave & wall oven, Kitchen Aid, dishwasher, ceramic tile and 8' cabinets. 2 1/2 bathrooms, maids quarters, master suite with very large bedroom, sundeck, fabulous 18 x 18 master bath with double whirlpool, bidet, shower, double vanity &,private sundeck, with a view of ocean. Master lounge with private sun deck & ocean view. Roof deck with panoramic view of Southampton. Attached 4 car garage. Landscaping, irrigation, 3500 sq. feet of cedar decking 20 x 40 pool. Off St. Andrews Road, very private, very special at $593,000. Room for Tennis. Other acreage available. 726 -4476 • 283 -2588 283 -4637 Owner — LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT— Notice to All Residents of the Town of Southampton Unincorporated Areas The Town's Fall Leaf Program will commence Monday, November 6, 1989 Bagged leaves will be picked up first. Loose leaves must be kept free of brush and branches, as vacuums will be used. Small brush and branches will be chipped last. Wood Chips will be available free to homeowners at the 3 disposal areas. Call 728 -3426 for updated information. 5v porrack, New York OCEANFRONT - 64 ACRES - PRIME DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY: Choice Southampton location with tong road frontage, 734' cocan frontage, spectacular water views & white sandy beach. The last remaining large ppuce' in this laacioo. f7. SM Call LANDVEST 212832 -9800 or JIM McLAUCHLEN R.E. 516/283 -0448 Water Mill, New York MECOX BAY ESTATES - 4.5 ACRES & 400' WATERFRONT: Spectacular water views from this tasteful renovation by Eugene Form.. on over 4 acres with 400' of frontage on Mecox Bay. The main house fcamers warm entertain- ing areas, open beamed ceilings & 3 fiteplaca plus professionally designed tennis court. gn." pool & dock. $2.5M Additional 12 acres available Horse lover's dream Call LANDVEST 212/83298M or AGAWAM REALTY 516/283 -92M THE SOUTHAMPTON PRESS / OCTOBER 26, 1989 Focus on Nature A Final Autumn Cruise By Paul Stoutenbri Our boat was to be hauled on Monday which meant if we wanted to take advant- age of the last dwindling days of fall, now would be the time. We started out on one of those rare days of fall when everything was perfect. The tide was with us, the wind blew from the best pos- sible direction and the sky was beautiful and clear. It was good to be back aboard the SeaWind again. Each time we go out we say we should spend more time on her, but those calendar events always seem to get in our way. A single common loon saw us off. One quick look and he was under water on his end- less search for food. Probably he, like other loots, will stay around our East End through- out the winter. We have basically two spe- cies of loons that use our East End as their winter haven. The big common loon, which is often heard calling across the bay on quiet days, and the less often seen, smaller red - throated loon. They are sometimes difficult to tell apart but the trained eye can usually pick up the slightly upturned bill o: the red - throated loon if he gets close enough. Cormorants, Cormorants, Cormorants As we sailed down the bay, heading east, the continuous migration of cormorants told us their migration south was still going on. Most of the strings were flying high with the exception of one that came winging along out of the east barely skimming the water. They came so close to our boat that we could see them panting, bills open, as they flew. Ev- idently the day's high temperatures and their long flight had warmed them up and they were cooling down in true bird fashion. Birds don't perspire as we do and so panting with their mouths open is their main method of cooling. One flock we were to see on Friday would be the largest I've ever seen. It ap- peared to be many flocks of cormorants gath- ered together, some in strings, others in unorganized groups. There must have been at least 500 birds in that one mass movement heading west. The wind brought us to Dering Harbor on Shelter Island. Here we could tell the season was well on its way, for there was less than half the usual number of boats moored in this usually busy area. Gone was the yacht club launch that shuttled back and forth from boat to clubhouse. Gone were the lighted boats at night telling of parties and dinners on board. Arts Council Speakeasy The East End Arts Council has announced plans for a benefit party on a speakeasy theme to be held at Westhampton Beach's In- ner Circle on Saturday, November 4, from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets are being sold at $W per per- son and may be obtained from the Arts Coun- cil (727 - 091 Guests will be asked to attend in either per- iod costume or contemporary dress and each will be given a password that will get him past the guards at the door. Hors d'oeuvres will be served, the music will be Dixieland jazz, and moonshine, white lightning and bath tub gin are on the beverage list. There was an eery stillness that lay about us. It was as if each tethered boat was waiting for its call to be hauled. The season was over. We tied up to one of the many empty moor- ings and settled in for the night. It was too cool outside to be comfortable and with the little heat from our cookstove we were snug and comfortable below. As the sun set in its clear splendor in the west, the moon in the east was ready to take its place as it started to climb. The air was clear and crisp outside. Soon the moon would flood the bay and lay its ladder of gold and silver across the water. Life couldn't be bet- ter. My only wish was that more people would make the effort to enjoy it. Old Reading Brought Out Books and old magazines that yearned for reading came off the shelf. The radio played soft music from the local Southampton sta- tion and the cabin mellowed with relaxation. The bright day, the fresh air, the good food, and the wonderful sail started to play tricks on our eyes as time passed. Even though the hour was early, we soon turned in. The next day we headed for Sag Harbor. As we rounded Hay Beach and out into Gardiner's Bay we scared up 10 to 15 white - winged scoters that were eying us uneasily as our boat approached. These big black win- ter sea ducks, with their very visible white wing patches, are easy to identify. They took off with some effort, paddling madly with their webbed feet to get enough speed so they would be airborne. These, too, will be around our waters through the coming winter. The sail was leisurely and I must say not too ef- ficient. No race to be won here. On our way up toward the harbor from the east we remembered the treacherous string of rocks where cormorants now stood on guard and the sand flats to starboard that take advantage of the unknowing. Just a few years ago I spent a good part of a morning pulling a friend's boat off that flat just east of the big rock channel marker. When we finally reached the harbor, there was much more activity here but still you could see the empty, buoys, a signal that many boats already had been hauled. We picked one buoy and tied up and made plans for going ashore. An osprey circled the har- bor, looking for his evening meal of bunkers. Most ospreys by now have headed south where fishing will be better. Some will go as far as the Amazon River in South America while others will fish the waters of our south- ern states and the Caribbean, only to return to their same nesting spots and same mate next spring. By the time we were tied up it was four o'clock but we wanted to get a few supplies and so made a quick trip into town. That whetted our appetite for the following day. Again that evening the moon dazzled us as we lay quietly in that wonderful harbor. We walked the back streets of that quaint and beautiful town the following day. We found pride rides high here and rightly so, for what makes Sag Harbor so unique is that it is one town that has been able to hold on to its distinctive character. We wandered into the shops and even bought a few sale items that tempted us. That afternoon we headed home, for we had a dinner date we didn't want to miss. But when you're tied to a dinner date schedule things don't always work out so well; we found no wind to help us along. We motored all the way home. It was pleasant and warm but nothing like sailing. It was a good thing that we were headed back, though, for bad weather was predicted that night and sure enough it came bringing high winds, thunder and lightning —all the things you wouldn't want if you were aboard a boat. We were glad we had taken advantage of the good days of fall to see the East End for one last time from the water. HARRY H. WILDE inc. BUILDERS AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS 80 NORTH MAIN STREET, MUTHAMPTON 283 -0201 Call the Proven Leader in Real Estate Ind Insurance Brokerage 516- 283 -1030 Southampton Established 1946 CMaurice B. unningh_ Real Estate - Insurance - Appraisals The American Hotel provided the perfect setting for a reading of James A. Heme's 1899 play "Sag Harbor." Above, Portmanteau Players, left to right, Carl Browngardt, Cynthia Breining and Marilyn Downes. — Alberto Musrhi Photo Sag Harbor: A Period Piece Read with Relish by Game Cast By Lee Davis A charmingly bewildering grab bag of sometimes connected scenes from James A. Herne's 1899, well- forgotten play "Sag Har- bor" delighted a dazed but dandy audience that overflowed an impromptu reading room at the American Hotel on Sunday night. Pro- duced, directed, narrated and acted in by the indefatigable, imaginative and sometimes mysterious Charles Mann, it couldn't have been presented in a more appropriate setting than the American Hotel. Flowered wallpa- per, gas chandeliers, gewgaws and glass - front bookcases framed the game cast of locals, in period costumes. Gloriously unfazed by the last- minute de- fection, or desertion, or something, of super- star Phoebe Legere (maybe the presence of two smashing blondes with talent in the cast kept the chanteuse from chanting Herne's lines), the group of readers survived nicely and played cheerily upon missed cues, mis- placed pages, and a strange interpolation in a 19th - century piece of the Leonard Bernstein -Betty Comdon /Adolph Greene number "Lucky to Be Me" from the jazzy 1944 show "On the Town." Then again, the light touch of Mr. Mann's unlinking narrative ( "The lack of plot thick- ens," etc.) gave the evenings welcome touch of whimsy. As the flivver lurched forward with a beanbag of scenes, from a coughing exhaust came wisps of windblown smoke from the past, when Bridgehampton was a suburb of Sag Harbor, when all the men were leaving for the Klondike, when scallop fish- ing was a living, and a good job for a retired sailor was a position on the Montauk Boat Line. Like a silent movie flashed on the screen by a drunken projectionist, the past flickered and faded, focused and unfocused. Maybe it happened; maybe it didn't. The cast —Ira Gasman as a growling sea captain, Carl Browngardt as a fresh -faced juvenile, Encie Babcock as a grandmotherly type, Janice Hull as one melodious matron and a couple of others, Cynthia Breining as a bright and lovestruck ingenue, and Mari- lyn Downes as a lovely and also lovestruck choir singer, all acquitted themselves with admirable aplomb and diction and spirit. The audience loved them, every one, and right- fully so. In other words, Phoebe was unmissed; Mr. Mann, doing a hat trick worthy of the Rang- ers, played her and several dozen other parts with the derring -do of a lion- tamer. It was a whirlwind evening, a breeze from the unreal past that floated the gaggle of an audience from the 19th-century setting of the play out into the 19th-century setting of Sag Harbor's streets satisfied and entertained, light of heart, and a little light of head. Readings at Canio's The literary weekend at Canio's Books in Sag Harbor will open on Saturday, October 28, when Ed Stever will read at a p.m. On Sunday, October 29, Canio's will offer a dou- ble bill beginning at 3 p.m. Jane Augustine will read new poems and Joan Ullman Schwartz, whose courtroom reporting has appeared in this paper, will read from her ac- counts of recent trials. Events at Canto's are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Box 604 - Shelter Island Heights. N.V. 11965 - (516) 749 -0182 CUSTOM HOMES Roger Cullen, Custom Builder gardlner's construction 35650 Route 48 - Peconic N.V. 11958 -GW - (516) 765 -5060 Open Houses Sunday, October 29, 1989 BRIDGEHAMPTON ... 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