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i n —t w oTHE EAST HAMPTON STAB, EAST HAMPTON. N. Y., JU LY 27. 1967
THE STAR GOES TO:
A Historical Society House TourPlacenames them in the north end of the village;
so did other families.According to Jedediah Morse’s
Geography, published in Boston, East Hampton was the chief
Arthur Roth
and boys were also “bound out for
a term of years to help on farms.
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of Hy Sobiloff, a poet. On one of year, though, we made somethingthe walls in Mr. Sobiloff's living room like two thousand. The money fromthere hangs a Fire Department hel- this tour will be used for our mu-
met, with a small plaque stating that seum
the helmet was presented to Mr. j a]so talked to Mrs. Norman El- FREETOWN: The area which in-Sobiloff by the Montauk Fire De- son whQ told me that negotiations eludes North Main Street and part town in Suffolk County at that time.
Last Thursday. I went on the coop that has been converted into a pine I suppose." partment on Jan. 21, 1967. were going on w i,„ the State and ot the Springs Road; a term seldom with 1.549 inhabitants and 8M slaves.Historical Society’s house miniature guest cottage. Mr. Akin told me that it took i n another room I found, m a County with a view to purchasing used nowadays. In the early 19th This figure is highly inaccurate,
tour Having gone on the Amagan- The root ot the main cottage is three years to build the house. He floor to ceiling bookshelf, two ot Mr. Second House from Mrs. David century the Gardiners of Gardiner's according l» J " 1 numbers'sett house four the previous week, ornamented with a weather vane that then showed me a huge bowl of Sobiloff's books of poems, "Tire Kennedy and convert.ng it into a Island freed their slaves, and settled werejield, but
comparisons — though odious — employes a gilded quill pen to in- orchids. “Montauk is marvellous for Deepest A quarium ' and “Breathing museum. Second House dates from
are called for. Perhaps because the dicate wind direction and Miss growing orchids, all that humidity. Gf First Things." Inside one of the 1746. were found on the ranch over theMontauk Historical Society is a Cousin's profession. She is a senior I wandered into another living books, there is a fulsome introduc- j didn't stay for the showing of years,younger organization than the Ama- editor with the publishing house of room and walked over to a bowl tion written by Allen Tate, a col- Mr Sobiloff's film, "Montauk," as 'gansett Village Improvement So- Doubleday. From what I know of of fruit and experimentally tapped ]ege professor. Mr. Sobiloff has four j Seen it before, ciety, its members are much more editors, I would have thought a pair a plastic grape with my fingernail. or five books of poems to his credit. incidentally, Third House has a
gung-ho about their tour and work of scissors would be more appropri- The grape didn't tap very well, so A built-in sauna bath provides a fascinating collection of arrowheads in general. ate, but perhaps they don’t catch I had to eat it. (The difference be- sybariljc touch to the house, as do ancj tomahawks, many of which
At every house there were one or the wind as well. tween the rich and us is that their the many old prints on the walls, in- ________________________________________
two ladies willing and eager to take While I was there, one of the ladies plastic grapes are real.) eluding a humorous one entitled. “Athe time to point out the things indignantly chased a cat off the I found Mrs. Akin in a little pan- Domesticated Female Orang-Utang.” NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
worth seeing. The range of houses lawn: “That’s one of Edward Albee’s try off the kitchen. She was presid- The simian, walking erect, wore a NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thatwas wide, from restoration Colonial, cats, he has five of them, and I ing over a whole family of four-inch- maid-s cap, held a bowl in one hand {he Zq Board of Appeals of the thrqugh English country manor to hate to see them on the property, high antique dolls, dressed in Quaker and had her other hand modestly Town Qf Ea$t Hampton w ill holdmodern functional. We have so many lovely birds." To- costumes and sitting on a shelf, covering her nether parts, in a
. . , weak spot in Se*her we shooshed and scatted the “They’re from 1830 and were all Parody of certain classic Greek
the tour.^it 'was the fact that eight cat bacuk th™u*h a Pr‘vet hedf e and ™ mbers of our family. They were sculptures,
houses are about two or three houses on *° lhe Albee 6rounds next door' Aren ‘ they lov<il>'? Museumtoo many to encompass in an after- Imperial Splendor I agreed, they were lovely, each i WOund up the tour at Third
noon Still, as one of the ladies ex- Sea Scape, home of Steve Comfort, little lady complete with a bonnet House, headquarters of the Deep
public hearings at the Town Hall, East Hampton, N. Y., on Wednesday, August 2, 1967, on the following ap
plications at the times indicated:
7:30 P.M. — Application of Chandler Brossard for a variance from
plaiped to’ me, most tour members is yet another house on the dunes and umbrella and tiny purse hang- Hollow Ranch, where I talked to )h e isions o f s<,ction 403 0 2 andpreferred to skip one or two houses, and facing the ocean. Of traditional ing from her wrist. Mrs. Samuel Joyce, who told meeithpr because they weren’t inter- design, it has several large decks. Literary note: Mr. Akin shelters a that the tour had been helped byested in them or because they had one running along the back of the Micky Spillane fan. On a bedside the rainy weather. “We tend to get
already seen them. house and another, a sort of prome- table in one of the bedrooms were morc people on rainy days; they J V e m is i 'T r e ‘"situate ‘ on aAnyway, this reporter dawdled too nade boardwalk, that runs out to two Spillane books and John Me- can’t go to the beach. On the other right_of_ (Cozzens Lane) off
long in some of the homes and had the front of the dunes. Scattered here Donald’s "You Live Once." In an- hand, the threatened railway strike Mgin gtreet Amagansett in Retail
to omit three houses from the tour and there on the de.cks were small other bedroom was a book about caused some 60 people from New Business D istrict__ Second House, Third House, and P a >rs of red plaster or concrete Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane entitled, York to cancel their reservations.”
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Robert cherubs, embracing each other, as “The Record of a Happy Marriage.” I asked if the tour made much
Orang Utang moqey. We 11 about a t^ e provisions of Section 507.03 inI next went to the Sanctuary, home sand dollars on todays tour. L a s t _____u 4U„ „
H. Melchionna.
Hexagons
The first house I went
well as many concrete pedestals and urns.
to was Inside there is a lavish use of ,, „„«.«»*» wood and purple velvet and a stun-the modem "contemporary castle , j T . . , ■ ..> f i , T-.v, i t„i ning (and I use that word in its ong-home of Mrs. Ethel Johnson on Old , . ̂ , .Montauk Highway. Designed by mal sense) dm.ng room table and
Gordon Chadwick, a former associate f ‘* heIavy ” asS,Ve carVed of Frank Lloyd Wright, the house W Me4I there, a woman said to
J , , • c u ______ a visitor. We normallv eat outdoorsis fprmed of a series of hexagons,with each room — excepting the bathrooms — hexagonal shaped.
Bjlled in the Historical Society’s panjphlet as a house where the aes-
Section 507.03 in order to convert an existing garage which is within 3' of the side property line into a
8:00 P.M. — Application of Edward L. Vickers for a variance from
DREESEN’S EXCELSIOR MARKET
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Turkey Capon Bar-B-Q Chicken _Roast_Beef
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a visitor, “We normally eat outdoors
or in the kitchen, but when we have guests we eat in the dining room.”
Beautffully planted grounds complement the interior, and as I was
thetic and functional are one, Tfound having, I noticed a small bird tak-
fspecially breathtaking in its ? .* Ivioys.
The dining room, for example, has oce^n views on three of its hexagon
sides. The fireplace is built of local „ w ,
slope and the ceiling of the living h° m e ° f “ r' and Mrs' R.ob=rt
standing at the foot of a statue of St. Francis.
Orchid Country
I next went to “Landmark,” sum-
rooip is shingled.Akin Jr. This house was originally
It is an interesting ceiling, though buil‘ b>\Carl Fisher as his own. It I wpnder what the function of ceil- commands a sweeping view of the ing shingles are? (Perhaps they have surrounding countryside and from
an indoor sprinkler?) And I'd give M l' F)sher' NaP°le°" >>ke, could a case of beer to have heard the keep an eye on the empire he was
workmen’s comments when they crf atin®'trimmed and nailed those shingles. A Norman farmhouse on that
One feature that should prove in- nd ?e °ver ‘here and a Dutch colonial teresting to city people with homes ln the hollow. Let's see now, how
out here is a small unit, again hexagonal shaped, that is connected by a patio to the main house. It is self contained little guest house and
about a few gamekeepers cottages scattered here and there.”
Anyway, “Landmark” is a huge
house in the English baronial style,
can be lived in during the winter * me* ^ r- Akin, an unpretentious while the rest of the house is closed anc* down-to-earth man who was 0ff off-handed about the house and
At one point in my wanderings I Property: “How high is the living heard Mrs. Jqhnson say to a visitor, room ceiling? I don t know, 25 feet? “I see you’ve been down looking at “That wood? I really don t know,
my gazebo.” — ----------------------------
She was referring to a small open LIQUOR NOTICES
Become a New You, With a New Hairdo
Mr. Tony Hughes w ill be at Armand's House on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Carol and Sandy w ill be here all week.
Hair Cutting Coloring
Featuring BODY PERMANENT WAVING
House ot Beauiy(air-conditiongd)
50 Newlown Lane 324-1240
Parking in Rear - Back Entrance Door
order to permit the division of a parcel into two lots, both of which will be non-conforming as to area and width at the building line. Premises are situate on Line Path and Wainscott Hollow Road, Wainscott, in Residence District “B”.
Said Board of Appeals w ill at said times and place hear all persons who wish to be heard in connection with
these applications. Interested parties may appear in person or by agent. Dated: Ju ly 24, 1967
By Order of the Zoning Board of Appeals
Town of East Hampton EUGENE D. HAAS, JR., Chairman
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pavilion that sat on the front of her lawn and commanded a view of the ocean. Her remark intrigued me; I never knew w hat.a gazebo was
and I never knew how to pronounce the word.
Scat! Cat!
Next stop on the tour was the home of Miss Margaret Cousins. Perched on the dunes and overlooking the ocean, it is a restored or recreated colonial house, beautifully furnished inside with antiques. Be
side the sm^ll main cottage is an even tinier one, a former chicken
Notice is hereby given that License
No. 7A-2684 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer in a grocery
store under the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Law on the north side of Montauk Highway, Montauk, Town
of East Hampton, County of Suffolk, for off-premises consumption.
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Breakfast 8 to 10 a.m.
Table d’Hote Dinner
6-9:30 p.m. $4.50
Featuring
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Nightly at $5.25
YE OULDE KITCHEN
TAP ROOM
5 p.m. to closing
CUPBOARD
ROOM GRILL
a la carte 6-10 p.m.
Notice is hereby given that Wholesale Beer License No. C-1199 has
been issued to the undersigned to sell beer at wholesale at and from
premises No. 44 Gingerbread Lane, in the Incorporated Village of East Hampton, Town of East Hampton, County of Suffolk, State of New
York, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
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"Little Old Cottage, Egypt Lane, East Hampton'' (1917) an important Childe Hassam canvas, 323/4" x 45Vi", recent gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Garver to the Guild Hall Art Collection, w ill be shown for the first time in connection \y»*h a major show of 56 works by Hassam, American impressionist who had a studio in East Hampton for 20 years before his death in 1935. Tickets (a> S5 are available at Guild Hall for the special benefit preview on Sunday. July 30 from 5 to 8 P.M. Exhibition continues through August 16.
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