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Ocean Beach in New London is all but deserted on a winter day last week. (Betsy Graham) A gull hovers over a rock off Waterford Beach, while a ferry from Long Island’s Orient Point heads to New London. (Betsy Graham) Seaweed covers part of the rocky shore near Waterford Beach. (Lisa Brownell) Published March 11. 2021 7:10AM  By Steve Fagin Let’s suppose that after a few hours of swimming, lolling on the sand and strolling the boardwalk at Ocean Beach, you decide to visit Harkness. Simple: Get in your car, drive less than two miles, and swing into the main entrance. If you’re a Connec...

Tautog Fishing Tips from the Pros Experimenting with a variety of rigs, different baits, and obscure locations is often the key to landing big tautog. March 4, 2021 Experimenting with a variety of rigs, different baits, and obscure locations is often the key to landing big tautog. Tautog, also called blackfish, are more affable than you may have been led to believe, and catching them is not easy to master. There’s a big difference between catching a couple for dinner and consistently pulling a limit of big ones. The biggest tautog are far more selective than their smaller brethren, much mor...

Sunday brought hope in form of vaccine to Fishers Island The vaccine is given to a woman on Fishers Island in February. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone) Hope for a future free from COVID-19 arrived on Fishers Island Sunday morning when a small plane carrying doses of the Moderna vaccine landed on the island’s airstrip. Along with the plane, Suffolk County officials arrived on a Southold Town police boat to help administer the shots. Residents of the island greeted the plane as if welcoming a visiting dignitary.  ...

In 1748 and 1749 announcements were placed in several New York City newspapers about slaves that had run away from their owners. The slaves in question, however, weren’t fugitives who might have fled north to escape Southern owners. “Run-away on the first of November last, from John Tuthill of the Oyster Ponds, at the East End of Long-Island, a Mulatto Man Slave named Toney, aged about 19 years. Had on when he went away, a Felt Hat, a brown Camblet coat, a red Jacket and speckled trowsers.  “Also run away in company with him an Indian Man named Jack, belonging to John Petty of the same...

Interview with Kurt Vonnegut With permission from HAMPTON SHORTS; Fiction Plus from the Hamptons and the east end; volume IV 1999. HAMPTON SHORTS is a not-for-profit literary magazine that puts out one book each year. Copies can be obtained by contacting HAMPTON SHORTS at either HamptonShorts@Hamptons.com or at P.O. Box 1229 Watermill, N.Y. 11976 or at (631) 537-2862. The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived at the home of Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack. We had called Kurt, earlier; and asked to inter...