Last week, along with The Big Bad Rain Monster, I visited The
Hampton Library located in Bridgehampton, New York.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Swan Edits
The role of a blog master has its ups and downs, and
for me, a positive aspect is the control I have over the frequency of posting;
I can post whenever the mood suits me. Yet,
I often find myself mentally posting, with multiple thoughts scurrying around
and sentences falling into place. Usually
this occurs when I’m minus pen and paper, or some form of electronic writing
tablet, such as what occurred a few Sunday’s past.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The Un-Hampton
US Home Town Locator describes the
vicinity known as Pine Neck as a populated place located in Suffolk County. That
might be so during the summer, but definitely not during off season, unless one
includes the deer that swim over from North Haven. Hence, Pine Neck is rather a sleepy, quaint
town.
Wikipedia states that Noyac(k) is a hamlet located on the
South Fork of Long Island, in the Town of Southampton. Additionally, the Noyac
Civic Society mentions that Noyac (also spelled Noyack - named from an Indian
word meaning a long neck of land - Jessup’s Neck) is a bay, a creek, a road and
locality close to Sag Harbor. Furthermore,
I
can attest to the discrepancy in the spelling of the hamlet, for I’ve always known
it to be “Noyac,” in oppose to “Noyack,” but, as they say, different strokes
and all that. But to me, it will always
be "Noyac." In fact, an email address of
mine is Noyac@, and it’s been that way ever since emails originated and I
joined cyberspace.
Still
according to Wikipedia, Sag Harbor is an incorporated village in Suffolk
County, New York, with parts in both the Towns of East Hampton and Southampton.
It’s interesting that the spelling of East Hampton is two words, but not so
with Southampton and Westhampton.
There must be something about those folks in the East that makes them a wee bit
different from the folks in the South and West.
Sag Harbor has often been referred to as the “Un-Hampton,” as in the past, everyone flocked to the Hamptons of the East, West and South, before they ever discovered the real booty found in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor. Those similar to myself, who either grew up or summered in Noyac, were often referred to as "locals.” However, that too was debatable, back in the day, as Sag Harborites declared themselves “locals” and considered anyone from Noyac - "city."
Sag Harbor has often been referred to as the “Un-Hampton,” as in the past, everyone flocked to the Hamptons of the East, West and South, before they ever discovered the real booty found in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor. Those similar to myself, who either grew up or summered in Noyac, were often referred to as "locals.” However, that too was debatable, back in the day, as Sag Harborites declared themselves “locals” and considered anyone from Noyac - "city."
To sum it all up, Pine Neck, the
populated place in Suffolk County, is situated in Noyac, the hamlet town on the
South fork of Long Island, which is part of the incorporated village of Sag
Harbor, and has parts in both Towns of East Hampton and Southampton, all of
which are located in New York.
Why is any of that important? I’ll tell you...
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