When he was 60 years old, Albert Einstein rented a small cottage on Nassau Point in Southold. It was...
Author: Dan Rattiner
During a storm on April 16, 1961, the captain of a commercial fishing boat off the coast of Montauk ...
The Artists played their annual game of softball against the Writers last Saturday afternoon in Herr...
At 2 o’clock in the morning on April 10, 1925, several men drove a late-model moving van and an Es...
Dan zeroes in on some curious thoughts and news tidbits with local impact or interest here in the Ha...
You probably missed the Dan’s Papers Kite Fly. It took place between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the rain...
In May 1919, four U.S. Navy officers based in Montauk tried to fly a blimp the size of a football fi...
This year, for the first time since the game was founded in 1948, the annual Artists and Writers Cha...
A roundup of local (and not-so-local) stories in the Hamptons and North Fork.
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On August ...
Batting in the Artists and Writers Charity Softball Game has enhanced the careers of many people ove...
In 1897, a prominent resident of Southampton living on Pond Lane died at the age of 83. Pyrrhus Conc...
In September 2020, I got a phone call from an internationally known publisher asking if I would be w...
As relations between the American colonies and their British masters went sour in the 1760s, many to...
A bull on the loose shut down Sunrise Highway Tuesday morning and authorities are continuing to sear...
Our solar system is messed up. The Earth wobbles on its axis. The Moon doesn’t spin. The circling ...
I’ve noticed something odd about the writing on cereal boxes. I think it helps explain why Republi...
The Dan’s Papers Kite Fly is coming. You’ll find it from 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. on the beach at ...
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy became one of the youngest first ladies when, at age 31, her husband John...
If you are looking for a new start-up to invest in, look no further than James Wilson’s Whack-a-Th...
Parking in East Hampton Village is now being administered by computer. You can park anywhere you wan...