During the late 1950s and 1960s, many great American writers such as Edward Albee, James Jones, Trum...
Author: Dan Rattiner
The final day of the Hamptons International Film Festival, Wednesday, October 13, will feature Storm...
The single worst storm that ever hit the Hamptons took place during just two hours beginning at 4 p....
Shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre ain’t what it used to be. In the old days, when I was a t...
On the morning of what would be the last day of his life, stockbroker Harold Fish, age 47, woke, dre...
As you drive through the woods along narrow roads in the Hamptons, you sometimes see rectangular par...
On the morning of August 27, 1862, the keeper of the Montauk Lighthouse, Joseph Stanton, walked outs...
Friday, September 3, at 6 p.m., a group of 22 aircraft company owners arrived by private jet at the ...
The Longines Hampton Classic Grand Prix was held on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. This is the mos...
The early settlers of the Hamptons made maps of their towns. East Hampton’s map in 1685 showed the...
In 2005, a young woman named Alexa Strait worked for Dan’s Papers doing layout and typesetting. Sh...
Every summer, the novel Moby Dick is read aloud by a series of writers, historians and celebrities h...
Painter Jackson Pollock spent the last 10 years of his life in the Hamptons. He took inspiration fro...
This past May, East Hampton Airport began ordering incoming aircraft to approach the airport on a fl...
Several weeks ago, I wrote a story in Dan’s Papers about hurricanes and their recent inability to ...
When he was 60 years old, Albert Einstein rented a small cottage on Nassau Point in Southold. It was...
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...