On the morning of August 27, 1862, the keeper of the Montauk Lighthouse, Joseph Stanton, walked outs...
Author: Dan Rattiner
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...
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...