10.19.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Why my love of the sport faded Having just returned from our 50th high school reunion, whence I was reunited with teammates from our undefeated, state championship football team, I am once again ruminating on the...
10.03.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: The answer’s staring us right in the face I’ve got an idea: Let’s reroute Route 48 to the south in order to avoid further pedestrian deaths near the Soundview. Or build a pedestrian bridge or tunnel across...
09.20.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Is East Marion becoming East Brooklyn? Yes, it’s true, I am a full-fledged curmudgeon. (Merriam-Webster definition: “A person [especially an old man] who is easily annoyed or angered and who often complains.”) Let’s see: A...
09.05.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Changes in store for a favorite vista? That rumbling you hear coming from out east is the sound of restless natives concerned about the future of one of the most iconic vistas on the East End...
08.23.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Time marches on, just look around you Perhaps it’s my age (68) or maybe it’s just the alignment of the stars, but I can’t seem to be able to write about anything this week other than...
08.10.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Saying goodbye to a 35-year tradition All things must pass All things must pass away. — George Harrison It is with profound regret that I announce the demise of the Bob Wall Memorial Summer Tennis...
07.28.2014 Columns Gustavson column: Love and hate for my old house The Oysterponds Historical Society tells us it was built around 1830. And the Town of Southold tells us it is a legitimate historic landmark. Which means 595 King St.,...
07.12.2014 Columns Column: Tragic marker of time for a wine region The untimely and tragic deaths of Ann Marie and Marco Borghese have me thinking about the passage of time, particularly insofar as the North Fork’s grape-growing/wine industry is concerned....
06.27.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Hugs and kisses, Cross Sound Ferry Doctor, please take my temperature. I think there’s something wrong with me. I think I’m about to say something nice about, gulp, Cross Sound Ferry. Yes, the same Cross...
06.14.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Thoughts on one of Southold’s best teachers Greenport author Teresa Taylor and her new novel, “Family Matters,” were duly profiled in last week’s Suffolk Times, and I have little to add on that subject, save for...