01.19.2014 Columns Column: A delightful month spent at the movies With the arrival of January comes my annual immersion in a veritable sea of movies. Anything to get me through the next few months, when the sun will shine...
01.05.2014 Columns GustavsonColumn: North Fork New Year Wish List I know you’re supposed to make resolutions for the New Year, but this year I have only wishes. (Truth be told, my resolutions don’t seem to have worked out...
12.21.2013 Columns Column: Basketball fever — he’s got it bad I once had a sportswriting assignment, when I was still in college, that required me to attend five 40-minute basketball games in the span of one long afternoon-evening. And...
12.08.2013 Columns Column: A very good reason to move the earth It was a self-appointed environmentalist’s worse nightmare. There, in the distance, looming over the shores of Hallocks Bay in Orient, was massive earth moving equipment doing what it does...
11.22.2013 Columns Column: The days and years after JFK’s death I still can remember, as if it were yesterday, when our social studies teacher Mr. Bloom walked into the classroom and told us that President Kennedy had been shot...
11.09.2013 Columns Column: Some election silliness down south They call it The Silly Season for a reason. Elections — and particularly local elections — often bring out the silliness in everyone involved, including the candidates, their handlers...
10.17.2013 Letters Featured Letters: Readers take aim at Gustavson column To the editor: In his column last week, Troy Gustavson wrote that “the Democratic Party is largely disorganized and dysfunctional” in Southold Town. He said this as a reason...
09.28.2013 Columns Column: Yes, deer, your time has come here In recent times, the former Joan Giger Walker and I have been privileged to spend a significant chunk of time in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park in upstate New York....
09.14.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Where does the time go? Who knows where the time goes? — Judy Collins I’m still trying to figure out how it happened. One moment there was this tiny, beautiful, perfect baby in swaddling...
08.31.2013 Columns Column: Anyone for tennis? Not anymore With the U.S. Open getting underway this week at Flushing Meadows on the opposite end of Long Island, perhaps this is an inopportune time to ask if tennis is,...