12.07.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: Hurricane Sandy was not just a fluke Friends from around the country have been grilling us recently about how we survived Hurricane Sandy. They’ve seen the coverage of the aftermath, and they want to know if...
10.18.2012 Columns Column: To help the Yankees, I must curse them I suppose it could be worse. I could be a Red Sox fan. But I switched allegiance from the Sox to the Yankees more than 50 years ago, as...
10.06.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: Why my house is now a Woodhouse Psssst. Can you keep a secret? There’s another political race, other than the ones for president and congressman, up for grabs on Nov. 6. It’s a special election, in...
09.23.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: The night I made a truly bad choice A confession: I recently drove a car when I shouldn’t have. It came at the end of a long and beautiful day of showing off the North Fork to...
09.07.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: The North Fork’s a moveable feast There may have been more perfect Labor Day weekends hereabouts in the past, but I can’t remember one. The weather was perfect, our friends and family were perfect and...
08.24.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: Protecting the Scrabble-cheating kid Back in June, I wrote a column about local businesses, such as North Fork Potato Chips, that have established a national reach. Among the businesses I neglected to mention...
06.29.2012 Columns Moving day provides the true test for friendship If there is one certainty in life it is that you will find out who your true friends are on moving day. Not their moving day, your moving day....
08.17.2011 Columns Column: The day Greenport Village stood still It finally happened. You can mark the time and date as 12 noon on Sunday, Aug. 14, in the Year of Our Lord 2011. Gridlock finally, and inevitably, arrived...
07.21.2011 Columns Column: We’re so gay, and much better off If you had asked me before last week, when the 2010 census data was released, I would have said Fire Island is Long Island’s “gayest” community. But Fire Island...
06.03.2011 Columns Column: When in doubt, just throw it out One can never have too many walking sticks and canes. At least that was my thinking as I collected scores of walking sticks and canes over the years. Walking...