09.08.2019 Columns Column: A dear friend who never, ever gave up Joe Townsend Jr. was the third person we met when my wife, Joan, and I moved to the North Fork in 1977. That’s because he was the nephew of...
09.23.2017 Columns Column: Fresh & Co. flap is nothing new for Orient residents A colleague of mine at this newspaper used to refer to the North Fork’s easternmost hamlet as The People’s Republic of Orient. The implication was that residents of Orient...
11.11.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: He lasted a lifetime, but his art lives forever We always knew Rob White had arrived at The Suffolk Times office because our mascot, an aged chocolate Lab named Maggie, would begin barking as he approached the front...
09.13.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: Life before Southold for John May I experienced a déjà vu moment the other day as I played tennis across the net from Paul May, one of the 11 children of Southold resident John May,...
08.22.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: After 38 years, Marty Garrell is still loving the outdoors With the passing of “Focus on Nature” columnist Paul Stoutenburgh, the recent retirement of Louisa Hargrave’s “The Oeno Files” wine column and the previous semi-retirement of my own “The...
07.03.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: The man who ran the other NSA If you’ve lived on the North Fork for a while, you probably have driven past it numerous times. It’s at the southwest corner of Front and Fourth streets in...
05.20.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: Shrimp enchiladas and a failed pub crawl The premise was a simple one, I thought. A group of old (and getting older) friends would meet for dinner at the grand reopening of Lucharitos, the trendy Tex-Mex...
04.25.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: Get ready, set, step! (for the hospital) This is to announce the periodic return, at least for the foreseeable future, of this column, along with the news that the former Joan Giger Walker and I hereby...
03.15.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: A fond farewell … at least for now A confession: I have not been ice boating even once this winter on either Great Pond or Hallocks Bay. And that’s because I’ve been on the North Fork for...
02.14.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: Ah, the synergy of food and wine Friday, Jan. 30, was an important date in the life of the North Fork. No, it wasn’t Groundhog Day, and it wasn’t the date of another Big Snow Storm....
