By Dan Rattiner
Stories of the occasionally wealthy, occasionally well-known, yet regularly quirky citizens of 1 of America's best-known summer season colonies, as instructed by means of the editor and writer of Dan's Papers, the area's unfastened weekly newspaper.
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I did dig. Another time, I brought him some news. “There are two enormous buffalos in the pasture right out front of the entrance to the Deep Hollow Ranch,” I told him. ” “That’s got to be Hy Sobiloff. I’ll talk to him. Hy writes books of romantic poetry. He’s also very rich, with a house on the ocean. ” This caused Gilmartin to launch into the story of how the cattle from the two Montauk ranches were, for many years, driven at the end of each summer ten miles right through town to a corral at the railroad station to wait for the cattle cars to come.
I said to my wife. I told her what had happened. ” “No. Not at all. I’m returning stolen goods. ” She looked at me blankly. ” “Really,” I said. I smiled. ” She shrugged. Then walked out of the room. “This really is a good thing,” I shouted after her. One week later, at four in the afternoon of a hot August day, I stood at the appointed place, which was on the southwest corner of School Street and the Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton and waited. It was a cloudy day. Four turned to five after four, then ten after.
The wash room is right behind me. Get the mud off your shoes. I presume you are working the fountain this morning. ” “Wash them anyway. Then I’ll give you the key to the White Elephant. ” hus began a friendship between me and this wonderful older man that lasted for years. He’d tell me this astonishing story of the town. I had no idea there were places like this so full of history. And I was living in one! T Richard T. Gilmartin 11 SUPERVISOR GILMARTIN DEMONSTRATING NEED FOR DISABILITY RAMP AT THE MONTAUK LIGHTHOUSE (Courtesy of Timmy Gilmartin) He had me drive to the huge cliffs on the south face of the Montauk Lighthouse, where there were rocks and boulders a hundred feet down on the stone beach.