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More stories of the outsized and the ordinary from the editor and publisher of Dans Papers.

This is Dan Rattiners fourth collection of essays about the fishermen, farmers, celebrities, billionaires, and artists who live, work, and play in the Hamptons. As the founder and publisher of Dans Papers, a weekly community newspaper, Rattiner knows the Hamptons backwards and forwards, and stories of his encounters on the South Fork of Long Island give readers a greater understanding of how this community has changed over the years and the major figures who have shepherded these changes along.
In addition to well-known faces such as Dr. Oz and billionaires like Ira Rennert and his wifewho built the second-largest private home in Americayoull also read about motel owners, art gallery owners, an ad salesman for Dans Papers, and a philanthropist who at one time had nearly a dozen historical buildings on her $100 million property in East Hampton. The book also provides some of the hoaxes and tall tales that the author has fabricated over the years to entertain the readers of Dans Papers, including the moving radar tower at Montauk, the great Ecuadorian eel attack, and the Hamptons subway.
Dans book, as does his newspaper, creates a chronicle of the women and men who have chosen to live in this magical place over these different decades, so one gets a very personal picture of how it was and is. Dans seen it all and isnt keeping it under his very real hat. from the Foreword by Barbara L. Goldsmith
Praise for Dan Rattiner
Dans memoirs are like Dans newspapers: charming, whimsical, fun, and filled with insightful knowledge of the East End conveyed with a twinkle in the eye. Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
If there was an honorary mayor of the Hamptons it would have to be Dan Rattiner a raconteur with a wicked sense of humor and an eye for detail. Long Island History Journal
If a guy says it happened in the Hamptons, and Dan Rattiner doesnt know about it, it didnt. Tom Wolfe

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Praise for Dan Rattiner

Dans memoirs are like Dans newspapers: charming, whimsical, fun, and filled with insightful knowledge of the East End conveyed with a twinkle in the eye.

Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

If there was an honorary mayor of the Hamptons it would have to be Dan Rattiner a raconteur with a wicked sense of humor and an eye for detail.

Long Island History Journal

If a guy says it happened in the Hamptons, and Dan Rattiner doesnt know about it, it didnt.

Tom Wolfe

In the Hamptons 4Ever

MOSTLY TRUE TALES FROM THE EAST END

DAN RATTINER

Cover art by Mickey Paraskevas

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State University of New York Press, Albany

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rattiner, Dan.

In the Hamptons 4ever: mostly true tales from the East End / Dan Rattiner ; foreword by Barbara L. Goldsmith. Excelsior editions.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4384-5813-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4384-5815-1 (e-book)

1. Hamptons (N.Y.)History, Local. 2. Hamptons (N.Y.)Social life and customsAnecdotes. 3. Rattiner, Dan. 4. MillionairesNew York (State)HamptonsSocial life and customs. 5. CelebritiesNew York (State)HamptonsSocial life and customs. I. Title. II. Title: Dans papers.

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This book is dedicated to the seven children

and six grandchildren in my life,

Maya, Adam, David, Gabriel, Pam, Ben, Scoop,

Solange, Rhone, Eli, Arthur, Abraham and Owen.

CONTENTS

by Barbara L. Goldsmith

FOREWORD

He wears many hats, is an old adage, but Dan Rattiner literally and figuratively does just that. If youre on the lookout, youll see his hatted head everywhereat swanky galas, charity events, literary readings, polo matches, and parties, parties, parties. As far as I know, Dans been wearing his signature hat forever.

We both came to the Hamptons about half a century ago, but back then it wasnt called The Hamptons. East Hampton, where I lived, was just a lush and beachgrass hidden oasis away from the city. It had the most extraordinary clear light that attracted many artists (that and the affordable prices were winners for them). To many of us, Main Beach, fine and broad, drew us with its siren song. Wed sit there playing chess, largely with artists and writers, while our kids chased the waves. DeKooning promised me a painting if Id spend the night with him, and when I turned him down he asked, I cant drive, maybe sometimes youd do that for me? And I did, but never got a painting.

In the 60s and 70s, occasionally a hostess asked rather plaintively, Can you wear a dress? which meant not festive dress or gala dress or formal dress but Please wear a dress because my grandmother is coming for dinner. There was one clothing store where you could buy the basicsjeans, t-shirts, and even underwear, which ironically you cant today. After I bought my house, it was still called by the locals for about fifteen years Old Mrs. Halls house. After that, people became convinced that I was here to stay.

With the road improvement (it used to take four hours on a good day) and airplanes and helicopters and vast wealth, this string of small towns became celebrity heaven. My late friend, the funny and brilliant screenwriter Peter Stone, said we should build a barrier across the Shinnecock Canal and if you said you had ever hired a caterer, or a DJ, or worn a gold chain, you would be turned back to Manhattan.

Dans family were almost, but not quite, Bonackers, the early settlers of East Hampton and Springs, a term that derives from the Native American name for root place, with names like Bennett, Conklin, Haven, King, Lester, Miller, and Strong. They owned the local potato farms and utilities and were superb fishermen. In this book, Dan writes all about the old times and then the gradual (or not so gradual) change to The Hamptons. Dans book, as does his newspaper, creates a chronicle of the women and men who have chosen to live in this magical place over these different decades, so one gets a very personal picture of how it was and is. Dans seen it all and isnt keeping it under his very real hat. His crisp, clear, often poetic writing puts you in the moment to a mighty degree, and he writes excellent you are there dialogue as well.

Personally, one of my favorite chapters is the first, Bob Steadman, set in 1960, a hilarious romp of a sailboat race engineered for eight- to ten-year-olds and usurped by Dan and his friend. Confronted by a dead wind, the friend jumps overboard into the waist high water and wades, pulling their sailboat over the finish line. At that point I wanted to yell, Hooray, but Steadman screamed something much more colorful. I felt I was there and I could almost look at the little sailboats from that past era.

The chapter on Ira Rennerts home near the books end, is also a favorite because it shows the trajectory from an innocent, unsophisticated place that still retained its enormous natural beauty to a place where almost everything else had changed. The fight over Rennerts $100 million complex turned the once-tranquil Sagaponack into a place of protest, political activism, and ethnic intolerance. The laughs were gone.

Once Dan interviewed me about my latest book, but it turned out that after a few glasses of wine, I interviewed him instead. He told me hes never felt he worked a day in his life and, as the lyric goes, I did it my way. Somehow I forgot to ask him about the ubiquitous hat.

Barbara L. Goldsmith

Barbara L. Goldsmith is the author and historian of five award-winning New York Times best-selling books. She has written for the New York Times , Vanity Fair , and The New Yorker . Her most recent work, Obsessive Genius: the Inner World of Marie Curie , has been translated into 23 languages. Ms. Goldsmith has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was recently designated a Living Landmark by the New York Landmark Conservancy.

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