Backstory: The Legal Fight Over Larry’s Legs in Sag Harbor

"Legs" by Larry Rivers in Sag Harbor
Dan’s Papers

Today, giant sculptures created by internationally known artists sit on the lawns of perhaps 50 offices, stores and cultural institutions in the Hamptons. It was not always so. Back around 2006, a bitter fight took place in Sag Harbor when one of the first of those sculptures got placed on the lawn of a…

The Wild Story of Ocean Castle in Southampton

Oceancastle as it appears today in Southampton
Dan’s Papers

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, members of High Society in the City of New York built grand summer mansions by the ocean in Southampton. There was tennis, golf, sunbathing and brisk salt sea air, considered a healthy restorative. One of the largest such mansions — still standing today — is “Ocean…