Letters

In the summer of 1946, my mother brought my brother and me on the Long Island Rail Road to enjoy the rural farming community of Sagaponack. We boarded for that and the next few summers at the Szczepankowski farm on Sagg Main Street. Because we didn’t have a car, we went everywhere on foot, including to my favorite place, Sagg Main Beach. Jen Szczepankowski cooked a delicious breakfast, put together a sandwich lunch, and prepared marvelous dinners for us in the evening.

Soon, we were so enchanted by the East End that my parents started renting a house on Daniels Lane in the summer, later buying a small house on Gibson Lane, in which my mother still lived when she died at age 98.

I clearly remember asking my father, who weekly drove us out from New York City in the wintertime, whether we could stop at Carvel. With a sense of humor, he would announce that we had behaved so well recently that maybe he could be persuaded to give us that treat. He would always add, “With sprinkles, or without?”

Those were simpler times of pheasants and foxes and bobwhites, and no deer and no development in the rural fields.

With those memories, the thought that Konner Development now wants to establish a cannabis business at the Carvel building in Bridgehampton and build a big development in the area beside and behind it is most upsetting [“Owner of Bridgehampton Carvel Building Eyes Cannabis Dispensary for Site,” 27east.com, September 20]. (At present the only cannabis stores are on Shinnecock Territory in Southampton. According to an article at 27east, the owner of the shopping center in Bridgehampton has stated that it does not want a cannabis business in its shopping center.)

What a sad development it would be to have a cannabis business as a welcome to our small town. I hope that the powers that be in Southampton will not allow this to happen.

Carey F. Millard

Bridgehampton