Amagansett
—  CDP  —
The historic Amagansett Coast Guard Station
File:Amagansett-map.gif
Amagansett Location within the state of New York
Coordinates: 40°58′46″N 72°7′31″W / 40.97944°N 72.12528°W / 40.97944; -72.12528Coordinates: 40°58′46″N 72°7′31″W / 40.97944°N 72.12528°W / 40.97944; -72.12528
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Suffolk
Town	East Hampton
Area
• Total	8.0 sq mi (20.8 km2)
• Land	6.3 sq mi (16.3 km2)
• Water	1.8 sq mi (4.5 km2)
Elevation	30 ft (9 m)
Population (2000)[1]
• Total	1,067
• Density	169.6/sq mi (65.5/km2)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code	11930
Area code(s)	631
FIPS code	36-01594
GNIS feature ID	0942409

Amagansett ( /ˌæməˈɡænsət/) is a census-designated place that roughly corresponds to the hamlet (unincorporated community) by the same name in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 1,067.^[1] Amagansett hamlet was founded in 1680.

The area is sometimes referred to as Skimhampton. However this specifically refers to the area south of the Montauk Highway along Skimhampton Road. The artist Childe Hassam, who lived on Egypt Lane in East Hampton village, painted the area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Portions of Skimhampton and the area on the northwest side of Amagansett hamlet are within the census-designated place of East Hampton North.

History[link]

Marker celebrating the Amagansett's "place of good water" near Indian Wells beach

Amagansett derives its name from the Montaukett name for "place of good water" from a water source near what today is Indian Wells beach.

Unlike the rest of the Hamptons, Amagansett was initially settled by the Baker, Conklin, and Barnes families, descendants of English settlers, and the Dutch brothers Abraham and Jacob Schellinger, the sons of a New Amsterdam merchant who moved to East Hampton between 1680 and 1690 after the English took over New Amsterdam.^[2]

During Operation Pastorius, a failed Nazi attack on the United States staged in June 1942, during World War II, four German spies were dropped off from a submarine on Atlantic Avenue beach in Amagansett, where they made their way to the village's Long Island Rail Road station and boarded a train for New York. A Coast Guardsman assigned to watch the beach noticed the suspicious strangers on the beach and notified the police and the FBI. In the Spring of 2007 the original Coast Guard station, which had been moved to a private residence in 1966 to protect it from demolition, was moved back to near its original location at Atlantic Avenue beach. The Coast Guard barracks are now part of the East Hampton Town Marine Museum which includes exhibits from the town maritime history including whaling relics and a canon from the American Revolution ship HMS Culloden which ran aground at Montauk, New York.

In 1998 President Bill Clinton who was vacationing in East Hampton gave a Saturday radio address from the Amagansett Fire House. On the same visit, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger hosted a dinner for the President at their home in the Stony Hill section of the hamlet. In 1999 President Clinton made his second visit to Amagansett and found time to play a round of golf at South Fork CC. He was joined by local prodigy Matthew Scott. When asked about his experience with the nation's 42nd President, Scott replied, "He was taller than I expected, which I didn't appreciate."

Amagansett includes a section of Further Lane, which is a block from the ocean, and has one of the biggest collections of mansions in East Hampton. In 2007, one of the estates sold for a $107 million which was the highest price for a private residential property. As part of the settlement, several 18th and 19th century buildings which had been moved to the estate to prevent demolition were moved elsewhere in the town—including five that were moved to form a campus for the East Hampton town government.

"Amagansett", a pictorial history of the hamlet, was published in 1997 by Carleton Kelsey, longtime director of the Amagansett Free Library and former town clerk, and Lucinda Mayo, descendant of one of Amagansett's 17th century founders ^[3]

Many houses and other buildings still stand from the 19th and even 18th century in Amagansett, Montauk, the Hamptons and other Long Island communities.

Residents[link]

A popular resort location, many famous people have resided in or owned second homes in Amagansett through the years, including Paul McCartney, Kathleen Turner, James Frey, Jerry Seinfeld, Christie Brinkley, Diane Sawyer, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Jann Wenner, Suzanne Vega and Lorne Michaels. Marilyn Monroe and Randy Lerner and Arthur Miller spent a summer there in the late 1950s. Perhaps the first wave of "summer people" was the "Devon Colony", which was founded in the late 19th century by executives of the Procter & Gamble company. Other notable residents include:

• Alfred Conkling (1789–1874), born in Amagansett, United States Congressman from New York^[4]

Geography[link]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the hamlet has a total area of 8.1 square miles (21.0 km²), of which 6.3 square miles (16.3 km²) is land and 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²) (21.86%) is water.

At the end of the last ice age, Amagansett stood at the eastern tip of Long Island. At that time, Montauk was an island on its own in the Atlantic. In the intervening several thousand years, ocean currents, or littoral drift, filled in space with sand. This area is now known as Napeague.

Distinct places within Amagansett include Amagansett village, Beach Hampton, and the Devon Colony on Gardiner's Bay. Other places of geographic significance include the "Walking Dunes" in Napeague and the Atlantic Double Dunes, which is protected by the Nature Conservancy and local and federal governments.

Demographics[link]

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,067 people, 493 households, and 281 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 169.6 per square mile (65.5/km²). There were 1,664 housing units at an average density of 264.5/sq mi (102.1/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.44% White, 1.69% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.28% from other races, and 0.94% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.03% of the population.

There were 493 households out of which 21.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.1% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.0% were non-families. 34.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.78.

In the CDP the population was spread out with 19.1% under the age of 18, 3.2% from 18 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 33.0% from 45 to 64, and 22.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 102.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.8 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $56,406, and the median income for a family was $69,306. Males had a median income of $48,750 versus $36,500 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $45,545. About 2.4% of families and 5.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.

References[link]

Notes

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Stephen Talkhouse
Stephen Talkhouse
Background information

Stephen Talkhouse (Stephen Taukus “Talkhouse” Pharaoh) (ca. 1879–1921) was a Montaukett Native American of the late 19th century who was famed for his 25-50 mile daily round trip walks from Montauk, New York to East Hampton and Sag Harbor.^[1] Landmarks along the route have been named for him.

He was said to be a descendant of Chief Wyandanch, who sold much of the eastern end of Long Island to Lion Gardiner.

Talkhouse died August 30, 1879 at age 58. He was buried in a small Indian burial ground on Talkhouse Lane off East Lake Drive in Montauk, now located within Theodore Roosevelt County Park. The remains of his home are also located there.

Part of his route has been commemorated as part of the Paumanok Path.

See also[link]

• Montauk Point land claim

References[link]

External links[link]

• FAQ: Talkhouse, The Stephen Talkhouse Tavern website, Amagansett, New York

Loudon Wainwright III
Background information
Birth name	Loudon Snowden Wainwright III
Born	(1946-09-05) September 5, 1946 (age 65) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Genres	Folk, Rock, Blues, Comedy
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, actor, humorist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano, banjo, ukulele, percussion
Years active	1967–present
Labels	Atlantic, Columbia, Legacy, Arista, Radar, Rounder, Silvertone, Charisma, Virgin, Hannibal, Red House, Sanctuary Records, 2nd Story Sound Records, Sovereign Artists, Concord, Proper Records
Associated acts	Kate and Anna McGarrigle, White Cloud, George Gerdes, Richard Thompson, Chaim Tannenbaum, Spinal Tap, The Roches, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Joe Henry
Website	www.lw3.com

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.

To date, Wainwright has released 22 studio albums. Reflecting upon his career, in 1999, Wainwright stated "you could characterize the catalog as somewhat checkered, although I prefer to think of it as a tapestry."^[1]

Early life[link]

Wainwright was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the son of Martha Taylor, a yoga teacher, and Loudon Wainwright, Jr., a columnist and editor for Life magazine.^[2] His father was not a professional musician but he did play piano and wrote some songs, exposing his children to musicians such as Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg who were later cited as influences.^[3] Wainwright grew up in Bedford, New York, in Westchester County. Among his sisters is Sloan Wainwright, also a singer. He graduated from St. Andrew's School in Delaware. He is a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Director-General of New Netherland^[4] (present-day New York State).

Career[link]

Wainwright's career began in the late 1960s. He had played the guitar while in school but later sold it for yoga lessons while living in San Francisco. Later, in Rhode Island, Wainwright's grandmother got him a job working in a boatyard. An old lobsterman named Edgar inspired him to borrow a friend's guitar and write his first song, "Edgar". Wainwright soon bought his own guitar and in about a year wrote nearly twenty songs. He went to Boston and New York City to play in folk clubs and was eventually "discovered" by Milton Kramer, who became his manager. He acquired a record deal with Atlantic Records, who released his first album in 1970.

Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road) and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") on the American television show, M*A*S*H. His appearances spanned three episodes in its third season (1974–1975), including the episode "Rainbow Bridge".^[5]

Using a witty, self-mocking style, Wainwright has recorded over twenty albums on eleven different labels. Three of his albums have been nominated for Grammy Awards: I'm Alright (1985) and More Love Songs (1986).^[6] In January 2010, he won the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project.

Wainwright has also appeared in a number of films, including small parts in The Aviator, Big Fish, Elizabethtown, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Knocked Up, and the television series Undeclared and Parks and Recreation.^[5] In the UK he recorded sessions for John Peel from 1971 onwards and appeared on a simultaneous broadcast on BBC TV and on Radio 1 in February 1978 (known as Sight and Sound in Concert).^[7] However, it was in the late 1980s that he gained much wider popularity in Britain when he appeared as the resident singer with comedian Jasper Carrott in his UK show, Carrott Confidential, and has remained popular in the UK ever since.

He appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live in the first season's 5th episode, which was broadcast on November 15, 1975. He performed "Bicentennial" and "Unrequited to the Nth Degree" as a guest to Robert Klein.

Wainwright has claimed that, like many of his contemporaries, he was inspired musically by seeing Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. He was one of many young folksingers tagged as the "new Dylan" in the early 1970s, a fact that he later ruefully satirized in his song, "Talking New Bob Dylan", from History (1992).^[6]

Wainwright was also a judge for the 4th annual Independent Music Awards.^[8]

According to his own liner notes, Wainwright entered a period of deep depression following the death of his mother in 1997 and believed he could never write again. Retreating to his mother's cabin in the woods, he underwent therapy and gradually recovered, eventually recording the soul-baring Last Man on Earth in 2001. Since then his recording career has mostly returned to its previous frequency.

In September 2006, Wainwright and musician Joe Henry began composing the music to the Judd Apatow film, Knocked Up, which was released on June 1, 2007. In addition to composing the soundtrack, Wainwright appeared in the film in a supporting role as the protagonists' obstetrician.^[9] He has also composed music for the new theatre production of Carl Hiassen's Lucky You, which premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.^[10]

Wainwright released a new studio album, Older Than My Old Man Now, in April 2012.

Personal life[link]

Wainwright was married to the late singer/songwriter Kate McGarrigle. During their marriage, which ended in divorce, they had two children, Rufus and Martha. Rufus was the inspiration behind two of Wainwright's songs; "Rufus is a Tit Man" (referring to Rufus during breastfeeding), and "A Father and a Son", a retrospective. Wainwright's songs inspired by Martha are "Pretty Little Martha" (composed about her as an infant), "Five Years Old", (about her fifth birthday), and the brutally honest "Hitting You" (about her teenage years). Both Rufus and Martha are also singer/songwriters. Rufus composed "Dinner at Eight" about a family dispute in the Wainwright household. Martha composed the song "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole" about, according to her, her father.^[11] She and Wainwright collaborated on the song "You Never Phone" (on Wainwright's 2003 album So Damn Happy), and they sang a duet together on the song "Father Daughter Dialogue" (on Wainwrights' 1995 album "Grown Man"). Wainwright has another daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche (by the singer Suzzy Roche).

Wainwright remarried in 2005.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live albums[link]

• A Live One (1979)
• Career Moves (1993)
• So Damn Happy (2003)

Compilations[link]

• One Man Guy: The Best of Loudon Wainwright III 1982–1986 (1994)
• The BBC Sessions (1998)
• 40 Odd Years (2011)

Singles[link]

• "Dead Skunk" / "Needless to Say" (1973) (U.S. Pop #16)
• "Down Drinking at the Bar" / "I Am the Way" (1974)
• "Five Years Old" / "Rambunctious" (1983, Demon)
• "Five years old" / "The Grammy song" (1983, Rounder)
• "Cardboard Boxes" / "Colours" (1985, Demon)
• "Unhappy Anniversary" / "The Acid Song" (1986, Demon)
• "Thank You, Girl" (John Hiatt) / "My Girl" (with John Hiatt) (1987)
• "Your Mother and I" / "At the End of a Long Lonely Day" (with John Hiatt) (1987)
• "T.S.D.H.A.V." / "Nice Guys" (1989, Silvertone)
• "Jesse Don't Like It" (live) / "T.S.D.H.A.V." (live) (1990, Hannibal)
• "Silent Night, Holy Night" (Terry Callier) / "The Little Drummer Boy" (John Scofield & Loudon Wainwright) Verve records, 1999
• "Y2K" (Rykodisc, 1999)
• "Nanny" (Evangeline, 2005)

Promotional discs

• "Bell bottom pants"-mono / "Bell bottom pants"-stereo, 1973, Columbia 45 rpm
• "The Swimming song"-stereo / "The Swimming song"-mono", 1973 Columbia 45 rpm
• "Bicentennial"-mono / "Bicentennial"-stereo, 1976 Arista 45 rpm
• "This year" -one sided disc, 1988 Silvertone 45 rpm
• "Y2K" 6 track radio edits of the song "Y2K" Rykodisc
• "History promo #1" Talking new Bob Dylan, Hitting you, People in love, Virgin, 1992
• "History promo #2" The Doctor, When I'm at your house, So many songs, Men, Virgin, 1992
• "History promo #3" People in love, Virgin, 1992
• "Career moves" promo, Suddenly it's Christmas, Virgin, 1993
• "Grown man" promo, 1994, IWIWAL (I wish I was a lesbian, Cobwebs, Grown man, Virgin, 1995
• "Little ship" promo, Mr. Ambivalent, Virgin, 1997
• "So Damn Happy" promo No. 1, Something for nothing", Sanctuary, 2003
• "So damn happy" promo No. 2, The Picture, The Shit song (Radio edit) You never phone, Sanctuary records, 2003
• "Daughter" from Strange weirdos, Concord records, 2007

Contributions[link]

• The New Age of Atlantic – "Motel Blues" (1972)
• Earl Scruggs Review Anniversary Special, Volume One – "Swimming Song", "Gospel Ship" (1975)
• Nyon Folk Festival – "The Waitress Song" (1979)
• Feed the Folk – "Outsidey" (1985)
• The Slugger's Wife Soundtrack – "Hey, Hey, My My" (with Rebecca De Mornay) (1985)
• From Hell to Obscurity – "Colours", "At the End of a Long Lonely Day" (with John Hiatt), "My Girl" (with John Hiatt) (1989)
• Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 10 – "Dead Skunk" (1990, Rhino)
• 70s Greatest Rock, Vol. 10: Hitchin' a Ride – "Dead Skunk" (1991, Priority)
• Dr. Demento Presents..., Vol. 4: The 1970s – "Dead Skunk"
• Signed, Sealed, Delivered – "Virgin 21" (1994, Virgin, UK)
• Life in the Folk Lane II – "Hard Day on the Planet" (1994, Diablo/Demon)
• Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson – "A Heart Needs a Home" (with Shawn Colvin) (1995, Capitol)
• Troubadours of Folk, Vol. 4: The '70s – "Old Friend" (1995, Rhino)
• Golfs Greatest Hits – "Golfin' Blues" (1996, Teed Off Records, distributed by BMG)
• The Best of Mountain Stage, Volume 1 – "Bill of Goods" (1996, Blue Plate Music)
• Mellow Rock Hits of the '70s: Sundown – "Glad to See You've Got Religion" (1997, Rhino)
• Soft Rock Classics – "Glad to See You've Got Religion" (1998, Rhino)
• KBCO Studio C, Volume 4 – "Cardboard Boxes" (KBCO)
• Family Album – "The Picture" (1998, Gadfly)
• Best of the Cambridge Folk Festival, 1977–1997 – Medley: "The Swimming Song/Pretty Little Martha/Dump the Dog" (1998)
• Welcome to High Sierra – "Primrose Hill" (1998, High Sierra)
• Bleecker Street – "Pack Up Your Sorrows" (with Iris DeMent) (1999, Astor Place)
• Live at the World Café - Volume 9 (1999) – "Sunday Times"
• Seka – Sister, Volume 2 – "Pretty Good Day" (2000, Twah!)
• Si Dolce – "I am the Way", "The Last Day", "Road Ode", "Five Years Old" (2000)
• 28 Days Soundtrack – "Heaven and Mud", "Drinking Song", "White Winos", "Dreaming" (2000, Uni/Varèse Sarabande)
• Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom (1950–1970) – "School Days" (2001, Rhino)
• Love Songs For New York: Wish You Were Here – "No Sure Way" (2002, Megaforce)
• 107.1 KGSR Radio Austin – Broadcasts Vol.10 (2002) – "No Sure Way"
• The Aviator: Music From The Motion Picture – "After You've Gone" (2004) [Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax]
• Golden Slumbers: A Father's Love – "Daughter" (2005, Rendezvous)
• Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys – "Turkish Revelry", "Good Ship Venus" (2006, ANTI-)

Filmography[link]

• M*A*S*H (1975) (TV) .... Capt. Calvin Spaulding, the singing surgeon
• The T.V. Show (1979) (TV) .... Dead Man on Telethon/Spinal Tap Keyboardist
• The Slugger's Wife (1985) .... Gary
• Jacknife (1989) .... Ferretti
• 28 Days (2000) .... Guitar guy
• Undeclared (2001) (TV) .... Hal Karp
• Big Fish (2003) .... Beamen
• The Aviator (2004) .... Coconut Grove Vocalist No. 2
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) .... Priest
• Elizabethtown (2005) .... Uncle Dale
• For Your Consideration (2006) .... Nominee Ben Connelly
• Knocked Up (2007) .... Dr. Everett Howard (also composed music)
• G-Force (2009) .... Grandpa Goodman
• Parks and Recreation (2009) (TV) .... Barry, a nutso community-forum attendee (Episode 1)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Loudon Wainwright III

• Official website
• Facebook page
• Short autobiography
• Transcript of an autobiographical speech given for the Ohio University Spring Literary Festival
• Loudon Wainwright III on VH1
• Loudon Wainwright III at the Internet Movie Database
• “The Guardian profile: The Wainwrights” by Richard Jinman. Published by The Guardian on 2005-04-15.
• Perfect Sound Together interview
• Allmusic
• Video of Wainwright from the Kennedy Center – October 13, 1999
• Kennedy Center article
• Discography review
• Myspace site
• http://www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/16246/album-loudon-wainwright-iii-older-than-my-old-man-now For Folks Sake album review for Loudon Wainwright (Alaina Henderson)