Every Saturday (and sometimes Sunday) beginning May 10 and continuing on to Labor Day, author Dan Rattiner takes his new book and microphone to one of twenty five different locations in the Hamptons and Montauk to give a short history lesson about that spot and then read a chapter from the book "In the Hamptons" that took place at that location. The public is invited free of charge.
Wednesday, June 25
6:00-8:00pm
Meet the Author at the Wolffer Winery in Bridgehampton on Sagaponack Road. Reading "Lt. James Kealy," the story about the mysterious stuff found in the attic of the first home this author bought. A membership event for the Parrish Art Museum business council.
Friday, June 27
11:00am
Meet the Author in STARBUCKS on Main Street in Bridgehampton. Reading "Merton Tyndall" - How the most prominent banker on the east end, sitting in his office at the Bridgehampton National Bank - now Starbucks -- gave the author a bank loan just on his word of honor. Encore: "Saving the Bull's Head Inn."
Saturday, June 28
11:00am
Meet the Author in the bar of the Memory Motel on Main Street, Montauk. Reading "Esther and Sarah (and the Rolling Stones.)" Late one night, the rock group gets itself thrown out of this motel, which today, has, in addition to remaining a motel, has become a rock and roll shrine to that group.
Sunday, June 29
5:00pm
Meet the Author at the Pollock- Krasner Museum at 830 Springs Fireplace Road in the Springs. Reading "Jackson Pollock" - The author, at age 23, meets some Bonackers at Jungle Pete's Bar to write a story for Dan's Papers about the troubled life and sudden death of this famous painter who lived in Springs and gets told to not write anything. $$ donation requested.
Saturday, July 5
11:00am
Meet the Author in the dining room at Bobby Van's Restaurant on Main Street, Bridgehampton. Reading "Bobby Van" - about the man who founded the bar and in its second year in business threw the author permanently out of the place because of a hoax he wrote in Dan's Papers that Bobby fell for. The sentence of 'Permanent' banishment is quietly lifted after three weeks, when Bobby's wife Marina intercedes.
Friday, July 11
9:00 - 11:00am
Listen to the author on the Joan Hamburg Show live reading an excerpt from the book on WOR radio.
Friday, July 11
5:00 - 6:00pm
Meet the author at Art Expo in Bridgehampton. Reading "Speed King" at 5:30 pm. The Author forgets to go to court to fight a minor motor vehicle infraction and winds up in handcuffs and thrown in the Village lockup on Newtown Lane in East Hampton.
Saturday, July 12
11:00am
Meet the Author in the outdoor picnic grounds under the giant shore batteries at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk, located just adjacent to the Montauk Lighthouse. Reading "Balcomb Greene" - The prominent abstract expressionist painter builds an oceanfront studio and home with his own hands in the 1940s to paint adjacent to the roar of the test firing of the battleship sized guns. Later, the Destroyer 'Baldwin' shipwrecks in front of his home $$ Park Admission. Encore: "The Flesheaters."
Saturday, July 12
5:00pm
Meet the author at BOOKHAMPTON in Amagansett Square. Reading "Speed King." Just in case you missed it the first time it was read on May 10. The Author forgets to go to court to fight a minor motor vehicle infraction and winds up in handcuffs and thrown in the Village lockup on Newtown Lane in East Hampton.
Sunday, July 13
1:00pm
Meet the author at ARTHAMPTON, the expo on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Historical Society, Main Street Bridgehampton. Reading "Ladies Village Improvement Society" - the author encounters some blue haired ladies with a frosty attitude at the entrance to the LVIS fair in East Hampton and as a result, in a crazy turn of events, that town earns the title of "America's Most Beautiful Village." $$ admission
Thursday, July 17
1:00pm
Meet the author at Alison's Restaurant at the Maidstone Arms in East Hampton for dinner and a book signing and reading. Reading "Ladies Village Improvement Society" - the author encounters some blue haired ladies with a frosty attitude at the entrance to the LVIS fair in East Hampton and as a result, in a crazy turn of events, that town earns the title of "America's Most Beautiful Village." $$ Admission
Friday, July 18
6:30am
See and hear the author on CNBC for the Early Morning Segment of "Live from Sag Harbor"
Saturday, July 19
11:00am
Meet the author at The WESTHAMPTON BEACH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Main Street, Westhampton Beach. - Reading "George Plimpton" beginning with a first meeting that was supposed to happen at the Quogue Dump, but never does. Includes Plimpton's involvement in the event at the Montauk Lighthouse called "Flight to Portugal" where cars are driven over the cliff.
Saturday, July 19
2:00 - 3:30pm
Meet the author at Martha Clara Vineyard on Sound Avenue in Mattituck. Reading at 2:30 pm "Ladies Village Improvement Society" - the author encounters some blue haired ladies with a frosty attitude at the entrance to the LVIS fair in East Hampton and as a result, in a crazy turn of events, that town earns the title of "America's Most Beautiful Village."
Saturday, July 19
6:30 - 8:00pm
Meet the Author at the "Night at the Montauk Lighthouse" celebration. Reading "Saving the Montauk Lighthouse." The author stumbles upon a Coast Guard plan to knock down the lighthouse and replace it with a steel tower. Organizing through his newspaper demonstrations and protests, he gets the Coast Guard to call it off, which results in a woman named Georgina Reid saving it for good by planting terracing on the cliff face.
Sunday, July 20
11:00am
Meet the author at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Main Street in Westhampton Beach. Reading "Robert Kennelly" about a legendary house mover who bids hundreds of millions of dollars to move the Shoreham Nuclear Plant under construction to Mineola, Long Island.
Wednesday, July 23
7:00pm
Meet the author at the Book Review at 313 New York Avenue in Huntington. Reading "Jim Jenson" about a New York TV anchorman who goes into a rage for believing a story about sea serpents in Long Pond in Bridgehampton and is embarrassed and angry after ordering network helicopters to go out and investigate to break the big story.
Saturday, July 26
11:00am
Meet the author on the front lawn of the Bull's Head Inn Antiques Shop on the northeast corner of Sag Harbor Turnpike and Main Street in Bridgehampton Reading "Saving the Bull's Head Inn" - how a nonexistent "Save the Bull's Head Inn Committee" with the author as chairman, thwarts an effort by the Sunoco Oil Company to tear down this historic inn and replace it with a gas station.
Saturday, August 9
5:30pm
Meet the Author at the EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY Author's Night cocktail party on Main Street in East Hampton. Dinner for 30 follows at the home of Gail Furman in North Haven by invitation only. Reading "Lt. James Kealy" - The story of the World War I officer, whose memories are found in the attic of the author's new home in East Hampton. Encore "At the Print Shop." $$
Sunday, August 10
5:00pm
Meet the author at the Quogue Library on Main Street in Quogue for "Author's Night.". Reading "John Steinbeck," - including an account of this prize winning author chairing the Sag Harbor Whaler's Festival.
Saturday, August 16
11:00am
Meet the Author at The Lodge on Race Lane in East Hampton. Read "Bill Clinton" - a future President takes over the umpiring of the Hamptons' celebrity softball game and "George Plimpton" -- which includes Plimpton's involvement in a crazy event at the Montauk Lighthouse called "Flight to Portugal" where cars are driven over the cliff and his further involvement at the Artist vs. Writers Celebrity Softball Game. Game follows after this event on the sandlot baseball field in the Reutershan Parking Lot directly behind Waldbaums on Newtown Lane in East Hampton. 1 pm batting practice. 3 pm game. $$ donation at game.
Sunday, August 17
Noon
Meet the Author on the grounds of the Montauk Lighthouse. Reading "Saving the Montauk Lighthouse" - the true story of how a newspaper and a determined woman named Georgina Reid from Miller Place stopped the Coast Guard from abandoning the Lighthouse and the surf from taking it by erosion. Reading encore "George Plimpton."
Saturday, August 23
7:00pm
Meet the Author on the grounds of BOOKHAMPTON, on Main Street in Sag Harbor. Reading "Spalding Gray" - the famous and troubled monologuest enjoys his days living in Sag Harbor and then tries to commit suicide by jumping off the North Haven bridge. Encore "John Steinbeck."
Saturday, September 13
11:00am
In the courtyard of the Bay Street Theatre during the Sag Harbor Whaling Festival. Reading "John Steinbeck." The account of how John Steinbeck became the first honorary chairman of the first Whaling Festival. And the answer to the question of why John Steinbeck was firing guns in his backyard. Encore: "Spalding Gray."
