Author To Read Chapters In The Hamptons

This week, author Dan Rattiner takes his new book and microphone to Indian Field Ranch in Montauk to read a chapter from In the Hamptons: Fifty Years With Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires and Celebrities. On Saturday, May 17 at 11 a.m., Rattiner will read the chapter entitled "Babette Tweed." The event is free of charge.

The author invites the public to meet him down the dirt road across from the Deep Hollow Ranch. (The road extends about a quarter mile alongside a pasture to the barns and stables of the Indian Field Ranch to a small clearing beyond a woods at the beach.) It was here that the author, as an 18-year-old dressed in black to be unnoticed, drove down to the shoreline to the west of the Warhol compound with the intention to tiptoe in front across the beach for a clandestine meeting at midnight with a girl he'd met in Montauk. To get to the meeting, he had to negotiate his way around three German shepherds determined to defend the Warhol compound. He never made it. Thus ended what might have been a serious relationship or just an exciting few hours in the night on the sand.

Next week, on Saturday, May 24 at 11 a.m. on the Plaza in Montauk, Rattiner presents "Life in a Haunted Skyscraper," about his adventures in the upper floors of what was then an abandoned seven-story office building, as told in the chapter entitled "Frank Tuma, Jr." And at 2 p.m. on the soccer field behind the office building, he will read the chapter "Frank Mundus," the story of the famous shark fisherman who became the true life model for the fishing boat captain Quint in the movie Jaws.

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