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...harbor area of Montauk, N.Y., everybody knows there is a crisis in the fisheries, but just a few miles away in the village, people are often shocked to hear there is any problem at all. It was heartening to see your article because if there is a lack of awareness here in a seaport, the rest of the country (and the rest of the world) must be completely in the dark. Fish, being slimy and all that, are not easy to get comfortable with, but if what happened to a noble creature like the swordfish was the fate...
This is not the Hamptons--this area of Speonk, East Moriches, Center Moriches strung out along the Old Montauk Highway, which was long ago supplanted by the ever widening Long Island Expressway. Here it is still around 1948. The people work for a living, know one another's business, tend to their green squares of land and (most of the time) love America. Take the Long Island Rail Road from Manhattan, and you understand these places at once. After the conductor calls out the suburbs, the names of the stations get rougher: "Patchogue!" "Moriches!" You are too far east...
...bigger than a freckle, the tiny deer tick has sown panic from Montauk to Minneapolis as a carrier of Lyme disease -- an illness that has struck more than 71,000 Americans and left hundreds permanently disabled. Now the minuscule pest is causing even greater alarm. Scientists say deer ticks harbor yet another pathogen, which, unlike the one responsible for Lyme disease, can-in rare cases-actually kill a person in a matter of days...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...
...Lyme, Conn., got an undeserved reputation as a pesthole when the disease later named for it was first identified there in 1975. But it is unlikely that the disease really was newly hatched in that area. Decades earlier, on Long Island in New York, a pesky swelling called Montauk knee was causing trouble. In 1908 something indistinguishable from Lyme disease was described in Sweden. Ticks hitch rides not just on deer, mice, humans and other mammals, but also on birds, which helps explain why Lyme disease has been reported in 46 states. (Only Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Nebraska have reported...