MonTalk©
with Ingrid Lemme

Dream Quote of the Month: “Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”   - Mark Twain

Dream Woman of the Month:  Dr. Renu Hausen...is a noted radiation oncologist on the East End. Dr. Hausen is the founder and director of North Fork Radiation Oncology, a practice with offices in Riverhead and Southampton

Dream Man of the Month: John Patrick (JP) Lycke

Dream Couple of the Month: 2nd Assistant Chief John McDonald and wife Christine – still happily married! ;)

Baby of the Month: Little Kyle

Dream Book of the Month:

“Casey goes to the Hamptons” - Cathy Case grew up in Montauk, New York. She attended Montauk Public School and East Hampton High School in the world reknown "Hamptons". "I never knew how lucky I was, until I left. Now I can't get enough of the place. I'm drawn there in the summers. I can spend hours walking the pristine beaches and never get tired of that breathtaking view." Growing up in the Hamptons, an art rich environment; Cathy minored in English Literature and wrote a column for Dan's Papers while attending Southampton College for her teaching degree. "I always dreamed of writing my own children's book someday." Cathy received her Masters in education from Columbia University and is currently an elementary school teacher in Connecticut.

Artist of the Month:

Tony Servedio of Montauk  is a self-taught artist whose need for self-expression first  articulated itself in oil paintings during the mid-nineties. www.driftwoodalley.com  - Look for his studio on Industrial Road.

Dream Business of the Month: Perry B. Duryea & Son, Inc. has been in the wholesale seafood business for nearly 80 years, dealing primarily in live Maine and Canadian lobster, fresh fish, Long Island hard clams, and Maine shellfish. The company is headquartered in Montauk, New York. 

DURYEA Seafood Market

Boat of the Month: Captain Ron's Fishing Charters

Organization of the Month: Fighting Chance is the first free-of-charge cancer counseling and resource center of its kind established on the East End of Long Island, New York.  We are independent from any hospital and funded solely by charitable contributions, providing patients and their caregivers a better chance- a fighting chance - to beat cancer by helping them to take informed action.  Free access to hard hard-to-find resources and professional counseling is available from the time of diagnosis through treatment and survivorship.

Website of the Month: The Montauk Club is a private social club located at 25 Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood of New York City. The Club was honored to have a representative of the Montauketts, Chief Robert Pharaoh, as a guest at the 115th Anniversary Celebration in May 2004.

Never forgotten: Don McDonald.

Dear Friends,

Did you know? The history of Duryea’s is directly linked to the history of Montauk itself, and the early days of the original Montauk fishing village. The buildings that comprise the Duryea’s commercial business date back to the 1920s, when what was then considered the village of Montauk was located on Fort Pond Bay.

The predecessor to the Duryea & Son wholesale seafood business in Montauk was Capt. Ed Tuthill, who in the early 1900s ran a fresh fish operation at the site, relying on local product. Large pound nets scattered along the shore of Fort Pond Bay near the present Duryea site were the source for many of the fish shipped by Capt. Ed via rail car to Fulton Market in New York City.

In the 1930s Perry Duryea Sr. purchased the fish supply unit from Capt. Ed, and while the production aspect of the business diminished, it was gradually replaced with seafood distribution, and the manufacture of block and packaged ice. Perry Duryea Jr. entered the business full-time after World War II, and in the late 1940s introduced the concept of bringing live lobsters via boat from Maine and the Canadian Maritimes to Montauk.

Over the last 70 years, the distribution network has emphasized live lobsters and fresh fish and shellfish, some sourced from northern waters and other items locally. Up until the mid 1960’s, lobsters would come to the Duryea plant in Montauk on company-owned “lobster smacks,” boats that navigated the North Atlantic waters carrying upwards of 20,000 pounds per trip. With the advent of commercial ferry service between Portland, Maine and Nova Scotia, overland trucking became the preferred method of transport.

In the early days, winter ice would be harvested from Tuthill Pond alongside the Duryea facility, and stored in huge icehouses run by the Duryea family. As the demand for ice grew for the Montauk fishing fleet, the Duryeas went to a raw water ice manufacturing plant, capable of producing 10 tons of block ice per day. In addition, packaged ice production units were installed in the early 1970’s capable of making 6 tons of ice cubes per day for summer demands of marinas, food stores and taverns. The Atlas Diesel powering the block ice production operation ran until the end of 1996, when the building it housed was converted to commercial retail space. The Duryeas still provide all of the packaged ice for Montauk year-round.

Ingrid's award-winning American Dream Show (filmed at Gurney's Inn in Montauk) is aired prime-time to 5 million households on Hamptons TV® and watched throughout New York, New Jersey and Westchester. Viewers world-wide are watching Hamptons TV and the American Dream Show in real-time by logging on to www.HamptonsTV.com. Hamptons TV® is broadcasting on UHF Channel 50, Cablevision 78, Verizon FiOS Channel 14 and on Time Warner's new Video On Demand Channel