American Dream Quote of the Month: “Home is where the heart is”  - Anonymous

American Dream Woman© of the Month: Martha Best who graduated recently from the college of Wooster with a double in History and Early Education. 

American Dream Man© of the Month: Craig Tuthill, Montauk’s all around great guy, neighbor and friend who retired June 24th from the Montauk jfire Department after over 50 years of service. The retirement party was at Gosman’s Restaurant.

American Dream Best Friends of the Month: Nick P. and Larry B. 

American Dream Business of the Month: Whites 

American Dream Teen of the Month: Chris M.

American Dream Doctor of the Month: Dr. Oppenheimer

American Dream Kids© of the Month:  Ella Blue and Emilie Miller

American Dream Mom of the Month: Julie Miller

American Dream Dad of the Month:  Ed Miller

American Dream Baby© of the Month: Ella Blue Miller

Baby of the Month	Mother of the Month

American Dream Boat© of the Month: US Coast Guard

American Dream Movie of the Month: Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot. A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.  I have not seen the movie yet, by my friend Capt. Jeff Nichols wrote the book! This summer on the American Dreams® Show
 
American Dream Teacher of the Month: Rachel Kleinberg

American Dream Montauk VIP of the Month: Paul Monte 

American Dream Media of the Month: Boulevard Magazine  from Long Island’s gold coast or read online www.BoulevardLI.com

American Dream Author of the Month: Commander Paul T. Cook of Montauk who spend his childhood years in Montauk Village fishing. The commander lives presently in Bonn, Germany and appeared last month on the American Dreams®Show at Gurney’s Inn.

American Dream Book of the Month: Point of Entry - Montauk by Paul T. Cook –When a routine inspection of the Kalamata, a rusty old ship at anchor in the Athens port of Piraeus, turns up a vial of anthrax and an unidentified toxic substance, the KAP (Kalamata "Anthrax Plus" case) becomes the first priority of the EU's Anti-Terror Task Group. From Athens to Mombasa, from Tehran to Kabul, from Baghdad to Long Island, author Paul T. Cook's new novel, Point of Entry-Montauk, takes readers on a terrifying tour of the intricately tangled web of international terrorism. - This summer on the American Dreams® Show 

American Dream Couple of the Month: Debbie Morici and Vinnie Frasca, got married at the Montauk Community Sanctuary on May 14th

American Dream Real Estate Company of the Month: Tuma Realty 

American Dream Real Estate Person of the Month: Nancy La Rocca of Kathleen Beckmann Real-Estate.

American Dream Artists of the Month: Pat Flynn, Sandy Fleishman, Paul Phelps, Katherine Caulfield-Russell and Kathy Telfer  - The ladies are showing at the Montauk Artist Association Train station  from July 27th till August 6th

American Dream Website of the Month: www.SwanQuarterLanding.com 

American Dream Town of the Month:  Swan Quarter, NC www.SwanQuarter.net

American Dream Fan of the Month: Chat Baker

Hot Tip of the Month: John Jay Morgan of Montauk works for Apple Honda in Riverhead and takes cars back and for, for  service as he commutes daily. 727-0555

Save the Dates: Wednesday, July 04th  Stars over Montauk Fireworks 9:00pm Umbrella Beach. (Rain date 10/06) – Ice-cream Social Friday July 20th.  6 pm  at Montauk Community Church – Argentine BBQ on Sunday August 19th, 5-to 7.30 pm at Montauk Community Church - Every Wednesday NYC Stand-up Comedy at Gurney’s Inn 9pm (TIX $15) – Every Saturday 9am Montauk Community Church Rummage Sale!  

Bummer of the Month:  Cost of living on the East End.

Never Forgotten: Lars G. Simenson, 18, who had returned for the summer from New England Institute of Technology in Warwick, R.I., where he studied engineering died through a tragic accident in Montauk last Month.  He was a great guy and everyone loved him.
Long Island American Dreams Come True in North Carolina - by Ingrid Lemme  

We left our precious Montauk hamlet for a long week to visit our kids in North Carolina over Memorial Weekend and to film a couple of my American Dreams® TV Shows down south on location. I had never done that before; we always film at my beloved Gurney’s with my own crew who I know so well and who know me. It’s a relationship, you know. I called Ernie and Greg the guys who run Hamptons TV WVVH (cable channel 78) and asked them for permission to hire a crew from the Outer Banks. Wait, I am getting there.
After we’d missed the boat buying a house in Montauk, when normal people could still afford to do so, we had found a little Victorian fixer upper in a quaint village on the Inner Banks called Swan Quarter for  believe it $40,000 – yes that is correct! It’s a beautiful little town, somehow reminding me on Montauk twenty years ago. But I didn’t know that when I bought that run down, dilapidated building over the phone, (almost) against holy husbands blessings and site unseen. You are getting it, aren’t you?
That Swan Quarter has been discovered is no longer a rumor. The charming historic waterfront village sees people wandering around and checking out the real estate situation, especially on weekends, just like Montauk. Swan Quarter, right on the bay, is one of the most beautiful, charming, historic, and unpretentious little towns on the Inner Banks; actually a fishing village; just like Montauk. People are friendly and they seem to have more time, sit on their front porches in the evenings and talk to neighbors and people walking by.  The NC Swan Quarter - Ocracoke Island ferry commutes to that Outer Banks island year-round and one can take the ferry for a dollar and spend the day. The Hyde County Courthouse in Swan Quarter is being rebuilt, as the historic courthouse was badly damaged as a result of Hurricane Isabel a few years ago, a dike that protects the village from possible storms and floods is under construction and there is another project  on the way at Swan Quarter Landing; five condominium buildings with nine units each, a pool, and a boat landing for each unit.  That is a first for the area and a first project for Don Faulkner.
We stayed at the lovely Tunnel Farm House B & B in Swan Quarter for a few nights and not just only for the filming of my TV shows. We rode our bikes all over town, attended the annual fish fry at the fire house on Memorial Weekend Saturday and one on Memorial Day at the Tunnel Farm with Sandra and Dick Tunnel and their neighbors and friends. We met the lovely Miss Nonie Bright whose lives still in the house she was born in, Donna Spencer  who has a  home and yard that could be on HGTV (her husband, Pat, runs the gas station),  Sam and Tonie Marshall, Terrill Gibbs, J.T. Stotesberry, Jim O'Neal and their staff. I love fried fish, hush puppies and corn!  The next weekend we took the ferry to Ocracoke Island for three dollars per person with a bike to attend the art and storyteller festival.
“You clean up very nicely” is what Pat Spencer, at the gas station, said when he met me again all dressed up for the TV interview with Don Faulkner. A couple of days earlier I had helped to rip out floors from our fixer-upper and we were all dirty from the work when I met him.
Don Faulkner is the managing partner in the Swan Quarter Landing development and he and his wife had the idea of making their dream come true and at the same time helping the village of Swan Quarter and that is true. Isabel had created some economic setbacks and hardship. Steve Bryan, a local mover and shaker and former president of the Hyde County Chamber of Commerce said that he is very pleased that Faulkner has chosen Swan Quarter Landing and so are many other people in town we talked to.   Faulkner and his partners are working with Cole Jenest & Stone, a comprehensive land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering and urban design firm based in Charlotte, NC. When I found the www.SwanQuarterLanding.com website through Google.com  I contacted Faulkner and asked him about the details of the project and when Faulkner said that he would be practically blocking the views of our house with his project; I had answered ”well if this project is for the best of the town and it looks like that it is – than that is just fine by me” . (Where the heck did that come from?)  Make a long story short, I got inspired by Dave Wood, Faulkner’s Advertising firm (Boomer Advertising Inc, based in New Bern, NC) to interview Don and do a second show in Columbia, NC where our son lives. There I wanted to interview Kim Wheeler the director or the Red Wolf Coalition about her efforts and helping the almost extinct species of wolves.  But back to the handsome countryman-developer: Faulkner, married and father of four and who recently also became grandfather of twins, is a passionate fisher and hunter and came to Swan Quarter for years to do just that on weekends. He always stayed at the SQ landing motel, which was pretty much destroyed after that flood a few years ago. Developers had approached the former owners of Swan Quarter landing before but the former owners felt inclined to work with any of them; until Faulkner came around with his first project. Really!  The old Swan Quarter Post Office, across the street from the Quarter Grill, is now a pretty little information office and it is nicely furnished and ready to open its doors as soon as possible.  Hamptons TV hired Ken Mann’s Coastal Production Company from the Outer Banks and they turned the Swan Quarter Landing office within a half hour or so into a TV studio with lights and cameras and a pretty set. I even had brought my show decoration sign  ‘AMERICA’ from my studio at Gurney’s Inn,  “it almost looks like when you are filming at home” holy husband said. It was an easy flowing but intimate interview, explaining the life of a man who grew up as farmer and ‘jack of all trades’ (his own words) who had to make a living for a large family. He worked for years in the construction and development departments of Burger King and is now in the process of putting his talents and his heart into Swan Quarter. 
At Pat’s ‘no name’ gas station, the only one in town, is a large sign that tells all who are passing by what the news are in town that day, if there are any.  “Welcome American Dream TV” was written with red paint on the simple white sign, and I just loved it. 
Later that day after the show at the Red Wolf office with Kim we were invited to a real southern meal at the historic private home of Isabelle Holmes. She is the broker for Swan Quarter Landing, isn’t that funny that her last name is homes?  Miss Isabel and her adult daughter, Sarah, had cooked an amazing gourmet dinner for the Faulkner’s and the former owners of Swan Quarter Landing, the Jarvis’s, where there too who has come to watch the filming of the show.  The ladies had set the table with beautiful china and polished silver and starched ironed lace and flowers and food so delicious that one could hardly behave.  We loved it. These North Carolina American Dream shows will be aired sometime on Hamptons TV WVVH Channel 78 this summer. 

~ Love Ingrid

	Ingrid Lemme is Director of PR and Marketing for www.GurneysInn.com Resort & Spa in Montauk. She is show hostess of her talk show American Dream® which airs on WVVH TV, 78 Hamptons Television Tuesdays 6:00 pm, Fridays at 7:00 pm and Saturdays at 2pm. www.AmericanDreamShow.com. Send her an e-mail to ilemme@optonline.net, or a letter to PO Box 752, Montauk N.Y. 11954 if you like.