East End Getaway, 431 E Main Street, Riverhead, NY (2026)

10/22/2026

Almost nobody knows whose land that vineyard used to be.

Pull off Route 25 in Peconic on a fall afternoon and you'll find Krupski Farms. Pumpkins across the field, wagons rolling, cars lined up out front.

Here's what most people miss. The Krupski family has been farming this road since 1909. Their very first farm sat on the land that's now Pindar Vineyards, right across the street. For decades it was potatoes, not pumpkins. Then in the 1970s, a teenager in the family saw a neighbor stop growing them and decided to give it a shot.

Today the fifth generation runs the farm.

Before you load the pumpkin in the trunk, step into the little farm stand. Apples, fresh corn, c***r, and shelves of homemade jarred goods. Grab a jar. It's the kind of thing you open in January when you miss this place.

Most visitors pick a pumpkin, snap a photo, and hit the expressway by sunset. That's the mistake. The North Fork gets good right when the day-trippers leave. Take the c***r back to your room, sit down to a long dinner, and drive Route 25 again slowly in the morning.

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📍 Krupski Farms, Peconic

10/21/2026

Happy 100th, Gurney's! 🎉🌊

In 1926, Warren and Maude Gurney opened a little inn on Old Montauk Highway, "on the Brink o' the Beach." The food was great, the ocean was right there, and there was one firm rule: no drinking. Show up with a cocktail on your breath and you'd be turned right back around.

Legend has it that in 1956, a man named Nick Monte stopped in for lunch and couldn't get a glass of w**e. So he offered to buy the place. Maude said no, then called him back a few months later. Nick put drinks on the menu and grew that little inn into the resort it is today.

A century later, they're serving cocktails in heated igloos by the ocean. Here's what's happening at Gurney's Montauk this season:

🔥 Igloos by the Sea open October 16. Gather up to six people, order a Fireside Toddy, and watch the ocean from somewhere warm.
🍝 Gigi's three-course fall and winter menu runs Sunday through Thursday, excluding holidays. Think giant shrimp scampi, rigatoni alla vodka, and salted caramel budino.
🍸 Sunset Hour at Gigi's Bar, Sunday through Thursday from 4 to 6.
🌊 The Seawater Spa, made for the slower pace of a fall weekday.

The best part? Gurney's is offering savings on stays of two nights or more this fall and winter. Check eligible dates and offer terms when booking. Come out midweek, skip the weekend traffic, and let Montauk have you for a few days.

Igloo reservations carry a booking fee and food-and-beverage minimum. Check the current terms before reserving.

Cheers to you, Nick. And happy 100th, Gurney's. 🍷

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10/20/2026

Halloween showed up a week early and brought snacks. 🦇
Grab your costume, your flashlight, and your bravest friend. 🎃

👻 Ghost Hunting at the Nathaniel Rogers House | Fri, Oct 23, 8pm & 9:30pm | Bridgehampton Museum
🍂 Autumn Antiques, Fine Art & Crafts Fair | Sat, Oct 24 to Sun, Oct 25, 9am to 5pm | Southold Historical Museum, Maple Lane Campus
🦇 Bats, Barnacles & Broomsticks Halloween Party | Sat, Oct 24, 10am to 4pm | Long Island Aquarium, Riverhead
🧛 Little Monsters & Local Legends Costume Contest | Sat, Oct 24, parade at 1pm | Village Vibe Fall Festival, Historic Downtown Wading River
🏚️ Haunted Village | Sat, Oct 24, 11am to 4pm | Southampton History Museum
🍬 Trick-or-Treat at the Haunted Museum | Sat, Oct 24, 2pm to 4pm | Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead
🕯️ Ghost Hunting on the Village Green | Sat, Oct 24, 6pm & 8pm | Village Green, Cutchogue
🎭 Riverhead Halloween Parade | Sat, Oct 24, 6:45pm | Downtown Riverhead
🧙 Ragamuffin Parade & Halloween Celebration | Sun, Oct 25, 1pm to 2:30pm | Main Street & the Whaling Museum

Pumpkins by day, ghosts by night. Pick your level of spooky and make a weekend of it.

Link in bio for all the details. 📬

10/19/2026

This graveyard is older than the country.

Walk in off Main Street in Southampton Village and look low, at the small stones set behind the big ones. Those are footstones. One of them, for a man named Joseph Post, still makes a claim nobody can argue with: "I the first entered in this place."

By the early 1700s the village's first burying ground was filling up, so the town laid out a new one here. Then came the Revolution. After the Battle of Long Island in 1776, British and Hessian soldiers moved into Southampton's homes, and many families fled across the Sound to Connecticut. The state marker at the corner says this ground holds many soldiers of the American Revolution.

Now look closer at the carving. The oldest stones wear grim skulls. Over the years the faces soften. Some were cut by carvers from Connecticut and New Jersey, some right here on Long Island.

Come in daylight. Take as many photos as you wish. Gravestone rubbing and dogs are prohibited.

It's a stop in the Suffolk 250 passport book, and stamps come out at special events, so check dates before you go. There are twelve more stops in the Town of Southampton alone.

You can't do the East End in a day. Make it a weekend.

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North End Burial Ground, Southampton Village.

10/16/2026

Haircuts used to be the main event at 245 North Sea Road. These days, it's the art 💈🎨

Right now, the Southampton African American Museum is showing "Hedges and Edges," a solo exhibition by artist Damien Davis. It looks at Black barbershops and community gardens as places of care, where people gather, look after each other, and keep showing up. Sculpture, performance, and reflection fill the space.

It's a fitting show for the room. The museum lives inside a 1940s Black barbershop, believed to be the first in the country turned into a museum, so the building is part of the story too.

The exhibition is on view through November, so this is the season to see it. Pair it with a slow walk through Southampton Village and make a weekend of it.

📍245 North Sea Road, Southampton

10/15/2026

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a w**e tasting on the East End. Close enough.

Fall is one of our favorite times to go. The vines are turning gold, the air is crisp, and harvest season is here.

Here are some places you can go this season, on both forks.

On the South Fork:
🍇 Wölffer Estate, Sagaponack: a tasting room perched on a rise above the vines.
🍇 Channing Daughters, Bridgehampton: sculptures by the w**ery’s late founder, and w**es made from more than two dozen grape varieties.
🍇 Duck Walk Vineyards, Water Mill: a chateau-style tasting room across the road from the Parrish Art Museum.

On the North Fork:
🍷 Paumanok Vineyards, Aquebogue: one of the region’s early vineyards, founded in 1983, and an easy first stop heading east.
🍷 Macari Vineyards, Mattituck: a deck that looks right out over the vines.
🍷 Bedell Cellars, Cutchogue: a tasting room in a restored 1919 potato barn, with a deck facing the vineyard.
🍷 Sparkling Pointe, Southold: every w**e here is sparkling.
🍷 Kontokosta Winery, Greenport: perched on a bluff above Long Island Sound.

Tip: pick three, plan your ride, and eat a real lunch. Check each w**ery’s reservation and vehicle rules before you go, since some don’t allow limos, vans, or buses. Better yet, book a room nearby so the day doesn’t have to end when the tasting does.

Been to one of these? Let us know your favorite, or if you haven't had a chance to try a glass comment which one you’d like to visit first. Drop it below. 👇

Save this one for your fall getaway list.

10/13/2026

Sweater weather has officially landed on the East End, and this weekend is full of fall fun!

🎨 Tony Bechara: Curator-Led Tour | Fri, Oct 16, 3pm to 4pm | Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill
👻 Not So Spooky Haunted Treehouse | Fri, Oct 16 to Sat, Oct 17, 7pm to 9pm | Long Island Aquarium, Riverhead
🥕 Westhampton Beach Farmers Market | Sat, Oct 17, 9am to 1pm | Village Green, Westhampton Beach
🇺🇸 Semiquincentennial History Festival and Street Fair | Sat, Oct 17, 10am to 2pm | Mulford Farm & James Lane, East Hampton
🎃 Fall Family Fun Day | Sat, Oct 17, 11am to 2pm | Red Creek Park, Hampton Bays
🚢 Bug Light Cruise | Sat, Oct 17, 5pm departure | East End Seaport Museum, Greenport
⛵ 36th Annual Greenport Maritime Festival | Sat, Oct 17 to Sun, Oct 18 | Greenport Village

Art, history, pumpkins, a lighthouse cruise, and a not so scary treehouse. Pick a favorite, or be ambitious and do them all!

Link in bio for all the details.

10/12/2026

Paint analysis on the woodwork of the Mulford Farmhouse in East Hampton turned up Prussian blue, an expensive pigment and a way of telling the whole town you had money. This summer the East Hampton Historical Society finished bringing the inside of the house back to how it looked in 1776.

That year, sixteen people lived in this small house. Eight were Mulfords, led by Colonel David Mulford, who commanded a regiment of the local militia in the push for independence. Eight were people the family enslaved. Acca, Daniel and Jack are three of their names, and the tour tells their story alongside his.

Then the British won the Battle of Long Island, and East Hampton spent the rest of the war occupied. Of the town's 242 heads of household, 151 fled across the Sound to Connecticut. The colonel died of smallpox in 1778 and never saw the war end.

Mulfords had been here since 1712, when Samuel Mulford bought the place. Samuel once sailed to London to fight a tax on whale oil and, the story goes, lined his pockets with fishhooks to stop the pickpockets. The name Fish Hook Mulford stuck. His barn from 1721 still stands on the farm, and the state once ranked it the second most important 18th-century barn in New York. His family kept the farm until 1948.

Come on a tour day and step inside. Come on an off day and the yard still talks: six engraved stones around the house work as QR codes for a free app, 1776AR, narrated by East Hampton historian Hugh King.

It's a stop in the Suffolk 250 passport book, and stamps come out at special events, so check dates and hours before you go. Home Sweet Home is right next door.

This Saturday stop by and celebrate the Semiquincentennial at Mulford Farmstead with historical reenactments, music, games, and more!

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Mulford Farm, East Hampton Village.

10/09/2026

Some places just know how to slow you down.

The Rams Head Inn has been sitting pretty on Shelter Island since the early 1900s, cedar shingles, sloping lawn, and Adirondack chairs pointed straight at Coecles Harbor. There's a private beach, hammocks that are a great lesson in learning how to do nothing, and a restaurant that makes staying for dinner a very easy decision.

Getting here by car means a ferry ride, which is part of the charm. By the time you pull up, the mainland already feels like somebody else's problem.

Save this one for your next East End escape. 📍 108 S Ram Island Dr, Shelter Island

10/08/2026

That someplace is Cherry Creek Golf Links in Riverhead.

Fall might be the best time of year to play out here. The summer crowds have gone home, the air is cool enough to walk all 18, and the trees lining the fairways are putting on a show in orange and gold. Even a shot into the rough comes with a view.

It also makes an easy anchor for a North Fork day. Play your round in the morning, then spend the afternoon at the farm stands, pumpkin patches, and w**eries just down the road.

Tee times are easier to come by this time of year, so grab your clubs, pack a layer, and get out there before the leaves are gone.

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