As Montauk continues to navigate the winds of change, there’s one thing that has remained steadfast throughout our enviable seaside community; an unwavering, devoted group of like-minded souls who are resolute when it comes to aiding and assisting their own.
Carol was well-known as a long-time local and the former founder and publisher of this magazine, On Montauk, for 25 years. During that time, she also published the “Greenport Visitors Guide.”
Greg Donohue, long-time erosion control expert at the Montauk Lighthouse, proudly holds up the plans for a final revetment stabilization project due to start in September 2019, after 30 years in the making.
Explorer, Fisherwoman, and Filmmaker Gaelin Rosenwaks has done more in life to help our oceans and its wildlife than anyone you’ll ever meet…even in bigger-than-life Montauk. She’s a living legend, right under your snorkel.
Kate Usher and The Sturdy Souls, Young Guns of the Montauk Music Scene, are a new breed of performer defining a generation at the End.
Pretend for a second that you could wander off the beach in downtown Montauk and hit a casual, delicious eatery with a huge assortment of fresh, affordable seafood dishes that you could take out or enjoy at curbside tables with family and friends.
When Nancy Atlas is not performing on stages throughout the Hamptons, this rockin,’ guitar-playing singer and songwriter seeks refuge in the natural wonders of the East End.
Montauk has a deep bench of heroes. It lures the brave and adventurous. People have never come here to fade away, they’ve come with energy and to embrace a passion, whatever it is…Montauk feeds many.
Here we lie on ergonomic lounge chairs, covered in soft red blankets, taking deep breaths of the world’s purest healing salt in the Montauk Salt Cave. In this dark, serene space we can only see a soft orange and red glow on the walls emanating from the salt lamps around us. Overhead, in a roof made of 8 tons of salt from the Himalayan Mountains of Pakistan, are hundreds of tiny shining white lights that look like stars twinkling in the night sky.
At a young age, Montauker Laura Cisco couldn’t stop moving. “I remember standing in front of the glass oven door in my family’s kitchen, working on my dance moves. It was all I ever wanted to do,” she says. “When I was eight my family moved to Montauk from Queens. There weren’t any dance classes or studios then so my Mom would drive me back and forth to Queens just so I could follow my passion,” she recalled.