Recreation

Walk through a trellis and you're at the cottage where Big Edie had her portrait taken, where Ben Bradlee wrote his memoirs. The mystique of Grey Gardens has remained in all its incarnations.

Autumn in the Hamptons received its kick start with the Hamptons.com annual Cocktails & Connections party, this year celebrating Hamptons.com's new partnership with Downtown Magazine.

The Eastern Long Island Audubon Society is hosting their annual dinner celebration featuring cocktails, dinner, a raffle and special presentation, "A Passion for Snowy Owls" by Norman Smith.

Beer drinkers get ready to chug for the Hamptons not-for-profit Paddlers for Humanity on Sunday, October 20.

Citibabes, the chic place to hang with your tots in NYC, was back in the Hamptons this summer and ended the season with a bash, the annual summer Soiree co-hosted by Hamptons.com.

The Annual End of Summer Tent Party on the Parish's Great Lawn on Hill Street took place once again thanks to support of Father Mike Vetrano.

With rehearsals and opening night for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" behind them, Broadway producers Bonnie Comley and Stewart Lane threw a pool party for cast, crew and Bay Street Theater honchos at the Lanes' East Hampton estate complete with 5-foot huge beach balls, a caricature artist, and an ice cream truck.

One morning Dick Cavett got a call from ARF saying. "We've got your dog." "I didn't know I had one," he told us at the Bow Wow Meow Ball for ARF Hamptons.

No, it wasn't a casting call for "Grease," but the Hamptons circuit that turned out for the Rydell High School Sock Hop, to benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation, at the East Hampton Studio were channeling their inner Danny's and Sandy's.

Mary Kate Olsen, Kelly Ripa, Billy Joel and Rachel Zoe dined at a Hamptons hotspot over the holiday weekend.