1926-27 Reach Official Basketball Guide. Image courtesy of Internet Archive.

Basketball was being set to open in Sag Harbor on Thanksgiving night or the following Saturday, November 27. The team was organized in 1912, and the season was promising to be the best one in the history of the game in the village. Everybody seemed to be putting the "punch" behind the game. All fans were on edge and many businessmen and the school board were helping to boost Sag Harbor and its great team. In an endeavor to help the businessmen of Sag Harbor, the team was arranging to run a bus line on nights of games to bring fans to games who had no cars and bring other people who wished to do shopping in Sag Harbor on Saturday nights.

The season for gunners to take rabbits, pheasants, and squirrels on Long Island opened on November 1st and would continue until December 31st inclusively. During the season, gunners were permitted to take rabbits, squirrels, pheasants, grouse, and quail. The season for taking certain species of wild ducks opened in the middle of October.

Jack Taylor, lone camper and scholar gypsy, arrived in Sag Harbor on November 2nd. Taylor was a man who pitched his camp near the shores of Peconic Bay after a hike of 12,000 miles and loitering in the open country, touching fifteen different states and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Canada. 33 years prior, doctors told him he would not live more than a year. Insurance companies turned down his applications for life insurance policies. Then he sought to prolong existence by communing with nature with a bicycle without pedals, sleeping bag, kitchen, pantry, library, linen chest, clothes chest, attic cellar, and one pup dog. This strange outfit created a sensation when it parked in the business section of Sag Harbor's Main Street. Jack Taylor was 78 years young.