Somewhere, New Amsterdam Algonquins are chortling

”Okay, you don’t want to swap for an ugly house in the northern wastelands of Greenwich; then how about some nice coats and a box of trinkets instead?”

A Manhattan COVID refugee who’s been sheltering in the Hamptons has emerged from his shelter and paid full price, $6.495 million, for 26 Richmond Hill Road. Those twenty coats the Indians accepted from my ancestors and their friends probably don’t seem like such a bad deal now.