What a great Southampton weekend! The town has always been part of my life since I was 5 years old and visiting my maternal grandmother, Veronica Shields. The house which they built in the 1920s was on Ox Pasture Road, and is still alive and well! But the special glow around this weekend for me was being at the 1st Annual Gary Cooper Film Festival, held in the beautifully renovated Southampton Playhouse. It boasts 4 screens, one of them being a state of the art IMAX theater; beautiful image, exquisite sound. It should be a “destination point” for every Hamptonite, local or visitor. It was a totally new experience for me to absorb my father’s movies on an IMAX screen––the average size is 55’ x 30’––as opposed to even the largest television screens available today.