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Summer Scenes: Cherry Grove, a partying place

Originally published: July 30, 2010 3:19 PM
Updated: August 2, 2010 2:40 PM
By JIM MERRITT  Special to Newsday

Photo credit: Jason Andrew | A few Japanese friends enjoy cold drinks during the warm weather at the Cherry Lane Cafe, a restaurant and pub at the front of the harbor in Cherry Grove on Fire Island. (July 11, 2010)

A thunderstorm rolled through Cherry Grove on a recent Sunday afternoon, rattling umbrellas and sending visitors in bathing suits dashing for cover. But inside the bars and restaurants, the crowd partied on.

At the Ice Palace, Cherry Grove's venerable disco at The Grove Hotel, drag performers invited revelers to join a modeling contest.

Tennessee Jones, 31, a writer from Brooklyn who...