<!-- BEGIN Shows a different quote each time -->
var howMany = 12
var quote = new Array(howMany+1)

quote[0]="Until the middle of the last century, Sag Harbor rivaled New York as the busiest port of entry in the US..."
quote[1]="Before the Revolutionary War, East Hampton was part of the colony of Connecticut, not New York..."
quote[2]="Amagansett was the only part of the US ever 'invaded' by the enemy in World War II..."
quote[3]="The oldest cattle ranch in the US is not in Texas, the West, or South but in Montauk..."
quote[4]="Division Street in the village of Sag Harbor, which is half in East Hampton and half in Southampton, marked the border between the two towns, one dry, one wet..."
quote[5]="The Trustees of the Town of East Hampton, governing under a charter from King Charles, own the waterways and land under..."
quote[6]="Windmills on the East End are English, not Dutch..."
quote[7]="East Hampton was settled in 1648 by settlers from Connecticut and Massachusetts who came across the Long Island Sound..."
quote[8]="Gardiner's Island was granted to Lion Gardiner by the King of England and has been in the Gardiner's family for over 300 years..."
quote[9]="Joseph Smith, who was banished from East Hampton for some long forgotten infraction, founded Smithtown..."
quote[10]="The original Village of Montauk was destroyed by the hurricane of 1938 and replaced by the current village a few miles away..."
quote[11]="The East Hampton Star publishes every Letter to the Editor - unedited..."
quote[12]="East Hampton was voted Most Beautiful Village in America by National Geographic Magazine..."

function rndnumber(){
	var randscript = -1
	while (randscript < 0 || randscript > howMany || isNaN(randscript)) {
		randscript = parseInt(Math.random()*(howMany+1))
		}
	return randscript
	}

quo = rndnumber()
quox = quote[quo]
document.write(quox)
<!-- END Shows a different quote each time -->