POMP AND DISPLAY KICK OFF THE 350TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
What was lost has been found again, much to the satisfaction of the 300 or so history buffs who overflowed Guild Hall on Sunday for the kickoff of East Hampton Town's 350th anniversary celebration.

Fifty-year-old film is found under lock and key.
Larry Cantwell was the man who, greatly to his own relief, found the missing 300th-anniversary movie.

NEW TOWN BOARD PLAYS DRESS-UP
Town officials, at the suggestion of Supervisor Cathy Lester, kicked off East Hampton's 350th year by playing dress-up at Friday's Town Board organizational meeting.

WEEKLY LTV SERIES
A 52-part television series in honor of East Hampton's tricentquinquagenary, "Past and Present: Celebrating 350 Years of East Hampton," will premiere on Channel 27 this week.

HISTORY IN CYBERSPACE
The complete text and photographs of the page you are reading now, and all of The Star's history pages to come during this anniversary year, may be seen on this newspaper's World Wide Web site. The address is http://www.easthamptonstar.com .

THE TASTE OF HISTORY
Soup, decided the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society in 1896, was important enough to lead off the society's first cookbook.

How Many Words?
The Star will give an appropriate prize at the end of this month to the wordsmith who can make the most words out of "tricentquinquagenary."

What's In A Name?
Legend says the name Whooping Boys Hollow, about halfway between East Hampton and Sag Harbor off Route 114, comes from warring Native Americans passing along a trail, or restless spirits dwelling in the woods.