THE TASTE OF HISTORY
Local bounty as well as history is reflected in the pages of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society's cookbooks.

MORTON PENNYPACKER: THE WEATHERVANE WAS WRONG
Had a local historian not questioned a date published in a New York newspaper 185 years ago - the same one etched much earlier into a copper weathervane - generations of East Hamptoners might still claim 1649 as the year their community was settled.

GOVERNMENT: TWO LECTURES
Governmental affairs in East Hampton's earlier years will be the focus of a morning's worth of lectures at Guild Hall Saturday, as the 350th Anniversary lecture series continues.

AUTUMN PROJECT
The second installment of the Autumn Project, a series of oral history interviews with old-timers in the East Hampton community, will air on LTV's Channel 27 Monday at 9:15 p.m.

COLONIAL TREASURES SOUGHT FOR SHOW
Here and there in this 350-year-old community, whether given pride of place among the family heirlooms or forgotten in a disused outbuilding or an attic, a sturdy chest made in an 18th-century East Hampton workshop may still be found, or a packet of faded documents in a spidery hand, or Indian artifacts, painstakingly incised, or Puritan-era pewter tankards, dishes, or spoons.

Vanished Places