Villages

This depiction of Hook Mill was hand-painted on a ceramic tile by Hamilton King sometime before 1950 at the request of Maude Sherwood Jewett, a fellow artist who founded the Tile Painters Club of East Hampton.

The seven-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist John Mayer will perform at the Stephen Talkhouse on Aug. 26 in this year’s edition of the annual SiriusXM satellite radio concert held at the Amagansett live-music venue. 

The East Hampton Fire Department will have a ribbon-cutting and barbecue to mark the grand opening of a new barn for its antique fire vehicles, apparatus, and memorabilia on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

Amagansett will see two large annual events on Saturday, both promising fun, food, and fellowship, although one will be bittersweet owing to the death this week of the hamlet’s unofficial mayor. 

A demonstration in Springs unveils a 348-pound, carbon fiber Helix Personal Flying Vehicle that requires no license and is touted as “perfect for the Hamptons.”

Billiards, an estate district break-in, and an environmental “broken record” highlight this week’s dip into the past.

A widely circulated social media post last week from Craig O’Connell, host of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, raised the possibility that an orca was spotted 10 nautical miles off the tip of Long Island. 

From a 1985 Unimog platform fire truck imported from Germany to black open-toe platform booties, you can find a bit of everything vintage at Georgopoulos Motors on Main Street in Amagansett, where the brother-and-sister team of Stathios and Tiffany Georgopoulos are in business together this summer. He sells the cars, she sells the clothes.

As soon as the campground opened at Hither Hills State Park in Montauk in 1929, camping on the beach became popular, as shown in this vintage postcard.

On the South Fork, where the effects of climate change are seen in woodlands decimated by the southern pine beetle, Rivers Burke hopes to plant as many redwood and sequoia trees, both of which are highly fire resistant, as he possibly can, in the process inspiring others to take up the cause.

More of the quotidian, the curious, and the deservedly forgotten ripped from our past pages.

“This has been the best experience I’ve ever had. I’ve been telling people, ‘I feel more welcome now than when I actually came home,’ ” said Sabrina Mohammed, a veteran who took part in Soldier Ride the Hamptons on July 18.

Never has a group of people been happier to talk about human composting than at Edwina von Gal’s Perfect Earth panel discussion on green burial held at the LongHouse Reserve last weekend.

For the last five weeks, a FIFA World Cup frenzy has taken over. Americans — many of whom would normally be watching baseball or no sports at all — have been glued to televisions and packing into stadiums, enraptured by soccer.

Toby Haynes, an artist who splits his time between East Hampton and Cornwall, England, built the belfry that supported the Wavertree ship bell rung to welcome 40 tall ships into New York Harbor.

This cyanotype photograph shows Dorothy MacKay and Ruth MacKay, the twin daughters of Emily McIlvaine DuBois MacKay and the Rev. William Richard MacKay, playing on the gate to their house on Cottage Avenue.

The Rev. Thomas James of the East Hampton’s first church “came to the New World in search of religious freedom but found that freedom was not enough.” So says an announcement for a lecture next Thursday provokingly titled “The Convict Pastor: Thomas James and the Puritan Roots of Christian Nationalism.”

An East Hampton mother enters the uncharted terrain of treating an ultra-rare genetic condition.

“Grounded Conversation: What Remains,” set for Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4:30 at LongHouse Reserve, will focus on green burials, human composting, eco-cremations, and how to sustainably prepare for death. 

The Bridge Shul in Bridgehampton has a new cantor, a professional singer and voice teacher who has served as a cantorial soloist in synagogues across the United States.

A plan to replace fixtures in Amagansett’s historic district was again presented to the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee, this time with the promise that “we are looking to get this going in 2027.”

Soldier Ride, which was conceived in an Amagansett bar and has grown into a nationwide awareness and fund-raising effort, will once again return to its roots on Saturday, when veterans and others ride from Amagansett to Sag Harbor and back.

It’s nearly two weeks out, but now’s the time to secure tickets for a discussion between the Democratic heavyweight Stacey Abrams and Ken Miller, an activist, author, and financier, at Guild Hall. Presented by the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, this Thinking Forward lecture will take place on July 28, a Tuesday, at 7 p.m.

The eighth annual Hamptons Dog Show will return to the American Legion Hall, at the corner of Montauk Highway and Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, on July 25 from 4 to 7 p.m.

Mr. Barnes is thrown from his bicycle, Mr. Wiley is ordered to the shore by his doctor, and Olivia de Havilland graces the John Drew stage.

A storm of smoke covering Long Island and most of New York State has traveled thousands of miles from its source in Canada and the Midwest, leading to multiple air quality alerts here and giving an eerie cast to the skies.

Because of a licensing issue, the East Hampton Village Foundation has canceled a World Cup finals outdoor watch party planned for Herrick Park on Sunday, July 19.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s annual summer fair — its 140th! — happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum’s 10th annual lobster bake fund-raiser happens on Saturday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

New signs were installed last week at the three lifeguarded East Hampton Village beaches: Main, Georgica, and Two Mile Hollow. They were designed by Emma Edwards, the 21-year-old owner of Dama Creative Solutions.