Apparently undeterred by recent East Hampton Town efforts to discourage them from spending their summer weekends at the residents-only Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, young share-house renters have been parking their cars all around the hamlet — even if it means trudging a mile lugging beer kegs and beach chairs — and leaving them behind for the day.

Some park in the town lot behind Main Street and walk or car-pool to the beach, or take taxis. By midmorning on sunny weekends the lot is often full, frustrating not only families out for breakfast or a stroll but also the merchants and restaurateurs who stand to lose the business.

Other coveted parking spots used to include the out-of-the-way streets nearer the beach, such as Further Court and St. Mary’s Lane, until, in response to homeowners’ pleas, the town installed no-parking signs there. The Ocean Dunes Apartments, a condo community on Bluff Road less than a quarter-mile from the beach, which was a prime target in years past, has put up signs alerting beach-bound cars to surveillance cameras, warning them away from its temptingly large front lot.

With parking in ever shorter supply, the crowds began zeroing in on the semi-private lot at Amagansett Square (semi-private because, while it is for use by the public, it is privately owned). And this summer, Amagansett Square, too, is fighting back.

Beginning on the July 4 weekend, drivers have been surprised to encounter, at both the Main Street and Hedges Lane entrances to the commercial complex, manned booths blocking their paths. The attendants politely offer time-stamped tickets, to be returned on the way out: free parking for two hours, $8 for the third hour, a stiff $30 for anything more.

“Our main goal was that people not abuse the Square,” said Fred Fiedler, its property manager. “It isn’t for beachgoers. Now people seem to get a spot much quicker.” The tenants had complained for several years, he said, that people were parking at the Square and walking the half-mile or so to Indian Wells, leaving their cars all day long to take up the spaces meant for shoppers.

The new system, the brainchild of the Square’s owner, Randy Lerner, seems to be working. “The first weekend, we had a few people pay $30,” said one valet, Joe Donohue, who leaves his house in Commack at around 5:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday mornings to start work at 7. “Since then, not one.” Not a few cars, he said, turn around and leave when the drivers realize what is happening.

The reason the attendants start work so early is to pick up a few overnighters from the Stephen Talkhouse. The nightclub’s regulars, they explained, anticipating a long night, often leave their cars across the street at the Square and come back in the morning after sleeping it off. Like everyone else they get a grace period of two hours, but at 9 sharp the tab starts rolling.

Hampton Chutney, one of the Square’s 14 tenants, is particularly happy with the new system. “It’s usually mayhem in this lot,” said Isabel McGurn, who owns the popular eatery with her husband, Gary. “This guarantees some sanity,” she said, especially from noon to 3, when they get a big lunch crowd. “It’s all our customers then,” said Ms. McGurn. At the height of the crush, she said, the parking attendants, who work for a Valley Stream company called Parking Systems, may “do a little valet-ballet” to open spaces. “It has made a huge difference.”

Clients of the Salon and Day Spa who were late for appointments used to complain to Annie Barton, its owner, about watching people in bathing suits take bicycles off their cars and pedal away. “People seem to get a spot much quicker now,” said Ms. Barton.

“They affected business,” said Elena Biaggi, a manicurist. “We think this is a great idea.”

The Salon, like all the businesses in the Square, stamps the hands of clients who need to overstay the free two-hour limit.

The traditional end of the rental season, Labor Day, the first Monday of September, comes as early as possible this year, on Sept. 1. That day will also be — not coincidentally — the last day of paid parking at Amagansett Square.

Air-conditioners whirred early Tuesday morning as two rows of 5 and 6-year-olds sat cross-legged on the floor of an East Hampton High School classroom, excitedly working on a lesson that builds science vocabulary.

“I say the word and you repeat it after me,” said Kylie Tekulsky, their teacher, using a smart board at the front of the room.

“Direction,” said Ms. Tekulsky, pointing to a yellow traffic sign, as the 16 students jointly read aloud: “The place toward which something is moving or facing.”

Once prompted, tiny fingers pointed in rapid-fire succession — toward the window, the door, the ceiling, and the floor. The class next tackled distance, friction, mass, and speed (with accompanying hand signals) before moving onto small-group work.

Ms. Tekulsky, a bilingual teacher, was using a strategy called total physical response. “It’s when you attach language to a movement and the language is internalized because of it,” explained Elizabeth Reveiz, who directs the district’s English as a second language and bilingual programs.

“These kids could go the whole summer without hearing English,” said Ms. Reveiz, explaining that for many of the children, Spanish is the only language spoken at home. “Academic success means as much exposure to English as possible.”

For five weeks this summer, 40 of the district’s youngest students are receiving extra help with literacy and math. All are English language learners, whose proficiency levels range from beginner to intermediate. From 8:30 to 11:15 a.m. each morning, two classes, comprising kindergarten through second-grade students, are conducted entirely in English. The aim is to increase fluency while also thwarting the dreaded “summer slide” — or the regression of academic skills during the long break.

Though many of their peers have yet to crack open a book, such leisure time can carry a heavy price tag. On average, students return to school in September a month behind where they had performed earlier in the year, according to a report issued by the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research group. Such learning loss is a particular worry for many low-income students, who can lag behind their more affluent peers.

For instance, while children from higher income brackets tend to make academic gains over the summer, whether reading at home or participating in a camp, low-income children are far less likely to have access to such opportunities. Locally, some exclusive camps pose a further hindrance with day rates running north of $300, an impossible sum for working families scrambling to make seasonal income.

Transportation, particularly during the busy summer months, poses an additional hurdle. Earlier this spring, when parents expressed difficulty in making the 11:15 a.m. pickup, the district looked into providing buses home. It now provides busing home for students in kindergarten through fifth grade, though parents must drop them off.

Last year, the summer program enrolled only 10 students. But this year, with the help of Ana Nuñez, the district’s community liaison, that number has quadrupled. As the demand continues to rise, with English language learners concentrated in the lower grades, next summer will likely see the addition of a third class.

Since hiring Ms. Nuñez nearly three years ago, the aim has been one of increased communication, particularly in a district where the population of students from Spanish-speaking homes continues to rise.

Though Latinos make up 43 percent of the student population of 1,800, John M. Marshall Elementary School is 51 percent Latino, according to the most recent New York State Report Card. Districtwide, English language learners make up 13 percent of the total population, with younger students typically testing out of that group during the first three years of elementary school.

Once English is well established, Ms. Reveiz and Ms. Nuñez both emphasize the richness in speaking two (or more) languages. “Being bilingual is key,” said Ms. Reveiz. “You don’t want to lose that, either. We promote speaking more than one language in the home. It just makes kids more marketable in a global economy.”

During a series of workshops planned for the coming year, administrators hope to provide more opportunities for parent engagement, with regular parent meetings conducted entirely in Spanish. “In our countries, schools are the providers of the education,” explained Ms. Reveiz, who emigrated from Colombia at the age of 6. Ms. Nuñez, a graduate of East Hampton High School, arrived from Ecuador at the age of 9. “We’re trying to explain this shift, so that families see themselves as the first teacher.”

For the incoming kindergarten class, for instance, Ms. Nuñez emphasizes that all families teach basic skills — from showing children how to put their coats on to gripping a pencil to learning colors, numbers, and letters.

Back in the classroom on Tuesday, high school desks were stacked at the back of the room, with smaller desks brought over from John Marshall for the five weeks of summer school. Still, some of their feet dangled in mid-air, unable to reach the ground.

“Every student loses a little bit of what they learned this year, but especially them, because they’re just learning English,” said Ms. Tekulsky. “The only way to learn these things is by repeating them over and over again.”

In Alexandra McCourt’s classroom next door, the children are slightly older, ranging from first to second grade. During a science lesson, a group of girls, all in neon colors, jointly read aloud from a reading passage about gravity and motion, their fingers carefully following along with each word.

Though Ms. McCourt, a teacher with nearly 20 years of experience who speaks “fairly proficient Spanish,” doesn’t assign homework during summer school, she does send them home with mini-books, a strategy that gets students reading and promotes family literacy.

With 15 minutes until dismissal and not a minute to waste, students opened their math notebooks, where they practiced counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.

Ms. McCourt, who is in her second year of teaching summer school, sees great value, particularly come September, when many students struggle to regain their academic foothold.

“We’ve seen that it makes a difference between the kids last year who did vocabulary and writing all summer long compared to the kids who did nothing,” said Ms. McCourt. “All that review and practice helps build up their stamina. They’re keeping up their routines. I see a difference in that first week back.”

No one has taken responsibility for a facsimile of a submarine conning tower that has floated in a manmade sump off Route 114 in East Hampton since April.

When the water level allows, the plywood, black-painted tower drifts in a drainage pit amid protected farmland that has been the center of a war of words between Suffolk County and East Hampton Town officials that began shortly after the hole was dug about two years ago.

A mock periscope, radio antenna, and a light sprouts from the top of the conning tower, and some who have seen it say it looks like a repurposed garden pathway fixture. Two horizontal “wings,” above which “114” is neatly painted, stick out from each side.

The tower is affixed to a float, which has begun to show signs of the elements. Its paint is wearing thin, and raw wood shows through at a wet spot around the base.

Peter Dankowski, who has farmed the land where the sump was dug since the 1980s, said he had no idea who might have been behind the prank. “It’s kind of nice,” he said. Randy Parsons, who is on the staff of the Nature Conservancy Center for Conservation, whose headquarters is in a large house next door, had no clues.

The sump in which the mysterious submarine remains was East Hampton Town’s ill-fated attempt to solve flooding problems on Route 114. Blindsided by the work, Suffolk officials were furious that those involved, led by then-Town Councilwoman Teresa Quigley and former Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson, had failed to get their approval or that of the State Department of Environmental Conservation before going ahead.

The problem is that Suffolk bought the development rights to the property from the Town of East Hampton in 1987 under a program designed to keep it in agriculture. Under the terms of the agreement, formal approval would have been required before excavation was begun. Amid initial stonewalling from town officials after the sump was discovered, the county filed paperwork setting the stage for a possible lawsuit.

East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, who was not on the town board when the sump was dug, has been leading an effort at rapprochement with the county. “We did meet with the farmland committee and they tentatively approved our solution . . . a remediation of the hole to make it farmable,” he said. Like others, Mr. Van Scoyoc said he had no idea who might have built the conning tower. However, he said he considered the submarine “a statement that there’s clearly a huge flooding problem.”

It was Mr. Parsons who brought the unauthorized excavation to the county’s attention. While in conversation with a county official in the summer of 2012, he said, he mentioned in passing that “huge dump trucks loaded with top soil” were driving from the property day after day, which struck him as puzzling. County officials reacted with shock.

The Nature Conservancy Center, where Mr. Parsons works, is at one end of the preserved farmland, which, he said, has “some of the best top soil in the world.” He said an agricultural study conducted in the 1980s described the area as a “bread basket — it had the biggest chunk of prime agricultural soils” out of Wainscott, south Amagansett, and the north side of Amagansett.

In an interview this week, Elizabeth Fonseca, whose family trust owns the land, said this week that it was her first time on the South Fork since last year and she had yet to see the submarine. She recalled she had given permission to Ms. Quigley and Mr. Wilkinson to go ahead with the project, but said her understanding of what was intended differed from what eventually occurred.

“I didn’t think we made any major plans . . . that’s ridiculous.” Learning about the size of the sump, she said, “They should damn well close it up. I had no idea it was going to be a big hole. I think it’s an outrage.”

Jeffrey Bragman, an East Hampton lawyer representing the family, said they expected that fences with Suffolk officials would be mended and the land remediated. He said he had laughed when he saw the submarine, and had no idea who set it up.

Mr. Parsons said that Caio Fonseca and Isabel Fonseca, Mrs. Fonseca’s grandchildren, are also upset. “I’d say they were passionate about the issue, about the farm, and the preservation, and the beauty, and the violation.” As for the submarine, “I thought it was funny. I thought it was in the tradition of the bridges on 114. There have been different graffiti on these railroad bridges over the years and they were always good. They were always very creative,” he said.

As for the identity of the artist, he said, “It looks like somebody who has the saws to cut shapes. I mean, if we were like police, I’d be looking at cabinetmakers.”

Somewhere near Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton there is a very small, very old, very decrepit saltbox house, unoccupied for decades except by raccoons, that is newly in the crosshairs of town and county historians.

The falling-down building is in a neighborhood that old-timers still call Freetown which, so the story goes, was settled by former slaves of the Gardiner’s Island family. A 1902 atlas shows the community delineated not by roads or streets — except as lying between “the Springs highway” and “Three Mile Harbor highway,” the only two then in existence — but by “land of” so-and-so (Bennetts and Kings, mostly, but also a widow rejoicing in the surname of Snivelly).

That same map identifies the acre of land where the little saltbox still stands as the property of George Lewis Fowler Sr., a full-blooded Montauk Indian whose name might have dropped from living memory like a stone down a well but for his having been gondolier, caretaker, and expert gardener to Thomas Moran, the celebrated “Artist of the West.” (Moran’s own house, a national historic landmark opposite East Hampton’s Town Pond that is currently being restored, was built in 1885, coincidentally the same year that George L. Fowler and his sister, Queen Maria Pharaoh, signed away their rights to Montauk — the first of the tribe to do so — and moved to Freetown.)

Robert Hefner, East Hampton Village’s director of historic services, calls George Fowler, who also took care of the gardens at Home, Sweet Home, “the connection, the missing link.” The Fowler house, said Mr. Hefner, “completes the picture of the Moran house and Home, Sweet Home. This puts Main Street and Freetown together.”

Last week Mr. Hefner, together with Richard Martin, Suffolk County’s director of historic services; Alison McGovern, an archeologist, and Richard Barons, executive director of the East Hampton Historical Society and the Thomas Moran Trust, visited the house. What they found may turn out to be even more than they expected — not just the home of George Fowler, but the only unaltered house here to have come, in whole or in part, from its original site on Indian Field. Ms. McGovern, who has been working at Indian Field, did not respond to an email requesting comment, but she reportedly believes that she has discovered the foundations of Montaukett houses there, and that they exactly match the footprint of the Fowler house.

If so, it would come as no surprise to one Montauk resident, Jim Devine, whose paternal grandmother belonged to a branch of the Fowlers now living in Amityville. Mr. Devine, 61, grew up in the house next to George L.’s, now restored and owned by a year-round local family. “The story is that these houses and others nearby were brought from Montauk with the help of Rat [Erastus] Dominy,” he said Friday. “When they pushed us off Montauk they are said to have burned down some of the houses, but not all.”

“They” would be Arthur Benson, he of the controversial Benson deeds of transfer, which the Montauketts years later claimed had been “obtained by fraud and by undue influence.” In 1910, Wyandank, Queen Maria’s son, then called King or Chief, sued the Benson heirs for the return of the ancestral lands. According to the trial transcript, the first of the Benson agreements, the one signed by George and Maria, provided for “the transportation of the materials of the houses belonging to the above-mentioned Indians, now on Montauk, to the above described lands in Freetown and their re-creation thereon.” Maria, for one, affirmed on the stand that her house, which was near George’s, “was moved from Montauk Point to this other place.”

 That long-ago trial, of which much has been written, was a disaster for the Montauketts, with racist overtones all too typical of the time. From it, however, there emerges a singular picture of George L. Fowler Sr.

For starters, despite his standing as the chief’s uncle, he was not called to testify. The other tribal elders all said they wanted to go back to Montauk. Wyandank’s younger brother Ebenezer Pharaoh said he had actually done so, “meaning to shoot” at Big Reed Pond, but “they arrested me, and they fetched me to Riverhead, down here, in this jail” (the trial was held in State Supreme Court, Riverhead), where he was held for five days.

In contrast, George Fowler, according to the testimony of Frank Stratton of East Hampton, an agent for the Benson estate, had been heard to say that “the present conditions were good enough for him. They suited him well enough as they were.”

John Mulligan, who was East Hampton Justice of the Peace, told the court that George had voted a number of times at town meetings. This was highly unusual; the other Montauketts all denied ever being allowed to vote. One said he had tried, but had been “yoked.”

Mulligan said he had heard George speak of Chief Wyandank with disdain. “George Fowler seemed to repudiate Wyandank,” he said. “Seemed to think that the moves he was making [meaning the lawsuit] were detrimental to his interests. He said he wasn’t going to have anything to do with him in regard to these Indian matters, he said he was satisfied the way he was being used and that he shouldn’t have anything to do with him.”

Scant though this evidence may be, George does come off as something of a loner — closer, perhaps, to Main Street than to his Freetown relatives. If so, whether it had anything to do with the survival of his house in its unrenovated condition (and of no other Montauketts’, so far as is known) can only be conjectured.

Suffolk County is the current owner of the property, although East Hampton Town appears to have owned it not so long ago. After George Fowler Sr.’s death in 1933, according to Mr. Devine, the house came down through his grandson Leonard Horton to some cousins, who “went and took stuff out but never lived there.” A malodorous sofa covered in animal feces is about all that remains.

Years passed and the property appeared on the county rolls for nonpayment of taxes. (It had been subject to a county tax lien once before, Mr. Devine was told, after he spotted the legal notice in The Star and called to inquire — back in the early ’20s, which makes sense. Thomas Moran and his family moved to California in 1922, and Fowler may have been strapped for cash.)

Tom Ruhle, now as then the director of the town’s housing office, wondered if the land might be used for affordable housing. The county had no problem with that, provided development took place within a required period, four or five years, and East Hampton took conditional ownership. But the project never happened, and the property reverted back to Suffolk. Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said this week that someone must have realized there was a Native American house on the land.

That was just what happened, said Mr. Ruhle. “Issues of historical significance were raised.”

So there the house still stands, “a shuttlecock between the town and the county,” as Mr. Barons put it. What will become of it, now that historians know what they know?

“If it is what we think it is, how do we go about preserving it?” wondered Scott Wilson, director of the town’s office of land acquisition and management. “I think if we ask for it, the county will give it back. It might become a museum.”

“It hasn’t been sold, so I can’t see any big problem with giving it back, particularly if it’s used as a historic building,” said Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman. “We’re not in a hurry to dispose of it. I can’t speak for the whole Legislature, of course, but I think it’s likely.”

But then, said Mr. Ruhle, “Who should own it? The town’s not going to run a museum, or restore it.”

Money, as usual, is the stumbling block. “Do we want another historic building?” asked Mr. Barons. “Is there an organization that might be interested?”

Update, 6:15 p.m.: East Hampton Town police released the name of the man whose body was discovered at a beach at Lazy Point in Amagansett on Sunday afternoon. 

Nicholas Valtz, a 39-year-old from Brooklyn, died in a kitesurfing accident in Napeague Harbor. Police described him as a novice kite boarder.

Mr. Valtz "was found floating in the water secured to his kite and associate kite gear in a grassy area of the harbor," Capt. Chris Anderson said in a press release.

Family members who went to look for him when he failed to return to a house in Bridgehampton made the discovery, according to Captain Anderson. He had gone out to kite surf earlier that morning. They called 911 at 2:04 p.m.

The Amagansett Fire Department ambulance was called as well, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office also responded.

Town police detectives are continuing to investigate. Anyone with information has been asked to contact town police at 537-7575. 

Previously, 5:02 p.m.: The body of a man who had been kiteboarding in Napeague Harbor was discovered on a beach at Lazy Point in Amagansett on Sunday afternoon, East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo said.

Chief Sarlo said the 38-year-old man's death appeared to be an accident.

Police officers and the Amagansett Fire Department's ambulance were dispatched to the end of Lazy Point Road at 2:12 p.m. They determined the victim was dead by the time they arrived.

Late Sunday afternoon, Chief Sarlo said it was not clear yet how long the man had been in the water.

Town police detectives are in the midst of an investigation. The Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office is responding to the beach. Several members of the man's family were speaking to police on the beach at 5 p.m.

This story has been updated from the version that appeared online earlier today.

An attempt to rescue a man who collapsed in shallow water on the west side of Three Mile Harbor inlet near Sammy's Beach in East Hampton came to naught Sunday evening when two good Samaritans were unable to resuscitate James A. Weber, 45, of East Hampton.

East Hampton Town police said Monday that the two men, whose names they did not release, were on the east side of the inlet when the saw Mr. Weber collapse in the water. The men swam across the inlet from Maidstone Park Beach, which took several minutes, and pulled Mr. Weber, who was unconscious, out of the water. They attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation, "until emergency personnel arrived."

Mr. Weber was rushed to Southampton Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. East Hampton Town Police Capt. Chris Anderson said the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office is assisting East Hampton Town detectives in exploring the reason for Mr. Weber's collapse.

It was the second death in the water of the day. Earlier, police said that Nicholas Valtz, 39, of Brooklyn, a kite surfer, "was found floating in the water, secured to his kite and the associated kite gear in a grassy area" in the waters off of Lazy Point, Amagansett.

After moving from Toronto, Michelle Montak was waiting on her residency papers so she could begin work in New York when she got involved in a friend's dog rescue work. "My life changed completely," she said, and soon, she had founded a not-for-profit of her own, Gimme Shelter Animal Rescue.

Since its inception three years ago, the organization, which Ms. Montak directs from her house in Sagaponack, has rescued over 500 dogs from what it calls "high-kill facilities," many in Marlboro, S.C. It relies on foster families as opposed to a shelter to help facilitate the dogs' adjustment from desperate living conditions to their new, better lives.

Ms. Montak takes as many animals as she has room for regardless of how easy or hard the recovery for each animal will be. "All breeds, puppies, senior dogs, dogs that need heart worm treatment, which is like $700. Some dogs cost me thousands of dollars. For dogs that have entropian eye‚ I get them surgery. Broken legs, mange, skin infections." The only animals she does not deal with are aggressive ones, because she doesn't have the facilities to handle them.

Gimme Shelter, which relies on donations, pays for dogs to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped, and covers any medical attention dogs require before adoption.

Ellen and Chuck Scarborough, who have adopted two Gimme Shelter dogs, will host a benefit for the organization on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. at their house at 520 First Neck Lane in Southampton. Bill Persky, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, will be a guest speaker and the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright will perform.

The party will include a tribute to Gimme Shelter's therapy dogs, Leo and Lola, a kissing booth with Leo, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, a live auction led by Mr. Scarborough, and a silent auction. Tickets cost $125 in advance at gimmeshelteranimalrescue.org or $175 at the door.

When a family agrees to take an animal in, its main responsibility is "to give the dog love," Ms. Montak said, whether its for just a few days or longer. Many families adopt the first dog they foster, but Ms. Montak asks them to continue fostering. One family has fostered over 80 dogs.

Regina Oertile has fostered over 20 Gimme Shelter dogs with her husband, Jim. She said, "Sometimes I keep them for as short as a weekend, and I've kept them for months at a time while they are healing," Ms. Oertile joked that she is a "failed foster" because she "adopted two dogs I was supposed to foster."

"It makes us feel good," she said. 

Saturday night’s Great Bonac Fireworks show, which will be set off just after dark around 9:15 over East Hampton’s Three Mile Harbor, will mark the 34th year of the midsummer display, but the first without Anthony Drexel Duke, the man who initiated the event with George Plimpton.

Mr. Duke, who died in April at the age of 95, founded the Boys Harbor camp on Three Mile Harbor, which served inner-city children for many years until the property was sold several years ago to East Hampton Town. The midsummer fireworks show, originally a way for Mr. Plimpton, who had lived in Paris, to mark Bastille Day, anchored an annual fund-raiser for the camp.

That tradition was taken up in 2009 by the Clamshell Foundation, an East Hampton nonprofit that provides grants to local groups and programs, and mounts a fund-raising effort every year to ensure that the popular event keeps going.

The show is presented by Fireworks by Grucci, a six-generation, family-owned Long Island company that this year earned the Guinness World Record for the largest fireworks display after a New Year’s Eve show in Dubai using 479,651 fireworks.

The show on Saturday night will be among the Gruccis’ most impressive national-class displays, and will include effects specifically chosen to commemorate Mr. Duke.

Mr. Duke was “a great man,” Felix Grucci, the president and chief executive officer of the company, said yesterday.

The long association between the Gruccis and the Duke family dates to the late 1970s, Mr. Grucci said, when his late father, James Grucci, established a relationship with Mr. Plimpton.

Mr. Plimpton, who had a penchant for fireworks and had started an annual Bastille Day tradition of fireworks displays at his own private parties, was a friend of Mr. Duke’s.

Mr. Grucci said Mr. Plimpton suggested that his father bring a collection of fireworks left over from Grucci Fourth of July shows out to Boys Harbor to be set off for the campers’ delight.

“My dad collected all the ‘onesies’ and ‘twosies,’ “ said Mr. Grucci of the leftovers, “and they fired the show,” lighting the shells off manually from the beach.

That grew into an annual fireworks show provided by the Gruccis, gratis, and into a fully designed fireworks program that was shot off every summer from a barge in the harbor as a fund-raiser for the camp. Eventually, it was choreographed to music, and particular fireworks were dedicated to special guests, the colors and special effects chosen to match their profiles and personalities, Mr. Grucci said.

For instance, he said, a gold “tiger tail” was launched for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who attended the party one year, as a symbol of the cigars he smoked.

For Saturday night, the Gruccis have chosen a Brocade Kamuro shell for Mr. Duke, which will create a large, golden, willow-shaped display in the sky.

“It kind of personifies his personality,” Mr. Grucci said, “because it’s elegant, but it’s also bold, and it’s lasting.” The shell is made with a lot of charcoal, which creates a shape that hangs in the sky, and, said Mr. Grucci, viewers will see “gold sparks of a campfire.”

The Brocade Kamuro was a favorite of both Mr. Plimpton and Mr. Duke, and was traditionally used in the Boys Harbor show at the start of the finale. This time, Mr. Grucci said, it will center a sequence in the show leading to an especially grand finale. “That is our family’s tribute to Tony Duke.”

Mr. Duke’s family and friends will gather at the Duke house on Three Mile Harbor, next to the former camp, said Luly Duke this week. “He loved fireworks night,” she said of her husband. “We are doing our own tribute to him.”

“We have great memories. We pretty much grew up there,” Mr. Grucci said yesterday. “We had some fantastic experiences and memories with them. Tony was so generous; he would keep one table inside the screened porch for my grandmother, so she could watch in comfort,” Mr. Grucci said. The late Concetta Grucci, the family matriarch, “would not miss it.”

The fireworks family, he said, is “happy that the tradition continues in Tony’s name, and in George’s name, and, frankly, in my dad’s name.”

“We will continue to donate the fireworks for this” in order to support the local charity efforts by the Clamshell Foundation and its founder, Rossetti Perchik, he said.

“We’re happy that Rossetti has taken on the lead in managing the program,” Mr. Grucci said. “There’s no profit to this. It’s strictly old-fashioned goodwill. How lucky we are, as a family, to have something to contribute.”

There are costs for the show, so fund-raising continues this week by the Clamshell Foundation, which uses any overage to add to its grants to local groups.

Since its inception in 1992, the nonprofit has given more than $125,000 to support East End residents, organizations, and projects — from annual high school environmental scholarships to food pantries, boating safety classes, Toys for Tots, East End Hospice, arts programs, and environmental efforts such as shellfish seeding.

Tax-deductible donations may be made through the group’s website, at clamshellfoundation.org. Donations of $50 or more before Aug. 1 will earn the donor a Clamshell Foundation cap or a T-shirt commemorating the fireworks show or the 2014 annual sandcastle contest sponsored by the organization, to be held at Atlantic Avenue beach in Amagansett on Aug. 2.

Twenty-three veterans and their significant others, including one canine, visited Montauk in late June for some good fishing. The vets, all of whom are disabled in some way, were brought to Montauk by Freedom Fighter Outdoors, a nonprofit program, which was started by Vinnie LaSorsa, the mate on Jimmy Buffett’s sportfishing boat, Last Mango out of Montauk, and his wife, Sarah LaSorsa. The goal is to help wounded veterans enjoy fishing, hunting, and other organized outdoor events.

Working with Wounded Warrior, the couple started the program last year with three men and their wives or girlfriends. This year, the group spent two days fishing and enjoying Montauk hospitality. The fishing trips were on boats donated by captains who dock at the Gone Fishing Marina on East Lake Drive. After the first day’s fishing, on June 18, they returned to the dock to be welcomed with a chicken and rib barbecue put on by Rick Gibbs of Rick’s Crabby Cowboy Café, also on East Lake Drive. The meal ended around a campfire with the group making s’mores.

The next morning, breakfast was donated by the Fish Bar before the veterans headed out on the water again. At the end of the second day offshore, they were shuttled to Lisa and Bob (Bing) DeVeglio’s home at Camp Hero, where margaritas, lobster, filet mignon, clams, mussels, vegetables, and dessert were served, all donated by Montauk residents and business owners. The DeVeglios are Freedom Fighter Outdoors board members and have entertained other veterans in previous years.

The next morning the group enjoyed breakfast at Solé East, courtesy of the Jerry Walsh family of Connecticut for the second year. They then visited Suse and Peter Lowenstein’s place on East Lake Drive to view “Dark Elegy,” the sculpture of 74 grieving women, which Ms. Lowenstein created after the couple’s son, Alexander, was among those who lost their lives in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The visitors were touched by the memorial, Ms. DeVeglio said. She expressed dismay that the Lowensteins’ offer to present and pay for the sculpture’s installation at Montauk’s Kirk Park had been withdrawn after stirring controversy.

Next year’s event is expected to be even bigger, Ms. DeVeglio said, and volunteers are always needed. Those interested can contact the DeVeglios, who live on Washington Avenue or go to freedomfighteroutdoors.org.  “We’re looking to expand,” she said.

Questions related to ice cream and coffee dominated last week’s meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals.

Dylan’s Candy Bar is seeking a special permit to allow the sale of ice cream in cones and paper cups, which the village prohibited in 2008 as part of an amendment banning fast-food establishments. The shop, which has been here since 2006, argues that it should be grandfathered under the law. A building inspector determined that Dylan’s is instead a retail food store, and as such ineligible for the required permit.

Speaking on behalf of the shop, which is at 52 Main Street, Andrew Goldstein, an attorney and former chairman of the zoning board, argued that “any food can be fast food if it’s sold in a certain way . . . I would submit to you that we are certainly a fast-food restaurant in the way it does business.”

But Frank Newbold, the board’s chairman, challenged Mr. Goldstein’s contention that cutting fudge and putting candy in a bag defines Dylan’s as a fast-food operation and not a retail store. He expressed concern about setting a precedent should Dylan’s vacate its space, “and the village then has a store that has been approved for fast food and a pizzeria decides to show up.”

Linda Riley, the village attorney, read aloud the pertinent amendment. A fast-food restaurant, it says in part, “prepares individual portions of food onsite and serves food or beverages over the counter in a ready-to-consume state including but not limited to products such as ice cream cones. . . .”

Ice cream was specifically included, Ms. Riley said after the meeting, “because there had been proposals for hand-scooped ice cream stores and that was something that, when this law was adopted, the village didn’t want.”

The village, Mr. Newbold said later, requires Scoop du Jour, a Newtown Lane store that pre-dates the 2008 amendment, to power-wash the sidewalk in front three times a week; it also made the store install a solar-powered trash compactor. “Having ice cream service creates more trash,” he said, “an issue to be concerned with.”

Mr. Goldstein said Dylan’s was also an existing nonconforming use, making it eligible to apply for a special permit. “If the building inspector wants to call Dylan’s a retail food store, he can do whatever he wants. But they define it in a way which makes it selling fast food.”

Mr. Newbold suggested that the hearing be left open to allow the board and the building inspector time to study the issue. It will resume on July 25.

The meeting began with an announcement that Howard Schultz, chief executive officer of the Starbucks chain, who has a house on Gracie Lane, had sought yet another adjournment, the fifth, of his hearing seeking the continued existence of a garage and caretaker’s cottage that is almost twice its original size and in violation of code. The board originally received the application in December; Mr. Schultz requested that it be adjourned to Sept. 12.

Mr. Newbold asked that the board vote to approve another adjournment, but only until the July 25 meeting. Before his colleagues could answer, Mr. Goldstein spoke up. Leonard Ackerman, an attorney representing Mr. Schultz, had family issues that precluded his attendance, he said.

“There have been four adjournments, including the last time Mr. Ackerman requested for health reasons,” Mr. Newbold answered. “But the notion that the violation continues and is going to continue after the summer. . . . and though it has been in front of us a number of times, there have been no new arguments.”

“This will be the first time I’ve ever seen a zoning board do this,” Mr. Goldstein said. “I think it’s discourteous to a lawyer that has practiced before this board for 40 years.”

Mr. Newbold said the hearing would be put on the July 25 agenda, but that Mr. Ackerman’s office could contact the board to explain the need for the additional two-month delay.