The construction of a reimagined Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center is swinging into its third and final phase and remains on target for a fall opening, as organizers now seek to raise an additional $3 million to $4 million in donations to cover some amendments to the original construction plan, in addition to the final furnishings, equipment, and staffing to make the center operational. 

If past is prologue, the two-plus-year-old community-driven effort to rebuild the Main Street landmark and restore its iconic neon sign will soar past this latest funding goal, too. 

Since a fire badly damaged the cinema and some surrounding buildings in December of 2016, more than 2,500 people have donated money to rebuild the cinema, and more than 90 percent of those donations have been under $1,000.

The thank-you page on the cinema’s website (sagharborcinema.org) additionally lists several hundred other contributors who have donated a wide array of goods, services, time, materials, building expertise, and design savvy to push the project toward completion. Donors have provided everything from the architectural plans to the fabric for the refurbished seats.

“The Sag Harbor-ness of this whole effort has been tremendous — there is a talent pool and experience pool of people here that is just staggering,” April Gornik, the head of the cinema’s executive board, said in an interview on Saturday. “Sometimes I wish I had a dime for every time somebody said, ‘Oh, raising money should be easy, there are so many millionaires out here.’ ”

“The reality is we’ve been so insanely lucky with the good will and understanding and support we’ve received from the entire community. And you don’t have to get on a soapbox and sell this to people. We’ve had so many, many amazing volunteers. We thank the people who give us $100 the same as someone who gives us $100,000 because it represents something for all of them.”

Ms. Gornik said that in the nearly 30 months that have passed since the original theater burned down, something happens almost daily to remind her of the emotional resonance the cinema still holds for people. She was speaking to someone on the street in Sag Harbor last week who told her, “My sister is still so upset about what happened she still tears up when she thinks about what [restoring] the place means to the community.”

“When I hear that, it’s like a B-12 shot of energy — it’s wonderful,” Ms. Gornik said. “People understand what was lost and it’s important to them for future generations, too.”

The additional money that organizers are now seeking will be used to cover a variety of expenses. 

Because more of the building was compromised by the fire than structural engineers were originally able to discern, contractors had to tweak the design and go back before the village architectural review board to make some needed changes. Once that happened, Ms. Gornik said, the cinema board decided it would be “crazy, while we were at that, not to expand the third-floor space. We had a smaller space planned there before. Now we’ll have offices and a bigger educational space.” 

In addition to those costs, money is also needed for administration and staff hires, the purchase of projectors and a state-of-the-art sound system, and equipment for the new concession stand and cafe. 

“The food service will be as eco-friendly as possible, locally sourced as possible, and reflect the East End community,” Ms. Gornik said.

All donations to the project are 100-percent tax deductible. Naming rights for various features in the building are also for sale. (The singer Billy Joel has already snagged naming rights for the popcorn concession.)

When the new cinema is done, it will feature three screening rooms rather than the one 480-seat theater it had before the fire. The first-floor space will now be divided into one large-screen theater and a second, more intimate repertory theater. The second floor will feature a 40-seat screening room and classroom. The third floor will have offices, a small lounge, and perhaps a virtual reality workspace.

In addition to programming a robust offering of international and art house movies, film festival fare and current releases, the new cinema will engage in educational outreach to local schools and residents. 

“In terms of restoration and in terms of what we will be able to provide for future generations, we’re very excited,” Ms. Gornik said.

A Queens man who seriously injured a Montauk pedestrian and fled the scene in a drunken-driving incident last Memorial Day weekend has begun serving his prison sentence early.  

In January, Jose Romero-Flores, 33, pleaded guilty to two felonies, vehicular assault in the second degree and leaving the scene of an accident with a serious physical injury, as well as misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

Mr. Romero-Flores was driving west on Montauk Main Street in a 2016 Ford van owned by Todaro Brothers, a gourmet deli and catering company in Manhattan, when, just after midnight, he hit a 26-year-old New York City woman who was crossing the street. Sophia Pitts was struck near South Embassy Street, hit the windshield, and fell back onto the street. She suffered a head contusion among other injuries, according to the police report, and was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she spent time in the intensive care unit.

The van sped away, but police caught up with it quickly, thanks to a description provided by Dwayne Denton, a fire marshal on duty in Montauk that night.

Mr. Romero-Flores had been free on $25,000 bond until April 17, when he was taken into custody. 

His East Hampton attorney, Carl Irace, said the man “is serving the time up front,” meaning before the yearlong sentence is actually imposed. With his client pleading guilty to all counts, Mr. Irace was able to negotiate a deal directly with Suffolk County Court Judge Anthony Senft that, he said, “reduces the likelihood of adverse collateral consequences” for his client. 

Had Mr. Romero-Flores been sentenced on the felony, he could have been subject to deportation. A native of Mexico, he is a DACA recipient, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by President Barack Obama in 2012. He has been in the country since he was a young boy. However, by serving his time before his sentence is actually imposed, he will likely avoid an immigration case. 

He will probably be released from jail by Christmas, once Justice Senft formally hands down the sentence, which also includes five years of post-release probation.

The owner of a nine-acre agricultural reserve at 625 Butter Lane in Bridgehampton, who is seeking permission from the Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals to construct housing for agricultural laborers on the property, recently received notice from an attorney for the town that such development would constitute a “material breach” of an easement.

Adam Shapiro, the manager of the limited liability company that owns the parcel and a co-founder of the investment firm East Rock Capital, has been seeking setback variances from the Z.B.A. to construct two buildings totaling more than 2,000 square feet to house workers who would operate a tree farm. A site plan for the property also includes a greenhouse, a storage structure, a parking area, an outdoor kitchen, and a free-standing bathroom.

The agricultural reserve was created in 1996 when the land, which had been owned by the Hampton Day School, was subdivided.

Earlier this month, James Burke, a town attorney, wrote a letter to John Bennett, a lawyer who has been representing Mr. Shapiro before the Z.B.A., and included a copy of the easement the Hampton Day School had granted the town at the time of the subdivision.

The easement “expressly prohibits any ‘temporary or permanent residential or residential accessory structures,’ ” Mr. Burke wrote in the April 12 letter. “And it is the fiduciary duty of the town . . . to properly enforce the terms contained within each easement.”

Mr. Bennett on Tuesday called Mr. Burke’s letter “an irrelevancy.” The zoning board, he said, “has no authority to enforce or interpret a covenant.”  Patrick Fife, a lawyer for two neighbors who have opposed the application, disagreed with that assessment. Since the town attorney has interpreted the language of the easement, he said yesterday, the Z.B.A. would be bound to apply that interpretation. 

The Z.B.A. hearing on the application ended on March 21, but Mr. Bennett has until Friday, May 3, to file written submissions to the board. He said he plans to provide the Z.B.A. with examples of judicial decisions that allowed agriculture housing to be built on properties similar to Mr. Shapiro’s.

A decision on the application is expected to be announced at the Z.B.A. meeting on June 6.

A revised schedule for the East Hampton Village to Springs route of the shuttle service launched last month in conjunction with the expanded Long Island Rail Road service was announced yesterday. 

The South Fork Commuter Connection, expanded rail service that began operation on March 4, is intended to alleviate traffic congestion and carbon dioxide emissions. 

Under the new schedule, which takes effect on Wednesday, afternoon pickup times at multiple shuttle stops will be between 5 and 15 minutes later than on the original schedule. A release issued by East Hampton Town yesterday said the new schedule would allow more time spent at places of employment and less on the shuttle bus. The Hampton Hopper operates the shuttle service in East Hampton. 

Affected stops include the North Main Street and Cedar Street intersection in East Hampton, the Bistrian Gravel Corporation on Springs-Fireplace Road, the Springs School, the intersection of Abraham’s Path and Montauk Highway in Amagansett, East Hampton Town Hall, the route from Gay Road to Main Street and Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village, East Hampton High School on Long Lane, and the East Hampton Middle School on Newtown Lane in the village. 

The shuttle is to arrive at the East Hampton L.I.R.R. station at 5:07 p.m. A westbound train leaves the station at 5:14. 

Hampton Hopper shuttle buses meet morning trains, which originate in Speonk or Westhampton Beach, at stations in East Hampton to transport passengers to designated stops along routes designed to move commuters to key employment areas. It picks up passengers for transport back to train stations in the afternoon. 

The L.I.R.R. will operate on a summer schedule starting on May 24, precluding operation of South Fork Commuter Connection trains on Fridays. Consequently, there will be no bus shuttle service on Fridays. 

The $4.25 one-way fare for any travel between Speonk and Montauk includes a ticket to board the shuttle bus. Schedules and detailed information are at the town’s website, ehamptonny.gov, and at sfcclirr.com. 

Employers in East Hampton have been encouraged to allow workers flexibility so that they can take advantage of commuter connection service, and to consider organizing their own group transportation for workers to and from the train station.

Ray Hartjen, a founding member of the East End Classic Boat Society, was honored last Thursday by the East Hampton Town Board, which cited his “many contributions and ongoing commitment to the community.” 

With Mr. Hartjen, his daughters, and his grandchildren in attendance, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc read a proclamation noting the honoree’s role in projects including construction of the Tanbark Creek Bridge in East Hampton, gathering signatures to provide public water to Gerard Drive in Springs, raising money to replace the Pussy’s Pond Bridge in Springs, and raising money for what is now known as the Hartjen-Richardson Community Boat Shop, the permanent home of the East End Classic Boat Society, in Amagansett. 

Mr. Hartjen first summered in Springs in 1931, Mr. Van Scoyoc said, and there he showed an early interest in boating and marine life. He built his first boat at age 7, and has been a licensed fisherman and skipper since 1947. In the Army, he was the private skipper to a four-star general, according to the proclamation. 

Returning to civilian life, Mr. Hartjen spent most of his career in academia, focusing on alternative education. He earned a Ph.D. in educational research metrologies at the University of Pittsburgh in 1975, and published “Empowering the Child: Nurturing the Hungry Mind” in 1994. 

Since retiring in 1996, Mr. Hartjen “has continued to devote his time and talents to the community as a member of the [East Hampton] Trails Preservation Society and president of the East End Classic Boat Society, an organization that supports and demonstrates classic craftsmanship and marine design,” Mr. Van Scoyoc read. For his “many contributions and ongoing commitment to the community, the Town of East Hampton commends Ray Hartjen.” 

“Thank you all,” Mr. Hartjen said. “What an incredible proclamation.” He praised Mr. Van Scoyoc’s “fantastic” research “to get all those details in place. I am thrilled beyond being thrilled.” 

The society teaches the skills to build and preserve handcrafted wooden boats, and each year its members sell raffle tickets for one of its creations. This year’s raffle boat is a Catspaw dinghy, a rowing and sailing skiff. 

It also exhibits at events throughout the town, which this year will include the Sag Harbor Cultural Heritage Day celebration scheduled for May 4, the East Hampton Village spring street fair on May 11, the summer fair at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on July 6, the Springs Fisherman’s Fair set for Aug. 10, HarborFest in Sag Harbor on Sept. 6, 7, and 8, the Maritime Festival in Greenport on Sept. 21 and 22, and the Montauk Fall Festival on Oct. 12 and 13. 

The society also exhibits at the town trustees’ annual Largest Clam Contest, a date for which has not been set.

As they have signaled in discussions and negotiations over the past several months, the East Hampton Town Trustees voted on Monday to change the lease terms of trustee-owned land at Lazy Point significantly. Six trustees voted for the change, two abstained, and one recused himself.

Over the furious objections of one town resident who does not live at Lazy Point, and after an April 8 public hearing at which she and others, including a former clerk of the nine-member body, urged a more gradual increase, the six voted to extend the leases from one year to 35 years. The altered terms, the trustees believe, will allow prospective buyers to obtain mortgages and make it easier for tenants to get long-term loans to make improvements. The change, the tenants and landlords alike said, will bring security to both sides: Tenants will benefit from the stability of a long-term lease; trustees from the continuous revenue.

Real estate at Lazy Point is anomalous on the South Fork, home to some of the most expensive property in the country. Residents own their mostly unassuming houses, but not the small lots on which they sit. Rents remain as modest as both houses and lots. When the trustees raised the annual rent by 50 percent in 2013, the new figure was just $1,500. After contentious negotiations in 2015, terms were modified to include an annual 2 percent rent increase and a 2 percent transfer fee, assessed to both buyer and seller when a property changes hands. The trustees derive about half their annual revenue from the leases and transfer fees. 

After the April hearing, the trustees held the record open for comment through Friday. At Monday’s meeting, Elaine Jones of Amagansett, who had criticized the plan for 35-year leases at the hearing, protested to Francis Bock, the trustees’ clerk, that she had come to the trustees’ office at the Lamb Building in Amagansett on Friday at 12:30 p.m., and that Mr. Bock, if he was inside, did not answer the door. 

“The things you make up amaze me,” Mr. Bock said. 

“The things you lie about amaze me,” Ms. Jones shot back, saying that a petition opposing the 35-year lease term was being circulated. She does support extending leases to five or 10 years, she said, but “I can’t believe you are giving away Lazy Point leases” to property that “belongs to East Hampton Town residents.” Should the trustees proceed, she said, “There will be so many lawsuits against the Town of East Hampton.” 

Vincent Priori, a Lazy Point resident, then spoke. “I’m not sure I understand what the objections are for a 35-year lease,” he said. “The trustees aren’t breaking new ground with a 35-year lease. The Town of East Hampton has a 99-year lease.” The reference was to affordable housing on town-created subdivisions where residents have bought or built houses but the town maintains ownership of the land. In 2012, Mr. Priori added, the Town of Babylon voluntarily extended leases on more than 400 properties at town-owned barrier beaches, under an arrangement similar to that at Lazy Point, from 35 to 50 years. Yet, Mr. Priori said, “all we hear are negative comments.” 

“It’s an election year,” Mr. Bock offered.

“All we’re looking for is security,” Mr. Priori said. “What’s so wrong with that?” 

Christopher Carillo, the trustees’ attorney, said that the new lease had been updated to make it clear that a new tenant would assume the remainder of an existing 35-year lease, rather than restart it. Future trustees, he said, will be able to change the terms. 

With that, Jim Grimes, a deputy clerk of the trustees who heads its Lazy Point committee, moved to extend the leases. Bill Taylor, the other deputy clerk, seconded the motion.

Rick Drew, who owns a house at Lazy Point, recused himself from the vote. Susan Vorpahl and Dell Cullum abstained. Ms. Vorpahl said she had lingering questions as to whether the move would solve the problem it is intended to address, and whether it was wise given climate change. “I don’t know if we’re creating more of a problem for future boards than we’re intending,” she said. “Maybe before we sign off on something like this, in all fairness to the residents and us, have experts look at the environment. What is that shoreline going to look like in 10, 20, 35 years, and do we want to promote people getting tied into these long leases if that landscape might drastically change?” 

Mr. Cullum said he was “not 100-percent certain that the Town of East Hampton wants this.” All of the town’s residents own the land, he said; the trustees manage it on their behalf. “I said at the beginning that if [the residents] didn’t come out and represent themselves, I was going to just vote in favor of the people at Lazy Point. . . . They continue to disappoint me for not coming out for these important issues. But you folks in Lazy Point are good folks. You’ve got paradise over there, and I want the best for you. I suspect you’re going to get it.” He had received the final draft of the lease the evening before, Mr. Cullum said, and was abstaining in order to “play it on the safe side for the entire community. But I have no objection to you getting what you want and getting the security you need.”

With six votes in favor and none against, the motion carried, and the many Lazy Point residents in attendance erupted in sustained applause. The trustees then voted to extend the present one-year leases, which are set to expire next week, for 30 days to allow the final draft to be circulated and reviewed by Lazy Point residents’ representatives.

As the residents stood to leave the meeting, Mr. Priori could be heard telling a neighbor that those opposed to extending the leases “don’t live there, have money, and don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren began reading the Mueller report on a flight. She completed it after she landed and then concluded it was time to begin the impeachment process against President Trump. This is an important moment. She became the first — and so far the only — major presidential candidate to unequivocally state that the report confirmed in detail the president’s multiple attempts to obstruct the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and efforts by the Trump campaign, as well as its friends and family’s attempts, to cover up that effort. 

As Senator Warren put it, “The facts are clear: A hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump — and Donald Trump welcomed that help. Once elected, he obstructed the investigation into that attack. If any other human being in this country did what was described in the Mueller report, they’d be in jail. This isn’t about politics — this is about principle for me. We need to protect our democracy for generations to come.”

“I took an oath to uphold our Constitution, and everyone else in Congress did too. If other members think we can ignore a president’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation, then they should have to take that vote — and live with it for the rest of their lives.”

Ms. Warren framed the impeachment question in constitutional terms because the Trump presidency has from the outset challenged the fundamental checks and balances inherent in our system of government, drifting rapidly toward autocracy. 

As Sarah Kendzior, a writer who specializes in authoritarian regimes, observed, Trump and his associates have publicly and repeatedly stated that the president is above the law; this is a step, a big step, toward dictatorship. Attorney General William Barr, in effect, rewrote the law in asserting that the president attempted only to derail the special counsel investigation and did not succeed and that because he did so in plain sight no crime could be charged. This is hogwash, but that nearly everyone now in federal government — elected, unelected, and seeking the Democratic nomination to run for president — has so far gone along with it is the genuine crisis.

Josephine Wilson Murphy’s family tree was a sprawling one that branched out in some extraordinary directions and intersected with some of the biggest moments in American history. 

Her distant ancestors immigrated from England and France in 1631, just 11 years after the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, and settled in Massachusetts. Her great-uncle, Admiral George Dewey, is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. Her grandmother Jean Thomas Dewey was an accomplished watercolorist. Her father, James Patrick Wilson, resided in Tupelo, Miss., one of his neighbors being none other than Elvis Presley.

She was an aspiring actress living in Baldwin when she met Elliott Murphy as he was searching for talent to cast in an outdoor theatrical and aquatics extravaganza called Aquashow, which he had been hired to produce for Robert Moses, the famed urban planner and commissioner of the New York City parks system. 

Rather than offer her an acting job, Mr. Murphy ending up proposing to the 18-year-old. They were married the following year, on Sept. 11, 1945.

Together, Mr. and Mrs. Murphy continued to produce shows throughout their marriage. Featuring the likes of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Henny Youngman, and Sonja Henning, they attracted the attention of Ed Sullivan. Ms. Murphy also collaborated with her husband on Elliott Murphy’s Sky Club, near Roosevelt Field on Long Island, and the Sky Island Club at the same location. She appeared as a co-host with Elizabeth Taylor at the Roosevelt Raceway’s Star Night benefit for the North Shore Hospital in 1957. 

Mrs. Murphy and her husband were living in Garden City when he died of a heart attack in October of 1965 at the age of 48. Mrs. Murphy, then 39, was left to raise their three teenagers on her own.

Beginning in 1990, she spent weekends throughout the year at her son Matt Murphy’s house in Wainscott. Mrs. Murphy died on Dec. 7 of cardiac arrest at the other home she maintained on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She was 92.

She was born on April 20, 1926, to James Patrick Kirkwood Wilson and Ruth Dewey Wilson. In addition to her son, who also maintains a residence in Garden City, she is survived by another son, Elliott Murphy Jr. of Paris, a daughter, Michelle Murphy Strada of Amagansett, and two grandchildren.

Mrs. Murphy was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn. A memorial service will be announced at a later date.

East Hampton Village golf clubs and municipal properties will be exempt from a proposed law banning the use of gas-powered lawn equipment during the summer, and will remain exempt from an existing law that regulates the hours for its use.

Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. had said at a village board meeting on April 4 that the employees of golf clubs and municipal properties should not be exempt from laws that apply to homeowners and professional landscapers.

The current code states that between June 1 and the second Friday of December, a homeowner’s or tenant’s use of gas or diesel-powered lawn equipment is limited to Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.; on Saturday between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., and on Sunday and federal holidays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Landscaping employees must follow the same restrictions on weekdays and Saturdays, but on Sundays and federal holidays as well.

At last Thursday’s board meeting, seeking to make a case for why golf courses should remain exempt, Kenneth Koch, general manager of the Maidstone Club, described what was involved in maintaining a 206-acre course. The grounds crew, he said, starts work at 6 a.m. to get landscaping done before golfers tee off at 7:30. “That’s primarily a safety issue,” said Mr. Koch. “People hitting golf balls at people riding on mowers wouldn’t be a good thing.”

Mowing one fairway takes about a half-hour, he said, and after the grass is cut, the clippings that end up in the course’s more than 100 bunkers must be removed with blowers. “They can’t be raked out,” he said. 

If the crew were not allowed to start work until 8 a.m., said Mr. Koch, tee times would have to be pushed back and scheduling conflicts would arise. It was possible that the club might no longer be able to provide time for outings benefiting groups such as Guild Hall and the Retreat, he said. 

Mr. Koch said he was “sensitive to the desire for quietude,” and the club is using electrically-powered equipment for smaller jobs such as maintaining the Maidstone’s beach area, but the technology to handle an expanse as large as a golf course “is not quite there yet.” 

Mayor Rickenbach said he understood why the club needed the exemption, and he agreed that it should remain, as did the rest of the board. 

Although the mayor said he wanted the village to lead the way on transitioning to the use of electrically-powered equipment, board members ultimately decided that it should continue to be exempt from the current code and from the proposed amendment. Village employees, however, will be asked to adhere to an unwritten policy to use electric equipment when possible. Mayor Rickenbach also encouraged Scott Fithian, the superintendent of public works, to increase the amount of battery-operated equipment the village has on hand. 

The board also decided to add a provision that will permit homeowners to use gas-powered equipment for cleanup after a major summer storm.

Public hearings were held on two proposed laws, one that would ban the intentional release of balloons, which have proven detrimental to marine life, and one that would prevent utility companies from excavating roads that the village has recently repaired. 

No one voiced opposition to either, and the board enacted the laws later in the meeting. They will take effect in about two weeks, after they have been filed with the state.

The board announced‚ in a roundabout fashion‚ the appointment of a new village beach manager. On the day’s agenda was the hiring of seasonal beach employees, “as per Beach Manager J. Tulp’s memo.” Newt Mott was the most recent beach manager. Becky Molinaro Hansen, the village clerk, confirmed later that day that James Tulp had been appointed to the job, but provided no further information.

Last summer, a number of female lifeguards accused the beach managers of sexual harassment, stemming from incidents in which managers asked the women to model the bikinis they had chosen as their new uniform. After she conducted a six-week investigation, Ms. Molinaro Hansen found there was insufficient evidence to conclude that anyone’s conduct had risen to the level of sexual harassment, but she concluded that the swimsuit selection process “should have been handled better” by the beach administration, including Mr. Mott.

At the end of last Thursday’s meeting, Donald Horowitz, a co-owner of Wittendale’s Florist and Greenhouses on Newtown Lane, told the board that the village’s annual spring fair, which has been held on Mother’s Day weekend since 2017, has had a detrimental effect on his business. The fair takes place on Newtown Lane, which is closed to traffic for the event.

“It’s a huge hardship to have the road closed,” said Mr. Horowitz. For florists, he said, the Saturday of Mother’s Day weekend is comparable to Black Friday for other retailers, but in the last two years, with the fair held that day, Wittendale’s has had a dearth not only of Mother’s Day shoppers but of people gearing up for the spring planting season. The main problem, he said, is that customers cannot park in front of the store. His delivery trucks have also been delayed by the road closure, he said. He asked the board to move the fair up a week, or to hold it in Herrick Park.

Board members sympathized with his predicament. Although it was too late to change the date of this year’s fair, which will be held on May 11, they recommended that Mr. Horowitz meet with Chief of Police Michael Tracey, who will help him find a way to provide better access to the nursery.

As for the scheduling of future fairs on that weekend? “It won’t happen again,” said Mayor Rickenbach.

Those who wondered about the barn that recently appeared in a new coat of shingles at the Mulford Farm — the Hedges-Edwards barn — can have their questions answered on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 at an East Hampton Historical Society party and dedication ceremony. 

The 1770 barn, which the historical society acquired some years ago, has been named for both the Hedges family, who built it, and E. J. Edwards, the East Hampton man who preserved it in the first half of the 20th century and moved it to family property on Edwards Lane.

It was dismantled at that location and restored piece by piece over the past two years by the New Jersey Barn Company before being reassembled at its present site. “A lot of people have commented that it looks like a new barn,” said Maria Vann, the society’s executive director.

The work, which included installing concrete piers and completing new roofing, siding, flooring, and massive double doors on the north and south walls, was donated by Ben Krupinski Builder, which Mr. Krupinski offered shortly before his death in a plane crash last June. Ray Harden and Stratton Schellinger, the company’s current co-owners, oversaw the effort.

The barn will be dedicated to Mr. Krupinski and his wife, Bonnie, who also died in the accident, at a 3 p.m. ceremony.

Among the afternoon’s activities are a woodcarving workshop led by Grain Surfboards New York and blacksmithing demonstrations by the East Hampton metal artist James DeMartis. “We picked those two activities because in order to build a barn you need woodworking and metalwork,” Ms. Vann said. “In fact, James is fabricating some historic hardware for us.”

 Music will be provided by the Sunnyland Jazz Band, the Mulford Farmhouse will be open for tours throughout the afternoon, and Bostwick’s Catering will serve traditional refreshments. 

“We just want people to wander the site and feel excited about the Mulford Farm,” Ms. Vann said. “We’ll have an opportunity to talk about the future activities we have planned for the barn, among them artistic programs for kids and educationally focused exhibits.”

The historical society’s annual meeting is also scheduled for Saturday, at Clinton Academy at 10 a.m. At 10:30, Helen A. Harrison, executive director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, will present “Bonac Bohemia: Artists of the Springs,” an illustrated history of the Springs art community from the 1940s to the present.