Valentine’s Day candles that double as a food pantry benefit, books as amenities at inns, and a look ahead to a monthlong stay in Southampton.

In East Hampton, if you had a street named for you before the 20th century, odds were that you were an enslaver.

Peak movie-going, for me, came in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when — a tangle-haired child of that unruly era — I was handed a 10-dollar bill and left to my own devices for entire weekends at a go.

The other day, when Brett, one of the pros at East Hampton Indoor Tennis, noted that Jon Diat, The Star’s fishing writer, and I, its sportswriter, were among the few who wore masks when playing there, I said we did so because “we’re tyrannized by our wives.”

My introduction to the art of Prudence Punderson came in 1976 in Connecticut, when I took up embroidery and checked out a book on the subject that contained an example of her work. But an East Hampton connection? That came as a surprise.

AMAGANSETT

Cory and Lori Muscara to Kimberly Whitney, 73 Oak Lane, Sep. 29, $1,280,000.

Robin Burns-McNeill to 20 Whalers LN L.L.C., 20 Whalers Lane, Nov. 20, $4,200,000.

23 Bittersweet Lane L.L.C. to Geriann Tepedino, 23 Bittersweet Lane (vacant), Nov. 24, $1,875,000.

Estate of Albert Blasen to Linda and Stephen Fogelson, 6 Golf Club Drive (vacant), Dec. 30, $1,475,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

CVR First L.L.C. to NDL Enterprises L.L.C., 67 Birchwood Lane, Sep. 30, $3,512,996.

Our readers weigh in.

Sag Harbor Village police believe it was the same miscreant who went on a spree on the morning of Feb. 3, rummaging through, but not taking anything from, a vehicle on Beach Avenue, then hitting three more cars on Walker Avenue.

The wintry weather saw quieter roads last week and just one arrest, in East Hampton Village.