Kids Culture 11.11.21
Children on the autism spectrum or who have sensory processing disorders will get a special welcome at the Children's Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday morning.
Children on the autism spectrum or who have sensory processing disorders will get a special welcome at the Children's Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday morning.
At a Nov. 3 school board meeting, Adam Fine, the district superintendent, announced that student enrollment numbers were up in all three of the schools.
The East Hampton Library unveiled a new online Long Island Collection research system that includes not only the impressive collection of historical records that the library holds but also an additional 23 collections, including the town and East Hampton Village's historic records and high school yearbooks dating to the 1950s. “I think this is one of the most important projects this library has been involved with,” Dennis Fabiszak, the library's executive director, said.
This etching, one of a number of works titled “The Much Resounding Sea” by the artist Thomas Moran of East Hampton (1837-1926), was completed in 1886, two years after his similar but less detailed oil painting of the same name. The etching is a newer acquisition for the Long Island Collection, bought at auction in May.
Joseph DeCristofaro was just 17 when he enlisted in the Navy in 1943, too young to join up without his parents’ permission but determined to do his part. “I had to get my folks to sign for me,” he said on Friday in his living room in East Hampton. “My father signed; my mother didn’t like it.”
Heidi Limonius, a co-owner of Buckley’s Flower Shop and Garden Center in East Hampton Village for nearly 60 years, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 3. She was 83 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.
Sidney B. Silverman, a longtime resident of Amagansett, died at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on Nov. 4. A trial lawyer for many years, none of his cases satisfied him more than representing the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association in its victory over the General Electric Company.
Linda Holmes of East Hampton died at home on Hand’s Creek Road on Oct. 7. The cause was lung cancer, which was first diagnosed three years ago and returned after a period of remission. She was 77.
Joseph John Kristopowitz Jr., a native of Wainscott, settled upstate after attending the Central City Business Institute in Syracuse and loved the auto racing scene there. He died at home in Liverpool, N.Y., on Oct. 22 at the age of 72.
A memorial service for Grace Elizabeth Price, a former librarian at the East Hampton Library who had since moved to Brewster, Mass., will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Harwichport, Mass.
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