Joseph Francis Early of East Hampton, who died in his sleep on May 13, “touched many people in his short time on earth,” wrote his sister, Vicky Dominski of Sag Harbor. He was 58.

Constance Miller Hoagland of East Hampton Village had a successful career in Greenwich, Conn., as a real estate broker, but many here will remember her from the Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane. She died at home on May 30.

Donna M. Zingarelli, who in 1976 opened Michael’s Restaurant in Maidstone Park with her first husband, died on June 3 at the Westhampton Care Center of complications from a 2020 stroke. She was 77.

The Parrish Art Museum board has chosen Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who was educated in Spain and Mexico, and most recently ran an art museum at Michigan State University. She will take the place of Kelly Taxter, who resigned in December after less than a year on the job. 

Word has been received of the death of Robert A. Brody, a podiatrist who lived year round on Sulky Circle in East Hampton. Dr. Brody died of cancer in New York City on April 18.

Susan Ellen Dottin of Southampton, a former resident of East Hampton and Sag Harbor, died on April 23 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 68, and had been ill for a year.

This whaling log kept by Alfred Washington Foster (1822-1886) chronicles two voyages on the barks Columbia and Roanoke between 1845 and 1861.

In the next installment of its Thinking Forward Lecture Series on Saturday at 4 p.m., the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center's own history will be the topic.

Want to catch a striped bass? Then Montauk is clearly the place to be right now.