Activities on the agenda for kids and teens this week include a celebration of LatinX culture at the Children's Museum of the East End, fun for would-be teenage sleuths, crafts, a salamander search, and opportunities to earn community service credits.
John Custis Lawrence (1867-1944), a Montauk-born architect, appears in this photograph participating in Forefathers’ Day, demonstrating how to grind corn to make samp, a mashed cornmeal porridge dish of Indigenous origin.
A musician, singer, actor, and interior designer, Peter Johannes van Hattum of East Hampton died on Sept. 20 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. He was 90.
Derek Miller, a 2000 graduate of East Hampton High School who lived here and in Jacksonville, N.C., died at home in Jacksonville on Sept. 10. He was 41.
Nancy Orshefsky, an art teacher and working artist formerly of Sagaponack, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on Aug. 14 in Great Neck, where she had been living since 2015.
Mary Louise McHugh Nelson, a former trustee and missionary board member of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, died at home on Sept. 8 in Dalzell, S.C., where she had been living since 2011.
Donald R. Klein, who ran a company called EastEndTech to service computers from Montauk to Manhattan until he retired in 2018, died in New York City on Sept. 16. He was 77.
A celebration of Louis Arceri’s life will take place on Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Springs Presbyterian Church.
A funeral service for Robert Otto will be held on Oct. 8 at 9 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.
The oysters I received 16 months ago, which barely filled a half-pint container at that point, had grown by Sept. 21 to over five inches in length in many cases. After cleaning, culling, and sorting, I had well over a bushel basket of tasty bivalves.
