The Long Pond Greenbelt will host its annual celebration behind the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday starting at 10 a.m. A migratory bird walk will be followed by a story time, a chance to meet animals from the Quogue Wildlife Refuge, face painting, a search for amphibians, and other activities.
Ice cream and other refreshments will be complimentary. The free celebration will happen rain or shine.
Polar plunges at Main Beach in East Hampton and Beach Lane in Wainscott on New Year’s Day accomplish many things: bracing and exhilarating starts to the year, the company of many hundreds of friends and fellow townspeople, and a chance to secure bragging rights that extend well into 2026. But most important, each serves as a critical fund-raiser for food pantries.
Soon after moving to Water Mill with her family in 2015, Marit Molin became aware of a largely unacknowledged population underpinning the complicated Hamptons economy. That led her to create Hamptons Community Outreach, which is dedicated to meeting basic critical needs to help break cycles of poverty.
This etching by Mary Nimmo Moran shows what was likely the view from her home across Town Pond, with the Gardiner Mill in the background, a favorite landscape for her.
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