There will be a dance party fund-raiser at Rosie's restaurant on Thursday, May 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. to support the East Hampton Education Foundation, which provides thousands of dollars in grants to local teachers each year.
Tickets cost $100 and can be bought online at eh-ef.org. There will also be door prizes and auction prizes, from which proceeds benefit students from Montauk to Sagaponack. Rosie's is at 195 Main Street in Amagansett.
Helen Harrison, a longtime steward of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, plan to leave their house in Sag Harbor, Nicholson’s studio, and his body of work — worth an estimated $5 million — to Stony Brook University, along with a $2 million endowment to maintain them.
“The horses, the sport, the community, the summer day, the shopping — it’s so much fun.” In one sentence, Erica Velasquez summed up the magic of the Hampton Classic, which spurred into action on Sunday in Bridgehampton.
An auction of striking photographs and a work by a local artist will benefit a nonprofit organization that provides safe transportation and improves school infrastructure in Uganda on Sunday evening at Sole East in Montauk
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