Some commercial action in Montauk. And other realty tidbits from hereabouts.

The Ladies Village Improvement Society, whose website tagline reads, "Keeping East Hampton beautiful since 1895," will have a new executive director, Rachel Cooper, starting Jan. 1.

Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker, the South Fork Natural History Museum, and the Surfrider Foundation will host a community beach cleanup at Sagg Main Beach at 11:30 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving.

Everyone knows what a turkey looks like, right? Sure. However, when tasked with illustrating a magazine story about the King family and their poultry farm in Southampton, Kym Fulmer, the Springs artist whose bright-eyed gobblers are on the cover of this edition of East, wanted to make sure she got it exactly right, so she paid a visit to North Sea Farms to look at the birds up close.

From Bob Dylan’s explosion on the scene to the Mayor of MacDougal Street, Dave Van Ronk, this is the way it was in Greenwich Village, a work of music history reviewed by a working musician.

Whiskey Bravo, a youth group that supports active-duty military personnel with service projects, is teaming up with the American Legion Post 419 Auxiliary to collect items for care packages this holiday season.

Jaime Lopez has had a successful career as a fashion photographer and, more recently, as a fine-art photographer whose subjects have ranged from landscapes to artists to rustic metal tools.

Now in its 17th year, Hamptons Doc Fest will show 32 films over seven days, with screenings at the Sag Harbor Cinema and Bay Street Theater.

The East Hampton Historical Society's House and Garden Tour features five residences, some old, some recent, and all with surprises.

Jake Ruehl has organized a one-night celebration of the artwork of David Geiser, his father, who died four years ago in Springs.

New workshops at the Women's Art Center, nature and sports cars at the White Room, 144 artists at Tripoli Gallery, group show at LTV.

The East Hampton Library's exhibition "The Way We Cooked in East Hampton" features a treasure trove of recipes from its Long Island Collection.

The Artist and Writers dinner returns to Almond restaurant, Arthur and Sons has a new prix fixe and happy hour till Dec. 1, and Art of Eating offers a brunch pop-up.

LTV Studios will present a staged reading of "Scenes of Mirth and Marriage" with Mercedes Ruehl and Harris Yulin, and a comedy about five couples' sex lives.

The Church's Holiday Makers Market will feature a diverse selection of arts and crafts, plus a pop-up print exhibition, book signings, and a community singalong.

Illuminated gardens and "Zima!" at LongHouse after dark, Schubert song cycle at The Church, comedy at the Southampton Arts Center.

Paid Notice: After a long valiant struggle against a rare progressively debilitating illness, Vicki Black passed quietly and with dignity under hospice care at Southampton Hospital; her husband and care-helper friends were by her side. 

When it comes to at-home care on the East End, those who need help are finding it, well, hard to find. Factors like long driving distances to reach clients and a perceived lack of competitive wages for aides make the home nursing field challenging to navigate from both perspectives.

In recent years, genealogy research has grown in popularity, as people are curious to discover such details about their family history. The rise of accessible DNA technology and the digitization of census data and historical documents have greatly expanded access to information.

Memoirs have the ability to touch us more deeply than a work of fiction. What does that say about us? Many of us are interested in other people's lives — not only what happened to them but how the experience shaped and affected them.