From roosters to Paulie’s Tackle to enslaved people here, read all about it — by readers, for readers.

We’re told by experts that burlap wrap isn’t good for some species, especially evergreens, and that it doesn’t in fact actually keep plants warmer.

Americans, by and large, don’t get together out in the elements much anymore.

There was plenty of screaming during my short trip to Nashville last weekend. I had not understood how Music City U.S.A. had become Partytown U.S.A.

The eclipse on Monday brought back memories of an eclipse in the 1970s, when I was at “hippie school,” the Hampton Day School in the potato fields of Bridgehampton.

Getting hip to women’s college hoops at just the right time.

“You threw out my picture?” Mary asked when I told her my office’s walls were now bare, the floors were bare, the desk was bare.

Memories of 1978 and a final, snowy departure for college upstate.

New South Fork real estate deals.

A watercolorist and printmaker, Quincy Egginton uses art to capture the local environment and natural subjects such as vegetables, flowers, and seashells, often painting en plein air.

Fearmongering and the ubiquity of security capitalism are everyone’s problem, two academics write in “Trapped,” a powerful yet accessible volume.

For his “Tropical Space Castaways” exhibition at the Parrish, Simon Vega creates sculptures and installations using mundane and found materials to express sophisticated ideas about space travel, the Cold War, history, and Central American politics.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s spring concert series will offer programs featuring the harp, the spirit of Mozart, and composers at the height of their creativity.

The Docs Equinox festival will feature four documentaries focused on sustainable soils, farms, and food, plus an environmental information hub and, on a lighter note, food and wine receptions.

The Ha Ha Hamptons Comedy Tour will bring four standup comedians, host Paul Anthony, and an undisclosed “special guest” to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

A distillery tasting in Sagg, new cider from Wolffer, wine classes at Park Place, Passover specials, a new menu from the Cookery, and more.

Ellen Frank celebration at Ashawagh Hall, exhibition tour and talk at The Church, Paul Davis and Peter Solow at Keyes Art, Walter Weissman retrospective in Brooklyn, and more.

Chamber music and poetry at LongHouse, comedy and classical piano at the Southampton Cultural Center, spoken word at The Church, natural landscaping lecture via Zoom.

Annie Trezza, About Last Night, and Rated fresh at the Talkhouse, Joanne Shaw Taylor, “Fiesta!”, and “Mambo Night” at the Suffolk Theater, Jazz at the Masonic Temple.

Calling all local history buffs. The East Hampton Historical Society and the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a quiz bowl on Tuesday evening at the Palm that will put your knowledge of local history to the test.