A chat with a teen who wants to be a Main Beach lifeguard reminds me of my own brief and unremarkable lifeguarding career. 

There was rain, and then some, but there were plenty of rainbows at the East Hampton Village Pride Parade on Saturday, led this year by the Tony Award-winning performer, writer, and filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell as grand marshal. 

Elections for Sag Harbor Village mayor and two village trustees will take place on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Sag Harbor Fire Department headquarters off Brick Kiln Road, but in each case, incumbents are running unopposed. 

The phrase “baggage train” kept popping into my head this weekend as we packed up the contents of my daughter’s dorm room in New Hampshire and stuffed it all into the crevices of the car.

The last five-speed Nissan manual transmission just rolled off an assembly line in Mexico. 

A “Way It Was” entry in this newspaper from 1950 about a 36-foot, 19th-century gondola being transported by railcar to the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va., unleashes a flood of memories.

When race cars, not jets, roared at the Westhampton Beach airport, and in the Same as It Ever Was Dept., a panic over worker housing from back in 2000.

Comment, outrage, and bombast. It’s the week in Star missives.

Among the series of works created by Oscar Molina, a prolific Southampton artist, his “Children of the World” paintings and sculptures reflect his encounters with conflict and survival as a boy in El Salvador during its civil war.

The acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Hiroya Tsukamoto performs Friday at LTV, and next Thursday the World Voices Series and the Eastville Community Historical Society will celebrate Juneteenth with the second annual Juneteenth Jubilee White Party Awards and Celebration Ceremony.

Lez Zeppelin will return to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett for what Steph Paynes, the band’s founder and guitarist, called "a wild, intense, sensuous, in-your-face, no-holds-barred” show.

In this poignant memoir, Mark Joseph Williams, a victim of clergy sexual abuse, tells of how he learned to combat his inner storm with the dignity, grace, and love he discovered in his faith.

An exhibition of panoramic photographs of people taken by Nat Ward over four years at Montauk’s Ditch Plain Beach captures “moments in time.”

Opening at the Arts Center at Duck Creek are ”Generous Ground,” a group show of Duck Creek “alumni,” and “My Wife, Masked and Unmasked,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Carol Saft.

At LongHouse this weekend, Jill Platner will talk about and lead a tour of her outdoor sculptural installation, “Talking With Trees,” and Tucker Marder, after discussing his Folly Tree Arboretum in Springs, will lead a tour of it.

The North Fork TV Festival will bring Tramell Tillman, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Kind, Christopher Meloni, and other stars to Greenport for two days of films, panels, and interviews.

The Complete Unknowns draw on Bob Dylan’s six decades of material to showcase the songs and the musicianship that brought them to life.

Ballet and music at Guild Hall, market and cocktail party at Madoo, Neo-Political Cowgirls benefit at LongHouse, Perlman chamber music concert in East Hampton, music and wolves in Sag Harbor.

Yung Jake solo at Tripoli, mod fashion and more at the White Room, image generation in a post-truth age at Hesse Flatow, group show at Romany Kramoris.

Artists’ Table at the Watermill Center, a wine class features Spain and Portugal, aperitivo afternoons at Navy Beach, and LT Burger is back in Sag.