Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, sent this 1948 letter to Abe Katz, an East Hampton dairy farmer, on the subject of an animal research laboratory planned for Montauk.
Ann Burack-Weiss of Montauk and New York City, an author and gerontologist, died of complications of metastatic breast cancer at home in Manhattan on April 3. She was 86.
Vito Brullo of East Hampton died on Monday at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was 78. Visiting hours will be Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.
To mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will have Deborah Dwork, director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the City University of New York Graduate Center, speaking after the 11 a.m. service on Sunday.
