Rabbi Joshua Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will travel to the Polish-Ukrainian border on April 9, along with a delegation of about 25 American and Israeli rabbis who will partner with organizations that are actively assisting Ukrainian Jews and others who have fled Russia’s invasion of their country.
April Fools’ Day may be an unofficial holiday traditionally observed with pranks, jokes, and hoaxes every April 1, but this broadside for the “Fantastic, Grand Barbaric, and Cavalric Parade of April Fools” came from a Sag Harbor parade marking the occasion on April 3, 1871.
Henriette Abel Stackpole, a physician who had a summer home in Amagansett, died on March 3 at Huntington Common in Kennebunk, Me. She was 87.
Richard Joseph Sigmund of Brooklyn and Springs, an artist and art installer, died of cancer on March 16 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 71.
