Before now, few American voters would have known that the sixth day of January following a presidential election year was important.

Talk at a recent East Hampton Town Board meeting about the potential use of the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons building on Stephen Hand’s Path as a Covid-19 testing and vaccination site suggests that local officials are at last beginning to realize that they must do more.

There probably were better moments than this for me to take up knitting. Yet here I am.