Joe Perrella, 88
Joe Perrella, a longtime Montauk resident, former New York City firefighter, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, died of lung cancer on May 29 in Chesterfield, Va., in hospice care.
Joe Perrella, a longtime Montauk resident, former New York City firefighter, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, died of lung cancer on May 29 in Chesterfield, Va., in hospice care.
Elizabeth Jackson Pearce and George Coombs Zoulias of Washington, D.C., were married on Saturday at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett. Timothy Wilson, who was the groom’s Army chaplain while the two were deployed in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005, officiated. A reception followed at the club.
The bride is a daughter of Jane Ely Pearce and John Inman Pearce of Amagansett and Washington, D.C. Her family has summered in Amagansett since her great-grandparents John Day and Rose Herrick Jackson bought their house on Indian Wells Highway in the 1920s.
“This is about us,” the speaker told a gathering in East Hampton last Thursday. “There’s a global issue, which we’re all aware of, but East Hampton is going to change dramatically if we don’t turn this around and start doing the right thing.”
The charms of Salt Cay, a small island in Turks and Caicos with hard-baked ground and little shade, hammered by hurricanes, and cut off from many of the conveniences of daily life, will not be immediately — or ever — apparent to some.
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