A much-photographed house on stilts that was surrounded by water since around 2004 fell into Gardiner’s Bay last weekend when the pilings holding the abandoned house, perched off the end of Mulford Lane on Napeague, snapped. On Friday, it slipped further into the frozen water.

At the Hook Mill, a defiant mood mixed with resolve to join together in resistance to the Trump administration’s increasingly authoritarian actions.

The 1832 to 1849 portion of this account book records Patrick Talmage Gould’s daily life as a Montauk Lighthouse minder.