This account book belonged to Abraham Woodhull (1750-1826), a member of the Culper Spy Ring on Long Island during the Revolutionary War, charged with aiding George Washington in his efforts against the British.
Ella Adele King, who turned a late-in-life crocheting and crafting hobby into a business selling her handmade goods at craft shows, died on May 3 in hospice care in Port Jefferson. Formerly of Sag Harbor, Amagansett, and East Hampton, she was 76.
Martin Ligorner, once “the unofficial mayor of Napeague,” died at a memory care facility in Northampton, Mass., on July 9. He was 89.
This Saturday evening, on an 11-acre plot of land in Springs, a twisted version of Las Vegas, where nature-based gambling games raise money for an arboretum devoted to ecological storytelling and an artist in residence program, will, improbably, be the place to be.
