This letter, written on July 7, 1803, by John Lyon Gardiner (1770-1816), proprietor of Gardiner’s Island, was sent to his younger brother, David Gardiner (1772-1815), a lawyer and farmer in Flushing, Queens.
“This is exactly the type of project we hoped would come forward,” Ed Haye, a Sag Harbor Village trustee, said at Friday’s special meeting to discuss a 79-unit proposal for affordable housing in Sag Harbor’s downtown office district that was pitched to the village by Adam Potter and Conifer Developers.
The Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station will host its sixth annual lobster bake fund-raiser on Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the restored 1902 building on Atlantic Avenue.
The nonprofit that flies aging veterans and their companions to visit the war memorials in Washington free of charge will benefit from a July 16 gala at the Sagaponack Distillery.
