The Ladies Village Improvement Society, whose website tagline reads, "Keeping East Hampton beautiful since 1895," will have a new executive director, Rachel Cooper, starting Jan. 1.

Everyone knows what a turkey looks like, right? Sure. However, when tasked with illustrating a magazine story about the King family and their poultry farm in Southampton, Kym Fulmer, the Springs artist whose bright-eyed gobblers are on the cover of this edition of East, wanted to make sure she got it exactly right, so she paid a visit to North Sea Farms to look at the birds up close.

From Bob Dylan’s explosion on the scene to the Mayor of MacDougal Street, Dave Van Ronk, this is the way it was in Greenwich Village, a work of music history reviewed by a working musician.