This card from the photographer Kathryn McLaughlin Abbe to Enez Whipple, the Guild Hall director at the time, is from the Local Artist Research Archive.

Working to rekindle a sense of community among people with a deep history here, an old group with a new name — the Sons and Daughters of East Hampton — got together this week at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum to reminisce and reconnect.

After heavy rain and flash flooding on Sunday, Concerned Citizens of Montauk’s weekly tests of water samples collected at sites in Montauk, Napeague, Amagansett, Springs, and East Hampton “revealed through-the-roof dangerous bacteria levels,” at all but two spots, including test spots on the ocean.

Jennifer Johanna Mula and Gabriel Joseph Greenberg got engaged in Amagansett Square on Aug. 6.