John Burr Northrop Jr., an armed services veteran and bond salesman who played an unlikely role in the Watergate scandal, died on May 1 in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 96 and had been a summer resident of East Hampton for many years.
Audrey Flack, Abstract Expressionist, Photorealist, and sculptor, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on June 28. She was 93 and divided her time between East Hampton and New York City.
This paper's been around so long it was writing about the forward-thinking plan to put numbers on the buildings lining Main Street before the turn of the 20th century. And a lot more ripped from past pages.
Kudos, kvetches, and plain old commentary. It's The Star's bulging mailbag.
