Florence Lainhart Thiele of Mariner Sands, a private community in Stuart, Fla., died of congestive heart failure on Friday. A summer resident of East Hampton, she was 94. There will be a memorial at the Mariner Sands Chapel in May. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
The public is invited to celebrate the Montauk Lighthouse, a national historic landmark, on Saturday and Sunday, when the Third New York Regiment will show off their Revolutionary War uniforms and accouterments, and the Kings of the Coast Pirates will perform on the Lighthouse stage. And downtown, the Montauk Artists Association is holding its second art show and sale of the summer.
This East Hampton Star archive snapshot of Frederica Gallatin (1913-2003) on the beach at the Maidstone Club depicts what a beach day in the 1930s would look like for young women in the summer colony.
Service was paused at Gosman’s Topside, Inlet Cafe, and Clam Bar restaurants on Friday afternoon so the blessing of good health for Kate Hobbes could be celebrated by the tight-knit staff.
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