A celebration of the life of Eleanor Whitmore, the community volunteer and educational advocate for whom the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center was named, will take place Thursday at 11 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in East Hampton.
Ms. Whitmore, a longtime resident of Amagansett, died last Thursday at the age of 98. Her family has suggested memorial donations to the Whitmore Center, online at ewecc.org.
A full obituary will appear in a future issue.
Amistad Week, commemorating the slave ship that was seized off Montauk in 1839 and featuring a series of events in the hamlet dedicated to history, art, and community, begins next week.
A new book — “Memories of Gosman’s Dock, by the Help” — is a love letter to the local institution Gosman’s used to be, before it changed ownership last fall.
Did you know East Hampton once hosted the Hampton Classic Horse Show? This Dan Rattiner map shows the layout at Dune Alpin Farm in 1979.
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