A funeral Mass for Charles H. Deering of East Hampton, who died on Dec. 22, is to be celebrated on Jan. 24 at 9:45 a.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Smithtown. Interment will be at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The Branch Funeral Home in Smithtown is handling services.
Mr. Deering was 98. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
Helen Harrison, a longtime steward of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, plan to leave their house in Sag Harbor, Nicholson’s studio, and his body of work — worth an estimated $5 million — to Stony Brook University, along with a $2 million endowment to maintain them.
“The horses, the sport, the community, the summer day, the shopping — it’s so much fun.” In one sentence, Erica Velasquez summed up the magic of the Hampton Classic, which spurred into action on Sunday in Bridgehampton.
An auction of striking photographs and a work by a local artist on Sunday in Montauk will benefit a nonprofit organization that provides safe transportation and improves school infrastructure in Uganda.
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