Villages

An East Hampton couple has made good on a promise to sue the Sag Harbor Village Zoning Board of Appeals after the board denied their request to open a shop and cafe on Washington Street.

This postcard, from the Amagansett Historical Association’s collection, shows the hamlet’s 1902 lifesaving station on the right, nestled in the sand dunes with the ocean in the background.

Like a proper Irish wake, a large crowd gathered at the Meeting House restaurant at Amagansett Square on Aug. 2 to remember Michael O’Rourke, proprietor of the Amagansett Seafood Store, with equal parts laughter, beverages, and sadness.

The Clamshell Foundation’s 35th annual Sandcastle Contest in Amagansett brings out the ephemeral creativity.

An ignominious 1926 defeat for the local nine on the baseball diamond. Fifty years later, Hurricane Belle prompted a camp leader to prepare a bus full of children for impending death. And much more, history buffs.

“Ticknology,” a discussion with experts, will be held at the Bridgehampton Community House on Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m., courtesy of the Perfect Earth Project.

"The Right Whale: Tales of Resilience and Hope," a documentary by Cheryl and Nick Dean, will be shown Thursday night at 6 at the Southampton Arts Center. 

The East Hampton Village Board voted on Friday to approve a $41,975 expenditure for LTV for a comprehensive video archive preservation project that will also allow greater and more convenient public access to meetings and related content. 

This photo is just one from the Fritz Leddy Collection showing midcentury life here. On Monday at 7 p.m. in Herrick Park, Hugh King, the village historian, will introduce 100 others from the collection under a tent.

Nitrogen is not only the greatest threat to our lakes, ponds, and harbors, the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee was told, but studies have shown that even a low level of nitrate in drinking water is associated with increased risk of cancers.

Into the past, news junkies . . .

This depiction of Hook Mill was hand-painted on a ceramic tile by Hamilton King sometime before 1950 at the request of Maude Sherwood Jewett, a fellow artist who founded the Tile Painters Club of East Hampton.

The seven-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist John Mayer will perform at the Stephen Talkhouse on Aug. 26 in this year’s edition of the annual SiriusXM satellite radio concert held at the Amagansett live-music venue. 

The East Hampton Fire Department will have a ribbon-cutting and barbecue to mark the grand opening of a new barn for its antique fire vehicles, apparatus, and memorabilia on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

Amagansett will see two large annual events on Saturday, both promising fun, food, and fellowship, although one will be bittersweet owing to the death this week of the hamlet’s unofficial mayor. 

A demonstration in Springs unveils a 348-pound, carbon fiber Helix Personal Flying Vehicle that requires no license and is touted as “perfect for the Hamptons.”

Billiards, an estate district break-in, and an environmental “broken record” highlight this week’s dip into the past.

A widely circulated social media post last week from Craig O’Connell, host of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, raised the possibility that an orca was spotted 10 nautical miles off the tip of Long Island. 

From a 1985 Unimog platform fire truck imported from Germany to black open-toe platform booties, you can find a bit of everything vintage at Georgopoulos Motors on Main Street in Amagansett, where the brother-and-sister team of Stathios and Tiffany Georgopoulos are in business together this summer. He sells the cars, she sells the clothes.

As soon as the campground opened at Hither Hills State Park in Montauk in 1929, camping on the beach became popular, as shown in this vintage postcard.

On the South Fork, where the effects of climate change are seen in woodlands decimated by the southern pine beetle, Rivers Burke hopes to plant as many redwood and sequoia trees, both of which are highly fire resistant, as he possibly can, in the process inspiring others to take up the cause.

More of the quotidian, the curious, and the deservedly forgotten ripped from our past pages.

“This has been the best experience I’ve ever had. I’ve been telling people, ‘I feel more welcome now than when I actually came home,’ ” said Sabrina Mohammed, a veteran who took part in Soldier Ride the Hamptons on July 18.

Never has a group of people been happier to talk about human composting than at Edwina von Gal’s Perfect Earth panel discussion on green burial held at the LongHouse Reserve last weekend.

For the last five weeks, a FIFA World Cup frenzy has taken over. Americans — many of whom would normally be watching baseball or no sports at all — have been glued to televisions and packing into stadiums, enraptured by soccer.

Toby Haynes, an artist who splits his time between East Hampton and Cornwall, England, built the belfry that supported the Wavertree ship bell rung to welcome 40 tall ships into New York Harbor.

This cyanotype photograph shows Dorothy MacKay and Ruth MacKay, the twin daughters of Emily McIlvaine DuBois MacKay and the Rev. William Richard MacKay, playing on the gate to their house on Cottage Avenue.

The Rev. Thomas James of the East Hampton’s first church “came to the New World in search of religious freedom but found that freedom was not enough.” So says an announcement for a lecture next Thursday provokingly titled “The Convict Pastor: Thomas James and the Puritan Roots of Christian Nationalism.”

An East Hampton mother enters the uncharted terrain of treating an ultra-rare genetic condition.

“Grounded Conversation: What Remains,” set for Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4:30 at LongHouse Reserve, will focus on green burials, human composting, eco-cremations, and how to sustainably prepare for death.