Photographs: Honoring Dr. King at Calvary Baptist Church

Thu, 01/23/2020 - 12:11

Calvary Baptist Church honors the slain civil rights icon each year with a service and celebration of unity on the national holiday. The annual program at the church is also a fund-raiser for its scholarship fund.

David E. Rattray photos

January 23, 2020

Georgette Grier-Key, the keynote speaker

Kim Jones, Suffolk Legislator Bridget Fleming, and Rev. Dr. Connie Jones

Dashawn and Destiny Robinson performed at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton on Monday.

Cecil Blowe, Sandra Vorpahl, and Connie Wallace-Mabry helped dedicate a plaque (below) to the late Deacon Henry Haney, the former leader of the Calvary Baptist Church scholarship committee.

A plaque honoring the late Deacon Henry Haney

Villages

Buddhist Monks on the Path to World Peace

Twenty or so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.

Jan 29, 2026

‘ICE Out’ Vigils on Friday

Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.

Jan 29, 2026

Item of the Week: The Reverend and the Accabonac Tribe

This photostat of a deposition taken on Oct. 18, 1667, from East Hampton’s first minister, Thomas James, is one of the earliest records we have of “Ackobuak,” or “Accabonac,” as a place name.

Jan 29, 2026

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