Whaling Museum Cocktail Party
The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum’s annual cocktail party and art show takes place on Saturday at 5 p.m. Joining with The Church and its exhibition “This Land: Considering the 16 American Landscape,” the museum will open “This Sea,” showing a collection of works having to do with the village’s maritime history.
Food and drinks will be served. Tickets are $75, or $50 for members.
Strawberry Festival
The Wainscott Sewing Society will host its annual Strawberry Festival on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., or while the berries last, at the Wainscott Chapel. An entry fee of $15 for adults and $5 for children under 12 gets a plate of the delectable strawberry shortcake the event is famous for.
Farm Museum Talks
To mark Juneteenth, David E. Ratfi tray will discuss slavery in colonial East Hampton on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum. Mr. Rattray is the editor in chief of The Star and a co-director of the nonprofit Plain Sight Project, which seeks to illuminate the story of the fi enslaved people who were part of the building of East Hampton.
The loss of pollinators and how to attract them will be the subject of a talk next Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the museum, hosted by ReWild Long Island. The presenter will be Jared Dyer, an entomologist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension who has been working with farmers to “develop bio-control methods” for pest management.
Cocktails With Owls
The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center’s birds of prey will be the special guests at a cocktail party on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Out | East store on Newtown Lane to celebrate the reopening of the East End Wildlife Emergency Center. Representatives of Evelyn Alexanderwill discuss summer plans for the emergency center over drinks and light bites.
Historical Society Membership Party
It’s obviously party season, and on Saturday it will be the East Hampton Historical Society’s turn, when its
annual membership party takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at a private house overlooking Gardiner’s Bay. The society’s executive director, Steve Long, will discuss accomplishments in the past year and goals for the coming one, including the restoration of the Mulford Farm and renovations at the Marine Museum in Amagansett.
Membership, which includes tickets to the party, costs $200 for an individual or $500 for a family and is available through the society’s website.
Napeague Beach Walk
The East Hampton Trails Preservation Society will host a beach hike on Napeague on Saturday at 9 a.m. It should be tick-free and will take in views of Gardiner’s Island, the Walking Dunes, and marshland, and hikers will see remnants of what was once a fish factory. The sand surfaces vary from firm to rocky to soft.
Participants have been asked to meet at the end of Napeague Harbor Road. Amy Ruhle can be contacted at 631-521-3602 or amyruhle@optonline. net for more information.
"Revolutionary Montauk"
The “Revolutionary Montauk” exhibition opens today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the hamlet’s Second House Museum, focusing on Montauk in the late 1770s, when a small band of colonists had to protect their livestock from the British anchored offshore.
Also at Second House, Hugh King, the East Hampton Town historian, will tell the story of Samson Occom, the Mohegan preacher who was converted to Christianity to become one of the first Native Americans to be ordained a Presbyterian minister, on Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. The talk is free but capacity is limited, so R.S.V.P.s have been requested at bit.ly/4uSqSV5.
