Villages

The third annual Airing of the Quilts will take place on Saturday from noon to 5 at the Arts Center at Duck Creek (Sunday if it rains). Organized by Louise Eastman and Erica-Lynn Huberty, this year’s display is a tribute to the log cabin quilt, long a symbol of refuge and belonging. 

Edwin Keeshan, medical director of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in Montauk, will host the hamlet’s first Walk With a Doc, part of a national effort, on Saturday at 11 a.m. The meeting place is the gazebo on the downtown green.

The art dealer Larry Gagosian is the new owner of the stalwart East Hampton Village bookstore, BookHampton, which has been for sale since the fall. "It would have been a horrible thing to lose that bookstore," he said Thursday. "When I heard it was for sale, I jumped at the opportunity."

How that Napeague icon, the D’Amico Institute of Art and its flagship vessel, the Art Barge, came to be.

LTV has launched the Pine Protection Project, an effort to address the southern pine beetle’s devastating impact on East Hampton Town’s pitch-pine forests. The project is a multifaceted approach with a goal of fostering discussion leading to action and solutions, and will include a June 11 panel discussion at LTV Studios in Wainscott. 

A sarcastic screed against the scourge of swearing from the turn of the 20th century? For that and much more from our storied pages, read on.

Dr. Pember Edwards and Matt Chapman were married on April 26 at the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, the very church where they had met in a youth group in the 1990s. The ceremony, officiated by the Rev. Jon Rodriguez, was filled with thoughtful details of deep significance to the couple.

“Getting to the wall is one of the steps in the healing process for combat vets from Vietnam. A lot of guys have survivor’s guilt. Maybe they missed a patrol and lost a bunch of buddies. Then there are family members who bring their kids and grandkids,” said Doc Russo, who travels around the country with a 300-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.

This Mother’s Day card, made by Sarah E. Horton of East Hampton’s Fowler family for her mother, Maria Horton, on May 13, 1917, exemplifies how the day was initially celebrated.

The East Hampton Village branch of M&T Bank at 99 Newtown Lane will close permanently next Thursday at 4 p.m. The bank’s branches at 351 Pantigo Road in East Hampton and 746 Montauk Highway in Montauk will remain open.

The Anchor Society of East Hampton, a nonprofit community group with a mission to revitalize the community and increase year-round foot traffic in the village commercial district, has issued a call for applications for the second year of its Winter Shops program.

Two ospreys return to scene of Accabonac Harbor destruction despite bird-deterrent devices, while town trustees call out feds and D.E.C. over lack of action.

Wading into the Sag Harbor sewage problem circa 1925. The problem was still there 50 years later. Plus much more dredged from the newspaper of record’s deep past.

The flag of Belgium will fly over East Hampton Village Hall next Thursday to mark Victory in Europe Day, the day celebrating the surrender of Germany’s armed forces in World War II.

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum opens for the 2025 season on Saturday at 11 a.m. with tours and a performance of sea chanteys, followed by a wealth of events continuing into the fall.

Julius Dayton Parsons, who once ran the Springs General Store, posed for this formal portrait sometime in the 1860s or 1870s, judging from the background and props.

Hundreds of small mounds with holes, each the diameter of a pencil, surrounded me. Above them zigging, dark, smallish bees traced incomprehensible patterns through the air: cellophane bees.

Four submarines mysteriously appeared off Montauk, and a driver in a 24-hour endurance race at the county airport in Westhampton Beach was stopped in his tracks by, yes, a deer collision. And that’s just 1950.

A highlight among Springs landmarks, here is a storied eatery and watering hole that served countless of the hamlet’s residents, including the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

In 1975 Clark Clifford, Lyndon Johnson’s former defense secretary, spoke locally and lowered the boom on Nixon and the Vietnam War. And more from The Star’s past reportage.

Most people go to the Elizabeth Morton Wildlife Refuge in Noyac, part of the National Wildlife Refuge system, to feed the friendly birds. On Saturday, however, 15 people showed up instead to rip invasive plants out of the ground.

A massive die-off of honeybees this winter marks “the first time in history that professionals lost more bees than hobbyists,” one beekeeper said. Bee experts are working to identify the cause of unprecedented losses that will be the biggest to hit honeybee colonies in U.S. history.

Tuesday is Earth Day, and there are a number of opportunities on the South Fork to celebrate and honor the planet as it contends with myriad environmental stresses.

Kim Quarty, who spent 17 years at the Peconic Land Trust, serving as its director of conservation planning, is the foundation’s new executive director.

Has a shocking crime that took place in East Hampton Village in 1955 finally been solved? Mayor Jerry Larsen believes it has, and he isn’t alone.

A record of payments Nathaniel Baker made, mostly as barter, to the heirs of Abraham Schellinger beginning in 1713.

After being closed to the public for more than a decade and with a yearslong renovation project deemed complete, Second House in Montauk, originally built in 1746 and replaced in 1797 following a fire, will soon reopen to the public.

Stepping into the new Sagaponack General Store, which reopened yesterday after being closed since 2020, is a sweet experience, and not just because there’s a soft-serve ice cream station on the left and what promises to be the biggest penny candy selection on the South Fork on your right, but because it’s like seeing an old friend who, after some struggle, made it big. Really, really big.

In 1950 a Southold attorney, twice dead, was brought back to life. And more tales, incredible and not-so-incredible, recorded in our venerable pages.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows firemen fighting flames hidden behind the facade of the Edwards Theater, which was destroyed.