Villages

Dispatches from around the Fourth of July of years gone by included raising a new Liberty Pole in the village in 1949 and, of course, Puff Daddy’s noisy party 50 years later.

Daniel Moors, a Dutch notary and administrator, wrote this letter to Cornelia Molyn Loper Schellinger (1627-1717) regarding the last will and testament of her brother-in-law, Daniel Schellinks (also spelled Schellinger), in 1707.

The six-foot inflated silver sphere that was spotted bobbing offshore at Main Beach on Saturday afternoon was neither a weather balloon nor, apparently, a spy balloon, but arriving as it did during President Biden’s heavily policed fund-raising swing through East Hampton that day, people can be forgiven for some wild speculation.

Standing outside the Newtown Lane store on Tuesday late in the morning, striking employees offered fliers to customers entering the store, urging them to reconsider their decision to shop there even at a time when people typically flock to grocery stores to get ready for Fourth of July celebrations.

A baby whale comes ashore in 1924. And much more from our pages of yore.

This summer, the Fourth falls on a Thursday and skyline spectaculars are being held practically all month long across the South Fork.

This pamphlet was produced in memory of Roy Lee Mabery (1953-1972), a star East Hampton athlete who drowned in a swimming accident shortly before his 19th birthday.

Daniel Rose Marrow of Washington, D.C., and Julia Cuddihy Butz of New York City were married on Saturday in the rose garden at the groom’s family home on Ocean Avenue near East Hampton’s Main Beach.

In the country of Georgia, citizens are standing up to the government in the wake of a new law they feel runs counter to democracy. At the center of the conflict in Georgia is an Amagansett woman, Tsisnami (Sissy) Sakvarlishvili, who has been a leader and organizer of protests for democracy and has even landed in court, facing sanctions for her work.

Fighting Chance of Sag Harbor, in collaboration with the American Cancer Society, has published an updated cancer resource guide that includes details about medical and wellness facilities and practitioners, emergency services “along with a sprinkling of information and practical advice to ease each patient along their journey,” according to a release from the organizations.

Staff Sgt. Harold Chapman was at the helm of a rapidly descending B-17 Flying Fortress. He was not a pilot. In fact, Chappie, as he was known, had just watched the pilot jump from the plane, his parachute failing to open. Hoping to avoid the pilot’s fate, Chappie was attempting to land the plane himself, according to his son, Rick Chapman of East Hampton. He was the last man aboard.

With the Palm Tree Music Festival set to rock the Shinnecock Indian Nation territory on Saturday, the Suffolk County Police Department released a statement on Friday strongly urging drivers to avoid Montauk Highway and County Road 39 in the vicinity of Shinnecock and the Stony Brook Southampton college campus while the festival is taking place.