Villages

From the continuing bicycle craze of 1897 to the secret 1997 settlement of Jerry Della Femina’s civil rights lawsuits against East Hampton Village, it happened here.

The East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at its shops and headquarters at 95 Main Street.

Saturday is Dragonfly Day in New York State, and Southampton Town, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and the New York League of Conservation Voters are marking the occasion by sponsoring Dragonfly Day and Green Expo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton.

A microscopic wormlike creature is rapidly killing American and European beech trees on the East End, and there is not much to be done about it. Beech leaf disease appears to have started in the United States in Ohio sometime before 2012. By 2019, it was on Long Island.

By all accounts, the highly savored scallop is very much imperiled. But can the popular bivalve, which lives for upward of 22 months, be saved?

This whaling log kept by Alfred Washington Foster (1822-1886) chronicles two voyages on the barks Columbia and Roanoke between 1845 and 1861.

East Hampton's first annual Pride parade took place on Saturday and it was a joyous, color-popping celebration of freedom and equality that attracted members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, their allies, clergy, local politicians, storekeepers, well-wishers, the young, the old, and the curious.

East Hampton Village on Saturday became the first East End municipality to "close its Main Street for a Pride parade," said Tom House, the founder of Hamptons Pride, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of L.G.B.T.Q.+ issues and aims to build a memorial to gay history in Wainscott.

This photograph taken by Robert Hefner around 1980 shows the residence of Elizabeth Edwards Lockwood (1872-1960) and William A. Lockwood (1874-1966). Built circa 1680, the house is one of the oldest in East Hampton.

In 1897, early rumblings of a move toward village incorporation here, and 1972 memories of counting drinks at the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton.

A staged reading at the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station on June 11 will mark the 80th anniversary of the landing of Nazi saboteurs on the nearby beach during World War II.

Despite a high rate of vaccination, Covid-19 has proven an unrelenting and evolving threat to public health across New York and the country, and highly contagious subvariants of the Omicron variant mean a growing number of people have endured, or will experience, multiple infections, according to an associate professor of public health at Stony Brook University.