Heather Lee Hall and Johnny MacWhinnie of Amagansett were married aboard the Carnival Pride cruise ship on Nov. 15 while it was docked in Port Canaveral, Fla. 

A reception followed in the ship’s Beauties Nightclub, which was decorated with a tropical goth theme, with tropical flowers and skull candies on the wedding cake. 

Ms. Hall is a daughter of Elaine and Glenn Hall of Amagansett. Mr. MacWhinnie’s parents are John MacWhinnie of Water Mill and Virginia Johnson of Holiday, Fla. 

The bride, a 2003 graduate of East Hampton High School, recently earned her second college degree, in psychology, from the State University’s Empire State College. The groom is a music producer with more than six million streams online and music featured on some of the top YouTube profiles. They met six years ago through mutual friends and quickly bonded over their love of music. 

The couple were accompanied by 25 sailing guests on their wedding cruise to the Bahamas, as well as 10 others who joined them aboard the Carnival Pride for their wedding day. 

Ms. Hall’s matron of honor was her sister, Shanna Hall of Bridgehampton, and her maid of honor was Aimee Lusty of Brooklyn. She was also attended by Jillian Duran of Sag Harbor, with her nieces Hannah Baker and Baylee Tiska of Bridgehampton serving as flower girls.

Mr. MacWhinnie’s best man was Aaron Greinke of Bridgehampton. He had both a groomsman, Zach DeVilleneuve of Troy, N.Y., and a groomswoman, his sister, Emma MacWhinnie of Water Mill. Halena Baker of Bridgehampton, another niece of the bride’s, was the ringbearer. 

The bride wore a Zac Posen sequined ball gown with a sweetheart neckline and princess cap sleeves. She carried a bouquet of hand-wrapped silk flowers with silver ribbons. Her attendants wore silver and sequin gowns from ASOS and carried bouquets matching hers. 

The bride walked down the aisle to an instrumental version of the song “Always” by Blink-182. The couple’s first dance was to “Rainbow Connection” by Weezer. 

“It was a magical pop-punk wedding,” the bride wrote.

Jennifer Georges, a riverboat captain’s daughter who sailed off the California coast as an infant, was the winner of the Sunshine tender sailboat raffled on Saturday by the East End Classic Boat Society at its holiday open house.

Ms. Georges, who lives in East Hampton, said that when she was a child her father, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, would take the family cruising in the waters of San Pedro Harbor.

She had purchased raffle tickets at the East Hampton Fall Festival, she said. On Saturday, when she listened to a voice-mail message from Ray Hartjen, the society’s president, stating that she had won the boat and trailer, “I just could not believe it,” she said.

Santa at Firehouse

On Sunday, before heading back to finish his holiday chores, Santa will pay a visit to the Montauk Firehouse. He will meet with children, listen to Christmas wishes, and pose for pictures. Before the jolly one arrives by fire truck at 1 p.m., there will be a bouncy house, games, and crafts for the kids to enjoy.

Jingle Bell Hop

There will be food, live music by the Three B’s, raffles, and happy-hour prices all night, at the Jingle Bell Hop, a benefit at East by Northeast restaurant tomorrow at 7 p.m. to raise money for the St. Therese nursery school. Tickets cost $30 in advance at the nursery school or $35 at the door.

At the Library

Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard will play piano works for four hands on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library. The holiday concert, which is recommended for family audiences, will include works for two players by such composers as Mendelssohn, Handel, and Tchaikovsky as well as a sing-along.

Both pianists are accomplished soloists who have played together across Long Island, and each runs her own music studio in East Hampton.

Tech Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m. will be cover the basics of email.

“Good Time” is the movie this week on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The crime drama stars Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Refreshments will be served.

The Friends of the Montauk Library will have their annual holiday cookie party next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the library. People have been asked to take a plate of their favorite cookies to share. Nonperishable food items will be collected for the Montauk Food Pantry.

On Wednesday, the library will sponsor a holiday bus trip to New York City. The bus will depart from the library parking lot at 8 a.m. and return by 8 p.m. The fare is $35 to do your own thing and $55 for bus fare plus admission and an audio guide to “Michaelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Registration and payment must be made in advance at the library’s circulation desk.

The rummage sale at the Montauk Community Church will be open on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon with lots of new offerings. For sale will be clothing for all ages, household items, and linens, among other items.

St. Therese

Father Tom Murray of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church will have his annual open house in the rectory from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, and a tree lighting and blessing in front of the church will cap off the day at 6.

The Giving Tree is up in the lobby of the church. People can take a card from the tree, buy the item on the card, and return it to the tree unwrapped.

Looking ahead, the annual Christmas concert in the church will take place on Dec. 17 at 3 p.m.

As of Jan. 1, when the winter Mass schedule begins, there will be 5 p.m. Masses on Saturdays and 10:30 a.m. Masses on Sundays, until Feb. 18, the first Sunday of Lent. There will be no 8:30 a.m. Masses on Sundays.

Nonperishable food is being accepted for the Montauk Food Pantry at the parish center on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Canned tuna, juice, cereal, soups, beans, rice, pasta sauce, peanut butter, jelly, pasta, and diapers of all sizes are needed.

Star Bright

The Montauk Chamber of Commerce has issued a reminder to business owners that the deadline for Star Bright Montauk, a contest for the best holiday decorations for businesses, is Friday, Dec. 15, at 5 p.m. There are several categories including most traditional, best display representing Montauk, brightest display, and most whimsical.

Toys Needed

The Montauk Food Pantry is collecting toys for the children, which will be distributed through the Eastern Farm Workers Association, which aids migrant and seasonal farm workers. Unwrapped toys for boys and girls ages 1 to 15 can be taken to the St. Therese parish center or can be dropped off at Deborah Thompson’s Day Spa on the South Plaza, before Tuesday. Alice Houseknecht can be called at 631-668-3958 to arrange for pickup or drop-off.

Ian Hawkshaw Bock, who was raised in East Hampton, and Colleen O’Shea Makary, who was raised in Stowe, Mass., were married on Oct. 18 at the New York City Marriage Bureau.

Immediately following the ceremony was a lunch in Chinatown, then a trip to the Bronx for an afternoon at the New York Botanical Garden, where the couple saw Dale Chihuly’s blown-glass works among the gardens.

Mr. Bock is the son of Barbara and Francis Bock of Springs. He works as a sous-chef at Amali restaurant in Manhattan.

Ms. Makary is the daughter of Carole Makary of Lowell, Mass., and Mark Makary of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She is a partner at Father Knows Best Cafe and Bar in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. 

The newlyweds, with their boxer, Queso, live in Huntington Station, where a celebration of their marriage will be held in the spring.

As of this month, East Hampton and Southampton residents and businesses can sign up for free energy audits through a program sponsored by PSEG Long Island.

South Fork Peak Savers also provides free Nest “smart” thermostats and rebates for pool-pump upgrades, among other offers and services.

The goal is to reduce demand for electricity, especially in the summer months, when the South Fork population exceeds an estimated 100,000.

While the rest of Long Island’s electricity use is leveling off, on the South Fork it is a another story altogether. According to figures presented at a well-attended meeting Monday in East Hampton Town Hall, the energy need is expected to soar in East Hampton and Southampton, while demand remains unchanged or even falls in communities to the west.

When the days are hot and muggy and demand spikes, particularly on Friday and Saturday afternoons, the grid is already taxed. According to figures from PSEG, that peak need for electricity will more than double by next year and continue to rise each year through 2030. 

The utility has relied on diesel-fired mobile generators to make up the difference. However, as the amount being drawn from power lines grows over time, these polluting power sources will no longer be adequate.

Among the solutions that the utility has adopted are battery facilities in East Hampton and Montauk, at which electricity will be accumulated during low-use periods and released as residents turn up their air-conditioning on hot days.

On the generation side, advocates still promote rooftop home solar panels; previously mothballed plans for commercial arrays may soon be revived, at least in East Hampton. The big factor is the Deepwater Wind offshore-turbine project, slated to go online in 2022, which would provide enough electricity over all to meet the needs of about 50,000 houses on the East End.

Cutting individuals’ consumption is the mission of the Peak Savers program, and is part of PSEG’s strategy going forward. Free home audits can be signed up for online or by phone at 800-567-2850 or on the Long Island Green Homes website. After an initial consultation, a certified inspector will visit each property to assess conditions and make recommendations for improvement. 

Long Island Green Homes, which is affiliated with Molloy University’s Sustainability Institute, can provide information about rebates and assistance programs for low-income homeowners.

The audits are also available for commercial PSEG customers and can include free LED lighting conversion and other perks.

At Monday’s meeting at Town Hall, Bruce Humenik of Applied Energy Group in Hauppauge, which is running the demand-reduction program for PSEG, said that almost all of the energy use east of the Shinnecock Canal was residential. Of the roughly 50,000 utility customers, only about 8,000 were business accounts, and these, with very few exceptions, used relatively little electricity.

Ever-bigger vacation houses appeared to be driving the increasing call for power, he said. “This is a need for more lines or more generation. We seek to reduce demand,” he said.

The remotely programmable smart thermostats, supplied by Google’s Nest division, would be installed by trained personnel, Mr. Humenik said. They would be turned down a degree or two only when necessary for up to four hours at a time and on only 10 or fewer instances each year. 

PSEG customers who already own Nest units are eligible for a $250 rebate upon joining the demand-reduction program. There are about 6,000 Nest units already installed on the South Fork, Mr. Humenik said. 

All participating homeowners get a $25 annual bonus.

“It’s really the air-conditioning, rather than lighting, that drives up electricity demand at peak,” he said. By signing up for the smart thermostats, customers could save up to 50 percent on their electric bills under some circumstances.

Rebates of $250 for variable-speed pool pumps, up to two per property, are also available, and the program sweetens the pot with a $100 offer for licensed installers. “We’ve got to get the old ones off the street,” he said. The East End, Mr. Humenik said, has twice the number of pool pumps in operation as the rest of the Island.

Another service Applied Energy Group offers is help for commercial users in obtaining financing for upgrades. Often a project stalls because business owners do not follow through on getting an efficiency project off the ground.

“It’s a really good deal, and I hope that people take advantage,” Mr. Humenik said.

He said the home audits were off to a great start, particularly in Montauk, thanks to word of mouth.

A celebrated, if unusual, component of East Hampton’s history will be dispersed, one piece at a time, starting Friday at 10 a.m. when an estate sale is held at Grey Gardens, the 28-room house at 3 West End Road made famous by a 1975 documentary about its eccentric inhabitants, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale.

Big Edie and Little Edie, who lived at Grey Gardens for more than 50 years, were an aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who spent childhood summers at nearby Lasata, her family’s estate at 121 Further Lane. 

The Beales were found to be living in squalor with a large number of cats and other animals, resulting in a 1972 eviction order issued by the Suffolk Health Commission. Lee Radziwill, a sister of Ms. Kennedy Onassis, suggested a documentary to the celebrated filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, resulting in the 1975 film “Grey Gardens.” 

The elder Ms. Beale died in 1977. Ben Bradlee, the late executive editor of The Washington Post, and his wife, the journalist Sally Quinn, bought Grey ardens from Little Edie in 1979. The younger Ms. Beale died in 2002. 

Ms. Quinn recently sold Grey Gardens for a reported $17.995 million. She had been renting out the property since 2015, one year after Bradlee’s death. 

Susan Wexler of Behind the Hedgerows will conduct the estate sale. A Facebook page for Behind the Hedgerows details the “rare opportunity to acquire a part of the Grey Gardens mystique and legacy,” stating that much of the house’s contents date to the Beales’ residence. Items owned by Ms. Quinn and Bradlee, including a home office desk, will also be offered, according to the Facebook page. 

The sale will run Friday until 5 p.m. It will resume on Saturday, also from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Parking, according to the invitation delivered via Mailchimp, will be at the Georgica Beach lot.  

Would-be early birds have been advised to rethink that strategy. “I’m sure people are going to be lining up,” Ms. Wexler said. “I’ve even hired a night watchman -- I’m afraid people will be camping out. It’s been a really interesting experience, I must say.”

East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., a former police officer, shared his recollections of Grey Gardens yesterday. “I was there when we went in with the Suffolk County health officials with a search warrant under the Agriculture and Markets law, just to get them back into the mainstream as far as the condition of their house,” he said. “They were ensconced there for years,” he said, chuckling at the memory. “A real cast of characters, very bohemian.”

Years earlier, Officer Rickenbach had fielded an inquiry from Big Edie as to who could repair an old LaSalle touring sedan that sat in the driveway at Grey Gardens, in which she and Little Edie would travel to Washington for President-elect John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. The car “had been there for a number of years, to the extent that bittersweet vine had grown right into the motor casing and crank case, and traveled through the whole vehicle,” the mayor recalled. Repair “wasn't going to happen,” he said, laughing. The LaSalle “was part of the landscape of Grey Gardens. But she was so excited that she had received an invitation.” 

“There's quite a bit that's original to Grey Gardens that Sally found in the attic when she bought the house,” Ms. Wexler said on Tuesday. It has been cleaned and restored as necessary, she said. “Upholstered furniture was reupholstered, wicker was cleaned up. There's quite a bit of wicker.”

“I know that Ben and Sally were very sympathetic . . . and wanted to maintain the integrity of the house,” said the mayor, who knew the couple. “They did a superb job, in my memory. Some of the furnishings there, I suspect, are original and vintage.”

Also to be offered in the sale are photographs, framed prints, antique pillows, chairs, antique desks, a dining table, baskets, small decorative items, and a breakfast table with four chairs, Ms. Wexler said, along with garden furniture and ornaments. Lighting, china and glassware, curios, beds and bedding, and mirrors are also included. Some of these, according to the invitation, are featured in the Maysles brothers' documentary.

Looking back, “it’s a bygone era,” Mayor Rickenbach said, “and it was exciting to be a part of it.”

A single buyer stunned a crowd of about 125 people at an auction house in Potsdam, N.Y., on Saturday, winning both a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence and a related cache of printed documents, wills, and family papers linked to East Hampton.

Holly M. Kinyon, who had flown east from her home in California to attend the sale, bid $1.5 million for the Declaration of Independence and $290,000 for the other materials. With tax and a buyer’s premium, her total came to about $2.2 million.

Initial estimates for the Declaration were $500,000 to $1 million and between $25,000 and $50,000 for the papers. Kip Blanchard of Blanchard’s Auction Service in Potsdam handled the sale.

Ms. Kinyon told the Watertown Daily Times that she was a descendent of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon, and had been deeply moved as a young woman when she saw a copy of the original declaration in Washington, D.C. 

Both the 1776 John Holt printing of the Declaration of Independence and the other material had been handed down in the Mulford family for generations. The Declaration originally belonged to Col. David Mulford, who led a Revolutionary War regiment. Mulford died in 1778 of smallpox. Eventually, it and the rest of the collection passed into the hands of a St. Lawrence County, N.Y., resident, who decided to sell them. She has chosen to remain anonymous.

The other auction lot contained items dating from 1667 to the time of the War of 1812 and included prosaic household accounts, and wills, but also broadsides issued by the British calling for the surrender of colonial rebels. Among the intriguing documents was an accounting of expenses for the search for an escaped slave who had been owned by a member of the Gardiner family of Gardiner’s Island. Another item was a rare copy of a book on pregnancy by Cotton Mather. Another was a $7 paper note, Continental currency issued by Philadelphia in 1775.

Bidding for the Declaration started at $1 million and rose quickly, a dealer from Connecticut and a phone bidder initially battling it out. Then Ms. Kin­yon jumped in. “There was a sense of, ‘Who is this woman?’ ” Mr. Blanchard said. Her bid of $1.5 million was unanswered.

The lot with the other historical materials opened at $50,000, with several bidders on the phone competing with ones in the hall. The price jumped first in $10,000 increments, then by $5,000. Mr. Blanchard said that Ms. Kinyon did not step in at first, but as the bidding seemed to be frozen at $80,000 she raised her hand. From there, it leapt upward, finally pitting Ms. Kinyon against an unidentified phone bidder. 

Dennis Fabiszak, the East Hampton Library director, had been among the phone bidders for the second lot of Mulford, Buell, and Gardiner papers. He said in an interview that he was able to keep up at first but that the price quickly jumped beyond what the library was prepared to spend. “It was just amazing,” he said.

“We try as hard as we can to preserve the history of the town,” he said. It is a rare occurrence to have such a large collection become available, and a number of people from the East Hampton community had made donations to help the library purchase them, Mr. Fabiszak said. 

He said that he hoped to speak to Ms. Kinyon about the prospect of the library displaying some of the Mulford papers or obtaining high-resolution digital copies to make them available to researchers.

Mr. Fabiszak said that in recent days a member of the Hedges family who lived in Patchogue noticed the press coverage about the Declaration sale and had gotten in touch with the library about materials it might be interested in buying.

“People don’t think to look in their attics,” he said. “We hope they do, and we are hoping to preserve them in the Long Island Collection.”

Eight months after hiring a new executive director, the East Hampton Historical Society is beginning the search for her replacement. 

The society announced late last month that Jill Malusky, who had been in the position since March, had “resigned due to family reasons that have caused her to relocate out of state.” 

Ms. Malusky, who is originally from Ohio, had previously lived in Kentucky, where she was director of visitor engagement at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. “I adored her,” said Hollis Forbes, president of the society’s board of trustees. “I just think she’s fabulous.” 

Ms. Malusky replaced Richard Barons, the society’s director since 2006. He has stayed on temporarily as curator but was to retire at the end of this year. “I thought she was the perfect next step after Richard,” Ms. Forbes said last week.

The historical society has already placed ads in three museum journals and the local papers, but “going into the sleepy winter months,” Ms. Forbes was confident that the existing staff and a team of very active board members — she named Barbara Borsack, Frank Newbold, and Maureen Bluedorn among them — would keep things running smoothly. 

“We have two really competent people in the office,” she said, and Mr. Barons “is around as long as he wants to be around.” In addition, the society has “a great new hire for programming,” Ms. Forbes said, although she was not ready to announce who would take this newly created position. 

As for the post of executive director, “I foresee by March 30 we would have somebody in place,” she said. “It’s just a matter of finding the right person again, and we will.” 

In the meantime, the society is preparing for its biggest event of the off-season, its 2017 House and Garden Tour on Nov. 25, with a preview party on Friday, Nov. 24, at the Maidstone Club.

Allison Lisa Lien of East Hampton and Robert Anthony Biscardi of Springs were married on Oct. 28 in an outside ceremony overlooking the water at Cowfish Restaurant in Hampton Bays. East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky officiated.

Ms. Lien, who will keep her name, is the daughter of Darleen Lien of East Hampton and the late William Lien. Mr. Biscardi’s parents are Cheryl and Anthony Biscardi of Springs. 

Both the bride and groom are graduates of East Hampton High School. They are living in Springs.

Santa has come early for both Guild Hall and Ashawagh Hall, in the form of gifts bequeathed by a Springs woman. A ceremony in honor of the late Anita Ober was held at Ashawagh Hall on Sunday, during which a pair of faux boix outdoor chairs and a table were unveiled. Cast in rebar and concrete, they are comfortable to sit in and, with their weight, certainly would be hard to steal — both qualities that made the set attractive to J. Mickey Rowley, who was like a stepson to Ms. Ober and is the executor of her will. “She was very specific,” Mr. Rowley said about Ms. Ober’s wishes as expressed both to him in person, and in her will.

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Correction: The original version of this article spelled J. Mickey Rowley's name. incorrectly. 

Ms. Ober had left $10,000 to the Springs Improvement Society, which owns Ashawagh Hall, to pay for the set. However, when it came time to acquire the furniture, Mr. Crowley donated his own money, to allow the society to use the $10,000 for other purposes. Mr. Crowley and his partner, David Ogden, both of whom split their time between their houses in Philadelphia and Springs, worked with Gina Maxwell, the manager and buyer at the Bayberry in Amagansett, in their search for just the right pieces. The stone base of the table, which bears a memorial plaque, was carved by a neighbor and friend of Ms. Ober’s, Leander Arnold, who is a third-generation stone mason. 

Andrea Grover, Guild Hall’s executive director, spoke during the dedication. She was five months into the job when she learned earlier this year that Ms. Ober had left $100,000 to Guild Hall. “Who was this woman?” Ms. Grover asked. The answer was that Ms. Ober was a patron of the arts who had also volunteered in the gift shop at Guild Hall for many years. 

Another of Ms. Ober’s bequests was $100,000 to Doctors Without Borders. As part of the ceremony at Ashawagh Hall, all present raised steins of beer and sang “Ein Prosit” in German. That is exactly what Ms. Ober wanted to see happen, Mr. Crowley said.