A dinner, party, and silent auction at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Wednesday will raise money to help Tim Lee, a Springs photographer and party lighting designer who has been undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer.

    The 6 to 11 p.m. event will include performances by Nancy Atlas and Friends, Matt Dauch and other members of the band Little Head Thinks, Bobbi Terzi, and drummers from the Bastards of Boom. Keith Leaf, a fire juggler, will also perform, as will Evan Thomas and members of his fire-juggling troupe, the Fiery Sensations.

    A silent auction will offer artwork, including a hand-carved, hand-painted sculpture by Randall Rosenthal, as well as pieces by other local artists, and numerous antiques, among them a pair of hand-carved Chinese doors and a Tibetan altar hanging.

An art exhibit will be placed in the hall, and Mr. Lee, who is also an antiques dealer, will have some of his wares for sale.

     Community members will bring potluck dishes to share, and there will be wine donated by Trish Franey of Springs Wines and Liquors. A $20 donation will be requested at the door.

    A boat poker run from the Sag Harbor Yacht Club on Saturday that included live music and stops at four restaurants benefited the Sag Harbor Hysterical Society’s quiet efforts to help locals in need.

    Charlie Canavan, a pilot and father of three from Sag Harbor, has been president of the underground society that operates through word of mouth for 10 years, helping to raise money through fun and madcap events like Saturday’s poker run. “It can really help,” Mr. Canavan said aboard his 33-foot Chris-Craft on Saturday. Along with a few other boats, musicians, and over two dozen people who paid a small admission fee, he made stops at Orient by the Sea, Billy’s on the Bay in Greenport, Pepi’s in Southold, and SALT on Shelter Island. The restaurants offered food in exchange for music by Johnny Pipes and Brian.

    Although there were fewer participants than in past poker runs, it was a “beautiful day,” Mr. Canavan said, and “everyone had fun.”

    The beneficiaries of the Hysterical Society’s efforts are kept anonymous, Mr. Canavan said, explaining that some can’t even pay for the parking fees at the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

    Twenty-four venerable houses and a windmill would be designated as “timber-frame landmarks” and added to East Hampton Village’s historic preservation program, according to a plan presented to the village board on Oct. 4. All the proposed landmarks, scattered through the village, were built between 1700 and 1850.

    Robert Hefner, the village’s director of historic services, who chose the houses to be included and drew up the plan, noted in his report to the board that “this group contains some of East Hampton’s oldest and rarest building types which recall East Hampton’s history from the 17th century into the 19th century when the character of the village was established.” The purpose of the proposed designation, he said, was to “preserve significant structures that are not located in the historic district.”

    In exchange for the restrictions that run with landmark status — a landmarked house cannot be either demolished or relocated, and there are rigid design review standards as to exterior changes — the owners of the houses would receive a “guest house zoning bonus,” meaning they would be allowed to build a guest house on their land.

    Speaking to The Star on Friday, Mr. Hefner explained the reasoning behind the guest-house incentive. “Many of these are small houses that are built on large pieces of land,” he said. For example, “If someone were to buy the relatively small Babcock House on Middle Lane, that person would want to tear it down to build a bigger residence. Under the proposal, owners could choose to live in a newly built accessory dwelling and use the historic house as guest quarters. In many ways, the measure would increase property values.”

    Of the 25 listed properties, seven are saltboxes. They are at 111 Egypt Lane (Rowdy Hall), 21 Hither Lane (Phoebe Huntting House), 70 Middle Lane (William Babcock House), 19 Pudding Hill Lane (Joseph Osborn House), 48 Egypt Lane (Barnes-Hassam House), 61 North Main Street (Isaac Hedges House), and 15 Georgica Road (Noah Barnes house).

    Four Cape Cod cottages are on the list, at 2 Hither Lane (Conklin-Eldredge House), 29 Jones Road (Miller House), 291 Montauk Highway (John Dayton House), and 13 Egypt Lane (Hiram Sanford House).

    Houses at 19 Toilsome Lane (Miller Dayton House) and 34 Hither Lane (Edward Mulford House) represent the Federal style of architecture, while properties at 35 Toilsome Lane (Josiah Dayton House), 129 Egypt Lane (William Sherman House), 132 Montauk Highway (Talmage Jones House) and 128 Montauk Highway (Ezekiel Jones House) are examples of the transitional period from the Federal to the Greek Revival style. The Nathan Barnes House, at 15 Amy’s Court, has both Greek Revival and Italianate features.

    Mr. Hefner called the 1848 Methodist Church, now part of the property at 10 Spaeth Lane, “the finest example of a Greek Revival period building in the village,” and said the Dominy woodworking and clock shops, at 62 Further Lane, are significant because they “provide a tangible sense of the environment in which the Dominy craftsmen labored.”

    There are four windmills in East Hampton, more than any other municipality in the United States, and the Hayground Windmill, at 33 Windmill Lane, is the only one with a fantail to revolve the cap.

    Finally, four two-story, two-room-deep houses with gable roofs are on the list. They are at 117 Egypt Lane (Gansett House), 258 Georgica Road (Fulling Mill Farm), 50 Cross Highway (Stafford Hedges House), and 10 Cove Hollow Road (Baldwin Cook Talmage House).

    Mr. Hefner said he has met with all 25 property owners, and almost all showed enthusiastic support. A public hearing on the proposal is expected to take place next month.

    Ille Arts, an Amagansett gallery, is sponsoring an artists studio tour on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour takes in a great deal of the South Fork, including stops in East Hampton and Bridgehampton in addition to Amagansett.

    The participating artists will be available at a reception with bagels and coffee from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. The gallery will have lists of studios and has asked those participating to choose at least five and then vote for their two favorites. The gallery will give the artists who receive the most votes a chance to show their work in a three-person show during Christmas week.

    Those taking part in Amagansett include Kate Davis, Vincent Longo, Rick Liss, Nicole Parcher, Joyce Parcher, Shelley Sonenberg, and Rosario Varela. Artists with studios in East Hampton are Sydney Albertini, Perry Burns, Don Christensen, Eunice Golden, Barbara Groot, John Haubrich, and Mark Perry, and in Bridgehampton it’s Philippe Cheng, Sabra Moon Elliot, Kurt Gumaer, Bastienne Schmidt, and Christine Sciulli.

    Lily Frances Henderson and Edward Cavanaugh Rhoads David were married on Sept. 29 at the Springs Presbyterian Church on Old Stone Highway. The Rev. Anthony L. Larson performed the ceremony.

    Ms. Henderson is the daughter of Genie and Bill Henderson. She attended the Springs School and graduated in 2002 from the Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., and in 2006 from Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., where she studied documentary film.

    She was the cinematographer for “Heretics,” a film that premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in 2007. Her film “Dying and Dinner Parties” was featured in this year’s Hamptons International Film Festival.

    Mr. David, a graduate of Emory University, is a cinematographer with numerous commercial and documentary credits to his name, including “Great Moments On the Campaign Trail,” which won a prime time Emmy Award in 2008. The couple will be shooting and editing a film for IBM in Italy in November.

    Mr. David is the son of Josephine and John David of Fairfax, Conn.

    The bride was attended by Polly Duff Bresnick, a longtime friend also from Springs, Violet Ward, the bride’s cousin from Gloucestershire, England, and Moka, a family dog, who served as ringbearer. Stan Uy of New York City was best man.

    Following the ceremony, there was a champagne reception at Louse Point and dinner and dancing at the bride’s family house in Springs.

    The couple met in New York at a screening of one of Mr. David’s films. “I fell in love with his film, and him, before I even met him,” said the bride.

    They live in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

    Myron Levine of Sag Harbor had a vision to increase cash flow to charities here, and minutes before the announcement of the launching of All for the East End, the organization through which he aims to achieve it, he said he was “encouraged by the excitement already.”

    Through “creativity, collaboration, and commitment,” a group of professionals has dreamed up a plan to raise awareness of nonprofits across the North and South Forks, and it will begin with a mega concert on Aug. 19 next year at Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead, where a press conference was held on Friday.

    Mr. Levine said the East End is more “Mayberry” than “glitz and glamour,” and that its residents come together to support others, as he saw firsthand after his son, Joshua, was killed in a tractor accident at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett in 2010. With the economy as bad as it is, he said, charities suffer, and he is hoping the organization, of which he is founder and president, will become a model for other communities that are also taking a blow.

    Jim Durning has been brought on board as digital media director to ensure a profitable show. “I sell tickets and T-shirts,” he said at the press conference, but Peter Herman of Nile Rodgers Productions, which is producing the event, clarified that the modest Mr. Durning had just recently worked on Roger Waters’s “The Wall” tour, one of the highest grossing tours in the world over the last two years. Mr. Durning is also a consultant on the digital and social media presence of Pink Floyd, Elton John, James Taylor, and others in the music industry.

    His family settled here the 1930s, Mr. Durning said in a conversation later, and his grandfather once ran the Bulova watchcase factory in Sag Harbor. He has been a resident since childhood, and now lives in Southampton Village and New York City.

    “The odds of success are through the roof,” said Mr. Herman, who will work with Mr. Durning to plan and produce the event.

    Kelly Connaughton, All for the East End’s executive director and the woman behind last weekend’s Sag Harbor American Music Festival, said the advisory group had been in the works for a year and a half. Now it has joined with the Long Island Community Foundation, which will manage the grant process and disbursement of money to nonprofits throughout the five East End towns — East Hampton, Southampton, Riverhead, Southold, and Shelter Island — where more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations are registered.

    Many people were acknowledged for being instrumental to All for the East End’s start, including Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who facilitated its incorporation, and John Landes, an owner of Bay Burger in Sag Harbor, who lined up the nonprofit status.

    The East End Arts Council secured the donation of the venue. The large vineyard, on the North Fork but within Riverhead Town, is owned by Robert Entenmann of the baked goods family and named for his mother, Martha Clara. The vineyard and its associated structures can accommodate up to 10,000 guests, and it fulfills all of the requirements for a rain-or-shine event.

    “We’re feeling very supported today,” said Ms. Connaughton, who has over 16 years’ experience with not-for-profit organizations. The more sponsors, she said, the more successful the event will be.

     Becoming a presenting sponsor was a “no-brainer,” said Kevin O’Connor, the president of Bridgehampton National Bank.

    The goal, said Claudia Pilato, who works for the bank and is the secretary of All for the East End’s board, is to raise $500,000 to $600,000 in the first year. Expenditures will be “extremely transparent,” she said, and charitable categories will be decided each year, depending on specific needs that may arise.

    The full-day event will provide something for everyone, with family-friendly entertainment earlier in the day, a D.J. for teenagers in the afternoon, and a main event said to include “big names,” though specifics won’t be released until the spring.

    The East Hampton Village Zoning Board plans to reopen the hearing on an unusual application from John and Suzanne Cartier, who seek to move their 2,575-square-foot house to the rear of their lot, add 182 square feet to it, and then construct a second 2,486-square-foot residence. The Cartiers’ intent is to live in the new house, while their children and grandchildren take up residence in the existing one. The property, at 105 Main Street, shares a driveway with the East Hampton Historical Society’s Osborn Jackson house.

    The application came in on April 27 under a provision in the village code that allows “accessory structures with living accommodations.” It has drawn attention to that provision, which is rarely invoked. It also has raised questions about a 2010 decision by the village building inspector,  New York Village Law, the matter of a scenic easement, and whether the chairman of the Z.B.A. should recuse himself.

    “The somewhat outdated law is still on our books so that gardeners, chauffeurs, and maiden aunts could have their own living quarters, which gave relief to families,” Lysbeth A. Marigold, a Z.B.A. member, said at the board’s hearing on the application on Sept. 28.

    “Prior to being on this board, I never realized how many properties have secondary cottages on them; I recently saw a property with two cottages.” However, Ms. Marigold said she was disturbed that the two houses would be similar in size, although she thought the lot was large enough to accommodate both. Craig Humphrey, another Z.B.A. member, also expressed concern that the accessory house would be “too big.”

    Two hearings had been held on the application previously, on July 13 and Aug. 24. At the hearing on Sept. 28, Andrew Goldstein, the Z.B.A. chairman, restricted discussion to the building inspector’s July 2010 letter denying a permit for the work. At the time, the inspector, Tom Lawrence, found that the property did “not satisfy the lot area requirements.”

    “The building inspector’s letter does not mention the size of the houses; it only mentioned the property,” Mr. Goldstein said on Sept. 28. “The issue before this board is whether the lot area requirements concerning setbacks are met. They are, and at the next meeting we will adopt a determination to that effect.”

    Mr. Goldstein added that the code’s use of the word “accessory” could be misleading as it seems to indicate that one building should be smaller than the other. “The code does not say how big or small the accessory building should be.”

    “The law is vague,” Larry Hillel, another board member, said. “It can go both ways. I would consider this application on its merits for a variance.”

    Mr. Goldstein disagreed that the law was vague, saying Mr. Hillel’s view was “in the minority,” and that the building inspector must now decide whether the building is “accessory.” The hearing is now to be continued on Oct. 26.

    “This was a simple area variance application,” Jeffrey Bragman, the Cartiers’ attorney, told The Star last Thursday, “and the board agreed with one of our arguments — that we do not need a variance.” Mr. Bragman said that a box on the application form indicating that the Cartiers were seeking an area variance had been checked in error.

    Meanwhile, in an Oct. 2 letter, Anthony Pasca, an attorney representing Gordon Bowling, whose house off Main Street is adjacent to the Cartier site, claimed the board had “no jurisdiction to entertain” their application because New York Village Law states that a zoning board has 60 days to hear an appeal from a building inspector’s decision. Moreover, he noted that the Cartier application made no reference to that decision.

    “Mr. Pasca’s letter is inaccurate and incorrect,” Mr. Bragman said. “The building inspector letter was referring to an entirely different scenario. At that time, the houses were to be placed in different locations, and they were to be different sizes than those in the current proposal.”

    Mr. Bowling had registered an opinion earlier that a second house on the Cartier property should be ruled out on other grounds. In a letter to the East Hampton Village Board in August, Mr. Bowling said that a scenic/large lot easement granted to the village in 1976 by the East Hampton Historical Society appears to cover the Cartiers’ property as well. Reportedly, there has been no response to the letter.

     Mr. Bowling has also sent a letter to the Z.B.A. asking that Mr. Goldstein recuse himself because he had said he was “good friends” with the couple. Mr. Goldstein is the chairman of the Village Preservation Society, which was founded by Mr. Cartier. But saying he had no financial or familial relationship to the Cartiers, Mr. Goldstein refused to do so. One of the Z.B.A. members, however, John McGuirk III, has recused himself, noting that he has business ties to the applicants.

    Linda Riley, the village attorney, who challenged Mr. Bragman’s interpretation of applicable laws at the hearings this summer, did not attend the hearing on Sept. 28. Although present in the room, neither Mr. Bragman nor Mr. Pasca spoke, resulting in the hearing lasting only 30 minutes. This was different from prior hearings, which included two to three-hour debates on legal statutes and about house-to-lot ratios, setbacks, and what constitutes an accessory structure.

    The East Hampton Village Design Review Board unanimously approved a plan last Thursday for a fence at 9 Fresno Place, proposed by MG Muscle Classics. Bill Kelly, representing the applicants, told the board they have been finding a lot of bottles and cans on the property, and have had problems “with people from neighboring establishments using the driveway as a turnaround area and loitering in the front yard.”

    “I get bottles and cans at my place on Toilsome Lane,” said C. Sherrill Dayton, a board member. “The least they could do is throw a full one over.”

    “I know one guy who made $12,000 in a year and a half, recycling cans that were thrown onto his property,” Mr. Kelly said.

    The board agreed with Mr. Kelly that the inward-swinging, three-foot-high black fence, with steel cables spanning its 22-foot width, will act as a “polite deterrent” without being an eyesore.  

    An Archaeology Fest to benefit the proposed Montauk Indian Museum will be held on Saturday on the grounds of the Montauk Historical Society’s Second House Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

    There will be demonstrations and talks by renowned archeologists and historians. Other experts in the field will conduct hands-on demonstrations of wampum making, primitive pottery, friction fire, the use of blowguns, Native American cooking, and deer hide preparation. Music will be by Walter Purizaca, a virtuoso of the Native American flute.

    “The mission of our museum will be to bring to life the rich story of Montauk’s natural history and prehistoric material culture,” said Dr. Maria-Louise Sidoroff, a Montauk resident and archaeological consultant to the museum. “We hope to raise community awareness about our museum, which is still in the planning stages. The fest will reflect the sorts of hands-on demonstrations and displays that will be the core of our museum’s educational program.”

    The idea for the museum came several years ago from Lawrence Cook, who has collected many artifacts he has found in the hamlet. He has raised money for the project and is often at craft fairs and other events with a handmade canoe in which people can throw donations. He already has enough artifacts to fill a museum, he said last summer, but has been promised even more from private collections if the museum gets off the ground.

    The East Hampton Town Board, the Montauk School, and other groups support the plan. Peter Charles Wilson, an architect, has drawn up a design for the building, which is to be built on the north side of the museum’s property. It is expected to include a display area with stone artifacts and tools found by hamlet residents, including Mr. Cook, interactive exhibits, and a classroom for schoolchildren to learn about Native American people.

    “Since a large portion of the material culture of the earliest people has disappeared, our goal is to create interactive exhibits that will demonstrate how they survived through resourcefulness and high levels of skill,” a museum brochure says. “The principal that guides our work is that visitors should leave the museum with a greater awareness of ancient and modern footprints on our land.”

    Most of the events will be ongoing throughout the day on Saturday. Guest speakers will discuss the history of Montauk’s own tribe, the Montauketts, the story of Chief Wyandanch, and Lion Gardiner, and will explore the prehistoric people’s dependence on and use of deer. From 1 to 3 p.m., each will have 20 minutes to go over their chosen topics.

    The free event is being funded in part by a $3,000 grant from the New York Council for the Humanities and is appropriate for all ages. Aunt Dorine’s clam bar food truck will sell goodies, and there will be a raffle for a variety of prizes including items from archeologists and personal collections.

    Before the rain started to fall Sunday, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce’s fall festival drew some 10,000 people, said East Hampton Town Police Lt. Chris Hatch, who is also the Montauk Precinct commander. He added, however, that some of those visitors were fishermen in the hamlet for a tournament.

    The highlight of the two-day festival is always the chowder-tasting contest, which started at 11 a.m. on Saturday and ended at about 1:15 p.m., with Jim Harrington, a volunteer, scraping the bottom of the last vat of 30 chowders donated by local restaurants. The lines for the tasting were almost a block long, and the chamber sold 1,800 commemorative mugs, at two tastings a mug.

    For the Manhattan blend, the judges, who included Laura Donnelly, The Star’s food columnist, chose Manucci’s for first place, with West Lake Clam and Chowder House in second and Pizza Village in third.

    Solé East took the top honors for its New England chowder, with O’Murphy’s and Duryea’s Deck in second and third place. Tre Bella, a restaurant at the Montauk Manor, won the People’s Choice award for its New England entry.

    Children formed their own lines to jump in a bouncy castle, ride a carousel, and fly down a long inflatable slide. Nancy Atlas and the Uncle Susie Band had the crowd rocking in the afternoon on Saturday. Cotton candy, popcorn, bratwurst, and hot dogs were munched as people walked through the all-ages throng, which had plenty of well-behaved dogs in it, too.

    There were beer and wine tastings and a full farmers market under a tent that had been set up to house the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s auction and raffle on Sunday. When the rain came that day and a chill set in, many hustled under the tent, which could only have improved ticket sales for the silent auction. Whenever a Montauk name was read aloud by Jennie Balcuns, a Playhouse board member, the crowd cheered loudly.