With death threats a part of her weekly routine at the clinic she runs in New York City, Merle Hoffman has been fighting a passionate, perilous battle since the early 1970s. “The only woman who owns a licensed ambulatory surgery center specializing in abortion and reproductive care in New York State” — as she has described herself — will share stories from her book, “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion From the Back Alley to the Boardroom,” at BookHampton on East Hampton’s Main Street on Saturday evening at 5.

    Ms. Hoffman is a gifted musician who chose to pursue a career in health care  and the women’s movement instead of at the piano keyboard. She was educated as a psychologist, with experiential training in the reproductive-medicine field; she has also won awards as a journalist, publisher, and editor.

    “This is my life’s work, to articulate this issue,” she said on Sunday.

    Ms. Hoffman advocates for patients’ rights and education in the United States and abroad. A few months ago, she spoke to the British Parliament on reproductive legislative issues. This is the first book she has written, though she publishes “On the Issues,” an on-line magazine about progressive feminism.

    In an interview with The East Hampton Star, Ms. Hoffman enumerated the “guerilla and frontal attacks against legal abortion” that patients and health-care workers face today, from telephone harassment to bomb threats to murder (as in that of her friend, George Tiller, a doctor in Kansas who was killed in 2009). The current paucity of abortion providers demonstrates the success of the pro-life movement — which she considers a force of oppression and regression.

    The termination of a pregnancy should not be something a woman should be forced to risk dying from, Ms. Hoffman said. There are currently 110 bills pending, in various states, aimed at restricting  abortion or denying access to contraception, she said, adding that she fears this current legislation is making the back-alley abortion a reality again. There is not one free clinic offering abortions in Mississippi, for example, she said.

    As an activist, she is not shy about speaking from personal experience. She has had an abortion herself. “I love being a mother,” she said, “but wouldn’t have when I was 32 and was not ready for it.”

    Ms. Hoffman’s book recounts her years of struggle for women’s and patients’ rights. Choices Women’s Medical Center and Mental Health Center, which she founded in 1971, serves more than 40,000 patients each year. Protesters — usually violent verbally, sometimes threatening physically — are a regular presence outside the clinic.

    Passionately active in the pro-choice movement since the first rally on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in Manhattan, Ms. Hoffman has counseled women for decades. Many, having few resources where they live, travel to New York just for an appointment at the Choices medical center.

    “It is a profound personal decision that no man or state can judge,” she said. “Bringing life into the world is an extraordinarily powerful decision,” but deciding to end a pregnancy is “many times a matter of survival.”

    She wrote the book for her daughter, Sasha, she said. Above all, she would like to see more activism among women of all ages: “Get activated and get involved. It’s up to all of us, what this country will be.”

    As the clock neared 8 p.m. and Rona Klopman’s call for a leash law met with polite silence, it looked as if Monday’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee would be ending an hour earlier than usual.

    Proceedings that night had been brisk. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited, the May minutes were approved, and John Ryan, chief of the town lifeguards, gave an informative rundown on water safety and the new numbered-beach system, all within 15 minutes.

    The fence is still broken outside the Amagansett Farmers Market, which a few members had complained about last month as being “in a state of disrepair,” but the overflowing garbage can situation on Main Street, also a topic of angst at the May meeting, now seems to be under control.

    “You might want to advise starting the [seasonal workers] earlier,” Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, ACAC’s liaison to the town board, told members. “Part of the problem was, they hadn’t started their rounds yet.”

    Jeanne Frankl, who keeps an eye on requests for zoning variances in the hamlet, reported that new construction appears to be “booming, especially down in the dunes, and no one is comfortable staying within the zoning laws.” She rattled off a list of upcoming applications: on Seabreeze Lane, for a 90-square-foot hot tub and a 50-square-foot outdoor shower too close to freshwater wetlands; on Marine Boulevard, for a pool and patio on land containing coastal bluffs, on Mitchell Dunes Lane, for a pool, decking, and a sanitary system 75 feet from wetlands where 150 feet is required.

    On a happier note, Ms. Overby announced that the town code enforcement officer who was injured recently has recovered, and will be back at work by July 1. Also, she said, the town board has added a seasonal worker in each of the code enforcement, animal control, and fire marshal’s offices. Members greeted the news with nods of satisfaction, and then the mood of the evening changed.

    “Every member of ACAC has received a letter bashing the Republican Party and ridiculing and insulting me,” began Elaine Miller, standing up, the better to be heard. “Three times I’ve tried to deal with this issue. I don’t want to see my name on ugly, sarcastic, mocking e-mails.” For example, she said, a recent one “used the F-word” and referred to “hooter dreamgirls.”

    With a few exceptions, everyone in the room seemed to know right away just who and what she was talking about, though she never once mentioned the person’s name. In October, when Ms. Miller first complained of e-mail harassment, the advisory committee passed a unanimous resolution stating that “members must use ACAC e-mail and ACAC members’ addresses only for vital ACAC needs such as minutes, agendas, and other similar uses,” and for no other purpose. Last month, after she said the objectionable e-mails had not stopped and asked that members be reminded of the new policy, a copy of the resolution was sent to all ACAC e-mail users.

    Apparently, however, it had no effect on James Macmillian, whose name was blurted out by Britton Bistrian as others nodded.

    “He shouldn’t be nominated again,” someone called out.

    “I read the e-mail and I was pretty shocked,” said Kieran Brew, the committee’s vice chairman and incoming chairman. “After we said don’t do it, he went and did it.”

    “I would go to the police,” said someone else.

    Ms. Miller said she’d already gone to the town board, earlier that same day, bringing along “five pages of attachments with inappropriate e-mails.” Turning toward Ms. Overby, she said in a shaky voice, “I believe ACAC, a committee that you sanctioned, is not the place for this.”

    During a work session of the town board the next day, Councilwoman Theresa Quigley described the e-mails, without saying who had written them, whereupon Supervisor Bill Wilkinson took a look at one and remarked, “Oh, Macmillian,” or words to that effect. Councilman Dominick Stanzione called the situation “alarming and unfortunate,” and Ms. Overby suggested the board draw up guidelines for citizen advisory committees regarding the use of mailing lists. No one objected.

    The ACAC meeting ended with the announcement that Ed Michels, the senior harbormaster, has found an unused flagpole among the town’s resources, and Tony Littman, head of the Buildings and Grounds Department, will have it erected in front of the old Life-Saving Station on Atlantic Avenue.

    “We’ll have it up as soon as possible,” said Kent Miller, ACAC’s outgoing chairman, who also heads the committee to restore the building. Mr. Miller got an enthusiastic round of applause for the good news, and for his two years’ service as chairman.

    “Now I’m having a urination problem. I have to call the police while it’s fresh to show them. It’s so intrusive; I feel so dirty,” Kimberly Esperian told the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday, speaking of the crowds descending on Ruschmeyer’s restaurant on Second House Road that are apparently urinating on private property.

    Ms. Esperian and other members of the committee wondered if portable toilets could be put on the grounds of the popular nightspot, which is owned by the same company, King and Grove, that recently was involved with the Surf Lodge, a place riddled with town code violations in the few years that it has operated on Edgemere Road.

    Grace McGovern Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Suffolk County Health Department, said on Tuesday that restaurants receive permits according to capacity, and that Ruschmeyer’s has a maximum occupancy of 199 patrons. Portable toilets, she said, would not be allowed on the grounds.

    The Health Department conducts random visits, but would also act on a complaint, Ms. Kelly said. “We would cite them if there were more than 199 people on the grounds.”

    Charlene Whitney of Ruschmeyer’s said a caretaker checks the grounds and nearby lawns each morning. “We are trying our best each day to clean up from the night before‚” she said.

    At the committee meeting, two resolutions were approved that East Hampton Town Councilman Dominick Stanzione said he would take back to the town board for discussion. The first was regarding Ms. Esperian’s complaint about the restaurant’s patrons urinating in her yard and on her back steps.

    Committee members said personnel at the town’s code Ordinance Enforcement Department have told the town board that the department is short-staffed and needs more help to monitor code violations. Committee members said it was hard for those officers to do their jobs and wanted clarification about who should be called to complain about commercial overcrowding, public urination, and parking problems — the police or code enforcers.

    Some members thought that mass-gathering permits could be used to control crowding at certain establishments but were told that those permits are not required at commercial establishments unless the activity is distinct from the general purpose of the business — putting up a tent for an event, for example. A large teepee is often part of Ruschmeyer’s promotional images and online ads, which describe the restaurant as a “summer camp for adults.”

    A resolution was approved to “respectfully request that the town board carefully consider the concerns of the code enforcement office and to support their efforts with additional staff as we approach the busy summer season.”

    Moving on, Bill Akin, a former president of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk, visited the meeting to ask that Fort Pond House be reopened. He said the town’s finances seem to be in good standing and that now would be a good time to drop the litigation that was initiated when the town decided to sell the property. Residents filed suit against the town for putting the property on the market, and the town then countersued to get the litigation dropped.

    “It has proven in the past to be a valuable tool for the students of the Montauk School, as well as for such groups as the Boy Scouts,” the resolution, which was unanimously approved, said.

    The Suffolk County Legislature approved the licensing of a trial Sag Harbor to Greenport passenger ferry service on Tuesday. It was the final hurdle to clear for Geoffrey Lynch of Hampton Jitney and Jim Ryan of Response Marine in Greenport to initiate the pilot program. Trips by the 53-passenger boat are expected to begin just prior to the July Fourth weekend and run through Labor Day weekend.

    At the request of County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, resolutions to authorize the license and set rates and to okay the extension of the lease of Long Wharf to the Village of Sag Harbor were given priority at the Legislature’s meeting. Both resolutions were approved unanimously.

    “There is financial risk involved,” Mr. Schneiderman said after the vote, “but it is not for the taxpayer, it’s for the Peconic Jitney.”

    The new entity will determine if there is sufficient demand to sustain the business. “I don’t underestimate them,” the legislator said, “they know the clientele who will use it.” The Jitney, he said, carries those without cars every hour to New York City, “and those buses are packed.”

    Many have said they were worried about traffic, Mr. Schneiderman said, “but I think people will come to the area from the North Fork without their cars. That is something that we can now measure.”

    The legislator said he hopes the pilot project succeeds and expands to other places. “Getting around the East End without a car . . . it is important,” he said. “If fears are realized,” he said, the service will not be continued. If it is successful, in 10 years it will be part of village life, he said, expressing his appreciation for the courage the Greenport and Sag Harbor Village Boards showed in embracing the idea.

    Water travel is a part of the maritime history of the two villages, Mr. Schneiderman said, and the ferry service will bring the North and South Forks together. “They are two of my favorite villages,” he said, “and I think it will be great to go from one to another without a car.”

    A near drowning that occurred Sunday in front of the Driftwood Motel on Napeague underscored what East Hampton Town lifeguards and ocean rescue volunteers say is a dangerous gap in their ability to protect the public.

    The gap stretches from Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett to Montauk, about 12 miles of unprotected beach, in the opinion of John McGeehan, assistant chief of the East Hampton Town Volunteer Ocean Rescue Squad.

    Mr. McGeehan said he would like to see at least a guard tower, communications, first aid, and lifesaving equipment in the area near the Driftwood Motel, at the halfway point between Amagansett and Montauk.

    But Diane McNally, the East Hampton Town Trustees’ presiding officer, disagreed, saying on Tuesday that the town code clearly stated that those who swim in the ocean off Napeague do so at their own risk.

    “The town would be taking on a huge responsibility to manage the Napeague stretch. Technically, whoever patrols it should tell people to come out of the water,” Ms. McNally said. The trustees own and manage most of East Hampton’s beaches — except in Montauk — on behalf of the public.

    The ocean rescue squad got the call at 3:07 p.m. on Sunday. One rescue Jet Ski was launched from Montauk, and two others headed to the scene from Amagansett. By the time rescuers got there, Nicola Devito, 42, was being revived by emergency medical technicians from Amagansett. Initially, an employee of the Driftwood Motel administered C.P.R. after two men, Perry Halburd and Jean Carlos Barrientos, noticed that Mr. Devito was in trouble and pulled him to shore.

    Mr. Barrientos is a student at East Hampton High School. On Monday at the high school he received special acknowledgement for his heroism. He took part in the town’s junior lifeguard program.

    The motels on Napeague do not station lifeguards. They are not required to under protocols set by the Suffolk Health Department. If they were, they would have to follow the guidelines of that department, which maintains legal oversight over town lifeguards.

    The county sets the standards for such things as the distance between lifeguard stands, types of lifesaving equipment, age of lifeguards, signs, and warning flags. And, the county defines what is a bathing beach. The definition includes a requirement for both parking and restrooms.

    In Ms. McNally’s opinion, even if the town could get the county to wave the parking and restroom requirements, the presence of a town lifeguard stand would contradict the existing town code, which states that swimming at unguarded beaches is done at the swimmers’ own risk. Because they were not required to post guards, the motels were able to take advantage of a public resource while accepting no liability, she said.

    In her opinion, a guard stand would automatically make the town liable for a drowning. “I understand the potential tragedy, but the town would be taking on a huge responsibility.”

    “That’s an interesting point,” Mr. McGeehan said, going on to suggest that there was nothing to stop relatives of a drowning victim from suing the beach owner. “Look at what we’re saying: We know people are swimming there. We know the ocean will turn deadly, and we know we could assist people with a minimum of expenditure, but we choose not to because we could be held liable.”

    “Look at these beaches,” he said. “They are the same beaches, but the population is increasing. They are no longer desolate. If it continues that way, someone else will drown out there. We lost the woman two years ago, and the gentleman the other day was extremely luck. He was brought back from death.”

    Mr. McGeehan added that while a new emergency lane made close to the dunes between the Atlantic Terrace Motel to the east and the Oceanside Motel on the west helped with access for emergency vehicles, the addition of a guard stand on the crowded beach in front of “motel row” in the same area was much needed. “It’s jammed there like Jones Beach.”

    Mr. Devito was taken to Southampton Hospital, treated overnight, and released on Monday.

    Mr. Devito was taken to Southampton Hospital, treated overnight, and released on Monday.

    Tanner Bertrand drives on Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett almost every day on his way to and from work at the Promised Land Fish Farm. Neighboring houses are always under construction, he said this week, but that’s usually the only excitement in the area.

    That all changed a few weeks ago. Driving along one day in May, Mr. Bertrand discovered a newcomer to the neighborhood. A life-size plastic statue of a giraffe had shown up on the south side of Cranberry Hole Road in Napeague State Park.

    “When I first saw it I slammed on the brakes,” said Mr. Bertrand. “I said, ‘Is it moving?’ ”

    Gordon Kelley, originally from North Carolina, has lived here for one year and works with Mr. Bertrand. He said, “That statue is probably worth a lot of money, but I never saw anybody putting it in. It was just kind of there one day.”

    Both men said the giraffe has been knocked down a few times by high winds.

    “It was standing up yesterday, and this morning when I came to work it was down,” said Mr. Kelley on Tuesday. “Is it back up again?”

    “Somebody’s tending to this giraffe!” said Mr. Bertrand.

    Rich Silver, owner of Andrra, a new restaurant on Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton, lives in the house nearest to the statue. He said he was shocked to see a giraffe in the neighborhood.

    Mr. Silver took pictures of the statue and asked his customers, “Who should I call? I have a giraffe in my backyard.”

    A man working on Mr. Silver’s house went out this week to set the fallen statue upright. On Tuesday he had it placed so that it appeared to be eating from a tall pine tree in the state park. 

    Mr. Silver doesn’t know how the giraffe got into the park, but now suspects one of his neighbors of pulling off a pretty funny prank.    

    “I don’t want to get him in trouble,” Mr. Silver said. He thinks the neighbor “was playing a trick on either his father or his father-in-law, who didn’t want to go on safari with him. So he got this statue.” 

    “We’re thinking of putting giraffe on the menu now,” said the restaurateur.

    Yesterday, Tom Dess, the manager of Montauk State Parks, said he hadn’t seen the statue yet. When he finds the long-necked creature, he’ll be sure to remove it.

    “You just can’t put things in the park,” said Mr. Dess.

    A pair of ospreys that live high above the salt flats of Napeague State Park have been keeping a wary eye for about a week now on a loop of loose cable that swings only a few feet above their hatchlings.

    The fish hawks live midway up the 300-foot-tall Mackay Radio Tower, originally erected in 1927 to transmit messages to ships at sea.

    A section of heavy wire has fallen, a loop of it  catching up three or four feet above the osprey nest. When the wind blows, the loop swings, like a threatening pendulum.

    The wire was first noticed by Gordon and Dianne Ryan, who live at Lazy Point. Their calls last week to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the State Parks Department did not prompt a direct response, but the message got through.

    On Tuesday, Bill Taylor, East Hampton Town’s waterways management specialist, said he had called the D.E.C. and spoken with Liza Bobseine, an enforcement officer. According to Mr. Taylor, Ms. Bobseine had been observing the lofty drama. Based on her observations — which included the parent birds entering and exiting the nest — the agency’s decision, she said, was to leave the situation as is until the end of the season, when the ospreys head south on their annual migration.

    Mr. Ryan said on Tuesday that he wasn’t sure the nest would survive the season, especially given the dramatic swings of the wire in high winds. However, a spokesman for the Nature Conservancy, which oversees other osprey rookeries, said the D.E.C.’s strategy seemed the least disruptive.

    He was definitely in Montauk and definitely visited the Montauk Lighthouse, where he signed a logbook, and may have even had an office at Third House, but Theodore Roosevelt never slept at Third House, said Dick White, a member of the Montauk Historical Society’s board of directors. He did, however, sleep in a house on Ditch Plain road, and his men, the Rough Riders, camped nearby, Mr. White said.

    In light of this, the name of the county park at Third House was officially changed earlier this month from Theodore Roosevelt County Park back to its previous name, Montauk County Park. The park, which has long been known simply as Third House, had its name changed in 1997 to commemorate the centennial of the Spanish-American War, during which Mr. Roosevelt was said to have accompanied his troops to the hamlet to sequester them from the general public while fighting yellow fever.

    There was an infirmary for soldiers where the Montauk Manor now sits. Once it was learned that yellow fever was caused by mosquitoes, the soldiers were released, said Mr. White. While he pushed for the park’s name change for the sake of historical accuracy, he also believes there should be a plaque somewhere in the hamlet to memorialize Roosevelt’s stint there. “We know the Rough Riders came in on Navy Road and we know that they were at Ditch, so wouldn’t that be neat?” Mr. White asked, pointing out that it was Roosevelt who lobbied for a national park system. “He’s the one that pushed that through,” he said.

    It was a few years ago while Mr. White, a Suffolk County Park trustee, was on his way to a monthly trustee meeting with Bill Akin, then president of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk, that the subject came up. The two men had been chatting about the exterior renovation project at Third House and Mr. Akin remarked about how Roosevelt had not once come up in their discussion. The two agreed the park name should never have been changed.

    “From the time they drove the first nail it’s been known as Third House,” Mr. White said on Monday.

    Mr. Akin said this week that he had suggested naming it Third House County Park, but it was agreed that the Montauk County Park might make it more user-friendly. The 1997 name change had been pushed through, he said, by a North Fork county legislator who was a Roosevelt history buff.

     “The idea at the time did not come from Montauk locals. I remember many people being offended by the name change,” Mr. Akin said, pointing out that Roosevelt was only in the hamlet from August to October 1898.

    Mr. Akin approached Jay Schneiderman, a Suffolk County legislator from Montauk, who agreed to sponsor a bill changing the name again. The Legislature unanimously approved it on June 5.

    Fearing accusations of disrespect, Mr. Schneiderman said on Tuesday that he included in the bill a motion to officially designate the main building on the 1,000-acre grounds as Third House, with the main room to be called the President Theodore Roosevelt Room.

    “I felt strongly that his name should be on a plaque in the main room overlooking the horse farm. . . . I know he liked horses,” he said. He’s taken some flak online about the name change. “They’re accusing me of not knowing my history, but I’m well aware of Teddy Roosevelt. Some claim he was there but there is no proof that he was at Third House. It kind of corrects history,” he said.

    For many years, Mr. Schneiderman has been trying to create an environmental center on the grounds. It was he and Carol Morrison, an environmental activist who has since died, who created the Third House Nature Center. But the funding dried up and the center that was to be stationed in the existing building never really got off the ground, though environmental programs are often held there.

    “It’s not dead; we’re still working on it. It’s just hard to get funding right now. If it takes my whole life I will get an environmental center there,” Mr. Schneiderman said.

    An ongoing difference of opinion between Sag Harbor Village and the Sag Harbor Yacht Club over ownership of a boat ramp on Bay Street came to the fore again last month when Mayor Brian Gilbride called village police after a locked chain was strung across the floating dock adjacent to the ramp.

    “The Yacht Club chained it off” on May 22, he said in a conversation on June 5, “temporarily blocking its use. It is not the first time it has happened.” He called the police, he said, so that they could take steps to remove it. “The discussion has gone back and forth over three years,” he said.

    Sag Harbor police and the Sag Harbor Yacht Club confirmed that Steven Novack, the yacht club’s vice commodore, had put the chain up.

    The mayor said that a survey he has seen demonstrates that the property to the right of the ramp belongs to the village. The floating dock to the left of the ramp is also village-owned, but the four boat slips are rented and the corresponding dock is gated as “private” since all of its slips are for the lessee’s own boats.

    “They are good neighbors,” the mayor said of the yacht club. “Silly things happen.”

    “I would have just cut the lock,” said the mayor, but he contacted police instead. He said the concrete ramp is the only public access in that area. Those who use it need a yearly permit and are given 15 minutes to launch their boats.

    The police log confirmed that a survey shown to the officer upon arrival showed the ramp as village property.

    According to Charles Dempsey, the Sag Harbor Yacht Club’s secretary and treasurer, the survey produced was apparently in error. There have been several different surveys, he said on Saturday, with the oldest, and according to him the most reliable, showing the property has belonged to the yacht club since 1900. He also remarked that he gave that survey to the village quite a while ago, when there was an issue with a parking lot.

    Mr. Dempsey said that the village called and asked permission to put a floating ramp on the yacht club’s property years ago, and the club gave its permission, but asked for documentation for liability purposes. He said the club never received the requested paperwork, and after several requests, their attorney, Dennis Downs, suggested it chain off the property. Mr. Downs could not be reached for comment.

    There is no animosity on their part either, the yacht club representative indicated, “We’re not mad, we are just concerned about liability. We will not stop the public from using the ramp, we just do not want to be responsible for any damages or injuries.” It’s an “understandable error,” he said. “The survey is wrong.”

    Although minuscule, and a complete failure by comparison, the landing of four Nazi saboteurs at Atlantic Avenue Beach, Amagansett, from a U-boat in the predawn of June 13, 1942, was — like the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events of Sept. 11, 2001 — an “invasion.”

    It was part of a plan to cripple industry and instill fear that included the invasion of a second group of saboteurs in Florida.

    On Wednesday, the Amagansett Life-Saving Station and Coast Guard Building Committee will mark the 70th anniversary of the ill-fated beachhead by hosting a re-enactment of sorts. The public is invited to meet at the old lifesaving station down by the beach on Atlantic Avenue at 7 p.m.

    It was from there on the same date in 1942 that a 21-year-old coast guardsman named John Cullen set out in a thick fog on his regular patrol along the beach.

    Not long into his the patrol he came upon George Dasch, one of the saboteurs, who, according to Mr. Cullen’s account, first said the bag that one of his associates was dragging up from the water was filled with clams, a claim that even he must have realized was lame. He then threatened Mr. Cullen, and finally offered him cash to keep their meeting to himself.

    Mr. Cullen remembered hearing the drone of the U-boat that was straining to get free of a sandbar.

    The men headed through the dunes en route to the Amagansett train station, and Coastie Cullen hightailed it back to the station to blow the whistle. The next morning, the spot was found where the saboteurs changed into mufti. The coast guardsmen also found a cache of explosives. Mr. Cullen died in Chesapeake, Va., last September. He was 90.

    Six of eight Germans who participated here and in Florida in Operation Pastorius were executed. George Dasch, the Nazi, who will be channeled by Town Councilman Dominick Stanzione on Wednesday, was not. Mr. Stanzione has written a screenplay about the Nazi landing.

    Kent Miller, the Life-Saving Station committee chairman, will play Cullen. Before heading down to the beach, as though on patrol, Hugh King, the East Hampton Town Crier, and Peter Garnham, director of the Amagansett Historical Association, will describe the events that led up to the Nazi invasion. Seaman Cullen’s steps will then be retraced.

    This is the first of what is hoped will be an annual re-enactment of the Nazi invasion and is expected to take about an hour.