Virginia Backlund, a retired public health nurse (formerly Virginia King), celebrated her 100th birthday on Tuesday.
She moved to East Hampton in the 1940s. Former students may remember her as Mrs. King, who worked in many East End schools, from Mattituck on the North Fork to Montauk on the South Fork.
Fred Schneider, who lives here, on the legendary new wave band’s 50-year rise from the college town of Athens, Ga., to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Members of the Montauk Historical Society and town, county, and state officials were on hand as a blue-and-gold cast-aluminum New York State historical marker was unveiled at Second House Museum in Montauk.
These architectural blueprints show a 1904 house designed by John Custis Lawrence for “Mrs. Burnet M. Osborne.” So, who was this lady and why was her name on the plans?
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