Amber Waves Farm will host a community dig at which guests have been invited to dig and harvest dahlia tubers from its farm fields on Saturday at 11:30 a.m.
Originally planted five years ago, the tubers have multiplied and propagated to number more than 15,000, providing years of flowers to thousands of Amber Waves guests.
Farming apprentice graduates have also received tubers to plant in their own farms across the country. The cost is $10.
Just shy of his 85th birthday, Dick Monahan, a lifeguard at Kirk Park in Montauk, will hang up his whistle at the end of this season.
Were it not for Sept. 11, 2001, you’d not be reading these words. I’d still be living in the city and might never have become a writer.
On May 26, 1874, David H. Huntting (1815-1885) gave an address to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton’s Sunday school.
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