St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will host an interfaith service celebrating the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with prayers and music on Sunday at 4 p.m.
Leaders from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith communities on the East End will participate, as will high school students and a choir. Those interested in singing with the choir on Sunday are asked to join in rehearsals beforehand on Sunday at 11:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
A potluck dinner will follow in the church hall.
Joe Bloecker, a member of the Montauk Friends of Erin for over 30 years and its president for 10, has been chosen to lead the group’s 2025 St. Patrick’s Day Parade as grand marshal. Mr. Bloecker’s “involvement with the club and his contributions to the Montauk community run deep,” the group said in its announcement.
The Crook Family Bible at the Hampton Library paints a picture of the life of Cato Crook, a formerly enslaved Bridgehampton man who in 1819 wrote to Elias Smith of Smithtown to free his “runaway” niece.
The East Hampton Library receives upward of thousands of books each week through donations. How they are handled, for fun and profit, for collectors and other libraries, has been a revelation.
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