Tom Griffin of Wainscott and New York City died of a heart attack in a New York hospital on Saturday. He was 66. His wife, Virginia Edwards, and daughter, Sophie Griffin, who attended the Ross School and recently graduated from Wesleyan University, survive.
Celebrations of his life will be held in New York City and Buffalo in the fall. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.
This year’s SpringsFest, a benefit for Heart of Springs, will take place on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Parsons Blacksmith Shop, with performances by three local bands, a craft fair with 15 local vendors, refreshments, yard games, raffles, a blacksmith demonstration, and a history lesson from Hugh King, the town historian.
The East Hampton Town Trustees’ Largest Clam Contest will now be held on Saturday, Oct. 10, from noon to 3 p.m. Would-be contestants can begin harvesting on Oct. 3.
The Jewish Center of the Hamptons is calling on the Hamptons International Film Festival to cancel the screening of a documentary by Israeli filmmakers that the festival’s guide describes as detailing “the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”
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