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.
Helen Harrison, a longtime steward of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, plan to leave their house in Sag Harbor, Nicholson’s studio, and his body of work — worth an estimated $5 million — to Stony Brook University, along with a $2 million endowment to maintain them.
Ecological tumors. The sixth great extinction. Insect apocalypse. Deathscapes. These were a few of the terms bandied about at Doug Tallamy’s talk last week in Southampton. But for all of the contextual doom, he came with a message of environmental hope and offered specific and easy instructions to exit the end times morass with a new approach to conservation.
“The horses, the sport, the community, the summer day, the shopping — it’s so much fun.”
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