Villages

John Lyon Gardiner (1770-1816), the seventh proprietor of Gardiner’s Island, wrote to his brother in Queens on this day 233 years ago with updates on people here and complaints about the mail.

The 46th annual meeting of the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork happens on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Westhampton Free Library. The Peconic Land Trust will be the guest speaker’s subject.

From 1998, a less-than-enthusiastic assessment of the state of downtown East Hampton. And more from The Star of yore.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has announced that Laura Tooman, the group’s president for the last six years, has stepped down from that position.

It happened here, readers.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk announced this week that it has retained Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences to assess Montauk’s wastewater issues.

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps are some of the best sources for historical property ownership and residency information from the mid-19th and 20th centuries. This one shows Southampton Village.

A steel boat built by the late Stuart Vorpahl, a fisherman, historian, town trustee, secretary of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association, and descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families, landed at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum and is now on view there.

It’s hard to mistake the great egret: lengthy yellow bill, long black legs, large white body in between. They have sinewy necks, sometimes stretched straight, other times tucked into a squat S, as when they’re flying.

This handwritten cookbook was owned and compiled by members of the Hedges family, a prominent, active group living on Main Street in East Hampton Village.

Hamptons Whodunit, the first-ever crime festival in East Hampton Village, was a big success, according to Carrie Doyle, the village board member who, along with Jackie Dunphy, Mayor Jerry Larsen, and his wife, Lisa Larsen, co-founded the celebration of  mystery and thriller writers and fans.

Twenty-five years ago, as the Energy Department announced “significant progress” in forming a community advisory council at Brookhaven National Laboratory, an East Hampton activist group demanded closer attention to the radioactive contamination leaking from the lab into the groundwater. And more ripped from The Star of yore.