Emotional Flag Raising For Young Man Lost Too Soon: Photos

EAST HAMPTON, NY — When Peter Schaefer passed away tragically from a fall at 32 on August 27 last year, the East Hampton Town Historical Farm Museum lost one of its most passionate supporters.

By the time of his death, he was already an active environmentalist, an expert in local history and had become a member of the museum's board of directors.

On Saturday morning on the museum grounds at the corner of Cedar Street and North Main Street, a flag raising ceremony was held in Schaefer's honor.

East Hampton Town Board members Kathee Burke-Gonzalez and David Lys joined the Schaefer extended family, Prudence and Brian Carabine, museum staff, friends and supporters of the museum in raising a 50-year old American flag from the Carabine family, on a "flagpole" that was actually a 100-year old boat mast donated by the East End Classic Boat Society of Amagansett.

Photos by Richard Lewin Professional Photography, soniboy@aol.com.

Reporting by Richard Lewin.