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Greetings East Hampton! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How East Hampton's faith community helped neighbors grieve after 9/11
  • How an East Hampton bar processed the first days after 9/11

Also on today's calendar: Surf Movie Night 2026 and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

• Prayer, Song, Silence Fill a Week Of Grief (easthamptonstar.com) — East Hampton churches and synagogues have been filled all week as residents turned to prayer, song, and candlelight vigils after the attacks. Local clergy, police, and year-round neighbors gathered in overflowing services, urging both healing and rejection of ethnic scapegoating while sharing stories of friends lost and volunteers heading from East Hampton to Lower Manhattan.
   

• After the Fall (easthamptonstar.com) — Residents gathered at The Grill in East Hampton watch nonstop coverage from Ground Zero, wrestling with pride, fear, and grief just days after the attacks. A local reporter then travels into Lower Manhattan, describing the harrowing rescue efforts, rumors, and small acts of kindness that shape how people here and across New York begin processing an unimaginable loss.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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