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has been donated to these groups as a result of the Clamshell Foundation. The Sandcastle Contest will take place this year on August 6. The Great Bonac Fireworks will take place on July 16. Julie Ratner, who lost a sister to cancer many years ago, has for the past 15 years held Ellen’s Run to raise money for charity. As you might expect, the money raised, which averages about a quarter of a million dollars a year, goes to cancer related charities. Having received the letter from Ross Perchik, I thought to ask Julie where her money goes. Almost all of it, it turns out, goes locally. Ellen’s Run has donated to the new Southampton Hospital Ellen Hermanson Breast
Center, other money goes to oncological social work, to Neighbors Helping Neighbors, which can provide eyeglasses for needy kids, transportation for kids having to get to the doctor, to Cancer Alert, which is a lecture series, for equipment for Southampton Hospital, for Ellen’s Well, an oncological support center for cancer survivors, for the “Day of Hope,� for gifts for the ill. “The money we raise on the East End is spent on the East End,� she told me. Ellen’s Run will take place in Southampton on Sunday, August 21, with a party on Saturday evening, July 30, at West Kill Farm in Bridgehampton that will feature Laura Linney. Dan’s Papers has its own fundraiser every year, an affair we have run for the past 33 years
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called the Dan’s Papers Potatohampton Minithon. Beneficiaries over the years have included the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center, the Southampton Animal Shelter, the eastern Long Island branch of the American Heart Association and Southampton Hospital. The race will take place this year on Saturday morning, June 4. In addition to local charities that provide help for people in need, of course, there are nonprofits that need help to provide services to enrich our minds. These include Bay Street Theatre, Guild Hall, our local libraries, the Parrish Art Museum, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center and a host of others. There are also charities that provide services for our pets. ARF and Bide-aWee come to mind. And now a personal plug: I would also like to invite everyone reading this to come to the annual Gospel Concert to benefit the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center. I’ve been an active member of the board of this group for many years, and it’s an easy drive down the Sag Harbor Turnpike from our offices to see how that facility provides day care, summer camp, recreation on their fields and educational programs such as lectures and computer classes. The date and place for the concert have yet to be announced, but once it is, I’ll let you know. Call 631-537-0616 for further information.
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“Because everybody in town knew him. And so they knew the deal. When we rounded them up— and he has a very distinctive style—we were able to see just how extensive this was.� On the back of many of them, Amundsen sometimes attached biographies of the artist he invented who painted what was on the front. He’d type them up. “These I would like to see,� I said. As it happened, Wallace had them with him. They were written up in the manuscript of his biography of Amundsen—getting published next month—and he had it in his car. He went and got it. “Sven Sagg. Sven Sagg has lived near the water all of his life and roams all the seas in search of new ideas. Loves to paint tropical views, and his use of color and authenticity of his canvas has caused him to be recognized and his work to be in demand.� “H. Nansen. H. Nansen is a towering figure in modern painting. Born in Switzerland, he spent many years of study in that country and in the various art centers of Europe. He had a gift of penetrating vision to a great degree, which far exceeded that of his contemporaries. His paintings are full of haunting solitude. He was preeminently a master of light and shadow. Most of his paintings reveal the turbulent strength of the sea, the beauty of which was never before so completely realized as in Nansen’s compositions.� “I see the paintings have a number and a folio number written on these biographies,� I said. “He made them all up. Each of his aliases had a whole codex of paintings and they are all different, but there is no rhyme or reason to the numbering. Cappy was just playing around.�
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