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From left, Leslie and Loida Lewis, with Loida's grandchildren.

Widow of first black billionaire keeps his memory alive

Here in the star-spangled Hamptons, where the same celebrities ricochet from one fund-raiser to another to rub elbows with the same moneyed partygoers every weekend, last Sunday’s oceanside barbecue to benefit the new Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture was something of a phenomenon.

The event, a heartfelt celebration of the life of the nation’s first black 
billionaire, was conceived and 
planned by his widow, Loida Lewis of Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, and Manhattan, who has kept her 
husband’s memory alive since his death through interviews, speeches, books, and, most recently, the building of the museum, the largest of its kind on the East Coast.

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Deli going green and saving green

Catena’s Market in Southampton Village has gone green—and is saving some green with its new delivery service.

Instead of delivering meat to restaurants and lunches to offices and shops in the village by van, Catena’s delivery man is now getting around the village by bicycle.

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LaValle predicts property tax cap will be in place before year's end

Despite the State Legislature’s failure to act before the end of its session last month on a commission’s recommendation to cap yearly increases in school property taxes at 4 percent, State Senator Kenneth LaValle predicts a cap will be enacted into law by year’s end.

“We will do it in ’08, and we’ll do it before the election—because it needs to be done,” Mr. LaValle said in an interview last week.

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Ladies have their day at polo club

The divots on the field, the steady stream of intense shouts and dialogue coming from the players and the pounding of hooves were the most tangible signs of how far women’s polo has come in just a short time.

At the Southampton Polo Club on Saturday afternoon, the teams battling for the Palmer Cup—the two-goal championship of the ladies summer league—were every bit as skilled and competitive as their male counterparts, as they galloped down the field and made plenty of physical contact in their pursuit of the ball. Anyone who thought that the aggressive and physically demanding sport would take on a more genteel or quieter persona with women in the saddle was quickly proven wrong.

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At Bay Street, everybody needs 'Therapy'

Christopher Durang’s face—still youthful at 59, bespectacled and blanketed with tightly cropped gray beard—is becoming newly familiar all over again to New York theatergoers. That’s what happens when a playwright has four openings in the span of two and a half years.

His 1981 play, “Beyond Therapy,” opened in previews on Tuesday this week in a revival at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor and runs through July 27. Off-Broadway, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of his dark, absurdist comedy “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” opens this Sunday for an eight-week run.

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