With Dow Down, Hamptons’ Charity Galas Suffer Through a Sluggish Summer - NYTimes.com

With Dow Down, Hamptons’ Charity Galas Suffer Through a Sluggish Summer - NYTimes.com: "BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. — Trustees of the Children’s Museum of the East End rejected a dinner dance at a rented farm in favor of a cocktail party on the museum grounds here, replaced a five-piece rock ‘n’ roll cover band with a teenage jazz combo and slashed ticket prices to $150 from $450, but still only drew about 150 guests, half the number that turned out for the benefit last year."