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Fort Pond Native Plants in Montauk has just half the work force it needs going into the spring season because the Department of Homeland Security has not lifted a cap on the number of seasonal worker visas it issued this year. Kyril Bromley
Poet Margaret Brehmer died on January 20 in her home in Greenport. She was 87.
Ms. Brehmer was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in 1928 and grew up in Upper Red Hook, New York. She attended a one-room schoolhouse before high school and graduated magna cum laude in 1948 from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in French. While attending Mount Holyoke, she babysat for the young Bart Giamatti whose father was a professor at Mount Holyoke. After college Ms. Brehmer was accepted into a post-graduate program where she taught English to young French students in Guingamp, Brittany, after World War II. She met her future husband, Frank Brehmer, on a blind date New Year’s Eve at the farmhouse of the Mead Apple Orchard of Tivoli, New York. They were married in 1950 and raised three boys in Forest Hills.
Ms. Brehmer worked as an editorial assistant for World Education, an organization dedicated to literacy and non-formal education for adults. An avid quilter and poet, Ms. Brehmer moved to the East End of Long Island in North Haven. Her poems were published in “Sag Harbor is a Literary Celebration” and “In Autumn: An Anthology of Long Island Poetry,” as well as the East Hampton Star, The Southampton Press and Taproot Journal.
She is survived by her sons, Lin Brehmer and wife Sara Farr of Chicago; David Brehmer and wife Megan Matchinske of North Carolina, and John and wife Sarah of Oregon; and four grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband of 60 years, Frank Brehmer; a sister, Virginia; and brother, John.
Memorial donations may be made to Mercy Corps, mercycorps.org.
on Jan 25, 2016