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We have officially sold out for our 1st ever golf outing benefit at The Maidstone Club!!!
On this date in 1902, a member of the Hedges family was born! Anyone know who?
"GH March 31st 1902" is in silver on the top of this small, white, pasteboard gift box. Inside are a pair of crocheted blue wool booties with red trim, ties, and tassels. They are each 2" long, 1 3/4" high.
The box also has "Dean’s Fifth Ave NY" printed in gold inside the box top.
Donated by Mrs. William Hedges.
Now on our YouTube page!
Winter Lecture Series: Celebrating 100 Years of the East Hampton Historical Society
February: East Hampton Marine Museum
Please join us for the East Hampton Historical Society's Inaugural Golf Outing Thursday, May 26, 2022 at the Maidstone Golf Club in East Hampton. In addition to experiencing one of the most exclusive golf courses in America, players will enjoy an exquisite brunch before their rounds and cocktails, supper, and a live auction upon returning to the oceanfront clubhouse.
Individual tickets are $1,100 and a foursome is $4,000.
Schedule of the day:
11:30am – Registration and Brunch
1:30pm – Shotgun Start
5:30pm – Cocktails on the Veranda
6:30pm – Dinner and Live Auction
A black and white photographic print showing the wreck of the steamer ship "Kershaw," in 1918. The ship was bound from Virginia to Providence, RI. It came ashore on a bathing beach in East Hampton on March 12, 1918. The Kershaw was part of the Merchants and Miners Line. There is a handwritten paragraph on a piece of cardboard that gives an account of the shipwreck.
March 10th, 7pm
Join us for our monthly virtual book club with Tom Clavin, author of Dark Noon. Presented in partnership with the Montauk Historical Society, Mia Certic, Montauk’s Executive Director will also be joining us for the discussion.
Dark Noon is the mesmerizing re-creation of a fateful day at sea. It is also a story of the postwar American dream as experienced in the fishing village of Montauk, Long Island, where fish were money and where optimism and success went hand-in-hand. The book chronicles the end of an era when one terrible disaster changed the culture of a prosperous fishing port forever.
This book is available through the Suffolk County Cooperative Library System for interlibrary loan, as well as for purchase or download on Amazon.
Society members and the public are welcome at no charge.
Registration is required.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-uvpzgsGdzNIPpEysitlcLEEtdnhRwF
It’s women’s history month and we are celebrating the accomplishments of all women – those who created a home on places like Mulford Farm in the 1700s….and those who re-enact the craft of looming as well.
This black and white photographic print showing a woman, identified on the back as Mrs. Floyd Lester, weaving a carpet. Mrs. Lester, wearing colonial style clothing, is seated at a large loom, at Forefather’s Day during the 1980s.
Don't forget, today Friday, February 25, 2022 at 7pm
Winter Lecture Series: Celebrating 100 Years of the East Hampton Historical Society
The History Behind the Facades: Our Buildings Tell Our Stories: Marine Museum
At the East Hampton Library in the Baldwin Family Lecture Room
Speaker: Jacqueline Marks
📸: East Hampton Star January 13th, 1966
Now on our YouTube page!
Winter Lecture Series: Celebrating 100 Years of the East Hampton Historical Society
January: Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio
https://youtu.be/hPbI_61hPfI
Embossed cutout card in the shape of a blue mail collection box from about 1925 or 1930. When it comes out of the envelope, it is a rather boring shaded blue mailbox. When opened, it reveals its purpose with a cupid putting a letter into a mailbox attached to a pole. The poem reads, "What more can I do, what more can I say, than to tell you I love you, This Valentine’s Day." And to keep the recipient guessing, it is signed, "from Guess Who."
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
February 12, 1794...
A colored lithographic reproduction of a photographic image of "Windmill at Payne Homestead - (Home, Sweet Home)" is above "Season's Greeting With all good wishes for your happiness in the new Year" on the first page of this three-page card. The second page is smaller than the first, on lighter stock with a deckle edge. It has a printed message about the mill:
East Hampton's oldest windmill is here pictured. It has an interesting history. It originally stood on what is still called Mill Hill, north of the Town Pond, directly across the highway from where I now live. This mill was nearing completion in 1771 when it was sold by Colonel Abraham Gardiner, the brother of my great great great grandfather, to another ancestor, Jeremiah Miller. Miller willed it to his son Huntting Miller, my great great grandfather, on February 12, 1794, who in turn willed it to his grandson, William Hedges, my grandfather, on Oct. 25, 1828. Later Captain William Hedges sold it to David Hedges, who moved it to the "Hook" on the north side of Pantigo road. Still later Sandford acquired it and subsequently Nathaniel Dominy, by whom it was again moved, this time across the street, where it continued to grind until disabled by a storm in 1879. In 1917 Gustave Buek purchased it and moved it to "Home, Sweet Home," where it may now be seen.
Samuel C. Hedges Christmas, 1940.
