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Author and researcher Bill Bleyer joined us last month for a talk about his new book, The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington on Long...

Did you miss last week's Zoom lecture? No worries you can watch the recording now! Arbor day is a special day where we recognize some of...

Architect and interior designer Nina Edwards Anker, PhD joined us recently for a virtual talk on two Southampton structures that partake...

Before Central Park became a model for city parks worldwide, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial...

From November 18, 2021 to April 14, 2022 we hosted a series of six lectures by museum staff on various full/part-time residents of...

The actor we all know as Gary Cooper was born Frank James Cooper on May 7, 1901 in Helena Montana approximately 2,300 miles from...

Women in New York secured the vote in 1917, first voted in 1918, and in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified extending the vote to all...

Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland a the Irish’s quintessential holiday. What could be more Irish? The only thing is, he wasn’t...

In 1952, writing in ARTnews, Fairfield Porter hails the 29-year-old Roy Lichtenstein as “a young newcomer” to the art world though, at...

William Paley and CBS are larger subjects than I imagined when I first chose to do this talk. But here goes. It was 1951 when CBS...

Carole Stone is a Distinguished Professor of English and creative writing, emerita, Montclair State University. Her poetry collections...

I’ll start my talk today on a brief personal note. When I was in high school in Southampton we got a thrilling new next-door neighbor on...

Please join historian Sandi Brewster-Walker for a lively discussion on the crew of color who lived and worked at East Quogue’s Tiana...