A toast to the ebbing days of summer! Color photograph of Alan and Christopher Yudt with their wives Jacqueline and Lisa, on the beach near the Surf Club, 1995 Beth Biondo, Photographer, Beth Biondo Collection, Montauk Library Archives. August, with its oppressive heat and humidity, has stepped aside for Indian summer. Mornings are chilly, but afternoons offer… Read more »
In honor and remembrance of September 11, 2001, we have compiled a list of books, events and resources to mark the twenty year anniversary of this day in history. Let us move forward in hope and peace. Events: On September 11 at 12:00pm, Suse Lowenstein will invite members of the public to her home… Read more »
The Pelican, photographed by Evangeline Pitts, 1951 Damaged open party boat Pelican sits behind clammer Ben Pitts, Pitts-Burke-Cullum Collection, Montauk Library Archives The man clamming in the foreground of this photograph was known as Augustus Petitpas in his native Nova Scotia, and as Ben Pitts in the United States. The beached boat listing behind him… Read more »
Welcome to Sharing Music with Lori. Enjoy the last couple weeks of summer with a sing along and dancing!
Postcard of the Wavecrest Motel. Printed by Color Photog. Assoc., Glen Cove, NY, ca. 1960s. Photographers, Olga Bedorf and Mona Shelley. Montauk Library Postcard Collection. Montauk Library Archives Postcard of the Blue Haven Motel, 1960s. J. J. Heatley, Smithtown, N.Y. Montauk Library Postcard Collection. Montauk Library Archives Knowledge about Montauk’s “Golden Age,” the period of sportfishing and vacationing that pushed our sleepy… Read more »
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Welcome to Bilingual Storytime with Mary Jane. Today Mary Jane will be reading, Meet The Little Prince/ Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery.
“Camp Wikoff, 24th Infantry (colored) coming to Detention Camp,” by photographer Dwight L. Elmendorf, 1898. African-American regiment arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, N.Y. Montauk Historical Society Collection, digital image. Montauk Library Archives It was August 1898 when Camp Wikoff opened to what quickly grew to be to be more than 20,000 sickened, injured, and… Read more »
Welcome to Bilingual Storytime with Mary Jane. Today Mary Jane will be reading Sobre Los Anfibios / About Amphibians by Cathryn Sill. For more books by this author, visit https://peachtree-online.com/portfolio-items/cathryn-sill/
Hither Hills State Park, c. 1950s. Postcard from the Montauk Library’s Postcard Collection. The pensive girl in the kerchief and the stone walkway lend a kind of European flavor to this thoughtfully composed image. Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” also comes to mind. Could the photographer be paying homage to a famous painting? The image, which… Read more »