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Throwback Thursday- Jazz at Gosman’s Dock

We first learned about Toots Thielmans from Pat DeRosa, the 99-year-old Montauk jazz saxophonist who was recently inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.  DeRosa recalled with delight the summer that Thielmans played jazz at Gosman’s Dock.  Thielmans had been catapulted to fame in 1969 after the release of Midnight Cowboy. The movie’s melancholic theme… Read more »

Throwback Thursday- The Lighthouse

The Montauk Lighthouse structure as we know it today received its daymark, or dark red horizontal band, in 1899.  It was done to help sea captains distinguish which lighthouse they were looking at during daylight.  A lighthouse at night, with its steady or blinking flash, dispersed location information to the sea traveler, but during the… Read more »

Sharing Music with Lori!

Welcome to Montauk Library Sharing Music with Lori. We are springing forward and with spring  just around the corner, it is a beautiful day for a spring time edition of Sharing Music with Lori!