Posts Tagged:Duryea

The Storied ‘Cap’n Ed’

  “’Cap’n Ed’ as he was affectionately known, was a man of force and a picturesque character,” Jeannette Edwards Rattray wrote about Edwin Baker Tuthill, who in 1882 built the first house in what grew into a fishing village on Fort Pond Bay. Originally from East Marion, Captain Ed spent two summers fishing the bay… Read more »

Long Island Hurricane History Display

Archival hurricane photos on exhibit at Montauk Library until October 30, 2018 The Hurricane of 1938 remains the most devastating hurricane in recent memory, a gale with winds of 110 miles per hour that stormed into eastern Long Island and New England with no warning. Montaukers fled from their homes in Fort Pond Bay Village… Read more »