Posts Tagged:Friends of the Montauk Library

Throwback Thursday — SoDalicious Irish Bread

Throwback Thursday — SoDalicious Irish Bread

  According to the Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread – yes, there is such a thing! – Irish soda bread was born of necessity during the potato famine. Ireland was importing a soft type of wheat from America, and yeast was difficult to obtain. Adding baking soda (also called bread soda) to… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Bob-E and the Book Fair

Throwback Thursday – Bob-E and the Book Fair

Barbara Metzger (1944-2023) was an award-winning novelist, editor, writer of greeting card verses, artist, and longtime volunteer with the Friends of the Montauk Library. It was in that last capacity that Bob-E, as she was known, was instrumental in organizing book fairs on the Montauk Green on July Fourth weekends from 1980 to 2014.  In… Read more »