Posts Tagged:local history

Throwback Thursday – So Many Marchers

Throwback Thursday – So Many Marchers

Frank Borth dedicated this cartoon to Dr. Gavino Mapula, who practiced at the Montauk Medical Center for more than two decades. So many patients visited the doctor to have fishhooks removed that he had a collection of extracted ones on display in his office.   Dr. Mapula marched at the head of the 1995 Montauk… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – One Woman’s History

Throwback Thursday – One Woman’s History

Above is Teresa Harrington Sarno | From an album of photographs taken by Maria-Louise Sidoroff, documenting the staff and kitchen during a 12-hour shift from dawn to dusk at Gosman’s Seafood Restaurant in Montauk, New York, on Labor Day Weekend, c. 1975, Montauk Library Archives Teresa Harrington Sarno at Gosman’s. | Teresa Harrington Sarno Photo… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – At Culloden Point

Throwback Thursday – At Culloden Point

A 74-gun British warship, the H.M.S. Culloden ran aground at the northeast corner of Fort Pond Bay during a winter storm in 1781. At the time Long Island was occupied by British forces, and the Culloden had been patrolling Block Island Sound in search of French ships providing aid to Rhode Island colonists. The Culloden was… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Girls on the Move

Throwback Thursday – Girls on the Move

Does anyone remember this bracing foray on Fort Pond Bay? We know that the year was 1963, the group were Montauk Girl Scouts, the leader wearing glasses was Betty Morici, and the photo was taken by Frank T. Moss. A Montauk troop—Troop No. 1 – of the Girl Scouts had been formed on February 16,… Read more »

Throwback Thursday — A View From Above

Throwback Thursday — A View From Above

The first known aerial photograph was taken over Paris by Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, a French photographer and balloonist, in 1858. Tournachon used a wet plate collodion process that required the photographic material to be prepared, exposed, and developed from a portable darkroom while aloft in a basket suspended from a gas balloon. From the 1880s to… Read more »

Throwback Thursday — Montauk’s Air Force Station

Throwback Thursday — Montauk’s Air Force Station

The Montauk Air Force Station operated from 1951 to 1981. Previously, the property had been used as a World War II coastal defense station disguised as a coastal fishing village. Subsequently, most was absorbed into Camp Hero State Park or used by the town for affordable housing. Originally from Pennsylvania, Ed Crasky had served as… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – And Now for Something Completely Different

Throwback Thursday – And Now for Something Completely Different

We’re trying something different for this week’s Throwback Thursday — sharing a photograph from our archives that we don’t know much about and asking for your help in identifying or recollecting the people, places, and stories behind the image.  What we do know is that this photograph is of a Montauk Community Church variety/talent show,… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Dialing MP

Throwback Thursday – Dialing MP

  Montaukers of a certain age may recollect some of the people and places in this chamber directory. They might even remember using a two-letter telephone exchange prefix: MP for Montauk Point, for example. The directory comes from a collection of printed materials and ephemera promoting Montauk restaurants, hotels, and the Montauk Chamber of Commerce… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Happiness is…

Throwback Thursday – Happiness is…

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France, 19th-century French poet, novelist, and journalist Clearly in agreement are more than 70 people who sent in photos of their “babies” for a Montauk Library community slideshow called “Pets of Montauk.” Dogs frolicking on the beach, cats curled on… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Holiday Cheer

Throwback Thursday – Holiday Cheer

A nasty horse named Humpty Dumpty gets a kick out of throwing riders. A bathtub morphs into a UFO and lifts off. A little girl wins a baby elephant in a mail-in coupon contest. A surfcaster hooks a mermaid off Montauk Point. The imagination of the illustrator Frank Borth extended all the way from drawing… Read more »