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Throwback Thursday – A Most Beautiful Section of Long Island

Throwback Thursday – A Most Beautiful Section of Long Island

The Parsons Inn, 1900s. | Albert Holden Collection, Montauk Library Archives. Right, Montauk’s first schoolhouse, the Hither Plain school, in 1918. It served children from Fort Pond Bay and the life-saving stations at Hither Plain and Ditch Plain. Turtle Hill and the entire Point seem to be an immense sand pile, packed so tight that… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Fish & Ships

The children don’t look very happy but the boat sure is beautiful. Also, the Blessing of the Fleet is on Sunday, June 11, and Father’s Day is a week after that, so the photograph seems timely. The 42-foot Ban-Gee was custom-built in 1956 by Rybovich Boats of West Palm Beach. A Rybovich sportfishing boat was… Read more »