“’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 »
One of seven children, Sarah (King) Tuthill was sent at age 6 to Montauk to live with Loretta Dickinson, a friend of her mother’s who lived in “better circumstances” and had indicated that “she would like to have one of the girls.” In an oral history interview in 1967, when she was 81, Sarah… Read more »
If you don’t know what a cow shoe is, you may want to get educated at “How Dry We Weren’t,” a hands-on exhibit presented by the Montauk Historical Society at the Carl Fisher House. The answer is concealed behind a little door – with a crystal pull, of course, this being the decadent 1920s –… Read more »