by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Jan 23, 2020
As time marches on, many businesses come and go. Some are with us for only a snippet of time – you know, summer businesses trying to outrun their creditors – while others endure. One such enduring business is the Villa Paul, owned by the wonderful Pensa...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Jan 16, 2020
Have you ever had problems with road signs? Of course you have, we all do. They are too small, they are too beat up, they are in the wrong place. You can see them clearly in your side window as you whiz past your exit, but that is about the only time. Yet we think...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Jan 10, 2020
It will surprise none of our readers to learn that through the decades, even centuries, a variety of people have wandered through our hamlet, leaving in their wake a variety of marks, some vast, some half vast. One individual on the vast side was Rev. Foster Perry....
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Dec 16, 2019
Thar she Blows! No, it wasn’t me spouting off. It was the whales. What whales? What a silly question. The Christmas Whales of course. Never heard of them? Well, there was a book called The Christmas Whale, published in 1945 – Santa’s reindeer get sick and a...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Nov 7, 2019
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go Between Asking questions of loved ones often leaves us with surprises. You don’t always get the answer you expect to receive. (And real surprises can end in divorce) One such...
