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...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Oct 11, 2019
Seeing as it it American Archives Month, we last regaled you with some of our intriguing artifacts. We do hope you enjoyed viewing some of the three-dimensional items from our archives. This week we thought we’d showcase something a bit different. Oral Histories....
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Sep 26, 2019
One treasure in our archives is a scrapbook by a local resident. It is a veritable wealth of local information, as it is predominantly from the Hampton Bays News. This newspaper was published by our former Police Chief, Mr. John Sutter. While flipping through one of...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Sep 19, 2019
After a volcanic eruption – from Mt. Tambora, in Indonesia, in 1815 – led to massive failure of crops worldwide in 1816, The Year Without a Summer, resulting in the massive death of horses, a replacement for the trusty steed was sought. The two-wheeled,...
