by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Jun 23, 2022
On Tuesday evening, our hamlet joined together to Congratulate the Graduates of the Class of 2022! The graduates lined up along the Ponquogue Bridge and those who cared to join the celebration drove past shouting their congratulations to these enthusiastic young men...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Jun 13, 2022
It is always interesting, at least to this history buff, how there are people in our past that were very popular, very well known, respected, and written about often, but who then seemingly disappear. Perhaps their descendents still revere them and speak of them. Or...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | May 1, 2022
April is soon departing and along with it goes Poetry Month. The authors have been reflecting on poetry; we aren’t sure if it is less popular or if the fact that now we have many options for focusing on whatever subject matter, genre or style of writing instead of...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Apr 8, 2022
Women’s History Month has disappeared for this year. But, we find ourselves celebrating a woman of another sort. It has come to our attention that St. Mary’s Episcopal Church just celebrated their 110th Birthday! Congratulations Episcopalians! The Episcopal Church was...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Mar 25, 2022
Keeping to the Women in History pattern, today we are going to give you a bit of insight into another local lady who some of our older folks may well remember. Dorothea (aka Dorothy) Sophia Puchmuller Francis was born in Laatzen Germany in 1867 and emigrated via...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Mar 17, 2022
We are fairly sure that you know who St. Patrick was, although if you give his wikipedia page a gander, you will see we all don’t really know much about him. He hasn’t been alive for donkey’s years and we don’t want to make a hames of it, so here are the high notes:...
