Kevin McAllister of Defend H20. ELIZABETH VESPE
Long Island’s well-being depends on a healthy environment, including healthy beaches, according to Kevin McAllister, who was the Peconic Baykeeper for 16 years and is the founder of Defend H20, a nonprofit organization that advocates for clean water. However, the beaches are in peril due to the rising sea levels associated with climate…
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Cindy Pease Roe outside of her studio in Greenport. Dana Shaw photo.
Her Southold studio, located at the boatyard at Port of Egypt Marine, is filled with containers of discarded lighters, balloons, straws, fishing tags and anything else that appears to no longer serve any purpose. Most of the items were found in beach cleanups on Long Island. For Ms. Roe, the garbage can be used to make sculptures of anything…
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A 1907 postcard featuring a scene from Amagansett.
Never had Richard Doctorow thought his study of whaling history could involve postcards, stamps and a dodo bird. But ahead of the exhibition “Mailing Whaling,” the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum curator is, borderline, swimming in piles of the first two — and mulling over the third. This particular story begins in 1907, when two washed…
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Candace Hill Montgomery at work weaving in her Bridgehampton home. Michael Heller photo
When Candace Hill Montgomery touches her fingers to the threads — carefully, energetically, sporadically or messily woven through her handmade loom — her mind slows down. But it does not quiet. She has countless hours of weaving ahead — her most recent collection, “Hills & Valleys,” on view starting Friday, May 24, at the Sag Harbor…
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In October 1961, the film “King of Kings” was screened at the Sag Harbor Cinema. The film was a bio-pic about the life and death of Jesus Christ and among its stars was Hurd Hatfield who played Pontius Pilate. After the screening, locals who were there recall that Hatfield, dressed in a red blazer, spoke in person, sharing stories about the…
Read moreThe Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum will present a new exhibit, Sea and Sky, featuring the works of Whitney B. Hansen, Paton Miller and Scott Bluedorn, starting Friday, June 22. The exhibit expresses texture, layering, colors and various mediums and subjects. The beauty is there, sought as…
Read more“The Wanderer” by Scott Bluedorn.
The Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum may have shaken up its board, but they’re ultimately getting back to basics. “Sea and Sky,” an exhibition exploring the texture, color and layering of the two most fundamental elements of the East End, will open with a reception on Friday, June 22, at the Sag…
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"Fare Well, Fair Whale" by Joe Pintauro, 2018.
There was meaning to Susan Lazarus-Reimen’s method when she added the word “Anchor” as the precursor to “A Whale of a Show.” The new title would open the art show’s theme to interpretation, the curator explained, inviting new ideas into the annual exhibition at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical…
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Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum BOB WEINSTEIN
What began as an informal tribute to Bob Weinstein’s beloved Sag Harbor has grown into a photography exhibition that will now be mounted for the second time on the East End, putting architectural details into focus, from roof-lines to winding staircases to hinges. “Take a Closer Look” opens this weekend at…
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Captain David Hand, died 1840, age 81. Painting by Sabrina Streeter
If you didn’t know any better, you’d think it was a story line from a mystery novel. A legendary man in a small seaside community marries a young woman. That young woman soon dies, leaving the man a widower. So he finds and marries another young woman. But this bride, too, soon meets her demise, so the man takes a third wife, and…
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Cindy Pease Roe at work in her studio. Laurie Barone-Schaefer photos
The 6-foot-tall steel whale tail stretches up toward the ceiling, its 7-foot-wide flukes parallel to the floor. It makes an immediate impression and, with enough clearance to walk underneath, begs to be explored, and explained.
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Donald Sultan has no interest in actual sailboats. He doesn’t even like being on the water. But his bathrooms in both Sag Harbor and New York say otherwise. There are war ships, merchant ships, clipper ships and even sailboats thoughtfully placed in each — all meticulous, all handmade, and all miniature...
Read moreFace to Face, a series of portraits of local artists and writers, tells a profound tale - without needing a single word...
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Jonathan Morse holding his portrait of Peter Marcelle.
A life of the mind: that’s what Jonathan Morse explores through his upcoming photography exhibition at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum Museum, titled “Face to Face...
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“Sag Harbor Whale” by Dan Rizzie.
As of last week, Dan Rizzie and Susan Lazarus-Reiman were still in good spirits as they neared the finish line, and opening night, of “Anchor: Whale of a Show” — their first joint effort as a husband-and-wife curating team...
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The living room in Jonathan Morse's Sag Harbor home. DANA SHAW
Photographer Jonathan Morse doesn’t have to walk far to get to his exhibition, “Face to Face: East End Portraits,” which is on display from June 16 to July 12 at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum...
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‘Castelli and Mary Montes Rauschenberg in Car,’ charcoal and pastel in paper, 23×35 by Mary Montes.
Ever since she was a little girl growing up in Ringwood, New Jersey, Mary Montes has been interested in art and the people who make it. She credits her uncle, Tom Stadnick...
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Displays at the Long Island Welcome Center, which is located just off the Long Island Expressway. The whalebones are located at center right. Photo by Darren McGee for Empire State Development
The Long Island Expressway is infamous for its carbon monoxide, bumper-to-bumper traffic and the unofficial and unflattering title it has held since the 1960s as the “world’s longest parking lot.” Now, the LIE has a new and more positive claim to fame...
Read moreThe graveyard of Sag Harbor’s Old Whalers Church on the night of October 23. Michael Heller photo
If there is one thing Annette Hinkle knows how to do, it’s tell a good story. Combine that talent with a miniature version of her Spirits of Sag Harbor walking tour, and a perfectly average summer night three years ago turned particularly eerie, putting her friends noticeably on edge as they sat down on the steps of the Old Whalers Church to take a breather...
Read moreTagging a juvenile great white shark off Long Island in July. Photos courtesy of Ocearch
The great white sharks patrolling the world’s oceans, including the shallow waters just off Long Island’s beaches, once more showed their power to fascinate on Saturday when one of their champions, Chris Fischer, drew a standing room only crowd to the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum...
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