Join us on the lawn of the Annie Cooper Boyd House (or inside if it rains), Saturday May 17th for the Museum's Annual Meeting followed by the opening of the Museum for the 2025 season. The Museum hours & days …
This week (May 19 - 24), Joel Snodgrass, stone conservator, and Zach Studenroth, SHHM President will be working on straightening, cleaning and restoring the 12 Beebee family headstones in the Old Burying Ground. Six (6) were severely damaged during the …
Hands-on Cemetery Workshop in the Old Burying Ground Read More »
The group of 12 Beebee family headstones was severely damaged in the Hurricane of 1938 and have remained broken in multiple pieces and partially buried since that time. This restoration project, funded by a grant from the Robert David Lion …
Join us for the grand opening cocktail reception for our 2025 exhibit "Wedding Dresses, 1840-1925 From Victorian Fashion to the Roaring 20s". Meet the curators, Museum trustees Mary Jane Marcasiano and Alex McNear, who will share details of the exhibit …
Back by popular demand, Zach Studenroth, SHHM President, will conduct a series of four different walking tours of the Old Burying Ground, one on each of the last Sundays of June, July, August and September. Meet at the flagpole at …
Captain Cliff Clark will share with us, the unique, 200+ year history of the South Ferry, which travels between North Haven, on the South Fork and the southern tip of Shelter Island, and links travelers to Connecticut and New England, …
Plan ahead. Before we know it July will be here, and calendars get filled quickly. We hope you'll join us at this year's party. We have LOTS to share: the results of ground penetrating radar at the Old Burying Ground …
Annual Benefit Party: “History Beneath Our Feet” Read More »
Back by popular demand, Zach Studenroth, SHHM President, will conduct a series of four different walking tours of the Old Burying Ground, one on each of the last Sundays of June, July, August and September. Meet at the flagpole at …
Join us on the porch to hear Kathryn & Gavin Menu, Co-Publishers and Bryan Boyhan, former Publisher and SHHM VP & Trustee share the colorful and long history of our local newspaper the Sag Harbor Express. The presses first ran …
Sag Harbor was occupied by the British for 7 years during the revolution and they built a fort, known as a redoubt, on a hill that happens to be the view from a window the Randy Croxton's house. Croxton has …
Back by popular demand, Zach Studenroth, SHHM President, will conduct a series of four different walking tours of the Old Burying Ground, one on each of the last Sundays of June, July, August and September. Meet at the flagpole at …
Sag Harbor's illustrious, notorious, and colorful residents have left their records in the Old Burying Ground. From young John Peirson and Nathaniel Baker, who were "unfortunately killed by the accidental discharge of a cannon while celebrating the return of peace" …