Programs & Exibitions

A New Settlement and Town

By |2023-01-14T19:55:42-05:00January 12th, 2023|Exhibit Gallery|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY A NEW SETTLEMENT AND TOWN Map of Lots on Fishers Island, Embracing the Highland Range, May 1, 1878, traced 1919. Museum Collection. The original of this map was produced just two years after the island-owning Fox family began developing

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Work and Workers

By |2023-01-14T19:55:56-05:00January 12th, 2023|Exhibit Gallery|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY WORK AND WORKERS Capt. Nash of the Steamer Munnatawket, circa 1905. Courtesy of Diane Franford. An early and long-serving employee of the Fergusons’ private Navigation Co. (founded in 1890), Capt. Nash lived on Fishers Island in a house filled

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2022 Annual Exhibition: Year Round – A Celebration of Community

By |2024-02-01T12:32:40-05:00January 10th, 2023|Exhibitions, Virtual Exhibit|

THE HENRY L. FERGUSON MUSEUM ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 Year Round: A Celebration of Community Year Round This year’s Annual Exhibition acknowledges, celebrates, and honors the people, organizations, and recurring events that support and bind our Fishers Island community together throughout the

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Winter

By |2023-01-14T19:57:00-05:00July 14th, 2022|Exhibit Gallery|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY WINTER Santa ready to roll to the FIFD’s annual Children’s Christmas Party at the Legion. (Santa ID, date and photographer unknown.) Photograph courtesy of the FIFD Santa waving to the kids from firetruck, December

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Fall

By |2023-01-14T19:57:10-05:00July 14th, 2022|Exhibit Gallery|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY FALL Race Rock Garden Company “Pit Party” held annually in former Fort Wright mortar pit, October 13, 2019. Photograph by Polly Talbott Poster for the American Legion’s Lobster Fest, October 10, 2020.

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Summer

By |2023-01-14T19:57:21-05:00July 14th, 2022|Exhibit Gallery|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY SUMMER Sailing Masters of 1812 Fife and Drums Corps leading July 4th Parade, July 7, 2019. Photograph by Jane T. Ahrens IPP sponsors this colorful, fun-filled event each year. The July 4th Parade approaching

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Spring

By |2023-01-14T19:57:35-05:00July 14th, 2022|Exhibit Gallery|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY SPRING A sign of spring. Photograph by John “Speedy” Mettler They’re back! Photograph by Mary P. Murphy The spring season is marked on F.I. by the return of nesting ospreys from their wintering

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ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2023

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F.I. Sketchbook 2005

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF CHARLIE FERGUSON

In the full sweep of Fishers Island’s history, there is no artist more synonymous, more closely associated with Fishers Island than Charles B. “Charlie” Ferguson. The main show features images from two of Charlie's sketchbooks which functioned as illustrated diaries that were filled with daily activities, nature observations, personal notes, and lots of art—drawings, sketches, and watercolors—in various states of completion.

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