Gifts

A Grant for Today and Tomorrow

By |2020-05-22T15:05:10-04:00June 5th, 2019|Gifts, Newsletter, Newsletter 2019|

In December 2017, the Museum received a generous five-year grant from the Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation to make the Museum’s collections more interactive and accessible for its members and visitors. In 2018, the first year of the grant, the Museum chose several thousand images and hundreds of historical documents from our archives that were

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A Generous Donation from the Charles B. Ferguson Family

By |2020-05-16T12:00:12-04:00May 25th, 2018|Gifts, Island History, Newsletter, Newsletter 2018|

Charlie Ferguson posing with Tedwyns Tailagan, Field Trials, Fishers Island, 1931 A Generous Donation from the Charles B. Ferguson Family In the period following Charlie Ferguson’s death on January 7, 2018, his family searched through his many possessions for objects, books and creative works that were a good fit with the Museum’s various

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Fowler Family Donates Rare Book to HLFM

By |2020-04-14T20:37:33-04:00May 23rd, 2017|Gifts, Newsletter, Newsletter 2017|

Title page of book donated by Fowler Family. Note signature of John Winthrop, Jr. Fowler Family Donates Rare Book to HLFM Four members of the Fowler family—Angela W. Fowler, Lucius L. Fowler, H. Winthrop Fowler and Cecily F. Grand—have donated a rare 397 year old library catalogue to the Museum. The Catalogus

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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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