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COVID-19 Notice

By |2023-01-14T20:38:37-05:00May 16th, 2020|News|

Due to the threat posed by Covid-19 to our island community, the H.L. Ferguson Museum will remain closed to the public until further notice. The Land Trust trail system throughout the island, which is maintained by the Museum, is currently open for visitors in accordance with new guidelines. (See below for more details.) For the

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Two Osprey Eggs on Middle Farms Nest

By |2020-06-27T10:36:50-04:00May 6th, 2020|News, Osprey Blog 2020, WebCam|

Two osprey eggs were spotted on the Middle Farms nest during the early morning of May 6, 2020! Thanks to Dick Marshall for sending the first screen capture! Additional screen captures were taking later in the day.

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Male Woodcock Wooing with Every Dance Step

By |2020-04-14T19:02:08-04:00April 5th, 2020|News|

Spring is time for the Woodcock Mating Ritual. This male is wooing the woodcock ladies and will, if all turns out well, later engage in a spectacular “sky dance” with one of them. This video was captured by Claudia Desimone April 4th, 2020, 1:50 pm, on dirt road between Chippy’s house and East End Main

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Pool Party for Spring Peepers

By |2021-03-13T18:08:02-05:00April 2nd, 2020|Natural History, Nature Notes, News|

Pool Party for Spring Peepers Museum April 2020 Spring Peeper The wonders of nature never cease, and in our current circumstances time spent focusing on the natural world provides a welcome relief from the news. Spring has arrived and with it comes the nighttime sound that heralds the change in seasons: the

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Museum Closed

By |2020-05-16T20:10:24-04:00March 15th, 2020|Museum News, News|

The H.L. Ferguson Museum is closed until further notice. Due to the threat posed by Covid-19 to our community, the H.L. Ferguson Museum will remain closed to the public until further notice. The Museum will, however, present a full schedule of programming to the community throughout the 2020 season. Beginning in June, its lectures, exhibitions

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Remembering the Mystic Isle

By |2020-05-16T20:43:41-04:00February 24th, 2020|Island History, News|

Mystic Isle underway and approaching Silver Eel Cove Remembering the Mystic Isle We Fishers Islanders love our ferries, and those of us who are “of a certain age” wax particularly poetic over the M/V Mystic Isle, remembered fondly from our childhoods with its red leather seats, muraled walls and quirky onboarding midship. It

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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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