It is that time of year again. The daffodils are out, the robins are flitting in my yard, and I am planning my summer months at Fishers. I am very excited about this year’s line-up of Museum programs and events. With the generous sponsorship of Altus Partners and Chubb, our director Pierce Rafferty has assembled
Land Trust Report 2016 – Spring 2017 by Bob Miller 2016 was an active and productive year for the Land Trust. We received contributions of two parcels of environmentally sensitive land—one with an area of over one acre on the East End Road donated by Henry and Margaret King,
by Pierce Rafferty After purchasing the western tip of Fishers Island for fortification purposes in September 1898, one of the U.S. Government’s first tasks was to create a landing dock for supplies. Silver Eel Pond drew immediate attention as a favored site. A letter to the Chief of Engineers, dated December 13, 1898, revealed
The Museum has sought for years to locate details on the shipwreck that gave Isabella Beach its name. . . Henry L. Ferguson’s history of the island, “Fishers Island, N.Y.: 1614-1925,” published in 1925, had only the sketchiest reference to the wreck: “The schooner Isabella Blake, after which the beach is named, went ashore in
Man standing on south shore of South Dumpling Island, Fishers Island Sound, 1895. Photo by James S. Casey. by Robert P. Anderson, Jr. My earliest memory of the name South Dumpling Island, almost 70 years ago, was hearing my father Robert P. Anderson entertain guests in the main cabin of our ketch Kestrel
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
Mansion House Cottages on Bell Hill, circa 1913. Postcard published by Brown & Dawson. Museum Collection. Island History by Pierce Rafferty In 1889, two brothers named Edmund and Walton Ferguson, both successful bankers, bought approximately ninetenths of Fishers Island from the Fox family. The new owners immediately began to implement a plan to
The Henry L. Ferguson Museum is pleased to announce that Bronya Shillo has chosen to donate one percent of the sales from her Fishers Island Lemonade company to the Henry L. Ferguson Museum. (This popular lemonade and alcohol “concoction” is packaged in a can that features an award-winning design.) The annual donation is received
Sad News on HLFM’s Tagged Ospreys Osprey Charlie is Presumed Dead. Throughout early December 2015, the HLFM received cell-tower transmitter signals from tagged Osprey Charlie as he headed south through Cuba on his southern migration. He passed into the Dominican Republic on December 13th. The last transmitter signals from Charlie were received on December 19th.
Martin Becker and Alex Todororovic-Jones Yale School of Forestry Graduate Students to Assist Land Trust Martin Becker and Alex Todororovic-Jones, graduate students from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will be on Fishers Island during the months of June and July, 2016. They are helping the Museum’s Land Trust to develop
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F.I. Sketchbook 2005
