Virtual Exhibit

2016 Exhibition: Mansion House Hotel & Cottages

By |2023-01-14T20:34:33-05:00June 22nd, 2016|Virtual Exhibit|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2016 Mansion House Hotel & Cottages Curated by HLFM director Pierce Rafferty Mansion House & Cottages. Printed color postcard. Circa 1912. Published by W.G. Wilbur. Museum Collection. Donated by Pierce Rafferty The 2016 exhibition chronicled the rise and fall of the Mansion House, the premier hotel on

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2015 Special Exhibition: Building the Olmsted Plan

By |2023-01-14T20:34:47-05:00June 7th, 2015|Special Exhibit, Virtual Exhibit|

SPECIAL EXHIBITION 2015 Building the Olmsted Plan Curated by HLFM director Pierce Rafferty In the early 1920s, two leaders of the second generation of Ferguson owners, Henry L. and Alfred L. Ferguson, turned their attention to the mostly undeveloped eastern two-thirds of the island. Operating as officers of the Fishers Island Farms, Inc.,

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2014 Annual Exhibition: Coming and Going

By |2023-01-14T20:34:04-05:00June 2nd, 2014|Virtual Exhibit|

ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2014 COMING AND GOING Curated by HLFM director Pierce Rafferty The 2014 exhibition chronicled modes of transportation to and from Fishers Island with a focus on the period from the late-1870s to date. Why this time focus? Remarkably, there was little reason for boats to come to our shores for the

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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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