The History of Farming on Fishers Island (Re-broadcast)

As farming has all but disappeared from Fishers Island it is easy to forget that since first English settlement in 1640s – our Island has primarily been a working stock farm and dairy with centuries of native Americans agricultural use before that – this talk brings farming back to the forefront.

An encore virtual screening.

HLFM Director Pierce Rafferty will host a virtual-only re-broadcast of his recorded illustrated talk ‘The History of Farming on Fishers Island,’ which was co-produced and co-directed by Marisela La Grave and funded by a generous grant from the Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation, Sunday, March 10th, at 4 PM. Please note that this talk was first presented virtually in August 2020.

Farming was our island’s dominant economic activity for more than two centuries following the first European settlement in the 1640s, displaced at the west end by resort development beginning in the 1870s and at the east end by the Olmsted Plan in the mid-1920s. There were dairy farms, gamekeeping farms, and poultry farms. Before tennis and golf, there were cows, sheep, and chickens!

Join Pierce virtually Sunday, March 10, 2024, at 4 PM, for a tour of this fascinating all-but-forgotten history that includes a visit to the Fishers Island Oyster Farm, the last surviving farm on Fishers Island.

Sunday, March 10, 2024
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Virtual via Zoom

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