THIS WEEK AT BHM
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Open Hours
Wednesdays to Saturdays
11am to 3pm
FREE ADMISSION
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Our Island’s Story:
The Natural History of Long Island
with Tara Rider, Ph.D.
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Saturday, April 19 from 5 to 6pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
What’s intriguing about Long Island and our surrounding waters is that so much of the story happened in the last 12,000 years, when humans were here. This talk will discuss the features that make Long Island’s geology distinctive and have shaped the peoples who have inhabited this island.
Co-Sponsored by the Southfork Natural History Museum and Nature Center.
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Saturday, April 26 from 2 to 3:30pm
The Hampton Library
2478 Main Street, BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Don’t miss this solo reading of original poems and songs by Peter Mallon Walsh, a writer, performer, and former owner of the legendary New York City watering hole Coogan’s, which is the subject of the award winning documentary Coogan’s Way and the best-selling book by Jon Michaud, Last Call at Coogans’s: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar.
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Sunday, May 4 from 10 to 11am
Wednesday, July 16 from 11am to 12pm
Saturday, September 13 from 11am to 12pm
The Beebe Windmill
Hildreth Avenue, BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Join Julie Greene, the Southampton Town historian for a chance to step inside this 200-year-old mill and learn about its history. Originally built in Sag Harbor for Lester Beebe in 1820, this windmill has been moved a total of five times and is linked to many notable East End families including Rose, Ludlow, Topping, Sandford and Sayre. Beebe is one of the first Long Island windmills to have a fly, regulators and cast iron gears and still retains many of its original parts showing an interesting part of American engineering history.
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Various Locations Throughout the Summer Season
$20 per person per class
Artist and teacher Howard Rose will be leading a series of Plein Air Painting Classes for this summer with the Bridgehampton Museum. Plein Air painting has a lengthy history on the East End of Long Island with artists like William Merritt Chase. These classes are for artists of all abilities from beginners to professionals and will take place at a series of beautiful locations throughout the East End. Join us to get hands on with some history!
At the culmination of this program, The Bridgehampton Museum will be hosting an exhibition of works done by students in this class. Each student will be able to submit one piece they worked on during one of the classes to be part of the exhibition which will be on view in the museum this fall.
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5/10 at The Bridge Golf Club
5/24 at The Corwith House
6/14 at The Arts Center at
Duck Creek Farm
6/28 at The Nathaniel Rogers House
7/12 at The Madoo Conservancy
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7/26 at Bridge Gardens
8/9 at The Corwith House
8/23 at The Southfork Natural History
Museum & Nature Center
9/6 at The Nathaniel Rogers House
9/20 at The Carl Fisher House
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Growing Up Literary: George Plimpton’s Son Reflects with Taylor Plimpton
Saturday, May 10 from 5 to 6pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
Free Admission
Author and essayist Taylor Plimpton, son of Paris Review founding editor George Plimpton, reminisces on growing up among giants of the written word like Peter Matthiessen and next-door neighbor Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack, one of the most remarkable literary hamlets in the world.
Co-sponsored by Canio’s.
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Searching for a Better Life: Looking Back at the African American Migration to Bridgehampton with Pat Turner Ph.D.
Saturday, May 17 from 5 to 6pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
Free Admission
UCLA research professor Patricia A. Turner, PhD, whose family migrated to “the Turnpike” in 1930, will share stories of the people and institutions that forged Bridgehampton’s resilient black community.
Co-sponsored by Canio’s and the Eastville Community Historical Society.
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Mini-Whale Making Workshop with UpSculpt
Saturday, June 7 from 12 to 4pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
Free Admission
Artists and educators Cindy Pease Roe and Bri Sander will guide you in transforming marine plastic debris into unique mini whale sculptures—all while learning about ocean conservation and Bridgehampton’s rich maritime history.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.
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Encaustic Workshop with Bonnie Rychlak
Monday through Friday, 9am to 12pm
July 21- 25 | August 18 -22
The Corwith House
$150 Per week long class
Learn the ancient technique of encaustic painting which dates to the Greeks. Students will be led by teacher and artist Bonnie Rychlak to learn the basics of this ancient craft that involves using hot wax and pigments to create something of a mixture between painting and sculpting. Through demonstrations, discussion and exploration, students will discover its endless possibilities for making art.
There is a class size limit of 10 students and students will be expected to come to all five classes. All materials will be supplied for this class.
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Famous Long Island Shipwrecks with Bill Bleyer
Saturday, October 18 from 5 to 6pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
Free Admission
Learn about prominent Long Island shipwrecks in a lecture by historian, author and retired Newsday reporter Bill Bleyer. The PowerPoint lecture will include maritime disasters from the Prins Maurits carrying colonists to what would become Delaware, HMS Culloden wrecked at Montauk during the American Revolution, the Mexico and Bristol carrying immigrants during the early 1800s, the fire that destroyed the steamship Lexington in 1840 – Long Island Sound’s worst calamity – to the sinking of the USS San Diego in World War I and the loss of the tugboat Gwendoline Steers in a 1962 winter storm.
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