November News & updates
11/2020 | Issue 1
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Upcoming Events

Aglow A Holiday Experience

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Join us on Saturday, November 28, from 4:00pm-8:00pm at Mulford Farm for a new holiday tradition!
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Tour the Farm while enjoying caroling at the Hedges-Edwards barn, beautiful holiday decorations, Santa Claus on his sleigh, light refreshments, and taking a selfie with friends at the Christmas Tree Wonderland.
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Don’t forget to visit our pop-up museum shop for the very best in East End gifts!
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Tickets will be timed and are limited.
Pre-registration is required.
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Cookies courtesy of our friends at Hamptons Aristocrat.
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Mulford Farm
10 James Lane
East Hampton, NY
$10 per adult, $5 per child
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Victorian Christmas at Moran Studio

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Join us for a very special holiday exhibition at the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio staring November 29th featuring festive decor, period clothing, antique postcards, beautiful silver, and period toys to recrate the atmosphere of a 19th century Christmas celebration.
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Tickets will be timed and are limited.
Pre-registration is required.
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November 29th, 11:00am-2:00pm
December 4th & 5th, 11:00am-5:00pm
December 11th & 12th, 11:00am-5:00pm
December 18th & 19th, 11:00am-5:00pm
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Moran Studio
229 Main Street
East Hampton, NY
$5 per person
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East Hampton From the Church Belfry from Picturesque America, William Cullen Bryant, 1872-1874
Gift: Gerson & Judith Leiber
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The 2021 Online Winter Lecture Series:
In Their Own Words
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Friday, January 29, 2021
I Remember When: John Howard Payne’s Memories of Old East Hampton & His Life, 1791-1852
Speakers: Hugh King & Kenneth Cullom
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Life in a Small Town: Lyman Beecher’s Reflections on East Hampton from 1798 to1810
Speaker: Richard Barons
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Friday, March 26, 2021
When Neighbors Were Neighbors: Character Studies by Cornelia Huntington (1803-1890) from Her Diary
Speaker: Barbara Borsack
Friday, April 30, 2021
Turn-of-the Century Tales: from “Wainscott Dumplings” by Alice E. Osborn Hand (1879-1968)
Speaker: Hilary Osborn-Malecki
Contact Marianne for more information.
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Your Help is Needed!

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The East Hampton Historical Society, like so many other non-profits, relies on public support to continue our mission of the preservation of the history and the culture of our community, and we need your help!
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Please consider supporting our Annual Appeal as we move into our centennial year of 2021 as YOUR historical society.
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Your generous donation goes to preserving these important landmarks for future generations and ensuring we can continue to offer an exceptional calendar of events and programs.
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Thank you in advance for your support!
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Hello Friends!
As we near the end of 2020, a quote I once heard keeps repeating in my mind. Orhan Pamuk said, “Real museums are places where time is transformed into space.” This idea has ruminated with me as the Executive Director of 5 amazing East End museums, and what those “spaces” have meant to many of you.
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Due to the pandemic, we were forced to experience them in very different ways than before. While closed, we missed the Studio where the creativity of the Morans comes to life, the Marine Museum where Baymen and whalers echo tales of the past, and Mulford Farm, where our colonial and agrarian past is ever present. Time transformed into space.
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When our doors were closed to visitors, we shifted our focus and efforts toward creating a more vibrant and active online museum “space” for YOU. We hope it educated, amused, and even inspired you during those difficult months. Through that virtual space, we engaged with more visitors than crossed our thresholds in a typical year. Time transformed into space…into new friends.
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We returned to the office to a very different way of doing things as staff continued to work to open the museums for the public. We used our Clinton Academy to celebrate women’s 100th anniversary of the vote (a great milestone in U.S. history). Weoffered tours of our farm and art spaces, and we continued to use online social media platforms to present programming. Time transformed space…new uses of familiar environments.
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In the last portion of the year, we shift again to offer both outdoor and indoor holiday fun through Aglow: A Holiday Experience at Mulford Farm and Victorian Christmas at the Moran Studio. It is our hope, you will see the East Hampton Historical Society remains mission focused to serve the public, and despite the challenges of 2020 (with its own transformations), we continue to help relieve some of the 2020 stress by sharing our positive spaces with you. Time transformed space into respite…through history.
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It’s important we share that although we have accomplished so much, this year has been difficult for us too. Our key fundraising events like the Antiques Show and House & Garden Tour had to be canceled. We like so many non-profits, we rely on public support to provide great programming and serve the community by the preservation of its history and culture. In this light, we ask that you consider supporting our “spaces” through our Annual Appeal. Time to transform our spaces…into support.
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Thanks in advance for your consideration, be well, happy holidays, and we look forward to serving you in 2021.
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Best,
Maria
Maria Vann
Executive Director
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Join!
Being a member of the East Hampton Historical Society means you are a part of an extraordinary effort to preserve history for the next generation and beyond.
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Your membership helps us tell the stories of the people and places who have made this community so remarkable, and will ensure the Society is “standing” for years to come.
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Rediscover YOUR history and either join, or renew your membership today.
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Ask a Curator on Facebook!

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Here is your chance to ask a curator for more information about a specific object you saw at one of the Society’ sites, or hear the “real deal” about long standing East Hampton Lore!
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On November 12, at 10:00am our Chief Curator will be discussing what children at during colonial times – you are going to be surprised! So grab your bowl of mush and tune into Facebook for some fun and interesting facts.
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Volunteer Spotlights

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David Cataletto

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David, an East Hampton native, has volunteered with the Society’s educational programs and family events for the past ten years. He is currently a history teacher at East Hampton Middle School, drawing his inspiration from our unofficial Town Crier, Hugh King, in the methods he uses to make history entertaining and fun.
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David’s motivation for volunteering is to light the fire of passion in other people, notably the youth in our town. He says, “I am really interested in history, especially our local history here on eastern Long Island…There is always so much more to learn about it.”
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During quarantine, David created a series of “Remember to Remember” videos for the Society, which focused on local history stories around town. He felt that the quarantine presented an ideal opportunity to make history videos – there was a captive audience already looking online for information and entertainment. He wanted people to realize that you can learn engaging and interesting things from the past.
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David is a trustee and founding member of the Amagansett Lifesaving Station and Coast Guard Museum, and he is on the East Hampton Nature Preserve Committee.  He offers nature and history tours on kayaks and bicycles as well. He is an avid sailor and enjoys going to the beach with Elizabeth, his wife of two years, and Theo Bay, his son. He enjoys perusing the stacks at the Sag Harbor Library and is currently working on a young adult historical fiction novel on the early history of East Hampton.
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You can see David embody Captain Cataletto in our “Remember to Remember” Series on our YouTube channel.
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Randy Wallace

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Randy began enjoying the weekends in East Hampton during the early 1980s with Don, his husband. He retired from his Manhattan job in 2001, when he and Don purchased a house here. For the first few years, they worked rigorously on their home, but Randy began to get restless and decided he needed to give back to the community.
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On a crisp autumn day thirteen years ago, without an appointment or an agenda, Randy walked into the Osborn-Jackson House for a tour. Being a lover of history, he was duly impressed. He decided he would ask the staff if he could help in some capacity. He was put right to work!
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He was a volunteer receptionist and greeted visitors, answered phones, and welcomed everyone who walked through the same doors he did.
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He has come back every week to help in the same capacity. “I can’t think of anything else I would rather do,” he said. He says working with the staff and being around the kind, caring members of the East Hampton Historical Society come naturally to him. “Everyone is lovely.”
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He is especially appreciative of the knowledge he has acquired while being a volunteer. He loves learning about the continuity of generations that are still active in the community, particularly the Mulford and Gardiner families.
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Randy also volunteers with the Animal Rescue Fund (ARF), both as an office volunteer as a member of their Annual Dog Walk Committee. ARF partners with the East Hampton Historical Society for this yearly event.
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For fun, Randy likes to read up on current events. He also began walking around his neighborhood every day since quarantine. You may see he and Don when they walk Jack Rabbit, their Catahoula leopard dog pictured here, or one of their additional three dogs. He misses the people, the structure and the activity that being at the historical society brings him weekly, and he is looking forward to when he can safely resume his office volunteerism.
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Curator’s Corner
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These three little wind-up mohair toys (the bear is 5”tall) arrived at the Society just before Christmas in 2018. They looked like they were made by Steiff, the famous German company that introduced the Teddy bear in 1903 to children around the world.
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However, these toys are animated and do not sport the tell-tale brass button in the bear’s ear, a trademark of the Steiff Corporation. After some research online, it was found the toys were made in Nuremberg, Germany by Spielzeugfirma Schreyer & Co.
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Within a few years, the firm condensed their company name to the more easily remembered “Schuco.” By the late 1920s Schuco introduced one of their most popular toys, the Pick-Pick Bird. It was a clockwork metal, and hand painted mohair songbird that when wound up, would pick at the floor as if It were searching for seeds to eat. The toy was a Christmas sensation. The company soon followed up with a swinging monkey, a dancing mouse, and a trotting dog wearing a cape.
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The three illustrated Schuco toys date from the mid-1930s and have been carefully played with – they still move about when wound up!
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For many years, they have been kept safe in a mahogany “Happiness Wildwood Chocolate” box, which we still store them in. These beautifully preserved toys were given to the East Hampton Historical Society by Beverly Deichert, in memory of Robert Deichert.
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AAQ / Resource: Westhampton Architectural Glass

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