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Nathan J. Cuffee in a tintype by William G. Howard. COURTESY EASTVILLE COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Nathan J. Cuffee in a tintype by William G. Howard. COURTESY EASTVILLE COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Jacqueline Marks on Feb 1, 2021
My love for local history began when I was archiving the collection at the Sag Harbor Historical Society’s Annie Cooper Boyd House on Main Street.
I spent a lot of afternoons alone there channeling Annie, the girl who rode bareback all the way to the bay and the woman who came back to this cottage as a young widow and remade herself as an artist. I started imagining the ancestral presence of Fannie Tunison, frequent visitor to the cottage and personages from Sag Harbor’s early past like Samuel L’Hommedieu who lived in the brick house down the street.