We kicked off the fall Art in Focus series in Southampton this past Tuesday with a murder mystery. What if you took one of the most iconic accidents in Long Island history and wove it into a larger plot –…
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Wild by Nature
We’ve got a new display up in the library highlighting the fascinating diversity of wildlife in and around Shinnecock Bay. From underwater to the skies above, it’s a rich and diverse ecosystem that never ceases to amaze. The photographs in…
Digging in the Southampton Stacks, Book 3: A. A. Milne’s First Plays
A.A. Milne (1882-1956) is an English author who is best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Deep in the Southampton Stacks, however, hides an example of Milne’s earlier work. Milne’s First Plays was published in 1919, a transitional period of…
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Digging in the Southampton Stacks, Book Two: The Hotel, by Elizabeth Bowen
The Hotel, Elizabeth Bowen There are many literary classics nestled in the Southampton stacks awaiting the attention of a devoted reader. Tomes from Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Conrad lurk about, all of which we shall hopefully explore at a date currently…
Posted in About Us, Books, Southampton, Writing and Literature Tagged with: Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the day
Jackson Pollock’s Mural
At our second Art in Focus lecture of the summer, Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis took us on a journey that included cave paintings, petroglyphs, Arizona landscapes, sand art, the WPA, the Art Student League, and an apartment on East Sixty-First…
Art in Focus Lecture June 5th
We are gearing up for next Tuesday’s lecture on Jackson Pollock’s Mural for Peggy Guggenheim. If you’re unfamiliar with the back story, we luckily have reference books from the Pollock-Krasner Study Center collection at Southampton to help set the scene.…
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Digging in the Southampton Stacks, Book One: The Gilded Age
Nestled in the stacks of the SBU Southampton library sits a brown, nondescript book with faded, golden font. A crest on the cover of the book reads The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), and the spine of the…
Art in Focus: Jack Whitten
The Art in Focus series got off to a great start on Tuesday night with Professor Katy Siegel, Thaw Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University and Senior Programming and Research Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art.…
Stress Release at Southampton
Sometimes pictures are worth more than words so here’s an overview of our therapy dog visit from last night. Many thanks to CAPS and the PALS program for coming out!
Therapy Dogs Tonight in Southampton
Please join us from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Southampton Library for a visit with the therapy dogs from the PALS program. This is always a great event and we hope it relieves some of the stress of the upcoming finals!…
