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Coal Bin Paintings Find New Home: Southampton African American Museum To Display Segregated Bar Relics

Blog January 7, 2021

Inside the Herb McCarthy estate, Tom Edmonds pulled two canvases out from a closet in the late 19th-century mansion and took a step back. He turned to his companion, Sheila Guidera, in disbelief.

“Oh my God, how interesting,” he murmured to himself, adding the folk-like paintings to the treasure trove of donations headed for the Southampton History Museum, where he is executive director.

But that is where his wonderment started and, temporarily, stopped.

Without much of a second thought, Mr. Edmonds took the 18-inch-by-24-inch paintings back to the Rogers Mansion and stuffed them into another closet, where they lived for the past 10 years — until their recent rediscovery this past fall, not to mention the piece of forgotten history they represent.

A Bittersweet Goodbye: Penny Wright Retires From Rogers Memorial Library

Blog November 10, 2020

Penny Wright never imagined this day would come.

For nearly three decades, the director of adult programs at the Rogers Memorial Library devoted her life to the Southampton community, piecing together a prolific range of classes, lectures, concerts and more that scintillated the mind, body and spirit, even in the darkest of days.

But recent events have snapped her own life into focus, Ms. Wright explained last week from her apartment in the village, where she has worked remotely since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. What she realized she was missing was time — time to cook, bake, walk and organize, visit with her friends and family, and simply relax.