Celebrating Women's History Month - Our American Beauty: Dorothy Ingersoll Zaykowski

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
Marcus Garvey

In old Sag Harbor-style, 30 years ago this summer, the community paraded down to Long Wharf to greet the first shipment of Sag Harbor - The Story of an American Beautywritten by local author and historian Dorothy Ingersoll Zaykowski. Dorothy's book continues to be the go-to book for Sag Harbor's unique, celebrated and colorful history beginning with the foot paths of the Algonquian tribe and extending to the glory days of a harbor alive with whalers and whaling ships, coopers, rope-makers, blacksmiths, and the smell of blubber boiled down in try-pots. In the village, church steeples raised to the heaven, and our Main Street was alive with locals, world travelers, barbers, horse-and-carriages, shops, hotels, saloons and brothels.  

Today, celebrating this significant anniversary, Dorothy, and all those who helped her, Nancy Remkus and Jean Held have created THIS VIDEO, in which you will meet some of the folks who have been directly affected by this book and the work of, our friend and former trustee, Dorothy Ingersoll Zaykowski.