Parrish Art Museum
The move has been made to the new facility, the first new art museum built on the East End of Long Island in more than a century. This summer’s exhibits include “Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating,” “Fairfield Porter: Modern American Master,” “William Merritt Chase: A Life in Art,” and “Look and Look Again: Contemporary Observation.” 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill www.parrishart.org 631.283.7006
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Morton National Wildlife Refuge
Elementary school students learn that the colonies banded together to defeat the British at the end of the American Revolution, but they never learn of the price tag. Faced with staggering debt at the dawn of the new nation, the federal government turned to the collection of revenue from trading ships at major ports of call. Henry Packer Dering took on the task in Sag Harbor, and today his story is told through the preservation work of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. Main and Garden Streets, Sag Harbor www.splia.org 631.692.4664
Through 187 acres of grasslands, ponds, marshes and more, the wildlife runs, all thanks to the donation of land by the Morton family in 1954. This pristine piece of Noyac and Little Peconic bays protects juvenile Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles as they grow, and breeding, migrating and wintering birds throughout the year. With grasslands disappearing at alarming rates throughout the Northeast and marshes under assault from numerous angles, a visit to a refuge like this one is a rare treat for the soul. 784 Noyac Rd, Sag Harbor www.fws.gov 631.286.0485
Montauk Point Lighthouse
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