In recognition of Women's History Month, the East Hampton Library has mounted a new exhibit in the display cases in the front lobby "focusing on how women shaped and changed the character and reputation of the East Hampton community through social and volunteer organizations and activities."
Titled "Women's Work: A Century of Women Elevating East Hampton," it includes artifacts in the library's Long Island Collection from the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society, the Wainscott Sewing Society, the Garden Club of East Hampton, the Ramblers literary society, and Ruth Benjamin, the first curator of the Home, Sweet Home museum.
The exhibit includes the first plan for the library's gardens, which Martha Prentice Strong designed in 1911, along with her scrapbooks, which include "an original Child Hassam etching of a desert garden." Patrons can see the constitutions of the Ramblers and the L.V.I.S., the first books of minutes for those organizations and the Garden Club, as well as photographs, programs, and correspondences. The show will be up until May.
