Welcome to Sherrill Diaries, East Hampton
Writings on early America from a coastal town
My mother, Sherrill Foster, was East Hampton’s town historian and “Around the Green” columnist for the East Hampton Independent. I miss her dearly — her passion, curiosity, her love of revealing the past.
Going through her papers I’ve found treasure: unpublished writings, research notes, untold stories. I wanted a place to keep them alive.
So I created this website, Sherrill Diaries, East Hampton, where I will share her writings, as well as family stories passed down about the early Parsons and Sherrills, and life on the East End. Some are personal, some historical, and most somewhere in between.
And yes, there are diaries!
Writings on the Sherrills & the Parsons
Writings on Lyon Gardiner and his world of early Easthampton
More early American history writings
Other people & places: writings on the early Fosters of Chelmsford
Photo: Chelmsford Historical Society
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” Michael Crichton
Let’s share our fascinating local history
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Mary Foster Morgan
631-259-1591
sherrilldiaries@gmail.com
PO Box 511
Orient, NY 11957