During the 20^th Century, the East End, along with the rest of the country, went from the horse and buggy to the automobile. Rolling fields of cultivated land interspersed with numerous dairy farms gave way to small blocks of second growth forest surrounded by development. Among the many changes in the human landscape have been the disappearance of the Montauk Fishing Village; brief and now fading memories of a thriving rum-running industry; and, later, the loss of the local Menhaden Fishery.

We have gone from a time when everyone was related to nearly everyone else to a time when the majority of people are from "away". But, there are still many older members of the East Hampton community who can provide us with important and often colorful threads to our past, both through their personal experiences and their observations. As time passes, people that remember these things are a diminishing resource. Accordingly, there was a definite and increasingly urgent need for this resource to be captured.

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