Help with the Oil Spill Clean Up!

To my readers,

I am simply passing on the word to join the volunteers of SaveSagHarbor who are participating in the clean up for the recent oil spill. They are looking for donations of hair, fur and wool.

Read the article below written by SaveSagHarbor for details on why these materials are being requested.

If you are interested and live nearby drop off is at The Whaling museum by Saturday, May 15th by 10am.

Thanks in advance, —Lisa

If you missed it, please see below. We will be collecting donations at the Museum this Saturday morning for immediate send-out. Thanks for your help! It is of course unimaginable to think that such a horrible environmental catastrophe would happen here, but it's not impossible. One small but positive step we decided to take is to mount a drive to help amass materials to help sop up the oil, and the best natural and biodegradable materials, as it turns out, are human hair, fur, and wool (and sadly, feathers). An organization called Matter of Trust, based in San Francisco, is gathering material and volunteers to create booms that are lowered into affected waters to try to make a dent in the damage, and so far almost 500,000 lbs have been collected. We've decided to help send it down there, but volunteers are needed to ask salons and dog-grooming centers for their clippings. They simply need to be collected and put into sealed plastic bags and cardboard boxes (a used shampoo box would be ideal) with no other garbage (don't want workers to cut themselves on other detritus) for shipment. If you are interested in calling your local salon or pet store and collecting hair and fur, and getting it to the address below, we'll take care of the shipment. Materials gathered and boxed for shipment can be brought to the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum 200 Main Street, Sag Harbor Do not bring it into the museum! Bring sealed boxes behind the museum, access on Garden Street, and leave outside, under the covered porch. THANK YOU for helping put a dent in this catastrophe. We feel one seabird or marsh area saved is worth the trouble. A huge thank you to the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum for helping with this effort! write us at info@savesagharbor.com if you have any questions ••••••• Shop at etsy.com for that perfect lamp designed and produced by Mary Van Vliet of olive design •••••••

Sag Harbor Historical Society

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Saturday, May 15

Celebration on the lawn of the Custom House

Main St

Free

(donations always welcome)

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Castello di Borghese Vineyard

(map it)

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Don't forget to stop by and shop locally if you're in Eastern Long Island at

The Sag Harbor

Farmers' Market

Saturdays, 9am-1pm

Memorial Day weekend until

the Halloween weekend

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Check out Slow Food Long Island website for more Farmers' Market sites

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wafels & dinges

Saturday

9am-5pm: Park Slope-7th Ave & Carroll St. Bklyn, NY

6pm-1am: 7th Ave & Christopher St. NY, NY

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