
Newsletter 2023
Keep up with our annual projects and events with our 2023 Havens Happenings Newsletter!

Master Gardeners at Havens Homestead
Cornell Cooperative Extension, Suffolk County, Master Gardener program planned and executed the development of three garden beds. Included were boxwoods, ilex and a number of evergreen and deciduous plantings, considered for their deer-resistance and smart scaping.

Museum Shop Open Year-Round
The Museum Shop is now open year-round, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with many decorative and functional household items, jewelry and accessories. Always welcoming to the shop is shop manager Cyndi Scott and display manager Josef Delfino.

Havens Roof Restoration Grant
For Immediate Release Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Grant to support the John Scudder Havens & Mary Pelletreau Havens Homestead, Center Moriches Roof Restoration Project Moriches Bay Historical Society (MBHS) is very pleased to become a recipient of a $30,000 matching Grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to support the Havens Homestead Roof […]

Hamptons 2021 Vacation Guide

Corner Cupboard
January 2021, a Corner cupboard, of Conklin-Havens ownership, was transferred from Long Island Museum of American Art, History, & Carriages to Ketcham Inn Foundation, Inc. As seen on p. 128, item 146 of Long Island is My Nation, by Dean F. Failey (Corner Cupboard, 1725-1750, East Moriches, Pine)

Havens Ketcham Cultural Visitor Center (HKCVC)
Art Gallery, Cultural Center, Bert Seides CEO, & Jamie Ellin Forbes: the Ketcham Foundations complex for the arts is located at 90 Montauk Hwy, Center Moriches NY. The Ketcham Inn Foundation and Jamie Forbes Gallery are developing and organizing a current planned exhibition and event schedule through summer 2016-2018. Our focus will be within our local community inclusive of but not limited to an out reach program to have a very broad based appeal. The arts showcase will be an interdisciplinary arts program, encompassing: film, literature, poetry, craft as art, culinary arts, music, performance and dance, and visual arts projects, museum exhibitions, aimed at all age groups. Mr. Seides has developed the deep respect of the historical museum and foundation community during his 25 year tenure bringing the Ketcham Inn restoration project to completion, which opened to the public 2015. Mr. Seides has support from The Robert David Lion Gardner Foundation, as well as The New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation, Suffolk County Real Estate and Suffolk County Parks and […]