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Mel Jackson's photo of parade goers on Sag Harbor's Main Street in the late 1950s. COURTESY JOHN JERMAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will open its 2024 season the first week of May with “The Way We Were,” an exhibition of over 30 photographs by the late Sag Harbor resident Mel Jackson, who had a studio on Main Street and whose photos appeared from time to time in The Sag Harbor Express.
Curated by Alison Bond with images from the collection of the John Jermain Memorial Library, the photos on view in the exhibition were taken in Sag Harbor between 1948 and 1962. In his work, Jackson captured the people and places locals knew and loved in the middle of the last century. From the village’s 250th anniversary in 1957, to a visit by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the show highlights the era of malt shops, bomb shelters, rock-and-roll and cars with fins.
“The Way We Were,” the photographs of Mel Jackson, are on view at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum, 200 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Visit sagharborwhalingmuseum.org for details.
Staff Writer on Apr 25, 2024