05/28/2026
This week's Throwback Thursday: A Tougher Time
One of seven children, Sarah (King) Tuthill was sent at age 6 to Montauk to live with Loretta Dickinson, a friend of her mother’s who’d indicated that “she would like to have one of the girls” and who lived in “better circumstances.”
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Photo: A cattle drive in the spring of 1950. Frank W. Dickinson revived the annual cattle drives in 1936 after the nearly 250-year-old tradition had been discontinued in 1925. | Craig Tuthill Collection, Montauk Library Archives