John Hulbert

Beginnings: Bridgehampton records its start in 1656 when Josiah Stanborough, an original settler of Southampton, built a house in Sagg, today known as Sagaponack. Soon after the first settlers moved in, a bridge was erected over Sagg Pond, joining Sagg...

Although the so-called Hulbert Flag has been downgraded from a Revolutionary War relic to a mid-19th Century curiosity, it still draws interest from the public. After six months on display at the recently ended "Treasures of Long Island'' exhibit at The...

HISTORY doesn't change, but our perception of it often does. A case in point is the tattered old Hulbert flag out at the Suffolk County Museum in Riverhead, once claimed to be the original Stars and Stripes, but two years ago knocked down by an expert...

As visitors swarmed into the New York World's Fair in 1940 they were stopped in their tracks when they came to the Long Island exhibit. They saw a ragged old American flag with the inscription: ``The John Hulbert Flag -- Original Stars and Stripes.'' The...

`Montauk - The End,'' proclaims the bumper sticker, a sentiment that captures the delight people find in the ocean-kissed shores and rolling green hills of Long Island's most way-out community. Three-hundred-eighty-four years after Dutch explorer Adrian...