What's In A Name?
The name Merchants Path suggests quite well its significance in East Hampton's history - it was a route of trade in the early 18th century, when goods were brought to and from Southampton and the region's first port, at Northwest Harbor.

SURROUNDED BY THE PAST AND MAPPING IT OUT FOR POSTERITY
The trappings of history surround Barbara Borsack. Each day, she wakes up in a house on East Hampton Village land owned by her family since the 1800s, a site where her ancestors had a blacksmith shop.

THE TASTE OF HISTORY
The good cooking of East Hampton's turn-of-the-century homemakers went far to insure a relatively genteel and comfortable life here in the late 1890s, when the Ladies Village Improvement Society published its first cookbook, and there were some hints as well in the book's "Miscellaneous" back pages, that still today spell wisdom.

DESTROYED IN A FIRE ON FEB. 18, 1978, the Sea Spray Inn...