{"id":296785,"date":"2026-07-15T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296785\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:32:11","slug":"east-hampton-historical-society-to-host-bringing-the-monster-to-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296785\/","title":{"rendered":"East Hampton Historical Society to Host Bringing the \u2018Monster\u2019 to Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The East Hampton Historical has announced a special presentation by Sean Decatur, President of the American Museum of Natural History, entitled Bringing the \u2018Monster\u2019 to Manhattan: The Amagansett Whale, Roy Chapman Andrews, and the American Museum of Natural History. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In 1907, the largest North Atlantic Right Whale ever recorded was hunted and \u201ctried out\u201d in Amagansett. Sean Decatur explains what happened next when Roy Chapman Andrews, one of the luminaries of the American Natural History Museum. appeared on the beach in Amagansett.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place at Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street in East Hampton, the presentation is free of charge with a reception to follow. Reservations are strongly suggested and can be completed <a href=\"https:\/\/easthamptonhistory.org\/events\/bringing-the-monster-to-manhattan-a-presentation-by-sean-decatur\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The East Hampton Historical has announced a special presentation by Sean Decatur, President of the American Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-296785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}