Hilary Loomis
Co-director
I've been a board member of Save Sag Harbor since 2011. I joined shortly after the group’s first major battle to keep out Big Box retailers. I believed then as I do now that preservation is a critical matter and that Save Sag Harbor can and will work to protect the village as we know and love it. I am the author of Mailer: A Biography, and I am a former syndicated book columnist and magazine profile writer. I've lived in the Redwood neighborhood with my family since 1978. Because this community means so much to me, I am also a board member of The Sag Harbor Partnership, The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, and The Sag Harbor Cultural District.
Bob Weinstein
Co-director
I’ve been a member of Save Sag Harbor since 2014. I joined the board during Sag Harbor’s upswing in popularity, at a time when development pressures began to increase. With a background in Visual and Environmental Design, my personal focus with SSH has been on the importance of Historic Preservation. To me this entails preserving the built environment as well as the quality of life for those fortunate enough to live in or visit the Village. I also serve on The Advisory Committee of the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, I am Co-President of the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, and recently I was elected to the Board of Trustees of the John Jermain Memorial Library. I’ve lived in Sag Harbor for 25 years with my husband, Eric, and our dog Lucy, who has quite a following on Instagram.
Barbara Roberts
Treasurer
I was one of the co-founders of Save Sag Harbor when it started in 2007. Ever since moving here forty years ago, I have been passionate about using my professional skills, knowledge, and experience to help preserve our delicate natural environment and waterways, and our locally-owned and operated farm, fishing, and Main Street businesses. I represented the Town of Southampton on the Suffolk County Planning Commission Board for 12 years and I am knowledgeable about best practice planning and governance of other Long Island towns and villages. I have built and sold my own companies and I now also teach and write about entrepreneurship and innovation as Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia and Hofstra.
Tom Clavin
secretary
My family and I have lived in Sag Harbor full-time for 38 years. This is where we chose to raise our children. I joined Save Sag Harbor in 2012. I became well-acquainted with the region and the issues of urgent importance while working as a writer for local papers, in addition to working as a reporter for The New York Times. I was managing editor at The East Hampton Star, editor-in-chief of The Independent group of weekly newspapers, and a columnist and contributing writer at the Press News Group. More recently, I am the author of books such as Dodge City, The Heart of Everything That Is, Halsey’s Typhoon, and The Last Stand of Fox Company. Wild Bill, the second book in a “Frontier Lawmen” trilogy, was published by St. Martin’s Press in February 2019, and the third volume, Tombstone, will be released in April 2020. Also due out this November, from Hanover Square Press, is All Blood Runs Red.
Randolph Croxton
Board Member
I have called the Village of Sag Harbor home for over thirty years. I joined the Board of SSH in 2014 because I was concerned about the absence of clear regulations, standards and guidance needed to help builders and architects maintain the character and scale of Sag Harbor, which is a main objective of its National Register Designation. I am the founder of Croxton Collaborative Architects in New York City, a recipient of the profession’s highest award for design excellence: The AIA National Honor Award for International Leadership in Sustainability. The firm has been invited to give presentations at the United Nation’s Earth Summit at Rio (1992) and the United Nations Social Summit in Copenhagen (1995). The U.S. Green Building Council awarded Croxton Collaborative Architects National Leadership Awards in 2005 and 2008 for development of the goals and principles of Green Architecture in America.
Myrna Davis
Board Member
I was lucky to find Sag Harbor in 1966, and to live here full-time between 1968 and 1984, and again since 2007, after serving as executive director, now emerita, of the Art Directors Club in NYC. In 1973, at the invitation of Nancy Willey I co-chaired the Sag Harbor Preservation Commission which gained National Landmark status for the village. I joined the board of SSH in 2009. I also serve on the advisory boards of the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center and of Poster House, a new museum. As a writer and editorial consultant I collaborate with artists, architects, designers and cultural institutions like Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, and with my husband, artist and graphic designer Paul Davis. I am a graduate of Barnard College. I worked for Columbia Records, George Nelson, Herman Miller, and Milton Glaser. I was on the board of the Hampton Day School. authored “The Potato Book” and other publications.
Sara Gage
Board Member
I have been an active member of Save Sag Harbor since it began in 2007, when we all learned about the possibility of a Big Box Store moving to the 7-Eleven location. I moved to Sag Harbor from New York City when I retired because it was a beautiful seaside village with a community of people who cared about quality-of-life issues. As a young idealist I trained to be a Social Worker, but after spending most of my career as a parent, I became a Human Resource manager. My last job in Manhattan was at the Department of Cultural Affairs of New York City. I live on the East Hampton side of Sag Harbor where I represented the East Hampton Democratic Committee for many years. I volunteer for Bay Street Theatre, The John Jermain Library, The Sag Harbor Partnership, and the Documentary Film Festival.
Peter Ginna
Board Member
I joined SSH in 2020 after many years of admiring the group’s work in our village. I was born and raised in Sag Harbor, and even when living or working elsewhere, I’ve always considered this my home. As a parent, it has meant a lot to me to see my children playing at Havens Beach or Mashashimuet Park, or walking “downstreet” to spend their allowances in Main Street shops the way my sister and I did decades before. I’m a book editor and writer who has worked in several New York publishing houses, most recently as the founder and publisher of the Bloomsbury Press imprint of Bloomsbury USA. I’m the author of What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. I’ve served as board chair of the Center for Fiction and as director of a tutoring program at Bayard Rustin High School, both based in NY.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Board Member
I fell in love with Sag Harbor the moment I stepped off the Jitney and visited for the first time in 1987. I’ve owned a house in the village since 1998, and recently moved here full time from New York City. I joined SSH because I want to help prevent unchecked development and suburbanization of the town. I am an attorney admitted to practice in California and New York. I’ve conducted investigations into corruption, fraud, and harassment for various United Nations agencies and for the International Monetary Fund. I serve as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the Financial Industry Regulatory Association. For ten years, I taught a seminar on international business law to MBA students in Paris. Prior to working for the UN, I was an Administrative Law Judge for NYC’s Department of Finance and Environmental Control Board.
Cathleen McGuigan
Board Member
Works as editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, the award-winning professional publication for architects. She was formerly architecture critic and arts editor of Newsweek,. She has been a Sag Harbor resident since 1981 and has owned her house on High Street since 1984. Married to Sag Harbor architect David Berridge, she currently resides largely in the village.
In addition to the board of Save Sag Harbor, she serves on the boards of the Skyscraper Museum and the Center for Architecture in New York City.
Dan Weiss
Board Member
My wife and I have been living part time in Sag Harbor for over 40 years. In the last few years, it’s been our full-time home, where I vote. Our adult grown children regard the Village as their home and hope to spend time with their future families here.
I am a retired book publisher and have always enjoyed the literary and publishing community in Sag Harbor, with its many notable writers, artists and editors. It’s a congenial, supportive community and preserving the charm and identity of the Village is of great importance to me for many decades. I feel lucky to be a resident.
I recently joined Save Sag Harbor because I am very passionate about retaining and celebrating the Village’s charm and historic landmarks. It’s a treasure that must be protected.