A special Projections Series screening of THE BONACKERS Documentary, and a conversation exploring the history, culture, and evolving identity of the Bonackers—East Hampton’s fishing and farming community…..

Dan’s Papers Founder, Dan Rattiner’s interview with Joanne took place after he attended THE BONACKERS sold-out screening at the Amagansett Life Saving and Coast Guard Station on October 25, 2025……

“The Bonackers,” the acclaimed PBS documentary will screen Saturday, June 29, at 6 p.m. as part of the Springs Library and Historical Society’s 50th anniversary celebration. “The Bonackers” has earned widespread praise from longtime locals and second-homeowners alike for its emotional depth and celebration of East End heritage….

The Bonackers premieres Thursday, April 24 at 8 p.m. on WLIW-TV followed at 9 p.m. by PBS News Anchor Hari Sreenivasans’s Conversation with Joanne Friedland-Roberts, an interview with the director. Meet Long Island’s fiercely independent men and women whose families have cultivated the land and seas of the East End for almost 400 years…..

“The Bonackers” is an hourlong documentary that features families with traditions and values that have held an identity all of their own, while living and fishing around Accabonac Creek for more than a dozen generations. More than 200 people watched the documentary’s premiere screening at LTV Studios in Wainscott….

The bad news is that Friday’s premiere screening at LTV Studios of Joanne Friedland Roberts’s documentary “The Bonackers” is sold out. The good news is that the 60-minute film about the men and women who have fished and farmed the East End for almost 400 years is so compelling, and so seamlessly put together…

Hugh King is not a Bonacker — that is, he said, someone who grew up around Accabonac Creek in Springs, north of the Long Island Rail Road bridge, and likely whose family has a long history of living there.

Bonackers are believed to be from the descendants of early settlers of East Hampton. Their children became the baymen and women who forged the close-knit community that is praised even to this day for its cultural and historical significance…