Our Preservation Director, Sarah Kautz, is working with a group that includes the Peconic Land Trust as well as Peter’s family, friends, and students to develop plans to acquire and preserve the site as the Peter Matthiessen Center. Author of thirty-five books and co-founder of The Paris Review, Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award for both fiction and non-fiction. To learn more about the deeper history and architecture of this important site, visit our March 2020 blog post: Rediscovering “Deldune” at Peter Matthiessen’s Home-Studio-Zendo in Sagaponack Peter Matthiessen pictured above in 1989 at his writing studio in Sagaponack. The Peter Matthiessen Center will extend the work of the author’s lifelong passions: writing, environmental conservation, and Zen Buddhism, and continue to inspire others for decades to come. Since his death in 2014, the exciting idea of establishing a center at the site has emerged. The six-acre site features a tranquil landscape surrounding three late 19th/early 20th-century buildings that he rehabilitated for use as a writing studio, family residence, and the first meeting place of the Ocean Zendo. (Published November 2019) Preservation Long Island is pleased to support an ongoing effort to preserve a culturally and historically significant place in Sagaponack, where world-renowned author and Zen master Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) lived for more than 50 years. “You can have meaning or you can have rest but you can’t have both.” - Peter Matthiessen
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