Voices of Sag Harbor collects more than 80 reminiscences about life in Sag Harbor. It's a broad range of voices and backgrounds, all bound together by their fierce attachment to Sag Harbor and their awareness that despite the many profound changes that have taken place over the past several decades, this is a village that still holds them close.

As E. L. Doctorow notes in his Foreword, "Sag Harbor... is a modestly lovely creation, human in scale, with its history available on every street, in every yard.... all of it real and rooted in the safe and comely and civilized democratic social organization known as a village."