We begin under the cover of the front porch of the pink granite Pequot Library building.  Looking out on the lawn from the arcades of the Richardsonian Romanesque-style building built in 1887 and opened in 1894, you can almost recapture the earliest days of Southport, when it was known as Sasqua by the local Paugussett Indians.  Here members of the local Native American tribe had worked their agricultural fields for more than a thousand years, tilling the soil to raise corn, beans, and squash.  Although the Indians have gone, their name for the land, Sasqua, lingers in the name of the hill across the harbor to the east and the creek which bounds the village to the west.