Jamesport, NY (July 1, 2024) ---The Board of Directors of the Jamesport Meeting House today announced it is organizing an Historic Jamesport House Tour for Saturday, September 14, 2024. The tour – last held in 2011 and back by popular request – offers a look beyond the front doors and garden gates of homes in Jamesport with historical and architectural significance. Also on the tour will be the Jamesport Meeting House erected in 1731 and today is the oldest public building on the East End of Long Island.
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Display Lights Up the Sky Over Long Island's Popular Oceanfront Destination
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the fireworks display at Jones Beach State Park will again take place on Independence Day, July 4, illuminating the sky at Long Island's popular oceanfront park. The Jovia Financial Credit Union Fireworks Spectacular at Jones Beach is a 25-minute celebration in colors that will dazzle and delight all ages.
Swim Across America - Long Island Sound is one of the nation’s largest open water swims and has raised more than $25 million for New York Area Cancer Institutions
Long Island, N.Y. - Swim Across America - Long Island Sound is holding its 32nd annual open water swim on Saturday, July 27, 2024, with more than 800 swimmers and volunteers all making waves to fight cancer. The swim offers four swim distances: a 10k across Long Island Sound, a 5k and 2k point-to-point swim that dives in at the Larchmont Yacht Club and ends at the Larchmont Shore Club, and a ½-mile pool swim at the Larchmont Shore Club.
Pierrot Chamber Music Festival Announces Concert Series for its 43rd Summer Season Starting July 16
Jun 13, 2024
Garden City, N.Y.— The Pierrot Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 43rd Summer Season this July with a series of six concerts. The Pierrot Chamber Music Festival is an intensive, two-week program for precollege and college students that focuses on the study and performance of standard and new chamber music repertoire. The Festival Concert Series is supported by the Department of Music at Adelphi University and the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center.
Governor Announces Opening of Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park Visitor Center on Long Island
Jun 10, 2024
Project Upgrades Include Improved Parking, Enhanced Exhibits, ADA-Accessible Restrooms and Sustainability Upgrades
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Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the completion of a new Visitor Center, improved parking and enhanced exhibits at Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park on the South Shore of Long Island. The new 1,600 square-foot Visitor Center will educate visitors about the Cutting family and their historic 60-room, Tudor-style mansion, the landscaped grounds with wide variety of trees, shrubs and plants, and the impact of ongoing climate change on Long Island.
Webb Institute is past winner of Preservation Long Island’s Award for Project Excellence for historically sensitive design by Bentel & Bentel Architects of new Couch Academic Center
Founded as a not-for-profit in 1948, Preservation Long Island’s work concentrates on preserving and celebrating Long Island’s diverse cultural and architectural heritage through advocacy, education, and stewardship of historic sites and collections.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY (June 5, 2024) — Preservation Long Island is delighted to host its Annual Benefit Party on Friday, June 21, 2024 at “The Braes,” a spectacular venue overlooking the Long Island Sound in Glen Cove. Benefit Party guests will have a chance to explore the former Herbert L. Pratt estate, now the Webb Institute, while enjoying cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and music.
Free Concert to be preceded by awarding of Ten Thousand Dollars in Music and Performing Arts Scholarships to High School students from across Long Island
Stony Brook, NY — The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) will hold a free concert entitled “Beatles on the Balcony” featuring The Liverpool Shuffle (a popular Long Island based Beatles tribute band) on June 30th starting at 3pm at LIMEHOF’s Stony Brook museum location (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY).
Farmingdale, NY – This Memorial Day Weekend kicks off the American Airpower Museum’s summer with our “Legends of Airpower WWII Warbirds,” and their performance in the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Jones Beach Air Show. AAM’s legendary warbirds including the WWII B-25 Mitchell bomber, North American P-51D Mustang, Grumman TBM-3E Avenger Torpedo Bomber, and Curtiss P-40M Warhawk “Flying Tiger,” will take to the skies over Republic Airport on Friday, May 24th, (practice day) plus Saturday to Sunday, May 25th/26th, for the Jones Beach Air Show.
Oyster Bay, NY (May 9, 2024) – Following this year’s Memorial Day parade in Oyster Bay hamlet on Monday, May 27, starting at 10:30 am along South Street, Raynham Hall Museum will present a celebration as part of Blue Star Museums, a program offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer from Armed Forces Day, May 18, through Labor Day, September 2, 2024.
One of Long Island’s Largest Celebrations of Fiber Arts and Crafts
Riverhead, NY (April 29) – Historic Hallockville Museum Farm on Long Island’s North Fork will host its annual Fleece and Fiber Festival on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Rain date: Sunday, May 19). The Hallockville Fleece & Fiber Festival is one of the largest celebrations of the fiber arts in the region and will feature dozens of fiber artisans showcasing their talents, demonstrating their traditional crafts, and selling their creations.