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Legacy award dinner, September 25, 2024
hONORING, aUTHOR, JOURNALIST, & ADVOCATE, bILL BLEYER
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SUNday, AUGUST 25th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
History on the Harbor Lecture Series
The Oyster Bay Historical Society in partnership with The Waterfront Center
Elizabeth Roosevelt and John Hammond, Lecturers
Elizabeth Roosevelt and John Hammond, Lecturers
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Sign up for a two-hour cruise on Sunday, August 25th on the WaterFront Center’s replica oyster dredge Ida May to hear Ms. Elizabeth Roosevelt, one of the last members of her illustrious family living in the area, will recount her family’s story and how she has utilized Oyster Bay for recreation most of her life as a member of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. Ms. Roosevelt will be joined by Oyster Bay's town historian John Hammond and the cruise will be from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm.
The cruises were conceived of by Oyster Bay Historical Society Executive director Denice Evans-Sheppard, who said “I wanted to introduce a new concept of exploring history on the harbor lecture tours in collaboration with the WaterFront Center for the community to learn about historical components through the perspective of history, recreation, and culture. I felt there was a need to become more educated and aware of how the Indigenous people, such as the Matinecock Tribal Nation, utilized the harbor during pre-and post-European contact.” |
saturDAY, AUGUST 10TH, at 1:00 pm
COMMUNITY HISTORY LECTURE SERIES: hEIDI sCHEFFLER rUAULT
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Heidi Scheffler Ruault, a French/American dual citizen, has been a passionate amateur genealogist since she discovered her family’s lost loyalist ties to Canada, the New Haven Colony, and Oyster Bay, Long Island. More recently, her family hails from Cape Cod where she has been teaching French and studying theology, her preferred way of making sense of the world. Her 8th great-grandmother was Mercy Wright Coles of Oyster Bay and The Place. Mercy and Heidi were born on the same day and resided in the same town. Mercy in East Sandwich and Heidi in West, known three centuries later as Monument Beach, Bourne, Massachusetts. Heidi is excited to share the story as she understands it and hopes it will open up a wider conversation of multiple perspectives and truer reality.
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The Oyster Bay Historical Society and The Waterfront Center are collaborating with our first "History on the Harbor Lecture Series."
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History Cruises Scheduled on Oyster Bay Harbor
Sign up for a two-hour cruise on July 26 on the WaterFront Center’s replica oyster dredge Ida May to hear historian, author and former Newsday reporter Bill Bleyer recount the maritime history of Oyster Bay. On the 3 p.m. trip co-sponsored by the Oyster Bay Historical Society and the WaterFront Center, learn about historic Jakobsen Shipyard, how creation of the Congressman Lester Wolff National Wildlife Refuge saved the bay from being destroyed by the Oyster Bay-Rye Bridge, Theodore Roosevelt’s connection to the harbor, the history of shellfishing, the brick industry on Centre Island, the Cold Spring Harbor Lighthouse, Fort Hill and Billy Joel’s ties to the bay, among other topics. Bleyer, who is also president of Friends of the Bay, was a prizewinning staff writer for Newsday for 33 years, specializing in history and maritime issues before retiring in 2014 to write books and freelance for the newspaper and magazines. He is co-author with Harrison Hunt of Long Island and the Civil War and author of Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt’s Summer White House; Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island’s Welcoming Beacon; Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History; George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide, and The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound. The Hofstra University graduate has taught economics and journalism there and history at Webb Institute, the naval architecture college in Glen Cove. Space is limited to 30 guests. The fee is $65. Information can be found at https://www.thewaterfrontcenter.org. Click here to book a spot. The rain date is September 13. On Sunday, August 25, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., there will be an additional tour on the Ida May. Elizabeth Roosevelt, one of the last members of her illustrious family living in the area, will recount her family’s story and how she has utilized Oyster Bay for recreation most of her life as a member of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. The cruises were conceived of by Oyster Bay Historical Society Executive director Denice Evans-Sheppard, who said “I wanted to introduce a new concept of exploring history on the harbor lecture tours in collaboration with the WaterFront Center for the community to learn about historical components through the perspective of history, recreation, and culture. I felt there was a need to become more educated and aware of how the Indigenous people, such as the Matinecock Tribal Nation, utilized the harbor during pre-and post-European contact.” |
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FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH: 6:30 - 7:15 pm
History of Recorded Sound: A Lecture by archivist and collections manager, Thom Hoffman
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A musical journey of sights and sounds tracing the development of technologies used to capture and preserve sound from Edison’s tin foil experiments of the 1800’s to the digital formats of tomorrow. Century old phonographs will be shown and demonstrated. Musical samples will showcase the various stages of phonography from the acoustical era, through the electrical era and into the digital era. The changing formats and musical styles presented via wax, shellac, vinyl, and computer codes offer an audible travel through time itself. $10 - Members | $15 - Non-members
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