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Upcoming Events
Fleece and Fiber Festival
Hallockville Fleece and Fiber Festival highlights will include sheep and alpaca shearing demonstrations by Tabbethia Haubold-Magee of Long Island Yarn and Farm. The shearing demonstrations are scheduled for 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., more than 30 vendors – including first-time exhibitors, popular returning crafts people and “indie dyers” -- will be displaying and selling handcrafted wares at the festival, including specialty yarns; hand knit, crocheted and woven apparel; handmade baskets; and more. A special embroidery exhibit in Hallockville’s Hudson-Sydlowski House will showcase exceptional works created by hand with needle and thread from decades ago up to the present day. Rain date May 19
Where
Hallockville Museum Farm
6038 Sound Avenue
Riverhead, NY
Phone
631-298-5292
Price
$10 for persons age 13 and older, children 12 and younger are free.
Website
hallockville.orgShipwreck and Salvation - The Wreck of The Prince Maurice in 1657
On the night of March 13, 1657, as a Nor’easter raged, a Dutch ship, The Prince Maurice, slammed into the coast of Fire Island. Aboard were 129 souls – passengers, crew, and Dutch West India Company soldiers. Ashore were Indigenous people on their coastal night watch, listening to the ship crash against the shoal. Until now the story of this dramatic Long Island shipwreck and rescue has been known only to a handful of historians. But the rescue on an ice-laden beach has been part of Indigenous history for 400 years. Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, the New Amsterdam History Center’s groundbreaking Mapping Early New York project has combined old-fashioned research and new technology including AI, and a new window on history has opened wide for all of us to explore!
Where
Suffolk County Historical Society Museum
300 West Main Street
Riverhead, NY
Phone
631-727-2881 x100
Price
free
Website
schs-museum.orgMemory Cafe
Lunch, music, dancing and more for people with early stage Alzheimer's disease and their caregiver. Held at the Family Community Life Center 1018 Northville Tpke., Riverhead, register
Where
Riverhead, NY
Riverhead, NY
11901
Phone
800-272-3900
Price
free
