The Historian A Publication of the Three Village Historical Society
Inside this issue: President’s Message Crawford Barn Star Spangled Banner Community Sing Tri-Spy Tour A Good “TURN” Mae Erland Book Review Spring/Summer Events
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Volume 51 Issue 2
Summer 2014
Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time By Frank Turano and Karen Martin
The Three Village Historical Society Governing Board Steven Hintze President Stephen Healy Vice President Janet McCauley Vice President Karin Lynch Treasurer Cathy White Recording Secretary Mildred Mastrion Corresponding Secretary Trustees: Connie Burawa Jennifer Crane Paul D’Amico Charles Glaser Barbara Gottfried Carol Lane Robert Lauto Ronald LaVita Michael O’Dwyer Andrew Pelosi Frank Turano John Yantz Staff: Beverly Tyler Historian Karen Martin Archivist Donna Smith Director of Education Sandy White Office Manager Suzanna Roberts Justin Ray-Keeffe Office Assistants
Setauket High School Cheer Leaders, 1950. From left to right—Back Row: Kathleen Harris, Irene Hilliard, JoAnne Steeves, Shirley Muttitt, Gloria Cuffey. Front Row: Ann Gomes, Patricia Twomey, Genie Steeves, Mary Lois Nicholls, Roberta Hines, Carol Musson
The new exhibit, “Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time,” opened on June 21 before a festive crowd of over 125 people. Among the dignitaries present were Assemblyman Steve Englebright, County Legislator Kara Hahn, Brookhaven Supervisor, Ed Romaine and Councilwoman Valerie Cartwright. The festivities were conducted by President Steve Hintze. Fred Bryant, the major donor for the exhibit, addressed the crowd. A wine and hors d’oeuvres reception prepared by the Rhodes Committee and Pentimento Restaurant followed. The exhibit successfully triggered the reminiscences among many of the guests and the most common comment was “I have to bring my kids to see this.” Two of the guests brought in photographs that were new to our collection and Richard Webber donated a pair of salesman’s sample rubber overshoes from the Long Island Rubber Company, that are now on display. The interviews of remembrances of Chicken Hill are at the moment “mouse friendly” and Stafford Associates anticipates a fully operational “touch screen” shortly. From the outset, we anticipated an exhibit evolving over time and look forward to community and society members contributing that evolution by lending or donating artifacts and photographs. While the exhibit is 98% complete, the Rhodes Committee is especially seeking photographs of family events that took place on Chicken Hill. These events include weddings, bar mitzvahs, first communions and fraternal gatherings. Like the “Spies Exhibit,” “Chicken Hill” is open Sundays from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
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President’s Message Dear Friends:
The Historian Is published bi-annually by the Three Village Historical Society. Suggestions for articles are welcome. Please send all articles, photos, feedback and ideas to:
[email protected] In the subject line please include: The Historian. Acting Editors: Sandy White, Justin Ray-Keeffe ©2014, Three Village Historical Society
The TVHS has had a very exciting first half of 2014. We started by kicking off our lecture series to a packed house with Brian Killmeade, the author of “George Washington’s Secret Six.” Our SPIES! Exhibit and walking tours have had a tremendous upsurge of visitors due to the AMC series “TURN” and people wanting to find out the accurate accountings of the Culper Spy Ring. Bev is ecstatic! Please look out for next season’s student-produced TVHS commercial. We have also opened our new exhibit, “Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time.” Frank Turano, Karen Martin, and the Rhodes Committee have put a tremendous amount of time and effort into this exhibit and it certainly shows. A special thank you to Fred Bryant of Bryant Funeral Home for backing this exhibit from the start and Stafford Associates for their donation of the touch screen, expertise, and many donated hours towards this project. If you haven’t visited our exhibits lately, please stop by. We have changed our pricing structure. Admission for TVHS members is now free, so please take advantage of this opportunity and bring a guest! The Crawford Barn project is moving forward nicely. Co-Chairs, Stephen Healy and Michael O’Dwyer, along with the rest of the Crawford Barn committee, are preparing to tag all the structural elements of the barn. Our architect, John Cunniffe, has documented the Crawford Barn for tagging and will assist the committee in this process. Please see Stephen Healy’s article in this newsletter for more information. As always, we appreciate your continued support and encourage you to continue to be an active member of this society. Your membership, donations, and volunteering are integral parts of this organization. We cannot continue with our mission without you! Best, Steven Hintze President Please join us at the Community Sing on September 13 to honor the 200th Anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner and don’t forget to visit our website, TVHS.org, for information on upcoming events such as: the Long Island Apple Festival, Candlelight House Tour, and our 50th Year Anniversary Gala.
Crawford Barn By Stephen Healy A roadway to the Old Field Crawford Barn property has been cut in from Old Field Road to the front of the Crawford barn. Immediately following, the smaller 16’x26’ structure was removed from the Old Field property and transported to TVHS headquarters. This smaller structure was in poor condition as a result of a past fire, as well as rotted floorboards. The four walls have now been transported to our headquarters and are ready to be rebuilt. The estimated time-frame to mark and tag the structural elements of the Crawford barn is late July, setting up for dismantling and moving the barn in mid to late August. We hope to have the cement slab foundations installed in October at our Main Street location. If we cannot accomplish this before the ground freezes, then we will pour the new foundations in the spring of 2015. As always, your continued support for this project is greatly appreciated. Please help us take advantage of David Fortuna’s (Swan Cove Landscaping) generous $10,000 matching challenge by donating to the Crawford Barn project. We also have our “Barn Bonanza” 50/50 raffle available and only 500 of these $100 raffles will be sold. A possible $25K cash prize! “Let’s Move A Barn Together!”
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Star Spangled Banner Community Sing By John Yantz I sometimes like to "google" historical events in order to find out about the entire story. There are often some little known facts that pop up in the reading which are unusual and interesting. Several months ago, for some forgotten reason, I "googled" the Star Spangled Banner and was fascinated by what I found. For instance the flag which we refer to as the Star Spangled Banner and which can be found in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC has fifteen stripes not thirteen like today’s U.S. flag. It also did not fly over Fort McHenry the night of the bombardment but only the next morning. Because the flag was so large it could not be sewn together at the home of Mary Pickersgill. The pieces of the flag were sewn together on the floor of Claggert’s Brewery in Baltimore at night after the brewery workers went home. Also Francis Scott Key did not write the song but wrote a poem entitled "The Defence of Fort McHenry" which his brother-in-law, Judge John Nicholsen, put to music. The song was first sung publicly in McCauley’s Tavern in Baltimore by actor Ferdinand Durang. But the fact that got my attention the most was the date of the bombardment; September 13-14, 1814. I realized that we have a major anniversary coming soon; the 200th anniversary of the events leading to the creation of the National Anthem. I also realized that this could be an opportunity for a popular event for the Three Village Historical Society; a Community Sing of "The Star Spangled Banner" on the grounds of the Society Headquarters to observe the anniversary and draw attention to the moving of the Crawford Barn. The idea was presented to the TVHS Board and met with overwhelming approval. And now the Community Sing is beginning to take shape. We are inviting everyone in the Three Village area and beyond to join us for some patriotic music and singing by local school and church groups followed by the singing of the National Anthem and possibly a fireworks display in the late afternoon and early evening of Saturday, September 13, 2014 at the TVHS headquarters.
Tri-Spy Tours By Margo Arceri The remarkable true story of General George Washington’s Setauket Spy Ring has come to life in books, exhibits and even in a new television series. Now Long Islanders, and people from around the globe, can discover and relive history for themselves in an ingenious new outdoor adventure "Tri-Spy", which will take nature enthusiasts, athletes, and history lovers to a whole new level. Margo Arceri, a historical educator working in conjunction with the Three Village Historical Society will guide cyclists, walkers and kayakers (self-guided tour) through the actual trails where the British and Patriots once roamed. Those participating will follow in the actual footsteps of the Culper Spy Ring, and along the way, historical places of interest will be pointed out and discussed. There will be three options to choose from: a one day bike, walk or self guided kayak tour. The biking adventure will be a fifteen mile trek, and the walking tour a three mile trek. Both options can accommodate up to twenty people. The kayak adventure will be self guided and at your own risk. Private tours are available. Some sites to be visited on the bike and walking tours are the Strong Family Cemetery, the creek at Conscience Bay, Setauket Village Green, Patriot’s Rock, the c.1750 Tyler-Jayne Tavern, the 1729 Caroline Church of Brookhaven, and one of the oldest surviving structures in Setauket, the c.1695 Timothy Smith House. Several 19th century homes, churches and other structures will be seen as well, including the 1812 Setauket Presbyterian Church, and the c.1825 General John Roe Satterly House.
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HISTORY CLOSE AT HAND - A good “TURN”. . . By Beverly C. Tyler
“...we need friendly eyes in New York more than ever.” (Benjamin Tallmadge to General Scott in TURN episode three) TURN, the untold story of America's first spy ring is on the AMC cable network, Sunday’s at 9 PM. Based on Alexander Rose’s book, "Washington's Spies", TURN is set in Setauket during the Revolutionary War and stars Jamie Bell as Abraham Woodhull, a farmer turned Patriot spy who, together with other Setauket residents, conducted an intelligence network that provided valuable information to General Washington about the British activity on Long Island and in New York City. In this first series of episodes, which started on April 6th, the cast of characters also includes Seth Numrich as Benjamin Tallmadge, Heather Lind as Anna Smith Strong, and Daniel Henshall as Caleb Brewster. These are the four Setauket Student work with spy codes & invisible residents who operate the spy ring on TURN. ink in SPIES! Exhibit Missing here, so far, is Austin Roe who became Abraham Woodhull’s main courier carrying intel- of gathering intelligence so, “much of the work ligence from New York City to Woodhull’s farm in thus devolved upon Tallmadge, who at least disSetauket. played some enthusiasm and aptitude for the task.” In fact, it was Tallmadge who agreed with This is a drama on AMC that brings our Long Is- Washington that placing an agent in New York land Culper Spy Ring to a national audience. City was essential for gaining good and complete Many of the activities of the members of the spy intelligence. The standard method used, up to ring are being developed as the show has prothis time, by the British and European Armies gressed through it’s now fourth episode. In addi- relied on quick, daily intelligence gathering by tion, the conditions experienced by Long Isvarious spies who didn’t stay in one place long landers while under British occupation is draenough to be identified. The success of the Culper matically portrayed. Spy Ring would change that forever. General Charles Scott, Washington’s Chief of Intelligence also played a major part in the quite dramatic third and fourth episodes as he travels though the countryside in company with Benjamin Tallmadge. As detailed by Rose in his book, Scott was not interested in the job
Probably the most accurately developed character so far is Caleb Brewster. A good friend to Tallmadge, Woodhull and Anna Smith Strong, Brewster is and was a fearless and dedicated Continental Army officer and member of the Culper Spy Ring. Never hiding his identity as a courier and spy, Caleb Brewster openly
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TURN, continued challenged both British and Tory and bested them at every turn. It is difficult to provide the same credibility for the other Setauket spies as portrayed. Abraham Woodhull as portrayed by Jamie Bell is married with a small child when in reality he was single for the majority of time he functioned as Samuel Culper Sr. Head of the Culper Spy Ring. Anna Smith Strong, ten years older than Woodhull and mother of six children by January of 1778, is portrayed as a barmaid in a local tavern, formerly engaged to Woodhull and a much more visible personage than she was in reality. There are also variations in the characterization of Loyalist officer Major Richard Hewlett, portrayed by Burn Gorman and of British Officer John Graves Simcoe portrayed by Samuel Roukin. As pictured in TVHS SPIES! Exhibit The same is true of Richard Woodhull, Abraham’s father as portrayed by Kevin McNally, who is characterized as the leading magistrate of Se- side of George Washington, and to the Culper Spy tauket and a man who appears to go along to get Ring. along with the overbearing British Army Major Richard Hewlett. It is now the responsibility of groups like the Three Village Historical Society, through talks, In spite of all these and many more points to be through the exhibit SPIES!, and through the his made about the accuracy of the portrayals, this torical walking tours, to give the wonderful and AMC production contains many details of life on interesting facts that surround our Long Island Long Island under British Rule and accurate de- area's story of the men and women who helped tails of the activities of the Culper Spy Ring. In secure independence and freedom for America. episode three Major John Andre, British intelligence chief in Manhattan, portrayed by J.J. Feild, Let's embrace the drama and thank AMC for a is talking to Major Robert Rogers, a spy hunter production that brings our local history story to and member of the Queen’s Rangers, portrayed millions of people who would not otherwise have by Angus MacFadyen. Rogers mentions a Long ever hear about the Culper Spy Ring nor how to Island backwater community where he suspects pronounce Setauket. We don't yet know, and spies are operating. Andre ask him the name of may never know, all there is to learn about the the “backwater” location. Rogers replies, “Oh! Culper Spy Ring or about the many other spies Some little fish town you’ve probably never who operated during the Revolutionary War. heard of called Setauket.” However, the interest generated by Turn and by recent books on the subject will hopefully bring AMC’s TURN has introduced a lot of people more fact to light and that is all to the benefit of throughout the country to Setauket, to Long accurate and interesting local history. Island as more than a suburb of NYC, to a new
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MEMBERSHIP CORNER The Membership Committee has continued to try to standardize the membership year to coincide with the Society’s fiscal year, January 1 – December 31. In January, almost 600 renewal applications were mailed to current and recent past members. Thank you to all of you who renewed your membership for 2014. Of course, we also welcome new members at any time, and applications are available at all of our events throughout the year as well at Society headquarters, 93 North Country Road, 631-751-3730. Please encourage friends who might share your interest in the history and culture of our beautiful area to become members. Individual dues are only $35, Dual/Family dues are $50, and Patron dues are $100 all of which entitle members to Basic Benefits – 10% discount on Gift Shop Purchases, the newsletter, The Historian, and discount and advance purchases on all our programs and events. Higher categories of membership bring additional benefits, such as complimentary tickets to the Candlelight House Tour. We hope to see you at the many events listed in this newsletter. Visit or website, TVHS.org and use PayPal, or fill out the application below to become a member.
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Mae Erland, second daughter of the proprietors of the Sound View House, elopes By Robert Erland
Miss Mae Erland, second daughter of Mr. and NOTES: Mrs. George Erland, proprietors of the Sound 1. Carrie Bantle married Robert Francis Wells View House, and George Curtis, brother of Sam in 1904 and lived in Stony Brook until her J. Curtis, the singer, were married at Port Jefferdeath in 1949. son in the afternoon of August 29, 1900. The couple had been “courting” for several months 2. This is the Samuel Curtis property indicated over the objections of the bride’s parents. on plate 18 of the 1909 E. Belcher map of Stony Brook. George met his intended bride at the train station at 3:00 PM on the 29th. The bride had left REFRENCES: home, ostensibly, to go to the village shops. As 1. Her Father Not Disposed to Grant Forgiveness, the 3 o’clock train departed to the west, George New York Tribune, 31 Aug 1900, pg. 6 and Mae took his horse drawn surrey to Port Jefferson where they were married. Miss Er2. Eloped from Stony Brook, The Daily Standard land left a letter with her friend, Miss Carrie – Brooklyn, 31 Aug 1900, p. 12 Bantle1, addressed to “Mr. George Erland, Sound View House.” Her parents were not 3. Bride’s Parents Not Pleased, New York pleased when they read the wedding anTimes, 31 Aug 1900, p. unknown nouncement in the letter. They then drove to Mt. Sinai, to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Raymond, friends of the groom. Robert Erland is the great-grandson of George and the grand-nephew of Mae. He is a profesThe newlyweds returned to Stony Brook the sional genealogist and a member of the National next evening. Before his departure on the day Genealogical Society, the New York Genealogical before, Mr. Curtis ordered refreshments for and Biographical Society, and the New England about thirty guests and invited a number of Historic Genealogical Society. He attended the Brooklynites to attend the homecoming of his National Institute of Genealogical Research in bride at their new residence. 2009. His work has been published in the National Genealogical Society Magazine and the Black The couple resided in a cottage, and on grounds Sox Scandal Committee Newsletter of Society for formerly owned by the bride’s oldest sister, American Baseball Research (SABR). Elizabeth Sophia Erland, which she sold the previous year to the groom’s brother, Sam Curtis, the vaudevillian actor.2 George and Mae Curtis had three children while living in Stony Brook; Samuel, George Jr., and Jeanetta. Around 1920, the Curtis family relocated to Long Branch, New Jersey. George died in March, 1925, and Mae in July, 1965. George and Mary eventually forgave Mae for her elopement, as Mae and her family were often mentioned in newspaper articles concerning Erland family weddings and anniversaries.
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Book Review: Washington’s Spies by Alexander Rose By Beverly C. Tyler the very center of the British military encampment in New York City. The next step was to have that spy, posAmerica's First Spy Ring. ing as a British loyalist, provide on-going intelligence on the makeup and activities of British military forces. MaWritten by Alexander Rose. jor Benjamin Tallmadge, Washington’s military officer appointed to assist Sackett, also became convinced that New York, NY: Bantam Dell, his methods were valid. The standard military method, Random House Inc. 2006, 384 pp employed by Washington’s military intelligence chief General Charles Scott, was to make daily insertions into Writing a book is a love affair and nowhere is that more British controlled areas, gathering information and then evident than in the book “Washington’s Spies” by Alexan- getting out quickly. Tallmadge, during 1777 and 1778 was second in command of military intelligence under der Rose. In responding to his extensive research and Scott who did not like Tallmadge or the methods writing while constructing the story of the Culper Spy Tallmadge was advocating and actually already using. Ring, Rose referred to them as “my spies.”
Washington's Spies: The Story of
Major Tallmadge, finally taking over from Scott as Washington’s intelligence chief in October, 1778, had already tapped his boyhood friend and mutual Setauket resident Abraham Woodhull (code name Samuel Culper) to head the Setauket-based Culper spy ring. Woodhull was strategically-placed as a Long Island farmer with a sister and The fact that he accomplished both of these goals is evi- brother-in-law, Mary and Amos Underhill, who ran a dent in his 2006 book (updated in 2014 with some addi- boarding house in New York City, a perfect cover for a tional material and a Kindle edition). The wonderful spy spy spending a few days in Manhattan, posing as a loyal craft undertaken by the Culper Spy Ring is central to the supporter of king and country, meanwhile gathering intelligence. Woodhull operated this way from the Summer book but somewhat hidden inside the AMC series “TURN”. Rose, consultant to the new TV drama, has given of 1778 until June of 1779, when he was able to recruit viewers and readers alike a fresh look into the spy craft Robert Townsend (code name Samuel Culper Jr.) as the and methodology of General Washington’s Long Island- resident spy in New York City. based Culper Spy Ring. However with all the violence, sex and inaccurate drama unfolding, it takes a great deal Supporting Woodhull were a group of well-placed Setauket friends, in many cases first or second cousins, who of effort to separate the drama from the true history. made the spy ring function. Caleb Brewster, who carried What is clear in the book and from the wealth of primary the messages across Long Island Sound to Benjamin Tallmadge was already functioning as a whaleboat capdocuments that still exist concerning the Culper Spy tain crossing the Devil’s Belt (long Island Sound) and Ring, is that the conditions that existed on Long Island and especially in Setauket were so unique that this high- spying on British activity on Long Island when Tallmadge recruited him to work with Woodhull. Anna ly accurate and credible intelligence activity could not Smith Strong, strategically based on Strong’s Neck, was have occurred anywhere else. True, there were many easily able to coordinate communication between Woodspies that operated during the Revolutionary War, on hull’s frequent trips to New York and Brewster’s forays both sides, but there was only one known spy ring, the across the Sound. Significantly, it was the couriers, merCulpers. chant Jonas Hawkins and tavern keeper Austin Roe who had the extremely dangerous task of bringing spy mesGeneral George Washington, credited by even British sages from Woodhull and then Townsend in New York intelligence sources as the 18th century’s ultimate spyCity to Woodhull’s farm in Setauket. master, changed forever the standard military method This personal approach is evident in the meticulous detail and wide-ranging research Rose undertook in his effort to uncover both the hidden personalities of the Culper Spies and the large clandestine cast of characters that surrounded and assisted them.
of gathering and interpreting spy data. Washington, following the ideas suggested to him by Nathaniel Sackett, his civilian intelligence chief, wanted to insert a spy into
This then is the spy craft woven through the first season of AMC’s television series TURN. Unfortunately most of
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Washington’s Spies, continued the created relationships are not even close to portraying accurate history as we understand it. Does it matter? Yes! Does it detract from the significant story of the Culper Spy Ring? Yes! However, it provides an opportunity for historians, docents and re-enactors to tell the “real” story to the hundreds of people each week, who are now interested in learning more about Setauket and the Culper Spy Ring because of TURN. And maybe, just maybe, that is a realistic outcome. Telling the “real” story is definitely now an important responsibility. Let’s just hope the love affair with Setauket and the Culper Spy Ring continues with TURN season 2 when we will meet Robert Townsend as Samuel Culper Jr. the spy in New York City who made the Culper Spy Ring even more valuable to General Washington. Possibly Austin Roe will also appear in Season 2. How they are portrayed will most likely provide us with more drama to evaluate. If that happens, you can be sure that many more people will be introduced to the “real” story here in print, on local walking tours of Setauket and through the Three Village Historical Society exhibit SPIES! How a Group of Long Island Patriots Helped George Washington Win the Revolution.
Winter, Spring and Summer Events
36th Annual Awards Dinner: March 26th, 2014 From left: Barbara Russell, Janet McCauley, Brianna Cea, Brian Kilmeade, Steve Hintze
Setauket School 9th Annual Open House and Founders Day, April 24th. Rededication of William Leroy Sells plaque.
Annual Pot Luck Supper at the Setauket Neighborhood House, April 28th
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Winter, Spring and Summer Events
Selections From Our Collections 2014—May 18th Kara Hahn, Steve Englebright, Valerie Cartwright
Selections From Our Collections 2014—May 18th Steve Hintze, Karen Martin
Pedaling Through History: Spy Cycling 2014, May 3rd
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Still from TVHS commercial shown during AMC’s TURN series. Written, Directed and Produced by Ward Melville High School Film Students: Rose Kelso, Henry DaCosta, Megan White
Dilo Guild Awards at Ward Melville High School, May 15. Pictured with TVHS President Steven Hintze: Rose Kelso, Henry DaCosta, Megan White
A very sincere thank you to all those who have contributed to the Society in 2012 and for your continued support. Welcome to our newest members: Welcome to our newest members:
Chicken Hill: “A Community Lost to Time” Exhibit Opening, June 21st Valerie Cartwright, Ed Romaine, Kara Hahn, Fred Bryant, Frank Turano, Steve Hintze
Chicken Hill: “A Community Lost to Time” Exhibit Opening, June 21st
Lecture Series at the Setauket Neighborhood House
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution With Brian Kilmeade, February 24
Prelude, A Novel & the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe
With Helen And Richard Davidson, May 19th
Women in Long Island’s Past With Natalie Naylor, June 16th
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Save the Date August 23-24 & September 20-21: Tri-Spy Biking and Walking Tours and Self-Guided Kayak Adventure. Biking Tours: 9-12 am. Walking Tours: 25 pm. September 13: Community Sing Event. To commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the “Star Spangled Banner”. Fun, food, bands, choruses, raffles. September 27, 11 am—4:30 pm: Long Island Apple Festival at Sherwood Jayne House. An autumn celebration of our local historic traditions. October 18, 4:30 pm—10:30 pm: 2014 Spirits Tour (Rain Date: October 26) December 5 & 6: Candlelight House Tour
Lecture Series
Chicken Hill: “A Community Lost to Time”
How a Group of Long Island Patriots Helped George Washington Win the Revolution.
Exhibit Hours: Open Sundays from 1:00 PM 4:00 PM. Admission: $5 Children, $8 Adults. Members Free. (Includes both Chicken Hill and SPIES Exhibits)
Walking Tours * Colonial/Native American Tour: August 7, November 1— At 6:00 pm
Setauket Neighborhood House, 95 Main Street, Setauket. Free and open to the public.
Down the Ways: The Wooden Ship Era: August 10, October 5— At 2:00 pm
September 15th, 7:30 pm - Long Island at War with Josh Ruff
Walk Through History with Abraham Woodhull: August 16, September 14, October 18, November 9— At 2:00 pm
October 20th, 7:00 pm - Mirrors to the Past: Lake Ronkonkoma’s History with Dale Spencer November 17th, 7:00 pm - History of Stony Brook School with Josh Crane
Setauket Village Green Tour: August 24, September 27, October 12, October 25— At 2:00 pm Admission: $5 *Please check the Society’s website at www.tvhs.org for location and starting times of the Walking Tours or please contact the office at (631)-751-3730.
