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Walking Tour
Saturday, June 6

Nature Hike
Sunday, June 7

Rose Show
Sunday, June 14

Saturday, June 6

Walking Tour

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Rd., Cold Spring Harbor, invites the community to a guided walking tour of its historic buildings and botanical landscape. The tour focuses on CSHL’s historic architecture and its Nobel Prize legacy and provides a peek into the cutting edge scientific research taking place. The tour will also cover the indoor and outdoor art works featured on the 117 acre shore-side campus, which was recently designated as a botanical garden by the Public Gardens Association. The tours are primarily outdoors and take place regardless of weather conditions. Areas include stairs and steep hills and are not recommended for people who have difficulty walking. Tours assemble promptly at 10 a.m. in the Grace Auditorium lobby (the first building on the left as you enter the campus). Reservations are required at least seven days in advance and a minimum of ten participants are required for each tour. There is a non-refundable tour fee of $5 per person that can be paid in advance or on arrival. Payment can only be made by cash or check and checks should be made payable to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Call 367-6895. Also on June 13, 20, 27.

Sunday, June 7

Nature Hike

“Smell the Wild Roses,” between 10 a.m. and noon, at the Muttontown Preserve, Muttontown Ln. (south of 25A), East Norwich. The hike offers participants the opportunity to view a variety of roses in full bloom, along with autumn olive, honeysuckle and buttercups. During past walks, more than 50 species of roses have been seen along the trails. The tour is three miles over mostly flat terrain that includes the upland woods trail. Enrollment for the walk ($3) is limited and preregistration is required by calling 571-8500 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The walk will begin at the Bill Paterson Nature Center on the preserve.

Sunday, June 14

Rose Show

The Long Island Rose Society will present its annual Rose Show, “Romancing the Rose” June 14 at the Horticultural Center, Planting Fields Arboretum, 1385 Planting Fields Rd. This is a unique opportunity to see hundreds of roses, all garden grown on Long Island and speak to the rosarians who grew them. See beautiful rose arrangements. Find information on roses that will be suited to your growing conditions. Certified consulting rosarians will answer your questions. Plants are available for sale. Fun for the entire family. The show is open to the public from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission to the show is free. There is a parking charge of $6 per car at the arboretum. For directions call 922-9200.

Flag Day Celebration

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, 12 Sagamore Hill Rd., is celebrating Flag Day with a number of free family fun activities. Flag Day was set aside as the day to commemorate the adoption of the US flag on June 14, 1777. Join Park Rangers and volunteers in tracing the development of the Stars and Stripes from the birth of the nation to today through flag-related crafts for children, including an opportunity to learn about the symbolism and traditions of flag design by developing your own flag. The North Point Brass Quintet will offer a patriotic musical performance on Theodore Roosevelt’s west porch from 2 to 4 p.m. Children craft activities begin at 1p.m. under the tent behind the visitor center. Bring lawn chairs or blankets to enjoy the concert from the lawn. Both events are free. For further information about the site or special programs, check www.nps.gov/sahi or call 922-4788.

Flag Day Arts and Crafts

Celebrate Flag Day, the official day that the US adopted the flag. Discover how flags are used on ships and design your own unique banner. Fun for families. Ages 5 to 95. 2:30 p.m. at The Whaling Museum, Cold Spring Harbor. Members $3; others $8 (includes museum admission). Call 631-367-3418.

Friday, June 19

Wine Tasting/Poetry/Taste of Huntington

An evening of wine tasting, poetry and a taste of Huntington will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at Walt Whitman House, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd., West Hills, to benefit Last Hope Animal Rescue of Syosset. The evening will feature wines donated by Stew Leonard’s, select readings of Walt Whitman poems by “The Walt Whitman Project, Greg Trupiano, artistic director, and a selection of treats from several Huntington restaurants. Tickets are $40 pp in advance; $45 pp at the door. Tours of the WW birthplace will be available at a minimal charge. Send name address phone number and check by June 15 to Last Hope, Inc., PO Box 61, Syosset, NY 11791. www.lasthopeanimalrescue.org. Call 509-0137 or 631-205-5069.

Sunday, June 21

Village Walking Tour

Learn about the 19th century Cold Spring Harbor Village legends in a town walking tour. Light rain or shine. For adults and families. 2 p.m. at The Whaling Museum, Cold Spring Harbor. Members $3; others $8 (includes museum admission). Call 631-367-3418.

Upcoming Events

Carle Place High School Class of 1959 50th Reunion

Will be held at the Holiday Inn, Old Country Rd., Carle Place, on June 27. The research committee has located most of the classmates but a few remain missing. A number of students who graduated were from Syosset, Jericho and Locust Valley. If anyone can supply information for the missing students that will help locate them to inform them about the reunion, contact George McVetty 631-563-1706 or email CPHS59@optonline.net.

At the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary

Programs will be held at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center, 134 Cove Rd., Oyster Bay. Call 922-3200 or trsac@audubon.org.

•June 6: Healthy Hike Series: Tiffany Creek Preserve. National Trails Day. One of the most recent land acquisitions by Nassau County, Tiffany Preserve is a hidden hiking jewel along the Gold Coast. Created from portions of three estates, this 197-acre preserve is a nice mix of hardwood forests, wet meadow, and glacial ravines. We’ll look and listen for breeding songbirds and late spring wildflowers while traversing on this pleasant walk in the woods. 9 to 11 a.m. Meet at parking area off Sandy Hill Rd, near intersection with Berry Hill Rd. All ages. Free.

•June 14: Animal Dads. Dads show their love in odd ways. Bring your dad and come and see the parenting skills of feathery, fluffy, scaly and slimy dads around the world. There will be a 45-minute indoor live animal presentation followed by a short trail search for animal dads. 1 to 2 p.m. Free for members; $3 nonmembers.

Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club Summer Camp

July 6 through Aug. 14. Regular hours 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Extended hours 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.; 4 to 6 p.m. For more information and rates contact Franca Trunzo 759-5437, ext. 11. Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club is located at 135 Forest Ave., Locust Valley.

Learn Sign Language

The Mill Neck Foundation for Deaf Ministry Sign Language Camp for Hearing Kids invites children ages 8 to 16 to learn a new language and have fun. Held on the campus of Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf, the camp teaches beginning sign language in an enjoyable and unique way. In two sessions (July 13 through 17 and July 20 through 24), campers are divided by age (ages 8 to 12 and 13 to 16). ??Through activities, games and arts and crafts, campers are taught the sign language alphabet and numbers as well as signs for animals, foods, colors and much more. Campers in session one will have basic conversations in sign by the end of the camp and those with a prior knowledge of the language in session two will build on their current skills and focus on conversational sign. At the end of each week, a special presentation will be held for friends and family about what the students learned. Campers eat lunch daily with deaf students and interact with Mill Neck students during games, storytelling and swimming sessions. Classes are led by deaf instructors with hearing teacher assistance. Camp is held from 8:30 am to 3:30 p.m. daily and costs $230 per child (includes lunch and a book, arts and crafts, a notebook, a bag and more). Enrollment is limited. The deadline for enrollment is June 26. Contact Nicole Romano 351-3844 or nromano@millneck.org for more information and/or to enroll your child in camp.

Ongoing Events

Upstairs/Downstairs Tour at Coe Hall

Planting Fields Foundation announces a new hour-long tour about servant life at Coe Hall offered through Sept. 30 at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. The tour takes visitors through parts of Coe Hall (finished in 1921) that have rarely been shown before, including the top floor of the house where servants had bedrooms and where the Coe family’s clothes and trunks were stored when not needed. Though student bathrooms were added in the 1950s when the house was used as a college, and students had dormitories on the third floor, these rooms, hidden under the vast roofs of the Elizabethan-style mansion, have changed little since the 1920s. In the last year, parts of the top floor have been especially painted and re-furnished. The tour, created by Marianne Della Croce, is based on the extensive archives about the Coe family and Planting Fields. $3.50 tour fee nonmembers; children under 12 are free. Call Jennifer Lavella 922-8678.