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Polo Picnic Party
Saturday, August 14

Volunteer Day
Saturday, August 14

Explore the Ruins
Sunday, August 15

Friday, August 13

Champagne and Wedding Cake At Coe Hall

Henry B. Joyce, executive director, Planting Fields Foundation, will lead tours of the Gold Coast Wedding Exhibition throughout the evening from 7 to 9 p.m. at Planting Fields Arboretum. Unlimited champagne and wedding cake will be served. Reservations are required. Call Michelle Benes 922-8682 or email mbenes@plantingfields.org. $40 admission nonmembers; $20 members.

Saturday, August 14

Polo Picnic Party

The North Shore Land Alliance 3rd Annual Polo Picnic Party/fundraiser is a family event featuring live music, polo match, farmer’s market, plant sale, pony rides, petting zoo, and more. The location is right off Route 25A: Meadowbrook Polo Club, Whitney Lane, Old Westbury, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. There is also a V.I.P. wine reception at 4:30 P.M. with the polo players (tickets for reception are $75.) Tickets for the event itself are: $35/adult; $5/child. For information call 626-0908

Volunteer Day

Join the TR Sanctuary staff for a special day of hands-on scientific research, dissecting owl pellets and learning about the natural history of local owls, followed by a pizza party. TR Sanctuary and Audubon Center, 134 Cove Rd., from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, call 922-3200.

Sunday, August 15

Explore the Ruins

Takes place from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and explores the history of the Muttontown Preserve, including the ruins of a former estate once owned by King Zog, the last monarch in Albania, one of the preserve’s curiosities. Zog, who fled Albania after the Italian invasion of 1939 and lived in England, Egypt and France in the years after, acquired the 150-acre Knollwood estate at Muttontown in 1951. Zog never moved to the U.S. and sold the estate in 1955 to Lansdell Christie. As the mansion lay abandoned, rumors began to spread about riches King Zog had hidden in the mansion’s walls, with the natural result that vandals soon descended on the property. The Christie family had the mansion demolished in 1959. Enrollment ($5) 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. Muttontown Preserve is located on Muttontown Lane, south of 25A, in East Norwich.

Raptor Program

Summer Sundays at Sagamore Hill presents a free program by the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Sanctuary: Birds of Prey Program at 2 p.m. For more information call 922-4788.

Sunday, August 22

Photography Walk

Summer Sundays at Sagamore Hill presents a free program by the Nature and Wildlife Photographers of Long Island: a special photography nature walk for amateur photographers at 3 p.m. For more information call 922-4788.

Saturday, August 28

OBHS 50th Anniversary

Come celebrate the Oyster Bay Historical Society’s 50th Anniversary with music by Bob Merrill, hours d’oeuvres, and a silent auction. 7 to 10 p.m. at the home of Frank and Stefanie Leone. For more information about tickets, call 922-5032.