LI Bonsai Society
Monday, August 8
Champagne Party at Coe Hall
Friday, August 12
Concert
Friday, August 19
Monday, August 8
LI Bonsai Society
Meeting topic: Twin Trunk Bonsai. 7:30 p.m. in the Main Greenhouse- Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay. Call 922-9210.
Friday, August 12
Champagne Party at Coe Hall
Come and celebrate summer and the Robert Moses Exhibition at Coe Hall. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, champagne, Great South Bay Brewery’s Robert Moses Pale Ale served right from the cloister garden and lawn games all evening. For this special evening, purchase and enjoy hand rolled cigars on the west portico of Coe Hall. Live music with the Sweet Caribbean and eclectic sound of the “City Sounds Music Experience” featuring “The Dynamic Duo”, Steelpan Man and The Drumming Boy Wonder, with a special guest appearance from Broadway’s The Buddy Holly Story. With appreciation to two contributors for their generosity, Great South Bay Brewery and La Casa Grande Tobacco Company. 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Coe Hall. Members $30; police, firefighters, military $30; nonmembers $50. For tickets call Michelle Benes 922-8682 or mbenes@plantingfields.org.
Friday, August 19
Concert
With Margarita Shevchenko and Lev Polyakin. Pianist Margarita Shevchenko is one of the leading young pianists on the international concert platform today. She has won top prizes at major international piano competitions including the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Lev Polyakin joined the first violin section of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1982 and was appointed an assistant concertmaster in 1999. 6 p.m. in the Grace Auditorium, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, One Bungtown Rd., Cold Spring Harbor. Individual tickets will be sold at the door for $20. Call 367-8455 to reserve seats.
Upcoming Events
Free Nature Tours
Enjoy a guided nature walk on the trails throughout the year on the first and third Saturday of every month at the Hoffman Center Nature Preserve and Wildlife Sanctuary, 6000 Northern Blvd., Muttontown (between Route 106 and 107 – just west of Martin Viette Nursery). Meet the guide at the site entrance at 12:50 p.m. Gate locked when tour begins. No pets, no children under 10 years of age or organized groups permitted. Rain or shine. No registration required. Visit www.hoffmancenter.org. Aug. 6, 20.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site Events
Aug. 7: Paumanok Driving Club: Horse and Carriage Demonstration; Aug. 14: LI Antique Power Association: Display of Tractors and Engines from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Aug. 21: Hallockville Museum Farm: Hands-on agricultural activities for children; Aug. 28: Farrier Program presented by Jerry Trapani of the Paumanok Driving Club. Visitors will still need to purchase tickets to tour the president’s home. Tickets are sold first-come first-served the day of at the Visitor Center. Tours are conducted every hour on the hour from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Call 922-4788.
Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center
Located at 134 Cove Rd. Call 922-3200 or trsac@audubon.org:
•Aug.19: Children’s Sail on Christeen. Spend the morning learning about Oyster Bay while sailing aboard the historic sloop Christeen. Raise the sails, tie knots and touch an amazing assortment of sea creatures. This trip is lead by a Coast Guard certified captain and crew from the Waterfront Center along with sanctuary staff. After a fun-filled morning of sailing it will be time to explore the beach and enjoy a picnic together under the summer sun. ages 7 and up. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Space is limited. $50 per child for the day sanctuary members; $65 per child nonmembers.
•Aug. 20: Nature at Night. Come for an evening of exploring nature at night and discover that wandering in the woods in the dark doesn’t have to be scary. Have an up close encounter with some nighttime creatures, learn how to use all of your senses, and search the sanctuary for signs of animals that use the cover of darkness to hunt for prey or hide from predators. There will even be time to sing songs around a campfire and roast marshmallows. 7:30 to 9 p.m. All ages. Members $5; nonmembers $7.
Call For Craft Vendors
The Mill Neck Family of Organizations is calling for vendors of handmade items for its Annual Fall Harvest Festival, held on Oct. 8 and 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A favorite tradition on LI, visitors eagerly await the Fall Harvest Festival for its crafts, apples, pumpkins, pies and other delicious treats. The country crafts, offering handmade items and holiday gifts, are one of the festival’s main features. If you make or sell crafts and feel that you would be a great addition to the Festival, we encourage you to apply. Vendors are assigned an outdoor space (10’x10’), with a table and two chairs. All vendors are required to have a tent or canopy; those vendors who do not own a suitable tent may rent one from Mill Neck Manor for a small fee. A non-refundable fee of $300 will be due once vendors are selected. Payment must be received upon notification or a late fee of $100 will incur. The Mill Neck Family of Organizations is looking forward to another successful year and hopes that you can be part of the Fall Harvest Festival. For more information, or for an application, call Roberta Baade, 516-922-4100, ext. 220.
Ongoing Events
Classic Car Cruise Night
Every Tuesday through Sept. 27 at 5:45 p.m. on Audrey Ave. Via OB-EN Chamber of Commerce.
Dancing in the Street
Every Friday in August from 7 to 9 p.m. Dust off your dance shoes and get ready for dancing in the street. A portion of Audrey Ave. in front of the U.S. Post Office will be closed off. A live DJ will provide music and dance lessons and demonstrations will be provided. Aug. 5, 19: DJ Louis del Prete with Latin and Ballroom Mix plus dance instruction; Aug. 12, 26: Music by Scofflaws.
Friday Nights at the Hay Barn
Candlelight, food, premium bar and live music every Friday from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Hay Barn, Planting Fields Arboretum. Call 922-5700 or visit www.periwinklescaterer.com.
OB Farmers Market
The market features over 15 vendors and offers goods as varied as homemade pickles to natural pet treats, will celebrate its grand opening. New hours this year are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The market will continue to operate every Friday through Oct. 28. Many vendors from the market’s inaugural year are eagerly returning to harvest the benefits of a bursting downtown. They will be joined by an impressive number of new exciting vendors wanting to be part of the weekly event. The market will now be situated on Audrey Ave., north of the Oyster Bay Bandstand, which will become a pedestrian thoroughfare on market days. The Oyster Bay Main Street Association is organizing and managing this enterprise in conjunction with the Town of Oyster Bay. Call 922-6982.
Mill Neck Manor Campus and Mansion Tours
The Mill Neck Family of Organizations announces that the historic Mill Neck Manor House, located in Mill Neck between Oyster Bay and Bayville, is open for interior/exterior tours, location shoots, wedding and still photography and corporate events. Tours are led by a docent and are available to the public on Sundays, Aug. 7, Sept. 25, Oct. 2, Nov. 6 and Dec. 4. The majestic Tudor Revival mansion is set on an 86-acre scenic estate overlooking the LI Sound. The 34-room mansion, once called Sefton Manor, was owned by Robert Leftwich Dodge and his wife, the cosmetics heiress Lillian Sefton Dodge, and features exquisite stone and plaster work as well as stained glass windows depicting five Shakespearean plays. Gardens adorn the lovely exterior landscape, where tourists will find an array of delicate blooms, gazebos and bronze gates. The house has undergone beautiful enhancements from Designers’ Showcases as well as first floor modifications. The Department of the Interior designated the honor of National Register of Historic Places to Mill Neck Manor for its outstanding architectural achievement. The Manor House is handicapped accessible. Tours must be scheduled and paid for in advance. For more information or to schedule a tour (payment expected at time of scheduling), contact Nancy Leghart 628-4243 or nleghart@millneck.org. Tours may also be booked and paid for at http://millneck.org/manor_house/registration.html.
Muttontown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
The Fellowship provides an atmosphere of warmth and comraderie, with talks presented by intelligent enlightening and non-dogmatic speakers who come from the entire spectrum of the Arts, History and Sciences. This is followed by coffee and an informal discussion circle, held in the turn-of-the-18th century farmhouse in a bucolic setting. Sundays at 10:30 a.m. The Muttontown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located on the south side of Route 25A (Northern Blvd.), East Norwich, directly east of Martin Viette Nurseries and about a half mile west of Route 106. Look for the white brick gate posts with a large sing for Hunter’s Moon Farm. All are welcome. Call with any questions 659-1686.
Weekly Events
•Alcoholics Anonymous closed step meeting Sundays at 8 p.m. and open meeting at the same time. On Wednesdays at 8 p.m. there is a beginner’s meeting and a closed discussion meeting. Any one can attend the open meetings. The closed meetings are for anyone who has a desire to stop drinking. The meetings are held at Christ Church, 61 E. Main St. For information call 922-6377.
•Alanon meeting will be held every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Oyster Bay Presbyterian Church, East Main St. All are welcome.
•Substance Abuse Groups meet at the Youth and Family Counseling Agency, 193 A, South St., on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Registration required. Call 922-6867.
Monthly Events
•Jewish War Veterans, Gieir-Levitt Post #655 invite all Jewish war veterans to join them at the Mid-Island Y JCC, 45 Manetto Hill Rd., Plainview, at 9 a.m. on the second Sunday of every month. Call Larry Sklar 942-3327.
•Young at Heart Parkinson’s Support Group meeting from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of the month in the cafeteria on the ground level, near the emergency room at North Shore University Hospital at Syosset, 221 Jericho Tpke. Open to patients, caregivers or anyone interested in learning about Parkinsons. Call Debbie 390-9454.
•Golf for Single Adults, a group of 50 + single seniors meet the third Tuesday of every month, at 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, Sunnyside Blvd., Exit 46 off the LIE, Plainview. For info call 942-4228. The group plays on courses, mostly in Suffolk on the weekends as well as during the week.
