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A Sense of Place: Long Island History and Heritage

  • Rock Hall Museum 199 Broadway Lawrence, NY 11559 Nassau (map)

Sunday, March 27 th - 1:30 p.m.

A Sense of Place: Long Island History and Heritage - Dr. Natalie Naylor

An overview of Long Island’s history from the Native American Indians and early Dutch and English settlements in the seventeenth century, to Levittown and the suburban metropolis in the twenty-first century. This presentation emphasizes Long Island’s legacy explored in parks, museums, and historic houses. The Speaker, Prof. Natalie Naylor, Ed.D., instructed Long Island and American social history at Hofstra University where she was the founding director of its Long Island Studies Institute until she retired. She is a former president of the Friends of Rock Hall Museum.

Fee: $10; $8 seniors. Members free. Check is to be payable to the Friends of Rock Hall. Space

limited. Reservations required.