Solar Eclipses, Past and Present. Thursday, March 28, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm. At the Moriches Branch. Speaker: William Francis Taylor, Senior Educator, Hamptons Observatory. Tribesmen shooting guns at the darkening sun … People shrieking in horror during totality! Solar eclipses have terrified and mesmerized us for millennia. In the 19th century, thanks to newspaper […]
Spring Fling Tuesday, April 2, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Drop-in. No registration required. Families with at least one child Grade 6 or younger welcome! Join us for some springtime fun at the Mastic Beach Branch – 369 Neighborhood Rd., Mastic Beach! Drop by and join the fun!
Alyssa Gutierrez’s lifelong interest in anthropology and archaeology sought expression in her curiosity about gravestones on Long Island. Why were the pre-Revolutionary headstones of Suffolk and Nassau counties made in New England? Who were the stone carvers? In 2020 the author began dragging friends and family to one burial ground after another! Interestingly, Alyssa has […]
