Long Island Sights - H through L
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I am a Long Island native, and there is plenty to do here. In this context, by Long Island I am referring not to the geographical fish-shaped
island of Long Isand, but rather Nassau and Suffolk Counties, i.e. not Brooklyn and Queens (New York City).
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Hallock State Park Preserve
Hallockville Museum Farm (Riverhead)
7/23/2021 Took some time on a beautiful Friday for an outing. Mom came over at 8:30 and we headed past Riverhead to Northville
to the Hallockville Museum Farm. We parked and had a morning snack in the car, then did our tour. The place (free for outside touring) is set up really well.
Their story- “Hallockville Museum Farm was created to preserve and interpret the history of farming on the North Fork of Long Island. The Museum got
its start with the preservation of the Hallock Homestead. The original portion of the homestead was built in 1765 by Ruben Brown. Ezra Hallock bought
the farm and lived in the house sometime after the Revolution. In 1801, Ezra sold the sixty-acre farm and buildings to his brother Captain Zachariah
Hallock (1749-1820) for his son Zachariah Hallock 2nd (1776-1854). Zachariah 2nd was married in 1800 and he and his descendants lived in the homestead
until 1979 when his great-granddaughter Ella Hallock moved out at age 95 to a nursing home in Riverhead where she died at the age of 100 in 1985.”
We walked around the old buildings (dwellings, barns, etc.) on a path defined by a series of panels. On each panel, there was a context photo from
the period of the farm, some text, and a bar code for the phone. These linked to web pages that had an audio presentation by actors playing the roles
of family and others from the farm. We were very impressed and learned a lot.
The site sign ...
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... and NYS sign
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Hudson-Sydlowski House ...
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... 1840, and as it is today
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Pasture area ...
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... but likely not the cow in the photo
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1765 Hallock Homestead
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A view of the front ...
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... the inside ...
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... and Mom on the porch
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The kitchen end then ...
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... and now
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The house again, with garden
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Nice barn details
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Another Hallock house then ...
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... and now
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Me in the farmyard area
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Heckscher State Park
Hither Hills State Park
Holtsville Ecological Center (Holtsville)
8/20/2023
Sign for the park ...
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... and ecology center
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Mom at the entrance
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Goat ...
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... duck and goose ...
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... one alpaca ...
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... and another ...
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... fox ...
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... badger ...
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... eagle and one human ...
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... and another ...
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... horses ...
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... ostrich ...
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... turkey and deer ...
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... and lynx
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Me and Mom ...
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... by a pretty fountain
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One of the greenhouses
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I (top)
Islip Grange (Sayville)
6/24/2024
The park sign
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1926 Robinson Cottage
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Fun door detail
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A nice panorama of the area
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1901 Percy William Cottage
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Interesting 1878 building ...
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... with me
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1860 Carriage Shed Replica
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1850 Tuthill Case House on one side ...
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... and the other
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Me and Mom by ...
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... 1895 Mill
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Mom at Ockers' Barn
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Me and Mom by a scale replica of ...
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... 1867 Dutch Reformed Church
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J (top)
Jackson Pollock House National Historic Landmark (East Hampton)
8/16/2012 On the road again back to the north part of East Hampton and the Jackson Pollock House NHL. The artist and
his wife Lee Krasner moved to the wood-frame house in 1945, and he started using the nearby barn as his studio in 1946. We first toured the
house, which served as the original studio for Pollock and then Krasner, and had many artworks throughout to enjoy. We then went over to the
barn, where we put on little foam slippers and were able to walk around the large interior on the original paint-covered plan floors covered
in paint from Pollock’s unusual style of painting.
Me in front of the house
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Krasner's materials
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Pollack painting away ...
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... on this floor
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My own little JP
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Jones Beach State Park
K (top)
Kings Park Unique Area (Kings Park)
7/30/2023
The park sign
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Me in the lot
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Interpretive signage
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Clarence Beavers Trail
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Me and Mom ...
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... on the trail
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L (top)
Lakeland County Park (Islandia)
5/30/2022
The park sign
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Mom on the nice boardwalk
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Interesting-looking water
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On the boardwalk with Greenbelt blaze
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Headwaters of the Connetquot River
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Many flowers here
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One more on the boardwalk
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Honeysuckle Pond ...
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... with Geese
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Us and the geese ...
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... and snapping turtle
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A view from the other platform
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8/6/2023
Me and Mom ...
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... on the nicely done ...
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... boardwalks
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Me on the boardwalk
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Nice view of the pond ...
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... with low water
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Pretty flora ...
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... and some fauna
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A furry little guy
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8/11/2024
Mom on the boardwalk
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A look at the swampy area ...
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... and us
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lots of floating foliage
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Me at a seating stub
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Another boardwalk stretch
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A narrow trail with nice smelling ...
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... costal sweetpepperbush
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Mom hangs out ...
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... while I head to Honeysuckle Pond
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Nice reflections ...
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... on a beautiful day
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Landing Avenue Park (Smithtown)
8/4/2024
The park sign ...
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... with historical info
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A view of the park
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Mom and our snack ...
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... with a view of the river
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Looking upriver on the Nissequogue ...
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... and down ...
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... towards the Sound
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Me hanging out
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Long Island Aquarium (Riverhead)
7/1/2004 [visited as Atlantis Marine World]
The attraction sign ...
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... and fun entrance
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Nice outside nature walk
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Some land guys
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Mammal ...
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... and fishes ...
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... on the reef
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Long Island Maritime Museum (West Sayville)
4/29/2012 What would a birthday celebration for Ken be without NHLs? The family met at my house and we immediately headed out
to the Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville on a really beautiful, cool spring afternoon. In the museum building we got a longer-than-desired
history talk by the museum guy, then looked at the exhibits on boat-building, sea rescues and other things of local interest. We then headed outside
for the real destination – NHLs. First was the Rudolph Oyster House. This small, simple building is typical of the many oyster culling houses which
once lined the Great South Bay waterfront, providing work for hundreds of predominantly Dutch immigrant local residents. We checked out the nice
exhibits inside, seeing piles of oyster shells and the tools of the trade. Back outside at dockside we found the recently restored Priscilla NHL.
From 1888 to 1963, the classic oyster dredging sloop Priscilla was owned and operated by several oystermen from Connecticut and New York, successful
because she could dredge well in both light and heavy winds. After a few photos we walked over to a very large building which housed numerous small
and midsized boats of all types, power and sail. One interesting boat was a very small (two man) but fully functional square-rigged boat, used for
training and having a gazillion sheets. Not something for Ken and Bill in the Nissequogue! Our last quest was for the Modesty NHL. Modesty is a
gaff-rigged oyster sloop built in 1923, modeled after a catboat believed to be the last sailing scallop dredger built on Long Island. We knew she
was out of the water, undergoing restoration. We found her crowded into the building next to the Oyster House. As the building was not open, we
peered into the windows around all the mess inside, and took the best photos possible.
The site sign ...
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... and museum building
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Nice rescue display
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Fun with displays - Ken, ...
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... Mom, ...
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... me, ...
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... and Terry
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Rudolph Oyster House NHL
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Ken photos the NHL plaque
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The Oyster House in the day
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Info on Pricilla NHL ...
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... and the dredging sloop
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The family at the docks
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Where we found ...
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... Modesty NHL
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Long Island Museum (Stony Brook)
7/15/2022
The museum sign
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One outdoor sculpture ...
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... and another ...
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... and another
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Someone's watching ...
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The famous ...
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crocheted trees
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1867 Wells Fargo Coach
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1871 Coupe Rockaway
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1875-1885 Chariot D’Orsay ...
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... with beautiful detail
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Grace Darling 1860s-1904 livery service
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1885-1895 Bronson Outing Wagon
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1870-1880 Parade Hose Carriage
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Looking over one of the main areas
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Waiting at Stony Brook Station
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1873 Steam Pumper
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1866 Concord Coach
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The gardens and grounds
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Nassakeag Schoolhouse outside ...
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... and inside
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Carriage Museum and Blacksmith Shop
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Mom at the fountain/horse trough
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Me inside ...
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... the blacksmith shop
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1867 Smith Carriage Shed
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1794 Ploch-Williamson Barn
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A few views ...
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... of the barn inside
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Confirming the date!
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1796 Smith-Rudyard Burial Ground
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Art Museum
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The main gallery
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Nina Mount - Mount House From Road ...
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1947 Lee Krasner "Shattered Color"
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1998 Pat Ralph "Heading West"
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Brookhaven Nat'l Labs exhibit
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1952-1966 Cosmotron slice
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Big footprint
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Early medical scanner
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A view today
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Some LI/BNL humor
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Coronavirus 3-D model
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