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SUMMARY:New Village House Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Brand-new exhibitions in Village House will open on Saturday\, May 23rd – Memorial Day weekend. \n  \nHours (subject to change): \nFridays\, 2pm to 5pm \nSaturdays\, 11am to 5pm \nSundays\, 2pm to 5pm \n  \nLOST OYSTERPONDS\nA collections of photographs depicting buildings that were once an integral part of the built environment of East Marion and Orient. Some structures were purposely torn down\, others lost to fire or hurricanes\, others simply moved to other places\, like the Orient Mill\, a beloved structure that was sold and moved by barge to an amusement park where it burned to the ground a dozen years later. \nCURLICUE WICKER\nOHS is fortunate to have two pieces from the two most important wicker furniture manufacturers in America: a rocking chair made by The Wakefield Rattan Company\, and a baby carriage made by Heywood Brothers & Co. Several other pieces have no maker’s labels\, but they might have been made locally\, as the Greenport Rattan Company was flourishing at that period. \nCHILDREN’S VEHICLES\nThis exhibition is devoted to large toys: vehicles that children could ride in or on that could be self-propelled or pulled or pushed. An early tricycle and a painted sled are familiar to all\, but a goat cart and an Irish Mail less so. The goat cart was meant to pulled by the child’s pet goat\, or dog\, or pony – or perhaps a sibling. \nRECENT ACQUISITIONS\nThe past few years have been exceptional for the quality of the objects being donated to OHS. This year’s significant additions include three issues\, dating from 1812 and 1813\, of the Long-Island Star; our first 21st century Oysterponds quilt; a bust of Lincoln by Robert Berks\, and much more. \nABRAHAM G. D. TUTHILL\nThis exhibition celebrates the acquisition of two portraits painted by Abraham G.D. Tuthill\, the only 18th-century artist born in Oysterponds. OHS already owns two of his portraits. The handsome new portraits\, of an unidentified man and woman (undoubtedly husband and wife)\, date from the later part of his career. \nROBERT BERKS: THE MARY McLEOD BETHUNE MEMORIAL\nOrient denizen and nationally-known sculptor Robert Berks (1922-2011) specialized in creating large-scale\, monumental sculptures of major figures in American history. His creation of a memorial to Bethune\, the world-renowned educator\, civil rights leader\, women’s rights activist and presidential advisor\, was one of his more important commissions. \n  \nAdmission for OHS Members is free; admission charge is $10 per Non-member Adult. \n  \nStaff may be available Monday thru Friday to open the doors and give tours. If interested\, please call the office at 631-323-2480 for more information.
URL:https://oysterpondshistoricalsociety.org/event/new-village-house-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Village House\, 1555 Village Lane\, Orient\, NY\, 11957\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Galassi Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:May 30th.  Jonathan Galassi will read select excerpts from his long-form poem\, “The Vineyard\,” a delightful account of the seasons in a house and its garden near the sea\, a domestic idyll of hardy plants and neighbors\, outer and inner weather\, love and loss\, and taking stock of the life we’ve made. \nCopies of “The Vinyard” will be available for purchse at the event\, courtesty of Greenport’s Burton Books \nFree!\nSaturday\, May 30th @ 11am\nPoquatuck Hall\n1160 Skippers Lane\, Orient \nThe delicious long-form poem “The Vineyard” is set in and around the quasi-fictional Long Island village of Oyster Ponds\, where the poet spends the summer months. In free-flowing lines and pages that turn with the calendar\, the poem unspools impressions that seem confided rather than written\, as Galassi observes the “pretend peace’’ of this quiet house and garden\, his oasis in the turbulence of dailiness. Themes and imagery recur\, swerve\, and transform as he watches the vineyard next door come alive\, thrive\, and die away only to return the next year\, different but the same\, in our time of plague\, climate threat\, and a culture that too often seems to attack what is enduring and fundamental. \nBut this book is not a complaint or a raging against the dying of the light: it is an honest record of seeing and feeling in a beloved place\, of gratitude\, of searching for one’s center. As the poet describes the wisteria vine that sends out suckers into the lawn and the long and complex tale of the village and its inhabitants\, this modern eclogue becomes an ample container for Jonathan’s life: he’s having a chat with us about all he notices and dreams\, about tending his plants and cooking and gossiping\, about loving a man and aging\, about his mother and Vita Sackville-West and bike-riding and having regrets. The narrative swells and touches us in its surprising turns; sometimes whole poems swim up and hold a page in the midst of its ongoing narrative\, reminding us of the ways that writing can shape the quotidian. \nThis intimate\, unhurried\, and unpretentious poem of past and present will stand as the central work of Jonathan Galassi’s career. \nJONATHAN GALASSI is the author of three earlier books of poetry\, including Left-handed\, and has published translations of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi\, Primo Levi\, and Eugenio Montale. A lifelong inmate of the publishing business\, he lives in New York City and on Long Island. \n 
URL:https://oysterpondshistoricalsociety.org/event/jonathan-galassi-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Poquatuck Hall\, 1160 Skippers Ln.\, Orient\, NY\, 11957\, United States
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