This year our benefit location is COCUYO — the stunning Locust Valley home of Alfredo Paredes and Brad Goldfarb. This event is sold out.
2:00-4:00 PM
Join Preservation Long Island and the Caribbean American Poetry Association in the garden of Joseph Lloyd Manor for an afternoon of poetry, history, food, and music in honor of Jupiter Hammon, America’s first published Black poet. FREE. Registration required.
Joseph Lloyd Manor, Sherwood-Jayne Farm, and the Custom House are open for the season with tours offered from May to October. Reservations for tours are recommended and can be scheduled in advance online.
This April marks the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel that transformed Long Island’s North Shore into a symbol of Jazz Age glamour and ambition. Preservation Director Tara Cubie explores the real people, places, and estates that inspired Fitzgerald’s fictional world—and how the Gold Coast’s legacy continues to shape our fascination with Gatsby a century later.
This Women’s History Month, Chief Curator Lauren Brincat shares a powerful story from Harriet Jacobs’s (1813–1897) autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, detailing the author’s experience staying at the grand Marine Pavilion in Rockaway during the summer of 1843.
Preservation Long Island and the Caribbean American Poetry Association are thrilled to invite students in grades 6-12 across Long Island to share original poems as part of our 2025 Juneteenth Poetry Celebration in honor of Jupiter Hammon (1711-c. 1806), recognized as the first published Black American poet. Poems must be submitted in advance.
This Black History Month, Preservation Long Island is looking back at five years of the Jupiter Hammon Project and planning for the future.
We are delighted to announce the acquisition of a portrait by Sag Harbor artist, Orlando Hand Bears (1811–1851). Ephraim Niles Byram, was a prominent figure in the history of Sag Harbor and greater Long Island. The oil on canvas, painted in 1834, will be added to our permanent collection.
We are pleased to share a recent article by Lauren Brincat, Preservation Long Island’s Chief Curator and Director of Collections, and former curatorial fellow Peter Fedoryk, featured in the Winter 2024-25 issue of the magazine.
