This year our benefit location is COCUYO — the stunning Locust Valley home of Alfredo Paredes and Brad Goldfarb. Benefit Committee Tickets and Sponsorship Packages are available for purchase online. Additional ticket levels will become available on May 1. We hope to see you there!
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.
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.
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the John & Alice Coltrane Home, where the legendary jazz saxophonist lived with his family from 1964 until his passing in 1967. Guided by Huntington Town Historian Robert Hughes and Coltrane Home Founder Steve Fulgoni, this special tour will explore the home’s restoration progress and plans for a museum celebrating the Coltranes’ life and legacy. Registration required.
Please join us for a fun, fast-paced game of “105 Tennis“! 105 Tennis is the ultimate team challenge! Teams of four compete to be the first to reach 105 points, with each shot counting toward the excitement. Scoring is based on the type of shot: 5 points for a groundstroke […]
Deadline: June 1, 2025
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.