Lunch & Learn
I now Take Up my Pen
Presented by the Port Jefferson Historical Society & the Huntington Historical Society
with Laura Warren & Toby Kissam Thursday, May 9th, 2024 Conklin Barn 2 High Street, Huntington, NY 12 - 2:00 PM $35 members $45 non-members Price includes a wrap, a salad, chips, dessert, and a beverage. Join us for a screening & discussion of I Now Take Up My Pen. This 38 minute short film was written and produced by St. George Living History Productions, a local group that creates films for not-for-profits and historical societies. This film tells the heart wrenching tale of two brothers from Huntington William and Jesse Platt, who served in different NYS Regiments from Long Island.
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previous lunch & learns
Previous Lunch & Learn Seminars
April 2024 | Regina Dlugokencky: Pollinator Pathways
March 2024 | Libby Haight O'Connell, Ph.D.: Long Island Foods: The 17th Century to the Revolution
February 2024 | Marsha J. Tyson Darling: Reimagining Ourselves Changing Tomorrow: What's Involved (Virtual)
January 2024 | Tim Keogh, Ph.D.: Long Island's History of Housing Segregation and Racial Inequality
November 2023 | Denice Sheppard: North Shore African American Communities in the 17th & 18th centuries
October 2023 | Thea Morales: How Long Island Antique Stores are saving Long Island History
September 2023 | Mara Ahmed: Return to Sender, Women of Color in Colonial Postcards & The Politics of Representation
August 2023 | Rabbit Goody: Woven History, Revisited (Virtual)
May 2023 | Bill Bleyer: The True Story of the Culper Spy Ring
April 2023 | Laura Cinturati: The Great Women Behind the Man
March 2023 | Michele Coltrane: Oral History of Alice Coltrane
February 2023 | Historic Sammis Houses of West Neck (Virtual)
January 2023 | Historic Women of Long Island
October 2022 | Vanishing New York: Ruins of the Empire State
September 2022 | The Historic Sammis Houses of West Neck
July 2022 | Behind the Bottle: Long Island Wines
June 2022 | Coney Island
April 2022 | Haunted Long Island Mysteries
March 2022 | Scars of War (Virtual)
February 2022 | Long Island Dirt: Recovering our Buried Past (Crippen House)
January 2022 | Long Island Freemasons
December 2021 | Building the Brooklyn Bridge (Virtual)
November 2021 | Gold Coast Elite & The Great War (Virtual)
October 2021 | Walt Whitman Birthplace (Virtual)
July 2021 | History of Green-Wood Cemetery (Virtual)
May 2021 | Current Topics in Local Preservation (Virtual)
April 2021 | The Life and Legacy of Jupiter Hammon (Virtual)
April 2021 | The 100 Year History of the Hecksher Museum (Virtual)
March 2021 | The Irish in Huntington (Virtual)
January 2021 | Huntington's Annual Bobsled Races (Virtual)
December 2020 | Holiday Historic House Tours of Years Past (Virtual)
November 2020 | Huntington Harbor Lighthouse (Virtual)
September 2020 | Hidden Historic Homes of Huntington (Virtual)
August 2020 | History of Commack (Virtual)
July 2020 | The Mills of Huntington (Virtual)
June 2020 | Old Huntington Green (Virtual)
May 2020 | Huntington Historian's Stories (Virtual)
February 2020 | Christopher Verga: Civil Rights on Long Island
January 2020 | Naomi Dayan: Whaling on Long Island
November 2019 | Toby Kissam: Chasing Whitman: Huntington's Prodigal Son
October 2019 | Kerriann Flanagan Brosky: Historic Crimes of Long Island
September 2019 | Lauren Brincat: Facing the Facts: Tall Tales from Historic Houses
March 2024 | Libby Haight O'Connell, Ph.D.: Long Island Foods: The 17th Century to the Revolution
February 2024 | Marsha J. Tyson Darling: Reimagining Ourselves Changing Tomorrow: What's Involved (Virtual)
January 2024 | Tim Keogh, Ph.D.: Long Island's History of Housing Segregation and Racial Inequality
November 2023 | Denice Sheppard: North Shore African American Communities in the 17th & 18th centuries
October 2023 | Thea Morales: How Long Island Antique Stores are saving Long Island History
September 2023 | Mara Ahmed: Return to Sender, Women of Color in Colonial Postcards & The Politics of Representation
August 2023 | Rabbit Goody: Woven History, Revisited (Virtual)
May 2023 | Bill Bleyer: The True Story of the Culper Spy Ring
April 2023 | Laura Cinturati: The Great Women Behind the Man
March 2023 | Michele Coltrane: Oral History of Alice Coltrane
February 2023 | Historic Sammis Houses of West Neck (Virtual)
January 2023 | Historic Women of Long Island
October 2022 | Vanishing New York: Ruins of the Empire State
September 2022 | The Historic Sammis Houses of West Neck
July 2022 | Behind the Bottle: Long Island Wines
June 2022 | Coney Island
April 2022 | Haunted Long Island Mysteries
March 2022 | Scars of War (Virtual)
February 2022 | Long Island Dirt: Recovering our Buried Past (Crippen House)
January 2022 | Long Island Freemasons
December 2021 | Building the Brooklyn Bridge (Virtual)
November 2021 | Gold Coast Elite & The Great War (Virtual)
October 2021 | Walt Whitman Birthplace (Virtual)
July 2021 | History of Green-Wood Cemetery (Virtual)
May 2021 | Current Topics in Local Preservation (Virtual)
April 2021 | The Life and Legacy of Jupiter Hammon (Virtual)
April 2021 | The 100 Year History of the Hecksher Museum (Virtual)
March 2021 | The Irish in Huntington (Virtual)
January 2021 | Huntington's Annual Bobsled Races (Virtual)
December 2020 | Holiday Historic House Tours of Years Past (Virtual)
November 2020 | Huntington Harbor Lighthouse (Virtual)
September 2020 | Hidden Historic Homes of Huntington (Virtual)
August 2020 | History of Commack (Virtual)
July 2020 | The Mills of Huntington (Virtual)
June 2020 | Old Huntington Green (Virtual)
May 2020 | Huntington Historian's Stories (Virtual)
February 2020 | Christopher Verga: Civil Rights on Long Island
January 2020 | Naomi Dayan: Whaling on Long Island
November 2019 | Toby Kissam: Chasing Whitman: Huntington's Prodigal Son
October 2019 | Kerriann Flanagan Brosky: Historic Crimes of Long Island
September 2019 | Lauren Brincat: Facing the Facts: Tall Tales from Historic Houses