AMERICAN MUSIC IN COLONIAL TIMES
Thursday, September 11 at 2:00 PM

Music historian Michael Goudket will present this lecture with demonstrations. Hear the sounds of the past on period musical instruments with a delightful mix of songs and stories from the Pilgrims to the Revolution. Learn what was being performed by Dutch and English settlers through to our first native American composer, William Billings, who wrote Chester, our first unofficial national anthem.

EYE ON THE STORM: Long Island’s Dangerous Coast
Thursday, September 18 at 11:00 AM

Long Island Museum history curator Joshua Ruff will be our guest speaker. The Hurricane of ‘38 smashed into Long Island’s coastline 70 years ago this fall with unprecedented fury, causing death and destruction across our region. Revisit this event through an exciting illustrated PowerPoint lecture with historic film clips. The talk is based on an exhibition which will run at the museum from June 21 through October 26.
About the museum’s exhibit: An exploration of the destructive side of life on the coast, Eye on the Storm is timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938, a storm that wreaked catastrophic damage from Long Island to Maine. The exhibition will examine the history of both extreme weather events and shipwrecks that have marked our regional identity. The exhibit will be visually arresting, with exciting vignettes and special effects to simulate the hurricane experience. The exhibition will be highly interactive and will include videotaped interviews with coastal disaster survivors.

FRIDA KAHLO, HER LIFE – HER WORK
Thursday, October 2 at 11:00 AM

Art history scholar Louise Cella Caruso will present this slide/lecture. Discover why this Mexican artist was one of the most influential painters of the middle twentieth century. This visual journey traces Frida Kahlo’s artistic personality from her art as an ambitious beginner to the excruciating, provocative art, at the close of her life at 47 years of age. She created striking, often shocking images that reflected her turbulent life. Frida was one of four daughters born to a Hungarian- Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian descent. She fell in love with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whose approach to art and politics suited her own.