Last Sunday December 4th, at our 37th Annual Holiday Festival, our Youth Corps performed “Forgotten Christmas, 1814” on the Village Green. All the rehearsals and efforts spent making props paid off! Special thanks to all our Youth Corps members and parents involved to make this performance a success!!!
Here’s a shot of Mr. Buckley’s class from Edmund W. Miles Middle School in Amityville at West Meadow Beach participating in our Living Off the Land Program that was held on Wednesday October 26, 2016. The class learned all about the inhabitants whom lived at West Meadow beach thousands of years ago and how they might have lived by surviving off the land.
Yesterday was our 23rd Annual Walk for Beauty/Hercules Run. The Walk for Beauty Committee and the Hercules on the Harbor Run Committee want to thank everyone for their participation despite the cold and the wind. We had 1,100 combined walkers and runners! All the monies earned go directly to directed Breast Cancer Research at Stony Brook University Hospital. Here are some photos from yesterday’s event. More to follow!
Attention all Shutterbugs! Join us Saturday October 29, 2016 for our final Berger Bros Photography Cruise of the Discovery Wetlands Cruise Season. Capture all the vivid hues of fall while cruising through the scenic Stony Brook Harbor and West Meadow Creek. The photography lesson, with our Berger Bros photo expert, will start promptly at 11AM followed by departure at 11:30AM. The cruise will return approximately at 1PM followed by a 20-30 minute photo critique with Berger Bros instructor. Don’t miss it!
Stony Brook, NY – The Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) is proud to announce that it has received the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) Pinnacle Award for Distance Learning in 2017-2018. The Award is given annually to organizations that receive outstanding scores on program evaluations submitted by educators and other end users. Receiving the award indicates a remarkable quality of educational content and exceptional skill at program delivery. WMHO is recognized alongside the Andrew Jackson Hermitage, the New York Hall of Science and Cleveland Museum of Art. [Read More…]
