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The Puppets Are Returning!

Featuring Two New Puppets:

Anna Smith Strong &

William Sidney Mount

Join the Ward Melville Heritage Organization for the 39^th Annual Holiday Festival and featuring the 2^nd Annual Puppet Processional on Sunday, December 2, 2018!

WE WANT YOU!

Volunteers

Parade Marchers

Puppeteers

Artists

Community Members

 

 

Are you interested in joining us for the 39^th Annual Holiday Festival? Please email glindau@wmho.org to learn more

about how you can be part of this year’s puppet processional and festivities!

 

In 2017, the procession included effigies of Revolutionary War heroes Benjamin Tallmadge and Caleb Brewster; Jonas Smith, Stony Brook’s first millionaire; Ward Melville, the founder of Stony Brook Village, America’s first planned business community, and his philanthropist wife, Dorothy Melville.

 

 Sponsorship opportunities Available

 

$ 5,000 MAIN EVENT SPONSOR

• LISTED AS A MAIN EVENT SPONSOR WITH LOGO IN ALL S IGNAGE, FLYERS, SOCIAL MEDIA, WMHO WEBSITE, AND PRESS RELEASE
• LI STED AS A MAIN EVENT SPONSOR IN NEWSDAY ADVERTISEMENTS
• INVITED TO SET UP A TABLE DURING THE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL
• INVITED TO SPEAK DURING THE VIP HOLIDAY RECEPTION

$ 2,500 SPONSOR

• LISTED AS A SPONSOR WITH LOGO IN ALL FLYERS, SOCIAL MEDIA, WMHO WEBSITE AND PRESS RELEASE
• INVITED TO SET UP A TABLE DURING THE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL
• VIP HOLIDAY RECEPTION INVITATION

$ 1,500 SPONSOR

• LISTED AS A SPONSOR WITH LOGO IN ALL FLYERS, SOCIAL MEDIA, WMHO WEBS ITE AND PRESS RELEASE
• VIP HOLIDAY RECEPTION INVITATION

$ 500 SPONSOR

• LISTED AS A SPONSOR WITH LOGO IN ALL FLYERS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND VIP HOLIDAY RECEPTION INVITATION

Thank you to our 2018 sponsors!

                                           

 

 

 

Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn

 

 

 

L-R:   Joanne Meachnini, Branch Manager, Northport Teachers Federal Credit Union; Christine Ternullo, 4th grade teacher, Ocean Avenue School, Northport

 Stony Brook, NY – Thank you to Teachers Federal Credit Union (TFCU) for sponsoring Ocean Avenue’s 4th grade students to attend The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Stony Brook Grist Mill, c. 1751, Long Island’s most completely equipped working mill.  The Mill is listed on the National and New York State Register of Historic Places. Students discovered the principles of how water powers the mill’s mechanisms.

Photo Credit:  WMHO

Through their generous sponsorship, Teachers Federal Credit Union recently enabled Nassakeag Elementary’s 4th grade students to travel back in time to Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s (WMHO) Brewster House, c. 1665, using their state of the art distance learning technology.  Along with WMHO educators, teachers Mrs. Jo-Ann Hudecek, Ms. Robbin Teitelbaum, Ashley Donato, Kathryn Comisky and Jennifer Betz enabled their students to experience a virtual reader’s theater performance about the Culper Spy Ring, “Windows Through Time: Journals of American Revolutionary War Spies.”  Listed on the New York State and National Register of Historic Places, The Brewster House, located in Setauket, was home Joseph Brewster and cousin, Culper Spy ring member, Caleb Brewster. This program allows students to role play as ‘Patriots and Loyalists,” use invisible ink and numeric codes to write messages and much more.  For information on all WMHO programs, visit wmho.org or call 631-751-2244.

 

Photo Left:  

L-R:  Jennifer Gunn, Marketing Manager, Teachers Federal Credit Union; teacher, Jo-Ann Hudecek at the Nassakeag classroom, East Setauket

 

Photo Right:
Distance Learning Technology with WMHO educator 

 

Photo Credit:  WMHO