Exhibition Opening: Revolutionary War Events
The Society's Fall Exhibition on Oyster Bay's role in the Revolutionary War will open on Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 2:30 pm at its Earle-Wightman House Museum, one of only three Nassau County sites on the State's Revolutionary War Heritage Trail. 
The Exhibition includes rare artifacts and documents as well as the opportunity to try on a reproduction uniform and equipment.
The ground-breaking Exhibition will include a rare uniform coat worn by an Oyster Bay Loyalist during the war, a period musket and bayonet, an inscribed powder horn owned by another Oyster Bay Loyalist, period cannonballs, assorted documents, smaller objects, and period illustrations. This is a unique opportunity to learn the role played by Long Island Loyalists in general, and Oyster Bay and Queens County Loyalists in particular, while seeing rare artifacts and handling authentic reproductions of the items worn and carried by Revolutionary War soldiers.
Please call the Society at 922-5032 or email for more information.
NOTE: The Exhibition was originally scheduled, and announced in The Freeholder, for a November opening. A delay in obtaining signs and showcases necessitated rescheduling.
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