Join us for a presentation by Hallockville Board Member Richard Wines about his recently released book, A Farm Family on Long Island’s North Fork. Richard traces the history of our vital agricultural community here on the North Fork through the story of the last family to live in the old Homestead at Hallockville. For well over two centuries, community members were almost all descendants of the same group of seventeenth-century Puritan founders. Yet, despite their shared heritage and complex interrelationships, cultural wars raged. Family members and the community divided bitterly on issue after issue, ranging from whether to allow a melodeon into the church to supporting abolitionism. The community weathered many changes-the Civil War, the emergence of new agricultural technologies, the arrival of Eastern European immigrants, even an attempt to build a string of nuclear power plants in the twentieth century. Wines’s deep dives into one community’s history uncover stories about slavery, racism, and prejudice that many have chosen to forget, as well as stories of compassion or human tragedy we want to remember.
Saturday, May 10th at 1pm at the Hallock State Park Community Room (6062 Sound Avenue, Riverhead)
This speaker series is free yet registration is required. Click here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/2LQROrjnOlEihKvsHY1_NQ
