WALKING HISTORY
Walk Through History With Us: Coming in 2025
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Barn Architecture of the North Fork with Zack Studenroth & Richard Wines
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Native Trees of the East End with Mary Laura Lamont
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Historical Farm Equipment with Dale Moyer & Richard Wines
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Plants are Good Medicine! with Toni Kaste
Meet Our Guides
Dale Moyer
Dale Moyer is presently an agricultural consultant, after retiring from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, where he coordinated and supervised the association and led agriculture and environmental programs. His education background is extensive, focused on Environmental Science and Horticulture. Dale has received many honors including Citizen of the Year from the Long Island Farm Bureau. Dale has been active at Hallockville Museum Farm since 2016 working primarily on the buildings and grounds and is currently the Co-President of the Board of Directors.
Toni Kaste
Toni is a homesteader/hobby farmer in Eastern Suffolk County. She has been a Certified Nutritional Counselor (CNC) since 2011. Her nutritional studies include herbs and alternative practices. She has a profound love of gardening and “weeds” and herbs. She is a reenactor of historical crafts, life skills and music. She enjoy teaching environmental preservation to future generations while honoring the past.
Mary Laura Lamont
Mary Laura Lamont is a retired Federal Ranger- 40 years- William Floyd Estate, Fire Island National Seashore, Naturalist (now) at Hallock State Park Preserve, Educational Chairperson for the Long Island Botanical Society (over 30 years), Current Board Member Suffolk County Historical Society, Current Board Member Yaphank Historical Society, Former Science/Nature writer for Fire Island Tide and Fire Island News, Former Compiler for 20 years of Orient Christmas Bird Count.
Zach Studenroth
Zachary N. Studenroth has been actively preserving historic buildings on Long Island since 1976. Formerly Preservation Director for the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (now Preservation Long Island), he has devoted his professional career to the study and analysis of historic buildings including important dwellings, churches, mills, and barns. He was awarded Preservation Long Island’s prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2018 for over forty years of service to the preservation field.
Historic structure reports and nominations to the National Register of Historic Places are his specialty. Buildings and structures of all types – Colonial-era homesteads, important 19th-century period houses, and churches, historic burying grounds, and 20th-century landmarks like the Big Duck – have provided him with a rich and diverse field of study. Each historical resource is unique and embodies a human story, one worth researching and retelling. Through his advocacy and study of the region’s historic architecture, he has helped to preserve numerous buildings and structures which are now restored and open to the public.
Richard Wines
Richard Wines was educated at Yale, Harvard, and Brown, where he earned a Ph.D. in history. Since retiring from a career as a Wall Street investor relations consultant in 2000, he has devoted his time to historic preservation and land preservation projects in Riverhead. He is a past president of Hallockville Museum Farm where he was responsible for a number of restoration projects. Since 2001, he has served as chair of the Riverhead Landmarks Preservation Commission. He is also a member of the Riverhead Farmland Preservation Committee, has worked on the Riverhead Master Plan, and worked on the creation of three new parks in Riverhead: Hallock State Park Preserve, the county North Fork Preserve in Northville, and the new Sharper’s Hill project in Jamesport. He is currently writing a book on “The Hallocks and their Sound Avenue World.” Over the past two decades, he has been responsible for 21 special exhibits at Hallockville Museum Farm.