March 2024 – August 2024
People have been decorating themselves and their homes with flowers for centuries, and Huntingtonians are no exception. This exhibit explores the widespread decorative appeal of flowers, as well as the longtime practical skill and hobby of gardening and caring for houseplants. From abstract to realistic, three-dimensional to embroidered, real to fake, Huntington is in bloom!
Compared to today Christmases past were simple affairs and the season certainly didn’t last two months!
John Lockwood came to Huntington as a young man, and later worked as a clerk for a mercantile house in New York City.
The Huntington Historical Society archives contain several hundred business and farm account books from the 18th to the 20th century.
The North Shore Land Alliance, the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York State, the Village of Lloyd Harbor, and the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception have combined their advocacy efforts to insure the preservation of the seminary’s 200 acres of forest, fields and wetlands.
The Cinema Arts Centre has had a storied history on its way to becoming a cultural landmark.
An act banning the importation of slaves to the United States was passed by Congress in 1807. While prohibiting American ships from engaging in the international slave trade and from leaving or entering American ports, the act did not outlaw the slave trade within the United States.