Earth Day Community Clean Up, 4/25, 8:30am - ???

Calling all volunteers! On Saturday, April 25, starting at 8:30am the Oyster Bay Main Street Association invites you to participate in the biggest community clean up event yet. Many groups and individuals share our wonderful hamlet from the sports fields to the sidewalks and parking lots. This is a chance for us all to do our part in the annual spring cleaning. Whether you are an adult or a child, this is a service that our town deserves!

Organizations that have been invited include:

Oyster Bay Chamber of Commerce
Oyster Bay Civic Association
East Norwich Civic Association
Hispanic Cultural Center
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
OBEN Boys and Girls Club
OBEN YAA
OBHS Interact Club
St. Dominic’s Community Service Group
The Waterfront Center

The Town of Oyster Bay, Friends of the Bay, and the North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association will be sponsoring their annual event “Harbor and Beach Cleanup” the same day at 9am, so we will be cleaning from ship to shore!

Only together can we make a difference, serve our community proudly, and call Oyster Bay home! Meet at Appliance World at 8:30am for bagels. Bring work gloves, brooms and dustpans.

For more information and to volunteer, please call the Chamber at 516-922-6464 or e-mail obchamber@gmail.com. (Service letters will be provided for those fulfilling community service requirements for school, scouts or church).

LIRR's wee workhorses to be big museum stars

BY Nicholas Hirshon

Tuesday, April 14th 2009, 10:47 AM

TWO LITTLE engines that could are landing the recognition they should.

To mark its 175th anniversary, the Long Island Rail Road is loaning two diminutive locomotives from a Queens repair yard - where they moved massive passenger and freight cars - for display at a Nassau County museum.

Built by General Electric in 1958, the pair of 51,000-pound workhorses - which often pushed or pulled train cars nearly six times their weight - will be on view at the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum starting in May.

"We're really excited," said museum President John Specce, describing the miniature locomotives as "another aspect of the railroad that many people may not have been aware of."

Rick Williams, a railroad expert at the Historic Railpark and Train Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., marveled at how the "little guys" moved large locomotives up to 300,000 pounds for repairs and maintenance.

"Bigger isn't always better," he quipped.

Officially known as No. 397 and No. 398, the 150-horsepower tiny tuggers - which measure about 18 feet 2 inches long and 10 feet 4 inches high - are called "dinkies" because of their small size.

Ahead of their five-year loan to the museum, the LIRR is running a renaming contest. "We didn't think it was right to send them off without a proper name," said LIRR spokesman Joe Calderone.

Commuters can submit potential names at www.mta.info/lirr through tomorrow. The winner gets four tickets to the new Cirque du Soleil show "Kooza" this spring at Randalls Island.

Once shipped to the museum's display of rolling stock on Bay Ave., the dinkies will sit beside a pair of antique cabooses and a locomotive cab that was featured at the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, Specce said.

"They represent part of the history of the railroad," Specce said. "They were the workhorses of the yard."

Officials at the fledgling museum - which opened a preview center last year on Audrey Ave. - hope the exhibit will help them escape the shadow of a competing attraction, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill.

"We're working in tandem with the Long Island Rail Road," said museum co-founder Gary Farkash, 47, of Baldwin, L.I. "It does add an air of credibility."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/04/14/2009-04-14_lirrs_wee_workhorses_to_be_big_museum_stars.html

Kenneth Jay Lane "Fabulous Fakes" Exhibition to open at The Manor House, Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park

Over the last fifty years Kenneth Jay Lane (b. 1932) has been the single most creative and prolific American master of costume jewelry.

In the early 1960’s, after several years spent designing shoes for haute-couture collections such as Christian Dior - sometimes with faux jewels - Mr. Lane began to focus on chic jewelry that was lighthearted and fun. His first work garnered instant success, and it was he who made costume jewelry a widely sought-after accessory. His jewels were worn by Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and today are the choice of movie stars and celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton, the Olsen Twins and Jessica Simpson.

Mr. Lane’s bold designs are inspired by both ancient and contemporary models. His talent lies in his ability to seek out the best designs, to reinterpret them, and to make them available at prices that are a great deal less than those of the originals. Although fabulous fakes, they are so highly esteemed that they have become sought after collectibles, with many vintage pieces selling at top auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

The exhibition, the largest retrospective to date, with over 350 jewels, is curated by Henry B. Joyce, Executive Director of Planting Fields Foundation and includes many of Mr. Lane’s most popular and exceptional designs. The show begins in the early 1970s when his avant-garde jewelry was featured by the famous editor, Diana Vreeland, in Vogue Magazine. Lane’s history continues with his revival of several spectacular 1920s Art Deco pieces of jewelry that he began to reproduce in the late 1970s. They included the costume jewelry once made in Paris for Coco Chanel. It was originally designed by the innovative jeweler, the Duke of Vedura. Mr. Lane’s reproductions of Vedura’s glamorous Maltese Cross cuff-bracelet, that had been made famous by Ms. Chanel, was worn 50 years later by Diana Vreeland who made it popular again.

Almost all of the costume jewelry in this exhibition is vintage, made between 1963 and 1993, and is in the personal collection of Kenneth Jay Lane.

NEW EXHIBITION
FABULOUS FAKES
THE JEWELRY OF KENNETH JAY LANE
OPENS APRIL 4TH AT THE MANOR HOUSE
Saturday, April 4 - Monday, August 31
11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Daily in the Manor House at Planting Fields
$6.50 Exhibition Fee / $5 Seniors / Members and all children under 12 are FREE
(Ticket price includes admission to The Manor House and Coe Hall’s first floor)
Please call Michelle Benes at (516) 922-8682 or email mbenes@plantingfields.org


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EXCLUSIVE TO
OUR MEMBERS
EXHIBITION PREVIEW FOR MEMBERS ONLY
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

FABULOUS FAKES
KENNETH JAY LANE JEWELRY EXHIBITION
AT THE MANOR HOUSE

A special preview for Planting Fields Members – FREE of charge.
Tours of the exhibition with Henry B. Joyce, Executive Director, Planting Fields Foundation and curator of the exhibition, will take place at 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served immediately
following – free of charge.

Friday, April 3, 2009
11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Tours of the Kenneth Jay Lane Exhibition with Henry B. Joyce, Executive Director, Planting Fields Foundation and curator of the exhibition, will be offered on the following dates:

Thursday, April 30
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 3
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Tours are free of charge for Members. Light refreshments will be served immediately following. For reservations and information, please call Michelle Benes, Membership Coordinator, at 516.922.8682 or mbenes@plantingfields.org


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CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING
Jewelry Making in the Manor House

Come see Fabulous Fakes, the Kenneth Jay Lane jewelry exhibition and let your children be inspired to create their very own costume jewelry! Join jewelry maker Linda Reilly as she demonstrates how to use colorful beads and charms to create necklaces, bracelets and more!

Spring Break Week
Tuesday, April 14 through Thursday, April 16
The jewelry making program is free for Family Membership level or higher.
Non-Members: $10 per person

Jewelry making for 6-11 year old children
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Jewelry making for young adults ages 12 and older
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Space is limited, please call for reservations
Tracy Potavin at (516) 922-8676, or email tpotavin@plantingfields.org