UPCOMING EVENTS
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CANDLELIGHT EVENINGS
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OLD BETHPAGE VILLAGE RESTORATION
DECEMBER 21, 23, 27, and 29
5:00 PM to 9:30 PM
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OLD BETHPAGE VILLAGE RESTORATION
DECEMBER 21, 23, 27, and 29
5:00 PM to 9:30 PM
The Huntington Militia once again joins this annual event over the course of four nights before and after Christmas and interprets the 18th Century Schenck House in the year 1775!
We will be having a holiday celebration each night inside the house with 18th Century music and a house full of people of the past who are enjoying the holidays!
Come learn about the customs of the times to celebrate the holidays - both as the English colonists on Long Island did and also as the Dutch on Long Island did!
What would a party be without MUSIC? Come hear our musicians play 18th Century Christmas songs with some of our member singing along!
BEST OF ALL, THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE ENTIRELY BY CANDLELIGHT!
Come and meet and talk to people of the past. The year 1775 was a tumultuous time with the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia deciding the fate of the Colonies and Massachusetts under British Occupation and a war taking place with the Colonists.
But it is Christmas Tide - the time for peace and goodwill. A time to put those thoughts aside and focus on friends and family - and share a little gossip. Come and ask what the current talk around town is all about!
On the hour, starting at 6:00 Pm each night we will be
"Firing the Christmas Guns"!
This was a custom in the 18th Century to come out at Midnight on Christmas Eve and on New Years Eve to fire muskets outside one's house to welcome in the holiday!
Our men of arms will be firing at the scheduled times.
DIRECTIONS TO OBVR CLICK HERE
This event is a village wide event. While the rest of the village is interpreted in the 19th Century - we are showing you what it was like in the 18th Century!
There are many programs going on all over the village and entertainment for both adults and children.
Old Bethpage Village is charging admission for this event. Buy your tickets at the Visitors Center. Come and plan to spend the evening to see and enjoy it all.
