House Tour 2012

Save the Date: Autumn House Tour

Sunday, October 21, 2012
1pm- 5pm

Tickets go on sale October 1st at 
Bayport-Blue Point Library 
Country Junque and 
the Bayport Flower House.

Tickets: $25

Limited Tickets Available!

For advanced tickets send checks to:

Bayport Heritage Association
PO Box 4
Bayport, NY 11705

Concert: August 30, 2012

Free Concert

August 30th 2012, 7pm to 8:30pm

Bayport Memorial Park

by Don Sineti 

A rare combination of artistic talent and impressive musical ability, 

with warmth and a gift for communication, 

Don Sineti 

will be singing robust interpretations of the great American and British sea songs. 

If rainy weather is predicted, we will meet at the Bayport Methodist Church on Middle Road.

Bring your family, friends and lawn chairs!

Bayport Memorial Park

Tour and Dinner Cruise

Our Summer Bay Cruise and tour of the Great South Bay was a huge success!

The weather was perfect and the wind cooperated to keep the bay calm for our travels.

The ferry slowly moved along the shore of Bayport, Blue Point, Patchogue and Bellport while our historians,
Jim Connell, Gene Horton and Pete Berman,
described the past of this vibrant community.

We then went to Fire Island and the Watch Hill Marina, part of the National Seashore, for dinner at the restaurant The Pier.
We arrived just as the sun was setting! It was a beautiful sunset!
The weather and the rising almost-full moon contributed to the success of our Heritage cruise!

The restaurant served a delicious meal before we headed back to Brown's River.

Thank you Bayport Heritage Association for making this a beautiful experience!

Here are some photos of the evening!

Hint: Click on the photos to see a larger version.

Bay Cruise and Dinner

Tuesday, July 31st, 6:00pm

Ferry will leave from the Sayville Ferry terminal on Brown's River.

Cost: $50 per person 

for the cruise and buffet dinner at The Pier, the restaurant at Watch Hill, Fire Island.

Boat Cruise will follow a route east along the Great South Bay coastline of Bayport, Blue Point, Patchogue, East Patchogue and Bellport Bay then across the bay to Watch Hill.
There will be a running historical commentary.
Dinner and gratuity are included. There will be a cash bar.
Plan on returning about 10:30pm.

Only 115 tickets will be sold so don't wait!

For more information and tickets, call Diana Walch, 631-472-1898

Recipes!

Favorite recipes: At the First Bloom Tea we annually have our Strawberry Soup. Recently a member, Rose A., shared her Scandinavian Almond Cake. It was praised for its delicious flavor and moistness. Rose uses the traditional Scandinavian pan but any pan can be adapted for use.

Scandinavian Almond Cake:

Here's the recipe with added notes from Rose:

(Click on the photo to see it in large size.)

You can  see other photos here and can order the pan from Amazon.com.

Strawberry Soup:

(Click on the photo to see it in large size.)

First Bloom Tea Video, 2012

First Bloom Tea 2012

Our First Bloom Tea was a big success!

The garden is beautiful, cultivated by volunteers of the Bayport Heritage Association and the Sayville Garden Club, with the harvest benefiting the Sayville Food Pantry.

Unfortunately, the roses didn't cooperate and bloomed a little too soon this year. The winter on Long Island was exceptionally warm and the roses were gone by June 15th. 

Serving the annual favorite, Strawberry Soup! 

Visits to the garden

 Perennials 

Memorial Day Ceremony

From the Memorial Day Parade and Memorial Service

Bayport Heritage Association was one group among many to march in the parade, complete with fire department, high school band, boy and girl scouts, antique cars and of course, our local veterans.

Thank you to all who served!

Members Only!

For members only:

FIRST BLOOM TEA

Friday, June 15th 5:30pm

If you would like to join Bayport Heritage and participate
in the "members only" events, 

please call 631-472-4625 for more information. 

You can also visit the official website
for a downloadable membership form, 

at www.bayportheritage.org 

and click on "membership" at the top.

Annual Dues

Family: $25

Senior Citizen: $10

Individual: $15

The address is: 

Bayport Heritage Association

PO Box 4

 Bayport, NY 11705
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Save these dates:


Tuesday, July 31, 2012: Dinner & Boat Trip
Ferry leaves from Sayville, with a tour of Bayport, 
Blue Point, Patchogue and Bellport from the water. 
Dinner at Watch Hill restaurant, "The Pier".
Cost is $50 per person for ferry tour and dinner.
Tickets go on sale, June 22nd.


Thursday, August 30, 2012: Free Concert in the Bayport Memorial Park
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Memorial Service for Civil War General

Company K, 67th NY Volunteer Infantry held a 

Reenactment Memorial Service for Civil War General, 

Regis de Trobriand, 

who is buried in St. Ann's Cemetery.

The weather was perfect for the reenactment. 

Civil War Funeral

 Saturday, May 12th 1pm

Company K, 67th NY Volunteer Infantry will be holding a 

Reenactment Memorial Service for Civil War General, 

Regis de Trobriand, 

who is buried in St. Ann's Cemetery.

This will be a Civil War Funeral in his memory.


Regis de Trobriand (June 1816-July1897) was a French aristocrat, lawyer, poet and novelist who emigrated at a young age to the United States. 
During the American Civil War he was a General in the Union Army. 


You can find out more about the gravesite here, from the "Find a Grave" website.> Click here.

Spectators will be directed to park at the parking areas at St. Ann's Church in Sayville.

Meeting, May 12th 2012

The next monthly meeting of the Bayport Heritage Association will be on 

Saturday, May 12th at 7:30pm at the 

Bayport-Blue Point Library.

Guest speaker will be Bob McCarthy, a resident of Bayport. 

Bob will be speaking about his experiences in World War II and will bring his own mementos to share and asks that you bring your own memorabilia.

Refreshments are always served.

Official Website

The

Bayport Heritage Association

now has an official website.

Check it out here, by clicking this link:

http://bayportheritage.org/

Meeting, April 14th 2012

The next meeting will be on April 14th, 2012

Doug Shaw, on the

100th Anniversary of the sinking of the

Titanic

will discuss our local connection to that fateful day.

Bayport Heritage meetings

are usually held on the 2nd Saturday of the month

in the Community Room of the Bayport-Blue Point Library and

start at 7:30 pm.

Refreshments are always served.

Please use the Madison Street parking lot. Thank you!

January 2012 Meeting

Our next meeting will be

Sunday, January 8th at 2pm

at the Bayport-Blue Point Library

Join us as we welcome back our guest speaker Martha Kolodkin who will present

THE PRESIDENTS' MOTHERS:

THE WOMEN WHO SHAPED THEM-PART II

January and February meetings are held at 2pm the second Sunday of the month.

Refreshments are always served.

Please use the Madison Street parking lot. Thank you!

****Dues for 2012****

Time to pay dues for 2012

Individual $15

Senior $10

Family $25

Mail checks to:

Bayport Heritage Association

PO Box 4

Bayport, NY 11705

Memorial Park

Bayport Heritage Association and the Bayport Memorial Park Board will decorate the Memorial Park Gazebo again this year with a lighted tree, roping and bow,

during the first week in December.

Please plan a visit to see the lovely holiday scene in our Bayport community.

November 12th meeting

Next monthly meeting is November 12th, 2011

at the Bayport-Blue Point Library

Saturday, 7:30.

Our guest speaker is Marianne Fulfaro who will present

"Hats Through the Ages"

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Heritage meetings are usually held on the 2nd Saturday of the month in the Community Room of the Bayport-Blue Point Library and start at 7:30 pm.

Refreshments are always served.

Please use the Madison Street parking lot. Thank you!

Dutch Christmas at Meadow Croft, 2011

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

“A DUTCH CHRISTMAS AT MEADOW CROFT”

Bayport Heritage Association invites all local-area residents to their

DUTCH CHRISTMAS AT MEADOW CROFT, which will be held on

Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3rd, and 4th, 2011,

at the Meadow Croft estate located at 299 Middle Road at Brown’s River

on the Bayport Sayville border.

Meadow Croft is the 1891 estate of John E. Roosevelt and family. The Roosevelts were, of course, Dutch by ancestry. The house will be decorated in a Victorian/Edwardian motif with beautiful wreaths, poinsettias and greenery magnificently reminiscent of a hundred years ago and tied in with a Dutch flavor.

Musical selections will be played on the original Roosevelt grand piano filling the house with the music of the season.

Upstairs, special exhibits, including electric trains, vintage clothing, woodcarvings, and Christmas specialties, will be on display for public enjoyment.

Hot chocolate and cookies will add to the coziness of the occasion.

St. Nicholas, the Dutch version of Santa Claus, will be there to look up individual children’s names in his ledger and he’ll find out who’s been ‘naughty and nice’ in 2011.

This Dutch Christmas at Meadow Croft is open from noon to 4 PM both days. Admission is only $5 for adults and $3 for seniors & children age 4-12.

Not suitable for children under 4 years of age.

All the decorations will be raffled off.

Info: 631-363-6487.

HOUSE TOUR this weekend

25th Autumn House Tour

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Tickets are $25 per person and all proceeds go to the Bayport Heritage Association.

Refreshments will be served at the Meadow Croft estate, on Middle Road.

You can buy tickets at the following locations:

• Country Junque on Middle Road-595 Middle Rd , Bayport , 631-472-2650

• Bayport Flower House-940 Montauk Hwy. , Bayport , 631-472-0014

• Bayport-Blue Point Library-203 Blue Point Ave. , Blue Point , 631-363-6133

Call the above numbers for information on ticket sales.

October Meeting 2011

Next monthly meeting at the Bayport-Blue Point Library is

Saturday, October 8th at 7:30.

Our guest speaker is Jack Whitehouse who will be speaking about this new book, Sayville Orphan Heros, The Cottages of St. Ann's.

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Heritage meetings are usually held on the 2nd Saturday of the month in the Community Room of the Bayport-Blue Point Library and start at 7:30 pm.

Refreshments are always served.

Please use the Madison Street parking lot. Thank you!