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OBHS wins softball title BY TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com
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OYSTER BAY CELEBRATED its win over Wheatley last Saturday in the Nassau County Class B final.
It’s been a season of considerable growth for Oyster Bay High School softball, despite the absence of a JV program and a varsity roster consisting of only two seniors and a handful of newcomers to the sport. “We improved tremendously,” coach Victoria Wink said after Oyster Bay captured the Nassau County Class B championship last Saturday morning with a 3-1 victory over vis-
iting Wheatley in the third and deciding game of the bestof-three finals at James H. Vernon School. “I’m so proud of these girls,” Wink added. “It was a silent bus ride home from Wheatley after we lost Game 2, and to me that meant they were reflecting on what just happened and focused on what they had to do better today.” The Lady Baymen, seeded No. 3 in Class B, scored once in the bottom of the third inning CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
At Raynham’s new Education Center, virtual reality BY LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
After a decade of renovations, the Raynham Hall Education Center opened last Sunday. Located in the former Lincoln Market building on Audrey Avenue in Oyster Bay, the center is adjacent to Raynham Hall Museum, once the home of Revolut i o n a r y Wa r s p y Ro b e r t
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Townsend. It expands the museum’s campus for roughly 10,000 annual visitors — who include some 5,000 fourth-graders who come on field trips to learn about the Revolutionary War. In 2011, the Town of Oyster Bay purchased the building for the museum’s use, on the condition that the Friends of Raynham Hall Inc., which operates the museum on behalf of the
town, raise the funds for the education center. The upper level of the center now serves as staff headquarters, which will allow the museum to expand to what was once living quarters for Irish servants in the 19th century. The education center now features 18th-century-style portraits that “come to life.” Samuel Townsend, a prominent mer-
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chant who bought Raynham Hall in 1738; his son, Robert, one of George Washington’s Culper spies; a slave named Elizabeth and even the enemy, British Lt. Col. John Simco, all share their stories via a new smartphone enhanced-reality app called Digital Tapestry. Created by 360 XR under the auspices of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, the app is available to anyone with an iPad or iPhone and can be downloaded at the center. “RDLGF’s confidence in the educational outreach offered by Raynham Hall is such that we
have chosen this site to be the initial offering for our public virtual reality experience, Digital Tapestry,” Kathryn M. Curran, executive director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, said. “This exciting and innovative program will be available shortly to bring this and other of our historic sites to life.” Although this is the first time Digital Tapestry is being used at a museum, there are plans for five additional historical sites on Long Island to utilize it by year’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 3