NEWS BRIEFS

Independence Day at Raynham Hall Museum

Raynham Hall Museum, home of Robert Townsend, a member of the Culper Spy Ring, welcomes friends and neighbors to an open house with free ices for all on July Fourth. The event features live music from The Perfect Fifths, a quintet of musicians with the Oyster Bay Music Festival, lawn games and a children’s craft.

The festivities will take place immediately following the Fourth of July Parade at Raynham Hall’s Victorian Garden at 11 a.m. Bring family and friends with a picnic lunch and chairs or a blanket for a fun-filled and free event open to the community.

Raynham Hall staff and volunteers, wearing their historic costumes, will be marching in the Oyster Bay Fourth of July parade. The post-parade event includes entrance to the museum’s Visitors’ Center, with augmented reality demonstrations, between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The historic house will also be open for visitors and is located at 20-30 West Main Street in Oyster Bay.

July 4 at Matinecock Masonic Historical Society

The first annual Independence Day Celebration will be held at the Matinecock Masonic Historical Society on July 4. The event will be a joint celebration by the Underhill Society of America Inc., Cedar Swamp Historical Society, the Glen Cove Lodge, the Oyster Bay Historical Society, the Town of Oyster Bay’s Town Clerk’s Office, Revolutionary War historian David M. Griffin, the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, the Oyster Bay Main Street Association and of course the Matinecock Masonic His- torical Society.

Revolutionary War artifacts and documents will be on display, and visitors can learn about the American Revolution right here on Long Island, with an emphasis on Oyster Bay and the surrounding area: the factors leading to war, the seven-year long occupation of New York and Long Island, and post-war Long Island in the new United States.

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Historical Society is located at 14 West Main Street in Oyster Bay.