2017

Photo Album

Year in Review

The 2017 season proved far more eventful than expected. Started out as usual with marching in the Westhampton Beach St. Patrick’s Day parade and returning to the Neshaminy reenactment. And we attended many educational programs at schools, the Smithtown Historical Society, and, after a decade-long absence, we returned to Old Bethpage Village Restoration where we performed for over 2,000 schoolchildren with our fellow, local Civil War living historians. In April, Your Correspondent visited Vicksburg, a site not often visited by Easterners and the following month we paid our second visit to Maple Grove Cemetery in Queens that, unfortunately, was a washout. The 67th NY and just about everyone in our local Civil War reenacting community received their 15 seconds of fame thanks to playing extras in the Long Island produced CBS sitcom, Kevin Can Wait. We also received an unexpected and unwelcomed dose of excitement at Cedar Creek in October which had to be evacuated thanks to an unexploded pipe bomb discovered on the grounds. Returning to the positive, in November we celebrated our 20th anniversary in style with a grand ball at the Smithtown Historical Society with all our local friends in the community and after a thankfully uneventful (but rainsoaked) return to Remembrance Day, we closed the season with our first period Christmas celebration at St. John’s Church in Oakdale. What a way of ending of two decades of Living History.

Westhampton Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade
Westhampton Beach, NY
March 11, 2017



Demonstration at Maple Grove Cemetery
Kew Gardens, NY
March 25, 2017



Monthly Drill at the Grange
Sayville, NY
March 26, 2017



Vicksburg National Park
Vicksburg, MS
April 5 - 6, 2017



28th Annual
Neshaminy State Park Civil War Reenactment
Bensalem, PA
April 29 - 30, 2017



Living History at Bald Hill Schoolhouse
Farmingville, NY
May 6, 2017



Educational Program
Return to Old Bethpage Village Restoration
Old Bethpage, NY
May 15, 2017



Smithtown Historical Society
Civil War School Program
Smithtown, NY
May 19, 2017



Educational Program
Samoset Middle School
Ronkonkoma, NY
June 2, 2017



Educational Program
Center Moriches Middle School
Center Moriches, NY
June 8, 2017



Educational Program
Mount Sinai Elementary School
Mount Sinai, NY
June 12, 2017



Educational Program
Wading River Elementary School
Wading River, NY
June 13, 2017



Educational Program
Wilson Elementary School
Rockville Centre, NY
June 15, 2017



Living History at Maple Grove Cemetery
Kew Gardens, NY
June 17, 2017



Monthly Drill at the Grange
Sayville, NY
June 25, 2017



KEVIN CAN WAIT
Gold Coast Studios
Bethpage, NY
August 10, 2017



Monthly Drill at the Grange
Sayville, NY
August 27, 2017



9th Annual Civil War Weekend
at the Grange
Sayville, NY
September 16 - 17, 2017



Veteran's Day Ceremony at Lakeview Cemetery
Patchogue, NY
November 11, 2017



20TH ANNIVERSARY BALL
at the Brush Barn
Smithtown Historical Society
Smithtown, NY
November 4, 2017



Remembrance Day
Gettysburg, PA
November 18, 2017



Civil War Christmas
at St. John's Episcopal Church
Oakdale, NY
December 9, 2017