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               State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331
 
                                            David Y Allen
                                            Library-Reference
                                            516 632-7110
                                            30-May-1995 09:09am EDT
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Subject: Visiting Long Island?
 
        Should you be on Long Island between now and December 31, you might
want to take a look at an exhibit I am curating.  It is called "Long Island
Maps and Their Makers," and is co-sponsored by the Society for the Preservation
of Long Island Antiquities and the University at Stony Brook.  The exhibit
consists of about eighty maps, a number of which are quite rare, covering the
history of the mapping of Long Island from the middle of the sixteenth century
to the present.  It also includes assorted pieces of surveying equipment, a
satellite, and a display of computer generated maps.
 
        The exhibit is being held at the Gallery of The Society for the
Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, which is located at the corner of Main
Street and Shore Road in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.  Cold Spring Harbor is
an attractive old town on the North Shore of Long Island, which can be easily
reached from New York City by the Long Island Railroad.
 
        Our opening weekend will begin on Friday, June 16.  On June 17 there
will be a re-enactment of colonial surveying techniques by a group of people
who like to dress up as members of the Engineers Corps of the British Army
during the Revolutionary War.  On June 18  I will give a lecture on colonial
maps of Long Island.  Additional lectures and events will be held in the fall.
 
        For further information send me an e-mail message or call me at (516)
632-7110.