Discovering Eastern Long Island

History, Literature and Wineries

May 6 to 9, 2002

(tentative dates)

Let us discover Long Island. There it lies, a strip of land dumped by a glacier in the Atlantic. It stretches eastward from New York City parallel with the shoreline of Connecticut and separated from it by Long Island Sound. The Island is shaped like a fish with its head nosed up against Manhattan Island, and unhappily that greedy Metropolis has bit off the head so that the western end has become just an extension of the great city.

Along the North Shore facing the Sound rise high wooded bluffs with a stretch of gravelly beach at their feet. On the western side of this shore there are harbors that tend to be narrow and set deep in the coast line. On the eastern half of it there are no harbors at all, only an unbroken line of bluffs. On the other hand, the South Shore facing the Atlantic is low lying with in an infinite number of wide, land-locked estuaries and bays. It is chiefly the eastern two-thirds of the Island that is an interesting area for discovery because it is rural Long Island. Here is also a part of New York State that isn't the least like the rest. Long Island is full of varied beauty and romantic history. Suffice it to say that Long Island has everything except mountains, cataracts and the Grand Canyon and all within the space of 120 miles.

On this program, we will explore the eastern end of Long Island which is divided into two long peninsulas, the northern terminating in Orient Point, the southern in the bold bluffs of Montauk Point. Separating them is an irregular succession of bays. On each of these forks dwell descendents of the original English settlers who came to Southold and Southampton in 1640, and the communities noticeably resemble New England in various ways.

Among the programs highlights will be tours of several Long Island Wineries (where wine tasting will be enjoyed), an excursion to Shelter Island (famous the world-over as a summer resort), an excursion to Montauk Point (located at the very end of Long Island), and, a visit to the vine-covered boy-hood home of John Howard Payne, immortalized by him in the song "Home Sweet Home" which has been sung in every country and in every tongue the world over. If you are interested in this program, please request the Registration Form.

For additional information, registration forms and itinerary, please contact:
Campanian Enterprises, Inc.
Box 167
Oxford, Ohio 45056
Telephone: (513) 524-4846
Fax: (513) 523-0276

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