Students visit the Epenetus Smith Tavern, a stagecoach stop and scene of much activity during the Revolutionary War. Taking the role of innkeeper, each child will create a tavern sign using stencils. Students will wrtie letters with quill pens, make candles and holders, learn the art of making silhouettes, and enjoy games and entertainments of the time.

Held at the Franklin O. Arthur Farmhouse, this program affords a glimpse of Long Island farm life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Hands-on activities include: wool carding, spinning and weaving; flax preparation using flax-brake, scutching boards and hetchels; and towrope making. Children may examine artifacts, colonial toys and costumes and, weather permitting, may see other parts of the farm.

Students enter the world of Victorian America at the Judge J. Lawrence Smith Homestead and learn about the Smith family and the inventions, amusements and social conventions of the period. Students will make, bind and print a journal, use a camera obscura, make a small brick and fashion a wooden toy typical of the time.

Grandma's recipes, Dad's tool box, letters, scrapbooks, furniture and family stories; the stuff of our history. How do we learn about the past from our families? What are the tools of a professional historican? Artifacts and archives from the Smithtown area, passed down through generations, will be explored as we make connections between private and public histories.