Yee Haw! Watch the Long Island Riders navigate their horses through courses while shooting at balloon targets, at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration’s exhibition arena. Check out the timed and mounted shooting competition for prizes and of course bragging rights.
Enjoy traditional music at Old Bethpage Village Restoration. You’ll find a banjo player, an old-time guitarist, a fiddle and dulcimer duo, contra dancing and a performance by the Old Bethpage Village Brass Band.
A 14-week RunSmart training program, conducted by the Greater Long Island Running Club and the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums, starts at 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at Old Bethpage Village Restoration and finishes April 28 at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. The program focuses on people who have some running experience and want to train for a long-distance race. Locations rotate among Old Bethpage, Eisenhower Park and Cedar Creek Park in Wantagh.
Leave modern conveniences behind and step back in time to see costumed docents prepare a holiday meal the way they would have in the late-19th century. The 1863 Thanksgiving celebration invites you to visit a kitchen in one of the historic homes at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, where you’ll find a beehive oven or an open fire doing the cooking and baking. Traditional fiddle music and historic stories add to the experience. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 18 and 19, and also Nov. 25-26 ADMISSION $12 ($8 ages 5-12)
