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Guided Tour of Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor: All That Has Been
September 28, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
One event on September 7, 2019 at 12:00 pm
One event on September 28, 2019 at 12:00 pm
From the Manor’s website: “Sylvester Manor Educational Farm will present the 2019 in-house exhibition, All That Has Been: Our Roots Revealed, A History of Three Cultures at Sylvester Manor. The exhibition examines the three cultures that came together at the time of the establishment of Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island in 1651. The Indigenous Native American Manhansett Tribe who made the island their home for a millenium, the European businessmen who bought Shelter Island to provision their Caribbean sugar operation, and the Enslaved Africans brought from the West Indies as the island’s labor force.”
The guided house tours are approximately 75 minutes, start on the hour and cost $25. Tickets here.