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Tuesday Aug. 19, 2025

The Wizard’s Quest Potion Bottles

11 am – 4 pm

The Wizard’s Quest

Ages: 5 and up
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The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

27ELogos(800 x 400 px) (50)

2 – 3:30 pm

Poetry Potpourri

The Hampton LibraryBridgehampton

Italian

4 – 5 pm

Elementary Italian with Susan Kaplan

The Hampton LibraryBridgehampton

A Shadow of Her Own

6:30 – 8 pm

“A Shadow of Her Own”: a performance created by Joseph. J. Corso, Jr. at the Great Neck Library

159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck, NY 11023Great Neck

David Helfand

7 – 8 pm

The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom (A Free, In-Person Lecture & Book Signing)

East Hampton LibraryEast Hampton

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