At the well-attended Sunday, March 30 lecture at the Oyster Bay Community Center, Tom Kuehhas, the director of the Oyster Bay Historical Society, only whetted listeners appetite for information.

His topic was the American Revolutionary soldier's plight on Long Island and in Oyster Bay in particular. He ran out of time before his topic did. The result is a guaranteed audience for the next chapter of the story.

The event celebrated the naming of the Society's Earle-Wightman House to the New York State Revolutionary War Heritage Trail, one of only seven on Long Island!

To commemorate the state designation and to mark the opening of the exhibit, Thomas Kuehhas, MA, American History, director of the Historical Society and a noted Revolutionary War scholar presented his program to open the newest exhibit of artifacts at the society's 20 Summit Street location in the Earle-Wightman House.

Local artist Mort Kunstler has added a special perk for the OBHS. He has given them 60 giclee prints of his famous oil painting "The World Turned Upside Down." You will remember that one of those prints sold for $2,900 at the recent Raynham Hall Museum gala auction event.

Mr. Kunstler has donated the prints to the OBHS to earn funds for their new archival building. The prints are being sold for $575 each.

Just call the Oyster Bay Historical Society at 922-5032 to set up your purchase of a Mort Kunstler original and help the society preserve their documents and artifacts, among which is one of the few existing examples of an original Revolutionary War soldier's coat.