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Looking for the perfect staycation destination?

Whether you're planning family adventures, a cultural date, or quality time with grandkids, the Bruce offers captivating experiences for every visitor.

With a wide selection of programs and events, from interactive science to stunning art collections, there's always something new to spark your curiosity this summer!

Enjoy 10% off all membership levels.
Use code: SummerFun10
Valid through June 30, 2025

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A. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
A. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in D Minor
F. Geminiani: Concerto grosso in E Minor
Susanna Ogata | violin
Guy Fishman | cello
Ian Watson conducts the Connecticut Early Music Ensemble
All programs subject to change. All ticket sales final

Experience the sights, sounds and aromas of the electrifying midway with exciting rides and games for all ages and deep-fried treats, sweets and other tasty carnival eats.

Admission and parking are free.

Unlimited ride wristbands (for riders 36" & taller) are $42 on site ($40 cash price) or online before 5 pm Thurs., June 12 for $29 each, 2/$55 or 4/$99.

Ride tickets are also available on the midway. Online pre-sale special: $45/50 tickets + 1 free ride. (Rides take multiple tickets each.)

Visit the website for coupon savings on rides and food and event updates.

Midway hours: 5-10 pm Monday - Thursday, 5-11 pm Friday, noon-11 pm Saturday, noon-10 pm Sunday. Guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult age 21+.

More information: 866-666-3247 or DreamlandAmusements.com
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Long Island's largest fair is back with a variety of family entertainment, Saturday night Fireworks by Grucci, midway rides and games for all ages, and favorite fair food for every appetite.

Free with admission:

• Circus Murcia (The Globe of Death, high-wire, aerial acts, jugglers, clowns & more)
• Big Bee Transforming Robot Car
• BMX Freestyle Stunt Show
• The Dinosaur Experience
• Educational petting zoo

Fair admission: $5 (free for kids under 36" tall). Parking is free.

Unlimited ride wristbands (for riders 36" & taller) are $42 on site ($40 cash price) or online before 5 pm Thurs., June 12 for $29 each, 2/$55 or 4/$99.

The online deal is not valid on Thursday Carload Nights, when unlimited rides and admission are $62 per vehicle ($60 cash) for all legally seat-belted occupants.

Ride tickets are also available on site. Pre-sale special: $45/50 tickets + 1 free ride. (Rides take multiple tickets each.)

Fair hours: 5-11 pm weekdays and 3-11 pm Saturday - Sunday (Exit 53S off the LIE). Guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult age 21+.

More information: 866-666-FAIR (3247) or https://LongIslandFunFest.com

Concerts on the Hill is Easton's annual summer outdoor concert event. The series promotes and features local-area bands and artists. It's a wonderful "good ol' summertime" family event. Visit our webpage at christchurcheaston.com/concerts. This is our first concert of the season celebrating Juneteenth and is co-sponsored by the Easton Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce.

Christine Chanel is an indie-soul recording artist based in Westchester, NY. She is best known for delivering powerful vocals with resonant hooks and emotionally charged lyrics alongside her dynamic backing band, The Roster. With genres ranging from rhythm & blues to reggae, rock, and funk, Chanel knows how to captivate an audience in a commanding way. Not only is she a steadfast supporter of the local music community, but also passionate about her musical collaborations with up-and-coming artists.

Looking for the perfect staycation destination?

Whether you're planning family adventures, a cultural date, or quality time with grandkids, the Bruce offers captivating experiences for every visitor.

With a wide selection of programs and events, from interactive science to stunning art collections, there's always something new to spark your curiosity this summer!

Enjoy 10% off all membership levels.
Use code: SummerFun10
Valid through June 30, 2025

Perfect for:

Teacher thank-you gifts
Summer birthdays
Family adventures
Staycation outing
Escape the summer heat
Rainy day

Create unforgettable memories while exploring science, art, and nature together – or gift a membership to share the wonder with someone special!

Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England, co-organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art to celebrate the YCBA’s reopening, features the work of the British portrait painter George Romney (1734–1802). Remembered today for his fashionable likenesses of wealthy patrons, Romney was rivaled in late 18th-century London only by the now better-known artists Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds. His aspirations to be a history painter were never realized, but his many drawings serve as a testament to those greater ambitions. These swiftly executed sketches reveal a mastery of form, line, and light, while his proficiency as a musician and early experience building musical instruments distinguish him among his polymath contemporaries. To fully explore the era’s subjects and sensibilities, paintings and drawings by Romney from both museums are shown alongside selections from the Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments. Unveiling the contrasts in his artistic practice, the exhibition presents a forceful vision—one that has resonated with admirers through the centuries, from William Blake in Romney’s own time to the portraitist Kehinde Wiley today.

Katharine Hepburn was married once, to Ludlow Ogden Smith, in 1928. She kept her Babani gown, which was sold after she passed away and stored for twenty years. The Katharine Hepburn Museum has brought this dress back home to Connecticut and it will be exhibited alongside two others - one from the play "The Lake" (1933) and one from the film "The Sea of Grass" (1947) to create a stunning trio. This beautiful exhibit brings together Kate’s stage, screen, and personal lives in a never-before-seen way.

Museum Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10 AM to 4 PM and one hour prior to performances. Closed major holidays.

Additional Summer Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 4 PM in July & August only

On June 23, 2025, at 6:00 PM, Hamptons Observatory will present a free lecture, in-person at Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton, by Dr. Jonathan Schachter, a member of the original Chandra creation team. In the talk, “The Chandra X-ray Observatory: An Insider’s Perspective,” Dr. Schachter will discuss Chandra’s history, its pivotal discoveries, and touch on the history of X-ray astrophysics and its key personalities. Details and registration info may be found on: https://HamptonsObservatory.org Note: This lecture will be recorded and later posted on Hamptons Observatory’s YouTube channel.

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, launched in 1999, was named after the esteemed Nobel laureate and pioneer white dwarf theoretical physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of U Chicago. It had only a five-year expected lifetime, but Chandra is now in its 25th year and is still making momentous discoveries. This telescope was specially designed to take X-ray images and spectra from collapsed compact objects with strong gravity (e.g., neutron stars, and black holes, including at galaxy centers). It can also observe extremes of temperature and pressure in planets, stars, supernova remnants, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. Chandra has traced the separation of dark matter from light matter in the collision of galaxies and has contributed to studies of both dark matter and dark energy. As its mission continues, Chandra will continue to discover startling new science about our high-energy Universe.

The TRW Inc. engineering firm collaborated with scientists from Harvard, MIT, and Penn State to design and build Chandra. Key testing of the X-ray optics was performed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Harvard and MIT then deployed the satellite and served as mission control. Dr. Jonathan Schachter, the only Harvard astronomer on the TRW software test team, joined the project in 1996; although he left the team in 2000, he has continued to follow Chandra as it takes observations in its elliptical orbit around the earth. Dr. Schachter will discuss the development and history of Chandra, as well as touch on the history of X-ray astrophysics and its key personalities. He will also present some of Chandra’s pivotal discoveries, many of which have resulted from collaborations with Hubble and its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope.

Looking for the perfect staycation destination?

Whether you're planning family adventures, a cultural date, or quality time with grandkids, the Bruce offers captivating experiences for every visitor.

With a wide selection of programs and events, from interactive science to stunning art collections, there's always something new to spark your curiosity this summer!

Enjoy 10% off all membership levels.
Use code: SummerFun10
Valid through June 30, 2025

Perfect for:

Teacher thank-you gifts
Summer birthdays
Family adventures
Staycation outing
Escape the summer heat
Rainy day

Create unforgettable memories while exploring science, art, and nature together – or gift a membership to share the wonder with someone special!