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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 14 NO. 7 Thursday, August 2,1979 20 cents per copy
They' re Coming This Way
Horses in Harness will be the
theme of a weekend of special
activities at Old Bethpage Village
Restoration on Saturday and
Sunday, August 11 and 12. The
events will focus attention on
Long Island's long history of
work and romance with equines.
On Saturday, a plowing contest
using draft horses and walking
plows will be held in one of the
farm fields and on Sunday, the
second annual Old Bethpage Village
Restoration Pleasure
Driving Show will take place in
the Agricultural Fair Field. A
master harness maker will be
present on both days to
demonstrate his craft and answer
questions about making, using
and repairing tack.
The day-long driving show offers
visitors to the 1850's restored
village the unusual opportunity to
watch traditionally garbed
drivers in antique vehicles drawn
by prize horses compete for
points of skill, speed and style
over a course iaid out in the fair
field according to the rules and
regulations of the American
Driving Society.
The weekend will remind
spectators of the long and
glorious local tradition of horse
racing. In the 18th century, New
Market Course, which is generally
regarded as the first race
track in the United States, was
built on the Hempstead Plains in
the Garden City - New Hyde Park
area.
In what many considered the
leading sporting event of the 19th
century, American Eclipse upheld
the honor of the North
against the South's Sir Henry and
caused one of Long Island's first
and worst traffic jams at Union
Course near Jamaica in May of
1832.
By 1878, the Queens County
Hunt was demonstrating
lacrosse, polo and hurdle-jumping
at the County Fair and
local farmers were being scolded
for breeding animals more with
an eye to success on road and
track than plow and field.
Rain or shine, style and
elegance will be the order of the
day on the 12th, when it is expected
that the great crowd
pleasers will again be the matched
four horse hitches of draft
animals, which thunder onto the
field in a powerful show of
strength, beauty and utility.
Old Bethpage Village
Restoration,' a facility of the
Museum Division of the Nassau
County Department of Recreation
and Parks, is located on
Round Swamp Road, exit 48 on
the Long Island Expressway.
Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and admission is $2.75 for adults,
$1.50 for children.
Bethpage Volunteer Fire Department Chief Vincent Monacco will
lead the firefighters through the streets of Bethpage during the Ninth
Annual Parade and Drill to be held August 18 and August 19.
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| Title | Bethpage-Tribune_1979-08-02 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within Bethpage, Old Bethpage, Island Trees, Plainedge and Seaford. Florence Cullem |
| Creator | Florence Cullem |
| Publisher | Florence cullem |
| Contributors | Scanned and prepared by Hudson Microimaging, Port Ewen, New york 12466. |
| Date | 2010 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Bethpage Public Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | The Newspaper is in the public Domain and Digital Rights Held by Bethpage Public Library. |
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