June 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018
Reception: June 1, 2018, 5 to 7 p.m.
Location: North Fork & Riverhead
Our 2018 exhibition, “A Place in Pictures”, showcases images from the Sylvester Manor Collection and illustrates the use of photography to portray Sylvester Manor from the 19th through the 20th centuries. Utilizing each new technology of the photographic medium from the invention of the Daguerreotype to digital images used today, the exhibit explores life at the Manor, the house, grounds, gardens and the family who have lived here for generations.
Opening cocktail reception is Friday, June 1 and public guided tours are scheduled for Saturday June 2nd, 12-3pm.
Address: 80 North Ferry Road, Shelter Island, NY 11964
Website: www.sylvestermanor.org
Phone: 631.749.0626
Our mission is to preserve, cultivate and share historic Sylvester Manor to ensure that food and art remain connected to community and the land.
Once a Native American hunting and fishing ground, Sylvester Manor has since 1652 been home to eleven generations of its original European settler family. It reflects a remarkably intact history of America’s evolving tastes, economies and landscapes.
Over time, the place has been transformed from a slaveholding provisioning plantation to an Enlightenment-era farm, then to a pioneering food industrialist’s estate and today to an organic educational farm responsive to, and supported by, our neighbors and friends worldwide.
In light of this history, we envision a farm, a community, and a world where people celebrate food, arts, and inventiveness in the everyday, with a spirit of fairness and joy.
