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2013 Coney Island History Day, New York, USA

Coney Island History Day 2013

From LONG ISLAND – by Ann Parry (ann-parry.com)
August 13, 2013

Where could you see a beautiful stilt walker from Lady Circus, magician PROFESSOR PHINEAS FEELGOOD, musicians ORGAN GRINDER LOLA & MASTER BOB, a face painter, flocks of seagulls, and thousands of people enjoying NYC outdoor fun last Saturday? At the Coney Island 3rd Annual History Day!

Brooklyn, New York, USA. 10th August 2013. BOB STUHMER, a member of AMICA, poses under the Coney Island History Project banner over the booth where visitors can get information about world famous neighborhood, beach and boardwalk and amusement park, during 3rd Annual Coney Island History Day celebration. (© 2013 Ann Parry/Ann Parry, ann-parry.com)

Brooklyn, New York, USA. 10th August 2013. BOB STUHMER, AMICA member, poses under Coney Island History Project banner over booth at 3rd Annual Coney Island History Day celebration. (© 2013 Ann Parry/Ann-Parry.com)

The Coney Island History Project celebrated the past & present of the Brooklyn neighborhood, boardwalk and beach, and amusement park, and visitors were greeted with ocean breezes that helped make the summer day even more pleasant.

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Site: Coney Island History Project

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2013 Snake at Tackapausha Museum & Preserve, Science Exploration Moon Day

Tackapausha Museum & Preserve, Science Exploration Moon Day

From LONG ISLAND – by Ann Parry (ann-parry.com)
July 28, 2013

Science Exploration Moon Day – despite landing during a week-long heat wave – attracted many Long Islanders, especially families, to the Tackapausha Museum and Preserve in Seaford, New York, on July 20, 2013.

Seaford, New York, U.S. 20th July 2013. Science Exploration Moon Day, by Long Island Fringe Festival 5, has moon art, science activities, and animals from the Tackapuahsa Museum and Preserve, the host of this family event. (Ann Parry/Ann Parry, ann-parry.com)

Seaford, NY, U.S. – 20th July 2013 – Science Exploration Moon Day at Tackapauhsa Museum and Preserve. (© 2013 Ann Parry/ann-parry.com)

Members of Friends of Tackapausha and seasonal and part-time employees and volunteers at Tackapausha walked around animal residents, such as Zouzi the corn snake and MAPLE the Rabbit.

And children and adults were actively engaged in the science projects, such as creating green slime in the museum, and shooting off water bottle rockets outdoors.

Commemorating the 44th Anniversary of the 1969 First Moon Landing, the successful event also featured moon art and performances by Long Island artists, presented by Long Island Fringe Festival 5.

Tackapausha Science Exploration Moon Day:  my PHOTO GALLERY

Site:  Tackapausha Museum and Preserve

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2012 A Visit with Santa Claus at Roosevelt Field Mall

A Visit with Santa Claus

From LONG ISLAND – by Ann Parry (ann-parry.com)
November 30, 2012

As the Roosevelt Field mall and the Long Island community it’s served since 1956 continue to grow and change, one of the mall’s enduring traditions is Santa Claus’s visit at the end of each year, when parents have their children’s pictures taken with him.

Nov. 21, 2012 - Garden City, New York, U.S. - Santa Claus gets a visit from PATRICK HERR, 3 1/2, from Hempstead, at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island. Parents JULIANA CARREON and ISMAEL CARREON took him to visit the jolly man at Roosevelt Field, one of the 10 largest shopping malls in the United States of America, and on the site where aviator Charles Lindbergh began his historic solo transatlantic flight to Paris in 1927. (Ann Parry/Ann Parry, ann-parry.com)

Nov. 21, 2012 – Garden City, New York, U.S. – Santa Claus gets a visit from PATRICK H, 3 1/2, at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island.  (© 2012 Ann Parry/Ann-Parry.com)

This Thanksgiving week I took news photos of Santa’s visit with 3 1/2-year-old Patrick and his family. And it turns out my older daughter and her husband took their six-month-old son to visit Santa right there earlier that week.

UPDATE: This Long Island Weekly (publ. Anton Community Newspapers) cover photo is from my photo shoot of Santa and Patrick:

Cover Page Photo by Ann Parry; Long Island Weekly published by Anton News. Nov. 21, 2012 - Garden City, New York, U.S. - Santa Claus gets a visit from PATRICK HERR, 3 1/2, from Hempstead, at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island. Mom JULIANA CARREON and ISMAEL CARREON took him to visit the jolly man. (Cover photo © 2013 Ann Parry; Long Island Weekly published by Anton News)

Dec. 11-17, 2013 issue of Long Island Weekly| Garden City, NY, USA. Santa Claus gets visit from PATRICK HERR, 3 1/2, at Roosevelt Field Mall. (Cover Page photo © 2013 Ann Parry)

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