UPCOMING EVENTS
Stay tuned for the 2025 Art Show & Fundraising Sale at Brecknock Hall! Don’t miss this inspiring event showcasing incredible talent in a stunning historic setting.
Tuesdays at the Manor: Louise Harrison Presents “Envision Plum Island Preserved”
Plum Island, a federally owned part of the Town of Southold, is of national significance for its natural areas, wildlife and plant life, and our history and cultural heritage. As the world-renowned Plum Island Animal Disease Center prepares to move its mission to a new laboratory in Kansas, the Preserve Plum Island Coalition (PPIC) continues to advocate for comprehensive conservation and management solutions that safeguard this national treasure in the public trust. Louise Harrison, Long Island Project Manager and Senior Science Advisor at Save the Sound, coordinates the PPIC’s activities. She will present a photographic tour of Plum island, why it should be preserved in perpetuity, and the latest status of the preservation campaign.
Registration is required and will be strictly capped at 60 persons.
Monday Night Movies: Diner (1982)
Only open to Friends for Brecknock Hall members.
Billy (Timothy Daly) returns home to Baltimore to serve as the best man at his upcoming wedding of his childhood buddy Eddie (Steve Guttenberg). In the meantime, he and Eddie get together with their friends at the local diner, where they trade stories about their lives. All they really want to do is go back to being the carefree boys they once were, but they know it cannot be. Their funny and at times revealing exchanges help each other face the mounting responsibility of adulthood.
1 hr 50 mins.
Screenings take place in the Peconic Landing auditorium located in the Community Center at 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport, NY.
Tuesdays at the Manor: Lucinda Hemmick & Ephraim Horowitz Present “Native American History”
Southold Indian Museum presents a discussion of historical Native Americans and how they interacted with our local landscape and resources.
Registration is required and will be strictly capped at 60 persons.
Monday Night Movies: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Only open to Friends for Brecknock Hall members.
After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), visit his family's Mississippi plantation for the 65th birthday of his hot-tempered father, Big Daddy (Burl Ives). Cantankerous even with declining health, Big Daddy demands to know why Brick and Maggie haven't yet given him a grandchild, unlike Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson) and his fecund wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood).
1 hr 48 mins.
Screenings take place in the Peconic Landing auditorium located in the Community Center at 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport, NY.
Tuesdays at the Manor: John Holzapfel Presents “The 1938 Hurricane”
This photographic journey will illustrate the widespread destruction of the powerful and historic 1938 hurricane and its devastating impact to our coastal East End community.
Registration is required and will be strictly capped at 60 persons.
Monday Night Movies: Emma (1996)
Only open to Friends for Brecknock Hall members.
In this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, pretty socialite Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) entertains herself by playing matchmaker for those around her. Her latest "project" is Harriet Smith, an unpretentious debutant, while Emma herself receives the attentions of the dashing Frank Churchill (Ewan McGregor). However, Emma's attempts at matchmaking cause more problems than solutions and may ultimately jeopardize her own chance at love and happiness.
2 hrs 1 min.
Screenings take place in the Peconic Landing auditorium located in the Community Center at 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport, NY.
Monday Night Movies: Some Like it Hot (1959)
Only open to Friends for Brecknock Hall members.
After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band's sexy singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in.
2 hrs.
Screenings take place in the Peconic Landing auditorium located in the Community Center at 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport, NY.
Monday Night Movies: The Imitation Game (2014)
Only open to Friends for Brecknock Hall members.
In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma -- which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing's team, including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison.
1 hr 53 mins.
Screenings take place in the Peconic Landing auditorium located in the Community Center at 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport, NY.
Monday Night Movies: Bagdad Cafe
Only open to Friends for Brecknock Hall members.
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter. (Marianne Sagebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance)
1 hr 22 mins.
Screenings take place in the Peconic Landing auditorium located in the Community Center at 1500 Brecknock Road, Greenport, NY.
Tuesdays at the Manor: Roselle Borrelli Presents “Greenport, The Right Place at the Wrong Time”
Ms. Borrelli will lead a discussion about the life of Orange Hamilton Cleaves, the builder of both Brecknock Hall and her own Greenport home. Her research and writing reveal the life of Greenport in the era of 1830 to 1900.
Registration is required and will be strictly capped at 60 persons.
Tuesdays at the Manor: Dr. Stephen Sanfilippo Presents "Onrust, Circumnavigating Long Island Through Historic Songs of the Sea"
Take a historical and musical trip around Long Island with songs of the sea from the 1700s through late 1900s.
Registration is required and will be strictly capped at 60 persons.
Tuesdays at the Manor: Dr. Barbara Ripel Presents “Slavery on our Island: A Mindful Review”
Dr. Barbara Ripel presents “Slavery on our Island: A Mindful Review.” Learn how the Transatlantic Slave Trade intersects with Long Island history. Join in a conversation about how we come to terms with that history.
End of Summer Celebration
Peconic Landing and the Brecknock Hall Foundation are pleased to host their annual End of Summer Celebration featuring music and fireworks on September 1st. FREE to all, the much-anticipated event attracts hundreds of guests each year, bringing together members, team members and the East End Community. It serves as a thank you for the community’s support throughout the year. Live music by the Gordon Dukes Band (aka @bestweddingband) starts at 7pm, with fireworks to take off at 8:15, launched over Peconic Landing’s community pond. Guests are asked to bring blankets and chairs to make the most of the event. A rain date is scheduled for September 2nd.
Production and fireworks provided by Starfire Corporation.
“The Gallery at Brecknock Hall” Art Show & Sale
Peconic Landing is delighted to announce the premiere Art Show and Sale at The Gallery at Brecknock Hall, taking place on July 13-14 and July 19-21, 2024.