The art exhibit at the Earle-Wightman House, at 20 Summit Street, Oyster Bay, is delightful. We were really bowled over by the quantity and quality of the work.

Everywhere there are great paintings of Oyster Bay Harbor. There are also prints, sculpture and photographs by Elizabeth Roosevelt and sculpture by David Carr. There is a watercolor by Lisa MacKay of The Bonanza Stand. There is a poem by Carol Miller, Amelia, in memory of Betty Schneider, owner of The Printery of Oyster Bay. There is a watercolor by Barbara Ernst Prey called Gallantly Streaming II, one of her series of patriotic flag portraits.

Mort Kunstler's oil painting Fourth of July at Cove Neck is on display. He is offering three prints of the painting that are available for $250 each. It is such a great Oyster Bay event to record!

There is so much to see. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m.

The exhibit is part of a fund-raising series that continues with silent and live auctions on Dec. 6 at Wychwood, the Gold Coast home of Mr. Henry Luce III in Mill Neck. The evening begins at 4 p.m. as John Loring, the celebrated design director of Tiffany & Company, will present a slide lecture on Tiffany jewels. Hors d'oeuvres will be served as the silent and live auctions take place. (Tickets to the event are $100.)

On Saturday, Jan. 24, at 6 p.m. there will be a banquet at the Banfi Estate in Old Brookville for 40 very fortunate people. The black-tie evening of superb vintage wines and an incomparable seven-course dinner prepared by the Mill River Inn, will be a premier dining experience. (Tickets are $400 and are going quickly.)

All proceeds from this event will benefit the Oyster Bay Historical Society's Building Fund. The October fire at the Matinecock Lodge in Oyster Bay demonstrates the need for a safe archival site for the Town of Oyster Bay collection. For information please call 516-922-5032.

This series of fund-raising events is the fourth great program produced by Tom Kuehhas, OBHS director and Maureen Monck, Ph.D. his co-chair for these educational series. Everyone attending them has been enriched. We hope you will take advantage of the current series to help build an archival facility for the Oyster Bay Historical Society, a group that has so well benefited the community. They produced a Tiffany series, the Italian-Americans in Oyster Bay series, Recreation in Oyster Bay and now the Art of Oyster Bay. We are justifiably looking forward to next year's series.

DFK