Dorothea DeLannoy listens as Docent Muriel Urban explains the family that built and lived at Coe Hall.

Members of the Garden Department of the Community Club of Garden City, along with many other members of the Club, had a wonderful tour to the North Shore of Long Island, visiting both Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay and the Coe Mansion at Planting Fields in Brookille, with a stop for a delicious luncheon at Fiddleheads Restaurant in Oyster Bay. The photos tell the story.

Docent Michael Goudket in costume tells the story of both the grounds and the house at Raynham Hall from the early 1700’s to the mid 1800’s.
Ann Daly and Karen Reiter enjoy a quiet moment in the garden.
Some of the ladies in the garden of Raynham Hall listening to the guide are L-R Mary Kearns, Mai Ling Tang, Isabelle Smith, Larissa Cowin, Edna Bittner.
The gang is not only all here, but ready to get back on the bus and head home after a wonderful day. L-R Ruth LaBosco, Carol Countryman, Mai Ling Tang, Joan Dixon, Ruth Lacy, Muriel Urban and Marye Heston. Muriel was not only a Docent for the Coe Mansion, but was the tour leader too.
Moving on to the French room at Coe Hall are Karen Reiter, Isabelle Smith, Lee Amrhrein, Frieda Stark and Ruth Lacy.
Janet Castles, Joan Whiting, a Docent at Coe Hall, Marie Bartolotta, Mary Kearns, and Bonna Bishop.