The Smithtown Special Library District: The Lost Wife, The Bus Trip (Nesconset Branch)

The Long Island Reads novel, The Lost Wife, explores themes of art, immigration, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust.

The Lost Wife bus trip will do the same.

Our luxury motor coach will depart the Nesconset library parking lot at 8:00 AM and leave New York City at 4:30PM.

The Museum at Eldridge Street, a 125 year-old synagogue, a museum the New York Times called "gasp inducing" is our first stop.

Here we will take the guided tour “From Ellis to Eldridge: Immigrant History” and learn about the eastern European Jews who built the synagogue.

Next we will have a delicious sit down lunch at SPQR Italian restaurant.

After lunch we will head to the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Here you can see the exhibitions “Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles,” “Let My People Go! the Soviet Jewry movement 1967-1989,” “Voices of Liberty,” “Reflection Passage,” or “Garden of Stones” as well as the core collection.

Cost is $87 non-refundable per person.

Lunch is included. A envelope will be passed to tip the driver.

In person registration begins March 1st and is open to all.

Adult program.