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Excited to share the revamped website I managed for my client, the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, also known as the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Train Station. The copy and design overhaul makes it a friendlier, more inviting, and easier-to-navigate user experience and a better reflection of the museum’s mission to help visitors appreciate how history and rail technology impacted Long Island life. Thanks go to Web Precision for their development expertise and the museum’s passionate board of directors.

The rain held off and the crowds poured in for the 4th annual Playing on the Porch music fest, the event I spearhead for my town on behalf of the Rockville Centre Chamber of Commerce. PorchFest events have been going on around the country since 2007, but ours was Long Island’s first. We had a line-up of 34 bands/soloists performing on porches, driveways & front lawns all around town, a record-breaking number of sponsors and a digital tip jar for the high school scholarship fund. This is the ultimate team production. I’m grateful to the dozens of musicians and homeowners for giving the community an incredible gift and to my committee members on the Chamber for their great ideas, reality checks and get-it-done professionalism.

Bully for my client, the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, for welcoming Theodore Roosevelt, portrayed by historian and impersonator Joe Wiegand. TR dropped by the historic presidential train station where the 26^th president routinely commuted from the Summer White House at Sagamore Hill to New York City, Washington, DC and beyond and which now houses the railroad museum.

What does it take to have a wildly popular cocktail tutorial series? “Nerdy cocktail talk” and an approach that prioritizes quality over personality, according to Leandro DiMonriva, co-creator of the YouTube hit, “The Educated Barfly.” DiMonriva is the subject of my latest profile of “Movers & Shakers” for Barfly Mixology Gear.

Glad to be part of the reunion luncheon for graduates of Hofstra University’s entrepreneurship program. I enrolled during covid when the program went virtual, so seeing mentors and colleagues in person was lovely.