Save the Date! Saturday, September 14, 2019 marks the 5th Annual Culper Spy Day.
Celebrate “Culper Spy Day: Our Revolutionary Story” with us. A collaboration of more than 25 local institutions and organizations, Culper Spy Day is an activity-filled day of community events highlighting the amazing history behind George Washington’s intelligence gathering ring. Special Collections, Melville Library, E-2320 will have on view its two George Washington letters from 10am to 12pm.
Please note: A ticket is required to access all participating venues.
To purchase tickets and read about the day’s activities, please visit the website of the Three Village Historical Society.
![Culper Spy Day in Special Collections on July 23, 2016.](https://library.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/culper2016_3.jpg)
![Culper Spy Day in Special Collections on July 23, 2016.](https://library.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/culper2016_1.jpg)
!["A Spy for General Washington," Rayhnam Hall Museum, 2006.](https://library.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spy4-2-1024x637.jpg)
![Letter, George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge, 1780](https://library.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1780gw-625x1024.jpg)
Kristen Nyitray
Associate Librarian; Director, Special Collections and University Archives; and University Archivist at Stony Brook University Libraries
Contact her for research assistance with rare books, manuscript collections, historical maps, and SBU history. E-mail: kristen.nyitray@stonybrook.edu.
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