The Queens Millennium Celebration, a ten-month salute to the year 2000, will begin in February. The celebration is sponsored by Queens Borough President Claire Shulman, and directed by Dr. Stanley Cogan, Queens Borough Historian. The celebration will run from February through November, with each month devoted to a particular theme. Subsequent themes will be as diverse as the borough itself, with activities varying from exhibits to guided tours, from slide talks to garden displays.
Locations cover the. borough, ranging from landmarked institutions to an abandoned motor parkway.
Information will be made available through two sources. The first will be monthly announcements, such as this one, in which information will be published in local and daily newspapers, as well as the Internet. The second source will be a calendar for the whole year, which will be made available boroughwide in the near future. An exhibit of artifacts related to pre-Columbian native habitation of the Little Neck Bay area supplied by the New York Institute of Anthropology. It includes stn array of artifacts dating back to 10,000 B.C. and lots it simulated dig site, complete with tools, for younger visitors to touch and examine.