On a recent summer evening, Fair Meadow Park in Huntington was quiet — acres of grass and trees without a person in sight. Only a few steel panels forming the Redemption art installation honoring Black history and culture breaks up the grassy stretch.

Even in the quiet, it's easy to imagine a more vibrant, bustling version of the park, a 10-acre parcel along Pulaski Road and Park Avenue, if supporters succeed in their efforts to build a full Huntington African American Museum at the site.

Three-fourths of the park will remain green space, perhaps with added benches and walking paths. Student groups might sit on the grass, eating their lunch after spending hours learning. There could be a musical tribute to jazz great John Coltrane, a resident of Dix Hills in the 1960s, or a poetry reading featuring Jupiter Hammon, the first Black poet published in the United States, born into slavery in Lloyd Neck. And at the northern end, near the Long Island Rail........

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