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Cheap winter fun on Long Island

Published: January 17, 2013 11:08 AM
By SYLVIA E. KING-COHEN  sylvia.king-cohen@newsday.com

Photo credit: Heather Walsh | The Rinx on The Harbor, located at the Port Jefferson Village Center at Harbor Park, has views of the Long Island Sound in Port Jefferson. (Dec. 17, 2011)

Ah, January, the time when all the gifts have been opened -- and all those bills have poured in. Don't feel like going out and spending a lot of money? How about going out and spending little or no money?

"Nowadays, you say free and people's eyes light up," says Nomi Dayan, director of education at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, where visitors can enjoy an all-inclusive admission fee....