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In the front yard, there is an ancient graveyard, each of its crumbling tombstones illuminated by a solitary votive that flickers in the wind, creating spidery shadows on the stones' legends: \"Heathcliff, 1776, victim of vampires.\" \"In memory of Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927, who danced to the music of the spirits.\" \"Lillian Morgan, 1862-1914, the ghost of Pine Hill.\" Before I can so much as say boo, haunting organ music screams out and a woman with long, blond tresses dressed in a tattered, shattered vintage wedding gown appears as if out of thin air and motions me into the cobwebbed dining room, where there is a decaying wedding cake and all kinds of creepy, crawly things - bats, spiders, rats baring their fangs (eek!).

Monica Randall at one time enjoyed summer outings in rowboats atBelmont Lake in Babylon. But that changed when several of thetraditional wooden craft were replaced with new, sturdier aluminum models. \"It's like rowing around in a washing machine,\" said Randall, director of the North Shore Preservation Society. \"They rattle, they're noisy and they heat up.\"

Adam Barthalt of Hauppauge, accordionist, bandleader and radio host, was recently awarded Austria's Medal of Honor for his dedication to that country's heritage and folklore and the promotion of friendship between the two nations. \"It's really a tremendous honor - given maybe to one person a year in the United States,\" Barthalt said. Then there's Barthalt's huge following of polka groupies. \"This year, in September, we're going to Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland on a two-week tour,\" Barthalt said. \"We let our mailing list of fans know and have tours for them. They're usually polka lovers with a European ethnic background.\" Photos - 1) [Monica Randall] as she appears in her 1984 movie while modeling an [Edna Woolworth] gown at Winfield Hall in Glen Cove. 2) (Adam) Barthalt

MANSIONS ON FILM When Monica Randall, historic preservationist from Long Island, investigated the remains of Castle Wilderstein, one of the Hudson Valley's stately homes in Rhinebeck, she found the 96-year-old owner, Daisy Suckley, reduced to living in front of the dining room fireplace. ''She couldn't afford to heat 36 rooms,'' said Miss Randall. ''But she said: 'my grand-daddy built this house. I was born here and I'm gonna die here.' '' The house was eventually preserved by local residents who bought it, restored it and established a foundation to maintain it. ''I call them phantoms because 90 percent of the homeowners told me that they shared their house with a ghost,'' she said. ''Estherwood in Dobbs Ferry - it's a girls' school now - but in 1910 Esther Wood hung herself from the stairway. The students have the ghost on film.'' Miss Randall turned her attention to the Hudson Valley after discovering that ''there isn't a North Shore any more,'' she said. She founded the North Shore Preservation Society and wrote a book called ''Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast.'' In the process she learned that ''people made millions selling out after the Gatsby era.''

  He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry Jackson and Susie Sneeze; two daughters, Susie Marie Sneeze and Rosemary Sneeze; two brothers, Jerome and David Sneeze; one sister Fannie Bell Jackson; and his grandparents, Rosemary Sneeze and Henry Sneeze.

They are a sight on the ice: Here comes the president of the club, Larry Tillotson, 88, in top hat and Edwardian coat, leaping and twirling to a Strauss waltz. And here's Monica Randall in crimson velvet adorned with Russian ermine; Dale Reed in a beige cape over black velvet, escorted by top-hatted Vladimir Rozhin and Else Wilmott in red velvet and black ostrich feathers. Randall discovered skating 35 years ago as \"a way to stay young and healthy,\" she says. She joined Tillotson's group and gave it a classier name. \"Every one of us is a living miracle\" who has come back from serious setbacks, she says. There are heart attacks, hip replacements, knee and ankle injuries in the group, Randall says. NEWSDAY PHOTO / KEN SAWCHUK - Some members of the Currier and Ives Skaters take to the ice at the Victorian Holiday Ball in Port Jefferson on Dec. 2: from left, Dale Reed in sled, being pushed by Barbara Amrhein, Larry Tillotson, Louis Bello, Monica Randall and Else Wilmott.