Give him history, or give him death! A Long Island history buff traded his comfortable Midtown sales job to enlighten the North Shore about the Revolutionary War period. Christopher Judge, 50, was appointed this month as director of the North Shore Historical Museum, following years of him dressing up in Colonial Era garb and singing songs about centuries past. “People might say to me, ‘I like your costume.
’ And I say, ‘What costume?’ I play it off as if I’m really from the 18th century,” Judge told The Post on Tuesday from Oyster Bay’s Raynham Hall Museum, where he’s been a longtime educator. Judge, a college-trained vocalist who sings at Christ Church of Oyster Bay, made his declaration of independence from corporate life seven years ago, just weeks into a managerial promotion. Despite rising success, Judge said he felt “jealousy” for non-profit workers who dedicate their lives to meaningful causes.
So the Ronkonkoma native took “a leap of faith” and left his Brooklyn home, returning to Long Island for a second act as a do-gooder. “I was waking up with just a sense of dread about where I was going in my old career,” Judge recalled. “This is so much more fulfilling.
.. Now, I wake up in the morning, and I don’t think, ‘Ugh, I have to go to work.
’ I think, ‘Great, I get to go to work!'” Judge launched his second act by driving a senior center bus and teaching the elderly technology, among other community services. Around that time, he .
