This LI man quit his NYC sales job to dress up in colonial garb and teach Revolutionary War-era history: So much more fulfilling

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 also eagerly began his work at Raynham Hall, the local historic home of Revolutionary War spy Robert Townsend.Townsend was in such deep cover that not even George Washington knew his true identity — which wasn’t revealed until 1930.To drum up the lore, Judge belts out historic tunes of the time and plays a wooden recorder while fashioned head to toe — tricorn hat and all — like an everyday colonial resident of the waterfront community.

The entire ensemble can cost up to $1,500, said Judge, who ...