Historic Hudson River Towns

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Lantern Tour
2022-11-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – North Gate, 540 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Soak up the history of this famous cemetery by the light of kerosene lanterns! It’s like stepping back in time as you visit some of the most impressive residents, including William Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, John Dustin Archbold and others resting in peace in the cemetery’s north end. As this is only a one-hour tour, you’ll need to visit during the day to see Washington Irving’s grave.
Dates: Friday and Saturday nights in September. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in October. Select dates in November.

American Aristocrats Cemetery Tour
2022-11-13 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-13 21:30 - 22:30, 2022-11-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-15 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-16 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-17 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – North Gate, 540 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Short on time? Make the most of it and meet the crème de la crème on this one-hour lantern tour of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery!
The Gilded Age began after the Civil War and ended around 1900. It was a time of tremendous industrialization and rapid economic growth. Railroads were built to connect the East Coast with the West, kerosene replaced whale oil and candles to light people’s homes, and steel production changed city skylines forever.
Meet some of the American Aristocrats who shaped our country with their ambitious visions and amassed sizable fortunes in the process. You’ll visit the beautiful monuments of Henry Villard, William Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other interesting folks during this one-hour lantern tour in the north end of the cemetery.

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2022-11-14 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-15 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-16 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-17 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-18 09:00 - 20:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion
Sculptures by Dorothy M. Gillespie
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park
Oct. 15, 2021 – Oct. 2023
Free to the Public, Dawn to Dusk
RoCA is proud to present the The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion exhibit as a part of a tribute to the 20th Century artist and feminist, Dorothy Gillespie. The exhibit will open October 15th in The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park at RoCA.
Dorothy Gillespie’s joyful and brilliantly colored starbursts glimmer hanging from the trees as well as lining the pathway. The pieces create an enchanted garden of colors in motion. Though stationary they seem to possess a kinetic quality. Two larger pieces can be seen at the entry to RoCA. The exhibit was partially installed this summer and will be completed for exhibit October 15th. The exhibit will remain on display through October 2023.
Gillespie (1920-2012) was born in Roanoke, VA and lived in Nyack during the later years of her life. She pioneered joyful, new directions of metal sculpture and is best known for large-scale, colorfully painted arrangements of cut aluminum strips curling, radiating, or undulating in giant arrangements of ribbons, enchanted towers, or bursting fireworks. She was well known as a painter, sculptor and installation artist whose work incorporated many significant 20th-century trends in art.
During Dorothy Gillespie’s youth … “girls did not attend art school, at least not ‘nice’ girls,” said Gillespie in 2010. Nevertheless, she was determined to be an artist and attended the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore. She was more fortunate than women sculptors in the 19th Century who were mostly hired as studio assistants by established male sculptors with few exhibitions. Harriet Hosmer, Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis, Frances Grimes and Helen Mears were some of the few who made names in the arts as women during that time. They did not pursue monumental work as frequently as men did and mostly produced works in bronze and consistent middle-class demand for small-scale sculpture to decorate the home and garden. Today many more women are now entering traditional male dominated sculpture roles in metal, wood and stone, thanks to the pioneering activism of women like Dorothy Gillespie in the 20th century.
An influential force in the women’s movement, Gillespie encouraged more women’s art in museums and art in public spaces. In 1970, Gillespie joined Women in the Arts and created picket signs protesting at the Whitney Museum demanding that the curators choose more women artists for their “Annual exhibition. The demonstration worked, and more women artists were chosen for the show. Although the increase was very slow, over time it increased from 8 percent to 40 percent. Gillespie was the Founder of the Women Artists Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center in NY, NY, filming and taping interviews of some of the most important women artists of the 20th century as well as presenting her own radio show. Gillespie along with Joyce Weinstein founded a group called the NY Professional Women Artists. The 14 members lectures at Universities and wrote articles to encourage other women artists.
Gillespie also coordinated a course to educate and enlighten women in the visual arts, after being invited to teach at The New School in NYC. The intent was to prepare women for a new, more aggressive role to function in the art world. Due to her already busy schedule, she asked artist Alice Barber to share the task of revealing to the young students the ‘system’ that drove the NY art world and how to succeed. In 1974 she organized an innovative outdoor exhibition, Walk Through Art, mounted in Central Park, Battery Park, and Rockefeller Center, then travelling to fifty colleges, universities and street fairs. Compelled to involve viewers in her work, she created large 7 ft high triangles of art for people to walk through the sculptures. Gillespie has held positions of designing programs as a Professor of Art, being a Board of Trustees for more than one college or art center, as a visiting artist in residency and as the Chairperson of the Fine Arts Committee for the International Women’s Art Festival.
Dorothy Gillespie’s career spanned seven decades, always at the forefront of the American Art movement. She studied at the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore before moving to New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League. Her works grace many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public spaces, including the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the United States Mission to the United Nations. She was one of the first artists to offer her art to the world through displays in the lobbies of public institutions and governmental centers such as the Mayo Clinic, Epcot Center, Warren Wilson College, Fort Lauderdale Airport-Delta Terminal, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Miami Public Library, United States Mission to the United Nations, and the Court House Square – Roanoke, VA and Universities across the country.
Among her many honors, Gillespie received the Alice Baber Art Fund, Inc. Grant Award: a Doctor of Pedagogy from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, A Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa) from Caldwell College in Caldwell, NY, an Allied Professions Award from the Virginia Society, the American Institute of Architects in Richmond, VA., the Distinguished Alumni Award from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Outstanding Services Award from University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and the Gala 8 “Distinguished Woman” Award at Birmingham Southern College.
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park is open from dawn to dusk, free to the public. Brochures can be picked up at the registration desk. For more information visit: www.rocklandartcenter.org or call 845-358-0877.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation and Gary Israel.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Peter & Rebecca Lang, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., Luxury Kitchen and Bath, Golden Artist Colors, Inc., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc., Sarah and Stephen Thomas, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Simona and Jerome Chazen, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.

Victorian Christmas at the Octagon House
2022-11-14 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-11-17 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-11-18 10:00 - 16:00 | Armour-Stiner Octagon House, 45 W Clinton Avenue, Irvington, NY, 10533, United States
Celebrate the holiday season in Victorian splendor at The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York. Join us for an opportunity to experience this lyrical, eight-sided home surrounded by the sights of Christmas in 1872. The restored National Landmark will be filled with elaborate holiday décor featuring wreaths, garlands, and the sparkle of ornaments on a grand Christmas Tree inside the salon.
Created as a whimsical summer retreat in 1872 by tea-importer Joseph Stiner, this National Historic Landmark’s shape was based on the theories of Orson Squire Fowler, a phrenologist, who believed octagonal houses enclosed more space, allowed the sun in at all times, and permitted more views into the landscape. The Armour-Stiner Octagon House retains its magnificent ornamentation and furnishings and includes the only remaining Egyptian Revival Room in America with its original decoration and furniture.

Thanksgiving Virtual Cooking Class
2022-11-15 18:00 - 19:30
This fun and interactive cooking class is a fundraiser to ensure prices are kept low for the Rivertowns Chamber Holiday Trolley, despite rising costs. Class participants will be entered to win gift certificates to local businesses, in line with the Chamber’s current “Shop Local’ campaign. Thanksgiving Virtual Cooking class is $50 per household, which does not include the cost of Ingredients. Registration deadline is November 11th.
Kate Sonders Solomon is a beloved local cooking instructor. Her recipes are beautiful, approachable, and delicious.
If you’re interested in sponsoring the upcoming Thanksgiving virtual cooking class, please email info@rivertownschamber.com.
Learn more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thanksgiving-virtual-cooking-class-tickets-433235347587

Opening Reception: Hopper’s Hudson River Boyhood
2022-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
This exhibition investigates how the artistic vision of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) coalesced during his youth in Nyack until he moved away in 1908, at age 26, to pursue his career in New York City. It features selections of the artist’s early drawings and sketches on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, private collections and the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, as well as school notebooks, artmaking materials, and costumes, memorabilia, and artworks by Hopper and family members from the Edward Hopper House Museum’s collection and its Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. Together, these objects provide a glimpse into Hopper’s early years, the influence of his boyhood proximity to the busy waterfront and commercial district of his hometown, and insights into his life at home and his family’s support of his developing talent and ambitions.

Hopper: An American Love Story Film Screening
2022-11-16 20:00 - 22:00 | The Nyack Center,58 Depew Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Filmmaker Phil Grabsky’s new documentary Hopper: An American Love Story was released in October 2022 to coincide with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition, “Edward Hopper’s New York” and Edward Hopper House Museum’s “Edward Hopper’s Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision.” The acclaimed film explores the enigmatic personality behind the brush, taking a deep look into Hopper’s art, his life, and his relationships, and prominently features Nyack in its opening chapter. UK, 2022, 94 minutes.
Price: $12 for members, $15 for non-members

Nyack Farmers Market
2022-11-17 08:00 - 14:00 | Main Street Parking Lot, 119 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Nyack Farmers Market – A Four Season Outdoor Farmers Market
The Market offers a cornucopia of the best local produce, grass-fed meat, fresh seafood, beautiful baked goods, perfectly prepared foods, and handcrafted goods ready to fill your tables and gift baskets.

Nyack Farmers Market
2022-11-17 08:00 - 14:00 | Main Street Parking Lot, 119 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Nyack Farmers Market – A Four Season Outdoor Farmers Market
The Market offers a cornucopia of the best local produce, grass-fed meat, fresh seafood, beautiful baked goods, perfectly prepared foods, and handcrafted goods ready to fill your tables and gift baskets.

HOURS:
Thursdays from 8am to 2pm, outdoors year-round in the Main Street parking lot year-round.

PARKING:
Parking in the Artopee Lot is free during Market hours, and street parking is free before 10am. Meters throughout the Village are in effect Monday-Saturday from 11am to 7pm. Farmers Market vendors and patrons: please do not park in the M&T Bank parking lot.

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2022-11-17 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-18 12:00 - 17:00 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Curated by Carole Perry and Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, with Lynne Z. Bassett
This exhibition investigates how the artistic vision of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) coalesced during his youth in Nyack until he moved away in 1908, at age 26, to pursue his career in New York City. It features selections of the artist’s early drawings and sketches on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, private collections and the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, as well as school notebooks, artmaking materials, and costumes, memorabilia, and artworks by Hopper and family members from the Edward Hopper House Museum’s collection and its Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. Together, these objects provide a glimpse into Hopper’s early years, the influence of his boyhood proximity to the busy waterfront and commercial district of his hometown, and insights into his life at home and his family’s support of his developing talent and ambitions.
$10 Non-Members
$8 Seniors
Membership checked at door
Exhibit runs from November 3, 2022-March 26, 2023 during the Hopper House’s regular hours, which are as follows:
Thursdays 1pm-5pm
Fridays 1pm-5pm
Saturdays 12pm-5pm
Sundays 12pm-5pm

Summer Sunset Jazz at Lyndhurst Mansion
2022-11-17 18:30 | Lyndhurst Mansion, 635 S Broadway, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Relax on Lyndhurst’s great lawn and enjoy the beautiful sunset with cool music by hot jazz artists!
Sunset Jazz is back for the 2022 season! Presented by Jazz Forum Arts, the 12th year of this concert series kicks off July 7th and runs through August 25th on the Lyndhurst Bowling Alley Lawn.
We recommend reserving a grounds access ticket in advance to reserve your parking space, for expedited entry, and advance notice of any cancellations.
Jazz attendees can enter the property starting at 4 pm, the concert begins at 6:30 pm and ends by 8 pm.
Picnicking is encouraged!

Food Enthusiasts Class: Vegan Baking
2022-11-17 18:30 - 21:00 | RCC Hospitality and Culinary Arts Center, 70 Main St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
It’s vegan cookie night! Learn to make vegan and gluten-free peanut butter cookies, vegan and gluten-free coconut oatmeal cookies and vegan chocolate chip cookie cake with Chef Larisa Schukle, the owner of Glitter Thicket, a vegan cafe in Nyack. All recipes are purely vegan, with no animal products, such as eggs or cow’s milk. Chef Larisa has been baking and cooking vegan foods professionally for many years. Before Larisa began baking, she worked for a non-profit giving lectures educating people about the benefits of eating a plant-based diet, for personal health, for the planet, and for non-human animals. All of the cookie recipes Larisa teaches are vegan, they do not contain any animal products such as eggs or cow’s milk. Vegan foods are more environmentally friendly. Vegan options also contribute far less to health issues such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancer.
Learn how to make these scrumptious recipes with Larisa:
Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies
Gluten Free Coconut Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Snacks are provided upon your arrival and you get to take the food you make home with you.

Murder and Mayhem Walking Tour
2022-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – North Gate, 540 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
The true stories on this two-hour lantern tour are so grim, you just might have nightmares!
Curious to learn about a family that lost 5 children one terrible afternoon, or a horrific murder that led police on a multi-state chase? Maybe you’d like to hear about a son who shot his father before turning the gun on himself, and a daughter who poisoned her mother? If so, then this is the tour for you!
Murder and Mayhem is back and better than ever with a new route – visit a few old favorites and leave with new ones! The truth is always stranger than fiction.
Subject matter is not suitable for children under 18. For the enjoyment of all tour goers, thank you for respecting this policy.

The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze
2022-11-18 18:00 - 23:00 | Van Cortlandt Manor, 525 S Riverside Avenue, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 10591, United States
The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze is the Hudson Valley’s most electrifying fall happening!
Meander through the 18th-century landscape of Van Cortlandt Manor and discover a breathtaking display of more than 7,000 illuminated jack o’ lanterns—all designed and hand-carved on site by a team of talented artisans. New for 2022, watch the animated “Jack” Smith Shop in action and keep an eye out for glowing bees.
Complete with synchronized lighting and an original soundtrack, don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event!
Advance tickets only, no tickets sold on site. Entry times vary by date.

David Amram at 92!
2022-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Jazz Forum Club, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Jazz Forum is thrilled to celebrate yet another marvelous birthday with David Amram!
One of America’s true musical treasures and a great supporter of The Jazz Forum, the distinguished composer, musician, conductor, and author David Amram celebrates his birthday with special guests and good friends.
Musical compartments vanish for David, whose works and performances cross fearlessly back and forth between the classical and jazz worlds, as well as Latin jazz, folk, television, and film music. There’s much to celebrate and you can join the party!

Joan Osborne w/ special guests Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
2022-11-18 20:00 - 21:00 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Touring in support of her tenth studio album, the masterful Trouble and Strife, Joan Osborne has issued a clarion call. With stunning vocals, a diverse range of sonics, and incisive lyrics, this deeply engaging collection of new original songs is her response to “the crazy, chaotic times we’re living in,” she says, and “a recognition of the important role music has to play in this moment. Music has a unique ability to re-energize people and allow us to continue to hang on to that sense of joy of being alive.”
Since she broke through 25 years ago with the multi-platinum Relish and its touchstone mega-smash “One of Us,” the seven-time Grammy nominee has never played it safe. Osborne has followed her restless musical heart, exploring a diverse range of genres: pop rock, soul, R&B, blues, roots rock, gospel, funk, and country – all of which can be heard on Trouble and Strife, along with the Western side of C&W and a touch of glam and disco. “For a lot of the record, we were going for a ‘70s AM radio vibe,” says Osborne. As for the lyrics, the songs “are the most political I’ve ever written,”she conveys of her first album of originals since 2014’s confessional Love and Hate. Osborne also produced Trouble and Strife, primarily recorded in her basement studio in Brooklyn and released on the label she founded in 1991, Womanly Hips.
Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Larry Campbell and singer-guitarist Teresa Williams are frequent collaborators with Phil Lesh, Levon Helm, Little Feat, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, brought to the stage the crackling creative energy of a decades-long offstage union.
