Historic Hudson River Towns

Nyack Farmers Market
2022-10-20 08:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 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
2022-10-20 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.

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2022-10-20 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-21 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-22 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-23 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.

Myths and Mysteries of the Armour Stiner Octagon House
2022-10-20 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-21 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-22 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-23 10:00 - 16:00 | The Armour Stiner Octagon House
18 miles north of New York City, high on a bank along The Hudson River sits The Armour-Stiner (Octagon) House. Built in 1860, this enigmatic, eight-sided, domed landmark is the pride of the Village of Irvington, in the heart of “Sleepy Hollow Country.” During the month of October, The Octagon House is pleased to announce a special ‘Myths and Mysteries’ tour to celebrate the Halloween season.
For years, local rumors have swirled around The Octagon House, implying its connection to the spirit world. Join us as we delve into the myths and mysteries of the house — from its unique dome shape resembling an ancient Roman temple, to its octagonal floor plan rooted in 19th century Phrenology, to speculations of a resident ghost, we’ll share stories from the current owners who have described their experiences of the house as something otherworldly. Come hear tales of the unexplained and uncanny events that have occurred in this magical house while experiencing the delight of this meticulously restored architectural wonder.

Summer Sunset Jazz at Lyndhurst Mansion
2022-10-20 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!

Three Poets Reading Poems
2022-10-20 18:30 - 19:30 | Ketonet Passim Books,72 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Mary Lou Buschi, Juan Pablo Mobili, and Rebecca Watkins will be reading from their books as well as new poems. Books will be available for purchase.

Monsters, Masks & Madmen: Hallowe’en Movie Chillers from the Collection of Lex Reibestein
2022-10-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
Visit our event calendar to register and for info on events in the series:
9/8- Dr. X (1932) A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
9/15- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) – Banned Books Week Adapted from Harper Lee’s coming-of-age novel.
10/13- The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955) A dysfunctional family operating an isolated date farm in the California desert is threatened by the arrival of an extra-terrestrial.
10/20- The Innocents (1961) Based on the Henry James story “The Turn of the Screw,” a psychological thriller about a woman who takes a governess job for two orphans in a Victorian home. She begins to see what she believes are ghosts and suspects the children’s bizarre behavior is the result of supernatural powers.
10/27- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) A doctor comes to a hospital on a late night call to hear a man whom everybody else deems insane. The doctor persuades the man to be patient and tell his story.

Home of the 'Legend'
2022-10-21 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-22 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-23 10:00 - 15:30 | Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, 3 West Sunnyside Lane, Irvington, NY, United States
Explore “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
At this family-friendly happening, visitors can tour Washington Irving’s house—decorated for the season—watch an original shadow puppet short film, and enjoy games on the lawn. A special exhibit highlights how the Legend has lived in the imagination of popular culture through the centuries since its publication.

Irving's 'Legend'
2022-10-21 18:30 - 23:00, 2022-10-22 18:30 - 23:00, 2022-10-23 18:30 - 23:00 | Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, 3 West Sunnyside Lane, Irvington, NY, United States
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” as you’ve never heard it before
Irving’s ‘Legend’ returns reimagined this fall. Performed for the first time ever outdoors under the stars at Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, master storyteller Jonathan Kruk will cast a spell with dramatic performances of the classic tale. Live music and an appearance from the Headless Horseman himself make this a spooky spectacular experience for all ages.
This experience is outdoors and requires walking.

The Man Behind the Legend
2022-10-21 20:00 - 21:00 | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – North Gate, 540 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, 10591
In his famous legend Washington Irving says of Sleepy Hollow Country, “If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.”
What better way to spend an evening in Sleepy Hollow than with the original dreamer himself, Mr. Washington Irving! For a limited number of nights, the master storyteller himself will visit from the beyond the grave to regale you with stories and tales not from his many famous works, but from his very own life! This evening talk amongst the tombstones will leave you amused and appreciative of just how extraordinary Washington Irving was.
Irving was the life of the party before he went six feet under. Don’t miss this chance to meet him now!
Date & Time: October 1st, 21st and 28th from 8:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Juston McKinney’s Parentally Challenged
2022-10-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
Comedian Juston McKinney has specials on Comedy Central, Showtime, Amazon Prime and multiple Tonight Show appearances but in this show he talks about his greatest achievement and challenge yet… parenting. Using multi-media he takes your through his personal and very hilarious journey of raising children in today’s world. From birth to teenagers to still living in your basement! Juston covers it all in this PG-13 show. If you have kids, are thinking about having kids or have ever been a kid, you will love PARENTALLY CHALLENGED!

LGBTQ+ Family Halloween Craft Workshop
2022-10-22 10:30 - 12:00 | Nyack, NY, USA
LGBTQ+ Family Halloween Craft Workshop
WHEN: Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 10:30 am – 12 pm
WHERE: Creative Arts Workshop, 171 Main Street, Nyack NY
Join the Pride Center and Creative Arts Workshop owner Joe Garreffa for some Halloween crafts & super fun game time.
For LGBTQ+ families with children of all ages.
RSVP required. To reserve your space or ask questions about the event please email Kris at KrisHillen@rocklandpridecenter.org.

Revolution on the Hudson!
2022-10-22 12:00 - 17:00 | Pierson Park, 238 West Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Save the date for our Revolution on the Hudson! Living History Experience on the waterfront in historic Tarrytown, NY, on October 22 from noon to 5 p.m. at Pierson Park. This family-friendly event is FREE.
Revolution on the Hudson! will feature historical figures such as George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Major John André, Benjamin Franklin, and Patriot David Williams. Multiple military reenactor groups will be on-site, including a cavalry unit, the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, with several of their military horses, and Alexander Hamilton’s militia unit, Hearts of Oak. There will be craft demonstrators including blacksmithing, demonstrations of Lenape technologies, colonial-period music, a military tent encampment and a marching/parade demonstration of more than 30 soldiers with musket firing. Theatrical performances will take place at intervals on the park’s outdoor stage—providing immersive, entertaining, and educational experiences.

"Autumn Wonders" concert of the Hudson Lyric Opera
2022-10-22 15:00 - 16:30 | Good Shepard Lutheran Church,112 North Main Street, Pearl River, NY 10965, USA
The Hudson Lyric Opera presents “Autumn Wonders” a concert of arias and songs from, Broadway, opera and Zarzuela.
Performances will be on Saturdays October 15 and 22 at 3PM at the Good Shepard Lutheran Church, 112 North Main St. Pearl River NY.
Tickets: $20 for Adults, $15 for Students/Seniors.
For Information call (845)709-2273 or email info@hudsonlyricopera.org
or visit our website: hudsonlyricopera.org

Orangetown Fire Company's Monster Mash
2022-10-22 19:00 - 23:00 | Orangetown Fire Company #1, 90 Depot Place, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
We’re approaching that spooky time of year, and Orangetown Fire Company #1 is excited to present their inaugural Monster Mash Halloween party! Below is our flyer with all the info. Ages 16 & up

If you would like to purchase a ticket, please email orangetownfirecono1@gmail.com

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2022-10-22 19:00 - 23:30 | Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
9:45 ACCEPT
8:45 HITTMAN
7:45 ASARAYA

ACCEPT ARE BACK!

The German kingpins of heavy metal will release their new, eagely-awaited studio album via Nuclear Blast on January 15th 2021. The ingenious title of the masterpiece is “Too Mean To Die”. Speaking of heavy metal kingpins, when ACCEPT first launched at the end of the 70s, the metal genre didn’t even exist – at first the band could only be labelled with the (quality) seal “crazy loud and crazy wild”. Today we know that this was (and is) metal par excellence. And we also know that ACCEPT opened the door to thrash metal, inspiring giants such as Metallica. Guitarist Kirk Hammett recently stated in the German magazine “Gitarre & Bass”: “Wolf Hoffmann has a huge influence on me.“ ACCEPT, who once had their origins in the city of Solingen, a city of sound, have been a worldwide music phenomenon for more than 40 years. They still impress with razor-sharp guitar licks and a steel-hard sound. The band created all-time metal classics like “Balls To The Wall”, “Metal Heart” and many more. Countless world tours and headline slots at the biggest, cutting-edge festivals cemented the band’s reputation as one of the best, hottest and loudest live acts ever. In addition, the band has sold millions of records, has achieved gold status in the USA, top 10 chart positions worldwide and a number 1 album (Germany, Finland) for “Blind Rage” (2014). Now with “Too Mean To Die” their 16th studio album is in the starting blocks – it is the fifth album that US vocalist and front man Mark Tornillo has put his incomparable vocal stamp on. Recorded in the world music capital of Nashville (USA), ACCEPT’s music was once again produced by British master producer Andy Sneap, who is responsible for the mix. Sneap, who works for Judas Priest and Megadeth among others, has also been responsible for all ACCEPT productions since 2010.

Mike Borgia live w/ Guy Snowdon
2022-10-22 19:30 - 22:30 | Olive’s 118 Main St Nyack, NY
Join us at Olives bar for two extraordinary songwriter/musicians under one roof for one night only. Mike Borgia w/ Guy Snowdon. For fans of Chris Cornell, Gary Clark Jr, Blues, rock, Americana and progressive elements make for one great evening of original live music.
Listen to Mike Borgia HERE http://youtube.com/mikeborgia
Listen to Guy Snowdon HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrUL54e05k
18 to enter.

Brunch•ish & Beats at The Greek•ish
2022-10-23 12:00 - 16:00 | The Greek•ish, 8 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Join The Greek•ish for Brunch•ish & Beats Every Sunday from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
Listen to tunes provided by Joe Davids Events as you enjoy a two-course menu featuring specials like Poached Egg Spanakopita, Greek Honey French Toast & Fruit, or Sausage Spetsofai & Sunny Egg. Plus, Bottomless Mimosas, Bloody Marys, and Rosé on tap.
$35 per person
Reserve your spot now: 845-353-1200

Brunch•ish & Beats at The Greek•ish
2022-10-23 12:00 - 16:00 | The Greek•ish, 8 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, United States
