Historic Hudson River Towns

Kykuit Tours
2022-11-10 10:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-09 10:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-07 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Philipsburg Manor, 381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Built between 1906 and 1913, Kykuit was home to four generations of the Rockefeller family. In 2022 the site will be open for guided tours Saturday-Sunday from May 21-October 2; and Wednesday-Monday between October 5-November 13. There are three distinct Kykuit tours available:
Classic Tour: Great for first-time visitors. Your visit will include the main floor of the house, art galleries, Inner Garden, golf room, and Coach Barn. The tour is 2 1/4 hours, including the shuttle bus ride. $38-$40.
Grand Tour: Includes everything in the Classic Tour, plus extra time in the gardens and art galleries, as well as a visit to the second floor of the home. The tour is 3 hours, including the shuttle bus ride. $60.
Selected Highlights Tour: This tour includes the main floor of the house, Inner Garden, and West Terrace. The perfect choice for those with busy schedules. The tour is 1 1/2 hours, including the shuttle bus ride. $18-$20.
Location: All Kykuit tours originate from the Visitor Center at Philipsburg Manor, 381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, 914-631-8200. https://hudsonvalley.org Do not type “Kykuit” into your GPS, as it will not bring you to the right location. Admittance to the estate is by guided tours only.

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2022-11-10 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-09 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-08 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-07 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.

Nyack Farmers Market
2022-11-10 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.

Nyack Farmers Market
2022-11-10 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.

It's A Wonderful Life
2022-11-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
A Holiday family classic that needs no introduction! The heartwarming story of how George Bailey finds the true Christmas Spirit with the help of another friendly spirit. Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers. Director Frank Capra.
Runtime: 118 Minutes
Rating: G

American Aristocrats Cemetery Tour
2022-11-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-08 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-06 21:30 - 22:30, 2022-11-06 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 Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze
2022-11-09 18:00 - 23:00, 2022-11-06 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.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Lantern Tour
2022-11-06 19:00 - 21:00 | 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.

Ed Cherry Trio
2022-11-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-11-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Jazz Forum Club, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Acclaimed Jazz guitarist Ed Cherry brings his formidable trio to the Jazz Forum on Sunday, November 6. He’s supported by pianist John DiMartino and bassist Gary Wang. Ed Cherry has been playing professionally since the early ’70s, as a sideman to musicians including Tim Hardin, Jimmy McGriff, Henry Threadgill and Jimmy Smith. Most famously, he spent over fifteen years in Dizzy Gillespie’s band, remaining with the group until the trumpeter’s death in 1993.

Dover String Quartet
2022-11-06 15:00 - 16:30 | Kusel Auditorium at Sleepy Hollow High School, 210 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Friends of Music welcomes the return of the excellent young Dover Quartet, lauded by The New Yorker as both “exciting and accomplished.” The Wall Street Journal has described their playing as “masterly, nuanced” with “gutsy and earthy sound,” while the Santa Fe New Mexican has said that to hear them is to be in “string quartet nirvana.” Although violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt will leave the quartet at the end of August, they have announced that they are “excited to share the news that the Dover Quartet has appointed Hezekiah Leung as its violist for a season-long appointment starting in September. You may know Hezekiah as a founding member of the Rolston String Quartet, the first prize winner of the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the recipient of the 2018 Cleveland Quartet Award. Hezekiah’s excellent artistry and musicianship, combined with his experience performing in an award-winning string quartet, make him an excellent fit for this appointment. Joel, Bryan, and Camden are thrilled to begin performing with him.”
The quartet was nominated for the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their recording of Robert Schumann’s string quartets.
The Dover Quartet has released three albums on Cedille Records: Tribute: Dover Quartet Plays Mozart, Voices of Defiance, and Beethoven Complete String Quartets, Volume 1 – The Opus 18 Quartets.
This afternoon’s performance includes:
Joseph Haydn, Quartet in C Major, Hob. III:77, Op. 76, No.3 (“Emperor”)
Amy Beach, Quartet for Strings (in one movement), Op.89
Felix Mendelssohn, Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No.3

Classic Daytime Cemetery Tour
2022-11-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – South Gate, 430 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Soak up the beauty of this 173-year old cemetery while your guide regales you with stories of the fascinating people resting here in peace.
This two-hour daytime walk is the perfect way “to have a colloquy among the tombs” as Washington Irving, famous author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, did himself back in 1849.
You’ll pay homage to the great author, stop by some of the most interesting monuments in the old section before heading north to visit the final resting places of two-term Chicago Mayor Walter Gurnee, steel titan Andrew Carnegie, oilman William Rockefeller, two people vital to the success of Wells Fargo and American Express, and much more. Admire beautiful art, architecture and cool cemetery symbolism along the way. This tour gives a great overview of why Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is so famous.
Please note that the Classic Daytime Tour is the same route as the Classic Evening Lantern tour. The content is exactly the same – it just starts in a different location.
Dates: Every Saturday and Sunday 2:00 – 4:00 p.m through November 27th.

The Original Knickerbocker Tour
2022-11-06 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-11-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – South Gate, 430 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
The Original Knickerbocker: Washington Irving & “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
Meet the father of the American short story on this one-hour tour of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery! Learn all about Washington Irving, his impact on American Literature and the enduring appeal of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, which recently celebrated its Bicentennial. Best of all, you’ll find out why Irving is called the Original Knickerbocker!
It’s a fun way to spend an hour exploring the south end of the cemetery!
Dates: Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 a.m.-12 noon and 1:00-2:00 p.m. through November 27th. In October, every day from 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2022-11-06 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

Nyack Library Book Sale
2022-11-06 12:00 - 16:00 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Book Sale!!
Join us for the Friends of the Nyack Library Book Sale in our Community Meeting Room.
Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm, Sunday 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Early Bird Special (cost: $20) is 9am-10am on Sat., November 5th (+ purchase of materials)

Brunch•ish & Beats at The Greek•ish
2022-11-06 12:00 - 16:00 | The Greek•ish, 8 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, 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
2022-11-06 12:00 - 16:00 | The Greek•ish, 8 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States

Union Church Tours
2022-11-06 12:00 - 15:00 | Union Church of Pocantico Hills, 555 Bedford Road, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
The Union Church of Pocantico Hills is a repository of awe-inspiring art by Matisse & Chagall.
Stained-glass windows by European masters, commissioned by the Rockefeller family, adorn this unassuming country church. Henri Matisse’s last work, the Rose Window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall create a dramatic combination of light and color, art and spirituality. Step inside and be inspired.
Union Church will be open May 6-November 13; Fridays-Sundays, as well as holiday Mondays (May 30, July 4, September 5, October 10) Guided tours are available between on Friday and Saturdays, 10:30 AM-3:30 PM, Sundays 12 PM-3:30 PM. Tours are subject to change due to church activities.

Philipsburg Manor Tours
2022-11-06 10:30 - 15:30 | Philipsburg Manor, 381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Journey to Colonial America! Wander along a woodland path and enter the year 1750, when Philipsburg Manor was a thriving milling and trading complex that was home to several hundred tenant farmers and twenty three enslaved individuals of African descent.
Step into the gristmill and learn about the work of Caesar, the enslaved African miller. Tour the manor house, where period artifacts and touchable reproductions bring to life the stories of the Philipse family and the enslaved community. Visit the activity center and explore the daily life and labor of the Manor’s diverse inhabitants. Hear the Manor’s history from the perspective of those who lived and toiled there.
For 2022, Philipsburg Manor will be open May 6 – November 13; Fridays-Sundays, as well as holiday Mondays (May 30, July 4, September 5, October 10). Guided tours are available between 10:30 AM-3:30 PM. Tickets are for timed entry.
