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Ramble on at Montgomery Place

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Been looking for an excuse to visit Montgomery Place? Need something "special" to motivate you to make the trip to Annandale? Well, now you've got one. Montgomery Place is one of the sites featured in the ninth annual Hudson River Valley Ramble planned for weekends in September. MP gets to show off it [...]

Additional musings on Riverweek

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Summer is beginning to wind down, at least for kids who are facing the mixed emotions of the back-to-school bell, so we thought it appropriate to piggyback on our Aug. 14 entry and offer some final thoughts on the pilot Riverweek program at Van Cortlandt Manor, which ran from Aug. 4-8 and was organized by [...]

HHV Members, check your e-mail

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Greetings HHV Members: It's your old orange friend, BlazeBlogger. You might want to check your e-mail. There's something glowing in there.

2008 Caldecott winner coming to Book Day at Sunnyside

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HVBlogger has just learned of some interesting new additions to the more than 60 children's book authors and illustrators who will be taking part in Celebrate Children's Book Day at Washington Irving's Sunnyside on Sunday, Sept. 28.

Joining an already impressive roster of expected attendees will b [...]

Youth Conservation Corps in today's Journal News

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Greg Clary wrote an outstanding piece in today's Journal News about the Historic Hudson Valley Youth Conservation Corps. The piece, which ran on the front page of the "Your World" section, comes complete with great photos, too.

With the seven-week program ending this Friday, the article is pe [...]

Riverweek pilot program gets an A+

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"River [...]

Blogging's great but so are books

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Yes, those of us in the digerati generation enjoy blogging and Facebooking and Twittering and yes, we spend way too much reading about random things online like frozen-food reviews and rants from angry journalists, but we nonetheless love books. I mean, really love books, and yes, I mean the dead-tree variety that you [...]

Brian Jay Jones: Holy Washington Irving, Batman!

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Readers of the HVBlog know full well that we are huge fans of Brian Jay Jones for many reasons, not the least of which is because he graciously sits in for us on occasion, allowing us to put down our pens...err...laptops, and let his fingers do the talking.

Now, with The Dark Knight all the rage (94% fres [...]

Kykuit is the cover in Northeast Antiques

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Philip Alvare, a writer who visited the Rockefeller estate on a sunny day in June, has authored for Northeast Antiques one of the best pieces on Kykuit HVBlogger has ever read. And, HVBlogger is delighted to see that it is in fact the cover story in the August issue of this widely read pub [...]

An environmental job corps grows at HHV, Part II

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So what was the motivation behind launching the Youth Conservation Corps? As fans of the organization know, Historic Hudson Valley has long been committed to environmental conservation.

Now, the YCC is a way to use its historic sites as contemporary learning laboratories with an environmental focus. Goals [...]

HHV gala in the news

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Coverage of Historic Hudson Valley's recent Hudson Valley Hero Gala honoring Joseph Cotter and his National RE/sources is starting to turn up in various outlets online. Check it out at:

New York Social Diary

Panache Magazine

Norwalk Advocate

More coming I'm sure...

An environmental job corps grows at HHV, Part I

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the best-known "alphabet soup" initiatives created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression, was such a popular work relief program t [...]

Rethinking Nelson Rockefeller on his 100th birthday

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson A. Rockefeller, the third child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and the man responsible for throwing open the doors of Kykuit, the family's grand Pocantico Hills estate, to the public.

The governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and vic [...]

Fourth of July wrap up

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The weather held and folks came out for a little sunshine and history at Friday's Independence Day celebrations at Van Cortlandt Manor and Sunnyside.

In the top photo are gentle [...]

Fabulous Fourth events featured in Journal News

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Yes, HVBlogger acknowledges the 50% chance of a shower, but c'mon, you can't just sit inside on the start of a long holiday weekend! HHV has two offbeat events today -- Independence Day 1808 (Van Cortlandt Manor) and Independence Day 1858 (Sunnyside). How often do you get to choose your own time period?

The Journal News saw fit to publish a cover story on today's events, featuring the most clever lede (the opening sentences, for you non-journo types) HVBlogger has s [...]

Scenes from a dinner dance

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The joys of HHV Summerweek, Part III

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And in our final installment about the joys of Summerweek, Danielle Fontaine has some good news for Web-overloaded older kids, too.

As you know, all of the Summerweek camps are for kids aged 9-11 and run from 9:30 until 3:30.

Slightly older than 11-year-old: "But wait, I'm too old to go to Summerweek, and I want to go!"

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New York Social Diary explores philanthropy and JDR

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We rather enjoyed this extended piece about Kykuit, John D. Rockefeller, wealth, and philanthropy by David Patrick Columbia, published last week on his always lively New York Social Diary web page. While exploring the lessons of philanthropy, Mr. Columbia provides us with an excellent mini-biopic of JDR (shown here with his son, Junior).

Here's a choice [...]

Brian Jay Jones...guest HVBlogger!

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debuted in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in the sixth installment of The Sketch Book in March 1820. Just as important, Irving and The Sketch Book proved to skeptical 19th century European readers and critics that American writers were for real. "Everywhere I find in it the marks of a mind of the utmost elegance and refinement," wrote an impressed William Godwin, "a thing as you know that I was not exactly prepared to look for in an American." Irving proved the criti [...]

The joys of HHV Summerweek, Part II

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Part two of our miniseries on the pleasures of Summerweek, courtesy of Danielle Fontaine, camp administrator. This time, she talks about the programs at Sunnyside and Van Cortlandt Manor. Take it away Danielle!

***You're on the lavish lawns of Sunnyside, the home of famous writer Washington Irving (the guy who wrote Th [...]