Contributed by Art Brady
Art by Hart
Old Sol was pleased with the advance publicity for his upcoming disappearing act
Dylan thought it was funny to hide Rhetta’s dragon
Coffee was the sweet spot in Bentley’s morning
Spring storms were looming
Daphne liked to get an extra day out of her Easter bonnet
Elsie’s MRI was surprising
Art and photos by Jane Hart
Art and Poetry, by Sheila Benedis
creativity
is there a future for the world
devastation of autocracy
climate change
destruction and displacement of people in Gaza
Russian invasion of Ukraine
democracy threatened
creativity should be the
color of mist
written by the wind
a sparkling feeling
an original idea
soothing to the body
sense of inner beauty
inspiration for all individuals
hopeful
exciting
to our nonfunctioning world
make people feel safe
make people feel healthy
make people feel happy
may creativity uplift
Ocean Sparkling with Life
In and Around Kendal
Egg-stra Special
Joe Bruno snapped this picture of a possible visiting prospective resident. He’s been around long enough for Kendal! We remember him from when we were children.
Spring: Not Only A-Comin’ . . . She’s Here!
Photo by Joe Bruno
Photo by Gerry Mahoney
Spring: When a Young Man’s Fancy Turns to Thoughts of . . . Mulch, by Mimi Abramovitz
Seen on the River
Joe Bruno spotted a handsome working ship making its way up the river, perhaps on its way to Albany to assist in installing wind turbines . . .
Later, near evening, Peter Sibley saw it going home again . . .
Memorial to a Fallen Giant
A couple of weeks ago, we documented the tragic demise of Daphne, the Lady Tree in Rockwood Park. Linda Mahoney Herring has constructed a memorial to her dear friend.
Photo by Linda Mahoney Herring
Puzzle Solved
Clermonters take pride in their most resent victory over a jigsaw juggernaut.
Photo by Peter Sibley
The Art of Supporting Art
For 2 days last week the Art Committee set up shop, selling hand-made cards, running a silent auction of matted paintings, and coaxing well-earned cash though lovely beaded lanyards. And the community had a ball! The sale was a record-breaking success. So win-win all around. Congratulations, Artists!
Members of the (rather unofficial) Sales Department
Members of the discerning and buying public
Photos by Carolyn Reiss
April is Earth Month in Sleepy Hollow
Saturday, April 6, 9am-12pm
Compost Giveback Day at Sleepy Hollow High School
Grab your empty bins and buckets, and join us to take home the compost that has been produced by the Tarrytown & Sleepy Hollow Food Scrap Recycling programs. Stop by before or after your trip to the TASH farmers market to take free compost for your home garden, and stop by our educational tables to learn more about compost initiatives in our schools and throughout our villages. Click here for more info…
Sunday, April 7
Community Garden Cleanup and Prep Day (Family Friendly).
We will need helpers with digging, weeding, adding compost, and more. BYOGS (Bring your own gardening supplies) and choose one of these sites:
9am-11am: meet at John Paulding School community garden beds
10:30am-12pm: meet at Sleepy Hollow Village Hall
Saturday, April 13, 9 - 11 am
Saturday Academy at Washington Irving School
Join us for a “Plastic or Planet”-themed science experiment, and enter the raffle for a gift basket of replacement items for common single use plastic offenders!
Sunday, April 14
TWO Fun Family-Friendly Nature Walks
1pm-2:30pm, Wilson Park Drive Lot: Nature walk around Tarrytown Lakes–check out some newly blazed trails with lakes expert Mark Tornello.
10:30am-11:30am, Douglas Park entrance: We’ll observe the spring flora & fauna and identify some fun plants along the way–bring a camera or sketch book if you’d like to document observations.
Saturday, April 20, 8:30am-10 am
Family-Friendly, Tree Walk around Tarrytown Lakes with Redmond Tsai, local arborist: Meet at the Lakes Parking Lot (Neperan and Sunnyside)
Saturday, April 20, 10am-1pm
Celebrate Earth Day in Beautiful Neperan Park (43 Neperan Rd, Tarrytown):
Activity 1: Save a Park tree from choking vines. Vine squad participants should wear long sleeves, gloves and sturdy footwear. Participants must sign a waiver (onsite) before commencing work.
Activity 2: Plant pollinator friendly annual seeds. We will be giving away pollinator friendly seeds as well as planting small containers that you can take home. Great activity for the kids!
Saturday, April 20, 11am-2pm
Sleepy Hollow 150th Anniversary Celebration at Sykes Park
Bring the family to celebrate the village’s 150th birthday with food trucks, a bouncy castle and music. At about noon, local arborist Peter Strom will plant the first of 150 trees that will be planted across Sleepy Hollow this year. Local environmental organizations will be on site offering information about how you can get involved.
Sunday, April 21, 10am-12pm
Clean Up 10591! Meet at Patriots Park and we’ll send you out from there on assigned routes around the two villages.
Saturday, April 27, 9am-5pm
10591 Free Day: Sleepy Hollow Residents are invited to put usable items you no longer want by your curb. Browse your neighborhood for treasures. If anything is left by your curb at the end of the day, please bring it back inside.
April 28, 10am-2pm
Repair Café at Sleepy Hollow Senior Center
Bring those fix-it items collecting dust in your home to our second annual Repair Café! Repair Cafés are free community events that aim to keep our stuff out of the trash through volunteer fixers, menders, tinkerers, and people who just love to take things apart and put them back together again. We will have volunteers on hand to repair bikes, lamps, jewelry, textiles, appliances, electronics, and much more.
May 4, 10am-12pm
River Sweep with Riverkeeper
From Losee Park to Kingsland Point Park, we will sweep plastic and other waste out of the river and into the right place!
May 16, 6pm-8pm
Tarrytown Climate Adaptation Workshop at Warner Library
The Village of Tarrytown is continuing to explore ways to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Come learn about the findings of the Climate Adaptive Design Studio study on the Tarrytown waterfront, and bring your questions, concerns and ideas about how to address extreme weather events.
For more information, contact earthmonth10591.org
Art Imitating Life
Did you see the film Shirley in the Gathering Room last week?
If you saw the film about the great Shirley Chisholm, you surely remember the young college student — one Robert Gottlieb — who had to call his parents about taking a break from college in order to become her National Student Coordinator. That student was and is the very own son of Kendal’s very own Doris Gottlieb.
Here he is with the actor (Lucas Hedges) who plays him.
If you missed the movie, you can still see it on Netflix.
To Ponder . . .
1. If the No. 2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still No. 2?
2. Why do we press harder on the remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?
3. Why are you “In” a movie, but “on” TV?
4. What was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread?
5. Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
6. Why do “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?
7. Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
8. At a movie theater, which arm rest is yours?
9. When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?
10. When French people swear do they say “Pardon my English”?
11. Why do people say “heads up” when you should duck?
For Your Funny Bone . . .
Art by Hart
The new family seemed a little showy
Little Rhonda was a handful on weekends
Nicole hated it when Jess talked through the overture
Everyone told Alyse she was translucent
Somebody made an embarrassing sound, but nobody was owning up
Art and photos by Jane Hart
Art and Poetry, by Sheila Benedis
Two Worlds
Inner world
Inspired by democracy
compassion for oppressed
lightness of peace hope justice
life fragile and precious
outer world
devastated by autocracy
darkness of war
precarious safety and health
innocent people in fear
Inner world
calm peaceful
place of freedom to create art
outer world
chaos and terror
Inner world
texture and movement of natural organic shapes
bright cheerful colors
soothing sound of grateful clouds
fragrant flowers
taste of honey
outer world
jagged geometric shapes
harsh colors
shrill sound of loud thunder
smell of rotten eggs
taste of bitterness
entrance to my apartment
welcoming oasis of joy and excitement
other apartments
more neutral
may I feel my inner beauty
may my creativity uplift the outer world
Diversity Artist Book
Art and Photo by Sheila Benedis
In and Around Kendal
Our Kendal Course in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Photo by Joe Bruno
Shelter from the Storm
Photo by Gerry Mahoney (taken on her porch during relentless rain)
The Last of the Winter
Photos by Harry Bloomfeld
The Beginning of Spring
A beckoning path . . .
Spring comes to the hollow . . .
Emergent golden boughs
The promise of blooms to come
An enveloping spring
Photos by Edward Kasinec
Sunday Afternoon in the Park
Photos by Carolyn Reiss
Mystery Solved!
From Friday, March 23, to Saturday, March 24, Kendal had some visitors. Some residents noticed them at breakfast, others at lunch. They seemed to congregate other times in the Riverview Conference Room or in the PDR. The group was varied in membership — men and women; some old, some young — but one person stood what you might call head-and-shoulders above the others: Pete Roggemann.
And now we have an explanation! This was the Board of the Project Management Institute, in Westchester, holding their second annual Board strategic planning offsite at Kendal.
We understand the Board members had nothing but compliments about Kendal — and at least half of them said they want to move here! Pete notes: “We are our own best advertisement!”
Out and About
On March 21, a hearty band of Kendalites took the van into the Big Apple to visit the Museum of the City of New York.
Photo by Mimi Abramovitz
Kendal Handy Guide to Sleepy Hollow and Surrounding Area: It's Now Updated!
Need shoes? Hardware? A good Farmers’ Market, maybe? How about where to find good cheese, produce, or baked goods? Yikes: the car needs fixing! Where do I take it? Maybe a dry cleaners? Or has all that wondering driven you to need a good bottle of wine — but where to find that?
Try the new, updated Handy Guide! The referrals come from a terrific source: Kendal residents! Categories go well beyond just those shops and services needed above. Click here for Handy Guide (or find it in the Info section of this Residents’ Website and peruse the categories listed. Interested in one? Click on it and it will bounce to that section. Want to go back to the categories? Click on the small red dot with the arrows inside it in the lower right-hand corner. Back you go!
Listing include comments (where possible) by those recommending the shop or service.
Prefer to sit and ponder the categories off-line? There’s a printed copy in the library.
Do you have additions for the categories or listings? Send your contributions to the KoH Res Web Editor!
Coming This Week
March 27, 10 am
Avoid Falling! Presentation & Free Screening
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Collage Course Starts April 4
What: Birgitta Hockstader 6-Week Collage Course
When: April 4, 11, 18, 26; May 2, 9
Where: Art Studio
Beginners are welcome
Contact Birgitta: x1599 or geets34@aol.com
Playing with Words
The guy who invented the door knocker got a no-bell prize.
I saw an ad for burial plots, and I thought: “That’s the last thing I need!”
Need an ark? I Noah guy.
I used to be indecisive; now I’m not so sure.
Sleeping comes so naturally to me, I could do it with my eyes closed.
What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing . . . but it let out a little whine.
What do you call a super articulate dinosaur? A Thesaurus
Contributed by Bob Abramovitz
Portrait of a Kendal Family
Allie and Carolyn Reiss enjoyed Jane Hart’s portrait of Allie (though Allie seems less impressed).
Photo by Jane Hart
For Your Funny Bone . . .
Art and Poetry, by Sheila Benedis
power of a tree
just look just listen
my footsteps move slowly
like dancing shadows
my faint melodies go unnoticed
but they tell a story
echoes of dreams
like the trail
a snail leaves behind
if only I could become a tree
peace and hope would be
possible in the world
a tree could turn on a light
Power of a Tree Collage
Art by Hart
As the elephant in the room, Scott almost always felt invisible
Milton never managed to penetrate the In Crowd
The new pedestrian mall was an instant success
The start of peach-hunting season left Patti few places to hide
Willard's trick riding earned him a small but devoted fan club
Art and photos by Jane Hart
In and Around Kendal
March 17: ’Tis a Day for the Wearin’ o’ the Green
The Roggemann Clan—begorrah!
Photo by Gerry Mahoney
Photo by Maria Harris
Photo by Maria Harris
In Like a Lion (a Sea Lion, Maybe?)
Photo by Marilyn Bottjer
Out — or, Anyway, Midway — Like a Lamb
“ . . . a host of golden daffodils . . .”
Photo by Edward Kasinec
Sofia and the Pussy Willows
Photo by Naomi Gross
A Philosophical Viewpoint
A reflection on reflection: a view from the bridge
Photo by Art Brady
March Birthdays
Photo by Harry Bloomfeld
Daphne’s Tragic Demise
Once upon a time, a nymph of a tree named Daphne lived in Rockwood Park. Some children called her “the lady tree.” She bore certain characteristics of a woman endowed.
Daphne at the height of her powers
Photo by Harry Bloomfeld
Alas, one day, the winds rose up against Daphne. They blew and blew, assailing her from every side. The force of their blows were more than the old girl could take. The result was devastating to behold.
Photo by Gerry Mahoney
Photo by Mimi Abramovitz
Photo by Mimi Abramovitz
Photo by Harry Bloomfeld
Just when she thought the worst had passed, the buzz saws arrived. While she admired the clean cuts, she knew the very end was near.
Photo by Mimi Abramovitz
Photo by Edward Kasinec
Photo by Harry Bloomfeld
Hikers and walkers will miss the old girl.
Sustainable Art at KoH
A work of repurposed art now hangs in the Craft Room. Quilt patches were created by Kendal quilters Florence Walker, Alice Clague, Susan Yao, Sally Costa, Marianne Bloomfeld, Meera Srinivasan, Carolyn Klinger, created the work, with a hooked background by Marilyn Bottjer. Materials used are recycled tee shirts donated by Jody Spellun, Mike Kornfield, Marion Loemker, Florence Walker, and Marilyn Bottjer.
Photo by Marilyn Bottjer