COMING SOON IN OR AROUND KENDAL ON HUDSON

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December 17: Tarrytown Music Hall Holiday Market

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December 18: Warner Library Movie Matinee

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 18, 2-3:45 pm                                                                                                      Location: Warner Public Library: 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown

A Christmas Carol

A bitter old miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when 3 ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve. Based on the beloved novella by Charles Dickens. The film was produced after Patrick Stewart performed a series of successful one-man shows of A Christmas Carol on Broadway and in London. 

Starring: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey.                                                           1999 PG                                                                                                                                                            1hr 35m.

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December 19: Beading Earrings Workshop

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December 22: Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

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December 14: 4th Annual Winter Stroll

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November 23 - December 31: Winter Wonderland

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November 23-January 20: Holiday Train Night Show

Holiday Train Shows

Adults 21+: November 23, 29, 30; December 7, 13, 14, 28; January 4, 11, & 18 All Ages: December 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, & 27

Location: New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY  

Enter a winter wonderland unlike any other at the Holiday Train Show, where cherished seasonal traditions find a home in our enchanting train displays, by day . . . or night. The timeless holiday magic of rail travel fills the Garden with nostalgia as model locomotives and trolleys trundle through our picture-perfect outdoor lawn display and bring the Haupt Conservatory to life with the busy sounds of the season. In the warmth of our landmark glasshouse, you’ll find twinkling, plant-based replicas of famed local architecture creating a cityscape in miniature—a meticulously crafted world brimming with the lively energy of New York City during the holidays. 

After dark, our roving Train Conductors welcome you to Holiday Train Nights, and set you on your journey through the warm glow of the Holiday Train Show. Experience the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory like never before, with colorful lighting bringing the holiday spirit under glass. During your visit, you can bop along to holiday classics and Christmas pop favorites sung by performers in our Locomotive Lounge. And with sweet and savory bites, spiked cider cocktails and mocktails, and hands-on gingerbread fun for purchase, the night is made complete with your favorite treats. Whether you’re out on the town with friends for our 21+ nights, or bringing the whole family for an all-ages celebration, make new holiday memories while discovering the magic of New York City’s favorite holiday experience. 

Tickets now on sale! Don’t wait! Tickets sell out fast 

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October 11-May 17, 2025: Sketching Light: Chagall’s Windows for Union Church

Marc Chagall, Studies for three of the eight side windows for Union Church [detail], 1965-66. Watercolor, pencil, paper, and fabric collage. Collection of the Rockefeller Archive Center.

Photo by Mick Hales

Date/Time: October 11, 2024-May 17 2025 Open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 11 am-3 pm

Location: The Pocantico Center, 200 Lake Road, Tarrytown

“Sketching Light: Chagall’s Windows for Union Church” is a rare opportunity for to explore the creative process of renowned artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985).

In the 1960s, Chagall was commissioned by the Rockefeller family to create a large stained-glass window in memory of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as well as 8 smaller windows, for Union Church of Pocantico Hills.

Sketching Light features 27 mixed media works on paper from Chagall’s preparatory studies for the project. These works, acquired by David Rockefeller in 1975, will be on public display for the first time since 1978.

Chagall’s first ideas for each window are roughly laid out in pencil or ink sketches. In successive iterations, he adds color with paint, pastel, and collage to create a multi-media maquette.

One of the most renowned modernists of the 20th century, Chagall produced 10,000 works during his 75-year career. Although primarily known as a painter, the artist worked in a wide variety of materials and techniques, devoting himself to stained glass during the final decades of his career. Union Church was Marc Chagall’s first stained glass commission in the United States and remains the only church with Chagall windows in the country.

All visitors must reserve a free timed-entry ticket prior to visiting.

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Clearwater Chirpers

If you’re unfortunate enough to wind up in Clearwater, try to get assigned to a room with a bird feeder outside your window. A small team led by Annette Leyden keeps the birds well-fed and in competition with each other for the daily Feeding Frenzy. It’s more entertaining than WWE knock-down wrestling!

FDR and Westchester

An amazing lecture awaits us when an outstanding author will talk about a fascinating book Nothing to Fear:  A Look Back at FDR’s 24 Public Appearances in Westchester County.

 On Monday, September 19, at 7:30 pm in the Gathering Room, author/historian Anthony Czarnecki will tell us the story of FDR’s many connections to Westchester County that were uncovered in his recently published research.

Nothing to Fear reveals that FDR was no stranger to the people and places of Westchester County; his special connection to the firefighters in Sleepy Hollow is also explained.

 Mr. Czarnecki, retired Chief of Staff at the Westchester County Correction Department, has long served on the Board of Trustees of the Westchester County Historical Society.

Upcoming Art Show

Kendal will soon have a new Art Show on the Rue des Artistes.

Theme: “The Real and the Imagined” November 8, 2022 to April 18, 2023.

This is the first announcement to let residents and staff know the theme and give them time to prepare their submissions, which may include assemblages, paintings, drawings, fiber arts (not wearable arts), sculpture, photography: whatever hangs on a wall or fits in a case.

Look for details in future issues of Spotlight.

Curators:: Lynn Brady, Ann Holloway & Judy Baker

Play-Reading Group

Something new has been added to Kendal’s cultural life - a Play-Reading Group

Calling All Would-Be Performers! Gwen Moffat, Jeff O’Donnell, and Jon Masters are organizing a play-reading group in which the members will read/perform scenes of their choice.

While individual members may, from time to time, decide to perform their scenes for a larger audience, the group is intended for those who want to just perform/read scenes.

If you would like to be part of the group, please join us at 7:30 pm, Tuesday, September 13, in the Gathering Room.

Sleepy Hollow Cultural Event September 17

Transportation will be provided to the Cultural Festival on Saturday, September 17 where the Village of Sleepy Hollow will celebrate its residents’ many countries of origin with an annual event in Kingsland Point Park.

Featuring music and dance on two stages, an art exhibit (including works by Kendal artists), and foods and crafts from many lands, this is a very special day. Look for more details on bulletin boards and at the front desk.

Kendal on Hudson is a major sponsor of the event, and is offering van service leaving Kendal at 11:30, 12:15, and 1:00, with return-trip pickups at 12:45, 1:30 and 2:30. Sign up at the Front Desk in the Cultural Festival Transportation notebook.

Saturday Opera

On Saturday, September 17, Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello will be shown in a production by Franco Zeffirelli for the Metropolitan Opera from the 1978/79 season. 

The principals are Jon Vickers in one of his greatest roles as Otello, Renata Scotto as Desdemona, and Cornell MacNeill as Iago. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus.

Otello will be shown in the Gathering Room at 1:00 pm.

Lecture September 12: Women, Wisdom, and Ecosystem Leadership

On September 12 there will be an important program in the Gathering Room at 7:30 pm when Antoinette Klatzsky will talk about: “Wisdom, Women, and Ecosystem Leadership”

Women in business have established new norms across business and philanthropy, in part due to the way women lead.

Antoinette Klatzky, a longtime leader in the Eileen Fisher ecosystem, will share her perspective on women’s leadership, the wisdom the business world has been gaining from it, and how philanthropy is changing to support people and the planet. 

 Ms. Klatzky serves as Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute’s Co-Creator and Executive Director as well as the Host, Facilitator, and Co-Producer of “Women Together.”  She holds a BA from Bucknell University.

All are invited to attend.

New Trip Announced

Kendal’s Trips Committee announced a new trip, this one to the Newington-Cropsey Foundation on Wednesday, October 12.

We will visit the home and studio of artist Jasper Cropsey and the Newington-Cropsey Foundation’s art gallery in nearby Hastings-on-Hudson. Jasper R. Cropsey (1823-1900) was one of the 19th-century artists in the Hudson River School of Painters. This group of artists, which included Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and others, were inspired by the scenery of the Hudson River Valley.

They created the first paintings of the American landscape in a new Romantic style. These artists also traveled to Europe and painted a variety of other settings and themes.

After many years in Europe, Cropsey purchased a house in Hastings-on-Hudson in 1885 where he lived and worked for 15 years until his death.

The Newington-Cropsey Foundation was started in 1977 to preserve and display Cropsey’s home and paintings. The Cropsey Homestead “Ever Rest,” built in the 1830s in the Carpenter Gothic style, is on the National Register of Historic Homes. Some furnishings were designed by Cropsey; other pieces are European and Asian. The house has been maintained as it was in the Cropsey family’s time.

The Cropsey Gallery, built in 1994, housed in a Gothic Revival building with an ornate rotunda, offers temporary exhibits and art shows. There will be tours of both the house and the gallery, with lunch at Maud’s Tavern in between.

Discussion Group Returns

Kendal’s Discussion Group Returns After Labor Day.

Kendal’s Thursday Morning Contemporary Issues Discussion Group (CIDG) returns on Zoom on September 8 after a two-week “vacation”.

On the 8th, former National Public Radio Germany correspondent and former American Jewish Committee Berlin Director Deidre Berger will be CIDG’s Lead Discussant for an hour session which starts at 10:00 am. Ms. Berger will address “Europe at a Crossroads”.

All Residents are invited to join. If you have not previously participated, you’re invited to contact Eugene DuBow who will see that you receive a Zoom invitation. It will be coming to you on Thursday morning at 9:30 am. The serious discussion begins at 10:00 am.