A new Trip organized by the Trips Committee will take place on Wed., May 10.
Residents will visit the Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers. Designed in 1916 for Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy lawyer, the gardens were among the best in America in the 1920’s and 1930’s but were mainly in ruins by the 21st century.
The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy has been restoring the gardens to their former glory, which is a work in progress that will take years and millions of dollars. The trip will focus on the Walled Garden, based on Indo-Persian gardens of antiquity with lush plants and flowers, a Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge, recently restored canals, Grecian-style architecture, sculpture and mosaics including a Temple of the Sky and an amphitheater.
In addition there are short wait lists for the Wed. Apr. 10 trip to NYC (Do Your Own Thing) and the Apr. 24 trip to the NY Public Library, also in NYC.
Sign-up for all trips is in the Trips Book located in the Activities Alcove.