The Trips Committee keeps moving forward. There are new trips on the horizon.
On Wednesday July 7 a trip is planned to visit Wave Hill in the Bronx, overlooking the Hudson River in Riverdale and known for its carefully cultivated gardens. You can explore the gardens on a guided tour of this museum without walls, a living collection of more than 4,000 trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants. Arturo Toscanini, Samuel Clemens and Theodore Roosevelt all lived there. Bring a picnic lunch.
SHORT WAIT LISTS
The June trips announced last week are filled. If you want to go, join the short wait lists and don’t make any other plans that day.
On Wednesday June 16 a group will visit Untermyer Gardens, Yonkers. It also overlooks the Hudson, the celebrated gardens peaked in the 1920s-1930s but after Samuel Untermyer died, they declined. Since the Untermyer Garden Conservancy formed in 2011, the gardens keep getting better with new plantings and restoration of the classical features. The trip will focus on the walled Persian garden.
On Wednesday June 23 another group will visit the Katonah Museum of Art. Exhibitions being shown through June 27 include “Still/Live,” a reimagining by contemporary artists in photography, video and new media of the centuries-old still life; two masterpieces by Mark Rothko in an on-going series, and Beatrice Scaccia: My Hope Chest. Outside is sculpture by Michele Oka Doner and Ronald Bladen.
Wednesday June 30 Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase. Current exhibitions feature “Color and Motion, Ideas and Dreams,” the creativeness of contemporary Caribbean, Latin and South artists from the 1960s onward; and “Then and Now, Modern and Contemporary Selections” and “African Art and Culture” from the permanent collections.
NOTES:
Restrictions due to the pandemic are changing fast but do carry a mask and your vaccination card on all trips. Whether you wear a mask on the Kendal van is up to you. At Wave Hill, for instance, you must wear a mask entering and departing the property and inside any building but vaccinated visitors are not required to wear masks outside as long as they socially distance.
Sign-up sheets are in the Trips Book on the counter in the Activities Alcove, which is across from the Computer Room entrance and near the Formal Dining Room on the first floor of Mary Powell.