The Trips Committee has announced a new trip. This one will be on Wednesday, August 4, to the Bruce Museum, Greenwich.
Two exhibitions featuring the Amazon Rainforest: “Beauty; Destruction, Hope,” a three-part interplay among live animals, scientists, and photographers as they record a sprawling ecosystem on the verge of collapse and the efforts made by Amazon communities to find ways that the rainforest and humanity can prosper in cooperation with the outside world.
Also featured is “Chain Reaction: The Photography of Patrick Nagatani,” a Japanese- American, who created the Nuclear Enchantment series of 40 multilayered, unsettling photographs of the complex issue of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Other Trips with Wait List Availability are as follows:
Wednesday, July 21: Stonecrop Gardens, Cold Spring, known for its diversity of plants and flowers.
Wednesday, July 28: Jasper Cropsey Home and Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson: a charming home and art gallery of the Hudson River School artist (1823-1900).
Wednesday, August 4: Hudson River Cruise on the 130-passenger Pride of the Hudson from Newburgh through the Hudson Highlands.
Signing Up for Trips
After 16 months of no trips during the pandemic, trips usually fill in less than a week. The van’s capacity is 12 persons. Sign-up sheets are usually put in the Trips Book on Fridays to coincide with the announcement of new trips in Spotlight. People do cancel, so signing up for the waitlist is effective as long as you keep the day open.