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ARTS, CULTURE & RECREATION
COUNTLESS WAYS TO SPEND YOUR DAYS — AND NIGHTS
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The Arts
Westchester is home to enough top- notch performing arts centers and muse- ums that you can easily skip the trip to the City to get your culture fix. In Peekskill, you’ll find Hudson Valley MOCA, which presents challenging contemporary art exhibitions and programs. In Purchase, the Neuberger Museum of Art has more than 6,000 works of art, with constantly changing exhibits, and Clay Art Center in Port Chester is a nationally recognized non-profit ceramic arts center.
Overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers boasts many Hudson River School artists in its collection, as well as a state-of-the-art planetarium. The Katonah Museum of Art has wonderful offerings for kids as well as exhibitions that explore ideas about art, culture, and society. Also great for kids is the Westchester Children’s Museum, an in- teractive discovery and play space which offers STEAM-oriented programming and an art gallery. The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie is another favorite arts space for the lit-
tle ones, with a focus on early learning, science, literacy, math, art, music, and community exhibits and activities.
At the 500-acre Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, visitors can view more than 100 unique sculptures, while Vassar College in Poughkeepsie boasts the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center with more than 21,000 works from antiquity to the 21st century.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah is a prime destination for live performances of multiple genres, including classical, jazz, and opera. Westchester Broadway Theatre (WBT) in Elmsford is the longest-running year- round professional theater in the state. Nationally acclaimed performers take their bows at other local venues, too, includ- ing Tarrytown Music Hall, White Plains Performing Arts Center, The Capitol Theatre, the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, and West Point’s 4,000-capac- ity Eisenhower Hall Theatre.
The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College is home to the Westchester Philharmonic and also hosts many other music, dance, and performing arts acts year-round. And Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, on
the former Reader’s Digest campus, is a new addition to the county’s entertain- ment scene, providing diverse arts and cultural programming.
A classical evening awaits in Newburgh, with a powerful performance by the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. In Middletown, the Historic Paramount Theatre is a spot for both live perfor- mances and movie screenings, while the oldest continuously operating theater in the state, Bardavon, in Poughkeepsie, of- fers affordable arts education programs, music, dance, theater, and classic films.
Historic Estates
Rich history abounds in Westchester and the Hudson Valley, home to estates of former presidents and centuries- old mansions. The John Jay Homestead State Historic Site in Katonah and The Jay Heritage Center in Rye honor this Founding Father and first chief justice of the Supreme Court. In Sleepy Hollow, ex- plore Historic Hudson Valley venues like Kykuit, the art-filled Rockefeller Estate; Sunnyside, Washington Irving’s home; and Philipsburg Manor, a 17th century site that tells the story of slavery in the colo- nial north.
In northern Dutchess County, jour- ney through the Vanderbilt Mansion, the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Val-Kill (Eleanor Roosevelt’s “modest house”), and Staatsburgh State Historic Site.
Annual Events
Summer is the time for music in Westchester. The Caramoor Summer Festival goes from mid-June to late July and fills the Caramoor Center for
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