Spring Tea and Tour at Lyndhurst will be offered on May 9 and 10.
The event will begin with a tour of Lyndhurst Mansion with a visit to approximately 16 rooms and involves climbing one staircase with 25 steps. Guests will then adjourn to the carriage room of the Welcome Center where they’ll enjoy a short program, led by Bridget Bray, owner of Puddings and Biscakes teas, exploring the art of correspondence in the Victorian and Gilded Age, including handwritten letters, calling cards, formal invitations, and the objects and customs that supported these exchanges. A mini afternoon tea service will feature small tea sandwiches, scones, and a Victorian sponge. Seating will be community-style, but guests who book together will be seated together. (Please note the Community Plant Sale at Lyndhurst is also on May 9.)
Beginning on May 12, you can unwind and restore in the serene setting of Caramoor’s Sunken Garden with a special yoga series designed to nurture both body and mind. Each session offers a gentle, mindful practice led by an experienced instructor, with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and presence. The atmosphere of the Sunken Garden offers a uniquely calming environment, inviting participants to slow down and reconnect. If yoga is not your thing, you can still enjoy Caramoor with their afternoon tea program: one of the English traditions Lucie Rosen, founder of Caramoor, enjoyed during her time living in England in the early 1910s. She kept up the practice of inviting friends and guests to tea for many years, using the time for conversation and for planning concerts and other social events.
Trees cannot move, so we often assume that they are passive participants in the world. Join tree consultant and author Harriet Rix as she reveals fascinating aspects of trees; the ways they shape the abiotic elements of water and air, how they’ve evolved to use fire as a tool, and how they minutely manipulate the organisms which depend on them—modeling and remodeling plants and using animals (including humans) to move. The talk is on May 14 at the New York Botanical Garden.
Set in the Irish midlands, where the weather is damp, the tea is strong, and no one says what they mean until it’s nearly too late, John Patrick Shanley’s play Outside Mullingar is a comedy of missed chances, long silences, and absolutely magnificent stubbornness. It is—plainly—a riot. Show dates at The Schoolhouse Theater run from May 15 through 31. Tickets can be purchased by going to this link.
Running from May 23 through June 27 at the Library at Historic Hudson Valley, An Audience With Poe has professional storytellers bringing to life the “powerful graphic effect” that Washington Irving once praised in Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, with haunting renditions of The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Masque of the Red Death. The tales with complimentary cocktails or mocktails designed to capture the spirit of the stories. The evening begins in the Library, where visitors enjoy their first drink while standing among the shelves, listening to a creepy tale. From there, the experience deepens in an intimate theater setting, with three more of Poe’s dark masterpieces performed in turn, as those gathered sip drinks and enjoy small treats—indulgences to savor in the night’s shadows.
The Scarsdale Adult School’s walking tour Edith Wharton’s New York will be offered on June 1. Did you know she was born in 1862, at 14 West 23rd Street in a building that still stands? She grew up right across the street from the bustling Fifth Avenue Hotel (on the site of Eataly), played in Madison Square, attended Calvary Church (Park Avenue South and 20th Street) where the pastor’s daughter was her best friend, wrote her first stories and poems, and married Edward Robbins Wharton at Trinity Chapel on 25th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Even after she moved out of the neighborhood as an adult, she returned in person, to visit her publisher, Scribner, on Fifth Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets, and in spirit, using the neighborhood as the setting for some of her most successful works of fiction, including the novel The Age of Innocence. Before the tour, please try to read New Year’s Day, a wonderful novella contained in the tetralogy Old New York, published in 1924 to help you to imagine the neighborhood in the time of Edith’s girlhood.
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Spring Tea and Tour at Lyndhurst will be offered on May 9 and 10.
The event will begin with a tour of Lyndhurst Mansion with a visit to approximately 16 rooms and involves climbing one staircase with 25 steps. Guests will then adjourn to the carriage room of the Welcome Center where they’ll enjoy a short program, led by Bridget Bray, owner of Puddings and Biscakes teas, exploring the art of correspondence in the Victorian and Gilded Age, including handwritten letters, calling cards, formal invitations, and the objects and customs that supported these exchanges. A mini afternoon tea service will feature small tea sandwiches, scones, and a Victorian sponge. Seating will be community-style, but guests who book together will be seated together. (Please note the Community Plant Sale at Lyndhurst is also on May 9.)
Beginning on May 12, you can unwind and restore in the serene setting of Caramoor’s Sunken Garden with a special yoga series designed to nurture both body and mind. Each session offers a gentle, mindful practice led by an experienced instructor, with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and presence. The atmosphere of the Sunken Garden offers a uniquely calming environment, inviting participants to slow down and reconnect. If yoga is not your thing, you can still enjoy Caramoor with their afternoon tea program: one of the English traditions Lucie Rosen, founder of Caramoor, enjoyed during her time living in England in the early 1910s. She kept up the practice of inviting friends and guests to tea for many years, using the time for conversation and for planning concerts and other social events.
Trees cannot move, so we often assume that they are passive participants in the world. Join tree consultant and author Harriet Rix as she reveals fascinating aspects of trees; the ways they shape the abiotic elements of water and air, how they’ve evolved to use fire as a tool, and how they minutely manipulate the organisms which depend on them—modeling and remodeling plants and using animals (including humans) to move. The talk is on May 14 at the New York Botanical Garden.
Set in the Irish midlands, where the weather is damp, the tea is strong, and no one says what they mean until it’s nearly too late, John Patrick Shanley’s play Outside Mullingar is a comedy of missed chances, long silences, and absolutely magnificent stubbornness. It is—plainly—a riot. Show dates at The Schoolhouse Theater run from May 15 through 31. Tickets can be purchased by going to this link.
Running from May 23 through June 27 at the Library at Historic Hudson Valley, An Audience With Poe has professional storytellers bringing to life the “powerful graphic effect” that Washington Irving once praised in Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, with haunting renditions of The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Masque of the Red Death. The tales with complimentary cocktails or mocktails designed to capture the spirit of the stories. The evening begins in the Library, where visitors enjoy their first drink while standing among the shelves, listening to a creepy tale. From there, the experience deepens in an intimate theater setting, with three more of Poe’s dark masterpieces performed in turn, as those gathered sip drinks and enjoy small treats—indulgences to savor in the night’s shadows.
The Scarsdale Adult School’s walking tour Edith Wharton’s New York will be offered on June 1. Did you know she was born in 1862, at 14 West 23rd Street in a building that still stands? She grew up right across the street from the bustling Fifth Avenue Hotel (on the site of Eataly), played in Madison Square, attended Calvary Church (Park Avenue South and 20th Street) where the pastor’s daughter was her best friend, wrote her first stories and poems, and married Edward Robbins Wharton at Trinity Chapel on 25th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Even after she moved out of the neighborhood as an adult, she returned in person, to visit her publisher, Scribner, on Fifth Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets, and in spirit, using the neighborhood as the setting for some of her most successful works of fiction, including the novel The Age of Innocence. Before the tour, please try to read New Year’s Day, a wonderful novella contained in the tetralogy Old New York, published in 1924 to help you to imagine the neighborhood in the time of Edith’s girlhood.