All A-Blaze for the Season
It’s October, which—if you live in Sleepy Hollow—you know is the Spooky Season on steroids. A major part of the Halloween Season is Van Cortlandt Manor’s “The Great Jack O’Landtern Blaze,” a breathtaking display of more than 7,000 illuminated jack o’ lanterns—all designed and hand-carved on site by a team of artisans. Complete with synchronized lighting and an original soundtrack.
Lisa Rosenbloom experienced The Blaze recently, and sent a few pictures along . . .
It’s a Puzzlement
All Kendal houses have puzzle tables. Two of the most active are in Clermont and Robert Fulton. Meanwhile, back at the ranch (or restoration) of Historic Hudson Valley’s headquarters (our own Philipseburg Manor) a hoard of puzzles arrived in the business/ docent office. Seems a trustee’s father was an avid puzzler and had left dozens of often new, never used puzzles. And they were mounting up and up and up. Barbara Williams serves as a docent for Historic Hudson Valley and alerted puzzlers Carlisle Spivey, Peter Sibley (Clermont), and Joe Bruno (Fulton) about the availability—free, the only thing to do was haul them away. And haul they did. In boxes and bags. Twice. Alida and Mary Powell puzzlers: need a new puzzle? As the old saying goes: Come on down!
Photo by Joe Bruno