Events

@ Columbia County Fairgrounds

Detailed Times/Hours: Open Daily 10a-5p

Arts/ crafts booths for shopping, 26 wine, spirits, cider booths for tasting/sampling and shopping, food trucks, live music, magic show, craft demos, apple orchard, cider donuts.

@ Olana State Historic Site

Detailed Times/Hours: Landscape FREE and open to all Tuesday - Sunday 8:00am to sunset Tours: 1:00 PM – 6:30 PM Frederic Church Center: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM Olana Shop: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Enjoy a full day of free activities including guided landscape tours, historic house access, live music, performance art, and family-friendly fishing fun: Free Landscape Tours & House Access: 1:00–6:30 PM — First-come, first-served. Explore Olana’s historic grounds and house. Check in at the Frederic Church Center. Fall Fishing with the Sloop Club: 3:00–5:00 PM — Family drop-in program at the Farm Complex/Wagon House Education Center. Tunes with a View: Andes Manta: 5:00–6:15 PM — Live South American music and dance outside the historic house. Camphill Hudson Players Performance: 6:00–7:00 PM — Inclusive theater performance at the Frederic Church Center. No reservations required. More info: (518) 751-0344 | ✉️ tickets@olana.org | education@olana.org Visit olana.org/thirdthursdays for details.

@ Olana State Historic Site

Detailed Times/Hours: Saturday, September 27, 1:00-5:00pm

Gardens, Galleries & Goldenrod: Botanical Drawing with Wendy Hollender Saturday, September 27, 1:00-5:00pm Explore Olana’s landscape in bloom and join famed botanical artist Wendy Hollender for an afternoon drawing workshop. Explore Frederic Church’s designed landscape at Olana State Historic Site and use pencil and watercolor pencils to create realistic drawings of the flora growing in late September. During the class, participants will learn more about botanical illustration, the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, and draw inspiration from the botanical drawings of Church’s daughter Isabel “Downie” Church. $30/$15 members. Wendy Hollender is a botanical artist, illustrator, instructor, and author whose internationally-recognized career has spanned decades. She is a leading expert in using colored pencils and watercolor pencils to create detailed botanical drawings and paintings. This program is part of a day of joint programming between The Olana Partnership and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in connection with EMILY COLE: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses on view at the Thomas Cole Site through November 2. Start your day exploring the exhibition and Emily Cole by purchasing tickets for a special exhibition tour at olana.org