Events

@ Meet in parking lot of Confetti Restaurant

We will meet in the parking lot behind Confetti's Restaurant on Ash Street. Richard Esnard of the Piermont Historical Society will lead an historic walking tour --first through early 19th century Bogertown [on Paradise Avenue] and then onto Piermont's pier. Enjoy the exceptional views while learning of the impact the pier had on the village and during WWII. Return to the parking area via Flywheel Park.

@ Piermont Station

Visitors can hike along the scenic Erie Path to the station at 50 Ash Street and learn about Piermont's unique and diverse history significant for its longest railroad in the world in 1851 that ran from Piermont to Lake Erie (hence Erie RR) and its role in the American Revolution and WWII. Open from noon to 3PM. Parking is available on site.

@ Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site

Presented by Della and Alan Wells of the Rockland Audubon Society. These experts will lead a walk through the diverse bird habitats found at Stony Point Battlefield in search of neo-tropical birds on their fall migration. First time birders are welcome, and experienced birders will enjoy exploring the location of a wonderfully accessible birders paradise. Bring binoculars, or borrow an extra pair from the group

@ Iona Island

Paddle through this marshy maze with Reserve naturalists. Nestled in the Hudson Highlands adjacent to Bear Mountain State park, this wetland features flowering marsh plants, sunning snapping turtles, and soaring vultures.

@ Harmony Hall ~ Jacob Sloat House

Banjo Great Tony Trischka headlines the 8th Annual Highlands Bluegrass Festival. We are excited to have this Bluegrass master at the 2017 festival Also appearing this year are the very entertaining Mama Tried Bluegrass Band from the hudson Valley and other musicians. All on the beautiful Ramapo River Valley setting on the Great Lawn of Jacob Sloat's 1848 mansion, Harmony Hall, a National Register of Historic Places Site in Sloatsburg, New York. Harriman and Sterling Forest State Parks are nearby in the surrounding ancient, scenic Ramapo Mountains.

@ The Stephen & Betsy Corman AMC Harriman Outdoor Center

Join Douglas Arion, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Carthage College and President of Galileoscope, and Ron Phelps, AMC volunteer leader, for an exploration of Astronomy, our Galaxy and the Universe beyond at AMC Harriman Outdoor Center (HOC). This is a great opportunity to enjoy the night sky away from the lights of New York City. We will enjoy sky observing, presentations, and activities designed to connect each of us to the greater Universe, and better understand how we fit into the "big picture". This event is part of the Mountains of Stars astronomy program, a partnership between Carthage and AMC. Our viewing schedule will be weather dependent. When skies are clear, we'll have telescopes for observing solar activity during the day. At night, we'll observe objects ranging from within our solar system to beyond our galaxy. Hikes will also be scheduled on nearby trails in Harriman State Park. Optionally, participants can select other activities at HOC including paddling, swimming in Breakneck Pond, or just relaxing around camp.

@ Bear Mountain Summit Loop, Perkins Memorial, Bear Mountain State Park

This mile long hike follows a newly-built section of the Appalachian Trail. The first third of a mile is designed to be handicapped-accessible, thus permitting all users to enjoy a beautiful section of this trail. The hike is considered easy and can be enjoyed by hikers of all ages. Hikers will walk over rocky terrain and will ultimately reach spectacular viewpoints over the Hudson River and beyond. This circular hike will last approximately one hour.

@ Perkins Memorial Observatory

The Megalithic Trail Crew is working on the award-winning relocation and restoration effort of the Appalachian Trail in Bear Mountain State Park. If you enjoy working outdoors and have a thirst for knowledge, the Megalithic crews would love to meet you. There are plenty of opportunities for you to get out there and have some fun on the trail with us! Work trips are led by Trail Conference's on-staff field managers and Conservation Corps members.

@ Bus leaves from Fireside Steak Pub

The Historical Society of Rockland County invites you to join us on a daytrip to visit Historic Cemeteries in the Town of Stony Point We will tour by luxury motorcoach several historic cemeteries, including First United Methodist Church; Casscles; Mount Olivet; Waldron; Rose Family; Old Rose, and more. Trip includes bus transportation, guided tours, and lunch.

@ Meet in parking lot behind Confetti restaurant

Richard Esnard of the Piermont Historical Society will lead a walk to the birth place of Piermont. Walk along the Sparkill Creek where you will see the Rockland Road Bridge and Peirmont's Reformed Church, both on the National Register of Historic Places.

@ Piermont, NY

Piermont Straus Foundation invites artists free of charge to join us for a one-day community art event. Artists will show their work, sell their work, and create work on site. Included in the event will be teaching workshops and hands-on workshops for all ages. Artists must apply in advance by completing the form on our web site www.psfdn.org. Applications to participate are due on or before Saturday, September 9, 2017.

@ Edward Hopper House Art Center

Born and raised in Nyack, Hopper said that "in every artist's development the gem of the later work is always found in the earlier. What he once was, he always is." See Nyack through his eyes. This tour highlights the influence of light, water and architecture.

@ The Stephen & Betsy AMC Harriman Outdoor Center

Rejuvenate your soul and refresh your body at our new Corman AMC Harriman Outdoor Center. In the mornings and evenings, experience Yoga and Qi Gong movement, breathing and awareness exercises on the deck beside Breakneck Pond. Hone your senses in and around nature while relaxing and strengthening your muscles. There will be plenty of time to hike, swim, or simply relax. We will stay in Storm King Cabin or Blackrock tent platforms for two nights and eat meals in the Dining Hall. BYO lunch, adult beverages and Social Hour snacks to share. Bring sheets and pillow case or sleeping bag, towels, yoga/hiking/swimming/paddling gear, sunscreen, bug spray, headlamp, hat, water bottle, and personal toiletries. Bring usual camping gear if tenting. Check-in time is Friday at 3 pm. Plan to arrive by 6 pm for dinner. Check-out time is Sunday at 11 am, although you are welcome to enjoy the camp until 3 pm. Space is limited to 14 cabin guests and 8 tenting guests, so register early. Registration deadline is September 5, 2017. This program is led by volunteer leaders. Paddling and yoga equipment is provided free of charge courtesy of the AMC NY-NoJ Chapter. Personal canoes & kayaks are allowed at the camp; no permit is required.

@ Appalachian Trail - Harriman State Park

Join the Long Distance Trails Crew of the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference on the Appalachian Trail (AT) at Harriman State Park, NY. We will be working on trail rehabilitation or relocation of an original section of the AT on West Mountain or Black Mountain. Learn how to build sustainable trails including how to move large rocks, bench cut trails, and build stone steps and crib walls. Much of the work will involve using heavy hand tools and some rigging with a high line (overhead cable) to move heavy rocks. There will also be lighter duty work but all involves moderate to strenuous physical labor. The work-sites are about a mile from the parking area and road and there will be very little carrying of equipment to the site. No experience is necessary; the crew provides the necessary equipment, training, and camaraderie for a fun and rewarding day where you will be able to immediately see the results of your efforts. All you need to provide is lunch and water, gloves, a smile, and a desire to work hard and safely in the great outdoors.

@ Rockland Lake State Park - Parking Field 1

For this year’s Supervisor’s walk join Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann for a very special history walk of Rockland Lake with Robert Maher, President and Founder of The Friends of Rockland Lake and Hook Mountain, Inc. and the author of Rockland Lake, Hook Mountain and Nyack Beach, Acadia Publishing. Rob will lead a three hour walking tour of the ice house foundations, center of the old town of Rockland Lake and will lead us to the banks of the Hudson River where barges and paddlewheel steam ships once left to travel to NYC. The tour will include historical facts and folklore as the group explores one of Clarkstown’s former major hamlets.

@ Tallman Mountain State Park

We will hike through the historical Tallman Mountain State Park and learn its interesting history as a former oil tank farm. Then it’s out the Piermont Pier to follow in the footsteps of the 40,000 US Troops per month who marched to the waiting ships to transport them to the Atlantic Theatre during WWII. Finally, we will learn of the historic transformation of Piermont, NY from a blue collar factory town to its present day status.

@ The DeWint House/Washington's Headquarters

Step back in time and visit Colonial America. Tour the Carriage House Museum and the DeWint House with costumed guides. See Colonial Army reenactors, encampment soldiers, live farm animals and preparations for winter in the DeWint House kitchen. Watch spinners, lacemakers, quilters, embroiderers, woodcarvers, a sheepshearer, blacksmith and colonial singers and dancers. For the children there is apple pressing, stenciling, candle dipping, writing with quill pens, making tussie mussies, juggling and making a mob cap. Refreshments available.

@ Rockland Center for the Arts

On View in the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park Dates: May 21, 2017 – April 30, 2018 Opening Reception, Sunday May 21 from 12:00-5:00pm Rockland Center for the Arts, in partnership with Collaborative Concepts, have sited sculptures by 15 regional artists on RoCA's new nature trails, just off the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park. Inspired by the natural habitat of the lower Hudson Valley, the sculptors pay homage to the creative spirit that lives right here in Rockland. Artists address ideas of light, organics, recycling and sustainability through these sculptures. These trails help you reconnect with nature and relieve the ‘nature deficit disorder’ so prevalent today. Perfectly placed sculptures, visible through and around the natural habitat brings a fresh enchantment to these trails. A glimpse of an art piece beckons the visitor to meander slowly through the paths and observe the intricacies of each exceptional work displayed within the landscape. Sarah Haviland’s large metal bird, Spirit of Place, glistens through the trail while Michael Natiello’s,Red Neck Gong, reminds us of the solitude and tranquility in nature. Denis Folz’s Nailed It sculpture brings a sense of humor and JoAnn Brody’s female Totems/Bones gives a tribal feeling to the trails. The sculpture trail connects to the Palisades Park. It is our hope that this tourist destination will have an emotional connection for visitors with nature, the art and inspire all to spend more time outdoors in the Hudson Valley and Rockland. Opening reception events on May 21 include: artist talks, tours of the exhibition which starts at 12:00 noon and is FREE, and a drop-in Wood Sculpture Workshop for Families from 2:00-5:00pm ($10 per person). The exhibits will be on view May 21, 2017 – April 30, 2018, free and open to the public from dawn to dusk. Rockland Center for the Arts is located at 27 S. Greenbush Rd., West Nyack, NY. Gallery hours are: Mon-Fri 10-4 pm; Sat and Sun 1-4 pm. For more information visit www.rocklandartcenter.org or call 845-358-0877. RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from Rockland County Tourism, the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

@ 27 South Greenbush Rd., West Nyack, NY

Opening event: September 23, 2017 2-5 PM at RoCA Jacques Jarrige has created a site-specific work for RoCA’s outdoor sculpture garden to be on display from September 23, 2017 until June 30, 2018. Entitled CURVES #1 the main piece evokes the surface of a frozen wave captured in hand wrought aluminum placed in a naturally formed apse of three trees – a sculptural expression of energy flow, light and nature. Two additional hand hammered aluminum sculptures incorporating the kinetics of wind and sound vibration, CURVES #2 & #3 will be installed in the nature trail. Jacques Jarrige’s work over the last thirty years has always focused on the dialogue around the relation of person and objects. In all of his endeavors from sculpture, to design and fabrication of objects for the home, to independent artistic interventions; he has sought to find a balance between disparate qualities of artist, viewer, and object. In each medium, a sensual, often hesitant line strives to embrace an elusive volume. The tension between minimal solid shapes and expansive open space is at the heart of his three-dimensional expressive drawings in which he feels it is the medium that dictates his every move. At the end with the artist’s process retained in the object he invites the viewer to freely continue the dialogue. Saturday, Sept. 23rd, 2-5 pm, Rockland Center for the Arts, (27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack) will have an opening reception of Sculptures by Jacques Jarrige in the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park and in our Nature Trail. Free to the public. For more information contact: Rockland Center for the Arts, 845-358-0877, info@rocklandartcenter.org. Rockland Center for the Arts is located at 27 S Greenbush Rd., West Nyack, NY 10994.

@ Emeline Park - 16 Front St. Haverstraw

The 4th annual Haverstraw RiverArts & Music Festival kicks off 9/24 from 11-5-pm in the Village of Haverstraw's scenic Hudson River front park. The day's festivities include 4 live bands, Live Art event, Community Tile Project #3, schooner Pioneer rides, kite making event, craft vendors, food trucks and beer garden at Catch on the Hudson waterfront restaurant. Admission is free. Schooner tickets will be on sale in August 2017.

@ Corner of Main St. and River St.

Trace Nyack's growth from a small river village to a major commercial and manufacturing center during the Gilded Age when Nyack was called the "Gem of the Hudson" See many of the same buildings that were present at the turn-of-the-century when Nyack was the center of Rockland.

@ The Stephen & Betsy Corman AMC Harriman Outdoor Center

Wonder what we do in the AMC? Come meet other outdoor enthusiasts and learn more about us! This weekend is primarily designed for new members and prospective members, but everyone is welcome. We have planned many activities, including hiking, canoeing and kayaking, swimming and Social Hour. No experience necessary. Just bring your sense of humor and be ready to share lots of laugh! You have a choice of bunking in Storm King Cabin or tenting on Blackrock Tent Platforms for two nights. We'll all eat meals together in the Dining Hall. BYO adult beverages, Social Hour snacks to share, and lunches. Bring sheets and pillow case or sleeping bag, towels, yoga/hiking/swimming/paddling gear, sunscreen, bug spray, headlamp and personal toiletries. If tenting, bring your usual camping gear. Check-in time is Friday at 3 pm. Plan to arrive by 6 pm for dinner. Check-out time is Sunday at 11 am, although you are welcome to enjoy the camp until 3 pm. Camp is accessible by public transportation.

@ The Stephen & Betsy Corman AMC Harriman Outdoor Center

Wilderness First Aid (WFA) training prepares you for the medical situation when there is no ambulance, no roof or walls to provide shelter from the elements, your supplies are few, the wait for help is unknown, and moving the patient a short distance might take hours. The course is based on modern emergency medical care practices modified and expanded for backcountry environments and focuses on patient care and prevention. The ESCI Wilderness First Aid course is an intense yet fun journey through the world of wilderness emergency care and is recommended for all outdoors people. It is a 2-day, 16-hour course (8 hours/day, 9am to 5pm). It covers a full range of situations, wilderness medical care, accident scene management, and how to communicate effectively with the outside world. A 2-year Wilderness First Aid certification available to those who successfully complete this course. There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is recommended that participants take a separate Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) course. Friday night arrival is strongly recommended since course starts promptly on Saturday at 9 am.