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JAY HERITAGE CENTER at the JAY ESTATE
A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
October 2016 Newsletter
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But first meet our newest friends and catch up with fellow members...
Saturday, September 24th
4pm to 6pm at the Jay Mansion
JHC Members Are Invited to the Annual Meeting,
Cocktail Reception and Preview of
"Shorelines & Greenscapes"
with Special Guest
Aerial Photographer Alex MacLean
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Alex MacLean
is an internationally acclaimed fine art aerial photographer, whose work is widely collected. His photos portray the history and evolution of the land, from vast agricultural patterns to city grids. These new images capture the Rye and Greenwich shorelines as never before framed by the equally powerful and fragile beauty of Long Island Sound.
Find out what's happening with ongoing landscape and restoration projects. Help us welcome new Board Trustees Nikolaas Henket and Cathy Rosenstock. Explore ways to volunteer and have impact. Reconnect with friends and meet new members at this festive gathering of JHC partners and supporters!
PS September is a great time to renew or start your membership!!
Exhibit is FREE and open to the Public starting Sunday, September 25th from 11am - 3pm; then Sundays 2 - 5pm; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am - 4pm thru October 30th.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
11am - 3pm RAIN or SHINE
$40 per family (including grandparents & caregivers);
$15 per person
FREE PARKING AT WHITBY CASTLE/RYE GOLF CLUB
Admission includes all activities.
Food and beverages available for purchase
This popular community celebration grows bigger every year and this fall is no exception!
  Children's author and artist Hervé Tullet joins us to conduct one of his famous art workshops. Tullet is the kaleidoscopic mind behind the bestselling books Let's Play, Mix it Up and Press Here. Often called "The Prince of Pre-School Books," his books are interactive and inspire young people to think freely and generate their own pure responses to words and emotions. His sold out art workshops have been held at the MOMA, the Brooklyn Library and the New York Public Library. These fun, high energy happenings with hundreds of participants immerse families in the creative process and teach them a vocabulary of color and pure joy! Using music and lively prompts to guide his young audience, Tullet encourages children to express themselves with confidence. We have paintbrushes and supplies for 400 children and their families! Help us create a beautiful mural that imagines all the colors that the flowers in our new public gardens and meadow will bring to Rye!
Isabel Hill is an architectural historian, documentary maker and children's author. Buildings are like books with stories that last if you know how to look for the clues. Hill trains young eyes to uncover the narratives in their neighborhoods. Her books Building Stories and Urban Animals contain rich collections of photographs and facts, all told in rhyming verse to delight early readers. Using a wide range of familiar images - marble cows decorating a dairy plant or carved stone books adorning a library - she encourages children to look more closely at the design of the amazing buildings all around them.
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Jay Day showcases American heritage, tastes and traditions. There will be live music by singer and songwriter Julie Corbalis, children's entertainer Graham Clarke, historic tours of the 1838 Jay Mansion, a fencing demonstration in the meadow by New Amsterdam Fencing and archaeology with Eugene Boesch. Snap photos of your child's first pony ride or visit our petting zoo. Purchase fresh, tasty offerings from The Melt-Mobile or Jimmy's Soft Serve Ice Cream. Savor salty and sweet nibbles from vendors at our Farmers Market including Pickle Licious and Strudel Z . Treat the kids to face painting, balloon twisting, pumpkin decorating and more. Purchase antique maps from local shops like Circle 7 Framing. All proceeds benefit our educational programs throughout the year.
The event is organized by JHC's Preservationists, parents committed to the adaptive reuse of John Jay's home as a 23 acre community classroom. Special thanks to Jay Day Co-Chairs Puja Chandiramani, Meghann Kelly and Kelly Bakshi!
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 THANK YOU TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND NEW PARTNERS THIS YEAR! Show your green and white Jay Day wristband at Rye Golf Club's Whitby Castle Terrace Restaurant and receive 15% off your lunch bill on Jay Day! |
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OCTOBER PROGRAMS - REGISTER ONLINE TODAY!
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Learn how to identify and manage non-native plants without the use of pesticides. Help protect the rich biodiversity of wildlife that rely on native species through education and early detection. Invasive terrestrial plants often spread rapidly, outcompeting native flora and creating hard to remove monocultures. They can be responsible for habitat degradation and loss, loss of native fish, wildlife and tree species,loss of recreational opportunities and diseases in humans.
Master Gardener Ann Barry will show private landowners how to identify and control the most frequently encountered invasive species including Japanese barberry, Norway maple, Oriental bittersweet, mile-a-minute, multiflora rose, garlic mustard, burning bush, black swallowwort, Japanese stiltgrass, wineberry, purple loosestrife and Japanese angelica tree.
This program is the result of a Best Management Practices (BMP) collaboration between the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Rockland County and Hudsonia together with the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (LHPRISM). Co-Sponsors of the event include the
Jay Heritage Center, Rye Sustainability Committee, Rye Garden Club and the
Little Garden Club of Rye.
The program is FREE and open to the public. The talk will be followed by a walk and viewing of live specimens.
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TICKETS ON SALE NOW
"Most Blessed
of the Patriarchs"
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Saturday, October 22nd
at 6:00pm
Book Signing & Talk by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
"They neither indict nor absolve Jefferson; instead, they aim to make sense of his contradictions for modern sensibilities...
A fascinating addition to the Jefferson canon."
- Publishers Weekly
General Admission $15 JHC Members $10
Students (with ID) FREE Limited availability of tickets.
 
Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure - a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people - including his own family - in bondage, Jefferson is variably described as a hypocrite, an atheist, or a simple-minded proponent of limited government who expected all Americans to be farmers forever. Professors Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf discuss the many shifting "selves" of Jefferson: father, husband, slave owner, diplomat, politician, and cosmopolitan. Join us for this spirited evening of history and discourse.
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, and a Professor of History at Harvard University. Ms. Gordon-Reed received the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2009). She is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1998) and Andrew Johnson (2011).
Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia and a Senior Research fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies (Monticello). His earlier work on Jefferson includes Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001) and The Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2007). He was Harmsworth Professor at the University of Oxford from 2008-2009. He is co-host of public radio's BackStory with the American History Guys and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
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Jay Heritage Center at the Jay Estate
210 Boston Post Road, Rye, NY 10580
or call 914.698.9275
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JAY DAY is this weekend! 
Scroll down for more info and advance ticket sales...
