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Playland Amusement Park
There’s no thrill like the heart- stopping plunge from the top of
an old-fashioned roller coaster
— 128 feet down in seconds on Playland’s famed Dragon. It’s one
of seven original rides dating
back to the 1928 opening of this Art Deco landmark. Bet you’ve never seen a Derby Racer — there are only two originals left in the U.S., with “steeds” that “gallop” a steeplechase course at 25 miles
per hour. Don’t miss the carousel with hand-carved wooden horses, a water-soaked log flume, Kiddyland, concerts, the lakeside picnic area, indoor ice rink and sandy beaches. The historic amusement park offers a timeless experience for visitors. After all – fun never gets old!
Stone Barns Center
for Food and Agriculture
Learn the lay of the land with a tour of this working farm, dedicated to self-renewing agriculture. Meet sheep, collect eggs and get your hands dirty with a host of chores that will teach you — and your kids — how farmers provide our food. There’s story time for the young’uns and classes on topics like the art of pesto-making for adults. Stop at the farm store for everything from cast iron
skillets to artisan
cutting boards.
And after you
clean up, savor an
elegant dinner at
Blue Hill restaurant
— named one of
the world’s top 50
eateries! — and
sample dishes
straight from the
farm’s bounty.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
Back in the Roaring Twenties, a wealthy New York couple with a passion for art and music went searching for a country home and fell in love with the Italianate gardens on a 100-acre estate in the hamlet of Katonah. Once a retreat where they entertained their worldly friends, Caramoor is now a year-round, renowned arts center, hosting exceptional classical, jazz, American roots and operatic performances in a striking series of settings —
the outdoor Venetian Theater, a Spanish-style courtyard, the elegant music room and a sunken garden. At the center of the lush grounds is the family mansion, restored and maintained to showcase a collection of artwork, sculpture and treasures like a 40-panel Chinese screen of carved jade, a lacquered room that once graced an 18th-century Italian palazzo, delicate, hand- painted wallpaper, and a gilded bed of a cardinal who later became Pope. Arriving by train? Check out the free shuttle for summer season music events.
Hudson River Museum
This eclectic riverside museum is a study in contrasts — Brutalist concrete spaces in the contemporary wing link with an historic 1877 mansion featuring gorgeous period furniture and décor. You can browse a collection of landscapes by famed 19th-century Hudson River School artists and then discover works by modern masters like Andy Warhol and Georgia O’Keefe. Or sample a cutting-edge temporary
exhibit like Tom Burkhardt’s full-scale replica of a mythical artist’s studio, through mid-February 2017. After getting your art fix, sail across the heavens at the museum’s planetarium, boasting a Megastar projector that has a 3D database of the entire known universe and can display a dazzling 10 million stars!
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