Interested parties can visit the Historic Hudson Valley website at www.hudsonvalley.org to learn more about the specific programs offered at Philipsburg Manor, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, and Van Cortlandt Manor. Each program is appropriate for different age groups, with various offerings for every grade level from kindergarten through 12th grade. As of the 2014-2015 school year, all programs have undergone revisions to ensure that they align with goals and standards of the Common Core curricula. These revisions emphasize critical-thinking skills through activities like analyzing primary documents.
Historic Hudson Valley maintains rich and exciting school programs that allow students to explore firsthand different periods of American history. The organization’s immersive programs span the colonial period, the American Revolution, the growth of industry, and the emergence of American romanticism. Students are guided through these programs by staff members who have undergone extensive professional training. These tour guides, dressed in clothing appropriate to the period being studied, walk students through historic buildings and other points of interest and offer a range of hands-on activities.
Interested parties can visit the Historic Hudson Valley website at www.hudsonvalley.org to learn more about the specific programs offered at Philipsburg Manor, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, and Van Cortlandt Manor. Each program is appropriate for different age groups, with various offerings for every grade level from kindergarten through 12th grade. As of the 2014-2015 school year, all programs have undergone revisions to ensure that they align with goals and standards of the Common Core curricula. These revisions emphasize critical-thinking skills through activities like analyzing primary documents.
Historic Hudson Valley maintains rich and exciting school programs that allow students to explore firsthand different periods of American history. The organization’s immersive programs span the colonial period, the American Revolution, the growth of industry, and the emergence of American romanticism. Students are guided through these programs by staff members who have undergone extensive professional training. These tour guides, dressed in clothing appropriate to the period being studied, walk students through historic buildings and other points of interest and offer a range of hands-on activities.
Interested parties can visit the Historic Hudson Valley website at www.hudsonvalley.org to learn more about the specific programs offered at Philipsburg Manor, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, and Van Cortlandt Manor. Each program is appropriate for different age groups, with various offerings for every grade level from kindergarten through 12th grade. As of the 2014-2015 school year, all programs have undergone revisions to ensure that they align with goals and standards of the Common Core curricula. These revisions emphasize critical-thinking skills through activities like analyzing primary documents. In service to its mission of celebrating the culture of the Hudson Valley, Historic Hudson Valley has preserved and made available to the public a number of historic properties. In Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, the organization operates Montgomery Place, a sprawling estate that provides a glimpse at American life over a span of almost 200 years.
Famous for the landscaping of Andrew Jackson Downing and the architecture of Alexander Jackson Davis, Montgomery Place contains many features, from a house with gardens and orchards to an arboretum and woodland trails planned over a century ago. The estate even plays host to a full hamlet. Historic Hudson Valley makes each attraction available to visitors, who can hike through woodlands to the Sawkill waterfalls, buy fresh produce from a farm stand at the orchards, or tour the mansion and gardens. Visitors are welcome on the grounds every day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. all year long, and tours of the house are available at specific times in spring, summer, and fall. |
AuthorWilson Neely Corporate lawyer and Dealmaker of the Week Archives
July 2015
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