October 2
Gallery and Glenview Highlights

November 6
Red Grooms:
The Blue and The Gray

Wednesdays 1:30 pm, Gallery Tour follows - 3 pm
Lifelong Learning for Adults

Docent Tours of Red Grooms: The Blue and The Gray 3 pm

October 19
The Union and the Confederacy in Westchester
With Storyteller Vienna Carroll and Performer Keith Johnston Simeon Tierce and his wife, residents of the African American Westchester community called “The Hills,” reflect on Lincoln’s defeat in Westchester.
Q&A follows.

November 9
Civil War Songs
With Singers and Songwriters Matt Turk and Jim Keyes
Matt and Jim (right) perform American classics and popular songs from Civil War times.

December 14
Painting the Civil War
A Talk with Red and Lysiane Luong Grooms
and Laura Vookles, Chair, Curatorial Department
Red Grooms has made Civil War paintings for almost 20 years. He and his wife, artist Lysiane Luong Grooms, tell us how the work began, why it fascinates them, and its relevance to our memories
of history.

Wednesdays through Sundays - 1 & 3 pm
The house is closed Wednesday through Friday, except during tour times.
The house is open 12 to 5 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

Walk through Glenview, the Museum’s river home, with a Glenview Explainer.
Tour elegant 19th-century restored rooms and see their paintings and furniture.

Both Light and Sound installations are at the bridge that spans the “daylighted” Saw Mill River in Van der Donck Park. Enjoy Downtown Yonkers this summer. Walk to the Van der Donck Park Bridge, opposite the Yonkers historic Beaux Arts railroad station, and see two public art installations: John Morton’s Sound Bridge and Erwin Redl’s Saw Mill River Suspension.

Sound Bridge created by John Morton and Saw Mill River Suspension by Erwin Redl are part of the project generated by a National Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” grant awarded to the Hudson River Museum and the City of Yonkers, enabling them to collaborate in the revitalization of historic Downtown Yonkers.