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| 40th EDITION FOJJH E-NEWSLETTER |
APRIL 2012
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APRIL FOOLS!
Visitors will get to test their eye for things that don't belong at John Jay Homestead State Historic Site this April, as the historic home of Founding Father John Jay launches its new program, April Fools! The program will run for the full month as a special feature of the museum's regular guided tours.
John Jay Homestead's period rooms are furnished in the style of the 1820s, the last decade of John Jay's life. About half the furniture and nearly all of the pictures displayed are original to the house; gaps in the historic site's collection have been filled with appropriate antiques and historically accurate reproductions. Before the house became a museum, however, the Jay family lived there until the 1950s. Locked away in its storerooms are hundreds of items that date from the 1830s to the 1950s. Several of these things will be installed in the period rooms for the month, so visitors can play the game of picking out the pieces not correct for the 1820s. The program will be fun for adults and children alike, and will explore some of the ways life in America changed over one hundred thirty years. Some of the anachronisms will be easy to spot; others will be trickier. All will be fun and educational.
Admission to the house museum costs $7.00 for adults, $5.00 for seniors and for students over the age of 13, and free for children up to age 12 and members of the Friends of John Jay Homestead. There will be no additional charge for participation in the April Fools! program. Tours will begin hourly, from 10:00 until 4:00, Saturday through Wednesday.
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SPRING BREAK MINI-CAMPS
Monday, April 2 through Thursday, April 5, 2012
Come join the fun at our Spring Break Mini-Camps! This program is for children five to ten with each day focusing on a different subject, including spies, cooking, chicken keeping and what it was like to live 200 years ago.
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EXHIBIT OPENING and SCHOLARS LECTURE
Thursday, April 12
Please Join Us!
EXHIBIT OPENING - 6:00 PM - Am I Not Myself a Woman? The First Generations of Jay Women at Bedford.
John Jay Homestead State Historic Site and the Friends of John Jay Homestead will open the new Back Parlor Exhibit focusing on women's lives in the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, as exemplified by John Jay's wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, her three daughters, Maria, Ann, and Sarah Louisa, and her daughter-in-law, Augusta McVickar Jay. This exhibit will run through 2012.
To learn more about the exhibit,
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SCHOLARS LECTURE - 7:00 PM - In the Words of Women-The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765-1799
Louise North, Janet Wedge, and Landa Freeman will present their book, collecting the harrowing stories of those who lived through the war, seeing their houses and livelihoods seized by soldiers, their children shot at, their fields burned, their loyalties sorely tested.... and living their daily lives.
A book signing will follow the lecture. Reservations recommended.
To buy tickets to the lecture online,
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May 19, 2012
Friends of John Jay Homestead will host The Carriage Ball, a black tie gala to celebrate the initiation of construction on the Carriage Barn Education and Visitor Center. The event will include presentation of the Founders Award to Friends Trustee and former Board president Sascha Douglass Greenberg and her husband, Evan Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of Ace Group.
For more information or to buy tickets, CLICK HERE
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BECOME A MEMBER
As a member of Friends of John Jay Homestead, you:
- Become a steward of a priceless national treasure, helping to preserve and restore the historic house, grounds and outbuildings
- Enable our educational programs to reach more than 5,000 school children each year
- Support the schedule of programs and events that has made the Homestead a vital center of recreational, cultural and community activities
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To learn more about membership,
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