Friday, January 8 at 9 am: Monthly current events discussion/breakfast at Ruby's Oyster Bar, 45 Purchase St., Rye. Breakfast a la carte.
Tuesday, January 12 from 3-4 pm: Tech Workshop: Perfect your skills on your various electronic devices. One on one help from Rye Youth Council students. Free.
Saturday, January 16: Saturday Night Out. Time to be determined. Depending on interest and what is available in local movie houses, there will be an offering of movie and dinner. Please check with office if interested in attending.
Wednesday, January 20 from 3-4:30 pm: Hidden Treasures: Rye antiques dealer Bill Ketchum will appraise American and English objects in the areas of ceramics, furniture, silver, folk art and pewter. (Bill will not be appraising jewelry, time-pieces or Judaica). Up to two items per person. For items too big or heavy to bring to the site, a photo will do. Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye. Free.
Tuesday, February 9 at 12 pm: Chinese New Year lunch at Aberdeen Restaurant, Barker Ave., White Plains. Menu arranged by SPRYE member Frank Woo. Cost to be determined.
Friday, February 12 at 9 am: Monthly current events discussion/breakfast at Ruby's Oyster Bar, 45 Purchase St., Rye. Breakfast a la carte.
Wednesday, February 17 from 3-4:30 pm: From Social Worker to Entrepreneur. Rye resident Karen Galland will reveal the mystery of how she manufactures clothing in China from the comfort of her own home. Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye. Free.
Saturday, February 20 -Saturday Night Out. Time to be determined. Depending on interest and what is available in local movie houses, there will be an offering of movie and dinner. Please check with office if interested in attending.
Tuesday, February 23 from 3-4 pm: Tech Workshop: Perfect your skills on your various electronic devices. One on one help from Rye Youth Council students. Free
Thursday, March 3 at noon: Three course lunch at Westchester Community College Culinary Program. More details to follow. Cost to be determined.
Friday, March 11 at 9 am: Monthly current events discussion/breakfast at Ruby's Oyster Bar, 45 Purchase St., Rye. Breakfast a la carte.
Tuesday, March 15 from 3-4 pm: Tech Workshop: Perfect your skills on your various electronic devices. One on one help from Rye Youth Council students. Free.
Wednesday, March 16 from 3-4:30 pm.: Holistic Healing: A Partner with Conventional Medicine. Hear Toyoko Yasui, Director of Holistic Care Services at White Plains Hospital, discuss how her work helps patients maximize the benefits of conventional medical care. Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye. Free.
Saturday, March 19 at 3 pm: : TBA Film screening at the Rye Free Reading Room. Light refreshments will be served. If interested, optional early dinner in Rye following the screening. Free.
Wednesday, April 6 at 1 pm: Docent-led tour of Bush Holley House. A unique presentation provides visitors with two distinct time periods: the New Nation (1790-1825) and the Cos Cob Art Colony (1890-1920). Eight evocative, well-documented rooms tell a story of change over time, while the historic buildings, landscape and gardens evoke the turn of the twentieth century when Cos Cob became the first art colony in Connecticut, a cradle of American Impressionism. 39 Strickland Rd., Cos Cob, CT. $8.
Friday, April 8 at 9 am: Monthly current events discussion/breakfast at Ruby's Oyster Bar, 45 Purchase St., Rye. Breakfast a la carte.
Saturday, April 16: Saturday Night Out. Time to be determined. Depending on interest and what is available in local movie houses, there will be an offering of movie and dinner. Please check with office if interested in attending.
Tuesday, April 19 from 3-4 pm: Tech Workshop: Perfect your skills on your various electronic devices. One on one help from Rye Youth Council students. Rye TV Studios, Rye High School. Free.
Wednesday, April 20 from 3-4:30 pm: End of Life Issues: Death with Dignity. More details to come. Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye. Free
Tuesday, May 10, time to be determined. Trip to Bronx Botanical Garden. Details to come.
Friday, May 13 at 9 am: Monthly current events discussion/breakfast at Ruby's Oyster Bar, 45 Purchase St., Rye. Breakfast a la carte.
Tuesday, May 17 from 3-4 pm: Tech Workshop: Perfect your skills on your various electronic devices. One on one help from Rye Youth Council students. Rye TV Studios, Rye High School. Free.
Wednesday, May 18 from 3-4:30 pm: An Israel Experience. Popular speaker Pam McGuire will talk about her recent Christ's Church sponsored trip to Israel. She may be joined by the Rev. Susan Harriss. Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye. Free.
Wednesday, May 25 at 11 am: Electric Paris. Docent led tour. Electric Paris is the first exhibition to explore the ways in which artists depicted older oil and gas lamps and the newer electric lighting that emerged by the turn of the twentieth century. The show will feature some 50 to 60 works--paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings--by artists such as Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Bonnard, �douard Vuillard, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean B�raud, James Tissot, Childe Hassam, Charles Courtney Curran, Alfred Maurer, and Maurice Prendergast, among others. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Ct. $6.
Monday, June 6 , time to be determined: Joint trip to Whitney Museum with At Home on the Sound. More details to come.
Friday, June 10 at 9 am: Monthly current events discussion/breakfast at Ruby's Oyster Bar, 45 Purchase St., Rye. Breakfast a la carte.
Wednesday, June 15 from 3-4:30 pm: Taro Ietaka of the Rye Nature Center will present A Half-Century of Change: Rye's Flora and Fauna in the Last Fifty Years. In 1963, Frank W. Knight Jr, Director of the Rye Nature Center, created a checklist of the plants of the Park. In 2013, the Nature Center began another round of surveys of the Park's wildlife. The results have been interesting - discouraging at times and encouraging at others. We'll learn about wildflowers that have disappeared, animals that have been missing for decades only to reappear, and an influx of immigrants from Asia and Europe. Input from SPRYE members on their local wildlife experiences, past and present, is welcome. Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye. Free.
Saturday, June 18: Saturday Night Out. Time to be determined. Depending on interest and what is available in local movie houses, there will be an offering of movie and dinner. Please check with office if interested in attending.
Friday, July 8 at 9 am: Monthly current events discussion/breakfast at Ruby's Oyster Bar, 45 Purchase St., Rye. Breakfast a la carte.
Saturday, July 16: Saturday Night Out. Time to be determined. Depending on interest and what is available in local movie houses, there will be an offering of movie and dinner. Please check with office if interested in attending.
Wednesday, July 20 from 5-7 pm: Cruise to Nowhere. Enjoy a relaxing two hour tour of local waters. SPRYE will provide refreshments. Boat leaves from the Arch St. dock, Greenwich, CT. $15.