DATE: Friday, October 15, 2010
COST: $99 per person    Optional Insurance $10.00

DEPART: Yonkers 7:45 am; Mamaroneck 8:30 am; Elmsford 8:50 am
RETURN: Elmsford 7:15 pm; Mamaroneck 7:30 pm; Yonkers 8:30 pm
Includes transportation, admissions, lunch, tour director, tax and gratuities

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Tour the the first American Art School, Olana, a National Historic Landmark

• Named for a fortress treasure-house in
  ancient Persia, Olana was the home of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), one of America's most important artists and a major figure in the Hudson River School of landscape painting

• Built high on a hill near Hudson, New York between 1870 and 1891, then as now, Olana offers magnificent sweeping vistas of the Catskill Mountains, the Hudson River and the Taconic Hills, inspiring a generation of American artists

• Called by Church "the Center of the World," Olana's house and 250 acres are a masterpiece as grand as any of his paintings

• Dine at the historic 1766 Beekman Arms Tavern, America's oldest operating Inn, recently called a "Jewel of the Hudson Valley," by Harper's Bazaar

• Explore the quaint antique shops and boutiques in the charming village of Rhinebeck

*All Day Trips require payment within seven (7) days of reservation; Trips lasting two (2) or more days, require a 20% deposit within seven (7) days of reservation and balance due 90 days prior to the trip.