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Do long holiday weekends make your kids feel like the walls are closing in? Do they wear out their computer games and your patience? Never fear, Historic Hudson's "Thanksgiving Weekend: Gateway to The Holiday Season" comes to the rescue, with educational and (most especially) creative and stimulating kids' activities at three of their historic locations. At Philipsburg Manor, in Sleepy Hollow, NY, the restored 1750 farming, milling, and trading center with its manor house, dairy, kitchens, bedchambers and warehouse room become the setting for colonial games, special interactive kid-centric house tours, milling, coopering (repairing barrels), wheat threshing, colonial tool activities, open-hearth cooking, and more.
At Sunnyside, the romantic 1835 cottage in Tarrytown, New York where author Washington Irving ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") lived, the rooms are dressed to the nines for the holidays with decorations and trinkets in authentic period style. Costumed guides describe the historic traditions of the winter holidays and corral kids for special, planned projects, including creating an oversized gingerbread replica of the Sunnyside cottage and crafting historic holiday greeting cards.
Built in 1750, Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, is a collection of buildings, including a stately stone main house, a ferry house, gardens and more. Its rustic outbuildings are decorated and draped for the holidays in authentic period style. Costumed guides will demonstrate candle and soap making, apple cider pressing, and open hearth cooking and offer guests a go at these tasks. Hours for the weekend, November 26-28 at all three locations are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. At each, there is a Museum Shop, which is open, stocked, staffed and ready for some impulse holiday present buying. Thanksgiving weekend admission is $12 for adults, $6 for children 5-17, and free for those under five.
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