Lake Placid, N.Y. — On a fast track, the U.S. bobsled and skeleton team got off to an ever faster start when it claimed two medals at last weekend’s FIBT World Cup series opener in Park City, Utah. Pilot Todd Hayes (Del Rio, Texas) drove his sled to a silver medal finish in the two-man race, while Erin Pac (Farmington, Conn.) piloted her sled to a bronze medal result in the women’s two-man event on the 2002 Olympic course. The two are eying similar results this weekend, Nov. 20-22, when the series resumes in Lake Placid. Read more »
Owego, NY – The 3rd Annual “Lights on the River” Festival will light up Owego on Friday, December 4, from 5:30-8:30 pm in downtown Owego. The lights and decorative trim will be turned on at 6:00 pm with a community countdown in front of the Courthouse Square (south side), followed by holiday festivities, food, entertainment and more in the shops, restaurants, streets, and Riverwalk concluding with a fantastic fireworks display at 8 pm at Draper Park. Read more »
Hudson Valley, NY - Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Why not take advantage of the wonderful holiday dinners offered by Vintage Hudson Valley’s award-winning chefs?
Host your family feast at one of our member restaurants, and relax! This year, enjoy a spectacular holiday meal, and spend quality time with family and friends at the same time. Read more »
Season Begins This Week in Park City, Utah
Lake Placid, N.Y. — The 2009-10 FIBT World Cup bobsled and skeleton season gets underway this week in Park City, Utah, less than two weeks before the world’s best bobsledders and skeleton athletes take to the Olympic Sports Complex track in Lake Placid, N.Y., the second stop of the seven-race tour.
While in Lake Placid, the U.S. squad will try to match the same success it enjoyed last season when driver Steve Holcomb helped lead the team to four world championship medals on the 1,455-meter long course. The “Night Train” stood on three medal podiums, winning bronze in the two-man man race, bronze in the team competition and gold in the four-man event. That victory allowed him to become the first American pilot to claim a World title in 50 years. Read more »
Exhibition Dates: November 17, 2009 - February 7, 2010
Exhibition Location: European Paintings, Gallery 16, 2nd floor
Press Preview: Monday, November 16, 10:00 a.m.-noon
New York, NY - Velázquez Rediscovered, a special exhibition opening November 17 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will feature a newly identified painting by Velázquez, Portrait of a Man, formerly ascribed by the Museum to the workshop of Velázquez and recently reattributed to the master himself following its cleaning and restoration. It will be shown alongside other works from the Museum’s superior collection of works by the great Spanish painter. Read more »
Gingerbread house display Sweet Creations, a popular Rochester holiday tradition, is on view Nov. 11-Dec. 16
Rochester, N.Y. - George Eastman House is your home for the holidays, from the popular gingerbread house exhibition and holiday musicales to family films and pancake breakfasts with Santa and St. Nicholas: Read more »
LEGO®: The Art of the Brick (December 5, 2009-March 14, 2010) Approximately 30 whimsical, awe-inspiring works of art (giant heads, bodies, wall portraits, and more) made entirely of LEGO® bricks by artist Nathan Sawaya. The sculptural display is a prelude to, and complements, an upcoming exhibit, LEGO® Castle Adventure, opening January 23, 2010.
LEGO® Castle Adventure (January 23-May 9, 2010) Kids and families are transported to a LEGO kingdom where they can become master castle builders, using one of the greatest building materials of all time-LEGO bricks. Explore a giant castle full of LEGO brick decorations, climb into a lookout tower to defend the castle walls, and enter the dragon’s cave. Produced by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis in cooperation with LEGO Systems, Inc. Read more »
