This Weekend in Parks
“Autumn on the Hudson Valley with Branches” by Valerie Hegarty is now on view at the High Line.
Photo Courtesy of Friends of the High Line
This weekend, go see a free art installation currently on display in a park near you. Two new exhibits, Tanja Smeet’s Unbridled Fractals at the Dyckman Farm House Museum and Valerie Hegarty’s Autumn on the Hudson Valley with Branches at the High Line, explore the intersection of art and environment.
Saturday, November 21
Healthy Hike
10:00 a.m.
Forest Park, Queens
GreenThumb Workshop: Evergreens
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Townsend Garden, Bronx
Thanks to Native Americans
11:00 a.m.
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Foundations of Inwood
12:00 p.m.
Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
The Cornucopia Festival
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Clove Lakes Park Playground, Staten Island
Sunday, November 22
Turkey Count Hike
10:00 a.m.
Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
Creative Play Date at Dyckman Farmhouse
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Manhattan
Scavenger Hunt
12:00 p.m.
Kissena Park, Queens
Local History Club: Thanksgiving Myths and Realities
1:00 p.m.
Blue Heron Park Preserve, Staten Island
Nuts about Squirrels
1:00 p.m.
Owl's Head Park, Brooklyn
AWARD-WINNING DESIGN FOR SEASIDE NATURE CENTER
Yesterday, we highlighted Seaside Nature Park in Staten Island as November’s Park of the Month. It should be noted that Designer Gus Frindt, who designed the Seaside Nature Center, received a Design Commission Award for his work in 2007. He is among an elite company of Parks Designers to achieve such a distinction.
QUOTATION FOR THE DAY
“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
Walter Benjamin
(1940 - )