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Legacy Gala and Live Auction Daily Highlights

11/3/2016

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Nyack Center's Legacy Gala is this Sat. Nov. 5 honoring Donna Cox, Susan Wilmink & Thomas Schneck. A fabulous evening of live music, delicious food, decor by Festoon, live and silent auction, auctioneer extrordinaire Ned Kelly, desserts by Nyack's favorite french patisserie Didier Dumas all to benefit Nyack Center. 
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Dont' delay... we have been sold out the last 2 years!
go to www.nyackcenter.org to purchase tickets

#nyackcenter #legacygala #community

​To see recent article in the Journal News about the event, Nyack Center's mission and Make a Difference Scholarship go to-
www.lohud.com/story/life/2016/11/01/nyack-gala-promotes-community-prince-tri

Live Auction Highlights

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Private Sailing Experience – Enjoy a beautiful private sail experience for up to 12 guests aboard Al Vento, Nyack Boat Charter’s 54’ Beneteau sailing vessel.  Feel the air, the wind and gorgeous change of seasons with your own private captain and mate for two hours. This ship couldn’t sail without the delicious Didier Dumas savories and sweets and a case of prosecco. This beauty is moored at the Nyack Boat Club and is its newest addition.  No sailing experience needed.  Appreciation of the beauty of the Hudson optional, but will be required by adventures end. 
Generously donated by:  Lezlee Peterzell-Bellanich/NY Boat Charter and NY Yacht and Boat Charter and Didier Dumas and Verity Wines
Value:  Priceless Minimum bid:  $1,000 Advance reservations required.  Date mutually agreed upon with winner and donor of prize
 
 
REVEL IN ROOST - Chef Kevin Reilly and Maria Santini will welcome you and five(5) guest with a signature cocktail at the restaurant’s bar, followed by an exclusively-prepared, four- course dinner-perfectly paired with exceptional wines and after-dinner drinks.  
Generously donated by:  Chef Kevin Reilly & Maria Santini

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Legacy Gala 2016-Live Auction Highlight of the Day!

11/2/2016

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Nyack Center's Legacy Gala is this Sat. Nov. 5 honoring Donna Cox, Susan Wilmink & Thomas Schneck. A fabulous evening of live music, delicious food, decor by Festoon, live and silent auction, auctioneer extrordinaire Ned Kelly, desserts by Nyack's favorite french patisserie Didier Dumas all to benefit Nyack Center. 
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Dont' delay... we have been sold out the last 2 years!
go to www.nyackcenter.org to purchase tickets

#nyackcenter #legacygala #community

​To see recent article in the Journal News about the event, Nyack Center's mission and Make a Difference Scholarship go to-
www.lohud.com/story/life/2016/11/01/nyack-gala-promotes-community-prince-trib

Auction Highlight of the day!

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NYC WEEKEND EXPERIENCE – Begin your NYC Weekend Stay by checking into the exclusive Affinia Hotel before going to see the highly acclaimed -  Broadway Musical Book of Mormons.  You and a will enjoy Center Orchestra Seats.  Make a reservation for dinner at Le Marais where prime steaks headline a French-influenced menu at this kosher restaurant & butcher shop.  
Generously donated by:  Kathy & Glenn Meyerson and Antonio Oliviera & Jennifer Wilcox
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Newport Road Trip
– Get ready to roll out of Dodge to scenic Newport, Rhode Island for 5 days/4 nights.  Located on Historic Hill, three lucky couples (sleeps up to 6) will enjoy this newly-renovated, private 3 bedroom, 3 bath antique cottage home, originally built in 1800.  This remarkable home includes a master bedroom, two additional bedrooms, a family room with a sofa bed and is conveniently located within walking distance to Thames Street, Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport Harbor and other shops and restaurants.  The only problem with this getaway is that you may never want to leave.
Generously Donated by:  Rainey Mancini & Garrett ________
Value: Priceless   Minimum bid:  $1,000
Advance reservations required.  Date to be mutually agreed upon with winner and owners of home.  $150 Cleaning fee is the responsibility of the winner.  Because of the historic and architectural components, the owners request that no children and no pets are allowed during your stay. Expires one year from this date.

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Two of our Legacy Honorees

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South Nyack residents Susan Wilmink and Thomas Schneck live in South Nyack with their two Nyack High Schoolers, Benjamin and Oliver, dog Bella, and a handful of unnamed fish. Susan Wilmink and Thomas Schneck have supported Nyack Center extensively through corporate sponsorships and multiple volunteer board work. Wilmink served on Rockland Parent-Child Center, and Nyack Center as a member and chair. Schneck has been a strong corporate sponsor for Nyack Center.

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Legacy Gala 2016-Live Auction Highlight of the Day!

10/31/2016

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Nyack Center's Legacy Gala is this Sat. Nov. 5 honoring Donna Cox, Susan Wilmink & Thomas Schneck. A fabulous evening of live music, delicious food, decor by Festoon, live and silent auction, auctioneer extrordinaire Ned Kelly, desserts by Nyack's favorite french patisserie Didier Dumas all to benefit Nyack Center. 
​Dont' delay... we have been sold out the last 2 years!
go to www.nyackcenter.org to purchase tickets

#nyackcenter #legacygala #community



​To see recent article in the Journal News about the event, Nyack Center's mission and Make a Difference Scholarship go to-
www.lohud.com/story/life/2016/11/01/nyack-gala-promotes-community-prince-trib


Live Auction Highlight of the Day!

 
Ski & Stay Escape! It is time to meet Haystack Mountain and make it your own with this 3-Day Ski & Stay Experience at The Hermitage Club, a private, four-season community celebrating the outdoors and family fun.  This ultimate ski experience accommodates a family of four for 2 nights and 3 days at either The White House Inn, Inn at Saw Mill Farm or Snow Goose Inn (up to 2 rooms per night).  The lucky winner will have three days of access (from arrival day through departure day) to Hermitage Club top-notch amenities for 4 guests including:
 
·      Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding
·      Cross Country Skiing (XC Ski Rentals Included!)
·      Tubing and Ice Skating (skate rentals included)
·      Access to Clubhouse, Fitness Center and Family Center
 
Located in Deerfield Valley in Southern Vermont, members enjoy the finer things in life with NO LIFT LINES and UNCROWDED TRAILS, and other seasonal recreational activities. The 80,000 square foot newly built, clubhouse is impressive and equipped with state of the art fitness center, luxurious spa, fine dining and much more!  
 
Generously donated by Noemi & Michael Radziemski and The Hermitage Club
 
Value:  $3,000 Minimum bid: $800
Advance reservations required.  Not valid during holiday periods including Christmas Day through New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Weekend and Presidents Weekend) and special events weekends. 
 
Click here www.hermitageclub.com to view why this is the Best Ski Experience on the East Coast!

​…The Yankees Win!
– Any NY Yankees Fan will be on top with these two field seat tickets to a NY Yankee 2016 Season game - Section 121B row 12 seats 1 and 2.  Enjoy the tremendous views and all Yankee Stadium has to offer behind home plate. 
Generously donated by:  Anonymous Donor

 

One of our Legacy Honorees

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​Donna Cox
 
   This quote sits at the top of Donna Cox’s website: "The distance between mediocre and exceptional is measured in steps. Always take the extra steps and you will always be exceptional." It was the favorite expression of Donna’s Father, Donald Scruggs and continues to guide and inspire Donna both personally and professionally to try to make the world a better place – one step at a time.
   For 10 years Nyack resident Cox has sponsored the center's annual June event, "Men Cooking," one of the largest fundraisers for Nyack Center. Cox is a founding member of Rockland County's first LGBT Center; supports Gay Pride Rockland, People to People and the Steven A. Cox Foundation causes that promote social justice and equality.


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October 27th, 2016

10/27/2016

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​Q: What is the most important subject a witch learns in school?
A: Spelling.

Looking for something to do with your little ghosts and goblins after the Nyack Halloween Parade? Well, look no more!  Sat, Oct. 29 directly after the Nyack Halloween Parade is MONSTER MASH at Nyack Center! Jen Laird White, Maria Lorenzini and Stephanie Hausner are all in for celebrity pie throw! Live music with Bossy Frog, fiendish food, goulish games! Free to enter $5 a plate of food and $5 for games.
#nyackcenter #monstermash #halloweenparade #visitnyack
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Halloween Joke of the Day back by popular demand

10/25/2016

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Q: What do you do when 50 zombies surround your house?
A: Hope it’s Halloween!!

It is that spooktakular time of year! Sat, Oct. 29 directly after the Nyack Halloween Parade is MONSTER MASH at Nyack Center! Jen Laird White, Maria Lorenzini and Stephanie Hausner are all in for celebrity pie throw! Live music with Bossy Frog, fiendish food, goulish games! Free to enter $5 a plate of food and $5 for games.
#nyackcenter #monstermash #halloweenparade #visitnyack
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Nyack Center Halloween Joke of the Day

10/25/2016

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​Q: What do you do when 50 zombies surround your house?
A: Hope it’s Halloween!!

It is that spooktakular time of year! Sat, Oct. 29 directly after the Nyack Halloween Parade is MONSTER MASH at Nyack Center! Jen Laird White, Maria Lorenzini and Stephanie Hausner are all in for celebrity pie throw! Live music with Bossy Frog, fiendish food, goulish games! Free to enter $5 a plate of food and $5 for games.
#nyackcenter #monstermash #halloweenparade #visitnyack
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Peter Klose blogs on Nyack Center building community through...a place to depend on

6/28/2016

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​Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through…a place we can all depend upon for a community meeting room, a holiday reading, a friendly face, and place for respite.

-Peter Klose, Esq
Attorney, Rockland Rowing Association Board Member, and Nyack Center supporter


Nyack Center is so grateful to the Rowing Association  Board, members and supporters for their contributions to Nyack Center through the years. For 10 Years the Rowing Association has raised funds for Nyack Center with their annual Pull for Purpose Rowathon. Each year they raise over $10,000 to benefit Nyack Center's programs. Since its inception, River Rowing has held rowing workshops and classes open to Nyack Center children including those at Camp Nyack!

River Rowing Association is now the Rockland Rowing Association!  The  mission remains the same, to improve the lives of our community members through rowing.   Go Rockland! Find out more at www.riverrowing.org and like them on Facebook.


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Peter  in center is pictured her with the Rockland Rowing set up crew for 2016 Rowathon!

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Our beloved Bill Irwin blogs on Nyack Center building community through...20 years

6/14/2016

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​During our twenty years in Nyack — so many days like this:
 
I go by the Nyack Center to rehearse, or start setting up for an event.  
 
The day programs are under way — there are kids playing, being led through games in the big room on the main floor, while we try out a dance routine on the stage.  
 
A class (or two) is going on in back  — cooking, ESL, tax preparation — and you can feel the evening’s event — whatever it may be — starting to take shape.  Food arriving, people bringing things in.  The staff telling people things they’ve had to tell them many times before.  In a while volunteers will start setting chairs . . ..  Someone will be speaking, singing, dancing — working toward some consensus — before long in the big room.
 
I will so miss the Nyack Center when we move back to NYC as we plan to do.  It’s been a favorite Nyack place for me over the last 20 years — the center of this town
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—   Bill Irwin 
American actor, clown, comedian and friend
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2 years ago Bill and his amazing wife Martha Roth were honored here at our Legacy Gala. They are community treasures who have given so much to our community. They have supported our events, children, families at Nyack Center and so many other community non-profits. We wish them the best as they embark on their new journey. They will be missed. Of course Martha and Bill  will always have a welcome home here at Nyack Center.
With Love,
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Kim Cross, Executive Director

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Bill is pictured on the right with another honoree, Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky performing an original song!
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Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through...events           by Dr. Lori Martin

5/24/2016

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Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through...events, which create opportunities for residents to share proud traditions and shape the future.  Nyack Center is the site where people historically pushed to the margins are welcomed and celebrated. Nyack Center embodies many of the qualities that make Nyack a community that people far and wide always consider home.  It is fitting that Nyack Center is located in the heart of our beloved community because Nyack Center represents the soul of the community.

​Dr. Lori Martin
Associate Professor at LSU
Author
Native Nyacker  



Bench by the Road 2015
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Dr. Lori Martin is the author of "The Ex-Slave's Fortune: The Story of Cynthia D. Hesdra." It was the story of Cynthia Hesdra that inspired Nyack's Bench by the Road project.

The Nyack bench  is 15 in a series of benches throughout the United States. 
The Toni Morrison Society's "Bench by the Road" project was inspired by comments the writer made about the lack of recognition for the history of enslaved Africans. "There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about, to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves," Morrison told The World magazine. "There is no suitable memorial, or plaque, or wreath, or wall, or park, or skyscraper lobby. There's no 300-foot tower, there's no small bench by the road. ... And because such a place doesn't exist ... the book had to." Nyack's Bench by the Road was  dedicated to Cynthia Hesdra last May 2015.

Link to lohud video of the dedication day-http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/18/toni-morrison-speaks-at-bench-dedication/27562767/

​Who Was Cynthia Hesdra?-reprinted fom Nyack Sketch Log
Cynthia Hesdra was born a slave in Tappan, New York in 1808 to John and Jane Moore. Cynthia’s father, one of the wealthiest men of his time, owned and operated a mill in Sparkill. He also constructed mill wheels that were said to have produced blankets for soldiers fighting in the Civil War.
She eventually met and married a man by Edward Hesdra, the son of a white Virginia planter and a free black woman from Haiti. After their marriage, the couple purchased Cynthia’s freedom. The two settled on Amity Street in New York City. Cynthia operated a successful laundry business in New York City and she owned several properties there.
Eventually, she took her trade to Nyack, NY, where she also accumulated property and operated a business. Among the many properties owned by Cynthia and Edward, was a house located near the intersection of Route 9W and Main Street in Nyack that was part of the Historic Underground Railroad. The Hesdras were rumored to have been in charge of the station between Jersey City, NJ and Newburgh, NY. The house was destroyed during the period of Urban Renewal in the 1970s.

When Cynthia Hesdra died on February 9, 1879, she was reportedly worth $100,000, the equivalent of 3 million in contemporary dollars. In 2010, Piermont Ave. between Hudson and Depew was renamed Cynthia Hesdra Way.  

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Artist and Event Organizer, Bill Batson pictured with Dr. Toni Morrison.
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Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through...the arts

5/17/2016

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When we first moved here in 2007 I enrolled my daughter Nancy in African Drum lessons after school. We needed something for her to do after school, and this looked really unique. She loved it! Not long after that, we attended Monster Mash, and felt we'd really landed in the perfect town. 
 
The next year in 2008 I volunteered to run figure drawing sessions through Hopper House for a few years. Hopper House was a great space, but was renovating and we could no longer be housed there. 
Nyack Center has given us the perfect space for us to continue our sessions. We've been able to flourish as a non-profit collective, and provide a place for young and old to grow their creative selves, as well as high-schoolers who need to develop their portfolios for college applications in the creative fields. 
Drum lessons, films, dancing, tutoring, concerts, winter indoor farmer's markets.. it all happens in Nyack Center.  Such a versatile, giving place-aptly in the heart and IS the heart, of our community. 
 
Thank you, Nyack Center.

Janet Hamlin
Artist and past Nyack Center Board Member



June 5th Save the Date!!!!!

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