Menorah Lighting Ceremony & Chanukah Concert December 18th
This event is in conjunction with the Hamlet of Carmel Civic Association’s Holiday on the Lake festivities.
We are pleased to announce that we will be presenting this extremely popular community event again this year
December 3 â 18, 2022
521 Kennicut Hill Road, Mahopac, NYÂ 10541
The event opens:
Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
12-3pm open for Putnam Arts Council members
3-5pm open to the public
Additional shopping opportunities: December 4 â 18, 2022.
Noon-5pm, five days a week (closed Mondays and Tuesdays), or by appointment
Handmade and designed items including pottery, jewelry, wearables, glass, candles, ornaments, cards, art, books, wellness, locally sourced honey, and MORE
 Support local with 25% of sales going to the Putnam Arts Council and the lionâs
share to our regional artisans (no imports).
PAC members receive a 10% discount on all purchases.
Join the PAC at checkout and enjoy your discount
Stop in to browse, buy, and be inspired in our gallery space which is transformed into a winter wonderland! All items are designed and created by invited artisans from throughout the region. The Sale will feature the work of many new artisans along with yearly favorites. Friendly and informative volunteers are available to provide info and answer questions.
Programs of the Putnam Arts Council are supported, in part,
with public funds from Putnam County.
Over 40 Local Artisans and Artists will be displaying their handcrafted, small batch, and one-of-a-kind items for sale at âHoliday Shopping at Graymoorâ in Garrison, NY
Come and meet these amazing, passionate designers, makers, and artists who love what they create and design. They love what they do and it’s all indoors!!!
For those who love to eat we will be introducing 2 amazing food vendors, Venezuela Tequonos and amazing Italian food will be served and available to purchase.
Shop local and support local small businesses. Jewelers, potters, woodworkers, candle and soap makers, food makers, artists, clothing designers, textiles, mixed media and more.
Alcohol, beer and cider is not permitted on the property and will not be sold at the event.
Dogs are not permitted in the Market
The indoor market is located in “Our Lady of the Atonement Chapelâ at the top of the Holy Mountain, at 1350 Rt. 9 in Garrison, N.Y. FREE PARKING.
Thursday and Friday, from 3 to 8pm we focus on, “Dine and Shop” concept with outdoor food options to purchase. Then stroll the marketplace and pick up some great holiday gifts!!
Come, shop, eat and support local businesses. See you in December!!!
Event information visit, www.HopsontheHudson.com
Cold Spring, N.Y., November 2022 â The Chapel Restoration will close out the 2022 Sunday Music Series with the renowned Claremont Trio on November 20. Violinist   Emily Bruskin, cellist Julia Bruskin and pianist Sophiko Simsive will perform Brahms Trio in B Major and Fanny Mendelssohn Trio in D Minor. The performance begins at 4:00 pm at the historic Chapel on the Hudson River in Cold Spring and is free and open to all. Donations are suggested and deeply appreciated. Masks are required.
Lauded as âone of Americaâs finest young chamber groupsâ by Strad Magazine, the Claremont Trio was formed in 1999 at the Juilliard School and are widely praised for their “aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance” (Palm Beach Daily News) and richly communicative performances. They are recipients of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and are the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions.
The Chapel Restoration is located at 45 Market Street, directly across from the
Metro-North Train Station, where parking is free on Sundays. This concert is made
possible, in part, through a grant from the Putnam Arts Councilâs Arts Link Grant
Program with public funds from the NYS Council on the Arts with support from the
Governorâs Office and the NYS Legislature and from Putnam County and with
contributions from the public.
The Brewster Theater Company will present its second annual Playwright Festival featuring nine new one-act plays from around the country on November 3, 4, and 5 at 7:30, and November 6 at 2pm. The production includes 8 directors and 23 actors from Putnam, Westchester and CT, and is performed at The Theater at Drew Methodist Church, 28 Gleneida Avenue in Carmel. This collection of new one-acts was chosen from a submission of over 70 plays. Tickets are available at www.brewstertheater.org.
Auditions for the premiere of Three Turns at the Gun Hill Diner, a new play by Westchester’s Larry Eckerle, will be held on Sunday, November 20, from 1 – 4. Email BrewsterTheaterInfo@gmail.com for an audition slot and visit our website for character information.
Tickets are also available for BTC’s It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, performed Dec 9-11, 2022.
This project is made possible, in part, through the Putnam Arts Councilâs Arts Link Grant Program with public funds provided from Putnam County. The Brewster Theater Company is a 501(c)3, nonprofit community theater, entertaining audiences and bringing artists together in Putnam County and its surrounding areas for the past 22 years.
Carmel, NYâThis Friday, October 21, producer Joseph Applebaum and director Stu Maddox will be in Carmel for the Putnam screening of their film âAll The Lonely People.â They will participate in a panel discussion that follows the one-hour documentary, which places a human face on the hidden epidemic of chronic loneliness and social isolation. The film, by the creators of the acclaimed 2010 film âGen Silent,â begins at 1 pm in the auditorium at the Putnam County Bureau of Emergency Services, 112 Old Route 6, in Carmel. Tickets can be reserved at AllTheLonelyPeoplePutnam.eventbrite.comâŻfor this free event, sponsored by Putnam Countyâs Office for Senior Resources. For more information or to reserve accessible seating, call 845-808-1700.
âWe are thrilled at this opportunity to support organizations across the state that are doing amazing things to ease loneliness and isolation,â said producer Joseph Applebaum. âNew York is making a meaningful commitment to easing loneliness and isolation.â Carmel and Poughkeepsie are the only two sites in the mid-Hudson Valley on a tour that traverses 20 locations from St. Lawrence County near Canada to Long Island.
Speaking about the event, writer and director Stu Maddox said, âThis is more than just watching a film. Itâs a chance to reconnect after a life-changing few years of isolation.â
The Putnam County Office for Senior Resources servesâŻtheâŻseniorsâŻof Putnam County, providingâŻsenior center programs, nutritious lunches, transportation, home-delivered meals, recreation, and other services that address the social determinants of health and support seniors living at home as independently as possible.
This past week the world was saddened by the passing of Angela Lansbury, British-born Hollywood actress and Broadway sensation.  Here in Putnam County we remember âBridgetâ, who, along with her younger twin brothers and Irish actress mother, fled the Nazi Blitz of London during World War II and lived for a time at âCobble Stone Postsâ, the summer home of C.T. Wilson on Lake Boulevard in Mahopac.
Before heading to Hollywood, the Lansburys were active in social circles around Lake Mahopac including fund raisers for hospitals and war causes. âBridgetâ, as she was known locally, was even in the running for the Lake Mahopac Business Menâs Association crowning of 1941âs Lake Mahopac Queen.
The following transcription comes from the Putnam County Courier, September 6, 1945:
Mother-Daughter Film Team Lived in Mahopac
Mrs. Lansbury and Angela, Here to Escape Bombing in Britain, Reviewed in Times Theatre Section
In the New York Times Sunday theatre page, an article âLooking into a Family Matterâ telling about a mother-daughter film team, Moyna MacGill and Angela Lansbury was of interest to many Lake Mahopac residents who knew the Lansburys during their stay at the Lake.
Mrs. Lansbury (Moyna MacGill), the widow of Edgar Lansbury, British lumberman and important personage, who died in 1935, came to New York with Angela, then 14 and her twin boys, Edgar and Bruce, aged nine to escape the Nazi bombing of London in September 1940. She had previously driven an ambulance in London during the first weeks of the blitz. They were on the last of the ships permitted to leave England with evacuated children. The increase of the U-Boat peril had made it more dangerous to cross the Atlantic than to remain in Britain under the Luftwaffe bombs. After a dangerous crossing, Mrs. Lansbury was to have taken charge of ten other English children â they were to come over on a later ship, but after the increased sinkings the officials cancelled passage. When they failed to come and no funds which were to have been sent for her tutelage over the additional children she was without means of support, as regulations prevented taking her own money out of Britain. Her situation would have been desperate if the childrenâs American sponsors had not come to the rescue. The family lived in the C. T. Wilson home on Lake Boulevard for about a year or so. Later they removed to California where Angela made considerable progress in the movies. Her debut in âGaslightâ led to other roles, and she has appeared in âNational Velvetâ and the feminine lead in âThe Picture of Dorian Gray.â Her mother is also a well known actress and played in American moving pictures. During the past winter Mrs. Mary A. McLaughlin and daughter Nora, visited the Lansburys in Hollywood (Beverly Hills.) They have taken out their first American citizenship papers.
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