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Past Newsletters & Highlights

YEAR END 2023: JHC President Suzanne Clary Interviewed in Giving Rye Column – JHC’s 2024 Capital Projects and 2023 Accomplishments
December 2023: Jay Estate Gardens Design Team Nelson Byrd Woltz Wins McKim Mead & White Award; Wachenheim Center Filled with Song
VETERANS DAY 2023: Jay Cemetery Open; Tak Furumoto Talk; Video of Sean Sherman the Sioux Chef on Indigenous Foodways; Mac Griswold On Bunny Mellon Video
NOVEMBER 2023: NY Social Diary Highlights Photos from Jay Soirée – The Delmonico Way! Video of Lemmon Slave Case Program with NY Courts Historical
OCTOBER 2023: Challenge Grant Met! More Than $1.25 Million Will Help Restore Jay Mansion; Photos from Friendship Through Flowers with Japan Society; Jay Day Photos
AUTUMN 2023: Wachenheim Foundation $500,000 Challenge Grant Launched; Photos and Video of Inaugural O’Neill Fellow Fenway Donegan Talk
SEPTEMBER 2023: NY State Parks, Westchester County Unanimously Approve Renewal of Public-Private Partnership Agreement with JHC
LABOR DAY 2023: Treaty of Paris Turns 240; Koho Yamamoto Japanese Internment Art Exhibit Announcement
AUGUST 2023: Fall Programs Including Inaugural Margaret “Maggie” O’Neill Fellowship; Volunteer Spotlight Sarah Rivas and Karen Matrunich
JULY 2023: Cubing for Kids; Heather Breugl & First New Yorkers; Jay Soirée the Delmonico Way Tix; John Jay’s Secret Coded Treaty of Paris Documents at Sotheby’s
JUNE 2023: Juneteenth Poetry with David Mills; New Trustee Olney Reynolds; Garden Tours and Rose Program with Stephen Scanniello
MEMORIAL DAY 2023: Parks & Trails Awards $150,000 for ADA Paths; New Trustee Nicholas Cassin; Environmental Workshop w/ African American Men of Westchester
MAY 2023: $50,000 Gift Seeds Marge Sullivan Horticultural Center; EFC Water Workshop; Concert; Recreating an Historic Arbor
SPRING 2023: Rye Garden Club Plants an Elm Tree for Earth Day; Roosevelt and Amar Video; I Love My Park Day
APRIL 2023: Gardens Reopen; Spring Programs with Kermit Roosevelt, Akhil Reed Amar, Mac Griswold, Max Tucci; Daffodil Show
MARCH 2023: Kerri Greenidge, Harold Holzer, Ginger McKnight Chavers; Stacy Schiff Video; New Trustee Lindsay Martin; Garden Volunteers Welcome
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2023: Zoom Programs with Haberman and Schiff; Westchester County Trailblazers Awards Ceremony
YEAR END 2022: JHC Honored by NY State Parks for Excellence in Historic Preservation and Outstanding Nonprofit Achievement for Jay Estate Gardens
DECEMBER 2022: Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Exhibit and Perfomance Center Announcement – $1.5 Million Gift
THANKSGIVING 2023: Tallamy and Weaner Sustainability Summit Videos; Year in Review
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2022: Sustainability Summit; Michael Twitty; Jay Day Photos
SEPTEMBER 2022: 30th Anniversary Soirée Builds Momentum; Photos and More
AUGUST 2022: Oh La La Concert; Dickinson Exhibit by Princeton Intern Christina Cho Opens
JULY 2022: 30th Anniversary Moonlight Soirée Tickets on Sale; Juneteenth Photos; Meet Danny Krupa
JUNE 2022: Jay Estate Gardens Grand Opening; Jennifer Raff Origins
MAY 2022: Bluegrass Concert; Sailing History at Jay with Nathaniel and Jennifer Philbricks; Ticks Talk in Gardens
APRIL 2022: Columbia Preservation Students at Jay; Gardens Opening; Daffodil Show: JHC Featured in Cottages & Gardens Magazine
MARCH 2022: Program Calendar; Angela Stent and Putin; the Making of Apple TV’s Dickinson
FEBRUARY 2022 – New Advisory Board Member Peter Doane; Black History Month Events
JANUARY 2022 – New Hort Director Lucia Maestro; Programs PLUS Remembering Jon Pattengill and Jane Moffat
WINTER 2021 – Tigertones and Metrotones Concert
NOVEMBER 2021 – Annual Appeal and Tulip Workshop
OCTOBER 2021 – Highlights from Jayne Luncheon; Water Workshop; and David Grann Talk
FALL 2021 – Bandits on the Run Outdoor Concert is Huge Success!
SEPTEMBER 2021 – Hiring a Hort Director; PAJ Portrait Donated; Kiki Montgomery is Jay Awardee
AUGUST 2021 – Preview Tours of the Jay Gardens Plus Our First School Program
JULY 2021 – Telling the Full Story at Historic Sites Plus Birdwatching at the Jay Estate
JUNE 2021 – Clean Water Forum; African-American Cemetery Restoration Commemorates Juneteenth
MAY 2021 – Memorial Day
SPRING 2021 – I Love My Parks Day & Elizabeth Kolbert on our Environment
APRIL 2021 – Caste with Isabel Wilkerson; Garden Volunteer Opportunities
MARCH 2021 – Women’s History Month with Amanda Foreman; Tom Ricks on the Founders
FEBRUARY 2021 – Black History Month, Trailblazers PLUS Conversations with Samantha Power, Gretchen Sorin
JANUARY 2021 – Culinary Justice with Michael Twitty, Lavada Nahon and Lori Fontanes
WINTER 2021 PROGRAMS – Black History, Social Justice, Diplomacy and Women’s History
DECEMBER 2020 – 2021 Speakers: Twitty, Powers, Sorin, Ricks, Foreman
NOVEMBER 2020 – Year in Review, Garden Updates, Annual Appeal
SEPTEMBER 2020 – Climate Action w/ Revkin, Tallamy and Sanderson; Tennis House Phase I Complete; Columbia Reconstructs Jay
SUMMER 2020 – JHC Breaks Ground on Historic Jay Gardens Restoration; Alger Makes $20,000 Gift to Social Justice; Invasive Species Threaten Birds and Wildlife
JULY 2020 – What Hamilton Missed; Brent Leggs & Jorge Otero-Pailos on Preserving Black History; Meet Inaugural Jay Fellows from Columbia’s GSAPP
JUNE 2020 – Supporting Our African American Partners and Community
SPRING 2020 Jay for Kids Issue – Nature and History Activities
MAY 2020 – Tatiana Schlossberg, Palmer Tennis House Update & Garden Club of America News
EARTH DAY 2020, JHC in Scientific American, Politico, PLUS the Meaning of Excelsior
APRIL 2020 – JHC Launches Virtual Programming Including Video Classics with Doug Tallamy
Coronavirus Update – Message to Supporters
MARCH 2020 – Women’s History Month PLUS New Board Members Otero-Pailos & Goddard
ANNOUNCEMENT: A New Pavilion for the Jay Gardens Thanks to Gerry Charitable Trust
JANUARY 2020 – Speakers Norris, Schlossberg, Golodryga & Atkinson Plus Justice Roberts Invokes Jay
DECEMBER 2019 – Annual Appeal, List of 2019 Accomplishments and Programs
NOVEMBER 2019 – Thankful for Open Spaces, New Trustees and Supporters Like You!
OCTOBER 2019 – Jay Gardens Explored Saturday PLUS Nieuw Amsterdam Soirée
FALL 2019 – Jay Day, Seaweed with Josie Iselin, Preserving African American Heritage
SEPTEMBER 2019 – Tullet Returns to JAY DAY Family Festival This Sunday
MIDSUMMER 2019 – Russell Shorto & Dutch Manhattan, Woodstock Jams at 50
ANNOUNCEMENT – New Executive Director Kevin Peraino
JUNE 2019 – The Slave Dwelling Project Comes to Rye Sunday, June 9th
MAY 2019 – I Love My Park Day This Saturday! Community Service Hours for All!
SPRING 2019 – Household Gods:The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
APRIL 2019 – New Trustees, Green Tigers Roar & Washington’s Portrait
MARCH 2019 – Hamilton’s Doctor Was A Botanist – Meet NYT Bestseller Victoria Johnson
FEBRUARY 2019 – Black History Month Events: Alexis Clark & Jennifer Austin Jones PLUS The Kept Private Theater Presentation
JANUARY 2019 EVENTS – MLK Celebration; “Jams at Jay” Takes the Chill Away with Bluegrass
2018 LAST NOTES – Gardens Shovel Ready! Portraits of William Jay, Pierrepont Families Join JHC Collection
2018 ANNUAL APPEAL – Thank you for a Fabulous Year!
DECEMBER 2018 – Historic Launch of Revolutionary Westchester at John Jay’s Home in Rye
NOVEMBER 2018 Newsletter – Was Washington in Love with a Loyalist? Author Mary Calvi Tells All 12/8
OCTOBER 2018 EVENTS – Over 1300 Enjoy Jay Day & Virgil’s; Doug Tallamy Talks Trees October 5
AUGUST 2018 – Peter Kenny of Classical American Homes Speaks September 12
JULY 2018 – TIME Mag Names Jay; PBS Film Screening & Talk With Author Eric Jaffe
SUMMER PROGRAMS 2018
JUNE 2018 – Top History Awardees Include Jay Heritage, Preservation of African American History
MAY 2018 – I Love My Park Day Photos & Memorial Day Plans
APRIL 2018 – May Programs: Landscape Architect Thomas Rainer & Sailing Historian John Rousmaniere
MARCH 2018 – New Trustees, Volunteer Open Houses, Daffodil Show & Earth Events
MARCH 2018 – In Memoriam – Friend & Benefactor, Joseph J. Aresty
DECEMBER 2017 – Year End Thanks, Save the Date to Celebrate MLK, Hear Rousmaniere and Rainer
December 2017 – Celebrate John Jay’s B’day w/ Columbia Metrotones & Yale Spizzwinks
NOVEMBER 2017 -400 at Jay Soirée! PLUS NFL & Bud Light Tap Patriot’s Home for Winning Commercial
OCTOBER 2017 – Soiree SOLD OUT, High School Volunteers Matter, Pierrepont Family Gifts
OCTOBER 2017 Events – Boston Post Road Historic District, with Frank Sanchis & Paul Hicks, Jay Day
SEPTEMBER 2017 – Genealogy & Cemeteries; Sailing with Charlie Doane; Why Landmarks Matter
SEPTEMBER 2017 Events – Pop Up Wizardry w/ Robert Sabuda, Gardening w/ Anne Mottola
JULY 2017 – How US Celebrated its 25th Anniversary of Independence
JUNE 2017 – Jay Soirée Marks 25th, PBS & History Channel Film at Jay
MAY 2017 – Rye Presbyterian Church & China in the 1930s, I Love My Park Volunteers
APRIL 2017 – Protect Our Forests, Daffodil Show, NY Wine Tasting
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2017 – Black History at Jay’s Rye Home – County Exec Unveils New Trail Brochures
JANUARY 2017 – An Inaugural Alternative, Celebrating MLK Day with Literature
DECEMBER 2016 – New JHC Website! Meet Forager Tama Matsuoka Wong
NOVEMBER 2016 – Jefferson Talk w/ Gordon Reed & Onuf, Winterthur & Central Park Icons Cantor & Miller
OCTOBER 2016 – Jay Day! Families Celebrate Fall & Hudson River Valley Ramble
SEPTEMBER 2016 – New Trustees, Architectural Design and Health, Thomas Jefferson Reexamined
JULY/AUGUST 2016 – JHC Talks with Secretary Jewell about NPS 100; Hervé Tullet Brings Art to Jay Day
JUNE 2016 – Hamilton Filmed in Rye; Ellis, Gift of 1786 Manuscript at Medal Dinner; Stargazing
MAY 2016 – Biodiversity Part of Landscape Design
APRIL 2016 – Classical Concert; Larry Weaner & Thomas Woltz Landscape Walk
MARCH 2016 – Jay Heritage Center Reviewed in the NYT: John Jay’s Home Inspires Young Americans
FEBRUARY 2016 – FREE Kids Book Reading; Jay Medal Dinner Honors Joseph Ellis & Nick Robinson
DECEMBER 2015 – Winter Thanks
NOVEMBER 2015 – Dirty, Nasty Politics 1790s Style w/ Joanne Freeman, A Cappella Toast to Jay
OCTOBER 2015 – You’re Invited – A Zebra Soiree and a 270th Birthday
SEPTEMBER 2015 – $391,056 Grant Award; Greenwich History For Book & Garden Lovers; Jay Day!
MAY 2015 – Jay Gardens Get TLC on I Love My Park Day; Historic Palmer Tennis House May Get New Life
APRIL 2015 – Great Presidents w/ Aaron Miller, Founding Fathers w/ Jonah Winter & Barry Blitt
DECEMBER 2014 – NY State Awards $500,000 to Restore Historic Jay Gardens
NOVEMBER 2014 – Celebrate Holidays with Alexa Hampton, Thomas Woltz, Barry Lewis
OCTOBER 2014 – Hearth & Earth, Focus on Living Spaces & Landscape, Stone Walls w/ Pighills
SEPTEMBER 2014 – This Fall Follow the Path Through History to Rye
MARCH 2014 – Happy Presidents Day! Save the Dates for The Politic Muse & Talking Textiles
JAN/FEB 2014 – Freedom’s Gardener w/ Myra Armstead, Bones Speak w/ David Pultz
DECEMBER 2013 – Holiday Calendar & Concert; Before & After Restoration Photos
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013 – Zebra Soiree, “Downton Abbey” w/ Curt DiCamillo & Holiday Music
SEPTEMBER 2013 – Autumn Programs at JHC – Akhil Reed Amar on Constitutions, Jay Day
MAY 2013 – Barbaralee Diamondstein-Spielvogel Landmarks of NY Exhibit Opens

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