Stone in the Hudson Valley
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- February
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Native stone is one of the Hudson Valley’s great treasures.
Earlier this week, I wrote an article for the paper about a new exhibit at the Westchester Arts Council’s Arts Exchange building in White Plains. It celebrates the work of eight stonemasons and looks at all of the great works in stone in Westchester.
The old stone walls in northern Westchester get lots of attention in the show. Here’s one at the John Jay Homestead in Katonah (photo by Frank Becerra Jr.).
There are also photos of some of the great private homes in the county, like Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills (photo by Susan Farley).
The masons’ work was not finished when I visited last week for a preview, but the photos alone are worth the trip to see the exhibit.
Tomorrow night at 7:30, Susan Allport of Katonah is giving a free talk on the stone walls of Westchester. She is the author of “Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York� (W.W. Norton, 1994).
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
