Mamakating Environmental Education Center (MEEC)

Artist Residency: Sky Stitching by Audrey Bartow
Sundays 10am-12pm beginning June 7th
Join naturalist and botany scholar Audrey Bartow in a celebration of the birds of Lenapehoking.
What does migration sound like? What colors can you hear? We’ll tackle these questions and more on a year-long artist residency at MEEC. Naturalist and environmental artist Audrey Bartow will hold weekly bird listening sessions, open to MEEC visitors, where they’ll document bird observations by knitting their colors into an ever changing tapestry. Visitors are encouraged to sit with the artist while they work, help to observe birds, and check back in as the project progresses. The work will document bird visitation at MEEC over the course of one year, culminating in a reception to unveil the tapestry and discuss findings. Community members are asked to help donate yarn and knitted items to be recycled so that the piece has a low environmental footprint.

Local Event: Artist Residency: Sky Stitching by Audrey Bartow

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Artist Residency: Sky Stitching by Audrey Bartow

Artist Residency: Sky Stitching by Audrey Bartow
Sundays 10am-12pm beginning June 7th
Join naturalist and botany scholar Audrey...

Children’s Butterfly Garden! &nbsp;
Sunday, June 14, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Admission: $5/person
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Learn about Butterfly anatomy and the 4stages of their lifecycle. Discover how plants provide food for butterflies and their caterpillars and how to create your own Butterfly Habitat!
This program is suitable for children accompanied by an adult.
You must register for this program, to ensure we have enough supplies for you.
Butterfly Garden Kit: $15 each (Kit includes 3 native plants and sunflower seeds)
Additional native plants will be on sale.
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Local Event: Children’s Butterfly Garden!  

Children’s Butterfly Garden!  

Children’s Butterfly Garden!  
Sunday, June 14, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Admission: $5/person
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Learn about Butterfly anatomy and the...

Solstice Paddle with Richard Mandelbaum
Saturday, June 20⋅6:00 – 8:00pm
Admission:&nbsp;$5
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Join MEEC and Richard Mandelbaum, RH, as we celebrate Summer Solstice with a paddle through the Bashakill wetlands. Richard will teach us to identify aquatic plant life. If you've been to any of his classes before, you know that Richard is a talented teacher. He knows how to take the stress out of identifying plants and make it fun!
Richard is founder, former director, and core faculty of the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism and faculty at David Winston's Center for Herbal Studies.
Please call MEEC to register, 845-644-5014 &nbsp;
Boat Launch is directly across from Bashakill Vineyards on South Road in Wurtsboro.
If you don't have a kayak but want to join, feel free to stop by MEEC on your way to the boat launch to rent a kayak from our new rental kiosk. You just need to download the app. Kayak comes with everything you need to transport the kayak on your car and take it out onto the water.

Local Event: Solstice Paddle with Richard Mandelbaum

Solstice Paddle with Richard Mandelbaum

Solstice Paddle with Richard Mandelbaum
Saturday, June 20⋅6:00 – 8:00pm
Admission: $5
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Join MEEC and Richard Mandelbaum, RH, as...

MEEC&nbsp;Summer Camp
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Ages 6-7
July 6th - 10th
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Ages 8-9
July 27th - 31st
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Ages 10-12
August 3rd - 7th
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Daily 9am-3pm
$300/week
Siblings:&nbsp;$240
Some scholarships available.
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Call 845-644-5014 to register or email Jackie.Broder@mamakating.gov

Local Event: MEEC Summer Camp - Ages 6-7

MEEC Summer Camp - Ages 6-7

MEEC Summer Camp
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Ages 6-7
July 6th - 10th
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Ages 8-9
July 27th - 31st
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Ages 10-12
August 3rd - 7th
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Daily...

Local Event: MEEC Summer Camp - Ages 8-9

MEEC Summer Camp - Ages 8-9

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MEEC Summer Camp - Ages 10-12

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Jay Heritage Center

Nothing says spring better than our popular Classic Design Luncheon and Lecture! We’re honored to feature Genevieve Wheeler-Brown, the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://beyondblueandwhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Beyond Blue and White.”</a>
Wheeler-Brown’s book explores the history of Delftware ceramics, focusing on the often-overlooked roles of women as makers, patrons, and collectors, from 17th-century factory owners like&nbsp;Barbara Rotteveel&nbsp;to Gilded Age collectors like&nbsp;Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. A must for devotees of decorative arts and the history of material culture. 
Location: The award-winning Jay Estate Gardens designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz. Co-Chairs, Tracy Edwards, Liz Garrett, Emmy Lambert, Lindsay Bello Martin and Suzanne Clary.
Guests will enjoy botanical cocktails and a tour of the blue and white blooms of our gardens at 11:30am followed by lunch and lecture at 12 Noon. Booksigning at 1:30pm. Catering provided by Scarborough Fair Catering.
Spring garden attire and hats encouraged! 
Tickets start at $150. Tables of 10 start at $1500
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All proceeds will benefit JHC's family and adult horticulture programs.
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GENEVIEVE WHEELER BROWN
Founding Genevieve Wheeler Decorative Art Advisory in 2003, Genevieve comes to the advisory business with more than 12 years of experience in the auction world, strong generalist knowledge and a wide range of contacts in American, European and Asian decorative and fine arts.
Genevieve began her career with Christie’s in 1992 with the European Decorative Arts Department after working as an intern at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. in 1990. She was then asked to run Overseas Consignments at Christie’s Park Avenue, a department that handled inquiries for European based auctions including Indian and Southeast Asian art, Islamic Art, Miniatures, Textiles and Cameras. In 1995 Genevieve became the New York contact for sales of Fabergé and Russian Silver at Christie’s Park Avenue and most recently was as a specialist in Fine Musical Instruments at Christie’s Rockefeller Center from 1998 to 2003.
While at Christie’s, she was involved with important sales such as ‘The Pine Cone Egg’ by Carl Fabergé and ‘The Taft’ Stradivari which fetched the auction record for an instrument sold in the United States. She has also been an appraiser on the PBS production ‘The Antiques Roadshow’.
A supporter of several fine and decorative art related institutions, Genevieve has served on the Board of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, served as a member of the Young Fellows Steering Committee of the Frick Collection from 1995 to 2005 and co-Chaired the Winter Antiques Show Young Collector’s Night, New York in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Genevieve currently advises several organizations including <a href="https://www.dumbartonhouse.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dumbarton House</a>, a Federal period house museum in Georgetown, as a board member as well as for <a href="https://www.thewintershow.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Winter Show</a> as a vice-chair of Opening Night and as co-founder of The Winter Show Luncheon.About The Jay Heritage Center
The nonprofit Jay Heritage Center (JHC) is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and revitalizing a place that has meaning for all Americans: The Jay Estate. The property is the centerpiece of the Boston Post Road Historic District, Westchester County's only National Historic Landmark District,&nbsp;an irreplaceable cultural and natural resource.&nbsp;
Through lectures, workshops, volunteer opportunities, school programs, and concerts, JHC offers timely lessons in history, environmental conservation, architecture, and social justice, while tracing the evolution of democracy in the United States. It hopes to inspire the future historians, civic advocates, and stewards of our fragile cultural and natural resources.&nbsp;
Just as the architects of our nation’s government pursued self-improvement through dialogue about our nation’s most relevant topics, JHC promotes learning through programs led by prominent experts, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and academics in a variety of disciplines from sustainability to legal history.
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Local Event: Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown

Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue...

Nothing says spring better than our popular Classic Design Luncheon and Lecture! We’re honored to feature Genevieve...

Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown

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Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown