Hudson Valley Restaurant Week - New York

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week runs for two weeks, with top restaurants in the mid- and lower-Hudson Valley offering special three-course dinner menus for one price (some also do lunch). Many featuring local Hudson Valley products. No passes, tickets or coupons are required. Diners simply choose from the list of participating restaurants and call the restaurant directly to reserve a table.

Evening Candlelight Tours - Van Cortlandt Manor and Sunnyside - Croton-on-Hudson and Tarrytown, New York

Join Historic Hudson Valley for two evening candlelight tours held throughout December.

Van Cortlandt Manor - Experience a late 18th-century celebration of "Twelfth Night." The candlelit festivities begin with a visit to the home of one of the wealthiest families of the post-Revolutionary era. Decorations made of holiday greens and fruit adorn windowsills and mantles, live music is performed in the parlor, and the tables set with Van Cortlandt family china are laden with intriguing 18th-century desserts. A stroll through the orchard, lit by candle-lanterns, takes visitors to the tenant house to meet the Lord of Misrule. As visitors approach the ferry house, a celebration is under way, and guests dance to the lively strains of the fiddler and drink a toast to the season.

Washington Irving's Sunnyside - Candlelight tours bring an 1850s Christmas to life. You'll be escorted down a lantern-lit path to the cottage decorated with holly, evergreens, and real candles. Excerpts from Irving's Christmas tales and family letters are the theme of the evening. You'll also be invited to join in song while a costumed guide accompanies you on the 1830s piano. The tour concludes in the kitchen yard, where hot cider is served beside a roaring fire.

Union Church of Pocantico Hills - Pocantico New York

Union Church of Pocantico Hills
Bedford Road
Pocantico Hills, New York
914.631.8200 Monday through Friday
914.332.6659 Weekends
This unassuming country church showcases nine windows by Marc Chagall and a stained glass window designed by Henri Matisse that turned out to be his last work of art before his death in 1954.

Hudson River Eagle Fest - Croton, New York

Hudson River Eagle Fest
Croton Point Park
Croton-on-Hudson, New York
914.762.2912 x110

Blue Hill Farm

Blue Hill Farm
630 Bedford Road
Pocantico Hills, New York
914.366.9600