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"Not Just a Front Porch" Socials!
The Friends are excited to announce the return of Open Hours... Join us for our "Not Just a Front Porch" Socials beginning this Sunday,...
Peter Bush
Jul 14, 20211 min read
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A Welcome Solstice and Plein Air Celebration at Harmony Hall
A new season and new art converged at Harmony Hall on Saturday, June 19, 2021, to celebrate Summer Solstice and this year’s participating...
Peter Bush
Jun 29, 20213 min read
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Sloatsburg Plein Air receives ACOR Arts Awards Nomination
ACOR Executive Director Cheryl Baun announced nominations for the 2021 Arts Awards on Friday, May 21, 2021! Jessie Taylor and Peter Bush...

Friends of Harmony Hall
May 28, 20212 min read
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2021 Summer Solstice!
Once again - finally - seasonal events return to Harmony Hall - Jacob Sloat House with a grand celebration of the Summer Solstice on...

Friends of Harmony Hall
May 27, 20211 min read
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Sloatsburg Plein Air 2021!
It could be said that Sloatsburg Plein Air, Sunday, May 16, 2021, included coast to coast artistic talent! Thirty-six artists...
Peter Bush
May 24, 20212 min read
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Spring Clean Up at Harmony Hall
Volunteers make Harmony Hall shine inside and out for Spring 2021!
Peter Bush
May 13, 20211 min read
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2021 Sloatsburg Plein Air is Scheduled!
The legacy of famed 19th century Hudson River School painter Jasper Cropsey and important 1930’s impressionist painters George Macrum and...
Peter Bush
May 6, 20211 min read
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Hidden Cache at Harmony Hall!
Sloatsburg resident and Friends of Harmony Hall board member Kathy Goldman set to work on including Harmony Hall - Jacob Sloat House in...

Friends of Harmony Hall
May 5, 20212 min read
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National Historic Marker Day - April 30
The Friends of Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat House and the Sloatsburg Historical Society celebrated by cleaning the historic markers at...
Peter Bush
May 3, 20211 min read
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Women’s History Month 2021: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle……is the Hand That Rules the World…
From the poem by William Ross Wallace in 1865, that is more apropos worldwide during the pandemic and ongoing challenging times. I can...
Peter Bush
Mar 30, 20216 min read
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Reflecting & Paving the Way in 2021
As we gladly turn the calendar page to 2021, and leave behind a year that was most challenging, hopefully reflecting on a few positives...

Friends of Harmony Hall
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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FOHH Receives 2020 Best of Hudson Valley Award...
"Hudson Valley Magazine" awarded The Friends of Harmony Hall with a "2020 Best of Hudson Valley Award"! As you all know, amidst the...

Friends of Harmony Hall
Nov 14, 20201 min read
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Plein Air Jury Awards 2020 by Peter Bush
Fourteen artists returned to Harmony Hall with their completed works during Plein Air on Sunday, August 23rd. Painter and event organizer...
Peter Bush
Oct 1, 20202 min read
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August at Harmony Hall - Jacob Sloat House
Photography by Geoff Welch Narration by Marianne Carroll

Friends of Harmony Hall
Aug 31, 20201 min read
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3rd Annual Plein Air Art Event!
The Friends of Harmony Hall are excited to announce the 3rd Annual En Plein Air Art Event! This year, the Friends are collaborating...

Friends of Harmony Hall
Aug 14, 20201 min read
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HARMONY HALL GARDEN - FLOWERS of JULY
Photography by Geoff Welch July seems like the central month of summer with daylilies at their peak. Daylily's botanical name,...

Friends of Harmony Hall
Jul 29, 20201 min read
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The Farmony Garden at Harmony Hall - Interview with Farmony Founder: Clare Consiglio
Photography by Geoff Welch Clare Consiglio, CDN, is a certified dietician nutritionist with a master’s degree in nutrition education. She...
Peter Bush
Jul 21, 20203 min read
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The Mary Allen Bush homestead, Victory Gardens of the 1930’s, 1940’s
If there are any positives about the year of the pandemic it is an unmistakable trend of a return to gardening and beautification of our...
Peter Bush
Jul 15, 20202 min read
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Important 20th Century Artists of Sloatsburg
The modest George Macrum cottage belies an important 20th century artist colony founded in the early 1930’s along Ballard and Academy...
Peter Bush
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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FOHH 2020 Virtual Summer Solstice
2020 Summer Solstice 🌞 In the historic parlor of the 1848 mansion of Jacob Sloat, curator Geoff Welch performed his compositions at the...

Friends of Harmony Hall
Jun 20, 20201 min read
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