2019 ANNUAL REPORT
OUR VISION
The Olana Partnership envisions Frederic Church’s OLANA, vibrant with the activity of visitors, students, scholars and artists, as the most widely recognized artist’s home and studio in the world.
OUR MISSION
The Olana Partnership is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s OLANA, a New York State Historic Site and a National Historic Landmark in the Hudson River Valley Region.
OLANA NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
J. Winthrop Aldrich
Leslie Greene Bowman
Bonnie Burnham
Sarah D. Coffin
Will Cotton
Linda S. Ferber
Stephen Hannock
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Inge Heckel
Morrison H. Heckscher
Valerie Hegarty
Franklin Kelly
Elizabeth Kornhauser
Katherine E. Manthorne
George McDaniel
Laurie Norton Moffatt
Laurie Olin, FASLA
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
Alec Webb
National Advisory Committee Members and Trustees as of 10/31/2020
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Meredith J. Kane, Chair
Stephen Clearman, Vice Chair
David B. Forer, Vice Chair
Robin M. Key, Vice Chair
Susan Winokur, Vice Chair
Richard N. McCarthy, Treasurer
Margaret Davidson, Corresponding Secretary
Janet R. Schnitzer, Recording Secretary
Joe Baker
Sheila A. Bridges
Elizabeth Broun
Olivia J. Fussell
Meyer S. Frucher
Phoebe Gubelmann
Christine Jones
Belinda K. Kaye
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION, AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION STAFF
Amy Hausmann, Director
Daniel Bigler, Historic Site Assistant
Anthony Cidras, Security
Timothy Dodge, Head of Buildings & Landscape
Dale Finch, Landscape
Kevin Gavigan, Security
Maddie Hermance, Collections
Robert Hills, Restoration & Landscape
Jack Keller, Landscape
Scott Krizar, Security
Frank Munz, Landscape
David Poole, Security
Karl Weidel, Security
As of 10/31/2019
Ricky Lark
Elizabeth A. Mason
Theodora Simons
Jane Smith
Sedgwick A. Ward
Peter Warwick
Kelly M. Williams
Karen Zukowski
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Images: Cover & Interior: Beth Schneck Photography Back: ©Steve Cohen
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Writing from the perspective of 2020, it is truly mind-boggling to look back on 2019 and the absolutely electric year of transformation that it was for Olana State Historic Site and The Olana Partnership. On April 1, 2019, a new cooperative agreement with New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation took effect and TOP assumed full responsibility for public engagement, tours and interpretive programming. This constituted the most substantial expansion of TOP’s mission-centered work in the past 20 years. To implement the new agreement, NYS Parks appointed Amy Hausmann as Director of Olana State Historic Site in May 2019. An experienced arts administrator and public art curator, Amy joins the leadership team at Olana, firmly committed to our shared goals of partnership, stewardship and expanding diverse and equitable access to this significant public site.
The results of 2019 are clear. TOP excelled in our new responsibilities, while sustaining our longstanding development, fundraising, communications, curatorial, and landscape and viewshed protection work as well as producing our richest, most diverse year of education and public programs ever. An astounding 75% of visitors interviewed for our exit survey ranked their experience 9 or 10 out of 10.
In 2019 we made great strides in our commitment to Olana’s future. We worked alongside our Parks colleagues to complete the first phase of Olana’s nationally-recognized Strategic Landscape Design Plan, the restoration of the Main House Environs, secured a mix of public and private funding to begin restoration of Olana’s historic farm, and initiated our capital campaign for the Plan’s linchpin, a new entrance and orientation facility.
I want to express my immense appreciation for the hard work, dedication, and vision of our shared public-private staff and of TOP’s amazing Board of Trustees. Whether visitors, staff, or trustees, members, or donors, people drive the positive change we are experiencing at Olana.
With gratitude and warmest wishes,
Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Washburn and Susan Oberwager President
THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP STAFF
As of 10/31/2019
Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D., Washburn and Susan Oberwager President
Mark Prezorski, Vice President and Senior Landscape Curator
William L. Coleman, Ph.D., Director of Collections & Exhibitions
Melanie Hasbrook, Director of Advancement & Marketing
Betsy Henson, Director of Finance and Human Resources
Joyce Batterton, Executive Assistant and Office Manager
Glenda Berman, Educator
Mabel Bermejo, Development Assistant
Stephen Blendell, Educator
Elizabeth Bouyea, Education Coordinator
Ida Brier, Librarian/Archivist
Jacqueline Connolly, Visitor Services Associate
Allegra Davis, Curatorial Assistant
Katie Davis, Education & Engagement Manager
Margot Isaacs, Membership & Volunteer Coordinator
Amy Hufnagel, Interim Vice President of Visitor Services & Engagement
Louise Kerr, Visitor Operations Manager
Rachel Tice, Museum Store Manager
Amanda Irving, Museum Shop Cashier
Victoria Juliano, Visitor Center & Engagement Manager
Hui Lee, Visitor Services Associate
Jonathon Nobile, Engagement Coordinator
John O’Grady, Educator
Krysta Phillips, Educator
Bailey Reed, Bookkeeper
Celine Smith, Museum Shop Cashier
Julia Sternberg, Grants Manager
Olivia Waldron, Communications Assistant
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ABOUT THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP
The Olana Partnership (TOP) is an educational non-profit organization that operates in a public-private partnership with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) to preserve and interpret Olana State Historic Site, the master work of famed Hudson River School artist Frederic Church and a National Historic Landmark.
TOP’s predecessor, Olana Preservation, Inc., was formed in 1964 to save Olana from sale and destruction and in 1966 purchased the house, its contents and land and conferred them to New York State. TOP itself was organized as a 501(c)3 organization under the name Friends of Olana in 1971, adopting the current name in 2000.
Over the past twenty years, TOP has worked hand-inhand with OPRHP to undertake the comprehensive restoration of Olana’s historic architecture and landscape and the protection of Olana’s integral viewshed. This has included: the installation of fire suppression and climate control systems in the main house; the replacement of the complex historic roofs of the main house; the restoration of Cosy Cottage, the Church’s original home on the property; the reconstruction of the historic Wagon House as an educational facility; and four major historic landscape restoration projects that have reopened landscape compositions that constitute the culminating master works of Church’s career. Throughout this time, TOP has led efforts to protect Olana’s integral viewshed that are a national model for such endeavors. Today, nearly 3,000 acres are protected for future generations.
TOP is extremely proud of our record of achievement and of the exceptional cultural experiences TOP provides for the tens of thousands who visit and engage each year. Through guided tours of the house and landscape, special exhibitions, educational offerings and other public programs, TOP provides unparalleled opportunities to engage the imagination; encourage creativity; and explore art, architecture and the environment.
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Images: Top: Beth Schneck Photography
Left to Right: Storytelling with Tom Lee; Main House at Olana; Olana Summer Market; Panorama Summer Arts Program - Staff photos
VISITOR OPERATIONS & ENGAGEMENT
2019 was a landmark year for The Olana Partnership’s role in interpreting Frederic Church’s Olana. On April 1, 2019, TOP assumed full responsibility for all public engagement, tours and interpretive programming at Olana State Historic Site under the terms of our new cooperative agreement with NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP). TOP became responsible for providing all visitor services and regularly-scheduled public tours. The goals of this major shift are to expand interpretive programs and to integrate all tours with the larger strategic goal, shared with NYS Parks, of expanding site-wide access and interpretation.
As a non-profit educational organization, TOP is best positioned to recruit and train interpretive staff and
volunteers. In 2019, we established a minimum starting wage for part-time seasonal interpreters of $20 / hour. This not only attracted highly-skilled individuals from diverse backgrounds to work with the public but also provided compensation that enabled them to contribute to our region’s vital creative economy.
TOP also collaborated with the NYS Bureau of Historic Sites to design and implement a multi-day, all staff visitor operations and engagement training program in March, christened “Olana University,” which was repeated in an abbreviated form in September. The aim of this orientation was to develop the Interpreter’s ability to spark inquiry and curiosity by engaging visitors in dialogue based on a framework of essential questions. Starting in April, TOP
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offered nine regularly-scheduled public tour options that holistically interpret Olana’s historic landscape and architecture and fine and decorative arts collections. Visitors could chose between 30-minute overview tours and 60-minute thematic tours (“Church & The Hudson River School,” “Architecture & Design,” “The Church Family at Home & Abroad”) as well as daily “Explore at Your Own Pace” hours (2-4:30 PM). Additionally, TOP offered an hour-long “Electric Carriage Tour,” which utilized our 5-passenger electric vehicles to transport participants through the entire 5 mile-long historic carriage road network. From November through December, TOP also offered a half-hour long tour of this main floor historic interiors of the Main House. During the period from April 1 – December 31, 2019, TOP served 27,928 visitors with interpretive tour programs.
TOP commissioned Christine Larouche, Audience Survey Consultant, to conduct an exit survey of visitors during the period from late August through early November. 270 visitors were interviewed, and the findings show that Olana visitors are culturally savvy, three quarters of them having visited 6 or more museums in the past two years. They visit mostly in adult pairs, three quarters of them age above 50. Forty-two percent of visitors are repeat visitors, an unusually high proportion for a historic site, often perceived by visitors as a one-time activity. About one third of the visitors come from the local region, another third from within 150 miles of Olana, primarily New York City. Visitors were generally very satisfied with their visit: three quarters of them rated their visit a 9 or 10 on a tenpoint scale - a very impressive 55% of the visitors actually rated their visit a 10.
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Left to Right: Olana Landscape Tour by Emiko Sasso; Olana Interiors by Emiko Sasso; Electric Carriage Tour by Zio & Sons
EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS
In 2019, TOP’s Director of Education & Public Programs, Amy Hufnagel, took the lead role in our assumption of visitor operations and engagement responsibilities. She continued to oversee our education programs with regional schools as well as special public programs. 2019 saw TOP serve 1,120 students with immersive field trip programs; 153 of these students came from the Hudson City School District, which is TOP’s primary focus for school partnerships. TOP raised private funds to enable HCSD students to participate in our education programs at no cost, and received support from NYS Parks’ Connect Kids Program for transportation.
A major development in our 2019 educational program
work was the launch of Young at HeART workshop series for individuals 55 and older. Funded by a major grant from the Aroha Philantropies national Seeding Vitality Arts Program and inspired by Olana’s art, architecture, and landscape, TOP’s workshops teach skills through creative engagement. 2019 workshops were “Memoir Writing,” and “Painting the Landscape.” Each of these seminar-style programs concluded with a culminating event showcasing participants' work.
TOP offered a full range of public programs for diverse audiences throughout the year. Ongoing program series included: Museum Storytelling family tours; Architects on Olana special exhibition-themed tours; Artists on Olana that
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brought dancers, filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists to Olana; Pathways to Prevention landscape walks integrating health and nature in partnership with Columbia Memorial Health; and Yoga of the Earth. Highlights of specialized and seasonal programming include: “Frederic Church and the Music of the Gilded Age,” August’s “Mingled Garden Tour” and “ Fragrant Landscape Tour,” and October’s “Scary Storytelling.” The second year of our “Summer Market” saw over 3,000 people come to enjoy the landscape on a beautiful August weekend and enjoy the best of regional food, arts, and crafts.
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Left to Right: Panorama Summer Arts Program staff photo; Young at HeART Painting Workshop by Molinski Photography; Artists on Art by Emiko Sasso; School Field Trip staff photo
LANDSCAPE & VIEWSHED
The Olana Partnership continued to develop and expand its public programming focusing on Olana’s historic landscape as part of the larger vision to provide visitors with an integrated, comprehensive experience of Olana’ as a work of landscape art and design. TOP’s viewshed protection efforts are ongoing and involve monitoring all development within the extensive viewshed of Olana’s National Historic Landmark 250-acre historic landscape. In 2019, the bulk of this work focused on TOP’s coordination with Scenic Hudson to petition the Town of Livingston, NY to conduct a full environmental review of the proposal for a communications tower on Blue Hill, a highly visible and significant location in Olana’s viewshed.
The ongoing planning and implementation of the 2015 Strategic Landscape Design Plan for Olana State Historic Site is the most significant element of TOP’s capital development work being undertaken in collaboration with OPRHP. 2019 saw the completion of the first major phase of the plan, the restoration and rehabilitation of the Main House Environs. Funded by OPHRP through Governor Cuomo’s NY Parks 2020 initiative, this $1.4 million project restored key historic landscape features surrounding the Main House, including the East Lawn and distinctive grass plinth below the south facade, and provided critical visitor infrastructure elements, including ADA-accessible parking and vehicular drop-off, a new ADA-accessible ramp access to the ADA lift, and subtle level changes to the historic Main House approach
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road, making it ADA-accessible. The project also improved drainage around the house foundation and the historic Carriage House and restored the planted screen of native trees and shrubs along the historic approach.
The Hudson River Skywalk opened in June 2019, connecting the homes and studios of Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, over the Hudson River and across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.
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Left to Right: Electric Carriage Tour on Ridge Road; Final Approach restored Carriage Road; Opening of the Hudson River Skywalk with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and the NYS Bridge Authority by Olivia Waldron; View of Blue Hill
COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS
As the country’s most intact artist’s home and studio, Olana State Historic Site’s collections are wonderfully diverse and deep. For three decades The Olana Partnership has provided curatorial and archival staff to work alongside our colleagues at the NYS OPRHP Bureau of Historic Sites to conserve, research, and exhibit a collection of more than 40,000 items of fine and decorative arts, books, prints, and archival materials.
In 2019, TOP completed a national search for our new Director of Collections & Exhibitions, welcoming William L. Coleman on June 1. Dr. Coleman came to TOP from the Newark Museum, where he served as the Associate Curator of American Art and had a primary role in the reinstallation of the museum’s 20th and 21st century galleries. He received
his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2015 with a dissertation on the architecture of the Hudson River School artists. TOP also welcomed Allegra Davis as the new Curatorial Assistant in December.
TOP leads our public-private team in organizing Olana’s annual special exhibitions, which are presented in the Sharp Family Gallery as well as in the historic interiors and landscape. Olana’s exhibitions focus on the art and history of the Hudson River School and related topics in American art as well as on expanding on Frederic Church’s legacy of artistic enterprise that achieves international renown and crosses disciplinary and national boundaries. To these ends, TOP also seeks to engage the highest level of contemporary artists and designers in its exhibitions. In 2019 TOP organized the special exhibition In Frederic
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Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature, which ran from May 12 – November 1. Guest Curator, Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art) invited a group of today’s most exploratory architects to respond to the transitional outdoor rooms at Olana that are so essential to the original 19th century design of Olana’s Main House. The exhibition featured the work of Steven Holl (Steven Holl Architects), Tatiana Bilbao (Tatiana Bilbao Estudio) with artist Arantxa Solis, Stan Allen (SSA/Stan Allen Architect), Amale Andraos and Dan Wood (WORKac), Jennifer Sage and Peter Coombe (Sage and Coombe Architects) with artist Chris Doyle, Mario Gooden (Huff + Gooden) with Walter Hood (Hood Design Studio).
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Left to Right: In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature by Peter Aaron/OTTO; WORKac exhibition image; Dr. William L. Coleman and Allegra Davis; Sage and Coombe Architects exhibition image
DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
The Olana Partnership’s development and communication team raises funds and awareness of its mission to preserve and interpret Olana.and to inform the public of its programs and activities and those of OPRHP at Olana State Historic Site. To this end, TOP operates a membership program, undertakes annual fundraising events and appeals, and is responsible for all publicity and marketing communications.
In 2019 TOP exceeded its membership program revenue goal by 14%, and both the annual Olana Summer Party and Frederic Church Award Gala also exceeded their goals to contribute 37% of total unrestricted revenue. We were thrilled to present the 2019 Frederic Church Awards to former Commissioner of NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Rose Harvey, and to TOP’s former
Chair, Jazz Johnson Merton. TOP’s 2019 Critical Initiative conducted at the Gala raised over $150,000 to support projects to enhance public access to Olana’s collections and historic landscape, including the acquisition of a third electric vehicle, expanding access for visitors.
2019 was the second year of The Olana Partnership’s (TOP) capital campaign to fund the design and construction of a new visitor entry and orientation facility as part of Olana’s Strategic Landscape Design Plan. As December 31, 2019, TOP had raised $4,537,000 of the $10 million goal with 100% participation by TOP’s Board. TOP’s campaign is part of the larger capital development plan being undertaken with OPRHP. OPRHP remains committed to providing substantive capital funding for Olana projects through its annual budget allocations.
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TOP continued to enhance its publicity and marketing communications, with substantial enhancements to Olana’s website (OLANA.org) and significant increases in our social media presence and engagement. In 2019, TOP’s Facebook page surpassed 10,000 followers and our Instagram account exceeded 5,000, 15% and 78% increases, respectively, over the year. TOP’s programs attracted national media coverage, including WMHT’s Aha! segment, the WAMC Roundtable, NRP’s podcast “Off the Path from New York to Boston,” The Magazine Antiques, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, CBS 6 and numerous local publications.
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Left to Right: 2019 Frederic Church Award Recipients Jazz Johnson Merton (2nd from left) and Former Commissioner of NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Rose Harvey (2nd from right) with Gala Honorary Chairs Kate Gubelmann and Dr. Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky and TOP President Sean Sawyer by Beth Schneck Photography; Olana Summer Party by Beth Schneck Photography; Mark Prezorski, Susan Babcock, and Commissioner Erik Kulleseid, NYS OPRHP by Beth Schneck Photography; Members Mimosas and Hard Hats event in the Historic Quarry photo by Olivia Waldron
2019 SOURCES & USES OF FUNDS 2019 MEMBERS & DONORS
*Includes contributions to TOP’s Capital Campaign
$50,000 and up
Joe Baker*
Renee and Steve Clearman*
Margaret Davidson*
The Durst Organization
Gubelmann Family Foundation
Gretchen and James Johnson
Meredith J. Kane*
Peter R. and Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation*
Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky, M.D.*
Pamela and Sedgwick Ward*
Helen and Peter Warwick*
Susan Winokur and Paul Leach*
$20,000 - $49,999
Anonymous*
Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts Program*
Mary and Brad Burnham
Anne Heller and David de Weese*
Jennifer and Joseph Duke
David Forer*
Bindy and Stephen Kaye*
Robin and David Key*
Beth and Ricky Mason*
Jazz Johnson
NYS Council on the Arts
Emily Sachar *
Richard T. Sharp
Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth*
Karen Zukowski and David Diamond
$10,000 - $19,999
Aroha Philanthropies
Art Bridges Foundation
Margaretta Bickford
Serra and Glenn Butash
The Educational Foundation of America
Olivia J. Fussell
Kristin Gamble
Rose Harvey and Gaines
Gwathmey
Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation*
James LaForce and Stephen Henderson
Ricky Lark, Ph.D. and Rickey Shaum*
Susan and Henry H. Livingston, III
Rick McCarthy and Jean Hamilton*
Michael and Barbara Polemis*
Robert Lehman Foundation
Susan and David Rockefeller
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Thomas A. & Georgina T. Russo*
Constance and Eric Silverman
Theodora and Albert Simons*
John Ben Snow Foundation and Memorial Trust
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous Regina Aldisert
Betsy Broun*
Christopher E. Buck and Hara Schwartz*
Columbia Memorial Health
Joan K. Davidson
Georgia and Michael de Havenon
Florence H. and Meyer S. Frucher*
James A Gordon, Jr.
Erin Hawker and Jon Furay
Hawthorne Fine Art, LLC
The Henry Luce Foundation Inc.
Karen Howat
The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Christine Jones and Bert Goldfinger*
Eugene Keilin and Joanne Witty
Lindsey Boylan and Leroy Kim
Mary and Sam Miller
Elizabeth Gosnell Miller and Richard Miller
Karen Murphy
Sarah and Hank Slack
Barbara and Donald Tober
$2,500 - $4,999
Albany Medical Center
Architecture Research Office
Phebe and George Banta
William L. Bernhard
Stephanie Bernheim
Nanno Bienstock and Russell Gilmore
Carolyn Marks Blackwood and Gregory H. Quinn
Stuart Breslow and Anne Miller
Andrew L. Busser
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Paul Cassidy and Vernon
Evenson
Richard Gilder and Lois
Chiles
Sarah Coffin and Thomas O’Connor
Matt and Amy Davidson
The Donohue Family Foundation
Christian Draz
Robert and Eliza Beth
Durden, II
Linda S. Ferber and Joel Berson
Alan and Judith Fishman
Sara and Tom Griffen
Ellen and Frederick Harris
Fenella and Morrison Heckscher
Alan Hilliker
Steven Horowitz and Debra
Kaye
David Kermani
Nizam Kettaneh
Michael Kovner and Jean
Doyen de Montaillou
Daniel Kramer and Judith
Mogul
Sara MacFall*
John McDermott and Victoria McManus
UHY LLP
Linda Payne
Jeff Rosen and Daphne Hsu
Sage and Coombe Architects
Sean Sawyer and Michael Susi*
Barbara Schatz and Frederick Schaffer
Amy and Ira Schuman
Elizabeth Jacks Scott and Alfred L. Scott*
Cynthia and Thomas Sculco
Katrina and Colin Stair
Daniel Sternberg and Deborah Cooper
Laurel Durst and Edward
Strong
Peter and Anna Tcherepnine
Kay and Maynard Toll*
van Beuren Charitable Foundation
Leslie B. Vosshall and Kevin
J. Lee
Gretchen Stearns and Richard Weininger
Thomas L. Woltz
$1,000 - $2,499
Anonymous
Michael Ayers
Brad Ballast
The Bank of Greene County
Berkshire Taconic
Community Foundation Inc.
Jerry and Margot Bogert
Terence Boylan and Illiana
van Meeteren
Brueckner Family Foundation
C.L. King & Associates
Bernadette Castro
Alexandra Chantecaille
Randy M. Correll and Paul Occhipinti
Debra Force Fine Art, Inc.
Hester Diamond
Lois Dickson and Andrew Humphrey
Divney Tung Schwalbe, P.E.
Pat Doudna
Nicole and Christopher J. Elliman
Jean Cauthorne Ely*
The Felicia Fund, Inc.
Iona Fromboluti and Douglas Wirls
Linda and Timur Galen
James Gold
Marjorie and Gurnee F. Hart
Susan Hendrickson
Marife Hernandez and Joel Bell
Barbara Huseby and Sven
Huseby
Christy Johnson
Gretchen Pearl Johnson
Keith and Katherine Kanaga
Martin Kenner and Camilla Smith
Hela and Peter Kindler
Kneller Insurance Agency
Byron Knief and Rebecca
Robertson
Sarah and Victor A. Kovner
Tom Krizmanic
Victoria and Douglas Larson
Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse
Lembo
Isabel Church Livingston
MacArthur Foundation
Ronald Marten
Rachel and William P.
McMullan, III
Christine I. Oaklander, Ph.D.
Mr. and Mrs. David Offensend
Purcell Scheu Palmer
Hal Philipps and Greg Kendall
Erik Piecuch and Alex Wright
Anne and Joseph Pierson
William and Laura Pietersen
Mark Prezorski and Owen
Davidson
Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation
Monica Ray and Albert Key
Karen and Thomas Robards
Deborah Roberts and Al Roker
Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan
Deborah and Charles M. Royce
Tim Runion and Vipul
Nishawala
Janet R. Schnitzer*
David Schuyler
Sam and Susan Schwartz
George Sheanshang
Drew Silverman
Jane Smith and Jules
Anderson
David Sprouls and Kate Wood
Sarah Hoe Sterling
Stewart’s Shops Corporation
Mark Strieter and Anthony Machado
The Bee Cause Project
Christabel and Paul Vartanian
Arete Swartz Warren
Paul Warren and Chris Chi
Abigail Westlake
Julia and Nigel Widdowson
Jo-Anne Williams and Richard Bilotti
Andrew Zobler and Manny Urquiza
The Zweben Team at Douglas Elliman
$500 - $999
Geraldine and James Adams
Didi Barrett
Ruth Beesch
Benevity Community Impact Fund
Lynn and Peter A. Bienstock
Annette and Stanley Blaugrund
Senator William Bradley
Robert A. Brooke and Sue
Chapman
Victoria and Elliot Brown
Bonnie Burnham
The Caldwell Gallery
Lisa Camillieri
PJ Carlino
Blanche and Jim Christerson
Abby and Peter R. Coffin
Columbia Memorial Health Foundation
Community Bank*
Rosalind Daly and Glenda Ruby
Catherine Del Spina and Jerry Shereshewsky
Andrew S. Dolkart
William Douglas
Chris Drago
Charlotte and Phillippe
Escaravage
Evenerable Group, Ltd.
Peter Findlay
Fingar Insurance - Hudson
Scott Frankel and James
Joseph
Kimberly Friday
Joseph V. Garry
Di-anne and Thomas V. Gibson
Patti Gillette
Carlos Gonzalez and Kathy Stewart
Lisa Grabowski-Combs and Donald Combs
Great Performances
Jan and Lester Greenberg
Lew I. Haber and Carmen Dubroc
Conrad Hanson and Brendan Kelly
Amy and Matt Hausmann
Judith Filenbaum Hernstadt
Harry H. Hill, III
Lisa and Edward Hoe
Gary Holder and Todd
Whitley
Jane and Robert Hottensen
Josephine Lea Iselin
Katchkie Farm
Angela DeMello-Keesee and Thomas W. Keesee, III
Joyce and Kenneth Ketay
Harold Koda and Alan Kornberg
Nancy Kyle and Jack B. Fraser
Joshua Laird and Gail
Wittwer-Laird
Peggy Lampman and Ian Nitschke
Jay Laudato and Tom Watson
Linda Lavin
Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke
Maroney
Despina Leandrou and Michael Laudati
Leah and James E. Lieber
Arthur Lubow
Peter Lyden
Jeffrey S. Lydon
R. Daniel Mackay
Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz
Hermes Mallea and Carey
Maloney
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2019 DONORS CONTINUED
Michael and Alice Martell
Lisa Fox Martin
Edgar Masters and Deborah Cohen
Nina B. Matis and Alan Gosule
Orin McCluskey
Roger and Jeanne McNitt
Chas A. Miller, III and Birch Coffey
Deborah and Stuart Minton
Michael Moy and Joseph Sniado
Lizbeth Neumark
Peter and Susan Nitze
Harold and Isabelle Oaklander
David and Barbara Oliner
Carsten Otto and DeWayne A. Powell
Richard N. Philp
Alice Platt
Debra Pollard
Pro Printers
Marisabel and Jerry Raymond
Renee Anne and Mark F.
Rockefeller
Tom Romich and Max Friedman
Julia Rosenbaum and Gary Hagberg
John Schobel and Daniel Schmeder
Joshua Schulteis and Jimmy Asci
Tatiana Serafin
Allan and Julie Flicker Shope
Craig S. Fitt and Bruce Shostak
Silda Wall Spitzer
The Stebbins Fund
Nanahya Santana and Hume R. Steyer
Marcus Teo
Jane Trombley
Eileen and James Wallace, Jr.
Wheelock Whitney, III
Williams Lumber and Home Centers
H. Thomas Wilson
Mary Young
Up to $499
William Abrams
Ruth Adams
Carlo Adinolfi
Rhodes Adler and Annick de Bellefeuille
Viola Ago
Joseph Ahern and Leland
Midgette
Albany Public Library
William Albertson
Katheryn Allen
Karen Allen
Lynne and Armin Allen
Brooke Allen-Aaron and Peter Aaron
Frank Almquist
Cynthia B. Altman
William Ambler and Molly
Ott Ambler
Deborah and David Andersen
Judith Anderson and Jeremiah Cosgrove
Judith Anderson and Jeremiah Cosgrove
Julia Aneshansley
Carolynn F. Anklam
Nancy Arcieri
Eugene and Irene Arkimovich
Gene Aronowitz and Linda Piester
Lois and David Ashcroft
John F. Ashe
Josef Asteinza and Randall
Bourscheidt
Kevin J. Avery, Ph.D.
Deborah Bachrach
Kristin Backlund
Jeff Bailey
Lynn Bailey
George and Pam Baker
Svetlana Bakina
Valerie Balint and Brock
Ganeles
John and Catherine Balli
Craig Balmer
Jennifer Barak
Betsy Shack Barbanell
Michael Barberich
Joan Barker
Paul Barrett
Judy Barringer
Marcia and Douglas Bateson
Julia Kagan Baumann
Elizabeth and James Bedell
Rick and Candace Beinecke
Michael Belanger and Jeffrey
Hayenga
David Berliner and Betsy
Jacobs
Katherine B. Berry
Bethlehem Public Library
April Bielefeldt
Lawrence and Carol Biernacki
Ann and Thayer Bigelow
Matthew Bissell
Blodgett Memorial Library
Linda and Gerald Blume
Nancy Boehm
Chip and Barbara Bohl
Jennifer Carlquist
Eva Bostek-Brady
Bob Boudreau
Jeanne Bowman
Larry Bowne
Cara Boyle
Vanda Bozicevic
Marilyn Bradley
Graham Brady
Jesse Bransford and Susan Aberth
Marie-Louise Brauch
Philip Brewer
Susan Brissette
Sally R. Brody
Joseph and Sue Browdy
Matthew Brown
David Dew Bruner
Adrian Bryan-Brown and Joan Marcus
Susan and Coleman Burke
Mary Burntitus
Jack and Judy Burwell
John W. Caffry
Donna and James Campion
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Canter
Cape Ann Museum
Joshua Cappell
Philip and Miriam Carroll
John B. Carroll
John D. Carvey
Steven Casabella
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