Somers
SUGARING ON THE FARM 11 a.m. Muscoot Farm Route 100
Thursday, February 27 Pelham
CURATOR TALK 6 p.m. Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Avenue Pelham Art Center presents Migration Narratives Curator Talk with Independent Curator, Lisa A. Banner. Learn more about the kinetic sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and video presented in the exhibition Migration Narratives on view through March 29, 2014. This intimate conversation will reveal the stories of individual transitions from one state of being to another found within the work. For info, call 914-738-2525.
Friday, February 28 Somers
ADVENTURES IN HORTICULTURE 10:30 a.m. Lasdon Park Route 35 Children’s Adventures in Horticulture for Ages 3 to 6. Introduce your child or grandchild to the world of gardening with crafts and activities in the greenhouse. Fee $10 per adult; pre-register at (914) 886-5108 or carolinesgardens@aol.com.
Tuckahoe
LECTURE 6:30 p.m. Westchester Italian Cultural Center One Generoso Pope Place The Legacy of Fascist Italy. Historian’s Changing Views, and New Controversies 1945-Present. Professor Leonini of St. John University will discuss this fascinating chapter of Italian history. Must register in advance and prepay. Members $15, Non-Members $25. For more information, call 914-771-8700.
Saturday, March 1 Croton-on-Hudson
PROJECT FEEDER WATCH 8 a.m. Croton Point Park Croton Point Avenue Watch and learn about birds, photograph them and record the birds at the feeders each Saturday and Sunday through March. For more information, call 914-862-5297.
Cross River
BLUEBIRD BOXES
10 a.m. Trailside Nature Museum Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Help create homes for the state bird of New York to attract these year-round residents to your yard. For more information, call 914-864-7322.
Yonkers
NATURE WALK 10 a.m. Lenoir Preserve 19 Dudley Street Tracking and the Art of Seeing. Learn what’s traveling through the preserve by their tracks and traces. For more information, call 914-968-5851.
Somers
INCENSE MAKING 10:30 a.m. Lasdon Park Route 35 Learn about different types of incense, the plant sources used to make them, and the therapeutic benefits of different fragrances. Fee $15; pre-register at (914) 886-5108.
Rye
VOLUNTEER WORK PROJECT 1 p.m. Marshlands Conservancy Route 1 Clearing the Northern Border of Parson’s Meadow. Bring work gloves and join this volunteer maintenance project. Hand tools provided. For more information, call 914-835-4466.
Yonkers
DOCUMENTARY FILM 2 p.m. Riverfront Library One Larkin Center A screening of Freedom Riders, a riveting documentary tells the story of a band of college students who risked everything to integrate interstate bus travel in the Deep South in the early 1960s. The film screening will be followed by a lively discussion facilitated by Dr. Komozi Woodard, Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College. For more information call 914-375-7966.
Sunday, March 2 Croton-on-Hudson
PROJECT FEEDER WATCH
Join the staff in the Sugar House to learn how sap is turned into syrup. For more information, call 914-864-7282.
Rye
NATURE WALK 2 p.m. Marshlands Conservancy Route 1 Season’s End at the Salt Marsh. Learn how this habitat prepares for the upcoming spring and a renewal of life. For more information, call 914-835-4466.
Mr. X returns — and makes a confession
Continued from Page 9 food in my refrigerator, there are people who are homeless and hungry. Everything I have achieved has come not from very late work nights but from privilege. This, of course, makes me a very bad man. I hear this from the top, from President Obama, himself. I am “the folks not paying their fair share.” That’s me, even with almost half of my income going to taxes … even though I reside closer to the bottom 40% in real numbers than the super rich. The new mayor of my city has now focused on my selfishness as well. According to Mr. De Blasio, I have horded my “big dreams” keeping them from poor children … I have used this great city as part of my own elite domain restricting others from using it. Worst of all, I now learn that I am part of the plantation system. Although in a subsequent article in the New York Times, I am told that the ‘plantation’ reference used by Rev. Frederick A. Lucas Jr. at Mayor De Blasio’s inauguration last month was simply part of “the African-American pulpit tradition of symbolism.” I am curious if the New York Times excused George Wallace when he stood in the schoolhouse door 50 years ago because he was using the “White Southern tradition of symbolism.” With the President constantly dwelling on income inequality and the Mayor discussing the two New Yorks — one of great privilege and the other suffering from terrible disadvantages — I have actually to stop and remind myself of something.
I arrived in New York City in the middle of a recession after graduating from a state school in the Midwest, unlike the President (Columbia and Harvard) or the Mayor (NYU and Columbia). In all fairness, I will admit that I had a valuable trust fund that probably placed me ahead of the pack right at the start. My trust fund had nothing to do with money. I had two parents — a mother and a father, grandparents, and the Boy Scouts that instilled a work ethic in me. Despite of all my screwing around with my friends, I miraculously received a pretty solid education along the way. So, in the finest baby boomer tradition, I will pass the buck. Please understand, this isn’t really my fault at all. I was actually taught the evil lesson that the one percent was something to strive for … I was told never to begrudge success, but admire it. I never resented people living on Park Avenue, I wanted to be one of them. What I find strange, but not surprising, is that the President, the Mayor and everyone on the Left will readily accept all the evils that they denigrate — the vast amounts of money, the grand estates and, of course, the top tier schools — all you have to do is demonstrate your hatred for white Southerners, Christians who actually go to church and, of course, anyone who votes Republican. Then you can fly off to the Vineyard on a private jet for the weekend and feel downright noble. Mr. X resides on New York’s Upper West Side.
Join us for the
BroNx ChArter SChool FAir Bronx Charter School Fair Saturday, March 15 10:00am - 3:00pm Meet school staff and enjoy entertainment from WBLS and La MEGA Family Life Academy Charter school 14 W 170th street, bronx, Ny 10452 (Take the 4, B or D trains to 170th St.)
Hosted by:
Find charter schools in your community and apply by April 1 at
CharterNYC.org
15 The RIVERDALE REVIEW • Thursday, February 27, 2014
8 a.m. Croton Point Park Croton Point Avenue Watch and learn about birds with members of the group, and photograph and record birds at the feeders. For more information, call 914-862-5297.