Found 3 blog entries tagged as Old Home Day.

Did you attend Con-Ed Stem Family Day: Dancing Skeletons at Staten Island MakerSpace, Port Richmond Comic-Con at the Pt. Richmond Library, take a Fall Nature Bike Tour at Brookfield Park or bring your 2, 3, 4 year olds to Greenbelt Peepers or Tree Tots at Greenbelt Nature Center in Blood Root Valley? Did you honor our veterans at the Staten Island Oktoberfest sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Staten Island and Rolling Thunder Chapter 2 NY or Turn & Learn Compost Work Day (NYC Compost Project) at Sung Harbor Cultural Center?

I participated in the Preservation League of Staten Island’s walking tour around New Brighton’s Hamilton Park neighborhood featuring “Porches, Pillars and Posts” led by Eloise Calderwood and John Kilcullen. It began at Christ…

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Do you decorate your house, apartment, classroom, office for Halloween?  Will you share photos of the front of your abode or inside your home, classroom or office so I can include in my blog for the next few weeks?  I would love to see how creative you are!  You can email or text your photos. Following are some photos shared by my gentle readers. 

   

Did you learn about Herbs, Plants and “Bopper” at the historic Mont Sec House on Sunday or attend the middle school and high school fairs with your pre-teens and teens? Did you embrace Downtown Staten Island Weekend Walk to Stapleton and participate in the Annual Community Fair in Tappen Park? Did you attend the Staten Island Giving Circle’s (SIGC) Adopt-A-Pantry Dine…

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You are in for a treat this weekend, not only because today and tomorrow (Friday and Saturday) will be in the 70’s (extending my beloved Summer for a few more days) but because the 27th Universal Temple of the Arts Staten Island Jazz Festival takes place on Saturday, 10/18, from 2-7:00 at the Music Hall in Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace.  The co-founder and executive director of the UTA, the tireless Sajda Musawwir Ladner, stated in a recent interview that the annual musical marathon "is a direct extension of Universal Temple of the Arts' mission of  'quickening the creative spirit in the individual and community and fostering brotherly love’.  It provides a stage upon which UTA's students, community members and world-renowned artists…

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