About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
For nearly two decades, tourists at the Vanderbilt Mansion have been asking park ranger Allen Dailey for directions to Hyde Park. His retort remains the same.
“I tell them, ‘You’re here,’ ” said Dailey, who earlier this month celebrated his 17th anniversary as a park ranger at the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in the town of Hyde Park in the lower Hudson Valley. “Yeah, I know, it can get a little confusing. They want to go see FDR’s home. They think that’s Hyde Park.” Posted on June 14, 2009.
Statues of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor are located just outside the visitor center at the FDR National Historic Site in Hyde Park. In the background, a park ranger prepares a school group for a tour of the FDR Library and Museum.
The grounds of the Vanderbilt Mansion, a National Historic Site, are open to visitors from sunrise to sunset. A classic example of a country home from the Gilded Age, the Vanderbilt Mansion was the first home in Hyde Park to have electricity.
Virginia Lewick, an archivist at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, works at the reception desk in the research center on the second floor of the library.
Park Ranger Pres Gifford stands outside Springwood, the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and talks to visitors about the 32nd president of the United States.
The FDR Presidential Library and Museum offers exhibits for general tourists and a collection of books, letters and other papers for serious researchers.
The Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park offers many dramatic views of the Hudson Valley, including one commonly referred to as the “Million Dollar View,” looking west at the Hudson River.
The Mills Mansion, a few miles north of the Vanderbilt Mansion, is a state historic site and another example of a country home built during the GIlded Age.
