PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS!
11-11:45 Ramblin’ Dan’s Kids Music with Bandleader Matty (KH porch)
12-12:15 Paper Heart Puppets Cardboard Explosion! (Amphitheater)
12-2 Aly’s Barnyard Petting Farm (West Lawn)
12-2 Code Green Band (KH porch)
12-3 Celtic Valley Horse & Wagon Rides (KH parking lot)
1-1:15 Excerpts from Built by Irish Labor with Kerin McCue (in the KH)
1:00 Paper Heart Puppets Cardboard Explosion! (Amphitheater)
1:15 FOCA Welcome & Happy 10th Birthday OCA Visitor Center! (KH porch)
1:30 Puppy Parade! Line-up @ Westchester Wags Tent (South of KH)
2-2:15 Excerpts from Built by Irish Labor with Kerin McCue (in the KH)
2-2:15 Paper Heart Puppets Cardboard Explosion! (Amphitheater)
2:30-4 Hudson Line String Band (KH porch)
3:00 Deirdre O’Mara Irish Step Dancers (Walnut St.)
ALL-DAY ON THE TRAIL!
South of the Keeper’s House
- Float a rubber duckie down the AqueDuck Water Flume
- Keeper’s House paint-by-numbers with Jen Moore Smith
- Make Fish-on-a-Stick Puppets with Paper Heart Puppets (until 3pm)
- Doggie treats at the Westchester Wags Co. tent
- Chat-up an 1840’s Irish stonemason,
- Portraits by NYC photographer Geandy Pavón and his Cuban Box camera ($20 ea.)
- Haunt-the-Trail mask-making with OCA Educator, Laura Compagni
- The bricks that built the Aqueduct with the Haverstraw Brick Museum
- Dabble in watercolor painting with RiverArts
- Join or Renew your FOCA membership at the Friends Tent!
North of the Keeper’s House
- Know your pollinators at the OCA Pollinator Garden
- How oysters purify the Hudson with Billion Oyster Project
- Our local Lenape middens with Friends of Wickers Creek
- Water-saving tips at the Veolia Conserve Tent
- Fish facts and games with the Hudson River Fish Advisory
- Story Tree: Children’s book authors Pamela Paul @ 12:30, Robert Skead @ 1:00, Jacquie Priess Weitzman @ 1:30 read excerpts from their latest books.
- Kids Sensory Table with Cultural Care Au Pairs
- Author Ed Perratore, One Man’s Journey on the Croton Aqueduct
Our Partnering Organizations
Billion Oyster Project • Friends of Wickers Creek • Groundwork Hudson Valley • Haverstraw Brick Museum • Hudson River Fishing Advisory • RiverArts
Good Eats
Bistro House • Captain Lawrence Brewery • EmpaBake • Penny Lick Ice Cream
Thank you to our Aquefest Sponsors!
Veolia • Westchester Wags! • Francie Malina Team • Stop and Shop
