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Portell Foundation: The Henderson American Music Archive is launching an online database of over 300 digital image collections of musical scores from Skitch Henderson’s personal library.
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See upcoming events at the Gallery
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New Hours: Wed - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12 - 5pm
See the Gallery Show!
Photographer - Hy Charniak, Painter - Anita Balkun, and SCSU BA Artists
Don’t miss the show which runs through July 26th.
Please come and enjoy it with us!
Learn More About the Artists and the Show
Young Chefs Camps
Calling All Muggles, Witches,
and Wizards to the Silo!
Sunday, June 28, 11 am - 2 pm
Ages 5-10 Join Nancy Stuart Ploch as we celebrate the upcoming Harry Potter movie with Quidditch Pies, Dumbledore’s Pasties, Cockroach Clusters, Hogwarts Punch and more!
(full participation) $50
July 6-10, 9 am -1 pm, Ages 5-10
Cross-Culture Cooking
Art and Music Camp
July 13-17 10 am - 2 pm ages 9-12
Teen Chefs Intensive Culinary Camp Return
July 20-24, 10 am - 2 pm, Ages 13-18
Register for these Classes here.
Our Special Gift to You
Attend a cooking class this year and receive your choice of one of Ruth and Skitch Henderson’s beautiful cookbooks!
While you’re exploring our website, review our programs for this season and register for them as well.
Help The Farmer at The Henderson Cultural Center
Help The Farmer
at The Henderson Cultural Center, Hunt Hill Farm
$5.00 per family
The first Sunday of Each Month from 12:00-1:30 your family is invited to enjoy a visit to our Colonial Garden and plant sunflower seeds, marked with you child’s name, along the garden fence. Return for visits to enjoy the flower’s growth. The Henderson Culture Center staff will also offer a guided walk around the 19c historic farm grounds which includes our cook’s gardens and beautifully spring fed pond; a tour of Skitch Henderson’s Museum and learn how Skitch developed his musical skill and interest in conducting; then end with a Gallery tour in the historic hay loft barn of the visual art exhibition which is on current display with a hands on activity connected to the exhibition and finally, allowing the availability of The Cooking School Schedule a visit into the Silo Kitchen.
Programs & Events
What's New at The Silo
Recipe of the Month
ASPARAGUS AND WILD MUSHROOM TARTS
Spring is here and so is the asparagus!
For those of you attending the Mother’s Day Tea, you’ll be tasting these treats!
For those of you who missed Betty Rosbottom’s April in Paris class, here’s her elegant and easy recipe great for brunch with a side salad of spring greens.
See This Recipe!
Pictures from Hunt Hill Farm
The Christmas Tree Story!
The Valentines Day Class was Great!
The Kerry Boys Concert
Wine & Beer Event
Recent Events
Artist-in-Residency Program
The Henderson Cultural Center at Hunt Hill Farm is pleased to begin an Artist-in-Residency program which will be offered to musicians, composers, visual and literary artists beginning in 2009. Residencies will be available from May-Sept with lengths of stay of two weeks to one month.
The Silo Gallery and Hunt Hill Farm Trust encourages and invites local emerging and established artists to apply for residency admission. Selection will be based on quality of work, interest in a Hunt Hill Farm residency and plan of work while in residency. Artists must supply all work-related materials and are responsible for living and travel expenses.
For More Information, click here
Click here for Application
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Featured Story
Portell Foundation
The Henderson American Music Archive launched an online database of over 300 digital image collections of musical scores from Skitch Henderson’s personal library.
Please be aware that some of these files are large and will be slow to load on some computers.
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Hear Skitch Play
Here is an opportunity to experience Skitch.
Listen to excerpts of his CD's!
“How We Got Here”
– an excerpt from the introduction to Ruth & Skitch Henderson’s Seasons in the Country, 1990.
We did not go looking for Hunt Hill Farm – it looked for us. In 1967 we were both immersed in a busy urban life. Skitch, as Musical Director of NBC, appeared nightly on the Tonight Show, which taped in New York in those days. Ruth was chairwoman of Friends of City Center and an active fund-raiser and drum-beater for the arts. We had just opened a restaurant, Daly’s Dandelion...
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