Wednesday,
January 25, at 6 p.m.
Nearly 300 people have already signed up for our FREE event on January 25 with New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman! Join us as Haberman presents highlights from her #1 best-selling new book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” in a virtual discussion with JHC Executive Director Kevin Peraino. Q & A to follow. Get your questions ready!
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Wednesday,
February 1, at 6 p.m.
Pulitzer-winning historian Stacy Schiff will discuss her New York Times best-selling new book, “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” in a FREE virtual discussion with JHC Executive Director Kevin Peraino. Schiff’s new book has been named one of the best books of 2022 by the New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Oprah Daily, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, USA Today, and many more.
“For too long, Adams, hiding behind his many masks and stratagems, has evaded historians, but Schiff draws him from the shadows into the spotlight he so richly deserves,” says former JHC speaker Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton.
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Thursday,
February 23 - Livestream
Each year for the past decade, JHC has hosted Westchester County's Trailblazers Awards. The celebration heralds the accomplishments of outstanding African American women and men in business, healthcare, philanthropy, the arts, history and civic engagement.
This year's event will be virtual and livestreamed--stay tuned for more details about the honorees!
Above: Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins at the 2022 ceremony -
photo by Kim Crichlow
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Sunday,
March 19, at 4 p.m.
JHC will welcome Tufts professor Kerri K. Greenidge for a FREE talk to discuss her critically acclaimed new book, “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family,” which was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and named one of the Times’s “100 Notable Books” of 2022.
Greenidge’s book–which was also named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Oprah Daily, Smithsonian, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Public Library–tells the story of Sarah and Agnes Grimke, “revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North.” Previous accounts, however, “have long obscured their Black relatives.” Greenidge, by contrast, “presents a parallel narrative, indeed a long-overdue corrective, shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes and deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality.”
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Did You Know That Nonprofits Make Up 20% of Our Economy?
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JHC was proud to participate in last week's forum at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University with NY Sen. Chuck Schumer, courtesy of the Westchester County Association and Nonprofit Westchester.
We were happy to share our experience with our own state-of-the-art geothermal heating and cooling system with other nonprofits!
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Spring is just around the corner!
Save the date for our 2023 garden volunteer orientation, with Horticulture Director Lucia Maestro, on Thursday, March 2nd!
Gardens reopen to the public in April.
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Start 2023 with a new position! Do you love history, nature, culture, and being part of a dynamic team? Want a flexible part-time role that works with your schedule?
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Jay Heritage Center at the
Jay Estate
A National Historic Landmark
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
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