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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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Please take a moment to consider our Annual Appeal
What does The Henderson Cultural Center at Hunt Hill Farm provide for you and our community? The short answer is “a surprising variety of truly unique cultural events for everyone”.
Here’s just a sampling of what we provided in 2009 to more than 5,000 local families and friends:
Cooking School Classes - Musical Performances
Preservation Activities - Camps for Kids
Our Wine and Beer Fest - Our Annual Barbeque
Student Art Gallery - Smithsonian Programs
Scholarships for Classes and Programs
Free Artist-in-Residence Program
Free Gallery Shows & Artist Talks
Skitch Henderson Museum & Property Tours (on 129 acres preserved for future generations)
Plus we hosted events for other organizations including:
New Milford Hospital Family Day
Smithsonian Museum Day - Heritage Walks
Area Schools Holiday Concerts
CT Open House Day - CHAIRish The Arts
Locally Grown History Program
Northville Residence Meeting
Girl Scout & Brownie Classes
These are challenging times for everyone…
and even more so for nonprofit organizations like the Henderson Cultural Center that depend on public support to “do the great things we do”. We need your help to continue to serve our community.
Please keep us at the top of your giving list!
Your contribution to our Annual Fund Appeal will enable us to continue to provide our community with important cultural programs that enrich our lives and instill in our children the values of creativity and skilled effort and the virtues of music, art, cuisine and preservation.
Thank you so much for helping us to preserve the creative legacy of Ruth and Skitch Henderson
begun so many years ago.
We are here for you.
We hope you will be here for us.
Atty. Arthur Weinshank, Chairman
Susan E. York, Executive Director
Programs & Events
What's New at The Silo
Recipe of the Month
French Lentil Soup with Garlic Sausage
A warming traditional soup from Betty Rosbottom’s newest book “Sunday Soups”.
Don’t miss Betty’s Venice-inspired class at the Silo Cooking School on Sat, March 27!
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
Artists Demonstrations
Recent Events
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.
> Visit the archive
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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