The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden in New York City, is hosting a family-friendly, murder mystery by candlelight just in time for Halloween. Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, Oct. 25 and 26. This is loosely based on something that was discovered during a renovation of the building in the early 1900s. […]
The small village of Sleepy Hollow is ready for Halloween. Nestled some 25 miles north of New York City, this quiet community has an entire cemetery that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Guided tours begin Friday, Oct. 11 and run through Saturday, Nov. 30. Some of the tours are during the […]
This is the time of year when Halloween themes are woven into tours and programs of historic house museums. Whether the houses are small or large, rustic or filled with wealth, candlelight and shadows await a chill in the air. One such place is Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York. The Halloween tours of this 19th-century […]
