Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Join us for a day in Staten Island, NY at the Alice Austen House Museum and Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden!

Alice Austen House Museum

We'll begin our day with a guided tour of the Alice Austen House Museum. One of America’s first female photographers to work outside of the studio, Alice Austen (1866-1952) produced over 7,000 photographs of a rapidly changing New York City, making significant contributions to photographic history. The House and its surrounding waterfront park are a nationally designated site of LGBTQ+ history, centering on the 56 year relationship between Alice Austen and her life partner Gertrude Tate, providing an important window into pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+ history and enriching our understanding of the important life and work of Alice Austen.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

Snug Harbor is a place where history, architecture, visual and performing arts, gardens, agriculture, and education come together and provide dynamic experiences for all ages. Explore more than 15 botanical gardens, including a rose garden, perennial garden, healing garden, and more, as well as cultural sites such as the Staten Island Museum and Noble Maritime Collection, where a special exhibition of Alice Austen’s photographs, Picturing the Water, will be on view. Two attractions (the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art and New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden) require additional admission fees ($5 per person, per attraction) if you would like to explore them.

Lunch

Lunch will include a family-style Italian meal provided by Don Cheech restaurant.

Itinerary

• 7:30 - depart Lancaster (leaving from Lancaster Shopping Center, 1515 Lititz Pike, facing Oregon Pike)

• 10:30 - arrive at the Alice Austen House Museum and begin guided tour

• 12:00 - walk to Don Cheech restaurant for lunch (~10 minute walk)

• 1:45 - depart restaurant

• 2:00 - arrive at Snug Harbor Botanical Garden and explore on your own

• 3:30 - depart Snug Harbor

• 6:30 - return to Lancaster

Price: $145 members, $155 non-members

Includes museum admission and guided tour, lunch, transportation, snacks, taxes, & driver gratuities

Deadline for Registration: Friday, May 10, 2024

Refund Policy: The museum we are visiting and transportation service we are using requires non-refundable payment several weeks in advance. Should you need to cancel your participation in this trip, we are able to offer a refund through Friday, May 10. After May 10, no refunds will be available but if you still need to cancel we can convert your bus trip ticket to a tax deductible donation if you wish.

Images: Alice Austen, Alice Austen with her Bicycle, c. 1897, Collection of Friends of Alice Austen House; View from Clear Comfort (Alice Austen House) & Alice Austen Park