Three of the intricately handcrafted boats from the Swoon Flotilla that is coming to Beacon on Sunday, Aug. 24.Kate Kane

Scenic Hudson is pleased to be hosting "Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea," a unique music and theater performance on the Beacon waterfront. The performance is at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24 and will be staged on a flotilla of boats made from reclaimed materials when they dock at Scenic Hudson’s Beacon Point Park.

Crowds gathered at Poets' Walk for our Aug. 16 Parks Festival

This year's Aug. 16 Scenic Hudson Parks Festival was a big success. On Saturday morning people from all over the Hudson Valley participated in hunting for one-of-a-kind "quest stamps" at Fishkill Ridge, Foundry Dock Park, Black Creek Preserve and Shaupeneak Ridge. In the afternoon, people gathered at Poets Walk Park for live music, food and fun, where everyone who collected a quest stamp in the morning was entered in a special raffle. Congratulations to our grand prize winner Jeff Gross of Merrick, New York (Nassau County) who went home with a brand new kayak!

Representatives from conservation organizations being honored at the June 21 gala included (left to right): Lucy Hayden, Winnakee Land Trust; Deanna Prisco, Orange County Land Trust; Paul Gallay, Westchester Land Trust; Peter Paden, Columbia Land Conservancy; Art Collings, Dutchess Land Conservancy; Eric Lind, Audubon New York; Matt Shurtleff, Trust for Public Land; Susan Bolitzer, Esopus Creek Conservancy; Fred Koontz, Hudson Highlands Land Trust; David Van Luven, The Nature Conservancy, Eastern New York Chapter; Jane Daniels, New York-New Jersey Trail Conference

Scenic Hudson's series of galas honoring partners crucial to our land-preservation campaign continued on June 21 with a celebration of the work of 13 local, regional and national land trusts. The evening at Listening Rock Farm in Wassaic (Dutchess County) featured a dinner and performances by Dar Williams and Paul Winter. See this press release for additional details.