May 23, 2007

Almost-summer get-out-of-town link festival

In case you ever need to leave New York City, some ideas:

The Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., will open to the public for the first time in its 50 year history, officially starting with an Inaugural Gala Picnic on June 23. (Although some previews are already taking place.)

Curbed has resumed its Hamptons blog, The Beach, with a full rundown on the new and returning restaurants and clubs.

This Friday night there's a USO Show at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park followed by a "Bivouac - Living History" event as a WWII encampment takes over the grounds for the Memorial Day weekend. (Also in Hyde Park: the Culinary Institute of America.)

Stay at a Hudson bed and breakfast run by former band members of Human Sexual Response.

The New York Times recently spent 36 hours in Baltimore, TimeOut took in Sandy Hook, N.J. and New York Magazine hit Long Island's North Fork.

Metro North's one-day getaway packages include trips to Dia:BEACON, Mohegan Sun Casino, and the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Philadelphia Open House Tours continue through June 17.

Singer Castle on Dark Island has already opened for the season.

Zagat is out with new dining guides to Hudson Valley and Westchester and the Hamptons.

This summer's field trips offered by the American Museum of Natural History include a Hudson River cruise on June 19.

Up in the Finger Lakes at Lake Canandaigua on June 25, the James Beard Foundation and the the non-profit New York Wine & Culinary Center will throw a New York State of Wine Dinner.

The Adventure Society's upcoming tours include the Adirondack white water rafting with mountain biking, hiking, kayaking or caving trip (May 25;) a race car driving day trip (June 9;) and a half-day horesback ride and strawberry picking excursion, (June 16.)

Brookhaven National Laboratory will open to the public on Sundays again this summer, featuring tours of its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and National Synchrotron Light Source.

The Transit Museum is taking reservations for its July 14 trip to Oyster Bay, Long Island - Theodore Roosevelt's hometown -- to tour the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, Sagamore Hill and the Theodore Roosevelt Museum.

If you take the Limoliner to Boston, you can get a 10 percent discount on the Hilton Back Bay.

An Adirondack resource: the list of paddling events for summer 2007

May 23, 2007 02:00 PM in Out of Manhattan

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