Time Traveling at the Saratoga Springs A Tour of Five Riverfront Country Seats History Museum with Wint Aldrich For 4 For 6 A privileged introduction to our sometimes icy climes, this tour A private tour with Michael Levinson, the Curator of the Saratoga will feature five of the most significant private riverfront country Springs History Museum in the old The Canfield Casino, and seats between Hudson and Poughkeepsie: Oak Hill, Midwood, dinner in the High Stakes Gambling Parlor, which overlooks Rokeby, Astor Courts, and Edgewater. Your guide will be J. Congress Park. The Herter Brothers designed the Casino, built in Winthrop (Wint) Aldrich, former Deputy Commissioner of the 1870, the same year they designed interiors at the White House, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Wint and it is the only surviving commercial interior on the National has a deep, personal knowledge of the Hudson Valley, its families Historic Register by them. Dinner will be provided by Lilly and the and properties, and conveys their stories with passion, insight and Rose. (Tour and dinner should be arranged at least two weeks prior humor. An alfresco lunch will be delivered mid-tour by Chef Rei Peraza, of Panzur. Pazur is located in Tivoli, NY and is known for to desired date.) careful pairings of seasonal, local and International flavors. DONOR: DONOR: Wint Aldrich, Panzur Saratoga Springs History Museum, Lilly and the Rose VALUE: Priceless VALUE: $1,500 MINIMUM BID: $500 MINIMUM BID: $750 BID INCREMENTS: $100 BID INCREMENTS: $100

Private Cocktail Party and Tour at the Explorers Club For 15 Enjoy a tour, refreshments, and “Explorers Club Scotch” Private Tour of Metropolitan’s American Wing with at the world famous Explorers Club with Will Roseman, Curator Elizabeth Kornhauser Executive Director. For more than a century, members of For 6 the Club have traversed the earth, the seas, the skies, and A private tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Hudson River even the moon, on expeditions of exploration. The Explorers School Collection with Elizabeth Kornhauser, Curator of Club contains a building full of historic and fascinating American Paintings and Sculpture, and lunch in the Patron’s objects collected on these expeditions and housed at their Dining Room. historic Club Headquarters located at 46 E. 70th Street, New York, NY 10021. DONOR: Metropolitan Museum of Art VALUE: $900 DONOR: Explorers Club MINIMUM BID: $500 VALUE: $2,500 BID INCREMENTS: $50 MINIMUM BID: $1,500 BID INCREMENTS: $100 Glimmerglass 2016 Performance, Private Tour & “Emerging – Olana” Artist Proof by Lunch with Artists Jane Bloodgood-Abrams For 4 Limited Edition Giclee artist proof from an original oil Four Festival Circle tickets to a 2016 weekday matinee at “Emerging – Olana.” She is a world-renowned artist. Glimmerglass Festival, a VIP Parking Pass, admission to the Her paintings are included in numerous corporate, museum Glimmerglass Intermission Club, and a behind the scenes and private collections and represented by galleries tour and picnic with artists before the performance. Choose throughout the U.S., including the Carrie Haddad Gallery from next season’s productions of La Boheme, Sweeney in Hudson, NY. Todd, The Thieving Magpie and The Crucible! DONOR: Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Fine Artist DONOR: Belinda and Stephen Kaye VALUE: $500 VALUE: $1000 MINIMUM BID: $300 MINIMUM BID: $500 BID INCREMENTS: $50 BID INCREMENTS: $100

An EPIC Blue Sky Studios Studio Tour and Signed Private Yacht Exploration of the Hudson with The Animation Still Haddads & The Stairs For 6 For 6 Take an evening boat ride in a vintage 1939, 33ft, Mahogany craft, A weekday tour of Blue Sky Studios, from 12-2pm, The Columbia, with Skippers Nick & Henry Haddad and First Mate, and a print from the 2013 film, Epic. A house in the Colin Stair. Enjoy cocktails and delicious hors d’oeuvers while you film Epic is based on the main house at Olana. Blue see Olana and other “seen only from the river” landmarks. These Sky Studios is a computer animation studio dedicated three Hudson enthusiasts will fill you in on homes along the river, to creating high end character animation and visual river lore, and other fun anecdotes of history in the Hudson Valley! Embark at the Historic Hudson Power Boat Association’s private effects for the commercial and feature film industries, dock. Scheduled for a weekend evening in September or October bringing you movies such as the Age franchise, for maximum fall color. Nautical attire not required. Epic, and Robots.

DONOR: Colin Stair and Nick and Carrie Haddad DONOR: Blue Sky Studios VALUE: $1,500 VALUE: Priceless MINIMUM BID: $1,000 MINIMUM BID: $500 BID INCREMENTS: $100 BID INCREMENTS: $50 Chasing Church’s “” at the Cool Jazz at Lincoln Center Cooper-Hewitt For 4 For 6 An exclusive private viewing of Frederic Church oil sketches of Enjoy an evening of Jazz, including cover fees and dinner, at icebergs from his 1859 summer voyage to Labrador and around Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, one family membership to Jazz at Lincoln Newfoundland. The sketches were given to the Center, a copy of the book Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Cooper-Hewitt by Louis Church in 1917 as part of a gift of over Can Change Your Life, and a Cecile McLorin Salvant CD. Dizzy’s 2,000 Church oil and pencil sketches from Olana. Tour will take features Southern cuisine, classic tastes, and seasonal cocktails place on a weekday. with New York flair.

DONOR: Jazz at Lincoln Center DONOR: Cooper-Hewitt VALUE: $500 VALUE: $500 MINIMUM BID: $300 MINIMUM BID: $300 BID INCREMENTS: $50 BID INCREMENTS: $50

“The Icebergs” Home Party Ensemble Take home the décor of “Icebergs in August” to entertain again and again. This package includes the Iced Out with Swarovski Two 25mm Crystals actual size large scale painting of Frederic Church’s “The Icebergs” as well as one large and two small Named after Sirius, the brightest star in the galaxy, custom built wooden ice used for décor in the Swarovski XIRIUS’ intricate gemstone-like cut, rich color, Host Committee tent. Give your guests something to and enhanced foiling have combined to produce an exceptionally durable new generation of crystal, taking it talk about. Requires purchased ice blocks for at home one step closer to the diamond. parties, or can be used as a standing ice bucket for wines beer and champagne. DONOR: Swarovski DONOR: Beau Simons, The Olana Partnership VALUE: $400 VALUE: $1,500 MINIMUM BID: $300 MINIMUM BID: $500 BID INCREMENTS: $50 BID INCREMENTS: $50 Vintage Sports Car Races and Pit Tour at Lime Rock Park in Salisbury, CT VIP Private Tour of Olana’s Historic Landscape Thursday, Sept. 3 - Labor Day Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. and “River Crossings” Exhibition and Bell Tower For 2 Champagne Toast Weekend tickets for Historic Festival 33 and a backstage tour at For 8 the pit with Santo Spadaro, Director of Vintage Sports Car Club of America. The weekend showcases on-track racing, concours, and Join Olana’s curators for a Behind-the-Scenes, VIP tour and a parade-all featuring more than a thousand vintage, collector, and champagne toast. This is the Ultimate Upstairs—Downstairs, race cars! Uphill—Downhill, a total immersive experience of Olana as well as the currently running exhibition. This tour will be tailored to DONOR: Lime Rock Park your interests and the weather. VALUE: $ 500 MINIMUM BID: $300 DONOR: The Olana Partnership BID INCREMENTS: $50 VALUE: $700 MINIMUM BID: $450

Aix Coteaux D’Aix En Provence Rose Custom Portrait Painting of Your Property by Artist Enjoy 3 cases of Aix Coteaux D’Aix En Provence Rita DiCaprio Rose 2014 wine! An elegant and refined rosé, with concentrated flavors of apple, spice, and citrus that Commission an oil pastel portrait of your property by Saratoga are flanked by plenty of rich, spicy notes and a creamy based Artist, Rita DiCaprio. Portrait is 14 x 18 framed and signed. finish. 1 case each of standard, magnum, and double DiCaprio has been in multiple gallery and museum exhibition and her work graces the walls of some of the more prominent art magnum size bottles. collector names in NYC. DiCaprio will photograph your property and finish the piece in her studio. DONOR: Massanois, LLC – Merchants of Fine Wines DONOR: VALUE: $600 VALUE: $1,400 MINIMUM BID: $450 MINIMUM BID: $1,000 BID INCREMENTS: $50 BID INCREMENTS: $100