Village of Sleepy Hollow, New York
Sleepy Hollow is a village located in Westchester County, New York. Formerly known as North Tarrytown, it was officially renamed in March 1997. It is the location of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, made famous by Washington Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and also of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where Irving is buried. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 9,212. As a village, it is located in the Town of Mount Pleasant.
Sleepy Hollow has a large Hispanic population. Half of Sleepy Hollow's residents are mostly Ecuadorian and Dominican, while the remainder is mostly white non-Hispanic.
Kykuit
Kykuit is a historic house built for John D. Rockefeller in 1913 by the architects Chester Holmes Aldrich and William Adams Delano. The Classical Revival mansion took six years to complete. Four generations of Rockefellers called it home before it became a National Trust historic site.
Kykuit is located one hour's drive north of New York City. "Kykuit" means outlook in old Dutch.
The mansion features interiors designed by Ogden Codman, Jr., collections of Chinese and European ceramics, fine furnishings and 20th-century art.
Philipsburg Manor
Philipsburg Manor is a historic house, water mill, and trading site located on Route 9 in Sleepy Hollow, New York. The manor dates from 1693 when Frederick Philipse was granted a charter for 52,000 acres along the Hudson River by William and Mary of England. He built Philipsburg Manor at the confluence of the Pocantico and Hudson Rivers, creating it as a provisioning plantation for the Atlantic sea trade and as headquarters for a world-wide shipping operation. For more than thirty years, Frederick and his son Adolph shipped hundreds of African men, women, and children as slaves across the Atlantic.
Now a National Historic Landmark, the farm features a stone manor house filled with a good collection of 17th-and 18th-century period furnishings, a working water-powered grist mill and millpond, an 18th-century barn, a slave garden, and a reconstructed tenant farm house. Costumed interpreters re-enact life in pre-Revolutionary times, doing chores, milking the cows, and grinding grain in the grist mill.
Take Limos - If you're planning on hitting a couple different spots, and you've got six or seven guys, it is not only more fun but also cheaper to rent a limo rather than taking cabs.
Leave the cameras at home - while you know nothing bad happened, that picture of the groom's face in a stripper's cleavage may make the bride think otherwise.
Decide on a budget for yourself before you go out - otherwise you may end up gambling away your life savings, or giving it all to a beautiful dancer. Las Vegas has a way of convincing you that you don't really need your money.
No matter what a stripper tells you, your money matters far more to her than how special you are. That's okay, she's just earning a living, but don't be the fool. If Las Vegas is too far to go, you might also consider having a weekend of decadence closer to home. There won't be the legalized gambling, but bill it as a Hollywood weekend where the groom is the star, and be sure to have plenty of champagne, limousines, spa treatments, dinner at fine restaurants, and flirting with pretty girls.
Co-ed Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties
The groom's not looking to do anything he wouldn’t do in front of his girlfriend, the bride's got some good looking friends, and you're hoping the maid of honor will help you with the planning. Whether it's just a blowout house party, or an evening of debauchery, a coed bachelor party can be a great solution. This is also a great solution for the increasing number of couples who don't have a bridal party and thus must either forgo the rite of passage, or have to plan it themselves.
Whatever you decide to do, make sure the groom is front and center in your planning. While you want everyone to have a good time, he's the one who really matters. If he's a low-key kind of guy, maybe a night of drinking and puking is not the best idea. Also, keep in mind that there's no reason you can't do a combination of these bachelor party ideas – perhaps a golf tournament during the day, followed by a steak and cigar party that evening. Pick a few different activities and keep everyone happy.
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