N-Y Historical Society Hosts History Mysteries Scavenger Hunt

The New-York Historical Society and Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts-Uncover Secrets of New York

Test your wits and see how much you know about history at the New York History Mysteries Scavenger Hunt. Participants will form teams, compete for a special prize and search for answers to tricky and humorous questions about Abraham Lincoln, Hudson River School painters, Grateful Dead, John Brown, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American watercolors and drawings, and other forces that shaped the city.

Contestants will search for answers to clues from the Permanent Collection and from current exhibitions: Lincoln and New York, John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy, The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, FDR's Brian Trust and the Beginning of the New Deal, Nature and the America Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society.

Teams will also find clues and solutions in the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture--home to some 40,000 historical objects of Americana including George Washington's camp bed at Valley Forge, and his inaugural armchair, the desk at which Clement Clarke Moore wrote "A Visit From Saint Nicholas," the world's largest collection of Tiffany lamps and glasswork, a collection of more than 550 American board games from the Civil War to the present and many other paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects.

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WHAT: New York History Mysteries Scavenger Hunt

WHEN: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 2 pm

WHERE: NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
170 CENTRAL PARK WEST AT 77TH STREET

ADMISSION: NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBER: $17.50; COLLEGE STUDENT WITH VALID ID: $24.50; SENIOR OR EDUCATOR WITH VALID ID: $26.50; ADULT: $29.50

Directions: To get to The New-York Historical Society take B or C trains to 81st Street or M10 bus to 77th Street; M79 to 81st and CPW.