Genesee Country Village: Derby horses, ladies hats and the good old farmstead life
In today's Daily News, correspondent Kristina Greene Gabalski previewed the summer season for Genesee Country Village & Museum. It seems they've got more than ever going on at the Mumford living history museum this summer.
This year's annual Whirl — the museum's major annual fundraiser — will have a Kentucky Derby theme. The Sport of Kings Cotillion is planned June 14 and features a mock horse auction, jockeys moving wooden hobby horses around a giant game board, a ladies' hat contest and live and silent auctions. The event is intended to capture the excitement of a Derby Day Ball at Churchill Downs.
Funny. Ladies' hats are the first thing that come to mind when I think of the Kentucky Derby — seriously. Have you seen these hats? They're about the size of a car hood, plumed with feathers or bows or nets or flowers. In an erotic swoosh, they curl and curve and dip around the head of a dame.
They're showy, posh — in a word, magnificent. My measly, paisley, Windsor-knotted tie is no match for their pretension.
But enough of ladies' hats.
What else can we find at the Genesee Country Village & Museum this summer? Well, just this month, for example, they've got:
- the Civil War by candlelight
- a birthday party for a pair of oxen
- a hike in search of bats, bugs and beavers
- and a birding expedition.
Visit the museum's Web site for dates and times of these and other events. Or call (585) 538-6822. The museum is located at 1410 Flint Hill Rd., Mumford.
Photo of the Derby hat borrowed from Hats by Nancee. Visit the site for more such hand-crafted splendors.
