For romantic weekend vacations in New York State, visit the Inn at Green River.

This $245 getaway package includes:

• One night in our romantic Thorsden Room with king-size bed, gas fireplace, and a Jacuzzi big enough for two!
  
• Full gourmet breakfast
  
• $50 discount coupon towards dinner for two at John Andrews (Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday evening).

Available Sunday through Tuesday nights, May 1 — August 31,
holidays excluded. One dinner discount per stay.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra spends the summer nearby at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, in the heart of the Berkshires, “America's premier cultural resort.”

In July and August, the Symphony performs each Friday and Saturday evening, and on Sunday afternoon. During the week, chamber music, recitals, and performances by the students at the Tanglewood Institute round out the schedule.

Extend your summer weekend stay to three nights* and we'll provide lawn tickets to the concert of your choice. Don't forget to bring a blanket and lawn chairs!

* Excluding holidays and the July 23–25 weekend.

The Inn opened in July 1989 with just 3 rooms, no TVs, no Wi-Fi, no gas fireplaces, and no World Wide Web to promote the fledgling business! Come celebrate our 20th year and all the changes that have occurred. Stay two nights mid-week or three nights on a weekend in the Thorsden room (with its grand, new, king bed, gas fireplace, and enormous whirlpool tub), and pay just $198.90 a night - a grand breakfast in the new sun room is included of course! No holidays, please, but do come before June 30, 2010.

The Inn has partnered with The Pampered Cow (marketer of Hudson Valley artisanal farmstead cheeses) and their Columbia County creamery, Twin Maple Farm, to offer our guests a morning of cheese-making and cheese-tasting. You will leave with a 1 lb. wheel of cheese (1 per couple). Cost for the Monday class is $50/person. This could also be part of a great holiday gift - a stay at the Inn on a Sunday night and a class on Monday morning.

Innkeeper Deborah Bowen has always been a fan of pierced lampshades, a historic craft that one rarely sees these days.

In 1856, Godey's Ladies' Magazine offered, "This simple and beautiful decoration . . . is universally admired for its fine effect . . . . The prettiest thing of its kind we have seen, simple and inexpensive, yet wonderfully effective and beautiful."

Join Deborah on Saturday and Sunday, February 27-28 or March 6-7 in a 2-day workshop, creating your own pierced lampshade, taught by Marti Tetler. Marti began making lampshades in 1976, and she opened her own studio within a year. She has studied Early American Decoration and Theorem Painting and is a Guild member and officer of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration. She is the author of Marti's Lampshade Book, your guide to making your own shades.

The workshop will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. This two day class costs $85 per person and includes the materials for making one lampshade. Participants who wish to make additional lampshades can purchase the materials at the workshop for between $10 and $20. Marti will be staying at the inn and will be happy to work with students in the evenings as well.