October is National Arts & Humanities month, and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg is celebrating with "Arts Alive!" events.

The fun began Tuesday with the 2005 Governor's Awards for the Arts at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg. It continues at 7:30 tonight when Westmoreland Jazz Society features Sean Jones and Mission Statement at the art museum. Tickets are $15.

From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday is family day at the museum atop North Main Street, with free art activities and music for children and families.

At 2 p.m. the Hot Matzohs, a musical exploration of the ethnic neighborhoods that made up early 20th-century Pittsburgh, presents stories about immigrants and the music they might have heard in the Irish, Scottish, German, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, African-American and Slavic communities a century ago. A storyteller also will perform, and children can try their hands at arts and crafts projects they can take home.

In the main galleries, the Westmoreland has extended "American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting" through Dec. 31.

Originally slated to end Oct. 23, this exhibit features 114 landscape paintings grouped by pairs or series so the viewer can see how three generations of Hudson River School artists interpreted the majestic American landscape between 1825 and 1875.

For details, phone the museum at 724-837-1500 or visit the Web site at www.wmuseumaa.org.