Hip Hip Horray! May 2023

Enjoy May's full moon with a guided hike at Dark Moon Preserve. Led by Margie Schiller, we will step out into the night to enjoy the nocturnal wonders of the preserve. We invite you to bring your family - both furry and non-furry.

Enjoy a day of free informative lectures and presentations, tours of  spectacular gardens, as well as a Craft Market featuring a wide selection of vendors and food.

With the passing of beloved director, sister, friend and mentor Kelly Simonetti, it is with a heavy heart the announcement of the final closure of Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary after 18 years.

Join landscape photographer & outdoor educator Adam Polinger at Dark Moon Preserve for a smartphone photo walk & workshop, learning the basics of identifying subjects, composing the shot, and quick editing tips to enhance your results.

There is limited space so register today!

Stop by for tours, informational talks, music, crafts, vendors, and more! Learn how Genesis grow the healthiest food and meet the farmers and shareholders!

Four Sisters kicks off May with live music every weekend.
 

The famous Argyle restaurant known for its fish fry in Kearny may be closed but you still have a chance to get the original meal cooked on site, by the former owner, here at Brook Hollow Winery. Live music and fun and games will also be provided for eat in attendees.

The Arts presents Grover Kemble with Harry and Bob Noble with classic rock tunes. “This is a bluesy show,” Kemble said. It will feature some of his original material, including some gospel pieces, as well as blues and other gospel numbers.

Suggested donation is $10.

Warren County Community Singers presents their Spring Fest concert May 6 at Grace Lutheran Church in Phillipsburg and Sunday May 7 at the First Presbyterian Church of Washington.

Participants will have the option to run or walk this course, which a scenic loop that passes streams, pastures, historic buildings, and the beautiful Musconetcong River on a mostly flat course.

Learn to use laughter to overcome life’s difficulties! There is power in laughter to help and heal.

Docents will be available to greet visitors and share the history of the Manor, its people, and the local industrial history of Oxford. We are offering tours of the main floor of the building. The last tour begins at 3:30pm.

The guided filming location tours take place at the camp where over 80% of the movie was filmed. Connect with fans from all over the world, step into each scene, retrace your favorite character's steps and take tons of photos.

Enjoy food, music, door prizes and People's Choice awards for nice rides in beautiful Blairstown.

There will be a $20 seasonal registration fee to benefit out H.E.A.R.T. of A Legend Scholarship.
 

Join Pam Dulaff for a hands-on program creating an easy & useful handmade Travelers style journal. While Traveler’s Journals can have soft or hard covers, this project will be upcycling old hard cover books to use for our cover.

Reiki translates from Japanese to 'Universal Life Energy'. It is a harmonizing, high vibration, purifying energy that has its own natural intelligence.

Spend the afternoon painting Alla Prima with watercolor, exploring techniques to paint expressive landscapes that include mixing color on the page and adding brush strokes to create texture and movement.

Create three 6” x 9” paintings. No previous art experience is required.

Put on your dancing shoes and come on down to the CDH gazebo for a concert! This band is an amalgam of veteran musicians with diverse musical backgrounds who have converged around the axis of country roots.

Are you ready for a smashing good time? The event begins with a formal wine tasting followed by a mouth-watering Chicken Parmesan dinner served with roasted vegetables, salad, bread and dessert. Dessert is introduced and paired with a dessert wines.

A pen and ink illustration workshop presented by WC Arts.

Open to the public, $25 for non-members to participate, all materials provided.

This program made possible, in part, by a grant from Warren County Cultural & Heritage Division of Land Use.

With a sophisticated and soothing style, Corinne Mammana is an emerging American jazz singer praised by Jazz Times for her "superb technique."

Tickets are $20. Wine available by the bottle only to enjoy during the concert and to take home.

This presentation, led by Stroud Water Research Center's Dave Bressler and the MWA's Christa Reeves, will provide an overview of the science of watersheds with a focus on the Musconetcong River Watershed.

Enjoy live music from WILMA, Green Cart, a gourmet plant-based menu and beer & wine at historic Rutherfurd Hall in Hackettstown.

Free food, fun, coping skills activities and giveaways at Hackettstown High School.

Bring the whole family and your furry friends to celebrate all things agriculture! A tractorcade will launch the fun, followed by live music, kids crafts, food, educational presentations, animal vaccine clinic, and more!

Recently restored Lehigh and Hudson River Caboose will be available for boarding via the museum platform that was completed last year. The Centerville and Southwestern Miniature Railroad will be operating, and its museum and gift shop will be open.

Admission is free.

Support local Hackettstown artists, crafters, builders & beer brewers during the 2023 Hackettstown Maifest & International Day celebration!

Free to attend and weather dependent (check social media for cancellations). Plan your summer entertainment and your fav Invertase brews!!

There is nothing like a fine four-course dinner served as the sun sets in a vineyard. This month is a Hungarian Feast jointly prepared by Paprikas (the only Hungarian restaurant in the Lehigh Valley) and Mattie's Strudel Haus which makes hand stretched strudels.

Matt Turk and C Lanzbom joined forces to form Deadgrass, a string band adventure through Jerry Garcia’s musical world.

This thrillingly epic event, Murder Mystery Dinner at Four Sisters Winery, will be one that you won't want to miss! This is an interactive dinner begs the question can you identify the perpetrator? You, your friends, and fellow gumshoes will enjoy equally hilarious and mystifying entertainment.

The Water Gap Singers will be showcasing selections from British composer John Rutter. This contemporary composer follows such luminaries as Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar in writing and arranging songs for adult and children’s choruses.

This is open to anyone who creates, makes, has made a business, or is a hobby maker! It is free to join just please bring something to share with a label of what it is (and if it is vegan, gluten free, vegetarian etc.) with the group.

Memorial Day weekend opens up the traditional summer travel season, and what better way to kick it off than with a visit to Alba Vineyard!

Docents will be available to greet visitors and share the history of the Manor, its people, and the local industrial history of Oxford. We are offering tours of the main floor of the building. The last tour begins at 3:30pm.

Join MWA's Ryan Jiorle and NJ Fish and Wildlife's Senior Zoologist Robert Somes for the first in-person River Talk of 2023 focusing on the life in the Musconetcong, as well as animals of interest to researchers and conservationists. 

Registration is required.

Four Sisters kicks off June with live music every weekend.
 

Free to attend and weather dependent (check social media for cancellations). Plan your summer entertainment and your fav Invertase brews!!

Chef Beth Ann Raynock of Local Mama Catering in Hellertown, PA will prepare a Parisian feast that will make you feel as if you are in France.

$80 per person with a free wine tasting 6:30pm -7pm. Dinner served at 7pm.
Wine available by the bottle for purchase.

Four Sisters kicks off June with live music every weekend.
 

Many of the homes in the Musconetcong River Watershed have septic systems, yet they're not always well understood by homeowners.

SOLD OUT OCTOBER 22 This thrillingly epic event, Murder Mystery Dinner at Four Sisters Winery, will be one that you won't want to miss! This is an interactive dinner that begs the question can you identify the perpetrator?

Harry and Bob Noble with a contingent of friends and fellow musicians bring a mélange of folk, classic rock and bluegrass to the concert series. The brothers are the third generation of their family to entertain around Warren County and its environs.

Docents will be available to greet visitors and share the history of the Manor, its people, and the local industrial history of Oxford. We are offering tours of the main floor of the building. The last tour begins at 3:30pm.

Chef Eddie Coss, who trained at the Culinary Institute of America, opened The Milford Oyster House with his sister Amy and is rated the best seafood in NJ by Zagat.

Docents will be available to greet visitors and share the history of the Manor, its people, and the local industrial history of Oxford. We are offering tours of the main floor of the building. The last tour begins at 3:30pm.

Chef Eddie Coss, who trained at the Culinary Institute of America, opened The Milford Oyster House with his sister Amy and is rated the best seafood in NJ by Zagat.

Docents will be available to greet visitors and share the history of the Manor, its people, and the local industrial history of Oxford. We are offering tours of the main floor of the building. The last tour begins at 3:30pm.

This is free and open to anyone who creates, makes, has made a business, or is a hobby maker.

Participants will have the option to run or walk this course, which a scenic loop that passes streams, pastures, historic buildings, and the beautiful Musconetcong River on a mostly flat course.

This talk has been rescheduled for March 5.

The famous Argyle restaurant known for its fish fry in Kearny may be closed but you still have a chance to get the original meal cooked on site, by the former owner, here at Brook Hollow Winery. Live music and fun and games will also be provided for eat in attendees.

Calling all Warren County 6-12 graders! Phillipsburg High School will be hosting Health and Wellness Field Day complete with food, live music, dancing, volleyball tournaments with law enforcement, and more!

Docents will be available to greet visitors and share the history of the Manor, its people, and the local industrial history of Oxford. We are offering tours of the main floor of the building. The last tour begins at 3:30pm.

Jesse Bardwell joins The Noble Brothers for a night of rock, folk, bluegrass and more at The Arts at St. Luke's.

The North New Jersey chapter of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG) is hosting this year's Herb day. Enjoy a day of free informative lectures and presentations, tours of  spectacular gardens, as well as a Craft Market featuring a wide selection of vendors and food.

PRRH recently restored Lehigh and Hudson River caboose number 18 will be positioned next to the museum building for all to easily explore. The Centerville and Southwestern Miniature Railroad will be operating, and its museum and gift shop will be open.

Admission is free.

A local fair with a global flair!

Villa's three course dinner served as the sun sets over the vineyard, opens with Ecuadorian Cuisine, prepared by talented chef Wilson Patina, owner of Rapaen Cuisine in Phillipsburg, NJ.

Featuring the Children's Chorus of Warren County comes the "The Innocence," Warren County Community Singers Spring Concert.

This is free and open to anyone who creates, makes, has made a business, or is a hobby maker.

Debuting at St. Luke's this year is Jeff Scalia on vocals and guitar and Tony Sky on harmonica.

Villa's three course dinner served as the sun sets over the vineyard, presents Chefs Odil & Lena Koorie, sisters and owners, of Daddy's Place in Easton preparing a delicious Lebanese dinner. Prepare to leave stuffed like a grape leaf as we sample traditional dishes from this region.

Chef Beth Ann Raynock of Local Mama Catering in Hellertown, PA will prepare a Parisian feast from local and organic ingredients, highlighting fresh, wholesome favors in a gourmet presentation. You feel as if you are in Provence!

The Arts at St. Luke's presents two of Northern New Jersey's most noted performers, Grover Kemble and Elaine Silver, take the stage.

Chef Jason, owner of Hagan Catering & Hospitality, creates a Southern comfort dinner with a fancy flair to titillate your taste buds with flavors reminiscent of classic French and New Orleans dishes. Three courses served as the sunsets. You will feel "down home" with his Cajun creations.

Propagate Studio is thrilled to host a special "Golden Summer Starving Artist Dinner Club" after going viral from a reel of Propagate's art supply thrift shop gained them over 13,000 followers in one month. Plus, that reel has over 1 million views.