Starting November 1, 2017

Warren County Wanderings

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn." - Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985), U.S. garden writer

What better place to watch those leaves turn than here in Warren County? With plenty of parkland and open space, and country lanes to take you there, find the time to unwind. Maybe you'll see an eagle like this one Kent Sweigert spotted and photographed along Old Mine Road in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. And since the bald eagle is our national emblem, it's a good time to remind you that next Tuesday is Election Day, so don't miss your opportunity to exercise your rights and cast your ballot. If you're a New Jersey voter, you can find your polling place here. Meanwhile, we're having a contest! Click here and enter to win two tickets to the Giants v. KC Chiefs on Nov. 19. Tell your friends who aren't already Wanderings subscribers, the contest is a perfect opportunity to sign up for both this newsletter and the ticket giveaway. So read on for this week's happenings as we welcome November. Happy Wanderings!

Coming Up

Guest speaker: Dr. Barbara-Jayne Lewthwaite.  Topic: “Reinventing Yourself – It's a Lifelong Process”

Luigi's Rancho hosts JAZZ+WINE+TAPAS WEDNESDAY, featuring Dennis Melillo, guitar and vocals, with Tom Drake, guitar.

You've done the walk, now hear the whole tale!

Do you know how to sew? Learn some basics of sewing while you make some Christmas tree ornaments out of their naturally dyed fabrics. Machine or hand sew. Decorate with beads and/or simple embroidery.

Enjoy drink and food specials at Rock Creek Tavern while you build this awesome Distressed Wood Planter Succulent Terrarium with river rocks and rose quartz crystal.  Tickets are $55.  Get your tickets now.

Sandy and the Mix is performing at SoMa.  

The Emmy Award - winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science, and politics through clever, tuneful songs is instructing a whole new generation to Unpack Your Adjectives and do The Circulations!  Tom, a nerve - wracked school teacher nervous about

Come out to Bea McNally's for a fun night with DJ Nappz! 

Open house with huge sales throughout the store.  Refreshments will be available along with door prizes.

Come enjoy free live music with family, friends, and delicious wines!

Under the guidance of established artist Suzanne Montgomery, you will learn how to use a variety of mediums. Longtime member and supporter Chris Hepburn has kindly offered her barn in Hardwick, New Jersey as an art studio, the perfect backdrop for creating nature themed work of arts.

Learn how to make a grapevine wreath and decorate with dried flowers.  You will take grapevines and learn how to twist, turn, wrap and secure them into a grapevine wreath shape.

Relax and enjoy soft rock, blues & jazz during dinner and dessert.

Women musicians will take center stage on Fridays in November.  The four musical acts, Beth Sherby, Maribyrd, Lee Larson and Andie Baldwin, each has her own unique style.

This band is top notch and is the closest thing you will get to seeing the Piano Man himself! 

Fun Pop/Rock hits - from Elvis & the Beatles to today's radio hits.

Come to Bea McNally's to listen to Katastrophy!  Offers up a musical mix that’s sure to get the audience moving. 

At this time of year, the Well-Sweep garden fairies transform the shop into a Christmas wonderland. The greenhouse will be stocked with a selection of attractive windowsill herbs, tender perennials in bloom and unique topiaries. Enter to win a $35 Gift Certificate.

Come and celebrate the harvest! Visit this historic farmstead - a free event - with live demonstrations including:

• Children's Activities including: Embroidery, Candle Making, Weaving
• Many Antiques on Display
• War Re-Enactors

Kick off the holiday season with some shopping! Join their growing collection of crafters at their annual Holiday Craft Fair! Find that special something for that special someone, in a fun, local event.

John Greenaway has had a most impressive career as a guitarist, song writer, and leader of bands from the '60s to the present. John is one of the most versatile and accomplished guitarist of his generation.

Outdoor wine tastings and wine bar under our new arbor, as Bev Conklin and company bring their wealth of experience and passion to Blues, Jazz, Swing, Folk, R&B, Soul and more.  Admission $15 per person but is complimentary for Gold Club Members.  Wood-fired pizza and other cul

The '50s, '60s and '70s music with classic country and more is the style that Janci and Berry bring to Brook Hollow Winery.  Come enjoy free live music with family, friends, and delicious wines!

A Stomping We Will Go at our Barefoot Grape Stomping! $35/person (plus tax & service fee).  Advanced tickets required. Call for tickets at 908-475-3671.

Warren County Community Singers present Cabaret Café, their annual showcase of soloists and small groups in the fellowship hall of Grace Lutheran Church in Phillipsburg. $10 admission.

While you dine, relax and enjoy the soft rock tunes of Jersey's own Rich Goldberg, covering over seventy iconic artists, from the Beatles to Billy Joel and from James Taylor to Elton John.

For more than half a century, New Jersey Ballet has thrilled audiences from Bergen to Cape May with top quality professional ballet.

CSP says: "Come on out for our Pre-Super Bowl Rock and Roll Party. We will be playing from 8:00 to 11:00 and if you want to stay and hang out we'll play as long as you want. See you there."

The Bellfy Band blends classic rock, country & pop with their own strong vocal harmonies, playing music ranging from the '70s through today’s hits.

Supernova covers a wide variety of music from the '70s to today’s hits.

Do you enjoy yoga? Come by The Architects Golf Club and "Bend and Brunch." First Sunday of every month you can stretch, bend and then have some brunch. $25 per person. Sign up today and buy your ticket.

A connection with nature is an essential life-giving human need. The commitment of Ridge and Valley Conservancy to preserve natural surroundings reflects an understanding of the sustaining power of natural wisdom.

Enjoy some live music on the deck with Henry Wieczorek!  Henry is an Acoustic Soloist currently living in Flemington NJ.  His renditions of Rock & Roll classics and Pop songs, as well as his own original music, will have you dancing with the beat.

Tour this Georgian-style manor, constructed of local stone, with two foot thick stone walls and three immense chimneys, and learn about Warren County's early iron industry and the people who worked in it.

With a sophisticated and soothing style, Corinne Mammana is an emerging American jazz singer praised by JazzTimes for her “superb technique.”  Come listen and enjoy some outdoor wine tastings under their new arbor.  Admission is $15 per person, (includes wine tasting and an etched Alba

Come enjoy free live music with family, friends, and delicious wines!

The classic fairy tale comes to life with lavish sets and costumes, performed with New Jersey Ballet's original "storyteller" narration so little children can follow the story.  Cinderella is rich, colorful entertainment with a moral for children of all ages.

Join a pair of up-and-coming psychic mediums for an afternoon of messages from the Other Side!  Mediums certified by the MontClair Metaphysical Center will channel departed loved ones in a gallery setting.  Tickets are $25 which includes refreshments.  They can't guarantee readings

Continuing

This 7-acre, military-themed Corn Maze is open for the season through November 10, Wednesday through Sunday, 9am-6pm (Monday and Tuesday by appointment) and culminating with a free invitation-only event for veterans and their families on Veterans Day, November 11.

Community Corner

Going out of the country? Do you need a passport?  Come by the Warren County Court House and get your application and photo ID finalized.  Early voting offered for County residents, too. Call 908-475-6211 for any questions.

Help Ridge and Valley Conservancy and North Warren Regional School District's High School Senior Alli Mehan with her service project clearing trails at White Lake.

Begin your journey to a better life! Six-week session of Yoga classes with Delia. Beginner Yoga at 4pm, followed by Advanced/Beginner and Intermediate at 5:15pm.

Pre-pay $78 for all six weeks or $16 per walk-in class.

Plan Ahead

Do you know how to sew? Learn some basics of sewing while you make some Christmas tree ornaments out of their naturally dyed fabrics. Machine or hand sew. Decorate with beads and/or simple embroidery.

Randy Noojin resurrects the prolific icon, Pete Seeger, America's beloved folksinger/activist, singing Seeger's greatest songs, vocalizing a brilliant script, and projecting mesmerizing visuals to tell of his personal struggles for free speech.

Does your child like to paint?  If yes, then this is the class for him or her.  They can learn the basics of composition and color theory. They will teach you how to block in color with shapes, layer colors, and add values, tints and highlights.

Get your friends together and paint like the masters! Learn technique, composition and color theory. They will teach you how to block in color with shapes, layer colors, work with compositional design and add values, tints and highlights with all the hues of color needed.

Paint your very own 12"x12" Holiday Star Mini Wooden Barn Quilt at charming Hope Junction Antiques! Choose from a variety of holiday colors including metallic gold and silver. This is the perfect holiday decoration or gift! It can be displayed indoors or outdoors.

Comedy Night at the Winery! $20/person (plus NJ State sales tax)

Ticket price does not include food or wine. Light snacks will be provided and wine can be purchased by the glass or bottle at retail value. *Show includes adult humor*

Headliner:John Mulrooney.

Do you how to make an apple pie?  Learn the secret from Just Made Baking at TreeLicious Orchards.

Roy’s Hall is proud to present JOAN OSBORNE in concert in support of her newest release “Songs of Bob Dylan”. On the new allbum Joan unleashes her sizable gifts as a vocalist and interpreter upon The Bard’s celebrated canon.

“What separates Grant Stewart from so many of his peers stuck in the quicksand of hard bop nostalgia is the sheer creative spark and spontaneity of his solos...When Stewart gets hot the questions of individuality evaporate amid the in-the moment thrills of his invention.” Mark Stryker, Detroit Fr

It's not a typical who done it! It's the guests in the audience that create a witty, weaving story line. As the plot thickens, the victim falls prey and with deductive reasoning detectives investigate to reveal the murderer! Who do you think did it?

Canceled! Four weekly 2-hour art classes guided by Ron Hornung. Donation is $60.  Ron Hornung guides a variety of creative activities intended for seekers of uniquely personal artistic experience. Join him at your "growing edge" of artistic awareness.

Jackie the Joke Man Martling, stand-up comedian, writer, radio personality, author, and actor, is best known as the former head writer for The Howard Stern Show. See him and other comics, too. Door opens at 7pm, show at 9pm. $35/ticket, $25 food and drink minimum.

Create a scarecrow decoration to add to your fall decor or give as a gift!

Join The Farm in Harmony for an evening of creating rolled paper flowers to decorate a nature material wreath for your home or to give as a gift. Your finished 6 inch diameter wreath will be the perfect addition to your Thanksgiving decor!

Please join them on the 4th Annual Lantern Walk at Genesis Farm's Community Supported Garden!  Events include: 4:00 ~ Outdoor Crafts and Activities; 5:15 ~ Story, Songs and Lantern Walk; 6:00~ Potluck Dinner.