The Cemetery Keeper's Wife poignantly blends fact and fiction as two women scarred by shame, and separated by more than a century, reach across time to rewrite history. Stop by and meet Maryann McFadden. This is a free event, copies of her book are available for purchase.
Starting November 28, 2018
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” - Shirley Temple
Ready or not, the Christmas season is upon us. We don't mean to alarm you; there is still plenty of time for shopping, baking, cards and Christmas trees! But below you will find numerous opportunities to visit with Santa in the coming week (such as Father Christmas at the Farmstead, pictured here from a couple years ago), as well as crafts (shoppping for them and making your own), and all other sorts of Christmas-themed entertainment. Happy Wanderings!
Coming Up
Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand star in a modern classic flim from Joel and Ethan Coen. Every Wednesday, escape from the modern trappings of TV and the internet with an old-fashioned evening at the movies in the vintage atmosphere of Blairstown's Roy's Hall. Titles change weekly.
Join the Musconetcong Watershed Association and celebrate the Asbury Mill restoration progress at a fundraiser dinner. The Mill’s restoration reached major milestones last year and funding is critical for MWA to move forward with exterior restoration and adapting the interior for reuse
Let them help you create a fresh evergreen arrangement such as a door swag, porch pot, or an amazing centerpiece with candles for your holiday table. Bring your own container or choose one from our selection. All materials, including fresh cut greens, bows, decorative picks, etc.
The Hackettstown BID hosts the 12th Annual Hometown Holiday celebration, in partnership with Centenary University, Fulton Bank of New Jersey, Wells Fargo, Johnson Auto Group and sponsored in part by, The House of the Good Shepherd, Maser Consulting Engineering, Fulton Bank of New Jersey and
Enjoy a delicious meal while you listen to some soft rock, jazz and blues.
The historic inn, a restored 1769 stone gristmill, features an evening with Katie Henry. Come check her out, enjoy a fine dinner, and make a night of it!
Call 908-459-4884 for more information.
Get into the Christmas spirit and wear that ugly sweater! This event is hosted by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Mountain Lake Fire Company. $10/person (age 21 & up) includes buffet, cash bar, and drink specials. Ugly sweaters not required, but it makes it more fun!
This band is top notch and is the closest thing you will get to seeing the Piano Man himself!
Supernova covers a wide variety of music from the '70s to today’s hits.
Stop by and enjoy some hot cider and pick that perfect Christmas tree. While there, take a horse-drawn carriage ride through the farm (Saturday only) or find some festive decor or the perfect gift, and much more!
Annual Warren County Technical School Craft Show. More than 130 of the area's finest crafters and artisans will come together for this one-day juried event to display their unique handmade items.
It's Christmas time! Create your own fresh evergreen 16″ wreath using various types of pine and holly. These contrasting greens will be wire wrapped onto a metal-form; making a long-lasting attractive display. You can also add decorative pine cones and a colorful bow.
This is the 41st year of a wonderful town-wide holiday event with more than 200 artisans participating. Upon arrival, there is a one time $4 fee that allows shoppers access to all the buildings and the shuttle buses that travel through the town both days.
Visit Millbrook Village and step back into another era where the toys and games don't need batteries. Historic homes will be decorated for Christmas in the Victorian style while costumed guides prepare holiday meals over woodstoves and open hearths, and craftsmen ply their trades.
A gift made by hand is a gift from the heart. Come on out to make cork ornaments for your tree, cork wreaths for your door, cork trivets for the kitchen and other items to gift. We provide the recycled corks and glue gun; you provide your imagination!
Visit the historical mansion while it is decorated for the holidays. There will be family photo opportunities with Santa, music, holiday crafts and much more. Free event (Donations gladly accepted).
The Phillipsburg Railroad Historians runs its annual Miniature Santa Train! Don't miss the last opportunity to ride the Centerville and Southwestern minature train in 2018! Santa will arrive on a fire truck at 1pm. He will greet everyone and then ride the first train.
Experience the pleasure of Well-Sweep Herb Farm's greenhouses – filled with unusual blossoms and exotic scents. Join us for an informative lecture-tour of its collection of herbs from around the world. This is a wonderful way to learn about the rare and unusual, as well as familiar herbs.
Come enjoy free live music with family, friends, and delicious wines!
Following the downtown Belvidere Tree Lighting (5-7pm) you can experience the sights, sounds and smells of Christmas past at Belvidere’s first Wassail Tour. Enjoy complimentary wassail and snacks in some of Belvidere’s historic homes.
Peter Karp has carved out his own unique niche as one of the finest contemporary Americana and blues artists around, singer-songwriter, slide guitarist and pianist. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.
Everything you want in a Bad Company cover band!
Godspell was the first major musical theatre offering from three-time Grammy and Academy Award winner, Stephen Schwartz, and it took the world by storm.
Under a Ton is a rock, country, pop, hip-hop and dance band. Come by and check them out. Drink and food specials will be offered.
Santa Claus will be visiting during their regular Sunday Brunch. Ol' Saint Nick will be taking photos with good children and listening to their Christmas wish lists. Get the family together for a Christmas brunch celebration!
Come by and listen to talented high school A Cappella groups in the decorated mansion. This is a free event sponsored by the friends of Rutherfurd Hall. Refreshments will be available for sale!
The manor will be decorated for the holiday season, with Steve Miller of Paddy and the Pale Boys playing the hammered dulcimer from 1-3pm; and the Stone Soup Symphony Trio performing from 3-4 pm.
Enjoy free live music with family, friends, and delicious wines!
Sing along to your favorite Christmas carols alongside costumed guides in an old-time atmosphere where peace and good will prevail. Held in the Millbrook Church followed by a fellowship get-together in the Van Campen Farmhouse.
There's always room for holiday decor for a festive homemade sign. Paint your own "JOY" sign while enjoying a drink or two, as we get into the spirit of the season. Reserve your spot now.
The Traveling Lantern Theatre Company presents “The Story of Ebenezer Scrooge” at the Warren County Library Headquarters. Ebenezer Scrooge is a nasty, mean and snarling old geezer, with no care for anything other than his money.
Come to the farmstead on a magical night and visit with Father Christmas in the Summer Kitchen by the fire! This has become an anticipated annual event for children of all ages. Sponsored by Historic Preservation Commission of Harmony Township and Harmony Historical Society.
Continuing
Come see a Family Holiday Spectacular at the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center. Book and score by Tony Award-winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin.
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.
Start your Christmas tradition by visiting three of Warren County’s most unique, family-owned farms all within 4 minutes of each other. Wyckoff’s Christmas Tree Farm, Mackey’s Orchard and Four Sisters Winery invite your family to enjoy a fun-filled day of Christmas trees, baked goods, wine
When you visit any of the participating BID businesses and make a purchase, you will receive a limited number Shop Small fabric tote bag, with coupons for Hackettstown businesses. One bag will also contain $25 in BID Bucks.
It’s that time again! Get your yoga on – and your wine/wine slushies! Let the stresses of your week melt away in our heated event facility, looking over one of our lush vineyards. The class will be beginner-friendly and open to all levels.
Community Corner
All-you-can-eat Country Breakfast the first Saturday of every month! Omelets, pancakes, French toast, hash browns, pork roll and sausage. $9/person.
Greet Santa at the Lakeview Room and enjoy a delicious buffet breakfast. Santa will be arriving at 10am.
Cost is $8 per adult, $7 per seniors, and $5 per child age 10 and under.
Boy Scout Venture Crew #63 is hosting its annual Breakfast with Santa at Old Greenwich Presbyterian Church. The cost is $6 for adults, $5 for youth ages 6-12 and is free for children under five years old.
Join the Washington BID on the first Tuesday of every month for an evening of casual networking. This is a free to attend event where BID Goodnight Networking allows local business people to meet new colleagues and reconnect with those they know. Please bring a coverd dish and BYOB.
Advance registration is required for this informative talk on eating healthy over the holidays. A FREE light healthy dinner will be provided. Call 1-866-STLUKES (785-8537) Option 4. Presentedy by Lauren Myhren, RD, LDN and Marielle Smoller, MS, RD, LDN.
Plan Ahead
It's that time of the month! Join them for some awesome food, drinks and planting a terrarium.
Hometown Holiday is a celebration that will light up the downtown in more ways than one. Come see Santa, Dickens characters and other seasonal celebrities; witness the tree lighting; enjoy songs of the season, DJ Mitch Hess, shopping, dining, and plenty more! Something for everyone!
Join Art and Brew for a festive night out in Hope, to paint a holiday tree on wood (9" by 24"). Your choice of colors, glitter accents are optional. The perfect holiday decoration to customize with your chosen colors!
Joe Fisher is committed to making the very best beer. Mark Drabich has the same commitment to sourcing and cooking the very best seafood.
Darol Anger, The Matt Flinner Trio & Emy Phelps - “Keepin' It In the Fam” Holiday Show at Roy's Hall
What better way for some of the country’s most prominent string musicians to celebrate the holidays than to play some shows with family and friends?
About 30 vendors are expected for this craft and vendor fair. Free gift wrapping will be available. Kitchen will be open for breakfast and lunch. This church also offers a country breakfast the first Saturday of every month, 7am-11am., $9 for all you can eat.
Using holly and various types of fresh greens, create a delightful centerpiece for your holiday table. Then, you can add pine cones, berries and finish with a candle and decorative bow. The approximate size is 14″. Please bring gloves and clippers.
Create a long-lasting festive tree for your holiday table using fresh boxwood, holly and assorted winter greens. You will then decorate with pine cones, stars, ribbon and other novelties. Completed height approximately 18″. One of our most popular evergreen pieces. Bring clippers.
All those Dickensian characters dancing, jiving and swinging to a Harlem beat? Right on! Scrooge is a Harlem slumlord about to foreclose on an apartment house, a recreation center and a church when his late partner and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future take him on their rounds.
Enjoy an evening at Villa Milagro listening to classical guitarists, Laura Oltman and Michael Newman, perform a selection of ancient and modern Christmas music, featuring pieces by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Pachelbel, Brahms and more. Free wine tasting from 6-7pm. Concert begins at 7pm.
During the holiday season the demands of everyday life can be overwhelming and sometimes cause us to neglect ourselves. To make time and create a space to relax, unwind and heal our senses has become more challenging than ever.
Historic site tours, tree lighting, caroling, holiday music, Santa’s visit and children’s crafts are part of this annual event.
Award winning tenor jazz saxophonist & record producer, Houston Person is known as the “The Boss Tenor Crown.” He’s performed in the hard bop and swing genres, but most experienced in and best known for his work in soul jazz.
The murders continue at Four Sisters Winery! It's just for fun during our Murder Mystery Dinners. The event begins with a formal wine tasting, followed by a delicious dinner of baked ziti, meatballs, garden salad, bread & dessert.
The show is composed of various musical parables from The Gospel According to Matthew. Jesus Christ recruits a group of followers and teaches them various lessons through song and dance.
When Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy tries to save her dog from a storm, she's miraculously whisked away to an urban fantasy land called Oz. After accidentally killing the Wicked Witch of the East upon her arrival, Dorothy is told about the Wiz, a wizard who can help her get back to Manhattan.
It's that time of year again! There’s magic in the air and a sparkle in every smile when The Nutcracker comes to town. In this dramatic presentation, the audience is invited to Dr. and Mrs. Stahlbaum's Christmas Party.
There's still time! Enter a raffle drawing for the original, framed watercolor, "The Old Spring House" by the late, great artist and friend, Dan Campanelli (1949-2017). This is not a print but one of Dan's original paintings valued at $10,000. A rare opportunity!
Bring your favorite beer, wine and snacks to enjoy while you learn about succulents and their care, then create three mini-garden terrariums to give as beautiful gifts this holiday season. Adults only please, space is limited so pre-register before it's too late!
Children learn about succulent plants and their care before creating two holiday-themed mini-garden terrariums to give as gifts. There is a $10 materials fee. Pre-registration required, as space is limited. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.