Starting October 13, 2021

Warren County Wanderings

Think of it as Kleenex is to tissues, Taylor Ham is to Pork Roll - from JerseyPorkRoll.com - courtesy of Dr. Google

If you suspect the photo above was NOT taken in Warren County, you are correct, and hope you can forgive us. Meet Slice, a mascot of the Trenton Thunder Minor League Baseball team, who will be attending Phillipsburg’s Pork Roll Palooza this Saturday! Let’s “roll” out the red carpet for this unique celebrity, shall we?

Slice aside, if attending a celebration in honor of processed meat is not at the top of your hit parade, never fear! This weekend features Blairstown’s Fall Festival with its eagerly anticipated Bed Race revival (plus two concerts at Roy’s Hall), kayaking at Rutherfurd Hall, a car show, the inaugural Grains & Gears bike ride, Centenary Stage Company’s annual Fringe Festival kickoff, ample opportunities for wine tasting, and more! Live music and fun fall farm activities can be found just about everywhere these days. You don’t have to venture far to find amusement and enrichment; it’s all right here.

Happy Wanderings!

Coming Up

Nine Day Wonder is a comedy by and starring Stephen Temperley that takes place both in the past and present. When Will, a contemporary man, is faced with a moment of ultimate crisis, to distance himself from reality he splits in two, becoming Will Kemp, Shakespeare’s famous fool.

Sideline is a pedigreed six-piece powerhouse whose style has set the pace in Bluegrass for over two decades.

Usher in fall  by creating a 16” wreath using a grapevine base and a wide selection of dried flowers, artemisia, seed pods, and more; color schemed to your choice. Add festive décor to your home. Reservations are required. $44.

Yes! The beds are coming back to Blairstown this October! Last held in the late 1990’s, The Blairstown Bed Races were a community favorite that long-time residents fondly remember.

The Phillipsburg Downtown Association and Norwescap is proud to host the 4th annual festival in Phillipsburg, at its new home in Shappell Park! Fried, seared or grilled, however you like your Pork Roll, you’ll be able to enjoy it that way here!

Explore Allamuchy Lake at this beautiful time of year. Rentals include boat, life jacket and paddle.

Single kayak -$25/hr. (1 paddler), tandem kayak - $35/hr. (2 paddlers) and canoe - $35/hr. (2 paddlers and 2 passengers).

Centenary Stage Company’s Great Authors Out Loud Series returns with a staged reading of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, which tells the story of famed actress Arkadina who visits her family with her young lover Trigorin in tow.

Musconetcong Watershed Association presents Wine Tasting on the Musky. Enjoy fine wines, craft beers, and hard ciders on the banks of the Wild & Scenic Musconetcong River. There will be food trucks, yard games and duck race!

Admission is $30 prepaid or $35 at the door.

Scott Sharrard is best known as lead guitarist and music director for the Gregg Allman Band and is now the newest member of Little featuring Cassidy Rain & Bryan Schroeder of The Outcrops.

Experience great craft beers and bike the beautiful countryside of Warren County while supporting a good organization. Ride from Buttzville Brewing Company in Washington Borough to Invertase Brewing Company in Phillipsburg and have a pint, then ride back and have another pint.

Boy Scouts of America Troop 54 presents its 10th Annual Car Show:  Car Troop 54, Where Are You? Bring your wheels or just come out to see the cars that others have entered in the show.

Experience great craft beers and bike the beautiful countryside of Warren County while supporting a good organization. Ride from Buttzville Brewing Company in Washington Borough to Invertase Brewing Company in Phillipsburg and have a pint, then ride back and have another pint.

A fall festival featuring bed races, a pumpkin pavilion with activities for all ages, craft vendors, food trucks, a craft beer garden. live muisc and vendors!

A fall festival featuring bed races, a pumpkin pavilion with activities for all ages, craft vendors, food trucks, a craft beer garden. live music and vendors!

Continuing

Join Alba every Friday and Saturday evening for wine, food, and music!  All guests must be 21+
Chef Anthony, Trattoria Di Fiore, will be back, with freshly made wood-fired pizza, salad, paninis, and other culinary treats available for purchase.

Spend part of your afternoon at Brook Hollow Winery and Event Facility for live music. You are invited to support local proprietors by purchasing a meal from the many restaurants in the area and enjoy it on with a bottle of Brook Hollow Wine.

Come - if you dare - to the Hayride of Horrors and Haunted House at Corrado's Farm located in Hackettstown. The Corrado Family has been brightening dark Autumn nights with frights and chills for more than 20 years! Operating Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings through October 30.

Every Friday night during October is movie night. Enjoy classic Halloween movies everyone loves to see! Free for all!

Outdoors, weather permitting...indoors if it's not! Buck's BBQ will be located nearby too! Make a night of it with great beer, good friends and good fun!

Call 908-441-6127 to book a table!

Oct. 15: Brian & Brian
Oct. 17: Caren Kennedy Duo
Oct. 22: Last Night in Town
Oct. 24: Sue & Mike
Oct. 29: JJ Lynch

 

The Blairstown Farmers Market is in full swing! Come see your favorite local farmers and food producers at the Blairstown Farmers Market!

When riding the Great Pumpkin Train, every child will be able to pick their own pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. $18/adult; $12/child. Trips leave 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm and 3:30pm.

Join Alba every Saturday and Sunday afternoon for wine, food, and music! All guests must be 21+ 
Chef Anthony, Trattoria Di Fiore, will be back, with freshly made wood-fired pizza, salad, paninis, and other culinary treats available for purchase.

A weekend for the family at the winery featuring live music, great food from the Bistro Menu, wine tasting ($5/person), as well as wine by the glass or bottle.

Pack a picnic, invite some friends and lull away the afternoon with great wines, music and spectacular views! $15 cover charge includes seating, tasting & gift glass to keep for 1-6 people. Seatings for are 1-3 first-come basis; parties of 4-6 are by reservation/prepaid.

Join Little Ridge Vineyards for Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon music.

Tasting room is open Friday- Sunday.

Outdoor seating is available, but feel free to bring a blanket or chair.

LIVE MUSIC AT TIPTONS:

  • Oct. 2 Zaire 9-12
  • Oct. 9 Uncle Rocco Outdoor Patio 3-6
  • Oct. 15 Bill Ihling 6-9
  • Oct. 16  Avenue 16 Outdoor Patio 4-7
  • Oct. 22 Scott Messina 6-9
  • Oct. 23 JerZGirls 9-12

Fall fun is here! Fall Harvest Weekends run Saturdays, Sundays & Columbus Day throughout October!

Hello Fall! Fall fest 2021 is underway! Make memories at Tranquillity Farms:
Hayrides, Pumpkin Picking, Cow Train, Bounce Pillow, Corn Maze, Playground area and corn bins, Apple cider donuts and slushies, Apple picking, Pumpkin Launching, Grilled Corn and more!

Celebrate the fall season with family fun for all ages at our Fall Festival Weekends!

UACNJ provides free public programs at the astronomy club in Jenny Jump State Forest from April through October on Saturday evenings. The astronomy presentation begins at 8pm and is followed by stargazing on the observatory's telescopes until 10:30pm, weather permitting.

A venue where local farmers, producers, and artisans come together to provide a variety of fresh produce and related products directly to the consumer, located in the parking lot of White Township School (corner of Rts. 46 and 519), Belvidere. Open every Sunday, June-September.

Come enjoy brunch and live music Sundays this fall.

Live Music Sundays:
October 24 - Gary Corde
October 31 - Brian Molnar
November 7 - Jack Pierone
November 14 - Cody Bondra
November 21 - Sydney Atkinson

 

Pack a picnic, invite some friends and lull away the afternoon with great wines, music and spectacular views! $15 cover charge includes seating, tasting & gift glass to keep for 1-6 people. Seatings for are 1-3 first-come basis; parties of 4-6 are by reservation/prepaid.

Celebrate the fall season with family fun for all ages at our Fall Festival Weekends!

When riding the Great Pumpkin Train, every child will be able to pick their own pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. $18/adult; $13/child. Trips leave 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm and 3:30pm.

Fall Fest 2022 is underway with Hayrides, Pumpkin Picking, Cow Train, Bounce Pillow, Corn Maze, Playground area and corn bins, Apple cider donuts and slushies, Apple picking, Pumpkin Launching, Grilled Corn and more!
Weekday and weekend packages available!  

 

When riding the Great Pumpkin Train, every child will be able to pick their own pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. $20/adult; $14/child. Trips leave 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm.

Community Corner

A take out only fundraiser for Blairstown fire company. Tickets are $15 each and include BBQ pulled pork, baked beans, coleslaw, baked potato, roll and dessert! 

Plan Ahead

Enjoy October's Hunters full moon with a hike at Dark Moon Preserve. 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.

Calling all kids! Come get creative having a spook-tacular time learning, step-by step, how to paint these festive pumpkins!

Centenary Stage Company’s Fringe Festival continues with A Tale of Two Cities, Cobbled Together by the Brothers Lovejoy

Draught House welcomes Christian Porter, a young singer/songwriter/producer from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania playing guitar, piano, ukulele and more. Enjoy some good tunes, drinks, and food.

Take-out only Roast Beef dinner, including dessert. $15 per meal. Stay safe inside your vehicle! Please drive in the back (cemetery entrance) to payment station near the clothing shed, then proceed to the take-out window where a runner will take your tickets and bring your to-go bags.

CANCELED! A.J. Croix and The Devil’s Right Hand Band is a progressive country band (not to be confused with modern pop country).

Come in costume and enjoy food, a Mariachi band, fire pit and face painting. Bring a lawn chair or blanket as the movie "Coco" starts at 7:30pm.

Get dressed up and into the Spirit of Halloween! Presented by Washington Business Improvement District, Hometown Halloween is family fun for kids of all ages featuring a kids costume contest and a pet costume contest.

Corrado's Farm presents its first-ever Trunk or Treat! Please register by October 27 to participate and enjoy free admission; trunk decorating contest optional. Food-Music-Games- Prizes. Gates open at 3pm for trunk decorators, and decorations must be finished by 3:45pm for the 4pm event.

Explore Shippen Manor, Blair's Town, Oxford Furnace, the Morris Canal and many more historic sites throughout Warren County. A total of 11 historic landmarks are stops on the self-guided, county-wide driving tour, where you can visit one or multiple sites at your own pace each day.

The free family-friendly event takes place from 6-9 p.m. in Veterans Park in the center of the downtown. Come in costume and enjoy food, a Mariachi band, fire pit and face painting. Bring a lawn chair or blanket as the movie "Enchanto" starts at 7pm.

Get dressed up and into the Spirit of Halloween!

This is a free family event taking place in Pocket Park, Downtown Borough. Come in costume and enjoy food, a Mariachi band, fire pit and face painting.

 

Get dressed up and into the Spirit of Halloween!