FINAL WEEKEND: A musical version of Mel Brooks' film of the same name. Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronkensteen") inherits a castle in Transylvania containing Igor, Inga and Frau Blucher. After discovering the secret entrance to his grandfather's laboratory, Frederick decides to carry on the family experiments and creates a monster of his own.
Starting October 5, 2016
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. - Christopher Columbus
So hurricane schmericane! Seriously, we want you to stay safe, but hopefully we have nothing to fear this weekend in northwest New Jersey. And even if the weather isn't ideal, you can always pack an umbrella or a poncho... or choose an indoor activity such as live music and theater. Regardless of what you decide, take the proper precautions, and as we like to say, Happy Wanderings!
Coming Up
Celebrate Oktoberfest, with Czig Meister, Homebrew University and Man Skirt Brewing hosting activities,
Enjoy an afternoon of terrific food, great live music, fun activities for the kids, delicious bake sale, exotic animals and great vendors from our community. A BBQ chicken dinner will be offered for $12/person. Meals include 1/2 chicken, baked potato, baked beans, roll, beverage, and cake.
Top of the Green Restaurant at Apple Mountain Golf & CC offers Italian food specials all weekend to celebrate Columbus. The food and drink specials are available at 4pm each day.
The menu includes:
Enjoy live music by the area's most talented musicians under our arbor. Each week a different band will appear for your entertainment weather permitting. Music times ~ Saturday, 1:30-5 pm and Sunday, 1-4:30 pm.
Come enjoy free live music with family, friends, and delicious wines!
Join Well-Sweep Herb Farm for its 16th annual fall harvest gathering with honored guest, Amelia Earhart. A charismatic, risk-taking tomboy – Amelia was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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. The theme of this year’s Cabaret Café is Sing Me a Love Song.
Half Annie, a group of three women guitarists and singers, will give a benefit concert for Haven of Hope for Kids at Saint Luke’s Church in Hope, NJ, on October 8.
Susan is a singer/songwriter of boundless versatility, equally at home on guitar or piano. Her distinctive and highly crafted songwriting is liberally dosed with pockets of humor, wit, heartbreak, incisive social commentary and kick-ass rowdiness.
Jesse Bardwell is a musician born and raised in northwest New Jersey, but currently lives in close proximity to the beautiful Delaware Water Gap in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Join Metrotrails for a hike on the scenic and historic Morris Canal route between Hackettstown and Washington, about 16 miles total. Meet at Port Colden Mall to carpool to the starting point. Bring water, snack, appropriate footwear and dress for the weather.
"Hay Bales of Hope" fundraiser for Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary and breast cancer awareness will include a one-mile walk around the farm; you can bring your friends and family but no pets please. Come for a fun-filled day and help make a difference... and wear your pink!
UPDATE: Thanks to the generous support of our Sponsors, the Farm to Table Pig Roast will now be provided for $10/Adult and FREE for Children!
Enjoy live music by the area's most talented musicians under our arbor. Each week a different band will appear for your entertainment, weather permitting .Music times ~ Saturday, 1:30-5 pm and Sunday, 1-4:30 pm.
Morris Canal Bread Lock Park is open daily until dusk, but the museum is open the second Sunday of the month. Lock 7 West near New Village was known as "Bread Lock" because the store at the end of the lock sold goods to the boatmen, including homemade bread and pies.
This show will blend nature, environment and conservation to teach you how humans impact the environment. Meet various animals and reptiles to understand what we can do to help save the earth.
Learn about the culture and history of the indigenous people who once populated New Jersey and the surrounding area presented by John Kraft. A wonderful and interesting program for everyone. Adults and children alike are encouraged to attend and learn about the Lenape Indians.
Come enjoy free live music with family, friends, and delicious wines!
Continuing
The Great Pumpkin Train runs weekends, October 1-30
Every train is "The great Pumpkin Train" in October!
Donaldson Farms Harvest Festival Weekends 2016 dates and hours (weather permitting):
Oct 8-9, Oct 15-16, Oct 22-23
Saturday 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Every weekend in October will be Family Harvest Weekend. We will have our vino cafe menu, wine tasting, corn maze, pumpkin picking and fun for the whole family.
Weekends through October, enjoy a beautiful journey along the scenic Delaware River behind New Jersey's only operating steam locomotive and visit Villa Milagro, to one of New Jersey's most beautiful Vineyards. The train will take you to the end of our line where you will board a
Ready for the 2016 Haunting Season!
Corrado's Farm: Home of the Hayride of Horrors & Haunted House. Operating Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the month of October.
With the creative guidance of Suzanne Montgomery and Dr. Julie McWilliams, two local painters who have taught and painted for thirty years in a variety of settings, you will learn to unleash your creativity and create art.
Join comedians Johnny Lampert and Sherry Davey, two of the countries premier comedians for a night of laughter at Blair Academy’s Armstrong Hipkins Center in Blairstown.
Volunteers needed to help with trail marking at the Maple Hill Preserve in Blairstown / Hardwick. Meet at Ridge and Valley Conservancy on 16 Main Street in Blairstown. Contact us at (908) 362 7989 for more information.
Join local artist Suzanne Montgomery for a FREE art lecture. The Landscape, like other art genres, is a vehicle for personal expression and tells us much about the moment in time in which we are living.
Community Corner
During this special Halloween program you and your child will work as a team to create a spooky papier mache ghost! Ages 2-5, $12 per session
George L. Johnson, naturalist and photographer, will present Feathers and Fur, his 60-minute film that features the wildlife of northern NJ. The changing season of the “Big Spring” in Whittingham’s Swamp provide the setting for this wildlife adventure.