Try Something New, like skating on artificial ice, on Saturday October 3rd at the Greenway Conservancy’s second annual fall festival in Dewey Square Parks. Tickle all of your senses at this free all-ages event with a farmers market and cooking demonstrations, local art, a carnival ride, Greenway and Harborwalk tours, treasure hunt, and multi-cultural music. Get your body moving with hula hoops, Nordic pole walking, and a laughter class…where everyone gets an A+. For more information, log on to www.hellogreenway.org.
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Saturday, September 26, 11 – 4 – Family Harvest Festival
Historic New England’s Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm in Newbury, Massachusetts will be the venue for the annual Family Harvest Festival. See tractors and other farm equipment spanning eighty years. Try corn husking or win a prize at the pie-eating contest. Learn how simple machines help farmers with pumping water, pressing cider, and preparing food. Find your way through a hay bale maze, harvest wild herbs, and see vegetables preserved in the traditional way. Enjoy a wagon ride through the fields, build scarecrows, go on a pumpkin treasure hunt, and make fall crafts. Listen to folk music performed by Sweet Loretta’s Snake Oil Jug Band or watch a puppet show by Martha Dana. The c. 1690 manor house is open. Cider, donuts, and hot lunch are available. For more information call 978-462-2634, or log on to www.historicnewengland.org. Free to Historic New England members, $6 non-members, $4 children.
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Saturday, September 19, 4 – 5 pm – Greenway Treasure Hunt: North End Parks
Every third Saturday of the month, the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy invites families, adventurists, history-buffs, and anyone interested in getting to know the Greenway to join them for free thematic treasure hunts on the Greenway. Each hunt will focus on one of the four Greenway parks, the neighborhood surrounding the park, and its unique characteristics. On September 19th we explore the North End Parks and neighborhood. This is an all ages event. Rain or shine. For a map and more information, log on to www.rosekennedygreenway.org, or www.hellogreenway.org.
