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September 16th - September 22nd
by Pam & Michael Davison
Thanks to all of you ParkGeeks who stopped by our booth at BugFest last weekend and welcome to all of you who signed up for this newsletter at BugFest. If you like this newsletter and find it a great resource for planning your weekend, please forward it to a friend or neighbor who also might find it useful. Our goal is to get the word out to as many people as possible about all the amazing events and activities offered every weekend at our public venues. We truly appreciate all the help you have given us to spread the word. If you would ever like to look up specific park information or check on a different date, feel free to go to ParkGeek.com anytime.
If you are looking for a fun day trip this weekend, head on out to New Bern. The city will be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate their 300th Anniversary. The variety of free events includes reenactments, a flotilla, historic exhibits, a family picnic, a concert by the NC Symphony and fireworks.
Festivals in the Triangle
Celebrate the fall season by participating in a variety of hands-on activities and demonstrations at the Harvest Celebration at Historic Yates Mill County Park. Learn how corn and wheat were traditionally harvested, stored, and processed, and explore harvest-related handcrafts featuring corn shucks and wheat straw. Listen to old time music, and enjoy harvest songs and dance. Do you have a fabulous cornbread recipe? Yates Mill invites you to make your most delicious recipe using cornmeal to their Cornmeal Cook-Off Contest.
Not to be out done, Downtown Raleigh will host their annual SPARKcon. Starting Thursday night and running through Sunday, there will be street painting, art installments, fashion shows, loads of entertainment and evening events on Fayetteville Street and throughout Downtown Raleigh. In conjunction with SPARKcon, the Raleigh City Museum will host designSPARK. Bring your kids to all the festivities downtown and stop by the Raleigh City Museum for Kid's Craft Day. They will have multiple craft stations that include making an oak leaf book mark, a historic toy such as a buzz saw, and an art station where kids can paint and color a scene of Raleigh.
Each fall for 36 years, over 110 juried fine artists, craftsmen and performers from across the country gather together in Downtown Durham to dazzle, inspire, delight and entertain you. There will also be over 30 performing arts groups featuring 200 performers filling three stages with continuous music, dance and entertainment. A wide variety of festival food and international fare plus a Kids Zone makes Centerfest Arts Festival a fabulous destination for the whole family.
Are you in the mood for some stuffed grape leaves and some baklava? Head on over to the Holy Trinity Greek Festival at the State Fairgrounds. Along with delicious Greek delicacies, you can also enjoy the marketplace, Greek music and Greek dancers. Click through for information on how to get free admission tickets.
Maybe you're feeling a little tropical. You can enjoy music and food of the Caribbean as well as learn about different island cultures at the Cary Caribbean Festival at the Herbert Young Community Center.
Good Neighbor Day at Holding Park assembles people from all walks of life for a day of food, fun, and family entertainment. By bringing together a mix of cultures, music, ages, and ethnicities, the event celebrates diversity and promotes goodwill among all of Wake Forest's citizens.
Just a short drive outside the Triangle, the Natural Science Center of Greensboro is hosting their annual SNAKETACULAR event this weekend. Along with an amazing array of live snakes, the event boasts face painting, crafts and croc feedings.
More Fun Fall Events at the Parks
The Town of Garner invites you to give back to Lake Benson Park for a Garner Big Sweep. Volunteers will be cleaning up trash in and around Lake Benson on boats.
Come join the fun at Lake Crabtree County Park for Little-Big Adventure Race. The adult/child team adventure race triathlon is comprised of a 0.5 mile canoe leg, 3.5 mile mountain bike leg and 1.5 mile run.
Do you have a busy Saturday planned? Get the whole family together Saturday night for a Community Campout at Northgate Park.
Bring your kids out to Jordan Lake State Recreation Area to try their hand at fishing with C.A.S.T. The introduction to fishing provides all the equipment and training they will need to catch the big one. Would you rather see the Lake from the water? Take a Canoe "Hike" with a ranger.
Do you like to Look Under a Log? Come on over to Crowder District Park to search for spiders, slugs, and bugs and learn how important rot is in nature.
Discover the amazing lives of gorillas and chimpanzees during a special weekend dedicated to the Great Apes at the North Carolina Zoo.
Are you an educator? Advanced Project Wild - Bats at Harris Lake County Park is a free workshop which offers Environmental Education Certification credits for educators while it explores North Carolina's bat species through a presentation and hands-on activities. On Tuesday, Harris Lake County Park & Crowder District Park team up to present Project Learning Tree Workshop, an interdisciplinary environmental education program designed for educators which uses the forest as an outdoor classroom to help people gain more knowledge and awareness of the world around them.
Art, Music, History & Movies This Weekend
The North Carolina Museum of Art kicks off their Fall Film Series with the 1954 movie Seven Samurai.
Downtown Durham will come alive with a Gallery crawl and live music for Third Friday.
Durham Cinematheque & Movies at the Park are back this weekend at Durham Central Park. Start the evening out with "Cars and Monsters" a mischievous program of music and cinematic whatnots and then round out the night with a vintage movie shown under the stars.
With haunting banjo tunes, entertaining string band numbers and rare fiddle classics, a free concert by Paul Brown and the Mostly Mountain Boys at the American Tobacco Campus Amphitheatre is a great way to kick off your weekend.
Come out to the Battle of the Baked Goods Baking Contest at Mordecai Historic Park and get a taste of different baked goods. The event, on the grounds of the historic home, will be free, but the goodies will be first come
Historic Preservation Society of Durham docents lead a Durham Civil Rights Legacy Walking Tour focusing on sites in downtown Durham that were important in the 1950's and 60's Civil Rights movement.
Make, bake and taste a simple and delicious treat using summer's freshest ingredients during Garden Gourmet at Marbles Kids Museum.
The North Carolina Museum of History invites you to join in on a Make It, Take it program about Pockets and a Garden Tour of their native plants, colonial herbs, and traditional North Carolina cash crops.
A Bit More Fun
Take a Child Outside Week starts next Friday. We will have the whole list of special events dedicated to this special week in next weeks newsletter. You can also go to the Events Search on ParkGeek.com and search for Take a Child Outside. The fun starts early at Eno River State Park with a River Creatures Catch on Sunday afternoon.
A fellow ParkGeek tuned us on to a free Bicycle Clinic & Bike Rodeo in Knightdale this Saturday from 10am-1pm. Held in the Target parking lot, the event will feature various bicycle-based games and competitions, free bicycle safety checks, a bounce house and other activities, a fire truck up-close, and free food.
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