Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2010: Canobie Lake Park, Moonlight Corn Maze, Steam Engines, Mercedes, Kerouac, Dr. Horrible, Ig Nobels, and Fall Fests!
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I’ve gotten invited to a press event at Pioneer Village, the live re-enactment center in Salem, which is doing a Halloween special event, Saturday October 2nd in the evening. It’s later than the commuter rail runs, so if any one or two people with a car would like to go, email me at johnny@eventsinsider.com. Also send feedback and event ideas. Oh, also Halloween Attractions get going this week — I track 82 of them! So let me know if you’d like to provide a ride and have me swing some free tix to that, too. I needs me some haunted houses.
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| Free Tickets to Canobie Lake Park & more | Fri 10/1 – Sun 10/31 | Boston Metro |
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| This week, you missed Conviction with Sam Rockwell doing a Q&A because you’re not on the Facebook Group, but you can join by clicking this link. However, it’s not too late to win Canobie Lake Park tickets — I’ll have more every week through October, while they have Octoberfest and Screeemfest. And win tickets to Let Me In, Thursday at 11:15pm in Somerville; or Life as We Know It, Mon 10/4 in Boston; or Buried, Wed 9/29 at 7:30pm in Boston; The Social Network, Thu 9/30 at 7pm in Boston. Various.  see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Terrorthon & J. Cannibal’s Feast of Flesh | Fri 9/24 – Sat 10/2 | Boston Metro |
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| I’m a big fan of the horror-themed Feast of Flesh festival, and after running all week it ends Saturday with a live music, costume competition, zombie apocalypse finale movie. Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Mercedes Day at Larz Anderson Museum | Sun 10/3 | Boston Metro |
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| The Larz Anderson has another of its classy lawn festivals, this time featuring mercedes. Mercedeseses. Mercs. 15 Newton Street, Brookline, MA.617-522-6547. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Annual Yankee Steam-Up | Sat 10/2 | Rhode Island |
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| How about trying something old? Also 19th century, before they had gas engines, they used steam. Can they bring steam engines back to solve global warming? Probably not since all that steam came from coal. This festival showcases working steam engines of every kind. 8am-4pm. New England Wireless and Steam Museum, 1300 Frenchtown Rd., East Greenwich, RI.401-885-0545. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Annual Roslindale Day Parade | Sun 10/3 | Boston Metro |
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| Personally I’d rather be taking in the gentrification nearby in the Roslindale Parade. There doesn’t appear to be anything in additional to the parade, despite the name “Roslindale Day”. They have a fundraiser where every dollra raised is a vote to who gets to play the “Mayor” in the parade! A road race starts at 12:15pm, then the parade at 1pm. Roslindale, MA.617-327-4886. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Moonlight Mazing at Davis Farmland | Sat 10/2 | Worcester | ||
| The fantastic corn maze at Davis Farmland is open at night! 2010; 6-10pm. It’s a must see. 145 Redstone Hill, Sterling, MA.978-422-8888. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Lowell Celebrates Kerouac | Thu 9/30 – Sun 10/3 | Northern Mass |
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| Lowell is a city that tries extra hard to bring in tourists (Salem and Quincy are others) This event is based on Jack Kerouac, who is from Lowell MA. His books including “On The Road”, encourage wanderlust. This festival looks surprisingly meaty considering it’s inspired by book-lovers. They’ll have tours of the area, a marathon book reading, music events, road race, and commentary on Jack Kerouac. Lowell, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Topsfield Fair | Fri 10/1 – Mon 10/11 | North Shore |
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| The Topsfield Fair is the largest and best of Massachusetts agricultural fairs, with a giant pumpkin contest, a blacksmith shop, a cider mill, parades, and a carnival. See pig racing, a petting farm, sand sculptures, milking and bee keeping and wood carving demonstrations, and lots of animal show and pie competition goodness. AAA discount. Topsfield Fairgrounds, Topsfield, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:
Company of the Wolfe Argent at Higgins Armory, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill Jr.” with live accompaniment, Somerville Oktoberfest, Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony & Lectures, Free Walking Tour at Arnold Arboretum, Roxbury Open Studios, Maynard Fest, North Adams Fall Foliage Parade, Berkshire Botanical Garden Harvest Festival, Crestfallen – Society for Creative Anachronism, Lumberjack Competitions & Festival, Harvest Moon Festival at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Star Gazing, Free Star Parties, AstroAssembly, Fort Adams in the Fall Car Festival, Drag Bingo at BU, Changing of the Guards at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Evening Walk at the BNC, Franklin Park Fall Forest Festival, Harvest Festival and Perennial Divide, Fall Campfire at Constitution Beach, Weir River Farm Fall Festival, New Bedford Open Studios, NRT Harvest and Crafts Fair, Hopkinton Carnival on the Common, Barnstable County Harvest Festival, Eastern States Exposition, North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival, Salem Halloween Happenings, Harvest Festival at The Growing Center, Block Island Birding Weekend, Norman Bird Sanctuary Annual Harvest Fair, FirstWorksProv, National Solar Homes Tour, Green Buildings Open House, World’s Championship Chili Cookoff, Boston Fall Boat Show, Boston Palestine Film Festival, United Nations Association Film Festival, Juvenile Diabetes Walk, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, Lung Bike Ride, King Richard’s Faire (Ren Faire), Poe: Outdoor Theatre, Poe: a fever dream, Perfect Harmony, Bittersweet Midnight, King Arthur’s Fall Harvest Faire, New England Atlatl Day, Tapping Into Twain Oktoberfest, St Andrew’s Society of CT Highland Games Fairgrounds Goshen, CT, International Time Line Event, and more.
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