Saturday August 23, 2008
(all day)
Rainforest Reptiles. Davis Farmland. 145 Redstone Hill. Sterling. Meet some creepy creatures and enjoy the farm. Admission $16.95, seniors $13.95, under 2 years old free.
(all day)
2008 Waterfront Festival. Water Street, Main Street and all downtown streets. Plymouth.
Start: 09:00
End: 12:00
Dress Swap. The Women's Ministry of Crossroads Community Church. 1341 Edgell Road. Framingham. 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. All Dresses, Gowns and Business Suits will sell for $10-$30.
Start: 10:30
Steve Songs DVD/CD Release Party. Regent Theatre. 7 Medford Streeet. Arlington. 10:30 a.m. PBS Kids star Mr.
Sunday August 24, 2008
(all day)
Rainforest Reptiles. Davis Farmland. 145 Redstone Hill. Sterling. See Aug. 23 entry.
(all day)
2008 Waterfront Festival. Water Street, Main Street and all downtown streets. Plymouth.
Start: 12:00
End: 16:00
Nature and Balance Community Art Day. Arsenal Center for the Arts. 321 Arsenal Street. Watertown. 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Monday August 25, 2008
Start: 09:30
End: 17:00
Stagecoach Rides. Old Sturbridge Village. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road. Sturbridge. 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Start: 10:30
Toe Jam Puppet Band. Buttonwood Park Zoo. 425 Hawthorn Street. New Bedford. 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Sing, dance and play the hour away with this creative arts playgroup.
Tuesday August 26, 2008
Start: 10:00
Mike Bent’s Abrakidabra. The Natick Collection. 1245 Worcester Street. Natick. 10:00 a.m. Family Fun Day performance and activities in the Infinity Pool Court. Free.
Start: 11:00
Lord of the Wings: Birds of Prey. Stone Zoo. 149 Pond Street. Stoneham. 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. AND 3:00 p.m. See Aug. 13 entry.
Wednesday August 27, 2008
Start: 13:00
End: 15:00
Andy the Ambulance Visits Wenham Museum. Wenham Museum. 132 Main Street. Wenham. 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Start: 19:30
Lowell Summer Music Series. Boarding House Park. 40 French Street. Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Live children’s music performed by local and regional artists.
Thursday August 28, 2008
Start: 19:30
Lowell Summer Music Series. Boarding House Park. 40 French Street. Lowell. 7:30 p.m.Live children’s music performed by local and regional artists.
Start: 19:30
Lowell Summer Music Series. Boarding House Park. 40 French Street. Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Live children’s music performed by local and regional artists.
Friday August 29, 2008
(all day)
Frog-Aid Benefit Concert. Buttonwood Park Zoo. 425 Hawthorn Street. New Bedford. Amphibians are facing a major extinction crisis.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
Day Out With Thomas. Edaville Railroad. 5 Pine Street. South Carver. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Meet Thomas, Sir Topham Hatt and all your Sodor friends.
Start: 11:00
FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman Season 3 Premiere Party. The Children’s Museum in Easton. 9 Sullivan Avenue. North Easton. 11:00 a.m.
Start: 12:00
End: 13:00
Fort Point Channel Lunchtime Summer Music Series. Boston Children’s Museum. 300 Congress Street. Boston. 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Monday September 01, 2008
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
The 30th Annual New England Arts & Crafts Festival. Topsfield Fairgrounds, Route 1 North, Topsfield. 10:00 a.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
Day Out With Thomas. Edaville Railroad. 5 Pine Street. South Carver. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Start: 11:00
End: 17:00
Newburyport Buskers Festival. Downtown. Newburyport. 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Start: 12:00
Make Way for Rubber Ducks. GRIST MILL. 72 Wayside Inn Rd. Sudbury. 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday September 02, 2008
(all day)
Rescue Me: Fighting Fire In America. Wenham Museum. 132 Main St. Wenham. Daily until September 21st.
Start: 09:30
Stroller Fit. Arnold Arboretum-125 Arborway. Jamaica Plain. 9.30 a.m.
Wednesday September 03, 2008
Start: 10:00
Discovery Center For Kids. Museum of Science. Cambridge. Open Daily from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m; Fridays until 7:30 p.m.
Start: 19:00
Red Sox and Apple Pie. Hatch Shell. Storrow Drive. Boston. 7:00 p.m.
Friday September 05, 2008
Start: 08:00
End: 10:00
Breakfast with the Animals. Plimouth Plantation. 137 Warren Ave. Plymouth. 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Start: 10:30
End: 11:00
Little Bookworms Story Time. The MSPCA at Nevins Farm. 400 Broadway. Methuen. Every Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Start: 17:00
End: 22:00
St. Bernadette Fall Festival. 266 Main St. Rt. 20. Northborough. 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Start: 20:00
Mark Nizer Comedy Juggling. The Amazing Firehouse. 160 Hollis St. Framingham. 8:00 p.m. $18.
Saturday September 06, 2008
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
Day Out With Thomas. Edaville Railroad. 5 Pine Street. South Carver. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. See Sept. 1 entry.
Start: 10:00
Icy Fun! Children’s Discovery. The Discovery Museums. 177 Main Street. Acton. 10:00 a.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 16:00
35th Annual Market Day. Wenham Museum. 132 Main St. Wenham. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Start: 10:00
Creative Adventures Celebrate 6th Anniversary! Allin Congregational Church. 683 High Street. Dedham.
Start: 10:00
End: 18:00
Mini Monogram Masterpiece. ArtBeat. 212A Mass. Ave. Arlington & 9 Summer Street. Franklin.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
Davis Farmland - Mega Maze. 145 Redstone Hill Road. Sterling. Weekends until October 31. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 22:00
St. Bernadette Fall Festival. 266 Main St. Rt. 20. Northborough. 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. See Sept. 5 entry.
Start: 11:00
End: 17:00
Children's Book Festival. Parade Ground, Boston Common. Boston. 11:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Start: 11:00
Back To School Day. The Harvard Coop. 1400 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge. 11:00 a.m. Stories & Crafts. 617.499.2000. www.thecoop.com.
Start: 11:00
Alphabet Rockers. The Regent Theater. 7 Medford St. Arlington. 11:00 a.m.
Sunday September 07, 2008
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
Day Out With Thomas. Edaville Railroad. 5 Pine Street. South Carver. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. See September 1 entry.
Start: 11:00
End: 20:00
South Quincy Italian Festival. Brook Ave. Quincy. 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Start: 11:00
End: 14:00
Odyssey Cruise Ship celebrates Grandparent's Day. 60 Rowes Wharf, behind the Boston Harbor Hotel Atlantic Avenue. Boston. Boarding: 11:00 a.m., Cruise: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Start: 11:00
The Terrible Twos. The Regent Theater. 7 Medford St. Arlington. 11:00 a.m.
Start: 12:00
End: 16:00
Verrill Farm Barbecue. Verrill Farm. 11 Wheeler Rd. Concord. 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Start: 13:00
End: 16:00
Family Fun Day. Danforth Museum of Art. 123 Union Avenue. Framingham. 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Start: 14:00
End: 17:00
8th Annual Open House and Instrument Petting Zoo. Powers Music School. 380 Concord Ave. Belmont. 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday September 08, 2008
Start: 12:00
End: 16:00
Nature and Balance: A Public Art Exhibit. Arsenal Center for the Arts.
Tuesday September 09, 2008
Start: 20:00
End: 23:00
Jazz Jam. Amazing Things Art Center. 55 Nicholas Rd. Framingham. 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Wednesday September 10, 2008
Start: 10:30
End: 11:30
Preschool and Toddler Wednesdays. EcoTarium. 222 Harrington Way. Worcester. 10:30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Weekly.
Thursday September 11, 2008
Start: 18:00
End: 20:00
Kids’ Dance Jam. The Natick Center for the Arts. 14 Summer St. Natick. 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Get down!
Friday September 12, 2008
Start: 18:00
ICONS Festival. Irish Cultural Center 200 New Boston Drive. Canton. 6:00 p.m.
Start: 18:00
Chicken Nugget Dinner & Small World Shabbat. Temple Beth Torah. Holliston. Temple Beth Torah is having a Chicken Nugget Dinner followed by a Small World Shabbat service.
Saturday September 13, 2008
Start: 10:00
End: 13:00
Nashoba Valley Mothers of Multiples Fall Sale. Central Congregational Church. 1 Worthen Street. Chelmsford. 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 11:00
Boston By Little Feet (Freedom Trail). Sams Adams Statue, Faneuill Hall. Boston. 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
Fall Harvest Celebration Weekends. Belkin Lookout Farm. Rt.16 Natick.
Start: 10:00
End: 18:00
Refrigerator Magnets Reinvented. ArtBeat. 212A Mass. Ave. Arlington & 9 Summer Street. Franklin.
Start: 11:00
ICONS Festival. Irish Cultural Center. 200 New Boston Drive. Canton. 11:00 a.m. See September 12 entry.
Start: 11:00
Flooky & The Beans. The Natick Center for the Arts. 14 Summer St. Natick. 11:00 a.m.
Start: 11:00
Monster Day. The Harvard Coop. 1400 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge. 11:00 a.m. Stories & Crafts. 617.499.2000. www.thecoop.com.
Sunday September 14, 2008
Start: 08:30
End: 12:30
Meet & Greet Open House. Temple Beth Torah. Holliston. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Having a Meet & Greet Open House, with a free Torah Tots preview class.
Start: 10:00
Meet Bessie. Children’s Discovery. The Discovery Museums. 177 Main Street. Acton. 10:00 a.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 16:00
Fall Harvest Celebration Weekends. Belkin Lookout Farm. Rt.16 Natick. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. See September 13 entry.
Start: 11:00
ICONS Festival. Irish Cultural Center. 200 New Boston Drive. Canton. 11:00 a.m. See September 12 entry.
Start: 12:00
End: 16:00
3RD Annual Seaport Chowder Festival. Cutsom House Sq. New Bedford. 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Start: 13:00
End: 14:30
"Dance Me A Story" Ballet Class. Joanne Langione Dance Center. 35 Border Street. West Newton. 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Start: 13:00
End: 15:00
Harvest Scarecrow Making. Concord Museum. Cambridge Turnpike. Concord. 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Start: 17:00
The Soft Touch Dance Band. Gore Place. 52 Gore Street. 5:00 p.m. Waltham.
Monday September 15, 2008
Start: 09:30
End: 10:30
Tots Itsy Bitsy Yoga. Destination Maternity. 104 Worcester St. Natick. 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Weekly yoga class for moms and tots. Call for details.
Tuesday September 16, 2008
(all day)
Home School Day. Old Sturbridge Village. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road. Sturbridge.
Start: 09:30
Moms Day Out. Wellesley Booksmith. 82 Central Street. Wellesley. 9:30 a.m. Coffee, bagels and lots of laughs with award-winning humor columnist, Carol Band.
Start: 10:30
Three Pigs and Other Tales. Puppet Showplace Theater. 32 Station St. Brookline.
Thursday September 18, 2008
Start: 10:30
Three Pigs and Other Tales. Puppet Showplace Theater. 32 Station St. Brookline. 10.30 a.m. See Sept. 17 entry.
Friday September 19, 2008
Start: 18:00
End: 20:00
Ben Rudnick & Friends Duo. Boys and Girls Club field. Arlington. 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Start: 18:00
Arlington Town Day. Main St. Arlington. 6:00 p.m. Town Day has been an annual tradition since 1976.
Start: 18:00
An Evening Of Boundless Inspiration. Westford Regency. 219 Littleton Road. Westford. 6:00 p.m.
Saturday September 20, 2008
Start: 09:00
End: 18:00
Franklin Park Fall Festival. All activities meet at Valley Gates, the parking lot midway along the park road, across from the golf course, next to the Pierpont Road fork. Franklin.
Start: 09:30
End: 12:00
Fall Fitness Fair & Teddy Bear Clinic. Watertown Mall. 550 Arsenal Street. Watertown. 9:30 a.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 14:00
The Fiske Wild West Round Up. 45 Hastings Street. Wellesley. 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. A family fair with a western flair!
Start: 10:00
End: 14:00
Cans for Cats Collection Day! Capron Park Zoo. 201 County Street. Attleboro. 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 18:00
Franklin Park Fall Festival. Boston. 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 18:00
Alphabets Marble Frame. ArtBeat. 212A Mass. Ave. Arlington &9 Summer Street. Franklin.
Start: 10:00
End: 16:00
Attic Treasures. Wenham Museum. 132 Main St. Wenham. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Vintage shopping offers the opportunity to express personal style at a great price.
Start: 10:00
End: 15:00
Arlington Town Day. Main St. Arlington. 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Start: 10:00
Storytime. Barnes & Noble Booksellers. 325 Harvard Street. Brookline. 10:00 a.m. Various themes. www.bn.com.
Start: 11:00
Talk Like A Pirate Day. The Harvard Coop. 1400 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge. 11:00 a.m. Stories & Crafts. 617.499.2000. www.thecoop.com.
Start: 19:00
End: 20:30
Night Flashers & Flyers Night Hike. Garden In The Woods. 180 Hemenway Rd. Framingham. 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Sunday September 21, 2008
Start: 08:30
Mito Awareness Walk & Family Fun Day. 1 Edwin H. Lane Blvd. Canal Park, behind the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Cambridge. 8:30 a.m.
Start: 09:00
End: 17:00
Community Days At Harvard. Peabody Museum. 11 Divinity Avenue. Cambridge. AND Harvard Museum of Natural History. 26 Oxford Street. Cambridge. 9:00 a.m.
Start: 10:00
End: 16:00
Attic Treasures. Wenham Museum. 132 Main St. Wenham. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. See September 20 entry.
Start: 10:00
End: 12:00
A Family Celebration of Rosh Hashanah. Fuller Craft Museum. 455 Oak St. Brockton. 10:00 a.m.
Start: 11:00
End: 16:00
Scarecrow Stomp. Children’s Museum in Easton. The Old Fire Station, 9 Sullivan Avenue. North Easton. 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Start: 11:00
End: 16:00
The Scarecrow Stomp. Children's Museum in Easton. 9 Sullivan Avenue. North Easton. 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A "down home" day of scarecrow-making and old-fashioned games!
Start: 13:00
End: 15:00
Sculpt A Polar Bear. Peabody Essex Museum. East India Sq. Salem. 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Start: 15:00
Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company. Cabot Cinema Theatre. 286 Cabot Street. Beverly. 3:00 p.m. 978-927-3677.
Start: 17:00
End: 19:30
RiverSing: Bridging the Charles with Voice and Light. Weeks Footbridge at DeWolf Street and Memorial Drive near Harvard Square.
Monday September 22, 2008
Start: 15:00
End: 16:00
Children’s Music Hour. Finagle A Bagel. 54 Boston Post Road Wayland. 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 273 Harvard Street. Brookline.
