Fall Lantern Tours at Washington Crossing
One-hour lantern-lit walks through the park's historic village run Friday and Saturday evenings at 6:30 and 7:30, timed to the hour Washington's army actually moved on the Delaware. Costumed interpreters hold down the soldier encampment, boat barn, and battle map from September 25 through November 7.
More at Washington Crossing Historic Park
Soldier Saturdays: Camp Followers
The women and children who trailed the Revolutionary armies, cooking, mending and nursing. Reenactors work through a normal day in camp. Free, four hours.
Monthly Living History: Soldier Saturdays, Camp Followers
September's living history day looks at the women and children who traveled with the Continental Army. Reenactors in the historic village, four hours, free.
Washington Crossing America 250 Gala
Live music, the Washington Crossing Fife and Drum Corps, period food and a look inside the Durham Boat Barn. Proceeds split between the park's Friends group, Upper Makefield Fire Company and the police association.
Around the same time
Conshohocken Restaurant Week
Conshohocken Restaurant Week runs Monday, September 21 through Sunday, September 27, with 16 restaurants in Conshohocken and West Conshohocken putting out prix fixe menus. It is presented by The Courts at Spring Mill Station. The event page has one instruction: make your reservations now. You book with each restaurant directly; every listing carries a phone number and most link to online booking. Menus are being linked on the page as they come in, and as of September 2 eleven of the sixteen were up. The spread is wide. Masala Symphony has four courses for $30. Rick's Tavern is $40 for three, Pepperoncini and Salt & Stone are $45, and Southern Cross Kitchen does a $50 three-course dinner plus a $30 two-course brunch. Bar Lucca, Bar Sera, The StoneRose and Hook & Ladder sit at $60 for three courses, Gypsy Saloon adds a glass of Champagne to its $60 three courses, and The Rabbit Hole tops the list at $65. Several of those are listed plus tax and gratuity. Three places are in for the first time: Rick's Tavern, Salt & Stone and The Rabbit Hole. Two practical notes. Hook & Ladder is inside the historic firehouse next to Hotel West & Main on Fayette Street, and its parking garage entrance is off West Elm Street. And there is a $100 gift card drawing on September 20, good at the participating restaurant of your choice, so enter on the event page before the week starts.
School's Out, Get Outside!
Local schools are closed and Briar Bush runs a full day outdoors: hikes, live animal encounters, games in the woods. Drop-off at 8:30, pickup by 3:30, registration required.
September School Day Out Art Camp
A full day of art making at the museum on a school holiday, nine to four, taught by Mike McKeough. Sixty dollars for members, eighty otherwise.
