Hedgehog Book Art
Fold an old paperback into a hedgehog. Ninety minutes in the community room for grades three through eight, materials supplied, and the thing goes home with you. Registration required.
More at Abington Free Library
Ask an 8th Grader
Incoming sixth graders put their questions about middle school to the kids who already survived it, in the library's young adult area. An hour, and free.
Back to School Family Game Night
Board games spread across the whole community room before the school year swallows everyone's evenings. Ninety minutes, open to families, at the Abington branch on Old York Road.
DIY Backpack Charms
Grades three through twelve make a charm to hang off a backpack. An hour in the community room with all the materials supplied. Registration recommended.
Around the same time
Tri-State Corvette Show
The Tri-State Corvette Club parks its cars in the lot behind the Bank of America at Peddler's Village for the day. Free to walk through, and the shops are open anyway.
Horror in the Shadows: Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, The Leopard Man
Three Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur chillers on 16mm, back to back. Shadow, suggestion and sound doing the work that later horror hands to a monster suit.
The Vanishing (1988)
The Dutch original, not the remake. A man spends three years hunting the woman who walked into a rest stop and never came back out. The ending stays with people.
