Autumn's Colors
Six weeks of fall color outdoors, with the Chrysanthemum Festival opening under glass on October 16. Gardens stay open to nine on Friday through Sunday, closed Tuesdays. Timed tickets required.
More at Longwood Gardens
Fireworks & Fountains Show
Fireworks fired over the Main Fountain Garden and timed to the water and the music. Separate ticket from gardens admission, an earlier start now that the nights are drawing in.
Festival of Fountains at Longwood Gardens
The fountain season runs to the end of September, and the gardens stay open on Labor Day Monday when most of Chester County is closed. Closed Tuesdays. Timed tickets sell out on holiday weekends.
DJ Jazzy Jeff: Fountain Party
Philadelphia's DJ Jazzy Jeff scores an illuminated fountain performance from his own crates in the Main Fountain Garden. Eight o'clock, separate ticket, and it will sell.
Around the same time
Friends of the Yardley Makefield Library Book Sale
Half-off day at the Friends' fall book sale. Everything in the large meeting room drops in price and the doors stay open until seven.
Babies Boogie Storytime
Monday morning songs and bounces for babies from birth to twenty four months. Half an hour.
Sprouts Story Time
Story time built for two-year-olds, half an hour of stories, songs and rhymes. Monday mornings in the children's department, and there is a second session at 10:30.
