Apple Butter Frolic
Apple butter stirred in copper kettles on the Mennonite Heritage Center grounds, plus historic craft and farming demonstrations, children's games, and food for sale: sausage sandwiches, fresh scrapple, ground cherry pies, apple dumplings. Rain or shine, no pets.
More at Mennonite Heritage Center
Encountering Menno Simons: An Anabaptist Reading Group
September's session of the heritage center's Anabaptist reading group, same ninety minute slot on the second Thursday.
Encountering Menno Simons: An Anabaptist Reading Group
A reading group working through the writings of the sixteenth century Anabaptist leader, meeting at the Mennonite Heritage Center. Ninety minutes, registration through the center, and the museum galleries are open the same afternoon.
Encountering Menno Simons: An Anabaptist Reading Group
The November sitting of the same group, ninety minutes on Menno Simons and the early Anabaptists. Tickets go through the heritage center's registration page.
Around the same time
Rice's Market
Four hundred vendors across thirty acres of indoor and outdoor stalls: antiques, produce, tools, clothing, food. Gates open at seven and the lot fills early. Bring cash.
Executive Scramble at The Willows Golf Lounge
Last Tuesday scramble of September, eight until nine thirty at Liberty Boulevard. Twenty five dollars, clubs on hand, and the series keeps running into fall.
Bird Walk at Peter Wentz Farmstead
An early morning bird walk around the farmstead fields and hedgerows with the county's environmental educator. Free, but email Rebecca Blacketter to register before you go.