Fall Events: Pumpkins and Pies
All you can eat pie tasting, pumpkin painting and guided visits with the farm animals across four afternoon hours. The scarecrow scavenger hunt is still running if the kids need somewhere to put the sugar.
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Fall Events: Farm Harvest Tour
Walk the fields with the people who actually farm them and taste what came off the vine this week. The scarecrow scavenger hunt stays up afterward if you want to keep wandering. Registration through Ticketleap.
Fall Events: The Italian Bee
Master beekeepers Suzanne and Michael Luciano on what keeping hives actually takes, with beeswax, tools, honey from the farm and, weather allowing, a live observation hive. You leave with a pollinator plant list.
Fall Events: Autumn Archery
USA Archery instructors walk first timers through their opening shots, equipment included. Recommended for ages eight and up, two hours on a Saturday morning, and the farm stays open afterward.
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Jen Howard
Jen Howard on a Wednesday night at the Nail. The Nail sits at 2580 Haverford Road and has been booking original music for seventy odd years.
Behind the Scenes Tours: Fonthill Castle From Tower to Crypt
Ninety minutes off the normal route through Henry Mercer's concrete castle: tower stairs, hidden passageways, the rooms the standard tour skips. Steep and dark in places, age fourteen and up.
Solar Viewing Drop-In
A weekday run of the library's solar telescope setup, ten to noon. All ages, no registration, and the observers walk you through what you are looking at. Cancelled if it is cloudy or raining.
