Six things to do in New Hope this Saturday
A sock hop whodunit, a lantern ghost walk, and a Steely Dan tribute inside a 250-seat barn.
New Hope packs a full Saturday into one square mile. A juried art show opens at the old Worthington's Garage, Peddler's Village runs a 1950s murder mystery at the Cock 'n Bull, and a lantern walk pulls forty-five years of ghost stories off the alleys behind Main Street. Here is the order to work it all in.
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Friday night warmup: funk and liquid grooves from Special Characters upstairs, 21 and over, eight o'clock. The kitchen is all-vegetarian with Far East spice, and the building is where Abbie Hoffman held his Dump the Pump meetings.
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Also Friday: Kid Charlemagne does Steely Dan the hard way, horns and all, in the Note, the 250-seat room inside a mid-18th-century barn on Lower York Road. Two hours, eight o'clock start.
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Saturday opens with Liberty and Its Shadows, a juried show asking artists what the American story means now. The gallery sits in the old Worthington's Garage, which sold and fixed cars for five decades before the sculptors moved in. Open Friday through Sunday, noon to five, running to October 4.
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Afternoon at Peddler's Village in Lahaska: author Julie Radico signs and talks at Lahaska Bookshop from one to three, then live music in the Nissley Vineyards tasting room from two to five. Sixty-plus shops and the village greens are right outside. "My happy place," Stephanie says on Google.
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Six thirty: Debra and Patrick play the Bowman's lounge on River Road. The cocktails pull herbs from an on-site garden, and the kitchen sources from Blue Moon Acres and Fulper Family Farmstead. Live music every night, Tuesday through Sunday.
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Seven o'clock at the Cock 'n Bull: Dance with Death, a 1950s sock hop where a body hits the dance floor and the room works the clues. Dinner and an interactive whodunit with the Murder Mystery Co., two and a half hours.
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Eight o'clock: the lantern walk leaves Main and Ferry, covering a mile of haunted New Hope in about an hour. Fifteen dollars cash or Venmo, no reservations, be on time. Adele Gamble has been guiding since the mid-'80s, working from the research of the author who started the tours in 1981. "Totally worth it," Nick says on Google.
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