There is something for everyone during the upcoming weeks at Rutherfurd Hall!

WHERE: Rutherfurd Hall, 1686 Route 517, Allamuchy

September 19, 2019 7:00-9:30: Adult Paint Night Bring a Bottle of Wine and Paint a unique Fall masterpiece. All supplies, snack and professional instruction included. $25

September 23, 2019: Meditation with Optional Yoga

Join us  for Meditation from 6:30-7:30 pm. Invite Peace and Wellness to your life as you begin or continue your Meditation Practice with Jean Marie of Fostering the Journey. IN ADDITION, join us for one half-hour of optional gentle Yoga at 5:50  -Please bring a mat for Yoga. Yoga $7 Meditation $15

September 25, 2019 at 6:30: Dinner and Lecture at Panther Valley Golf and Country Club.

Joan Salvas, Rutherfurd Hall Historian will deliver a lecture titled: The Rutherfurds of Allamuchy. soldier, statesman, scientist, philanthropist.... The Rutherfurds of Allamuchy have made notable contributions to Warren County, New Jersey, and the nation. Join us as we follow the Rutherfurds highlighting six generations of remarkable accomplishments.

You do not have to be a member of PVG&CC to attend. $45 includes buffet dinner, dessert and coffee and lecture. Cash Bar Available.  RSVP to PVG&CC by September 20th. (908) 850-0800.

September 28, 2019 11:00 am-4:00 pm: Allamuchy Crafters and Artisan Fair!

Join us for a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. Local artists and crafters will be selling their work to the public at historic Rutherfurd Hall!

October 2, 2019 11:00 am-12:30 pm: Rutherfurd Hall's Bus Tour of Historical Allamuchy

Visit the sites located within Allamuchy that are tied to Rutherfurd Hall. Take a ride while listening to the tour guide go back in history to the time when the Rutherfurd family stayed in Allamuchy for summer vacations. $15 museum hours will be from 1-4 pm. If you would like to stay around for an afternoon tour of the Mansion $5

October 2, 2019 at 7:00 pm: Free Centenary University Lecture with Speaker: Christine Floether, PhD, Associate Professor Psychology.

Her Topic is "The Scary Psychology of Stephen King." Dr Floether will talk about Stephen King's life and explore some connection to his books and his writing, including the psychology behind his books. FREE LECTURE generously Sponsored by the House of the Good Shepherd.

October 9, 2019 4:00 and 7:00 pm: Free Lecture: The Rutherfurd Hall Collections II. 

Every artifact tells a story. Join us as we allow the artifacts from our Rutherfurd Hall Collection to tell their stories about the house, its family, Allamuchy, New Jersey and beyond. With Speaker Joan Salvas, Rutherfurd Hall Historian. FREE event thanks to the support of the Allamuchy Historical Society (no reservations required)Lecture will be the same for both sessions.

Calendar Raffle Tickets are now for Sale!!

A Calendar Raffle is a raffle that gives ticket purchasers 91 chances to win cash prizes ranging from $50 to $200. There will be a winner every day from January 1 until March 31, 2019. All winning tickets will be resubmitted for future chances to win. $25 per ticket. 

Call (908)852-1894 ext 338 to purchase.

For more information, or to register for any event, Click here or call (908)852-1894 ext 338.

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE IN SEPTEMBER @ RUTHERFURD HALL

September 6, 7 and 8, 2019:
Allamuchy Country Fair at Waterloo Concert Fields on Waterloo Road in Allamuchy. Carnival Rides, Entertainment, Magic and Reptile shows, Country Fair Contests, Music, Vendors, Food Court, Craft Beer Garden by Czig Meister Brewery and MORE!

• Enter a Corn Hole Tournament for great prizes!
• THE NERDS playing at 8pm on Saturday
• FIREWORKS on Saturday (rain date Friday)
• Enter into a pie or corn on the cob eating contest. Enter your pie, vegetables or jam into the "BEST in the County" contest! 

Wristbands good for all rides will be sold for $25 at the gate, or Pre-Sale Vouchers will be available at Rutherfurd Hall this Wednesday, Sept 4th, from 12:00-4:00 pm for $20. ALL three days will be wristband days. Individual tickets will also be sold.

Parking is $10 at the gate-No other fees to enter.

September 10 and 12, 2019 at 6:30:
Free Retirement Readiness Workshop sponsored by the Society for Financial Awareness (SOFA). Seats are limited, so pre-registration required-call (908) 852-1894 ext 338.

September 13, 2019  7:30-9:30: Live Jazz The David Leonhardt Trio with Nancy Reed
A jazz pianist, composer, and a highly skilled and versatile artist. His professional experience includes T.V., radio, concerts, festivals, night clubs & stage shows. $22.50 in advance $27.50 at the door

September 19, 2019 7:00-9:30: Adult Paint Night
Bring a Bottle of Wine and Paint a unique Fall masterpiece. All supplies, snack and professional instruction included. $25

September 23, 2019 Meditation with Optional Yoga
Join us  for Meditation from 6:30-7:30 pm. Invite Peace and Wellness to your life as you begin or continue your Meditation Practice with Jean Marie of Fostering the Journey. IN ADDITION, join us for one half-hour of optional gentle Yoga at 5:50  -Please bring a mat for Yoga. Yoga $7 Meditation $15

September 25, 2019 at 6:30 Dinner and Lecture at Panther Valley Golf and Country Club
Joan Salvas, Rutherfurd Hall Historian will deliver a lecture titled: The Rutherfurds of Allamuchy. You do not have to be a member of PVG&CC to attend. $45 includes buffet dinner, dessert and coffee and lecture. Cash Bar Available.  Please RSVP to PVG&CC by September 18th. (908) 850-0800.

September 28, 2019 11:00 am-4:00 pm Allamuchy Crafters and Artisan Fair!
Join us for a one of a kind shopping experience.  Local artists and crafters will be selling their work to the public at historic Rutherfurd Hall!

For more information, or to register for any event, Click here or call (908)852-1894 ext 338.

Upcoming September Events at The Watershed Institute

Please note that Events may be postponed or cancelled due to weather or low registration. Please register for events here: thewatershed.org/events

WHERE: The Watershed Institute (formerly the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association), 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, New Jersey 08534
www.thewatershed.org 
609.737.3735

TRENTON RIVER DAYS FAIR

WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
WHERE: South Riverwalk Park (near the Trenton Thunder Stadium)
ADMISSION: Free
General Audience

Join us for a celebration on the Delaware River! This free event includes food and educational activities for the whole family! Explore games and exhibits about the life of the Delaware River, and then enjoy a boat ride or paddle along the river's banks. Live music and entertainment will be provided by Son 7 and performers from the Trenton Circus Squad.

Participants can help plant a wildflower meadow, and discover River-Friendly tools and habits to bring home.

The event is brought to you by The Watershed Institute, Mercer County and the Mercer County Park Commission, The City of Trenton, D&R Greenway Land Trust, and the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River.

CREEPY SPIDER HUNT

WHEN: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 7:30-9 p.m.
WHERE: The Watershed Institute
ADMISSION: $5 per person
General Audience, ages 5+

Crab spiders, jumping spiders, wolf spiders, orb and funnel weavers and more! Join our annual night hunt with nocturnal naturalist Jeff Hoagland. Bring your flashlight or headlamp to use as we navigate the trails in search of many different types of spiders.

HOMESCHOOL NATURE CLASSES

WHEN: FALL SEMESTER - SEPT. 10, 17, 24, OCT. 8, 22, 29, NOV. 5, 12, 9:30- 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: The Watershed Center
ADMISSION: $105 per semester ($15 per class drop-in fee).

Join us each semester for weekly classes that comprehensively explore a topic. There will be classroom-style presentation of information before the outdoor investigations for children ages 5-8 and 9-12.

This semester is all about insects! We will cover:  Insects 101, pollinator insects, aquatic insects, predatory insects, insect adaptations, monarch migration, the social life of insects, insect-human interactions, and insects in winter.

OUT THERE READING GROUP

WHEN: WEDNESDAYS, SEPT. 18, OCT. 16, NOV. 13, DEC. 11, 7:30 - 9 p.m.
WHERE: The Watershed Institute
ADMISSION: Free
Adults

Jeff Hoagland will facilitate this reading group as we explore a wide variety of writing about nature, wildness and the wilderness. Participants will receive a monthly email with curated poems and prose focused on a specific topic or author. Register for individual sessions or all. Light refreshments provided.

TIE -DYE DAY

WHEN: FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 5- 7 p.m.
WHERE: The Watershed Institute
ADMISSION: $5 per person
General Audience

Missing your tie-dying activities from summer camp? Watershed Nature Camp participants and their families may bring three adult-size shirts (or the equivalent amount of fabric) to dye! We'll have red, yellow and blue colors to mix and help you make your own colors and patterns! Feel free to bring a friend, too!

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE CLASS

FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. Registration starts at 9 a.m.
WHERE: The Watershed Institute

This introductory session will provide an overview of the upcoming changes in the NJ storm water rule, why it matters and the requirements for green infrastructure. Design, installation, and maintenance of these structures will also be discussed. An optional tour of storm water facilities including a green roof, rain gardens, and porous paving will be provided at the end of the event.

The Watershed Institute will hold a two-day course with a certification in February, 2020.

SAVE THE DATE:

The Watershed FEST

WHEN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 6:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.
WHERE: The Watershed Institute

The Watershed FEST is an annual themed evening of great food and excellent company.

3RD ANNUAL WATERSHED CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, NOV. 1, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Watershed Institute
ADMISSION: $35/$45 (Early Bird registration until Oct. 11)

Registration is open for the 3rd Annual New Jersey Watershed Conference.

Join us and learn more about the benefits of storm water management, green infrastructure, harmful algal blooms, and other topics.

Visit the Allamuchy Country Fair and Support Rutherfurd Hall in the Corn Hole Tournament!

WHEN: September 6, 6:00-10:00 pm, September 7, 12:00-10:00 pm and September 8, 12:00-6:00 pm
WHERE: Waterloo Concert Fields, Off Waterloo Road, Hackettstown
TICKETS: Pre-sale Wristband Vouchers are now on Sale for $20! $25 at the gate.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE WRISTBAND VOUCHER
Vouchers can also be purchased at the PVPOA Office

Wristbands will be good for all rides, and all 3 days will be wristband days. Individual tickets will also be sold.

Receipt is not a wristband voucher or ticket. Wristband Voucher must be picked up at Rutherfurd Hall Wednesdays 12-4 pm or by appt. call 908-852-1894 ext 338. Vouchers must be presented at ticket window at fair for actual wristband and can be redeemed for any one day.

Enjoy carnival rides, live music by THE NERDS, vendors, entertainment, country fair games and contests, huge food court, craft beer tent, FIREWORKS and more.

Activities Schedule

Friday

• 6:00-7:30 pm-Allamuchy Got Talent
• 6:00 -10:00 pm- DJ 

Saturday

• 12:00-8:00 pm ARTstitution—Slime Making, Hair Accessorizing, Drawing and Water Color Lessons
• 12:00-1:00 pm—Pies, Jams, Fruit and Vegetable Baskets Contest Entries Received
• 1:00 Corn Hole Tournament—teams of 2 compete for valuable prize packages. Click Here to register for Corn Hole Tournament
• 1:00-2:00 pm—Reptile Show  
• 2:00-3:00 pm—Corn & Pie Eating Contests ½ Hour Each
• 3:00-3:30 pm—Contest Judging and Awards
• 3:00-4:00 pm—Parent/Child Look Alike
• 5:00-6:00 pm—Magician  
• 6:00-7:30 pm—DJ Music In House
• 8:00-9:30 pm—The Nerds     
• 9:30 pm—Fireworks (rain date Friday)

Sunday

• 12:00 pm—Moo Doo bowl (50/50) $10 buys you your deed (ticket) to your plot which has a matching number. When the live cow poops that will be the winning square or squares.
• 1:00 -3:00 pm—Mini Circus Comedy

Visit the Allamuchy Country Fair @ Waterloo Concert Fields

Enjoy FIREWORKS, carnival rides, live music, entertainment, country fair games and contests, food, vendors and more.

WHERE: Waterloo Concert Fields in Allamuchy located on Waterloo Road
ADMISSION: $10 per car to enter Parking Lot. There are no other entrance fees.Wristbands will be sold for $20 in advance or $25 at the gate. Wristbands will be good for all rides any one day.  Individual tickets will also be sold.
To purchase wristband voucher or for more information, go to www.rutherfurdhall.org or CLICK HERE

Wristband vouchers can also be purchased at Panther Valley Pharmacy,  PVPOA Office or Jacks Scissor Wiz.

Vouchers must be presented at ticket window at fair for actual Wristband on day of visit.

This event will bring back the “Old Country Fair” feeling to those who visit through the Carnival rides, live music, entertainment, country fair games, food and vendors.  Enter into a funnel cake or corn on the cob eating contest.  Enter your pie or jam into the “BEST in the County” contest!  Or, do you make a specialty food?  Enter into our COOK OFF!

Food and Business Vendors will be available in our Vendor tent.

VISIT THE NJ STATE HISTORY FAIR ON MAY 14 IN MANALAPAN

NOTE: Carol Simon, Bridgewater Twp. Public Library’s youth services librarian (and fellow blogger) will present her one-woman show, Bridge Builder in Petticoats, about Emily Roebling (wife and assistant to the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge), at this State History Fair.  Emily Roebling has been called “one of the most noted women in the country” and “the most famous woman in New Jersey”…yet today few people even know her name! You won’t want to miss it! www.tellingherstories.com 

The 2016 Fair will feature some familiar faces from the past like Clara Barton, George Washington and Walt Whitman as well as such favorite activities as 19th baseball, horse-drawn plowing demonstrations,  Phydeaux’s flying flea circus and period music.

New to the Fair will be several Civil War-themed programs to coincide with the exhibit of President Lincoln’s casket.  This replica casket, manufactured by the Batesville Casket Company of Indiana, will be on display in the park’s Visitor Center.  A local Civil War reenactment unit, the 14th NJ Volunteers, Co. H, will provide an honor guard for the casket and the Fort Delaware Cornet Band will perform music of the era on period instruments.  Darrel Ford, portraying Walt Whitman, will read his poem, “Oh Captain, My Captain”, a tribute to President Lincoln.  Kenneth Serfass , who will portray General Ulysses S. Grant, will reflect on his relationship and career with the late Commander in Chief.

Another exciting new program will be a fictional U.S. Army radio and live show, “SPAM Time,”  modeled on actual entertainment presented to U.S. military personnel from WWII to the Viet Nam War era.  A full day of pre-recorded and live musical entertainment will be presented.

www.njhistoryfair.org