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Over 200 Fall Events on whattododigital.com  We did it! We recreated our events guide from What To Do: Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua on whattododigital.com. You can now find over 200 events on our In & Around Town: Events blog. It's the best place around for townies and culture vultures to find complete listings of country fairs and fall festivals, local sidewalk sales, music, theater, dance and comedy, the great outdoors, arts, antiques and craft fairs, and events for kids. Plus, Halloween and Thanksgiving events. From the libraries, farms, museums, concert halls, and spooky places we've got you covered for fall events. Bookmark this page
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What To Do: In and Around Town
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65th Annual Herb Fair at John Jay Homestead
Shop for herbs, herb baskets, bulbs, plants and more to raise funds to maintain the Herb Garden at John Jay Homestead. Lunch is offered, including the traditional lovage soup. The Herb of the Year, elderberry will be featured.. Plus, gourmet foods, baked goods, gift items, herb demonstrations and folk harpist Emily Hoile. Thurs, 9/19: 11am-2pm. (John Jay Homestead, 400 Route 22, Katonah; www.johnjayhomestead.org
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Small Town Theatre presents The Last Flapper  William Luce's one-woman play is based on the letters and stories of Zelda Fitzgerald. In the play Zelda speaks about her life as a rebellious southern belle and her marriage with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Directed by Robert D'Amato with Tina D'Amato as Zelda. Fri-Sat, 9/20-21: 8pm (Katonah Library, 26 Bedford Rd., Katonah) & Fri-Sat, 10/4-5: 8pm. (Hergenhan Center, 15 Bedford Rd., Armonk; www.smalltowntheatre.com)
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Crafts at Lyndhurst  Crafts at Lyndhurst is among the most well known outdoor crafts fairs in the country. Set on the grounds of historic Lyndhurst, the festival offers over 275 artists and crafts people displaying one-of-a-kind fashion, jewelry, fashion & accessories, home decor, and sculptural work in ceramics, glass, wood, metal, painting, photography and mixed media. Plus food, kids' activities and music. Fri-Sun, 9/20-22: 10am-5pm. (Lyndhurst Estate, 635 S. Broadway, Tarrytown; www.artrider.com/lyndf2013
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John Jay Barn Dance  The Friends of the John Jay Homestead's Barn Dance is the place to see and be seen in Katonah. Go there for bbq, ice cream sundaes, and local bands, including the ever popular Bad Dog. But even the most ambitious of social climbers will tell you that nothing beats the pig races (5:30 & 7:15pm sharp.) New this year: racing dachsunds. They know how to put on a barn dance. Sat, 9/21: 5-9pm. (John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay St., Katonah; www.johnjayhomestead.org
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Armonk's 2nd Annual Cider and Donut FestivalThe Armonk Chamber of Commerce's Cider & Donut Festival includes activities for kids of all ages. Such as an apple pie eating contest, apple juggling and bobbing, apple art activities, donut fishing, and a bouncy castle. Plus, music from The Bandolins. The festival is designed to recreate the spirit of Armonk in the days when Schultz's Cider Mill on Old Rt. 22 attracted donut lovers from around the county for donuts to die for. Fortunately, we still have world-class farm stand style donuts in town at Beascakes Bakery - who will supply donuts for the event. Yum. Sat, 9/21: 11am-2pm. (Wampus Park, Maple Ave., Armonk; www.armonkchamberofcommere.com)
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Armonk Sidewalk Sale
In conjunction with the Armonk Cider and Donut Festival the Armonk Chamber of Commerce will hold a Sidewalk Sale on Sat & Sun. Merchants will be offering steals and deals you won't want to miss. As always, a highlight will be the Hickory & Tweed Tent Sale. Sat, 9/21: 9:30am-5:30pm & Sun, 9/22: 12-4pm. (Armonk; www.armonkchamberofcommerce.com)
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The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at NYBG  Spooky Halloween activities at the New York Botanical Garden begin on 9/21 with the Haunted Pumpkin Garden in the Everett Children's Adventure Garden. The installation showcases 500 intricately carved pumpkin sculptures of scarecrows, snakes, spiders and more. All carved by Ray Villafane and Andy Bergholtz, regular competitors on Food Network's "Halloween Wars." Find more Halloween cele- brations in our Fall Events Guide on www.whattododigital.com
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New Castle Community Day on 9/21
The Rotary Club of Chappaqua's meet and greet features 70 exhibitors presenting information about their organization. With local merchants, the Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua Orchestra and the New Castle Historical Society. Plus rides, food, music, a mobile passport unit, Bloodmobile, farmers market and family fun such as the Historical Society's geo-caching History Hunt. Sat, 9/21: 11am-4pm. (Chappaqua train station.) Link
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Doo Wopp at the Paramount Hudson Valley  Okay, we confess. WTD loves Doo Wopp . And Paramount Hudson Valley's Evening of Doo Wopp has some classic acts. Let's drop names:. The Drifters: "Under The Boardwalk," "Up on the Roof." Jay Siegel's Tokens: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Larry Chance and the Earls: "Remember When," "Life is But a Dream." And more. Sat, 9/21: 8pm. (1008 Brown St., Peekskill) www.paramounthudsonvalley.com
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Hudson Rising River Tour 2013: last landing of summer  2013's final Hudson Rising River Tour drops anchor at Ossining Harbor on Sat. This celebration of greener cities features land and sea activities from tall ships to a pig roast, an Adventure Village, music and fireworks on the Hudson. Here's what you will find: heritage ships, boat rides, boat parades, the sloop Clearwater, farm feasts, craft beer, wine and cider for locavores, a farmers expo, kids' kitchen, Kayak polo, stand up paddleboard, climbing wall, and a 1K costume race. Sat, 9/21: 11am-10pm. (Harbor Square, Ossining; www.hudsonrising.com
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Mt. Kisco Sidewalk Sales Days: 9/21-22
The Mt. Kisco Chamber of Commerce's Sidewalk Sales Days is a family friendly event offering live music, rides, contests with prizes, a food court, and samples and special deals from over 150 local merchants. Sat, 9/21: 10am-5pm & Sun, 9/22: 12-4pm. (Downtown Mt. Kisco; www.mtkiscochamber.com
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Chappaqua Orchestra  The Chappaqua Orchestra's new season begins on Sun, 9/22 at the Chappaqua Library with a performance of Schubert's Octet in F major, D. 803, featuring principal clarinetist Eric Drucker and guests. It is their first of 7 concerts for the new season. In October they play the works of Stravinsky, Satie, and Honegger to a screening of a Charlie Chaplin film in an evening titled Rive Gauche - Gertrude Stein's Salon. Their November concert features Grammy winners Andy Stein (violin and vocals) and Conal Fowkes (piano.) Conal is the voice/piano of Cole Porter in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. Andy is a 22 year vet on A Prairie Home Companion. More music.
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Westchester Phil opens with Ryu Goto  The Westchester Philharmonic predicts fireworks when the acclaimed violinist Ryu Goto teams up with conductor Jorge Mester on the famed Brahms Violin Concerto on opening night of their 2013-14 season. The program also includes Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Bizet's masterpiece Symphony in C, written when he was just 17 years old. (A sobering thought.) Sun, 9/22: 3pm. (The Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase) For 101 music events this fall check out WTD's Fall Music Guide.
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Jamie's Race for the Library: NCPL
This event, held in conjunction with the Armonk Outdoor Art Show, includes the Petite Picassos 100 yd dash, the Monet Mile, and Jamie's 5K Run/Walk. With warm ups and stretching with instructors from The Gym in Armonk. Sun, 9/22: 9:45am. (Wampus Brook Park, Armonk; www.armonkoutdoorartshow.org
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BGCNW Golf Tournament  The Boy's & Girl's Club of Northern Westchester's annual golf tournament at Glen Arbor Country Club raises funds to support the club's recreational, educational, social and cultural programs for children in northern Westchester. The club is noted, amongst other things, for its aquatics programs. The golf tournament is this year's kickoff (tee off) to an active fall benefit season in our area. Tues, 9/24: 9am. ( 234 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford Hills; More fall benefits and galas here)
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Movies for Kids (and adults) at J. Burns  In Real Genius, brainy college kids discover that a villainous professor has them secretly working on a lethal chemical laser weapon. They take out their revenge both inside and outside of the lab in this goofy satirical comedy from 1985 by Martha Coolidge. Sat-Sun, 9/21-2 & 28-9: 12pm. (Jacob Burns Film Center, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville) burnsfilmcenter.org
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What To Do's Kids' After School Programs Guide
 It's time to start planning fall after school activities. Our website lists 200 programs from "Mommy & Me" to teen programs. Browse our listings. Search by category such as sports, arts, swimming or enrichment. Or search by keyword like tennis, karate, or chess. Developed over five years in What To Do: Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua magazine, our Kids' Programs Guide is now available here.
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Music: a new exhibit at the Aldrich opens 9/22  This new exhibit at Ridgefield's Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum offers 5 collections that explore the music's connections to art through photography, sculpture, new media and installation. Including: John Blackmore's Three Soundworks features "Weather Guitar", a guitar that "plays" music to changing weather conditions. James Morrison's Disciples offers 7 colossal photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones, Merle Haggard, P. Diddy, Bob Dylan and more. And Xaviera Simmons' Underscore presents a photographic slide show and two large scale photos from her Untitled (Cape) series. One is pictured here. For a complete line-up of new exhibits opening this autumn (you guessed it) check out WTD's Museum Guide Fall 2013.
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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A Great Chardonnay: lime, vanilla and fig  This week's Wine of the Week is the Rombauer Chardonnay 2012 from Carneros in California. It shows buttery notes of cantaloupe, pineapple and apricot layered with notes of buttered toast, lime, vanilla and fig. Normally $35.99 a bottle, with this week's discount it is only $30.59 a bottle. Buy it by the case for an even deeper 20% discount. Use discount code ChardGeek when ordering. Through Sun, 9/22. (Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk; 914.273.9463) www.winegeeksarmonk.com
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Wine Geeks' Carol Todd off-Broadway  Wine Geeks Armonk's Carol Todd will perform with Jill Eikenberry in the off-Broadway debut of Jack Canfora's, Jericho. The New York Times called Jericho "a smart hard-hitting drama filled with biting wit" when it premiered at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre in 2011. The play, about 9/11, Thanksgiving, and being Jewish, explores some of the larger questions of American life with surprising humor. (Carol, who has one of the play's best lines got a nice mention in the review, by the way.) Fri-Sun, 10/4-11/3. (Theatre 59E59, 59 E. 59yh St., NYC) You can read more about Carol, link to the review and get a full schedule of fall theater in our area in WTD's Fall Guide to Theater, Dance & Comedy right here
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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Michael Buble, Steeley Dan and 101 Music Events  Coming up, in & around our towns in September: Michael Buble, Steely Dan, Railroad Earth with Martin Sexton, Graham Nash, and Beatlemania Now. Find these shows and more October and November music in our Fall Music Guide on our website. From The Chappaqua Orchestra, Music From Copland House and Joshua Bell, to Amos Lee, Pink, and Elvis Costello. Fall Music Guide here.
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Jazz great Cassandra Wilson to open PAC Season
 We've had Cassandra Wilson on our playlist for years. She can go from Lerner and Lowe to Elmore James without skipping a beat. If you think it's a good thing to go from "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" to "Last Train to Clarksville" than you should buy tickets for Cassandro Wilson today! Hear her sing Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman" on whattododigital.com now. Sat, 9/28: 8pm. (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase) Full season here.
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Feed Me Fresh: An Edible Evening  The Mt. Kisco Child Care Center's Feed Me Fresh fundraiser is named for their garden-to-table nutrition program. This year's event will be held at Ivanna Farm in Bedford Corners. There will be live music, hors d'oeuvres, tastings from regional chefs, an auction and an open farm market. The event raises funds for scholarship support. The center cares for 160 children. Sat, 9/28. (163 Wood Rd., Bedford Corners; www.mkccc.org
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An Iliad at PAC
 Tony Award winner Dennis O'Hare and co-writer and Director Lisa Peterson present Homer's Trojan War in a performance of 'one classic story, one actor, a stage full of characters." Mr. O'Hare is familiar to television audiences for his appearances on True Blood and American Horror Story. Time Out New York gave the off-Broadway production of An Iliad four stars. The production comes to the Performing Arts Center Purchase for one night on Sun, 9/29: 3pm. (PAC, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase) Full Performing Arts Center schedule here
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Armonk Outdoor Art Show  The nationally recognized Armonk Outdoor Art Show features over 185 juried artists presenting a wide spectrum of media from oils, drawing, water color, acrylics, photography and print making to paper cutting, sculpture, clay, wood and jewelry. We like this mixed media work from Chris Rom and Geoff Buddie of Binary Project. The show offers docent tours, personal shoppers and a children's treasure hunt. Sat-Sun, 9/28-9: 10am-5pm. (205 Business Park Dr., Armonk; www.armonkoutdoorartshow.org
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Pollock at NCPL  Ed Harris stars in/directs this 2000 film that explores the triumphs and tragedies of Jackson Pollock, the American abstract expressionist well known for his unique style of drip painting. (A WTD fave rave, by the way. The movie and the artist.) With Marcia Gay Harden. This free screening with commentary by LIU Professor Valerie Franco is an Armonk Outdoor Art Show special event. Fri, 9/27: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Rd. East, Armonk; www.northcastlelibrary.org
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Free Concert at NCPL  The Fishtank Ensemble bring their "cross-pollinated gypsy music" (as coined by LA Weekly) for a free concert at the Armonk library. Expect two violins, a slap bass, a musical saw, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, opera, jazz and gypsy vocals, and a banjolele. This concert is an Armonk Outdoor Art Show special event. Sat, 9/28: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Rd. East, Armonk; www.northcastlelibrary.org
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Bedford Village Chowder & Marching Club Bash  The Bedford Chowder & Marching Club's annual bash features dinner, music, games, raffle and auction. New this year, a showcase of repurposed/upcycled art from local artist Kim Dittrich using items salvaged from the club's Spring Cleanup Weekend fundraiser. Funds from this event will be used to renovate the basketball court at Bedford Memorial Park. The club has raised over $750,000 for youth programs in Bedford Village. Sat, 10/5; 7pm. (Bedford Golf & Tennis Club, 535 Cantitoe Rd., Bedford: www.bedfordchowderandmarching.org
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Hot Ticket Alert: Stone Barns Harvest Fest  The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture's 10th annual Harvest Fest sells out early so we're giving you a hot ticket alert now! The event includes hayrides, music, farm/food demonstrations, farmers market and a square dance in an incomparable setting at Stone Barns on the Rockefeller Estate. Sat, 10/5: 11am-5pm. (630 Bedford Rd., Pocantico Hills; For more more autumn celebrations for townies & culture vultures bookmark our In & Around Town: Events.
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Caramoor Fall Festival: Jazz in the Courtyard  The Caramoor Fall Festival is a two night music celebration of jazz and classical music. The jazz night, Sonidos Latinos, is a hot Havana night kicking off with the Chuchito Valdes Trio. (We saw him at Caramoor two years ago: AMAZING!) And he's the opening act. The top bill goes to Columbian harpist, Edmar Castaneda, who will play a rare concert with Cuban pianist and Grammy Award winner Gonzalo Rubalcana. The New York Times wrote that he has "almost supernatural abilities." Fri, 10/4: 8pm. (Spanish Courtyard, Caramoor, 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah; www.caramoor.org
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Caramoor Harvest Dinner with Bedford Post Inn  Join Richard Gere and Caramoor at a Harvest Dinner to benefit music and culture. The evening begins with a special dinner prepared by Bedford Post's Executive Chef Jeremy McMillan. Then check out the performance by the acclaimed NYC orchestral ensemble, The Knights. Their program will include works by Bach, Stravinsky, Haydn, Steve Reich, the New York premiere of Jacobson/Anghaei's Concerto for Santur and Violin, and ... the ground beneath our feet, an original composition from The Knights. Sat, 10/5: 5:30pm. (Caramoor, 153 Girdle Ridge Rd., Caramoor; www.caramoor.org)
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