Local fall celebrations kick off with the Yorktown Grange Fair on Thurs, 9/4. Our Fall Events Calendar offers 12 autumn fests including the Armonk Cider and Donut Festival, Bedford's Oktoberfest, the John Jay Barn Dance, and the Hawkwatch Festival and Green Bazaar at Greenwich Audubon. There's more family entertainment in Pound Ridge, at Stone Barns, Muscoot Farm, the Hammond Museum and the New York Botanical Garden. Read more.

Ranked one of the country's top art shows by Sunshine Artist Magazine, the 53rd annual Armonk Outdoor Art Show features over 185 juried artists showing painting, photography, sculpture, pastels, printmaking, drawing, mixed media and wearable art. More fall antiques, arts & crafts events include the Chappaqua Antiques Show, the Chappaqua Crafts & Gifts Fair and top of the line craft fairs at Lyndhurst Mansion, Purchase College and in Rhinebeck.

The Chappaqua Children's Book Festival gained rapid notoriety drawing a crowd of 4,000 and rave reviews from the Huff Post. We have more on this and lots more kids entertainment and activities from the the New Castle Historical Society's Where's Horace History Hunt to Sesame Street Live at the County Center. There's kids stuff at Chappaqua Rec, NYBG, and the Hammond Museum. Plus, the Big Apple Circus, Disney on Ice and theatre for kids at the Emelin, the Ridgefield Playhouse and the Tarrytown Music Hall. Read more.

The Bedford Riding Lanes Association Fall Pace & Picnic at John Jay Homestead on 9/7 kicks off a mixed bag of seasonal events that defy category. But there's a lot for foodies here. From the BRLA's luncheon menu to Hudson Valley Restaurant week, a new Muscoot Farm Harvest Dinner and the Mount Kisco Rotary Club's Pancake Breakfast. Plus square dancing in Katonah, New Castle Community Day, Mount Kisco's Sidewalk Sales Days, a bonfire marshmallow roast at Boscobel and the annual Herb Fair at John Jay Homestead. Read more.

Outdoor kicks are easy to find in the fall. We've got a dozen ways to stretch your legs from a walking tour of Horace Greeley's Farm to the 4th annual Church Tavern 10K biathlon. Bike the Bronx River Parkway, sail on the Long Island Sound, hike the woods in Westmoreland Sanctuary's Orienteering Meet, or stroll Rocky Hills, the gardens of William and Henriette Suhr in Mt. Kisco. Plus 5K & 10K races in Armonk, Katonah, North Salem and Muscoot Farm. And lots more here.

Summer's winding down but there's still lots more summer music coming. Arcade Fire is at the Barclays Center this weekend. Early September concerts include a British Invasion at The Ridgefield Playhouse, Travis Tritt at the Paramount, Steely Dan at the Capitol. Plus Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Loudon Wainwright III and Cher on our summer music guide.

LIU Professor Valerie Franco presents Boy, the 2012 coming of age comedy from Taika Waititi. Set in rural New Zealand in 1984 when Michael Jackson's Thriller was all the rage, Boy, who has taught himself to dance like Michael Jackson, longs for the day of his father's return - who he fantasizes as a close relation of Michael Jackson. When his father comes home (from a 7 year jail term) Boy is must confront the reality of his dad's life - and his dim prospects of ever meeting the King of Pop. Wed, 8/27: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library.)

The east coast's premier vintage racing and concours event. Three days of on-track racing. More than 300 cars and drivers, racing everything from pre-WWI racers to the best competition machines from the 1920s to the 1970s. How cool is that? Thurs-Mon, 8/28-9/1: check schedule. (60 White Hollow Rd., Lakeville CT) More Kids stuff.

This novel corn festival offers a bounty of corn-centric delicacies, demonstrations and hands-on, corn-related activities. Kids play games like Konk-a-Crow and Ring-a Cob in the CORNival area. There are corn-shucking races, a mini maize-maze, and crafts - make a cornhusk doll. Plus bluegrass and folk music and English country dancing in the barn. For those with the corn munchies there's cornbread, corn salsa and chips, corn chili, popcorn and sweet corn ice cream. Sat-Mon, 8/30-9/1: 10am-5pm. (381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow) More Kids Stuff.

Chappaqua Recreation is now offering smart priced martial arts programs through Westchester Mixed Martial Arts & Fitness. The 8 week programs that begin the third week of September include Tiny Dragons (ages 3-5), Little Champs (ages 5-7) and their Youth program (ages 8-13). Take your first step towards a black belt by signing up with the New Castle Recreation Department. Westchester MMA Fit offers martial arts programs for kids and mixed martial arts, cardio kickboxing and KOGA Fitness classes for adults in their 8,000 sq. ft. Mt. Kisco facility. www.westchestermmafit.com

Camp season is over. so get out those checkbooks (again) because its time to go shopping for Kids' After School Program for Fall. What To Do's Kids' Programs Guide offers over 100 local suppliers of kids school year activities including, sports, fitness, art, music, theater and dance, martial arts, tutoring and enrichment, aquatics and much more. Check out What To Do"s Kids Programs Guide here.

Celebrate the last days of summer overlooking the Hudson River on Boscobel's great lawn. Enjoy a picnic supper - purchase food on site or BYO - and listen/dance to the swinging sounds of the 20-piece Big Band Sound orchestra as the take on Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and more. Swing dance/jitterbug demonstrations by the Fred Astaire Dance Studio. Sun, 9/7: 6-8pm. More.

NEA Jazz Master, Grammy-winner and Tony Award-nominee, Branford Marsalis kicks off PAC's 2014-15 season with an evening of saxophone jazz on Sat, 9/27. Marsalis received initial acclaim playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and brother Wynton's quintet. He has performed with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. More jazz on PAC's schedule includes The Preservation Hall Jazz Band with R&B master Allen Toussaint, whose songs have been covered by The Rolling Stones, Jerry Garcia, Glen Campbell, Ernie K. Doe and Leo Dorsey. More PAC music here.