The Manchester Wine Festival by Nature’s Market is back this Saturday. Nature’s Market has the best wine selection in the area, along with an excellent produce and natural market. Joey, the beverage manager, mixes excellent wines at a wide variety of price points, many of which are hard to find, and always gives the best recommendations. So, it’s an organic move for them to begin a wine festival around the corner from their store at the Manchester Community Library.
There will be five distributors pouring and twenty-five tables to peruse. At least one winery will be from Southern Vermont, Farmer Wines from West Pawlet, I assume they are pouring the Vino Freddo, which is a delicious light, dry red, but maybe it’s something new?
Along with the wine, it’s got interesting twists happening. The guests get to vote on the local cause the proceeds are being donated to, very clever crowd participation. An optional blind tasting, always fun to challenge yourself for a good cause. And a Secret Speakeasy Pour. Solve a wine riddle to access this special pour, sounds fun.
Unfortunately, we can’t make it this year. Pour one out for us and we’ll join in the merriment next year. Do let me know what the secret speakeasy pour is. The mystery is tantalizing. A one day only event, buy your tickets online or at the door.
Manchester Wine Festival – Nov 7th
manchesterwinefestival.com | Tickets: $20
Hours: Nov 7th, 2 PM – 6 PM Parking: On-site
All events are indoors and all guests must be 21+
Location: Manchester Community Library, 138 Cemetery Ave, Manchester VT 05255
https://mclvt.org/stec_event/manchester-wine-festival/
More Events This Weekend in Southern Vermont:
Danby Village Winter Marketplace Begins
Muzzy’s consignment shop is hosting the Danby Village Winter Marketplace in the historic Nichols General Store. Carter Richards Style, Little Quail Sourdough, Mouse in the House, RMG Confections, will all be sharing their very best holiday wares every Wednesday and Saturday, beginning this weekend and running through December 23rd.
We wrote about Carter Richards Style’s summer location, The Barn Shoppe. Definitely, stop by for the holiday treatment in a cozy, postcard setting. You’ll find some treasures, and those holiday treats look tasty…
Danby Village Winter Marketplace
Hours: 10 AM – 4 PM, Wednesdays & Saturdays, November 7th – December 23rd
Location: Nichols Store 9 North Main St, Danby, VT
Game of Logging, III & IV at Smokey House
All the hardcore woodsmen probably know about this already, but there are a few slots left. I must confess, when I first saw this, I thought it was a logging competition open to the public. Not quite. It’s advanced chain-saw and timber training certification. It is open to the public, but you must take each certification consecutively. So, for this weekend you must already have Levels I & II completed.
For us beginners, they are hosting courses I & II in a few weeks, Nov 21st + 22nd.
Game of Logging, III & IV | Cost: $250/level
Hours: Nov 7 + 8th, all day
https://www.smokeyhouse.org/event-details/game-of-logging-iii-iv-november-7-8-2026
Location: Smokey House Center, 426 Danby Mountain Rd, Danby, VT 05739
Events This Weekend in New York City
WMFU Record Fest in Chelsea
The poster explains this one, but doesn’t include all the details. Over 200 tables of vendors, live bands and showings of the new Butthole Surfers documentary. Here’s the full schedule. Maybe you’ll see us there on Saturday.
Tickets: $10/at the door or $35 gets you in early at 12 PM on Friday with the 3-Day pass online
Hours: Friday Nov 6th 3 PM – 8 PM, Sat 11/7 + Sun 11/8 10 AM – 7 PM
Location: Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, 125 W 18th St, NY NY
Freshkills Park – Capturing Change Photo Tour
Freshkills Park has a photo tour this Saturday. We highly recommend any tour of Freshkills Park. I’ll do a write up on it sometime. We’ve been a couple of times. It’s an incredible place; wild grasslands that are some of the highest points in NYC, yet they are man made. Only a sliver of the 2200 acre park is open to the public.
In order to promote the next phases of the park and educate the public, they do regular tours of the closed sections and Capturing Change is the photo tour series. It is a little different from the other tours, which are by foot or by paddle, because it requires a car.
You will be driving around the park on roads that are closed to the public. It’s quite the experience. One of the upsides of the car requirement is it opens it up to anyone, regardless of physical ability, as there is no walking component, except for when you get out of the car at each stop. It would be easy for a mobility-restricted photographer to get great photos without even getting out of the car.
The other advantage is you can bring your big lenses and tripods. A few people even bring large-format landscape setups. One of the tour guides is Jade Doskow, the photographer-in-residence, and she has been photographing the whole park with her large-format camera for a decade now. She’s great and incredibly knowledgable about the park and landscape photography.
Definitely arrive early, as it can be confusing to get to the meeting spot at Freshkills North Park. You might get lost in the neighborhood on your way there.
Tickets: Free/$10 donation recommended. It is per car, not per person. So fill up the car with friends. Tickets are required via Eventbrite. Everyone has to sign a waiver when you get there, as you are entering closed areas of the park that are not yet ready for the public.
Hours: Sunday, Nov 8th, 10 AM – 12 PM
Location: Freshkills North Park, 350 Wild Ave, Staten Island (next to the Fairfield Marriott)
Getting There: It is a little confusing to get to. You can use the Fairfield Marriott at 290 Wild Ave, as a reference point for your GPS when driving. It’s next door to the North parking lot (for some reason, Google Maps still sends you through a closed road to get to the Freshkills Park North lot and you will have to backtrack). There are bus options from the subway or ferry, but you will need to be in a car for this tour.
Alternative Tours: They have a regular series of tours and other events on their Eventbrite page. Also, there’s one chance per year to bike the park at the NYMTB gravel race on November 22nd. There are categories for riders of all levels, even a family joyride heat.
Nearly Somewhere at Stellarhighway
Nearly Somewhere closes this weekend, Nov 8th. The group show features:
Tim Braden, Ilse D’Hollander, Meris Drew, Gerald Ferguson, Kathleen Jacobs, Olav Christopher Jenssen, George Miyasaki, Sam Moyer, Jesse Murry, Vivian Springford, and Kemar Keanu Wynter. Co-curated with Harry Tafoya
This a virtual recommendation. While you can see it in person by appointment, they have the whole show on their website for anyone to view:
https://stellarhighway.com/Nearly-Somewhere
I wonder if this link “closes” on Nov 8th. That’s what would I do.
Hours: 24/7
Location: Stellarhighway on the World Wide Web
Bright Five at Pete’s Candy Store in Wiliamsburg
Bright Five is an experimental salon where five presenters are given five minutes each to talk about the past, present, and future of technology. Afterwards, we’ll carve out plenty of time to talk about the presentations we just witnessed over drinks, and talk about the ways that they’ve changed our perspectives. Bright Five is free to attend — attendees may optionally make a donation to the Unplatform project.
Bright Five is put on by Unplatform, an active proponent of the Indie Web and helping everyone escape Big Tech and Big Social Media. Also, affiliated with the Luddite Club, which has chapters at Bennington College, UVM and St Michael’s and is growing all the time, mail the Luddite Club to request their ‘zine. It’s great. Unplatform and the Luddite Club events are a refreshing wave of savvy anti-tech attendees of all ages.
Hours: Nov 7th, 6 PM | Tickets: Free/Donations
Location: Pete’s Candy Store 709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Greenwood Gardens Closing Weekend in NJ
Greenwood Gardens, a historic 28-acre garden in Short Hills, NJ, has its closing weekend for the year this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They’ll re-open in the spring. It’s been on our list for sometime, but we have yet to go. It looks quite stunning.
Like our other outdoor recommendation this weekend, a car is required. The entry is “by vehicle only”. What can you do, you’re deep in the ‘burbs. You can take NJ Transit to the Millburn station. It’s an 8 minute drive away and the rideshare dropoff zone is through the Main Gate in the North Ridge Parking lot.
Greenwood Gardens | $15/adults. $5/children
Hours: Nov 6th, 7th & 8th 10 AM – 5 PM, with final entry at 3:30 PM
Tickets: Buying tickets in advance is recommended, as they can hit capacity and turn you away if you don’t already have a ticket.
Parking: included in the ticket price (car or rideshare required)
Location: Greenwood Gardens, 274 Old Short Hills Rd, Short Hills, NJ 07078
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