Adirondack Family Time™

Harvest Hallo'ween Festival at the Lakeside School at Black Kettle Farm in Essex When: October 20 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Join author and illustrator Steven Kellogg for a illustrated story time as Kellogg retells A Beasty Tale through his own illustrations.  Cost:  $7/adults, $5/children, $20/whole family.  There will also be crafts, wind-wand making, gourd and pumpkin painting, as well as corn grinding activities. Enjoy! © Diane Chase is the author of the Adirondack Family Activities™ guidebook series, Adirondack Family Time™, which is available online or bookstores/museums/sporting good stores. Diane is currently working on the third guidebook in the four-book series of Adirondack Family Activities™.

Boo! Spooky Times at the Haunted 1812 Homestead in Willsboro! When: October 20, Saturday Costume Parade at 1:00 pm  Noon - 4:00 pm Is for the Younger Children 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm is For Older Children Cost $8/pp  © Diane Chase is the author of the Adirondack Family Activities™ guidebook series, Adirondack Family Time™, which is available online or bookstores/museums/sporting good stores. Diane is currently working on the third guidebook in the four-book series of Adirondack Family Activities™.

Going to a pumpkin patch and corn maze is a different way to celebrate autumn. There is no age limit on that particular type of fun. On Pellerin Road in Plattsburgh, Country Dreams Farm has a corn maze with twists and turns around the various trails with signs misleading participants along the way.  The horse and wagon ride is free to the corn maze or pumpkin patch. You can even just go along for the ride if you wish.  Besides the corn maze there is a children’s area with a corn kernel box (rather like a sandbox) and petting zoo with draft horses, miniature donkeys, goats, pot-belly pigs, sheep and chickens. This year a new interactive activity is Goat Mountain, a 16’ high goat ramp where the 30 plus goats will climb to the top to get a treat. If you put 25¢ in the feeder machine you can either feed the goats by hand or transfer the feed into a bucket and hoist it to the top of the ramp. It is rigged to ring a bell and the goats scamper to the top to get their tasty

Adirondack Lakes and Trails Outfitters is conducting three volunteer trail workdays at Dewey Mountain to make sure the skiers this winter only have fun. The first will be this Sunday, Oct 14, from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm to help place new trail signs. The trail signs were purchased from a grant from the North Country Healthy Heart Network and designed by Demong Designs .

We will be at the following locations for October! October 6, 2012: Adirondack Kids Day in Inlet * 11 am - noon Join us for a knot tying workshop for kids and families at the Youth Commission Building behind Inlet's Town Hall * 1:00 - 3:00 pm Children's Author Fair at the Adirondack Reader * 3:00 - 4 :00 pm Hiking Tips and Safety  at the Youth Commission Building behind Inlet's Town Hall October 13, 2012: Saratoga Springs Public Library , Community Room 1:00 pm Stop by for fun activities, handouts, hiking tips for young children, knot tying workshop for kids and join us for a nature walk.

Once again Smithsonian magazine is offering a FREE museum pass for participating museums. In the Adirondack Park that includes the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake and the 1932/1980 Olympic Museum in Lake Placid and Adirondack History Center , Elizabethtown. This pass is good for two people. Enjoy!

Adirondack Balloon Festival Schedule September 20-23, 2012 40th Anniversary Celebration • All balloon flights are weather permitting. • Open to the public - FREE of charge • Donations will be accepted for parkiing, Premiere • VIP parking is available for a fee. • No Dogs! Thursday, September 20th - Crandall Park - City of Glens Falls 4:30-6:30pm:  Music and Band Performance 5:00pm:  Opening Ceremonies –Acknowledgement of 40th Anniversary 5:15pm:  Launch of special shape “Birthday Cake” balloon followed by launch of 20 balloons 6:00-9:30:  City of Glens Falls Block Party featuring Walk-about balloon, balloon baskets on display, car show, kid’s activities and FIREWORKS! Friday, September 21st - Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport - Queensbury 3:00pm:  Gates Open, Craft Fair and Food Vendors open for business 5:00pm:  Balloon Launch – 80+ balloons including special shapes Friday, September 21st - Battlefield Park - Lake George Village 8:00pm:  Moonglow at the lak