What to do in North Salem this weekend: Saturday, Jul 29 - Sunday, Jul 30

Is it just us or is summer speeding up? This weekend marks the last weekend of July. Make the most of these summer days by getting together with family, friends and neighbors and trying a new activity. Here in North Salem, the St. James 64th Live Auction & Community Fest promises treasures and treats for all. Family-owned Honeybee Grove Flower Farm in Somers is hosting U-Pick flowers all day Saturday. Zinnias, Snapdragons, Celosia, and Ageratum are all in bloom. And if you don't mind traveling further afield, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival brings two of The Bard's timeless plays--Henry V and Love's Labor Lost-- to Garrison. What will you get up to this weekend?

10 things to do this weekend: Saturday, Jul 29 - Sunday, Jul 30

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St. James 64th Live Auction & Community Fest - Sat Jul 29 10:00 am

St. James 64th Live Auction & Community Fest takes place from 10am-3pm Saturday. Live Auction 11am-1pm, with our Silent Auction - bid on favorite restaurants, salons, golf outings, wine, jewelry, art, and more! Shop our treasured Boutique, a perennial favorite. Shop for priceless and unique treasures. First Apartment - find what you have always been looking for. A St. James favorite - our handmade quilt, buy a raffle ticket or two! Country Kitchen - coffee, fresh local produce, pies, cookies, muffins and more. [more details]

Other Events

Muscoot Farm: Little Farmers - Sat Jul 29 9:00 am

Join one of our educators as your little one becomes a farmer-in-training! Your tots will be moving around as they visit with our animals and learn, hands-on, how to take care of them! Eligible for preschoolers, ages 3-5; registration required online with a $15 entry for one child and caregiver. [more details]

U-Pick Flowers at Honeybee Grove - Sat Jul 29 9:00 am

While our official hours will start in August, we have flowers that need picking! So our flower patch will be open Saturday, July 29th from 9am to 4pm.  Now blooming: Zinnias, Snapdragons, Celosia, and Ageratum.

The Details:

$40 per picking jug.Apple Pay and all major credit cards accepted.We provide scissors for cutting and a jug to carry your blooms home.This weekend: In garden pop-up with Bracken Fern Handmade Ceramics.  [more details]

Putnam County Country Fest and 4-H Showcase - Sat Jul 29 10:00 am

FREE - Cornell Cooperative Extension of Putnam County is excited to partner with Putnam County to host The Putnam County Country Fest and 4-H Showcase will feature a variety of exciting activities for the whole family including artisan vendors, food trucks, games and inflatables for the kids and even a car show.
Traditional 4-H Fair favorites will also be showcased during the event including animal demonstrations, hands-on 4-H STEM activities, magic and creepy critters, horse and dog shows, and more. [more details]

Aldrich Museum: Prima Materia Panel Conversation with Artists - Sat Jul 29 3:00 pm

Join us for a panel conversation on Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art with exhibiting artists Rachel Berwick, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, and Winston Roeth, moderated by the exhibition’s curator Richard Klein.The conversation will focus on the three artist’s lifelong engagement with specific materials and how their chosen materials aren’t neutral vehicles, but rather filled with content in and of themselves. [more details]

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival-Henry V - Sat Jul 29 7:30 pm

“All things are ready, if our minds be so.” This Shakespearean epic follows a charismatic warrior King and his cohort through the brutality of warfare, as the ragtag band confronts heavy opposition and their own destinies in an aggressive pursuit of the French crown. Henry V is a deeply ambivalent play about leadership, and the power of language and storytelling to shape our collective identity.  [more details]

Uncle Cheef: Trumpeter Benny Bennack III - Sat Jul 29 7:30 pm

By age 32, Emmy-nominated trumpeter and singer Benny Benack III has proven to be that rarest of talents: not only a fiery trumpet player with a stirring command of the postbop trumpet vernacular in the vein of Kenny Dorham and Freddie Hubbard, but also a singer with a sly, mature, naturally expressive delivery in the post-Sinatra mold, performing standards and his own astute songs with a thrilling sense of showmanship. This duel-threat ability was recognized by the 2022 Downbeat Critics Poll… [more details]

Muscoot Farm Farmer's Market - Sun Jul 30 9:30 am

Muscoot's weekly Farmers Market supports farmers and sustainable efforts in our area, featuring over 20 local vendors each week. Every Sunday until November 19th.Participating vendors today include:Arlotta Food, Bella's Bake Shop, Bombay Chutney Company, Bongo and Capacci Pasta, Cooper's Daughter Spirits, Do-Re-Me Farms, Du Soleil/Rincon, Fi-Dough, Freshly Made, Goode and Local, Hoffman Farms, Hummingbird Ranch, Irvington Delight Market, Krazy for Kazus, Manor Sangria, Meredith's Country Bakery and more. [more details]

Putnam County Country Fest and 4-H Showcase - Sun Jul 30 10:00 am

FREE - Cornell Cooperative Extension of Putnam County is excited to partner with Putnam County to host The Putnam County Country Fest and 4-H Showcase will feature a variety of exciting activities for the whole family including artisan vendors, food trucks, games and inflatables for the kids and even a car show.Sunday will feature our First Annual Apple Pie Contest for amateurs as well as our Second Annual Duck Derby where the winner will receive a Samsung 50” HD 4K Smart TV.  [more details]

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival-Love's Labor’s Lost - Sun Jul 30 7:30 pm

Four young noblemen absent themselves from society, in order to focus entirely on their studies. They even take a monastic oath: No girls! All books! But when the Princess of France turns up with three young ladies, how long will the men’s resolve hold up? Director Amanda Dehnert (2017’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE) infuses Shakespeare’s delightful comedy with an original pop/rock score (by Dehnert and Andre Pleuss) that gives full voice to the heart-pounding experience of being young and in love. [more details]

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