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    This Week in the New Jersey Skylands.

    Spread your wings and reach for the Skylands this and every week this summer. Don't wait; its over before you know it.

  • 08/14/2008 09:04 AM

    • Wolfettes

  • Be sure and make time for a visit to Lakota Wolf Preserve, where four packs roam here in the East in a natural surrounding for the first time in over a century. The Preserve welcomed five new pups late this spring, and they prove without a doubt that wolves can, in fact, be cute!
  • 08/19/2008 11:02 AM

    • 4-H Fairs

  • You can learn all about New Jersey corn, tomatoes and much, much more at local 4-H fairs. Read about what these clubs do, then plan on attending for some free family fun! Hunterdon County Agricultural Fair takes place from August 20-24. Agricultural and 4H Shows & Exhibits, food concessions, amusement rides. South County Park, Route 179, Ringoes. 908/782-6809
  • 07/15/2008 01:32 PM

    • Campground Events

  • You'd think there would be enough to do when you go camping on hundreds of acres of field and forest, outfitted with olympic size swimming pools, heated spas, mini-golf courses, private fishing and boating lakes and tennis courts. Plus, with all the area events and attractions, it would seem that there wouldn't be spare time to do anything else. But campgrounds have developed their own internal subculture of special events to spice up campers' weekends.
  • 06/03/2008 09:19 AM

    • Floating the Delaware

  • The main stem of the Delaware, 331 miles from Hancock, NY, to its mouth at Cape May Point, NJ, is the longest free-flowing river in Eastern United States. Floating on this river is lots of fun!!! Knowing the river- its beauty, history, and its hazards- can provide you and your family with many days of enjoyment this summer. The river level is just about perfect and the summer crowds have not yet arrived.
  • 07/15/2008 01:28 PM

    • School's Out For Summer

  • These words bring joy to millions of hearts beating with the anticipation of 2 months of freedom. And dread to millions of other hearts wondering how to fill the hours of free time with activity for their kids. Yikes! If a vacation house or summer camp is not an option then a little planning is in order. You can give your kids a wonderful series of adventures by exploring the family attractions of the New Jersey Skylands. When you get right down to it, your kids like the same stuff you did... Six Guns, Pirate Ships, Wild Animals and Fairytales still work well. And, with a little modern day tweaking, the age-old themes come right up to speed.
  • 03/24/2008 03:49 PM

    • Click and Pick

  • For a quick guide to many of the region's parks and outdoor resources take a peek at our outdoor destinations map. Click here and there and plan your day!

Exhibits and Galleries

Gallery 23, Inc., Blairstown

FEATURED ART OF THE MONTH. The gallery features the work of a pair of member artists each month.

July  •  Judy Musicant - Pottery; Katherine Yvinskas - Botanical Drawings and notecards

August  • Curtis Engesser - Oil Landscape paintings

23 Main Street. ; 908/362-6865

Museum of Early Trades & Crafts, Madison

CRAFTING CURES. Discover various remedies, medicines, instruments and tools commonly used in the practice of medicine during the 18th and 19th centuries.

9 Main Street. ; 973/377-2982

Morris Museum , Morristown

May 13-September 14 • NEW JERSEY THEN & NOW. A variety of media express the full range of New Jersey’s experience; its rural grace, its urban spine, its seaside adventures and its indomitable people. Aristocratic matrons who ruled with stern visages and backbones of steel stare from the gallery walls. Alongside them are plebian parades, abstractions of sophisticates, lush farms and livestock of inscrutable personality, industrial power and the seductiveness of the seashore.

June 17-November 23 • BLACK CINEMA: THE VINTAGE YEARS. More than 50 rare and important original screen-printed and stone-lithographed posters chronicle the history and turbulent journey of the black film industry.

6 Normandy Heights Rd.. ; 973/971-3700

Peters Valley Crafts Center, Layton

August 1-September 30 • GOBLETS. The theme is expressed in all medias.

Craft Store and Gallery, 19 Kuhn Road (Rt. 615). ; 973/948-5200

Peters Valley Crafts Center, Layton

November 8-December 31 • WEARABLE ART GIFT SHOW. Artist made jewelry, jackets, clothing, scarves, children and baby items, table runners and more!

19 Kuhn Road (Rt. 615). ; 973/948-5200

Red Mill Museum Village, Clinton

Through October 12 • LACE, THE LOVELY LUXURY. This special exhibit highlights different kinds of quality lace used in the Clinton area from the days of the Victorians on.

Through October 12 • JUST SEW! CLINTON QUILTS: 1860 TO TODAY. Local quilters, inspired by the traditional quilts on view, have reproduced old patterns with modern fabrics, both reproduction and contemporary.

56 Main St.. ; 908-735-4101

Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council, Newton

July 26-August 23 • BLUES ART EXHIBIT. Featuring Robert Heimall's photos, art and album covers, Ed Foley hand crafted guitars, and collage & metal pieces by Susan Scarince Jones.9:00am - 3:00pm. no fee.

137 Spring Street. ; 973/383-0027