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August 1 - 7
Spread your wings and reach for the Skylands this and every week this summer. Don't wait; July is already in the rear-view mirror!
Festival of Wood
 Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, PA
 Finely crafted wood products are available at the Festival.
Now a National Historic Site, Grey Towers hosts the annual Festival of Wood
this weekend, August 2 and 3. A celebration of our natural and cultural heritage of wood, the festival features a
fine craft show
of items made from wood and wood products, sponsored by the
Pocono Arts Council.
Visitors will also enjoy other arts programs, children's activities, educational exhibits, a variety of music, and tree pruning and chain saw carving demonstrations. All three floors of the historic Grey Towers mansion are open for tours both days ($5 fee). Festival visitors will also discover the delights of the charming town of
Milford,
located near the
juncture of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
For more information, visit the Grey Towers
website
or call 570-296-9630.
Klothes 4 Kids!
A
Back-to-School and Fall Preview will be on the agenda at
Liberty Village Premium Outlets
in Flemington all weekend. While you make sure your kids are the best dressed on the bus, you'll partake of serious savings as stores will have
specially marked merchandise and clearance items.
Liberty Village also holds free concerts in the courtyard as performers play various genres of music every Saturday, 1 - 4 pm. Liberty Village is located at
1 Church Street in Flemington,
908/782-8550.
Toe Tappin'
 Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America.
Banjoist Ned Crisp heads up Bottom Line.
The 18th Annual Bayou Fest at
Duke Island Park features Buckwheat Zydeco with the best rocking, stomping, good time Creole party music you'll hear anywhere. The festival, part of the Somerset Concert Series in the Park starts at 5:30pm on Sunday (August 3), with music from Zydegroove.
On Sunday evening (August 3, 6pm), bring lawn chairs and a picnic supper to Oxford for some bluegrass music straight from the hills of eastern Kentucky with Bottom Line. The weekly Shippen Manor Lawn Concerts are brought to you, free of charge by the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Beauties and the Beasts  Dragonflies and damselflies belong to the taxonomic order Odonata.
Flying jewels, as they are sometimes called, butterflies come in many sizes and colors, from delicately small and hard to spot, to Monarch orange and yellow bouncing about the garden for all to see.
Those large insects zipping about in zigzag patterns that make your head spin watching them are dragon and damsel flies, named for their prominent biting mouth-parts and predatory nature. Not to worry, they don't bite people!
Others, of course, do carry a sting. If you like the woods, you'd best take precautions for ticks and mosquitoes: here's the good news about bad news bugs.
Then there are the honey bees, which you should consider domestic farm animals, whose survival is imperative for sufficient agricultural production.
It's a Jungle Out There
Do the boardwalk, Skylands style, across the
Pochuck Quagmire Bridge
and along a section of the Appalachian Trail in northern Sussex County, on the way from Pochuck Mountain to the trail on Wawayanda Mountain.
Walk on...
As wild as its name, the land of "winding, winding water" is home to Indian shelters and some of the best bear dens in NJ, a lake to swim and boat on, great gobs of pudding stone to climb, rock to scramble, ledges for leaping, primeval forest, twenty miles of Appalachian Trail and so much more.
Wawayanda State Park
is a 16,679-acre garden-like jungle gym, a land of natural marvels and a dynamic showcase of human history. Its wildness survives us.
More..
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Yet another way to explore the wilds of Sussex County's extremities is along a network of creeks and wetlands that make for a classic canoeing adventure on Wawayanda and Pochuck Creeks.
Paddle on!
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wait; the days are melting away! Northwest New Jersey and destinations just beyond those borders, in Pennsylvania and New York, offer brilliant ways to get out and enjoy the pleasures of the season.
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