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CRYSTAL SARAKAS, CORRESPONDENT Published 6:05 p.m. ET Aug. 8, 2017
Hundreds of assemblage band Watkins Glen streets for the anniversary Italian-American Anniversary parade.(Photo: File)
As the canicule of summer alpha ambagious down, it’s a abundant time to get a day cruise or two in. August is arranged abounding of altered festivals and contest beyond the state. Here are a few things advancing up this weekend that are account blockage out.
American Abundance Men Festival
•When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday
•Where: 9097 Accompaniment Route 30, Blue Abundance Lake
•Admission: $20 for adults; $18 for ages 65 and over; $12 for adolescence ages 6-17 and for acceptance with ID; accouchement 5 and beneath and alive aggressive cadre are free.
•More information: www.theadkx.org
Get an up-close attending at how bodies lived in the wilderness during the 1820s to the 1840s at the American Abundance Men event. You’ll acquisition demonstrations of firearm and bow shooting, tomahawk- and knife-throwing, fire-starting, bivouac affable and more. Talk with the abundance men re-enactors about how they ability accept lived in the aboriginal 19th century. They’ll accept displays of pelts and furs, accouterment in eastern and western abundance styles, aeon accoutrements and more.
The accident is allotment of the Adirondack Experience (formerly the Adirondack Museum). In accession to the Abundance Men Festival, you can analyze added than 100 acreage of wilderness and appointment the 19,000-square-foot display “Life in the Adirondacks.”
Watkins Glen Italian American Festival
•When: 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday; and 12 to 6 p.m. Sunday
•Where: Clute Park, Watkins Glen
•Admission: Free, but there may be a allegation for some activities.
•More information: www.watkinsglenitalianamericanfestival.org
The Watkins Glen Italian American Anniversary allotment Friday through Sunday at Clute Park in Watkins Glen. Added than 50,000 bodies will appointment the breadth over the advance of the weekend. Enjoy food, the ability and allowance marketplace, alive music, amateur of chance, action rides and concessions. Highlights accommodate bingo in the pavilion on Friday, the bocce clash and array on Saturday, and the anniversary sauce-making antagonism on Sunday.
Palmyra Charlatan Weekend
•When: 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
•Where: Village of Palmyra and the Port of Palmyra Marina
•Admission: Free, but there may be a allegation for some activities.
•More information:www.palmyrany.com/pirates/2017/home.htm
Pirates will access the Village and Port of Palmyra on Saturday and Sunday. The two-day accident appearance bed-racing, the Jolly Roger 5K race, the Charlatan Kazoo Band Parade, a children’s abundance hunt, aqueduct aisle tours, charlatan tales and more.
You can bout bristles building as allotment of the event: the Palmyra Historical Museum, which appearance 23 apartment of exhibits spanning 200 years of history; the Alling Coverlet Museum, which contains the better accumulating of American hand-woven coverlets in the United States; the Phelps General Store and Home Museum, a active time abridged from the Phelps family; the Print Shop Museum, which displays press accessories from altered eras of printing; and the Erie Aqueduct Depot, which includes aboriginal artifacts apropos to activity on the Erie Canal.
12th Anniversary Twin Tiers Applesauce Festival
•When: 12 to 6 p.m. Saturday
•Where: Wisner Park, city Elmira
•Admission: Free
•More information:www.elmiradowntown.com
The candied complete of Dixieland applesauce allotment to the city Elmira on Saturday for the 12th anniversary Twin Tiers Applesauce Festival. The all-day accident appearance alive music from Joe Cavallaro’s Dixieland Applesauce Band, Jon Seiger and the All-Stars, Dinny and the All-Stars, and Applesauce Happens.
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