Have you looked at your newspaper’s events section lately? It seems like there are fall festivals on every street corner! The problem isn’t finding something to do. It is deciding which things you can stand to miss. While there are plenty of fruit related festivals, there are also events that take advantage of the last few golden days of summer like weather.
I am thinking that the Riverfest in Charlestown, Maryland looks like a fun weekend. The event, which runs through September 13th, includes a kids’ fishing contest, a parade, pirate pontoon rides, a Renaissance group and a lot of live …read more

Visitors to San Francisco’s Chinatown next month will have the opportunity to enjoy the 19th Annual Autumn Moon Festival.  Moon Festival celebrations are not yet commonplace in the US, although they’ve been held in Asia for over a thousand years.  The festival is a changing of season event, a time to give thanks for a plentiful summer harvest, and the changing of the moon and the seasons.  Often equated to a sort of “Chinese Thanksgiving,” it’s a way to mark the passing of one season to the next, and to give thanks for the abundance of life.
Of course, just like …read more