Fairy Festival Bellamy Ferriday House and Gardens

Fairy Festival

$12 adults; $7 children 3 - 12 (2 & under free).

Sat., June 16, 12 - 4 pm

Rain date: Sun., June 17

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Calling all fairies, elves, gnomes, pixies, leprechauns, woodland & mystical creatures! Get your passport to the land of fairies & join us at the maypole. Enjoy tea with a fairy godmother, stroll along the woodland walk & build a fairy house, or create your own fairy house at home & enter the contest. Visit the vendors, see the craft fairies, make ribbon rings & fairy garland crowns, paint your own garden stones, & participate in a parade. Prizes for the fairy houses will be awarded at the end of the day. Food & drinks will be available for purchase from the Soroptimists of Greater Waterbury. Registration required for fairy house contest. 

CT Trails Day: Discovering Historic Main Street

CT Trails Day: Discovering Historic Main Street

Free; regular admission applies for Butler-McCook House tour.

Sun., June 3, 12 – 1:30 pm

Join us for an easy 1.5 mile walking tour on the sidewalks of historic Main Street Hartford to learn how the city has evolved by viewing & discussing some of Main Street’s significant structures: City Hall, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Travelers Tower, the Old State House, Center Church & the Ancient Burying Ground. Part of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s CT Trails Day. Free. Reservations recommended at 860.247.8996 x 12 or butler.mccook@ctlandmarks.org. 

Elephants Trunk Flea Market

Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market

Sundays since 1976 (April–November), this verdant field is given over to dealers hawking everything from vintage tchotchkes and house plants to cottage furniture, military memorabilia, and old signs. So basically, a little of everything. Get their morning-mist early, fill your thermos and begin your rummage. There’s no such thing as junk at the Trunk!

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First Saturday Attic Tours Phelps Hathaway House and Garden Suffield

1st Saturday Attic Tours

Regular admission applies.

May – Oct., 1:30 pm
Dates: June 2, July 7, Aug. 4 & Sept. 1 

Join us once again for our ever-popular attic tours! On the first Saturday of each month, venture beyond the stations with museum interpreters for a rare, behind-the-scenes look of the Phelps’ servant & attic spaces. View objects & collections from the 18th to the early 20th century.

Madison Farmers Market

Madison's original farmers' market

Open every Friday afternoon on the Historic Town Green

 3:00pm to 6:00pm

May 4 through October 26, 2018

Rain or Shine!

Farmington Food Truck Fest

Farmington Food Truck Fest

May 27-28 

20 Riverside Dr

Farmington, Conn. 

11:00a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday

11:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday

More than 20 of New England's most popular food trucks congregate all in one location. Other activities include kids bounce houses, photo booths, and music throughout the weekend. Admission is free!!

Some of the trucks that will be here are:

Chompers

Johnny Potato

La Mesa Food Truck

Pierogies on Wheels

Wing it on Wheels

RBS Food Truck Festival

Bring your family and friends to the Orange Fairgrounds on Friday, May 25th from 4-8 p.m. for Race Brook School’s 5th Annual Food Truck Festival! We will have 25+ food trucks featuring a wide variety of delicious delicacies as well as entertainment for the kids!

We would also like to welcome our very own RBS graduate, Chris Hughes of Hughes Productions who will be spinning the party tunes in the gazebo from 5:00 on. Chris is a fun and innovative DJ who will keep the crowd movin’ and groovin’. Make sure to bring along your dancing shoes and lawn chairs and blankets to set up your own picnic on the field! There will be plenty of food and fun for the whole family!