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The Peter Wentz Farmstead
The Peter Wentz Farmstead in Montgomery County invites the public for events all year long. Just off Route 73, this 90 acre historic site features a furnished stone house set among fields, orchards, and gardens just as it was during the American Revolution. Today, the original stone barn is the heart of an authentically equipped, working 18th century farm. After touring the grounds and greeting the livestock, pick up your pickle Christmas ornaments and Quaker cooking books from the museum store. The Wentz Farmstead, often visited by school groups, is open all year round.

October 23 - 30

Reading Terminal Market's Harvest Festival is this Saturday, October 24 from 10am-4pm, with a celebration of the foods of the Pennsylvania harvest... as the area is transformed into an urban farm with fresh, local produce, cheeses and wines, hot apple cider, entertainment, children's activities and more, 12th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia.

Spiral Q Puppet Theater's "Peoplehood" Parade and Pageant, celebrating Philadelphia's diversity, is this Saturday, October 24 beginning at noon at 50th & Walnut & ending at Clark Park.

Rosenbach Museum & Library's annual Dracula Party is this Saturday, October 24, 3-8pm with face painting, a pumpkin hunt, crafts, music and more including a parade and shadow puppet show in the 2000 block of Delancey Place in Philadelphia.

The group "Friends of Poe" brings to life one of his most horrific stories, "Poe's Cask," as visitors descend into the basement with Park Ranger actors, Thursday, October 29, 6:30pm & 7:30pm at the Edgar Allan Poe Historic Site, 532 N. 7th Street (near 7th & Spring Garden Streets), Philadelphia.

Theatre Exile's season opens with the Philadelphia premiere of "Hunter Gatherers" by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, an uproarious and surprising look at two couples teetering between virility and middle-aged panic, Thursday, October 29 - November 22 at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.