Cape May County Weekend: Fall Festival, Porsches and Oldies

Good morning, Cape May County. Saturday is the big day this weekend, and most of it happens in the Wildwoods: the free Wildwoods Fall Festival at Fox Park, the Oldies Spectacular at the Convention Center, and monster trucks on the beach. Ocean City's boardwalk gets a parade of Porsches, the library opens the weekend with a Friday night concert, and MudHen Brewing closes it with HarvestFest on Sunday.

Friday

Fall Concert Series: Package Goods Orchestra — 7:00 to 8:30 PM, Ocean City Free Public Library, 1735 Simpson Avenue.

Saturday

Wildwoods Fall Festival — 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Fox Park, Burk and Ocean avenues, Wildwood. Free, with food and craft vendors, live bands and a beer garden. This year adds the first Great American Pumpkin Derby, with homemade pumpkin racers competing in kid, family, adult, school, business and municipal divisions.
Porsche Boardwalk Reunion — Ocean City. Cars gather at the 5th Street lot from 8:30 AM, roll onto the Boardwalk under police escort at 11:00 AM and stay on display on the Boardwalk until about 4:00 PM.
Wildwoods Oldies Spectacular — 7:00 PM, Starlight Ballroom, Wildwoods Convention Center. Produced by the Bobby Rydell Foundation, with The Chiclettes, Jay Siegel & The Tokens, Clyde McFatters Drifters and The Trammps, hosted by Tommy Cono.

Sunday

MudHen HarvestFest — MudHen Brewing Company, Wildwood. Dueling pianos from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, then Fat Mezz from 2:00 to 6:00 PM. Free pumpkin painting and face painting for kids from noon to 4:00 PM, and circus performers from 1:00 to 4:00 PM.

All weekend

Monsters on the Beach — Renegade Monster Truck Tour races on the sand at Spicer Avenue, Wildwood, Oct. 17 and 18. The show was moved from late September after coastal flooding put the beach arena underwater, and earlier tickets carry over. Check renegademonstertrucks.com for show times.

Around the county

Townsends Inlet dredging. The county commissioners, Avalon and Sea Isle City all had emergency dredging of the Townsends Inlet channel on their agendas this week, including a proposed Avalon contract with Norfolk Dredging of up to $1.6 million and a $250,000 county share. Government meetings
Congress Hall wants your tree. The Cape May resort is looking for a large evergreen within about two hours of Cape May for this year's Christmas tree. The donor family gets VIP treatment at the Dec. 4 lighting. Details
A first at Cape May Tech. Cape May County Technical School is starting New Jersey's first Coast Guard Junior ROTC program. Information sessions are Nov. 10 and Dec. 10 at 5:00 PM at the school's conference center in Cape May Court House. More
Next weekend in Cape May. The fall Exit Zero Jazz Festival runs Oct. 22 to 25, and Cape May Stage presents The American Soldier, a solo show by Douglas Taurel, Oct. 23 to 25 only.

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