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The Weekend Ahead in Cumberland County: Skynyrd's Drummer at the Levoy, a Veterans Show & Throw and WheatonArts
The Artimus Pyle Band plays the Levoy Friday, Glasstown Brewing hosts its Veterans Show & Throw Saturday, a Millville gallery teaches pumpkin block printing Sunday, and WheatonArts is open all weekend.
Good morning, Cumberland County. It is a Millville-heavy weekend: Lynyrd Skynyrd's former drummer brings his band to the Levoy on Friday night, Glasstown Brewing hosts its annual Veterans Show & Throw on Saturday, and a downtown gallery teaches pumpkin-themed block printing on Sunday. WheatonArts is open all weekend with three exhibitions. Here is what is worth your time.
Friday
- The Artimus Pyle Band: Honoring Ronnie Van Zant's Lynyrd Skynyrd, Levoy Theatre, 126-130 N. High St., Millville. Pyle, Skynyrd's drummer from its classic years, leads a night of the band's catalog. Doors and the Vaudeville Bar open at 7 p.m., the opening act starts at 8 and the main set at 8:45.
- Homeschool Meet-Up, Vineland Public Library, 2 to 3 p.m. A casual afternoon for homeschooling families, as listed by The Daily Journal. Details on the dashboard.
Saturday
- Annual Veterans Show & Throw, Glasstown Brewing Company, 10 Peterson St., Millville, starting at 11 a.m. A day honoring veterans with a car show, a cornhole tournament, music and food.
- '80s Themed Bingo Night, Elks Lodge 580, 1815 E. Broad St., Millville, 5:30 p.m. Big hair encouraged. Proceeds support the dogs at Tails Up Paws Down Rescue.
Sunday
- Pumpkin Carving Linocut Print Workshop, DC Gallery & Studio, 508 N. High St., Millville, noon. Learn block printing by carving and printing your own pumpkin-inspired designs in the Glasstown Arts District.
All weekend
- WheatonArts, 1501 Glasstown Road, Millville, open Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the Museum of American Glass, Portals & Passages brings together five glass artists, and Ghost Optics is a site-specific window installation. The Down Jersey Folklife Center has Communities and Cultures of Down Jersey. Admission is $14 for adults and $13 for seniors; strolling the grounds and the nature trail is free.
Around the county
- Vineland Chemical cleanup. The EPA has finalized a new plan to clean up arsenic in the soil beneath the water table at the former Vineland Chemical Company site, which made arsenic-based herbicides from 1949 to 1994. WHYY has the details.
- Millville road money. A Millville road project serving the airport and a park has won a $7.2 million federal grant, the Courier-Post reports. See it on the dashboard.
- Next weekend at the Levoy. Echoes of Service: A Community Tapestry Concert plays Friday, Oct. 23, at 6:30 p.m., and The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live shadow cast is Saturday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m.
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