Hunterdon County Weekend Guide: Things to Do Oct. 16

Good morning, Hunterdon County.

It's a full, spooky-season weekend. The fifth Lambertville Halloween Film Festival opens Friday night with a costume party at the Music Hall and screens shorts and classics through Sunday. The Red Mill in Clinton turns haunted on Friday and Saturday nights, with a low-scare family morning on Saturday. Prallsville Mills hosts a quilt show, the county's 300th anniversary calendar has walking tours and a talk on Revolutionary War medicine, and on Sunday morning the Main Street Half Marathon runs from Clinton to Flemington, so plan for slow roads early.

Friday

The Monster Bash, 6:30 to 10 PM, Lambertville Music Hall, 57 Bridge Street, Lambertville. The opening party for the Lambertville Halloween Film Festival, with a costume contest, a Roxey Ballet performance and a DJ. $35 general admission, $55 VIP.
Haunted Red Mill, Red Mill Museum Village, 56 Main Street, Clinton. Gates open around 7 PM; ticket sales close at 10 PM. Also Saturday night.
Quilt in the Mill, 9:30 AM to 5 PM, Prallsville Mills, 33 Risler Street, Stockton. The Courthouse Quilt Guild's 2026 show. Also Saturday.
Farm of Horrors, Schaefer Farms, 1051 County Road 523, Flemington. Four haunted attractions on a working farm, open Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights through Halloween. Tickets from $36. Not for young children.
Cozy Art Friday, 3:30 PM, Hunterdon County Library North County Branch, 65 Halstead Street, Clinton.
Trivia Night, 6:30 to 9 PM, Beneduce Vineyards, 1 Jeremiah Lane, Pittstown.

Saturday

Happy Haunts, 10 AM to 1 PM, Red Mill, Clinton. The low-scare version for families: a hayride, cider, doughnuts and a pumpkin. $35 per family, tickets at the door only.
300th Walking Tour: Pottersville, 10 to 11:30 AM, starting at the Pottersville Fire House, 8 Hacklebarney Road. Led by Shaun Van Doren of the Tewksbury Historical Society. Free; reservation required.
Flemington Speedway Historical Society Car Show, Hunterdon County Fairgrounds, 1207 Route 179, Ringoes. Rain date Sunday.
Revolutionary Games Fest, 11 AM to 3 PM, Hunterdon County Library headquarters, 314 Route 12, Flemington. Historical war games, Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering for the 250th. Some sessions need registration.
Halloween Film Festival short-film blocks, noon to 5:40 PM, ACME Screening Room, 25 South Union Street, Lambertville: Twisted Visions and Heart-Stopping Horror at noon, Dead Funny at 2 and Mind Games at 3:45. In the evening, "Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive" at 6 and "Revenge," introduced by Dylan Mayer, at 8:15.
Hunterdon Health Fall Fest, noon to 3 PM, Hunterdon Medical Center, 2100 Wescott Drive, Flemington. Food trucks, pony rides, a petting zoo and a costume contest, with a Superhero Sprint for kids at 2:30. Free.
Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton: a free Mill to Mill craft workshop on the terrace, 1 to 3 PM, and a gouache workshop, 1 to 4:30 PM.
300th Tour: Headquarters Farm, Tour & Colonial Nibbles, 3 to 5 PM, 6 Zentek Road, Stockton. A tour of a 1735 estate and mill with open-hearth cooking. $10; limited to 25 people.
Trapt, 6 PM, Artie's Bar & Grill, 1121 Route 12, Frenchtown. The band plays its debut album for its 25th anniversary, with openers.
At the wineries: Old York Cellars in Ringoes has live music from 1 to 5 PM and an October pairing dinner at 7 (reservations required); Beneduce Vineyards in Pittstown has the Bryan Hansen Band from 5 to 9 PM.

Sunday

Main Street Half Marathon & 4 Miler, 8 AM. The half starts at the Red Mill in Clinton and the 4-miler on Kiceniuk Road in Annandale; both finish at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington. It benefits the Hunterdon Regional Cancer Center. Expect delays on county roads between Clinton and Flemington Sunday morning.
Halloween Film Festival, ACME Screening Room, Lambertville: Scream (1996) at 1 PM, then Hitchcock's The Lodger with film scholar Matthew Sorrento at 3.
Speaker Series: Dennis Bertland, 1 PM, Prallsville Mills, Stockton. "Settlement & Commerce During the Pre-canal Era." $10 suggested donation.
300th Lecture: Revolutionary War Medicine and Surgery, 2 to 4 PM, Hunterdon County Library headquarters, Flemington, with Dr. Gary Grover. Free; reservation required.
At the library: a Silent Book Club at 1:30 PM at headquarters in Flemington, and a Teen Skateboard Clinic at 1:30 PM at the North County Branch in Clinton.
An Evening with Lonnie Holley, 6 PM, ArtYard's McDonnell Theater, 13 Front Street, Frenchtown. (ArtYard's galleries are closed through October 24.)
Farm of Horrors closes out its third weekend Sunday night in Flemington.

All weekend

Trail of Magic, downtown Lambertville. A free, self-guided walk past Halloween window displays, with a new QR-code audio tour this year. Through October 31.
Melick's Oldwick Cider Mill, 19 King Street, Oldwick. Pick-your-own apples daily, 9 AM to 5 PM, with hay wagon rides on weekends.
Send Me No Flowers, Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, 88 Route 173, Hampton, through October 22. Tickets include a meal.

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Around the county

Roadwork on Route 611. Drainage, guide rail and resurfacing work on County Route 611 (South Main Street) in Raritan Township and Flemington began around October 14 and is expected to run about 75 days, along with work on County Route 618 (Stanton Grange Road) in Clinton Township. Expect one-lane traffic and delays of up to 15 minutes. Details from Raritan Township; check 511NJ for live conditions.
Free flu shots in Flemington. Borough Hall, 38 Park Avenue, hosts a free flu clinic with Walgreens on Wednesday, October 21, from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. No insurance needed.
Clinton Town. The council introduced Ordinance #2026-19, which would prohibit data centers in every zoning district in town. More in Monday's Town Hall brief.
Readington. A review committee recommended keeping The Perks of Being a Wallflower on the shelves at Readington Middle School.
Veterans. The third annual Hunterdon County Veterans Resource Fair drew a record turnout of more than 100 people.

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Coming up

Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce Business Hall of Fame, Thursday, October 22, at the Ryland Inn.
All Hallows on the River, Sunday, October 25, 4 to 7 PM, in Clinton.
Cemetery tour on Mischief Night, Friday, October 30, organized by Clinton's Historic Preservation Commission and Historical Society.
Stangl Witch Walk & Moon Market, October 30, Flemington. Details.