The Weekend Ahead: The Haunted Red Mill's Final Weekend, Readington's Liberty Pole and a Zombie Crawl in Frenchtown

Good morning, Hunterdon County.

It's the last weekend for the Haunted Red Mill in Clinton, which closes its season Saturday night after a final Happy Haunts morning for families. Readington raises a liberty pole Saturday afternoon to mark the nation's 250th birthday, Flemington Pottery holds a sale with more than 20 artists, and ArtYard in Frenchtown reopens its galleries with a fall exhibitions reception. On Sunday, Frenchtown hosts a Witches Dance & Zombie Crawl, and Clinton holds All Hallows on the River in the evening. Here's the weekend.

Friday

• Haunted Red Mill, Red Mill Museum Village, 56 Main Street, Clinton. The museum's biggest fundraiser of the year wraps up this weekend: mazes, a terror trail, a slow hayride along the river and a walk through the mill itself, about 45 minutes in all. Friday and Saturday nights only.
• Teen Lock-In, 6 PM, Hunterdon County Library North County Branch, 65 Halstead Street, Clinton.

Saturday

• Flemington Pottery Sale, 9 AM, Flemington Pottery, Stangl Road, Flemington. Work from more than 20 artists, including functional pottery, jewelry and sculptural pieces.
• Happy Haunts, 10 AM to 1 PM, Red Mill, Clinton. The last of the low-scare family mornings: a guided tour of part of the haunted attraction, a hayride, cider, doughnuts, face painting and a pumpkin per family while supplies last. $35 per family.
• Celebrating Diwali: Let's Make Parathas!, 10 AM, Hunterdon County Library Headquarters, 314 Route 12, Flemington.
• Readington Liberty Pole Raising, 1 PM, Readington municipal building, 509 Route 523, Whitehouse Station. Cake, music, local committee members and colonial re-enactors, all to toast the nation's 250th birthday. Free, no reservations, rain or shine. The historic Eversole-Hall House next door is open for tours from noon to 2 PM. Hosted by the Hunterdon 300th and 250th Partners Committee.
• Teen Craft: Adopt-A-Ghost, 3 PM, Hunterdon County Library North County Branch, Clinton.
• Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception, 6 PM, ArtYard, 13 Front Street, Frenchtown. ArtYard's galleries reopen with its new fall shows. Register through Eventbrite.
• Haunted Red Mill, closing night, Clinton.

Sunday

• Community Book Swap, 9 AM, Lambertville Free Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville.
• Witches Dance & Zombie Crawl, 11 AM, 1 Bridge Street, Frenchtown. A full day of Halloween fun with zombie makeup tents, dancing, contests, vendors and workshops.
• Bedazzling for Teens, 1 PM, Tewksbury Public Library, 31 Old Turnpike Road, Oldwick.
• All Hallows on the River, 4 to 7 PM, Clinton. The event was on the Clinton Town Council's October 14 agenda.

All weekend

• 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. Not for young children.
• Trail of Magic, downtown Lambertville. A free, self-guided walk past Halloween window displays, with a QR-code audio tour. Through October 31.
• Melick's Oldwick Cider Mill, 19 King Street, Oldwick. Pick-your-own apples daily, with hay wagon rides on weekends.

Around the county

• Blackwell Park is done. Raritan Township celebrated the completion of major improvements at Blackwell Park this week. More in News.
• Califon sets a Halloween curfew. The Borough Council's October 20 agenda included a juvenile curfew from October 29 through November 2. See the Califon page.
• Next weekend: the Stangl Witch Walk & Moon Market on Stangl Road in Flemington on Friday, October 30, and the Squiers Point Historians' graveyard tours of the Mt. Lebanon Church cemetery in Lebanon Township on Friday, October 30, and Sunday, November 1. More in News.
• Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. School board races, including Hunterdon Central's, are on the ballot.

Have an event for next weekend? Submit it here. And on Monday, the Hunterdon County Town Hall brief covers what your councils and committees decided this week.