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Weekly Highlights in New Jersey

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Monster Bash Zombie Walk at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Monster Bash Zombie Walk at

Historic Smithville's Monster Bash returns Oct. 24, 2026, with vendors, a costume contest, and the area's largest zombie walk through the village's cobblestone streets.

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4 Paws in the Park at Overpeck
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

4 Paws in the Park at Overpeck

The second annual 4 Paws in the Park brings free pet adoptions, a Halloween pet parade, agility and puppy yoga to Overpeck County Park's amphitheater in Ridgefield Park on October 24, 2026.

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Beyond Pink Art Show at YWCA
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Beyond Pink Art Show at YWCA

YWCA Princeton's ninth annual Beyond Pink Art Show opens Thursday, October 22, 2026, with a reception, silent auction, and a two-day pop-up gallery of art by and inspired by cancer survivors.

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Stingy Jack Lantern Trail at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Stingy Jack Lantern Trail at

The Watershed Institute in Pennington, NJ turns its trails into a lantern-lit telling of the Stingy Jack folktale on October 24, 2026, with costumed performers and guided group hikes for kids 5 and up.

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Patti Smith at Dodge Poetry
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Patti Smith at Dodge Poetry

Punk poet laureate Patti Smith performs songs and stories at the Dodge Poetry Festival at NJPAC in Newark on Friday, October 16, 2026.

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Morey's Piers Oktoberfest 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Morey's Piers Oktoberfest 2026

Morey's Piers Oktoberfest brings Bavarian food, biergartens, live polka and running rides to Mariner's Pier in Wildwood, NJ, on weekends from September 18 to October 11, 2026.

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M&M's Halloween in Newark
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

M&M's Halloween in Newark

M&M'S Halloween in Newark returns for its 12th year on October 17-18, 2026, with free costumes and candy at the JFK Recreation Center and the Marquis "Bo" Porter Sports Complex.

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Not-So Spooky Family Night at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Not-So Spooky Family Night at

Fossils, pumpkins, and a flashlight bug walk await families at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum in Mantua on Friday, October 16.

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Trucks for Charlotte
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Trucks for Charlotte

The fifth annual Charlotte Joy Touch-A-Truck Festival brings hundreds of vehicles to Freehold, raising money for New Jersey families fighting pediatric cancer in memory of a six-year-old who loved trucks.

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Gourds on the Move
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Gourds on the Move

For its 12th year, Hopewell Valley's giant-pumpkin carving spectacle trades Woolsey Park for a brewery — and brings its giant canvases with it.

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A Convention for Cat People
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

A Convention for Cat People

Catsbury Park's two-day feline festival returns to Bell Works in Holmdel, bringing celebrity cats, adoptable kittens and a rescue mission that started in a Jersey Shore storefront.

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Halloween, Rewritten
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Halloween, Rewritten

At Bierman Autism Centers in Princeton, a free sensory-friendly trunk-or-treat turns a holiday that overwhelms many autistic kids into one they can actually enjoy.

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Where Readers Meet Authors
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Where Readers Meet Authors

Now in its second decade, the Morristown Festival of Books turns a New Jersey town into a free, open-air celebration of the written word.

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The Tombstone Whisperer
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Tombstone Whisperer

Jim Davis, founder of Tidy Tombstones, brings his one-man campaign to rescue weathered gravestones to a free lecture at the Moorestown Library.

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Right in Front of Us All
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Right in Front of Us All

A free, three-day festival from Monmouth Arts brings salsa, Greek folk dance, capoeira, Kuchipudi and Hasidic bottle dancing to the overlooked public spaces of a Shore town — and it all started with a state grant and a half-century-old arts council's reinvention.

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At The Shep, a Shoe Demo Built
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

At The Shep, a Shoe Demo Built

A free Saucony demo at a Hoboken craft-beer bar with 60 taps carries a story that starts in a Haledon tavern in 1998 and runs through a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration of the running community.

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Twenty People, One Rope, and a
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Twenty People, One Rope, and a

Every fall, teams descend on Newark Liberty International Airport to drag a United Airlines Boeing 737 across the tarmac — all to fund year-round sports for Special Olympics New Jersey athletes.

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When the Empire Invades Cape
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

When the Empire Invades Cape

Stormtroopers, Jedi training, and out-of-this-galaxy animal treats collide for a free family celebration at the Cape May County Park & Zoo.

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Moylan's Horse Rides Again: A
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Moylan's Horse Rides Again: A

On the 248th anniversary of Colonel Stephen Moylan's wedding to Mary Van Horne, living-history dragoons bring the thunder of hooves and the spirit of 1778 back to Bridgewater's Convivial Hill.

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A New Voice for Washington's
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A New Voice for Washington's

On two September afternoons, the public is invited to meet the historian now stewarding the New Jersey farmhouse where George Washington wrote his Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States.

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A Century of Sausages, Saints
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Century of Sausages, Saints

The Feast of the Madonna Dei Martiri returns to the Hudson waterfront for its 100th anniversary, blending a 600-year-old Italian miracle with a first-ever drone show.

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The Raptor Comes to the Shore
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

The Raptor Comes to the Shore

After a record-setting debut, the Wildwoods Air Show returns Sept. 12-13 with the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team headlining a free two-day aerial spectacle over the Jersey Shore.

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Where the Thunder Still
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Where the Thunder Still

The Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum's signature Labor Day festival returns to its historic World War II hangar, where 42 young aviators once trained and died.

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Porch by Porch, Maplewood
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Porch by Porch, Maplewood

On the first Sunday of September, the Hilton neighborhood becomes an open-air music hall as Maplewood Porchfest returns for its ninth year with 78 bands on 40 porches.

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Paper Boats and a River's
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Paper Boats and a River's

For more than two decades, a tiny New Jersey borough has thrown a Labor Day party that honors the Delaware River with sinking paper boats, costumed Vikings, and a fierce commitment to sustainability.

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A Nordic Homecoming: ScanFest
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Nordic Homecoming: ScanFest

What began as a small picnic among local lodges of the Vasa Order of America in 1985 has grown into the East Coast's largest celebration of Scandinavian culture, returning to its original home in Budd Lake, New Jersey, on September 6, 2026.

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Where Clams Fly: Cape May's
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Where Clams Fly: Cape May's

Every Labor Day weekend, kids gather on Windsor Beach to pitch clamshells into a hole in the sand — a quirky Cape May tradition that's been going strong for years.

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New Jersey flag
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The House That Wouldn't Stay Put: Washington's Final Headquarters Welcomes the World

Rockingham, the New Jersey farmhouse where George Washington learned the war had ended and wrote his Farewell Orders, has been physically moved three times to survive — and this summer it's inviting the world in for the nation's 250th anniversary.

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The House That Wouldn't Stay
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The House That Wouldn't Stay

Rockingham, the New Jersey farmhouse where George Washington learned the war had ended and wrote his Farewell Orders, has been physically moved three times to survive — and this summer it's inviting the world in for the nation's 250th anniversary.

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Snoochie Boochies in the
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Snoochie Boochies in the

Nine cast members from Kevin Smith's 1995 cult classic return to New Jersey on August 29 for what organizers call one of the largest Mallrats reunions ever, anchoring a one-day comics-and-pop-culture super-show in Hillsborough.

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Lemonade-Stand Libertarians
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Lemonade-Stand Libertarians

On the last Friday of August, the Seaside Park Farmers Market will hand its lawn over to entrepreneurs aged five to seventeen—a program born from a Utah law that made kids' lemonade stands legal.

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