There are several events in the Berkshires this weekend, including Halloween-themed activities, live music, and more.
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Downtown Pittsfield … It's Alive
Various Venues, Pittsfield
Time: Noon to 7 p.m.
It's alive!!! Well, at least Downtown Pittsfield will be on Saturday. There will be several Halloween-themed events to celebrate the spooky season, including live music, arts and crafts, face painting, and more.
Various venues will host events for people of all ages throughout the night, including tarot card readings, a Kids' Fun Zone, vendors, live performances, a beer garden, and more.
Sing your heart out to your favorite tunes and have a drink. More information here.
Musical Bingo Fundraiser
North Adams American Legion Post 125
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Northern Berkshire Youth Baseball is raising funds with a musical bingo event. More information here.
Saturday
Barktoberfest
Roxie's Barkery & Boutique, North Adams
Time: 11 to 4 p.m.
Celebrate Halloween with your pup by visiting Roxie's Barkery for its Barktoberfest, which will feature doggie beer flights, including barkyard pupkin head, bow-wow beef light, and chickorona, photo props, doggie pawretzels, more.
Free hatha yoga sessions for all ages 16 and older of varying experience in the third floor meeting room. Space is limited and registration is required by contacting Adult Services Librarian Ryan Miller at rmiller@northadams-ma.gov or 413-662-3133, Ext. 16.
The Philly steak house, outside the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, is having a pumpkin carving event that will also feature live music from Mixtape, face painting, and more.
The 15th annual Zombie Pub Crawl starts off at Hot Plate Brewing and ends the Madison with a costume contest. This is a fundraiser for Soldier On so bring cash for zombie merchandise, donations and a 50/50 raffle. Dress is your best zombie or other makeup, bring ID (must be at least 21 years of age) and have a safe plan for avoiding the zombies on your way home.
Main Street and School Street will close down to make room for fall activities including more than 60 vendors, food trucks, live music, and more.
This event is free and open to the public, and there is plenty of parking downtown. Information here.
All Hallows Lee
Lee Library to 51 Park
Time: Noon to 5 p.m.
Celebrate Halloween with this family-friendly event featuring a vendor village, live music, and performances by Berkshire Be Witches and Chalk Gremlin Circus Company.
This family-friendly event features bands like Dead Man's Waltz and Mystic Dead, craft vendors, food, and more.
Tickets range between $27.38 to $43.14. Information here.
BonJourneyNY
Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield
Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Several hits from Bon Jovi and Journey will be performed. Tickets are $34. More information is here.
Sunday
Sukkot Pumpkin Festival
Whitney's Farm Market & Country Gardens, Cheshire
Time: 2 p.m.
Learn about the fall harvest festival of Sukkot with a holiday craft and enjoy all the fun of the center's Pumpkin Fest with PJ Library. Tickets are $10 cash per family. Information here.
Fall Festival and Craft Fair
Berkshire Hills Country Club, Pittsfield
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
There will be over 28 different crafters in the club's ballroom. Each vendor brings a variety of different homemade items to choose from, including jewelry, accessories, candles, clothing, children and pet toys, and more.
Although the annual Purgatory Road event is not taking place this year, there is still an opportunity to support the Berkshire Coalition for Suicide Prevention. This year, however, the event is kid-friendly.
According to a Facebook post from the organization, the haunted house will return in 2025. This year, the event is designed with younger kids in mind and is not scary.
It will include a path through a cornfield that should take about 15 to 20 minutes to walk through. As you stroll through the maze, you will be accompanied by Halloween music and decorations. There will also be the possibility of encountering some carnival characters.
The maze will also include games and obstacles for children between the ages of 3 and 8. During the games, children can win tickets and exchange them for prizes at the end.
Face painting is offered to all ages. Food and balloons will be available for purchase. Tickets cost $10 for children ages 3 to 8 and $5 for adults and older children.
Lebanon (Conn.) Country Fairgrounds, 122 Mack Road
Time: weekends from Sept. 21 to Oct. 20, 10:30 to 6
The 26th annual fair features armored combat, jousting, demonstrations, marketplace, feasting, performances and music. Admission $10 to $16, children 6 and younger free.
The mountain resort known for its snowy hills and winter recreation is transformed into a fright destination.
Many locals fly to Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort for its "13 Nights Haunted House" to be scared out of their wits.
The resort's grounds and buildings are decorated to instill terror as hidden actors give the willing participants a fright every Friday through Sunday from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. throughout October.
The age recommendation is age 10 and older. Haunted House admission costs $29.
Participants are also welcome to ride through the darkness with the resort's Mountain Coaster for $15 a ride.
Take a breath from fright and relax at Naumkeag for its pumpkin show.
The museum decorates the gardens with more than 1,500 jack-o'-lanterns, hundreds of mums, pumpkins, and countless gourds — most of which were grown at Naumkeag.
Hot cider and fall treats will be available for sale on-site.
Tickets must be purchased online in advance. Ticket time represents your arrival window. More information here.
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PopCares Annual Dinner Returns, Celebrating $1M Donated to Cancer Patients
By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
Jessica Dabrowski, with her daughter, Jordan, and husband, Nicholas, speaks to her 13-year fight against cancer and the help that PopCares has provided.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nine years ago, Jessica Dabrowski was asked to speak about her experience with cancer at the annual PopCares dinner.
"As I reread what I wrote, it's hard to believe that it was just the beginning. Little did I know there would be so much more," she told the more than 400 people at this year's dinner. "Since I first spoke, I have relapsed. Now let me take that back. My cancer has relapsed twice. I have been through two separate rounds of radiation, treatment chemotherapy, and will be possibly starting my third round of radiation in the next few weeks."
Dabrowski was diagnosed with an uncommon form of blood myeloma in 2011 and said she's tried hard not to let the disease define her.
"My story is long and not pretty," she said, and that her body carries the scars of her battle against the disease. "I continue to battle incurable cancer, at some point, I will again push cancer side, continuing to let it be a part of my life, but not who I am, but for today, someone battling incurable cancer, and it sucks, and that is my only truth."
She was first diagnosed almost at the same time she learned she was pregnant. Her illness has been a part of her daughter Jordan's entire life.
Jordan chose to write about Popcares for a school assignment, explaining that "Popcares is a group of people that donate money to cancer patients like my mom. My mom has been going through a lot of hard times, and then Popcares gave her card. The card brightened her day. Popcares helped our family a lot. ...
"My dad knew what PopCares did for my mom, and then my dad started to help raise money for PopCares."
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