Weekend Picks: Shore, Shakespeare, and Crawfish
May 29, 2008
You like bargains, and you like the Shore. So how about bargains at the Shore?
Ocean Grove hosts one of the largest flea markets on the East Coast this Saturday, with more than 300 vendors selling antiques, collectibles, and jewelry and lots other stuff to bargain over. If you can’t make it, maybe you can be at the next edition, the Saturday after Labor Day.
More Shore: the 11th Annual Barnegat Bay Festival in Island Heights on Sunday. Artisans, beach-y gifts, music, food and at the heart of it all exhibits on environmentally responsible ways to enjoy Barnegat Bay. Kayak the local creeks or ride the pontoon boat across the Toms River as naturalists talk about the ecosystem.
Another celebration with water in mind is the Crawfish Festival at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, Friday through Sunday. The flavor is Louisiana in Enn-Jay. Music is Zydeco, Cajun, New Orleans R&B and Delta Blues. Food includes fresh boiled crawfish, jambalaya, shrimp creole, fried catfish, grilled alligator sausage.
At Millbrook Village in the Delaware Water Gap National Park, the celebration has to do with history — the history of children playing. On Saturday, volunteers will reenact how kids kept busy in the days before video games and YouTube. Did you ever play marbles, shuttlecock, lawn bowling, horse shoes, ring toss, pick-up sticks, croquet, yo-yos, sack races, ball and jacks, put ‘n take, rope skipping, hopscotch or cup and ball?
A different group of re-enactors will give demonstrations of Civil War military drills and camp life at Long Pond Ironworks in West Milford. Battles by day, campfire in the evening. Friday through Sunday.
The real, modern day military is putting on a show too on Saturday and Sunday. It’s the 2008 Air Expo at McGuire Air Force Base. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are the major attraction. There will also be demonstrations of the F-15 and F-18 fighter jets, and a flyby of the tankers and refuelers from McGuire’s own 305th Air Mobility Wing.
And it’s the first weekend of Mozart in Madison. Amadeus, the play about the young genius Mozart and the older and jealous Salieri takes the stage at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison. Show runs through June 22.
That’s more than you bargained for.
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