Fall isn’t over yet.
There are still two October weekends left, which means there’s time to squeeze in a little more seasonal fun before the pumpkins turn mushy and the holiday madness begins. We found two local events worth leaving the house for.
FAIRFIELD HARVEST MARKET | FAIRFIELD
Fairfield’s Town Hall Green fills with local retailers, makers, small businesses and food vendors for the annual Harvest Market. There are giant pumpkins. There is local shopping. And there is a dog Halloween costume parade.
This means it is entirely possible to spend your Saturday browsing jewelry and home goods while somebody’s golden retriever walks past dressed as a UPS driver.
Why would you be anywhere else?
HALLOWEEN WINDOW PAINTING | WESTPORT
The Saturday before Halloween belongs downtown. Westport’s annual Halloween Window Painting Contest gives local kids a section of participating storefront windows to transform with their own spooky artwork. Make a morning out of walking Main Street while everyone paints, grab lunch and come back later to see the finished windows. Then develop extremely strong opinions about which elementary schooler deserved “Most Original.”
It feels old-fashioned in exactly the right way.
DO HALLOWEEN BEFORE DARK | FAIRFIELD
Halloween itself lands on a Saturday this year, which feels like something we should take advantage of. SHU Community Theatre is spending the afternoon with two movies responsible for a very large percentage of everything we now associate with classic horror: 1931’s Dracula and Frankenstein. See them both on a proper movie screen, leave before dark and still have the entire night ahead of you for costumes, candy, dinner or sitting on the porch judging trick-or-treaters purely on effort.
It is an impressively efficient Halloween.