It’s hunting season again…Easter eggs that is.
For those celebrating the Easter season, it’s time to get your spring pastels out and check out the best Easter egg hunts in Mystic Country. Even though spring hasn’t quite sprung yet, we’re going to get you in the right mindset! So where to hunt? Friday, March 29 from 10 am – 11 am or 1-2 pm there is a Wild Egg Hunt at Denison Pequotsepos...
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The best recipe for cabin fever: Chowder!
26 restaurants. 26 versions of chowder to sample. Every single one of them to die for. Would you expect anything less in Mystic Country? Stop by for a taste at the 10th Annual Cabin Fever Festival and Charity Chowder Cook-Off at Olde Mistick Village on Saturday, Feb. 23. Get out of the house and get to the Village, where the chowder will be set up in the different...
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February vacation week, simplified. Mystic Country has all your family activities for the week.
If you’re looking for something to do with the kids’ vacation week, start with the Weird Science event at the Mystic Aquarium. From Saturday, Feb. 16 through Sunday, Feb. 24 the Aquarium team of educators, along with Keith Michael Johnson’s Bubbleology and Mad Science of Eastern Connecticut, will demonstrate weird and wacky science experiments and...
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Olde Mistick Village and Mystic Aquarium light up the holiday season, this Friday night, Dec. 7.
Olde Mistick Village and the Mystic Aquarium will light up to celebrate the holiday season this Friday, Dec. 7 during the Festival of Lights. It’s an Olde Mistick Village tradition, started in 1986. Add the Aquarium and you’ve got a fun night ahead. Over 4,000 luminaries will light the pathways throughout the shopping village and aquarium from dusk...
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Mystic Country holiday performances that make the season special. Book now, enjoy later.
T’will soon be the season for holiday cheer and Mystic Country is ready to kick-start the season’s spirit. Experience a traditional New England Christmas, hear a holiday concert, sing your heart out, or see The Nutcracker. Yes, it’s early but the time is now to grab your seats for holiday fun come December. There is very likely something happening...
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Mushroom mania. This weekend in Mystic, the 11th Annual Wild Mushroom Festival.
It’s a fungi festival like you’ve never seen before. The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center’s 11th Annual Wild Mushroom Festival is this Sunday, September 30, from 2-5 p.m in Mystic. Come ogle, learn and taste. Don’t we have the coolest things around here? The festival celebrates everything mushroom. It IS the season; I see them popping up everywhere. Held...
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It’s all about the garlic this weekend. The Fifth Annual Garlic Festival.
The Fifth Annual Garlic Festival is coming again to Olde Mistick Village in Mystic September 15-16. No breath mints required if you love garlic as much as I do. Five years later, this is still one of the favorite festivals in eastern Connecticut. And while the garlic crazed are over the moon, there’s plenty of reasons for everyone to attend. The event is...
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Hunting through History on Mystic Country, Connecticut’s Antiques Trail.
Eastern Connecticut is known for its antiques and now we can point visitors to the best treasures town by town or feed antique frenzies from all directions with our new Antiques Trail. Organized by town, the Antiques Trail features thirty of our best antiquing venues complemented by other attractions and things to do in the region. The guide takes antiquers from...
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Tantalize your tastebuds this weekend. A Taste of Mystic, Sept. 7-9.
Your tastebuds are in for their annual treat this weekend at the Taste of Mystic. Local eateries line downtown with samples of their best dishes, from Asian cuisine to pizza to seafood to desserts…you get the idea. Cottrell Street, which runs along the river in downtown Mystic, will be transformed into a foodie’s delight. Locals look forward to this event...
Continue ReadingThe Last Green Festival in Brooklyn September 28-30, 2012. Music, food and fun in celebration of The Last Green Valley.
The Last Green Festival from Wirtalla Visual on Vimeo. Celebration Time in the Last Green Valley. In Heinlein’s classic science fiction story The Green Hills of Earth a blind song writer, “Noisy” Rhysling, struggles to return from a far away galaxy to the peace of his beloved earth. Just as in Llewellyn’s How Green was My Valley the emphasis is on...
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