Wow – just a day from stuffing ourselves with too much turkey and it’s on to trees, trees and more trees to view and buy at the 27th annual – and spectacular – Long Island Festival of Trees, held Nov. 25-27, at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.
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Rich, velvety, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate – I love it! I especially gravitate toward milk chocolate, dark chocolate and the melted semi-sweet chocolate morsels baked into chocolate chip cookies. If you love chocolate as much as I do, you’ll want to be the first in line – like me – for The I Love Chocolate Fest, with more than 50 chocolate exhibitors, held on Nov. 20, at Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
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Blasting Don McLean’s song “American Pie” will undoubtedly bring you to the verse “the day the music died” – a line alluding to the plane crash that killed three rising American rock stars: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. And though you may have heard some of their songs, you can find out more about why Holly (and the others) were immortalized in McLean’s lyric by going to see “Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story” – which tells the true story of his rise to fame – presented at Suffolk Theater, on Nov. 12 and 13.
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If the old saying “laughter is the best medicine” rings true for you, you’ll be right as rain if you take in Wayne Brady’s comedy show, coming to the stage on Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.
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If the Halloween season for you is going on one eerie adventure after another, you might consider an unsettling escapade to transport you back into the 19th century for a recreation of an 1887 Victorian-style funeral service – at Rogers Mansion in Southampton.
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With rock ‘n’ roll, doo-wop and early Motown music sounds, “Little Shop of Horrors,” about a man-eating plant that demands to be fed and luckless florist shop worker Seymour, is brought to the stage Oct. 21-Oct. 30, at the Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University.
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If you have often wondered whether some of the island’s landmarks have eerie stories to tell, Kerriann Flanagan Brosky, author of “Historic Haunts of Long Island,” will keep you spellbound with the “ghost” stories she has to tell, as her book explores haunts on a local scale. And, Flanagan Brosky, who is an award-winning author and historian, is scheduled to discuss and sign this book on Oct. 15, from 7-8:30 p.m., at Malverne Historical Society.
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If the highlight of your Halloween season is to be thoroughly frightened, the Yaphank Trail of Terror will certainly creep you out – just like you would want it to. Held on the grounds of the Yaphank Presbyterian Church, it opens Oct. 7 and stays open for Friday and Saturday nights until Oct. 29.
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If you have ever been near Old Westbury Gardens on an October weekend, you may have seen have seen the nighttime illuminated with a glow – the direct result of thousands of hand-carved, lit jack-o’-lanterns created for RISE of the Jack O’Lanterns. For those Long Islanders that have never been to this annual pumpkin feast-for-the-eyes, don’t fret; you are not alone. I, too, will be attending for the first time! You can experience this magical event Fridays through Sundays (with Oct. 20 and 27 available, as well), from Oct. 7-30.
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While things like pumpkin-spiced lattes and snuggly sweaters are coveted during the fall, the season’s ripe-for-picking fruit – apples – are high on our favorites list, too! So, set your GPS for the Sherwood-Jayne Farm in East Setauket, the site for the 27th annual Apple Festival, held from 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m., on Sept. 25.
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