• Here comes The Carve, The Great Pumpkin Carve, that is. The annual fundraiser for the Chadds Ford Historical Society is next week, from Oct. 17-19. The three-day tradition includes carvers and carving teams doing their thing to 70 huge pumpkins on that first night, Thursday. During all three nights, visitors can enjoy a haunted trail, raffle prizes, and live music from Kenny Thompson & Friends. Food, local craft beer, and wine are available for purchase. Come out to enjoy a fun annual tradition. Hours are 4-9 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, then 3-9 p.m. on Saturday. The CFHS is at 1736 Creek Road in Chadds Ford Township.
• Also on Oct. 17 is a chance to enjoy an Enchanted Courtyard by the Light of the Full Moon at BRM Thursday, 6:30-9 p.m. in the museum courtyard, The cost is $50 for members and $75 for non-members. The event is to celebrate the Brandywine Museum of Art's transformed courtyard. Festivities include a full bar, heavy hors d'oeuvres, and live music by the Bill Handy Trio. Guests can also enjoy exploring the Museum's six galleries, including special exhibitions The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick and Up East: Andrew Wyeth in Maine.
• If pumpkins and enchanted courtyards aren’t your cup of tea, how about some mushrooms? The Rachel Kohl Library is offering an Evening with Mushrooms. Explore the world of fungi with Kevin Popowich of the Philadelphia Mycology Club. He’ll discuss fungal anatomy, key identifying features, and their ecological significance. The date is Oct. 17 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Community Room.
• Chadds Ford Township is getting into the Halloween spirit with Trunk-or-Treat from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27. The event is a Halloween celebration where participants decorate the trunks of their cars and gather at Painters’ Crossing shopping center near the former Carrabba’s restaurant for children to go trick-or-treating from car to car. It’s billed as a fun, safe alternative to traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating.
• Winterthur is gearing up for the Christmas season with Yuletide at Winterthur, on view from Nov. 23–Jan. 5. Seven contemporary artists whose works are inspired by the collections in the museum, garden, and library are featured amid the traditional festive splendor seen on tours of the historic mansion. Yuletide at Winterthur also includes a large-scale gingerbread “house,” a magical 18-room dollhouse, jazz and cocktails on Wednesday evenings, and enchanting decorations and outdoor lighting inspired by the woodlands on the estate. During Yuletide, Winterthur is open seven days a week with extended hours on select Wednesday evenings. Winterthur is closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Tickets can be purchased on-site or online at https://www.winterthur.org.
• Tickets are now on sale for the City Theater Company’s presentation of Spring Awakening, which will be performed Dec. 13 to 21. The musical is based on a play by German playwright Frank Wedekind, written in 1891 and suppressed from being performed until 1906 for its condemnation of sexual and social taboos disguised as righteous correctness. The plot is deceptively simple. A small group of teenagers in a Victorian-era German town wrestle with their literal “awakening” on all things related to love and sex under, or perhaps despite, the eyes of their watchful and neglectful parents and teachers. Get tickets here.
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