Celebrate the Season at Allaire

Allaire Village, Inc.
PO Box 220
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
732.919.3500
Celebrating 50 Years of History
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AUTUMN EVENTS

AUTUMN EVENTS
tO REMEMBER

sEPTEMBER

Wine and Jazz Festival
Sat. Sept. 4 & Sun. Sept. 5

Frank Sinatra Tribute
Fri. Sept. 10 & Sat. Sept. 11

Late Summer Flea Market
Sat. Sept. 18

Fall Harvest Festival
Sun. Sept. 19

Fall Crafters Market
Sat. Sept. 25

OCTOBER

An Evening of Poe
with Helen McKenna
Fri. Oct. 1 & Sat. Oct. 2

Allaire 5K Run
Sun Oct. 3

The Legend of Sleep Hollow
with Neil Hartley
Fri. Oct. 8 & Sat. Oct. 9

An 1836 All Hallows Eve
Sun. Oct. 10

Haunted Hayrides
Oddities and Horrors of
The Garden State
Fri. Oct. 15 & Sat. Oct. 16
Fri. Oct. 22 & Sat. Oct. 23

NOVEMBER

Stocking Stuffer Sale
Friday November 5
Saturday November 6
Sunday November 7

Election Day 1836
& Woman's Suffrage Rally
Sunday November 7

Mark Twain's Wonderful Words
Saturday November 13

A Day of Thanksgiving
Sunday November 21

Photos Courtesy of

Pat Migliore
Roselight Studios

Jack Martin
Jack Martin Studios

Celebrate the season
at Allaire

• Historic Re-Enactments
• Concert Series
• Village Life
• Cultural Programs
• Craft & Flea Markets

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Due to Rain, The Rolling Iron Antique Auto Show
has Been Reschuled to Sunday August 29
8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

The Fall Harvest festival

Fall Harvest Festivals have been celebrated since ancient times. Celebrated around the time of main harvest, these festivals included feasting, dancing, games and romance. It was a time for the entire community to come together and, in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states it was a time for friends and neighbors to get together before the long winter months when travel was difficult and people stayed indoors. At The Historic Village at Allaire we celebrate the grape harvest with our annual modern Wine and Jazz Festival and the Apple Harvest with our annual historic Fall Harvest Festival.

The word Harvest is an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning Autumn. This eventually came to refer to the season when the reaping and gathering of grain and other products was done. The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to autumnal equinox and in ancient traditions Harvest Festivals were traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon.

According to Wikipedia, "An early Harvest Festival used to be celebrated at the beginning of the Harvest season on 1 August and was called Lammas, meaning 'loaf Mass'. The Latin prayer to hallow the bread is given in the Durham Ritual. Farmers made loaves of bread from the fresh wheat crop. These were given to the local church as the Communion bread during a special service thanking God for the harvest.

By the sixteenth century a number of customs seem to have been firmly established around the gathering of the final harvest. They include the reapers accompanying a fully-laden cart; a tradition of shouting "Hooky, hooky"; and one of the foremost reapers dressing extravagantly, acting as 'lord' of the harvest and asking for money from the onlookers. A play by Thomas Nashe, Summer's Last Will and Testament, (first published in London in 1600 but believed from internal evidence to have been first performed in October 1592 at Croydon) contains a scene which demonstrates several of these features. There is a character personifying harvest who comes on stage attended by men dressed as reapers; he refers to himself as their "master" and ends the scene by begging the audience for a "largesse". The scene is clearly inspired by contemporary harvest celebrations, and singing and drinking feature largely. The stage instruction reads: "Enter Harvest with a scythe on his neck, & all his reapers with siccles, and a great black bowle with a posset in it borne before him: they come in singing."

Today in rural communities Harvest Festivals are held at the end of harvest, which varies in different parts of the world. In Western communities, many times neighboring churches will set the Harvest Festival on different Sundays so that people can attend each other's thanksgivings. Until the 20th century most farmers celebrated the end of the harvest with a big meal called a harvest supper, to which all who had helped in the harvest were invited.

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