🥕 Cromwell Farmers Market
Riverport Park fills up with produce, artisans, food trucks, and live DJ music, plus a holiday food drive and bracelet making for kids.
Riverport Park · Friday, July 24 · 4:00 PM
Cost: Free
Details →between the river and Route 9
Greater Middletown · weekend of July 24, 2026
Chess at the library and cupcakes for a cause
Quiet weekend on the calendar, but a good one for wandering. Cromwell's Friday market is back at Riverport Park with its usual buzz, Russell Library digs into real fossils Saturday morning, and there's live music both nights if you want to stay out late. Plus a Portland bakery doing something kind with cupcakes.
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All Weekend Long
🎨 Collecting China: Missionary Assemblages of a Distant World, 1844, 1911 This one runs all weekend in the lower level corridor of Olin Library, free to wander. It pulls together objects Wesleyan graduates once carried home from China, meant to echo the university's own natural history museum, shuttered since the 1950s.
Friday
👨👩👧👦 Farmers Market Storytime
Russell Library brings books, rhymes, and songs outside to the Union Green, right in the middle of the farmers market crowd.
Union Green at Russell Library · Friday, July 24 · 10:30 AM
Details →Saturday
🦴 Unearth a Story with Real Fossils
Kids write their own hiking adventure while examining real fossils and learning about Connecticut's official state fossil and dinosaur.
Hubbard Room at Russell Library · Saturday, July 25 · 10:30 AM
Details →♟️ Chess Club
Love chess or just want to finally learn? Russell Library's new drop-in club welcomes all ages and abilities. No registration, just show up.
The Space at Russell Library · Saturday, July 25 · 3:00 PM
Details →🎶 Summer Mix Live Music and Performances
CNTR fills up with a mix of live music and performances, a solid excuse to spend Saturday evening out.
CNTR · Saturday, July 25 · 6:00 PM
Details →In Case You Missed It
🚦 ROADS: a busy Middletown intersection on Silver Street A third stop sign is going in at the Silver Street intersection. Why it matters: Expect a change to how you move through there.
💨 DEVELOPMENT: the Mattabassett sewage treatment plant The regional plant serving Middletown-area towns paid off a $65,000 fine for air quality violations. Why it matters: Worth knowing what's being cleaned up in your own backyard.
🧁 GOOD NEWS: a Portland cottage bakery A Portland baker is selling cupcakes to support the family of Cassie Munson, who died in a paddleboard incident. Why it matters: A small, sweet way for neighbors to show up for each other.