🥕 Cromwell Farmers Market
Riverport Park fills up again with local vendors, food trucks, live music from Leone and Cooper and Curious Creatures, and a round of raffle prizes.
Riverport Park · Friday, August 28 · 4:00 PM
Details →between the river and Route 9
Greater Middletown · weekend of August 29, 2026
A market, a storytime, and a soil sip
It's a slow, easy weekend on the calendar, which feels about right as August winds down. The Cromwell market brings its usual mix of vendors and music, there's an outdoor storytime for the little ones, and a plant-potting night on Main Street caps off Friday. Nothing fancy, just good ways to spend a late-summer weekend.
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🎨 Collecting China: Missionary Assemblages of a Distant World, 1844, 1911 This exhibit tucked into Olin Library's lower level corridor runs all weekend, letting you wander through cultural and natural curiosities once gathered by University graduates. It's a quiet, air-conditioned way to spend part of your Saturday or Sunday, tracing what's left of the old Wesleyan Museum of Natural History.
Friday
👨👩👧👦 Farmers Market Storytime
Russell Library heads out to the Union Green for an outdoor storytime with books, rhymes, and songs. Bring a blanket and let the kids settle in.
Union Green at Russell Library · Friday, August 28 · 10:30 AM
Details →🌱 SIP, SMOKE n SOIL
A plant-potting night on North Main Street with cocktails, raffles, vendor shopping, food, and a live DJ. Your ticket covers potting materials and a gift, and stopping in to browse the vendors is free.
52 north main street · Friday, August 28 · 7:00 PM
Cost: $40 at the door
Details →In Case You Missed It
🚧 ROADS: Road restoration work Crews have halted road restoration work around town because of recent weather conditions. Why it matters: Worth knowing if you were counting on that stretch being finished soon.
🏀 MILESTONE: CTMEETINGS The Middletown-based CT Convention & Sports Bureau has brought on Christopher Grosse as its new Director of Sports Sales/Marketing Officer. Why it matters: Another sign our local tourism office keeps growing its sports side.