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October around here: ghost tours at the Knick, a powder-coat hearing, Foodstock, and the last farmers market Sunday

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We walked every organizer we pull events from, and the fall calendar came back fuller than we expected. Everything below is on the events page and in the calendar feed, with details and links. Here is the tour, roughly in date order.

This week

  • Sunday, October 4 is the last Waterford Harbor Farmers Market of the season, 9 to 1. The Schaghticoke market on Madigan Road usually runs through October; we could not confirm its final date.
  • Tuesday, October 6, 11:30 a.m.: HooRWA’s Nature of the Confluence walk at Lock C4, now confirmed on the watershed group’s own list, with naturalist Arianna Alexsandra Collins. One hour. That evening, the Valley Falls Free Library hosts a talk on bald eagles at 6.
  • Wednesday, October 7, 7 p.m.: the Planning Board hearing on the powder coating shop proposed for 751 Route 40.
  • Friday, October 9: a change at the Rustic Barn. Ted Poley’s acoustic show is off; On The Edge plays the 8 p.m. slot instead, $10. Up the hill, Grafton Lakes holds its last Star Party of the year at 6:30, free, telescopes provided.
  • Saturday, October 10: the town’s Clean-Up Day at the highway garage, 8 to noon. Oakwood Cemetery’s Wild Women of Oakwood trolley tour with county historian Kathy Sheehan, 1 and 2:30, $30. Peebles Island’s free Spooky Movie Night at 7. And Liberty Ridge Farm’s Harvest Festival Weekend runs through Columbus Day Monday.
  • Sunday, October 11, from noon: Chowderfest in downtown Troy, $2 cups.

Mid-month

  • Tuesday, October 13: Grafton Lakes’ Fall Birding Hike, 9 to 11, free with registration at 518-279-1155; Hoosic Valley’s senior class Brooks BBQ, 3 to 6 at the school.
  • Wednesday, October 14: the last Grafton Historical Society hike of the season at 2, and Oakwood’s Autumn Foliage walking tour at 10, $20.
  • Thursday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.: the Pittstown Historical Society’s free talk on the history of Pittstown’s churches, at Pittstown Town Hall. Also the first of two days of open house at the state’s historic preservation offices on Peebles Island, the first in 15 years.
  • Friday, October 16: last day to pre-order the Speigletown fire company’s chicken BBQ.
  • Saturday, October 17: the Brunswick Historical Society’s walking tour of Forest Park Cemetery, 1 to 3, free with registration; Grafton Lakes’ Witches Paddle (bring a kayak and a hat); Liberty Ridge’s Pumpkin Festival weekend. And up Route 40 past the village, Victory Day marks the 249th anniversary of Burgoyne’s surrender: a 2 p.m. history talk with music at Tiashoke Farm, a 4:30 celebration at Victory View Vineyard with rifle and blacksmithing demonstrations, Baroness von Riedesel at 5 and a cannon at dusk, then a roast-pig dinner back at Tiashoke at 6:30, $55, first 50 seats.
  • October 19 to 25: Kitten Angels at PetSmart for National Adoption Week, 11 to 9 daily in Latham, Glenmont and Amsterdam.

The last two weekends

  • Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24, 5 to 9 p.m.: Knick at Night. Candlelit ghost tours of the Knickerbocker Mansion with the cemetery tour included, $20, or the Souper Dinner, $20, or both for $35. Ghost tours need a reservation at 518-588-7130. Sunday the 25th is the last regular tour day of the year.
  • Saturday, October 24, 4 to 6 p.m.: chicken BBQ pickup at the Speigletown firehouse, pre-order only, proceeds to the 1936 American LaFrance restoration. Same weekend: Liberty Ridge’s Monster Mash costume party for kids.
  • Friday, October 30: two Troy nights out. Troy Night Out: The Haunting takes over lower River Street from 5 to 9, free, costumes encouraged, with the Hart Cluett Museum’s Murder and Mayhem walking tour at 6. Across town, Kitten Angels’ Black Cat Gala fills the Franklin Terrace Ballroom from 5:30, $90.
  • Saturday, October 31: the Rustic Barn’s Halloween party with Brian Kane and The Beginning, 8 p.m., $15, costume contest with cash prizes. Liberty Ridge closes at 5 on Halloween and wraps its season Sunday, November 1.

Looking into November

  • The Rustic Barn’s November slate is posted: The Lazy Suns (Nov 6), Tom Major’s Shaman (Nov 7), Neon Avenue’s Grateful Dead tribute (Nov 21), a Thanksgiving Eve open mic party with River Junction (Nov 25) and free acoustic nights with Chris Sanders (Nov 20) and the Harmonic Duo (Nov 28). The one to circle is Foodstock 15, Sunday, November 15, 2 to 8 p.m., the annual benefit for The Food Pantries for the Capital District: a $20 minimum donation at the door, canned goods welcome, four acts.
  • Christmas Around the Corner, the big holiday craft fair at the Hoosic Valley High School gym, is Friday, November 6 (5 to 9) and Saturday, November 7 (7 to 4), with proceeds to Hoosic Valley Christmas for Kids.
  • Thursday, November 19, 7:30 p.m.: town historian Chris Kelly brings the Tree of Peace story to the Pittstown Historical Society, “50 Years? How About 350 Years!” Free, at Pittstown Town Hall.
  • The Troy Turkey Trot is Thanksgiving morning, November 26, and the early-bird prices end November 5.
  • The Lansingburgh Boys & Girls Club has a Harvest Brunch on November 1 and its Community Hero Awards Dinner on November 18.
  • Troy’s tree lighting is December 2 at Monument Square, and the 44th Victorian Stroll follows on Sunday, December 6.

School dates, both districts

The calendar now carries the fall for Hoosic Valley and Lansingburgh: no school October 12 (both), Lansingburgh’s half day October 23 and conference day November 2, Hoosic Valley’s K-6 early dismissals October 29 and 30 and its conference day November 3 (Election Day), Veterans Day on the 11th, Thanksgiving recess November 25 to 27, and the holiday break from December 24 through January 1. Board of Education meetings: Hoosic Valley November 5 and December 3; Lansingburgh October 26, November 23 and December 21.

What we could not confirm

Facebook-only organizers remain the gap: the Melrose fire company’s Trunk-or-Treat and Breakfast with Santa are annual but undated, the Hoosic Valley Rescue Squad and Pleasantdale company post only on Facebook, and Transfiguration Parish’s site would not load. If you run one of these and have a date, send it in and we will add it the same day. We will also recheck the Rustic Barn and Grafton Lakes in November for December and New Year’s listings.

Sources: each organizer’s website or published calendar, checked October 3, 2026, and linked from the events page. Times and prices are the organizers’ and subject to change; the sourcing notes on each card say where a detail could not be confirmed.

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