Ashfield Fall Fest, Brew + Cider, and 9 more for the long weekend

This year's eight acres at Warner Farm are Maze TV, a design built on 100 years of television, with theme song trivia inside and a station where kids pitch their own pilot. Outside there are potato cannons, a petting zoo, and pick-your-own pumpkins at the foot of Mount Sugarloaf. Tickets run $11.38 to $17.56 online. No pets, no outside food.

Mark Shapiro demonstrates stoneware pottery in the Apprentice's Workshop at Historic Deerfield on Saturday. Ted Ingraham works on architectural woodworking the same day, Craig Farrow carves and builds furniture both days, and Sunday brings blacksmithing with Rick Martin and friends plus gunsmithing with Richard Colton. All of it comes with general admission.

Ashfield has thrown this festival every October since 1970. Main Street closes to cars between Baptist Corner Road and Norton Hill Road, and the parking donations go to the town's scholarship fund. Leave the dog at home.

Granville spreads its Harvest Fair across the town green, the Federated Church, the library, and the historic drum shop for all three days of the long weekend. Hours are 10am to 5pm Saturday and Monday and noon to 5pm Sunday. Most of the money raised goes to Granville nonprofits.

East Longmeadow's Oktoberfest returns to Brown Farm at 64 Hampden Road on Saturday, with local crafters and vendors selling goods grown and made in the region. The town recreation department runs it, and money from past years has gone toward the trails at Brown Farm.

The Thunderbirds open their AHL season Saturday against the Laval Rocket, which also starts the celebration of 100 years of hockey in Springfield. The pregame block party runs 3 to 5pm at The Landing with live music from Fever, and every fan gets a rally towel and a magnet schedule. The team wants you in your seat by 5:45 for the opening ceremony.

The Friends of the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail and New Horizons Bikes run the Great River Ride on Sunday, starting from the Sons of Erin on William Street in Westfield. Riders choose from several routes along the Westfield River, each with rest stops, and the day ends with a buffet and live music. Register on BikeReg.

Senior naturalist Patti Steinman takes a group along the boardwalk at Hawley Bog on Sunday morning. At 1,800 feet the bog feels closer to northern Canada than western Mass, and the sphagnum moss and blueberry bushes turn color this time of year. The walk is for adults and requires registration. $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers. There are no restrooms at the bog.

Springfield Elks Lodge #61 on Tiffany Street hosts Witches Walk West on Sunday afternoon, a bar crawl that runs from noon to 6pm. Every dollar raised goes to the National MS Society.

Berkshire East pours more than 50 craft beers and ciders on the mountain Sunday afternoon, with a '90s tribute band playing. Tickets are $25 online or $30 at the gate and include a tasting glass and three drink tickets. You need to be 21 with ID to sample. Ashfield's festival runs the same weekend, so you can do both.

More than 200 artists and makers set up at the Three County Fairgrounds for Paradise City's fall festival, with live music all three days and free parking. The festival says to plan on three to four hours. It runs 10am to 5pm Friday, 10am to 6pm Saturday, and 10am to 4pm Sunday. General admission is $16, a three-day pass is $24, and kids 15 and under get in free. No pets.

The Meekins Library takes Minecraft off the screen for an afternoon of themed crafts, trivia, and games in the Hawks-Hayden Community Room. A good bet for the kid who brings up creepers at dinner.

Teacher naturalist Kelly Walbert leads caregivers and kids under five on a walk of less than a mile at Arcadia, starting from the Nature Center. The walk follows whatever the season is doing that morning, from chipmunks stashing acorns to birds passing through. Adults and kids each pay, $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers. Register through Mass Audubon.

Greenfield Public Library wants teens to help decorate the teen room for Halloween on Friday's half day. Come any time between 11:30 and 2:30 for creepy pennants, scary scratch art, cursed paint by numbers, and haunted book nooks, with pizza while you work.

Lauren Stohler (it's pronounced stole-her), author of the Gnome and Rat books, reads her new picture book The Crown: an Epic Tale of Fools, Fate, and Fish Butts in the Carle's Reading Library. Afterward the kids vote on what comes next, a draw-along or decorating their own ballot boxes. She signs books after the program.

Writer and performer Jonah Knight brings New England Ghosts to the Athenaeum, a one-hour interactive program on reported sightings from all six New England states. The stories run from a voice heard in the White Mountains to a grisly lighthouse legend. Knight makes no claims about the supernatural, and seats are limited.

ALLURA opens Friday at Look Park in its first year, with hand-carved pumpkins lit along a path you can push a stroller on. Entry is timed, weekend slots can sell out, and prices go up closer to Halloween. It runs Thursday to Sunday evenings through November 1, with free parking.

Silver Bell Farm in Monson has no admission charge, a scavenger-hunt corn maze, barrel train rides, goats, and cider donuts. Most activities cost $5 each, or $12 for the kids' package, and the pumpkin patch is free when the weather allows. The food trucks change every weekend.

Kids ride a restored 1896 trolley and the pump car at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, a short walk from the Bridge of Flowers. The grounds and visitors center are free. The season ends October 31.