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“I dropped the candies into the children’s bags, thinking: You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories.”
HURRICANE HELP Spending Spree Shop ‘til you drop October 18-21 at the Junior League of Raleigh’s annual A Shopping SPREE! The Convention Center will be brimming with vendors for one-stop holiday shopping. General admission tickets are just $10, or avoid the crowds at the Preview Party or Merry Morning Shopping. jlraleigh.org/fundraising/a-shopping-spree/
The clean-up efforts for Hurricane Florence have just begun. Be a part of the healing process by giving your time and resources. Activate Good is a great online hub for volunteer opportunities in the area, such as The American Red Cross and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern N.C. Activate Good also has a sister organization on the coast—the Cape Fear Volunteer Center. activategood.org; capefearvolunteercenter.org
Pumpkin Spice Create a lovely, lasting fall centerpiece with succulents. Take a white styrofoam craft pumpkin and carve out a hole large enough to accomodate a small terracotta pot. Fill the planter with soil, an assortment of succulents and top with moss. Pick up your plants at The Zen Succulent on Wilmington Street. No trick to this treat.
Spook-ticle WHIMSIES... Get your just desserts at N.C. Sugar Rush Halloween Edition, the all dessert food event in downtown Raleigh October 28. sugarrush.com...visit the N.C. Museum of History and view The Sugar Shack, part of the exhibit: The North Carolina Roots of Artist Ernie Barnes...enjoy the fall weather at Dix Park’s FallFest October 27...pick up killer costume supplies from The Tilted Stage, formerly Hughie & Louie’s...try a limited edition Oktoberfest beer from a local brewery...
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Don a mask and cape, straighten your wig and monster mash it up at Marbles Kids Museum’s Kooky Spooky Halloween Party. Kids can research like a mad scientist or earn a degree from Ghoul School— with their adult in tow, of course. October 27; 6-8:30 p.m.; marbleskidsmuseum.org/KookySpooky
Getty Images (GIFTS, HANDS, PUMPKIN ASTRONAUT, CANDY CORN); Ernie Barnes The Sugar Shack
—Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
