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Mummy Mania! at Sheldon Museum

For anyone who has ever dreamed of rattling the crypts of ancient mummies to discover what lies within, the Henry Sheldon Museum on Main St. in Middlebury will offer the next best thing on Saturday, Oct. 27 when it holds Mummy Mania, an event catering to children (and children at heart) with a penchant for heiroglyphics and coloring book pages of Osiris. For those with more adult leanings, S.J. Wolfe's 7 p.m. lecture, "Mummy Mania in Nineteenth Century America: Putting the Middlebury Mummy into Context," promises insight into Henry Sheldon's infamous 1886 purpose of the young mummy prince whose final resting place lies in the cemetery on Rt. 30.

If you plan to make your own mummy, be sure to come equipped with a Barbie doll or action figure.


Halloween Costume Parade and Festival

Meet up with the gorilla in front of «ity Hall in Burlington from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27 to snag your trick-or-treating goody bag, and then scour the Church Street Marketplace for businesses with orange pumpkins in their windows, signaling their participation in the Marketplace Halloween Costume Parade and Festival. A flurry of craft activities and assorted spooky diversions will precede a parade downtown. Costumes are not required, but how can you resist?


A Family Halloween

If mummies and Church Street trick-or-treating are not sufficient to fulfill your Saturday yearnings for Halloween thrills, head on over to Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, Vt. for "A Family Halloween," a day-long event boasting the typical seasonal diversions, not to mention multiple costume parades led by ≠- get this - a Southdown ewe. In addition, the farm's Web site promises "doughnuts on a string, pumpkin carving for families, historic games, Halloween tales, plus horse-drawn wagon rides," certain to delight even the most hardcore candy and jack-o-lantern aficionados.


Shelburne Farms Art Exhibition and Sale

Catch the closing strains of the 20th annual Shelburne Farms Art Exhibition and Sale, running through Oct. 21. The exhibition features work done in several mediums - oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, graphite, etching, photography, wood and stone chief among them - by regional artists. The exhibition runs daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The $5 tickets required for admittance are available at the Shelburne Farms Welcome Center.