The artist takes an array of ordinary objects, from teapots to tractor parts, and sets them in motion by ingenious mechanical systems. Gerberich, a native of Iowa, creates his masterpieces in his Brooklyn, NY studio. Members and children 3 years of age and under are free. Admission to the festival is free. A wide array of demonstrations, lectures and workshops on everything from water gardens and window boxes, to attracting hummingbirds and keeping weeds at bay, will be at the numerous greenhouses, nurseries, herb gardens and flower farms throughout the area.
Admission is free.
Fee for materials may apply at certain workshops. Thousands of colorful kites will glide through the air thanks to GO FLY A KITE, a leading kite manufacturer in East Haddam who is sponsoring the event. All proceeds will benefit community outreach programs of Middlesex Hospital. The top competitors will wind through the ten towns of the Housatonic Valley in a clockwise circuit that begins in Danbury and heads north along Candlewood Lake through Sherman and New Milford before turning back south through Bridgewater, Brookfield, Ridgefield, Redding and Bethel. Each town will have an official spectator site and a series of festivities designed around the race.