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B2 Daily Record, Morris County, Friday, July 25, 1997 Calendar editor anne KOSTUCHIK, (973) 428-6664 Performances Museums Aug. 30. Call (800) HHP-7313. Pop music Steel Grass tonight. Scott E.

Moore tomorrow. Ralph Terraccino Sunday. Call (973) 729-8428. STANHOPE The Stanhope House, 2 High St Billy Hector tonight Loup Garou, zydeco, tomorrow. Call (973) 347-0458.

STIRLING Orphan Annies, 1255 Valley Road. Mat O'Ree the Blue Hounds tonight. Billy Hector the Fairlanes tomorrow. Open Jam night Sunday. Call (908) 647-0138.

WHARTON Canal House, 47 Kossuth Ave. Good Times Band tomorrow. Call (973) 361-0094. -A 'W ACORN HALL 68 Morris Morristown. The exhibit "Jazzz Babies," a look at the Jazz Age of the 1920s and '30s, is on view through Oct 30.

Museum hours are Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sundays from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Group tours may be arranged Monday through Wednesday and Friday by calling in advance for a reservation. Admission is $3 for adults; 50 cents for students under age 12.

Call (973) 267-3465. COPER MILL Route 24, Chester Township. The Morris County Park Commission's Restored 19th-century gristmill. Tomorrow and Sunday: Learn what a day was like 100 years ago in a typical one-room school-House. Classes begin at 1, 2 and 3 p.m.

The mill is open every weekend through October, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., the last tour starting at 4 p.m. During July and August, the mill also is open Fridays, Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission is by donation. For more information, call (908) 879-5463. DENVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM Diamond Spring Road, Denville.

"A Gateway to Space" is on view through Oct. 1 The exhibit details the major aviation and aerospace milestones achieved by America's first high-tech liquid rocket engine producer, Reaction Motors Inc. Museum hours: Saturday and Sunday 1-4 p.m. and by appointment. For information, call (973) 625-1165.

FOSTER FIELDS LIVING HISTORICAL FARM Kahdena Road, Morris Township. The IHorris County Park Commission's living historical farm. Sunday: Roberta Bramhail will explain and demonstrate the historical significance of herbs from 1 to 4 p.m. Visitors aan fill a potpourri bag to take home. The Willows is a Gothic Revival mansion owned tty the late Caroline Foster.

The mansion is open Thursday-Sunday p.m. Each month, most second and fourth Sundays, there will be cooking demonstrations on the original wood-burning stove, using recipes from the turn of the century. Fos-terf ields is open April-October, Wednesday-Saturday plus Memorial Day and Labor Day, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday noon-5 p.m. Admission to the farm (including The Willows) is $3 for seniors, $2 for children 6-16. Children younger than 6 admitted free.

No fee to visit the farm on Wednesdays. For information, call (973) 326-7645. Dance polio Muses presents a performance by the New Jersey Ballet fO Sunday at 3 p.m. in the ballet's new rehearsal rooms, 15 Mi-XflAcrolab Road, Livingston. Following the performance, prima ballerinachoreographer Eleanor D'Antuono, above, will discuss her career.

Tickets cost $25. For reservations, call (908) 234-0254. II Concerts THE WALLFLOWERS with That Dog, tonight at 8 at Waterloo Village, 525 Waterloo Road, Byram. Call (973) 347-0900. PETER, PAUL MARY tonight at 8 at the PNC Bank Arts Center, Garden State Parkway exit 116, Holmdel.

Call (732) 335-8698. ULITH FAIR with Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Cardigans, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole, Jill Sobule, Joy Askew, Once Blue, Victoria Williams, Juliana Hatfield, tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at the PNC Bank Arts Center, Garden State Parkway exit 116, Holmdel. Call (732) 335-8698. QUEENSRYCHE Sunday at 8 p.m.

at the PNC Bank Arts Center, Garden State Parkway exit 116, Holmdel. Call (732) 335-8698. ANIMALS and the Yardbirds, Sunday at 8 p.m. at Six Flags Great Adventure, Route 537, Jackson. Call (732) 928-2000.

VERUCA SALT with Local and Figdish Sunday at Birch Hill Night Club, Route 9, Old Bridge. Call (732) 536-0650. WARPED TOUR '97 with Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Social Distortion, Pennywise Descendants and others, tomorrow at noon at Bradley Park, in front of Convention Hall, Asbury Park. Call (732) 530-5686. ETERNALLY ELVIS SHOW Mike Moat, with Magic Moments, Sunday at 7 p.m.

at North Branch Park, Milltown Road, Bridgewater. Free. Call (908) 722-1200. LIVE ELVIS SHOW tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Boonton Elks Lodge 1405, 125 Cornelia Boonton.

Call (973) 334-2978. TIM GILLIS BAND country, Sunday at 7 p.m. at Florham Park Gazebo, at Borough Hall, 111 Ridgedale Florham Park. Call (973) 377-5800. DIRDY BIRDIES JUG BAND with Kathy Hart, singer-songwriter, tonight at 8:30 at the Minstrel Coffeehouse, at the Somerset County Park Commission's Environmental Education Center, 190 Lord Stirling Road, Basking Ridge.

Call (973) 335-9489. Nightlife BYRAM Falconer's Lackawanna Inn, 172 Lackawanna Drive. Blues Landing tomorrow. John Shehan Sunday. Call (973) 347-9763.

BYRAM Lockwood Tavern, 77 Route 206. Laurie Cagno tonight Robert Ross Band tomorrow. Call (973) 347-0077. CHESTER Bernies, 125 Hillside Road. Dog Boots tomorrow.

Call (908) 879-7120. DENVILLE Fireside Restaurant, 53 Broadway. Uncle Bill's Grove tonight. Follow That Car tomorrow. Call (973) 625-9111.

DOVER Laughing Lion Pub, 40 N. Sussex St Chris Finn tonight. Chuck Levy tomorrow. Call (973) 328-1800. H0PATC0NQ Lighthouse Restaurant 453 River Styx Road.

Tropical Storm Sunday at 3 p.m. Call (973) 770-8400. LONG VALLEY Long Valley Pub Brewery, 1 Fairmount Road. Kings in Disguise tonight The Wisemen tomorrow. Call (908) 876-1122.

MOUNT ARLINGTON Sports Authority, 15 Howard Blvd. Tropical Storm tonight. Call (973) 398-9393. SPARTA Krogh's, 23 White Deer Plaza. Showssales RANDOLPH The Randolph High School Girls Soccer Team will hold a car washbake sale Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

in the upper parking lot at the high school, Millbrook Avenue. A $5 per car donation will be charged with prepaid tickets, available from any team member for $4. JAZZ Concerts JAZZ IT UP free jazz festival at William Pa-terson College's Shea Center for Performing Arts, 300 Pompton Wayne. Jimmy Heath Quartet tonight at 7:30. Call (973) 595-237L JON LUCIEN vocalist, tonight at 9 at the Club Bene, Route 35, Sayreville.

Call (732) 727-3000. GROVER KEMBLE Sunday at 3 p.m. at Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 53 E. Hanover Morris Township. It's part of the Morris County Park Commission' Summerfest free concert series.

Call (973) 326-7600. ALAN QUINN big band, Sunday at 3 p.m. at Park Lake Gazebo, Mount Hope Road, Rockaway. Call (973) 983-2853. SILVER STARUTE ORCHESTRA big band, tonight at 7:30 at George Dykstra Concert Park, Mohawk Avenue, Sparta.

Call (973) 729-2383. Nightlife MADISON Shanghai Jazz Restaurant Bar, 24 Main St. Grover Kemble Trio tonight Bill Robinson Dan Crisci tomorrow. Call (973) 822-2899. CLASSICAL RUTGERS SUMMERFEST Bolcom and Morris performing music of Gershwin today at 8 p.m.

at the Nicholas Music Center, Douglass College Campus, New Brunswick. Tickets are $24. Call (732) 932-7511. NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Amadeus Festival, Week 3, with conductor Zdenek Macal and violinist Pinchas Zuk-erman in music of Mozart today at 8 p.m. at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton.

Tickets are $35, $25, $15. Call 1-800-ALLEGRO. NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Amadeus Festival, Week 3, with conductor Zdenek Macal and violinist Pinchas Zuk-erman in music of Mozart tomorrow at 8 p.m. at B'nai Jeshurun, Short Hills. Tickets are $35, $25, $15.

Call 1-800-ALLEGRO. RUTGERS SUMMERFEST With pianist Awadagin Pratt performing music of Beethoven and Brahms tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center, Douglass College Campus, New Brunswick. Tickets are $24. Call (732) 932-7511.

METRO LYRIC OPERA Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" conducted by Anton Coppola tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park. Tickets range from $20 to $35. Call (732) 531-2378. In Proceeds will go toward uniforms, equipment and the scholarship fund.

Call (973) 989-4026. FAIRSFESTIVALS BLAIRSTOWN The 124th annual festival will be held tomorrow from 4 to 8 p.m. on the grounds of the Walnut Valley United NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Amadeus Festival, Week 3, with conductor Zdenek Macal and violinist Pinchas Zuk-erman in music of Mozart Sunday at 6 p.m. at Waterloo Village, Byram. Tickets are $18 ($12 on the lawn).

Call 1-800-ALLEGRO. APOLLO MUSES New Jersey Ballet in selections from its repertory Sunday at 3 p.m. In the ballet's new rehearsal rooms, 15 Mi-crolab Road, Livingston. Tickets are $25. Call (908) 234)254.

WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY SUMMER CHOIR Haydn's Te Deum as well as show tunes and folk songs Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Shea Center for Performing Arts, William Paterson University, Wayne. Admission is free. Call (973) 720-2315. Theater BASKING RIDGE Trilogy Repertory Company celebrates its 10th season of Plays in the Park with free performances of the 1985 Broadway musical "Big River." Perfor mances will be held today and tomorrow at 8 p.m.

in the open air amphitheater at Pleasant Valley Park, Valley Road. Rain location is Ridge High School, Finley Avenue. For more information, call (908) 204-3003. BUDD LAKE The Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, 23 Lake Shore Drive, presents the musical "Blood Brothers." Performances run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. through Aug.

23, with a Sunday matinee Aug. 17 at 2 p.m. Tickets cost For reservations, call (973) 691-2100 weekdays between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. DOVER Dover Little Theatre, West Elliott Street, presents the classic story of a genie in a bottle in "Aladdin." Performances run tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets cost $10; $8 for children and seniors. Call (973) 328-9202. HAMPTON A young girl tries to succeed on the Great White Way in the new musical, "Broadway Sally," continuing at the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse. There will be performances on select evenings, Monday through Saturday, luncheon matinees and Sunday afternoon dinner shows through HILLSBOROUGH "Little Shop of Horrors continues at the Somerset Valley Players Community Theater, Route 514. Perfor mances run Fridays-Sundays through Aug.

10. Tickets cost $16. For reservations, call (908) 369-7469. MADISON The Joys of bachelorhood and the agonies of love make a merry battlefield for Benedick and Beatrice in William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," the second offering in this season's New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. The comedy Continues at the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, 33 Green Village Road.

Perfor mances run today and tomorrow. Tickets cost $21 to $26. For reservations, call (973)408-5600. MADISON The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival is holding an outdoor production of "The Life of Henry on the football field at Bayley-Ellard High School. Performances continue Tuesdays through Sundays with selected matinees through Aug.

3. Ail tickets are general admission for bleacher seats, In case of rain, perfor mances may be delayed or, if canceled, the audience will receive rain checks for an other performance. For more information, call (973) 408-5600. MILLBURN The musical "Man of La Mancha" closes out the season at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive. Per formances run through Sunday.

Tickets cost $31 to $46. For reservations, call (973) 3764343. MORRISTOWN The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival will present Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's dark and brooding German musical about the London underworld, "The Threepenny Opera," at the Community Theatre of Morristown, 100 South St. Di rected by Paul Mullins. Performances run today, tomorrow and Sunday.

Tickets range from For reservations, call (973) 408-5600. MOUNTAIN LAKES The classic musical "Yankee Doodle Dandy" continues at the Evergreen Dinner Playhouse, 90 Route 46 East Performances, which run through Aug. 14, include luncheon, Sunday brunch and selected evening dinner shows. Admission, including full-course meals, runs $45.50 to $34.95, with discounts for groups of 20 or more. For reservations, call (800) 475-9330 or (973) 335-3676.

NETCONG The Growing Stage Theatre for Young Audiences gives a 16th-century French twist to "The Masque of Beauty and the Beast," continuing at the Palace The atre, Route 183. Performances are Fridays at 2 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 4 p.m, through Aug. 10. Tickets cost $10; $8 for Children and seniors. For reservations, call (973) 347-4946.

OAK RIDGE The Jefferson Community Players will present the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," continuing at Jefferson Township High School, Weldon Road. Per formances are today and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., and Aug. 1 and 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $12 and $10. PARSIPPANY Allegro Productions closes out its season with "Damn Yankees" at the Parsippany Playhouse, 1130 Knoll Road, Lake Hiawatha.

Performances run today and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m Tickets cost $17; $12 for seniors and stu dents. Call (973) 263-7020. sion is free. For more information, call (973) 875-4800. OUTDOORS ANDOVER TOWNSHIP Park staff will lead a hike tomorrow, rain or shine, at 10 a.m.

through Kittatinny Valley State Park, starting from the main parking lot off Lime-crest Road. Hikers should wear comfortable walking shoes, dress appropriately for the weather and bring water and insect re pellent Call (973) 786445. BERNARDSVILLE Naturalists from the New Jersey Audubon Society lead free nature walks Friday and Saturday mornings from 8 to 9 a.m. throughout the year at the SchermanHoffman Wildlife Sanctuaries, 11 Hardscrabble Road. Call (908) 766- 5787.

MORRIS COUNTY The Morris County Park Commission will sponsor three walks, led by a staff naturalist from the Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center. Tomorrow and Sunday: Great Swamp, Chatham, 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. Sunday: Schooley's Mountain, Long Valley, 10:30 a.m. These free programs are limited to 20 participants; pre registration is required. Call (908) 879-0566.

MONTVILLE The Morris County Park Commission holds theme walks every Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Pyramid Mountain Visitors Center (across from Mars Court), Boonton Avenue (Route 511). Walks are free. Reservations required. Call (201) 334- 3130.

MORRIS TOWNSHIP -The Frelinghuysen Ar boretum, 53 E. Hanover consists of 127 acres of gardens, lawns, plant collec tions, natural woodlands and fields. Free garden tours are offered every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. through Oct 26. These walks are led by trained guides who will acquaint visitors with the many gardens and history of the arboretum.

Call (201) 326-7600. Specials BOONTON "Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine," starring Vincent Price and Frankie Avalon, now will be shown tonight at 8 at the Darress Theater, 615 Main St Call (973) 334-9292. Your Neighborhood MACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM 45 Macculloch Morristown. "The Immortal Light of Genius: William Shakespeare, Thomas Nast and 19th Century American Culture" continues through Feb. 4.

"Rococo and Reason in Georgian Glass" is on view through Sept. 7. "The Timeless Folk Art of Decorative Painting," featuring utilitarian objects that have been painted using a variety of decorative techniques, is on view through Oct 12. The museum is open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays 1-4 p.m. Admission is $2 for seniors and students.

Call (973) 538-2404. THE MORRIS MUSEUM 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morris Township. "Women's Fashion in Sports from The Morris Museum Collection" will be on view through Nov. 30 in the Tregenza Gallery. "Bicycles: History, Beauty, Fantasy" will be on view in the Main, Hedley, Newkirk and Tregenza galleries through Sept 1.

As part of its ongoing New Jersey Artists Series, the museum will present the recent work of artist Leah Ja-cobson of Jersey City through May 24, 1998. "Focus on Rodin: Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, has been extended through Aug. 17. Museum hours: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursdays to 8 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m.

Admission is $3 for seniors (60 and older) and children under 12. Call (973) 5380454. MORRISTOWN NATIONAL HISTORICAL Morristown. An exhibition of rare maps and plans showing specific military activities during the American Revolution in the Northern Colonies will be on view through Dec. 31.

Related military items will be on view as well. The visitor center and Wick House in Jockey Hollow are open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guided tours of the Wick House will be conducted on the hour beginning at 10 a.m. daily.

The last tour of the day will begin at 4 p.m. Park roads are open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Washington's Headquarters is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Daily tours of the Ford Mansion are offered each hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call (973) 539-2085. tARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS HISTORICAL MU SEUM 320 Baldwin Road, Parsippany. The museum features old photographs of local historical landmarks and churches as well as old high school and college yearbooks and other exhibits.

The Senior Strum-mers. Jack and Lois Ungle, play banjo, uke, harmonica, fiddle and piano on request on Wednesdays. The museum offers classes on various subjects. Including the Civil War and calligraphy. Harmonica lessons offered on Saturdays.

Hours: Monday-Friday 1-4 p.m. Call (973) 263-4397. RALSTON GENERAL STORE MUSEUM in tersection of Route 24 and Roxiticus Road, Mendham Township. Used originally as a general store and later as a post office, this one-room building is now a museum. This year's exhibit, "Early Forms of Illumination," features lighting implements used before candles.

Hours: Sundays and holidays, 2-5 p-m through October. Call (973) 543-4347. 1UNIS-ELLICKS HISTORIC HOUSE Mill- brook and Village roads, New Vernon. An ex hibit chronicling the 75-year history of the New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department is on display. Also on display are local Lenape Indian artifacts.

Call (973) 292-0161. WHIPPANY RAILWAY MUSEUM Route 10 West and Whippany Road, Whippany. The museum, which features railroad and ocean liner memorabilia, headlights, bells. whistles, photos, tickets and an operating Lionel O-gauge train layout is open on Sun days from noon to 4 p.m. April-October.

The transportation exhibit "Legends of the Titanic," commemorates the 85th anniversary of the sinking of the great luxury liner in April 1912. A special presentation takes a look at the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in the 1960s. There also is a display on the New York, Ontario and Western, titled "Memories of the Old and Weary." Admission is 50 cents for children under 12. CaH (973) 887-8177. COMMU1N1TY CALENDAR SPONSORED BY FIRST MORRIS BANK Methodist Church, Vail Road.

A family-style ham dinner will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. Cost for the meal is $4.25 for children 5-10. Reservations are recommended. Call (908) PARSIPPANY A psychic fair will be held Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 909 Parsippany Blvd. In attendance will be astrologers, psychics, tarot card readers, palmists and more. There also will be metaphysical books and crystals for sale. Admission is free. Call (973) 316-9511.

SPARTA A psychic fair will be held today from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Institute for Spiritual Development, 63 Main St Children BERNARDSVILLE The New Jersey Audubon Society invites children, ages 7-10, to the program "Waterbugs" tomorrow from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuaries, Hard-scrabble Road. Fee is $10; $5 for members. To register, call (908) 766-5787.

LIVINGSTON The Very Important Kids Club continues its summer series with a program by Bob McAllister, former host of the television show "Wonderama," tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the center court at the Livingston Mall, Eisenhower Parkway. McAllister will host a "Kids are People, Tool" game show. The VIK Club is for children younger than 12. It offers free entertainment, store discounts and a monthly newsletter.

For more information, call (973) 994-9390. Dancing HACKETTSTOWN Country Western dancing will be offered every Saturday from 7:30 to 11 p.m. at American Legion Blue Ridge Post No. 164, Willow Grove Street Tickets cost $6. There will be dance lessons by Footloose and Fancy.

Call (908) 852-9878 or (908) 788-1756. HANOVER Brian Nash School of Dance offers social ballroom and Latin dancing every Friday from 9 p.m. to midnight and every Sunday from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion, 13-23 Legion Place, Whippany, with complimentary dance lesson. Call (973) 492-9664.

MORRIS COUNTY The Jandura School of Irish Stepdancing offers weekly solo and team lessons throughout the area. No part Music inger-songwriter Kathy I Hart will perform tonight 'at 8:30 at the Minstrel Coffeehouse, at the Somerset County Park Commission's Environmental Education Center, 190 Lord Stirling Road, Basking Ridge. For more information, call (973)335-9489. ners required; all ages welcome. Call (973) 887-6613.

PROGRAMS JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP The Morris County Park Commission will present a program on star-gazing tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahlon Dickerson Reservation, Weldon Road. Participants will meet at the picnic area pavilion. Admission is free and picnickers are invited to bring a meal to eat before the program. Preregistration is required.

For more information, call (973) 697-3140. MONTAGUE Alice Woodcock will present the program "Wildflower Biographies" tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Nature Center at High Point State Park, Route 23. -ah. Ayou Matter More At FIRST MORRIS BANK 201-267-0900 i.

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