Join us for a celebration of the Harvest Moon, starting at 11:00 with music, children’s activities, and exhibits on the lawn and in the barnyard. Many cultures have celebrations for this important lunar event. The Chinese Mid Autumn Festival is celebrated this week. The Harvest moon brought evening light to late harvest and family gatherings at this time of year in the era before electric lights.

We are also on the Doors Open 2024 schedule starting at 1:00, a month long California-wide event.

Start your Doors Open Day in Niles for the Doors Open Special Niles Walking Tour, pick up lunch, and come picnic at Shinn Park. Bring a blanket!

The Harvest Moon

It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
  And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
  And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
  Deserted, on the curtained window-panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
  And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!
  Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,
  With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!
All things are symbols: the external shows
  Of Nature have their image in the mind,
  As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;
The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
  Only the empty nests are left behind,
  And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.