Bridgeport Weekend Guide: Boo At The Zoo, GLOW Wild And A Tour Of Mountain Grove Cemetery

BRIDGEPORT, CT — Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo carries Bridgeport's weekend with a Saturday Halloween party and four nights of its GLOW Wild lantern walk, while the Fairfield Museum leads a tour of Mountain Grove Cemetery, from Thursday, Oct. 22, through Sunday, Oct. 25.

This Weekend's Arts & Entertainment

• Boo at the Zoo — Saturday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Halloween activities in the Kathy Brady Education Center, story times, animal encounters and seasonal treats for sale; costumes are encouraged. Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, 1875 Noble Avenue
• GLOW Wild — Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 22-25, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Stroll glowing pathways lined with lantern displays of animals and nature, including new world-debut lanterns; it runs Thursdays through Sundays through Dec. 20. Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, 1875 Noble Avenue
• Lantern Tour: Mountain Grove Cemetery — Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 to 11:30 a.m. The Fairfield Museum explores the cemetery's ties to planes, trains and automobiles, visiting the graves of P.T. Barnum, Housatonic Railroad's Alfred Bishop, aerospace engineer Anselm Franz, carmaker Isaac Trumbull and lighthouse keeper Kathleen Moore. Registration is required; it is $20, or $15 for members. Fairfield Museum, enter at North Avenue and Dewey Street

Also scheduled this weekend in Bridgeport and Trumbull are a trio of trunk-or-treat events on Saturday.

Bring the kids in costume to Boo at the Zoo Saturday, walk among the graves of Barnum and his contemporaries that morning, and come back after dark for GLOW Wild.

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