Sunflowers in Swansea, outdoor concerts in Fall River and Westport, a wine run and more

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Simcock Farm owner Beverly Simcock, left, and employee Kaitlyn Kopecky stand among the sunflowers in the 2020 walkway at the Swansea farm.

Simcock sunflowers and car show

SWANSEA — ‘Tis the season — sunflower season. Head to Simcock Farm to pick your own blossoms from their sunflower field Monday to Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

This Saturday, Aug. 21, the farm will host a car show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event is free. All cars, trucks, and bikes are invited to take part in the show. Trophies will be awarded five top picks and a best of show, so make sure to register upon arrival.

No Joke Smoke BBQ will be on site for the event, and guests can also get some delicious Simcock Farm ice cream.

Simcock Farm is located at 293 Marvel St., Swansea. Visit

Outdoor Back garden GALLERY: Newest addition to preferred park | Get Out

Area artists whose function is ideal for becoming displayed outdoors have added their inventive cairns and totems to the new Backyard garden Gallery at Desert Meadows Park.

Artifical piles of stones frequently employed as markers, monuments or memorials, cairns have been used because historic occasions. And when organized artistically they’re also applied for out of doors art.

In the seven yrs Michael Reece has been creating cairns, he’s produced far more than a thousand, and explained they provide well.






OUTDOOR GARDEN GALLERY: Latest addition to popular park

Michael Reece with his “Universe” cairn.


“People like how they blend with their landscape. I have to clean up the rocks and stones and get the dust and any calcium deposits off, and then they’re calming to get the job done on,” Reece points out.

“Desert Meadows Park is a fantastic venue for seeing art in a purely natural and attractive location. This variety of art isn’t what you ordinarily see