Name: Puppet Show Picnic
Start: 2026-06-25T17:00:00-04:00

<h1>Puppet Show Picnic</h1>
<h2>Thursday, June 25, starting at 5:00 p.m.</h2>
<h3>Join us for this fantastic fun family event!</h3>
<a href="https://goodnewsgus.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Good News Gus </a>and his puppet pals will perform “The Caboose is Loose” starting at 5:45 p.m., the <a href="https://www.watertownlib.org/657/Bookmobile" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Watertown Bookmobile</a> will be on site from 5:00-7:00 p.m., and there will be ice cream following the show. Dinner is not provided, but you are welcome to bring your own picnic to enjoy on our lawn.
<h3>The Puppet Show Picnic will be held at the Gore Place Farm: 249 Waltham St, Watertown, MA</h3>
The Puppet Show Picnic is FREE to attend thanks to the <a href="https://watertown-ma.gov/1239/Watertown-Cultural-Council" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Watertown Cultural Council</a>. Guests must supply their own food and picnic blanket. 
Advanced registration is appreciated. We hope your family will join us for a fun-filled evening of books, puppets, and ice cream!

Local Event: Puppet Show Picnic

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<h2>STEM Fest at Camp Cedar Hill</h2>
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About Our CommunityFriends Beyond Boston – Waltham Social (20s–40s) is a local community built around genuine connection, small events, and welcoming spaces where people can actually get to know each other.We put a lot of care into creating a friendly, intentional environment, both at events and between them.We’re a community-led group, which means members are welcome (never required) to host or cohost simple events with support, it’s how we keep things fun, varied, and shaped by the people who make this community special.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━About this event:Join us on Saturday, May 2 at 3:00 PM for a screening of Join or Die, a documentary inspired by social scientist Robert Putnam’s research on social connection and the importance of civic engagement in our lives.Following the screening, we’ll gather in the lobby for a community Joining Fair from 4:30–5:30 PM, where local clubs and organizations will be present to connect with attendees and share ways to get involved.The Joining Fair will take place in a relaxed, social setting, with a bar available where guests can purchase snacks and beverages. There will also be some fun activities planned to learn more about the clubs.This event is co-hosted by The Boston Club and West Newton Cinema and is a great opportunity to learn about local communities, meet new people, and explore ways to get more connected.RSVP here:&nbsp;<a href="https://heylo.com/invite/YFnsicQ4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">heylo.com/invite/YFnsicQ4</a>Buy Tickets or find out more about the film at:
https://www.westnewtoncinema.com/movie/join-or-dieJoin us either for the film, the joining fair, or both!I’ll be there representing Friends Beyond Boston, Waltham Social at the fair, and would love to connect with you!Feel free to bring a guest to the movie, just make sure to add them to your RSVP.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏰ TimingJoin us on Saturday, May 2 at 3:00 PM for a screening of Join or Die, a documentary inspired by legendary social scientist Robert Putnam’s research on social connection and the vital role of civic engagement in our lives.Following the screening, we’ll host a community Joining Fair in the West Newton Cinema lobby from 4:30–5:30 PM.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🚗ParkingAsides from metered street parking there is:Cherry Street Public Parking Lot a 3 min walk to the cinema, Waltham Street Public Parking Lot, a 2 min walk.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ RSVP Policy (Please Read)This is an event for members of this Meetup/Heylo group who RSVP in advance.For safety and group flow, walk-ins and guests not on the RSVP list cannot join.We love meeting new people, just be sure to RSVP ahead of time so we know you’re coming!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━(ignore keywords)make new friends • new in town • fairs • waltham • newton • watertown • arlington • belmont • lexington • metrowest • theather • casual chat • film • weekend • welcoming • connections • community • friendships

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About Our Community:
Friends Beyond Boston – Waltham Social (20s–40s) is a local community built around genuine connection, small events, and welcoming spaces where people can actually get to know each other.
We put a lot of care into creating a friendly, intentional environment, both at events and between them.
This is a community-led group. Members are welcome (never required) to host or co-host simple events with support, or help out behind the scenes, it’s how we keep things fun, varied, and shaped by the people who make this community special.
Learn more on our website: https://walthamsocial.com
Our coffee socials are one of our core recurring events and a great way to meet friendly, welcoming members.
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About this event:
RSVP here: <a href="https://www.heylo.com/invite/gzmmaCkVK" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.heylo.com/invite/tOXTa8vtE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://heylo.com/invite/oDwGv7ES" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">heylo.com/invite/oDwGv7ES</a>
Looking to meet new people over a great cup of coffee?Join us at Café on the Common in Waltham for a relaxed, conversational Coffee Social!
The café’s cozy atmosphere makes it a perfect spot to connect with others, unwind, and start your morning with community.We’ll get together for friendly conversation and a laid-back morning together. 
This event is great for anyone looking to meet like-minded people, whether you’re new to the area or just looking to expand your circle. It's a great one if you're looking to get to know the group also with a low key event.
☕ Please support the café by making a purchase, as we are using their space and their staff is awesome.
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⏰ Timing
The event is listed for one hour because that’s the time I can usually commit to as the host, but we almost always stay longer, myself included.Feel free to join a little later if needed and stay as long as you'd like to chat and connect.
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🚗 Parking
The Central Square Parking Deck (a 2-minute walk) is free on Sundays.
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⚠️ RSVP Policy (Please Read)
This is a private event for members of this Meetup/Heylo group who RSVP in advance.For safety and group flow, walk-ins and guests not on the RSVP list cannot join.We love meeting new people, just be sure to RSVP ahead of time so we know you’re coming!
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Puppet Show Picnic

Thursday, June 25, starting at 5:00 p.m.

Join us for this fantastic fun family event!

The Puppet Show Picnic will be held at the Gore Place Farm:249 Waltham St, Watertown, MA

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