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Venture Out

Revisit your younger days when you hopped in the car, started the engine and drove off in search of something fun. The Sunday Patch Passport maps out where you can go on a 15-, 30- or 60-minute drive from your home. You won't want to miss these unique sto

15 Minutes: Powisset Farm, located at 37 Powisset St., Dover, MA

Powisset Farm has a little something for everybody. They have a farm stand every Tuesday from 1:30pm to 6:30pm from June to October where you can get a variety of fruits and vegetables among other locally grown foods. On Saturday kids and adults can have the opportunity to be farmers themselves with Powisset's Friends in the Fields program from 1:30pm to 5pm. Learn some tips from the people at the farm and help plant and pick right in the fields. There is also a 1-mile loop trail that goes around the farm for those who want to get out and enjoy the outdoors.

For more information call 508-785-0339 or go to www.thetrustees.org/powissetfarm.

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30 Minutes: Just 30 minutes from Wrentham, McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, RI offers an inexpensive alternative to Fenway Park for families and baseball fans. Tickets for the games range from $5 for seniors and children, to $11 for box seats. General admission tickets cost $7.

If you get hungry at the game the stadium has a variety of foods to choose from including the traditional ballpark staples of hot dogs, peanuts and beer to more local favorites like doughboys and Del’s Frozen Lemonade.

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The atmosphere is family friendly at McCoy with the team's polar bear mascot Paws around to entertain and take photos with young fans. The ballpark also features an iParty Kids Zone with pitching and batting games for kids to play.

The stadium DJ seems to know what kids really like as the crowd of fans often sing along to the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song when it is blasted over the loudspeakers.

Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You” and Justin Bieber’s “Baby” are also popular choices for sing alongs amount the crowd.

The true baseball fans that make the trip will enjoy the cozy confines of the 10,000 seat park, which allow each seat to be relatively close and provide a solid view to the on field action.

60 Minutes: There’s a block party on Cape Cod, about an hour away from Wrentham, soon.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s watershed block party is the research and education facility’s biggest program, held Tuesday, Aug. 2 this year, event and volunteer coordinator Laurie Tompkins says.

“We invite all of our watershed neighbors to come and exhibit,” she says, and there are hands-on activities, as well as “free ice cream and watermelon supplied by local vendors.”

The Waquoit Bay Reserve is among 28 research and education facilities nationwide, she says.

The facility hosts a number of summer, kid friendly events, she says, including a Junior Ranger program for ages 8 and up


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