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This week's Free Trips include some healthy, out-of-doors, fall season field trips to many area Cider Mills. Take the family and check them out: Blake's in Armada, 784-5343; Clore's in Brighton, 227-4971; Diehl's in Holly, 634-8981; Foreman's Cider Barrel in Northville, 349-1256; Franklin's in Franklin, 626-2968; Historytown in Brighton, 546-5782; Huron Farms in Dexter, 426-3910; Hy's in Romeo, 798-8843; Keatington in Lake Orion, 391-2811; Paint Creek, between Rochester and Lake Orion, 651-8361; Parmenter's in Northville, 349-3181; Saline's in Saline, 429-9085; Sergeant's Fruit Farm in Rochester, 651 -3777; South Huron in New Boston, 753-9380; Torn Walker's in Fenton, 629-9079; Weirer's in Monroe, 241-2781; Wiard's in Ypsilanti, 482-7744; Yates' in Rochester, 651-8300.

You can also go for a nice stroll around the grounds of the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills or check out the beautiful Arboretum in Ann Arbor.

Then there are the Nature Centers and Trails at the Metroparks - Kensington, Stoney Creek and Oakwood - and Detroit's own Belle Isle offers tranquil surroundings all year round with the Conservatory, Great Lakes Museum, Aquarium, Giant Slide ($.15), pony rides ($.25), Children's Zoo ($.25), and the many playgrounds with slides, swings and merry-go-rounds.

In the world of Free Flicks this week we have a new series starting at the Downtown Library on Gratiot, with 2 pm matinees every Tuesday, beginning Oct. 5 with Animals of the South African Jungle and Hinduism: the Many Paths of God; there are Bicentennial Films shown at the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn, Fridays at 7 pm; on Oct. 5 & 6, The Wild Child will be shown at 8 pm and 1 pm (respectively) in K Bldg. at MCCC; the Royal Oak Sound Film Series continues on Thursdays with Farewell To Arms at 6:30 pm on Oct. 7, at the R.O. Public Library.

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra opens its 48th season of free concerts on Oct. 3 at 3:30 pm in the Power Center in Ann Arbor.

The Fisher YMCA (896-1800) is now offering several community interest workshops including Life Science Seminars, Christian Philosophy, Crime Prevention and Community Leadership. A lecture titled "Flight Into Egypt" is being held at the Art Institute on Oct. 1 at 1:30 pm, Gallery 229, with Ms. Kathleen Pyne discussing the 19th Century American paintings. On Oct. 3 there will be an Open House at the Center for Creative Studies from noon to 5 pm, with tours and demonstrations of all areas of art and design.

There continue to be many varied kinds of exhibits around town, including paintings by Sam Karres at the AAA Gallery on Grand River; Original Fine Arts/Crafts at Objects & Images on Fourth St. in Rochester; paintings, sculptures, jewelry and more at Objects Unlimited on Van Dyke & Jefferson; Ray Frost Fleming opens Oct. 5 at the Allen Rubiner Gallery in Royal Oak; wedding bands and water colors by the owners at the Muccioli Studio Gallery in Grosse Pointe; Neil Wallings' watercolors thru Oct. 2 and Arlene Voelker's acrylics beginning Oct. 8 at the Robert Thom Gallery in Birmingham.

See Detroit's first family of photography - The Clarks - at the Fisher Building Arcade thru Oct. 1 ; The Peaceable Kingdom continues at the Art Institute, along with Work In Progress: Part II which opens on the 8th; and Michigan And The World Of Work is at the Walter P. Ruether Library at WSU. Coming Oct. 10 to Lindsay's House of Minority Employees, downtown on Gratiot, will be a Cultural Awareness Program with Baby Boy Warren, poetry and raps, 6 pm-2 am.

Check out the Lou Gordon Show on Oct. 2 and you'll see "The Bird" flying in to chat at 10 pm...on Channel 50,WKBD-TV.