Last weekend, a nor'easter took the whole calendar down with it: festivals postponed, a car show pushed, a music festival chased out of downtown. This weekend is the makeup date, and the forecast is cooperating where it counts. Saturday is the day to build around, mostly sunny and near 70 after a Friday that may open wet, with Sunday holding on until a chance of light rain arrives late. Here are six things worth the drive, most of them stacked on Saturday.

The jack o'lanterns rise again in Wheatley Heights

RISE of the Jack O'Lanterns opens its 13th season Friday night, October 2, at the Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts on Colonial Springs Road, and runs 21 select nights through November 1. It is a nighttime walking trail through the woods lined with hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins by the thousand, including the sculpted showpieces that take a carver all week. It is the single most reliable gasp-per-dollar Halloween event on the Island, and opening weekend is the one with the freshest pumpkins. Tickets are timed entry and sold in advance at jackolanterns.com, and the good Saturday slots go first.

An 1800s village throws its first Oktoberfest

Old Bethpage Village Restoration has hosted county fairs, Civil War encampments and candlelight Christmases, but it has never done this: the First Annual Oktoberfest at the Barn runs Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with German-American harvest traditions, food, music and family programming set against the restored 19th-century village. Beer in a historic barnyard beats beer in a parking lot every time. If you want the louder, brassier version, Plattduetsche Park in Franklin Square has live German bands Friday and Saturday, and Seaford runs its own street Oktoberfest on Washington Avenue Saturday.

The Island's biggest car show gets its beach day back

The nor'easter pushed the TOBAY Fall Classic a week, and the reschedule may have done it a favor: Saturday now looks like the better beach day. Long Island's largest car show runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at TOBAY Beach on Ocean Parkway, spectators walk in free, and with beach season over there is no resident sticker standing between you and the sand. The field runs from pre-war iron to tuner builds, with the Atlantic as the backdrop.

Diwali fireworks over Overlook Beach

The Association of Indians in America's New York chapter holds its 39th annual Deepavali Festival Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. at Overlook Beach in Babylon, and there are very few places anywhere that celebrate the festival of lights on an ocean beach. Entry is free, and the day runs from music, dance and food stalls in the afternoon to the finale the date exists for: fireworks over the ocean after dark. You do not need any connection to the holiday to go, and the organizers would rather you came.

Free music all day in Sag Harbor, one park, two days

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival got rearranged by the same storm, and the new shape is arguably better for a visitor: instead of chasing pop-up stages around the village, the whole free festival now runs Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., in one place, Mashashimuet Park on Main Street. The lineup hops from jazz to blues to folk to Latin to rock, all original, all free. Bring a chair, pick a lawn spot and let the East End do its October thing around you.

Isabella Rossellini, in person, in Patchogue

The Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center on Terry Street has the weekend's one genuinely starry room: Rossellini on Rossellini, Saturday starting at 1 p.m., with Isabella Rossellini presenting three of her father Roberto's films for the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi. The day closes with Europe '51 at 7:30 p.m. and a discussion hosted by Rossellini herself, a longtime supporter of the Plaza who lives on Long Island herself. The full day is $35, the matinee alone is $15, and a seat at a conversation like this usually involves a train into Manhattan.

If Sunday is your only day

Sunday's slate is smaller but real: the Massapequa Park Village Street Fair takes over Park Boulevard, Sea Cliff runs its Mini Mart along Sea Cliff Avenue, and Ann Wilson of Heart sings at the Patchogue Theatre that night. Watch the sky after mid-afternoon, and get the outdoor stops in early.