We start our weekend on Friday, Jan. 13 because the fun, fact-filled and fantastic “Mother Goose is on the Loose” exhibit at the Healdsburg Museum is coming to a close. Learn more about childhood rhymes than you thought possible on this narrated tour; also included is the annual Holiday Toy Exhibit. Free at the Museum, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. through Sunday, Jan. 15.

Saturday & Sunday, Jan. 14-15: The Wine Road fires its opening salvo in the year’s tasting events with Winter Wineland. Some 140 wineries will participate, some with food, most featuring artists, all including our world-class local wines. Online sales have ended, but you can pick up a 2-day ticket at any one of the wineries on Saturday for $55 and get a logo wineglass good for tastes at all. One-day tickets for Sunday are $45. Be smart and get the 2-day ticket, plan your route carefully (and sensibly). More at wineroad.com

Also Saturday & Sunday: “Music for the Young at Heart” with the Philharmonia Healdsburg at the Raven Theater. Enjoy our local orchestral talent in a program of Prokofiev and Hayden. Featuring Joe Gellura, narrator and James Rodseth, trumpet, under the direction of Les Pfuzenreuter. Tickets are $25 general, $10 students.

Two shows are scheduled: Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2. Tickets and more information at this link.

Saturday, Jan. 14: The Healdsburg Peace Project has a memorial celebration for Bob Boardman, the charismatic co-founder of the movement. It’s 2 p.m., Saturday afternoon at the Alexander Valley Community Hall on 128 in Geyserville. Bring an appetizer to share, and your recollections about Boardman.

Also Saturday afternoon, concerned citizens may visit Windsor’s Round Table Pizza for a candidate’s round table (so to speak) with most of the 8 Democrats running for the newly-drawn 2^nd Congressional District (which includes nearly the entire north coast except Santa Rosa). The candidate’s forum runs from 2 to 5 in the afternoon at 8499 Old Redwood Hwy.  The event is sponsored by the Windsor Democratic Club, so the sole Republican candidate will not be present.

Sunday, Jan. 15 will find the Healdsburg Literary Guild meeting for their “third Sunday” reading at A Bean Affair. Novelist, poet and playwright David Beckman introduces his new poetry collection, Language Factory of the Mind.  Beckman is a member of the Londonberry poets, founding member of the RoadWriters, and a nominee for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. Reading (which includes open mic volunteers) starts at 2 p.m.