GREAT PUMPKINFEST 2010
The City of Highwood, IL is ready to make pumpkin carving history, as host of the Great Pumpkin Fest of 2010. The four-day festival will bring people from all over together as they attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Record for the most jack-o-lanterns lit in one location. Plans call for 32,000 pumpkins to light up Highwood on Saturday October 23rd to break the current world’s record set in 2006 of 30,128 pumpkins in Boston, MA.
Great Pumpkin Fest 2009
Each day of the festival will include the Highwood Evening Gourmet Farmers Market at City Hall Park (17 Highwood Ave), vendors galore, live music on multiple stages, hay rides, a haunted house, pumpkin carving stations, massive pumpkin displays, lighting of the towers, and much more!
•Wednesday October 20th – 5pm pumpkin pie baking and eating contests at City Hall Park, 6pm kicks off the lighting of the first pumpkin wall of the fest.
•Thursday, October 21st, 4-7pm Pumpkin Dinner and BBQ at Scouts Park benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project(www.woundedwarriorproject.org). Military and wounded warriors eat for free. There will be a Pumpkin Catapult, live music, and pumpkin carving.
•Friday, October 22nd, 3pm-8pm- Carving Night, get your carve on all night! 3-6pm Trick-or-Treating throughout the business district, specials at designated restaurants, taverns, and businesses throughout Highwood, 6:30pm Thriller Dance at City Hall Park.
•Saturday, October 23, 9am-8pm – 9 am Midtown/Athletico Pumpkin Run, 11 am Pumpkin Regatta featuring giant pumpkin flotillas on Lake Michigan, 2-4pm Dress Your Pet Halloween Costume Contest at School of Rock Park, and from 4-5:30pm The Great Costume Parade starting from the School of Rock Park. From noon-8 pm a day full of pumpkin carving and counting, food, children’s entertainment, live music,and haunted house hay rides, etc. The festivities culminate at 6:30pm with the lighting and grand display to break the Guinness Book of World’s Record for the most jack-o-lanterns. At 8:00 pm we will announce the record totals!
Anyone looking for Halloween fun, click on the link for full details http://www.celebratehighwood.com/
Ciao -
Lupe
The Elaborate life-sized, Disney-quality animatronics Halloween show called The Jefferson Graveyard Show started 12 years ago in Naperville, Illinois and quickly became a favorite Chicagoland Halloween tradition with families. The show has been featured on local news channels ABC, CBS, NBC, WGN, and CLTV.
Ten animatronics ghouls come to life to tell and sing a chilling 10-minute Halloween story set in an eerie graveyard, which includes sound, music, lighting effects, and smoke. Robert Veach’s home behind the graveyard is haunted and has various ghosts and ghouls to entertain between shows.
This show has been a family Halloween tradition for many years and this is the second time it will be shown in Yorkville, Illinois, 45 miles SW of Chicago.
The Jefferson Graveyard Show
http://JeffersonGraveyard.com
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