“KEENE” Eyesight and a Toothy Grin…

Every year the town of Keene New Hampshire closes its’ streets to make way for the annual Pumpkin Festival.  This fall classic event has been running for twenty-two years and has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records eight times.  As you make your way down the pumpkin-lined streets, your senses will go into Halloween OVERLOAD just trying to take in the thousands and thousands of carved and decorated jack-o-lanterns.   The smells and tastes of fall treats like pumpkin pie and apple cider are everywhere and music fills the air.  The festival currently holds the record for “The most lit jack-o’-lanterns on display (30,581)–October 19, 2013.”

I have attended the pumpkin festival five times and it is one of my favorite things to do!  My family and I are actually part of a Guinness Book of World Records record!! Every time we have gone to the “Pumpkin Fest” we have brought several carved pumpkins.  We have contributed the Grim Reaper, Indiana Jones stealing the jewel, regular jack-o-lanterns, a witch and many others.  Some of the most memorable jack-o-lanterns I have seen at the festival include a very intricately carved spider web, a pumpkin snowman made from three different sized pumpkins, and a really cool vampire!  If you want to see lots of amazing jack-o-lanters and possibly contribute to a new world record, try the Pumpkin Festival in Keene, New Hampshire.

~Ethan

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