Nauvoo's Halloween Pumpkin Walk is the biggest event in town next to the Pageant and the Grape Festival. People from all the surrounding communities come for the event. With the help of the community and the missionaries 400 pumpkins are carved and placed along the sidewalks of Nauvoo's main street. Each one has a candle and is lit just before dark. They have games for the kids, food sold by various organizations and several baked food sales along the side walks. It was a lot of fun to be a part of it. Glenn and I carved pumpkins two afternoons. They had us in a large warehouse. One table for tracing the patterns, a table for those scooping out the insides of the pumpkins and then several tables for those carving.
Certainly a Halloween we will remember!!
Glenn's work of art!
Four hundred carved pumpkins were set out along the sidewalks of Mulholland St, the main street of Nauvoo.
These are some of the pumpkins that were being auctioned off. Quite the intricate carvings!
People lining the street for the parade that lasted about 5 minutes! The parade consisted of local people dressed in Halloween costumes, a couple of horse drawn wagons carrying people playing various instruments - not really a band - and that was it! People come to Nauvoo to see the pumpkins, not the parade!!
3 comments:
wow those are some great pumpkins!
Puts my snaggle-toothed smiley-faced pumpkins to shame! You look cold in the last picture! What a great community activity!
Wow - and I thought carving 5 pumpkins with the kids this year was a lot of work!!
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