Scenes from Enfield’s Jack-o-Lantern Festival

The skies appeared a bit foreboding toward evening on Saturday, but fortunately for those gathered for Enfield’s 11th Annual Jack-o-Lantern Festival the event went off without a hitch.

The Town Green was alive with family-fun events, including games and arts and crafts, trick or treating, food stands, face painting, clowns, music, raffles and much more.

And then there were the pumpkins, hundreds of pumpkins.

Presented by Enfield Public Schools’ parent-teacher organizations, in conjunction with the town of Enfield and Partners In Education, students from all of Enfield’s schools were invited to bring as many pumpkins as they liked to illuminate the green for this annual tradition. The Enfield Street School took top honors as its members supplied the greatest number of pumpkins.

Although prior festivals boasted more than 1,000 pumpkins, this year's total of 558 is still impressive. Once lit, the glowing sea of pumpkins looked endless.

The Jack-O-Lantern Festival was sponsored by 360 Federal Credit Union, New England Bank, Riley’s School of Dance, Enfield Cultural Arts, Hallmark Cards, Somers Academy, Michael Grabon CPA and the Johnson Memorial Medical Center. In-kind sponsors included Home Depot, New England Communications, Jarmoc Farms, Rockville Bank, and USA Hauling and Recycling, as well as the Growth Company and A.W. Hastings.