The Boothe Park Commission and the Town of Stratford are hosting the annual Great Pumpkin Festival featuring the Great Pumpkin Carving contest! Watch as carvers sculpt 100 lb. pumpkins into works of art for cash prizes.
The festival is a wonderful family-oriented event. It will include a children's costume parade (3:00 sharp) with prizes, DJ music, games, crafts, face painting, refreshments, blacksmith demonstrations, 2 Moonbounces, horse-drawn hayrides, and showcase the various historic buildings at the park, including tours of the Model Train Museum and Observatory. Bunnell High School STAGE theater group will perform skits and costumed actors from the Players at Putney Gardens will be strolling the grounds.
