Newtown Pumpkin Festival

Newtown Pumpkin Festival Promises to Bring Halloween Back to Newtown!

NEWTOWN, CT – A Bead of Roses is pleased to announce the

first annual Newtown Pumpkin Festival.  Through

a collaborative effort between A Bead of Roses, Newtown Kindness, Newtown Youth

Academy, and many other Newtown non-profit groups and local businesses,

Halloween is returning to Connecticut this year!  Two years of storms have forced the

cancellation of trick-or-treating and many festivals, but this year will be

different, promises Lisa Rose, founder and managing partner of A Bead of Roses bead

and jewelry shop.

The mission of the festival is “To bring Halloween back to

Newtown in a magical way, focusing the community on a shared event that

benefits causes close to the hearts and minds of the people of Newtown.”  Based on the hugely successful pumpkin

carving event in Keene, NH, the October 12th festival celebrates the

luminous beauty of thousands of glowing pumpkins, all carved with love by

community members.  The event will run

from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m., with pumpkin drop-off available throughout the

day.  Pumpkins will be carved at home and

will be displayed and lit at dusk, while families celebrate the season with

food vendors, craft vendors, games, and music throughout the day and evening.

There is an entrance fee of $25 per passenger vehicle to

attend.  This all-inclusive ticket fee

covers event entrance for everyone in your passenger vehicle (maximum of 8),

allows you to bring in as many pumpkins as you have carved at home, and

includes parking and shuttle service from your assigned off-site locations to

Fairfield Hills.  You must register online

at www.newtownpumpkinfestival.com,

and when you register you will receive an assigned parking location and pass so

that you can safely shuttle to the festival at Fairfield Hills.  Prizes will be awarded for most creative

pumpkins.  If you cannot attend the event

in person you can adopt a pumpkin online for a fee of $22 and it will be carved

by the Newtown Pumpkin Festival committee and lit at 6 pm with all of the other

pumpkins.  

Corporate sponsorships are helping to defray the cost of

safety, security, and sanitation, which will allow the donations to benefit the

many non-profits who are helping to run the event.  Newtown Kindness, The Avielle Foundation, The

Chase Kowalski Fund, and Ben’s Lighthouse Fund are just some of the foundations

who will benefit from this event.  In

addition, the festival is a great gathering for good old-fashioned autumn

family fun.

Visit www.newtownpumpkinfestival.com

for more information and to register!

Find us on Facebook at Newtown Pumpkin Festival.