Join The Great Pumpkin Illumination
Elizabeth and Lillian, daughters of Justin and Robin Geurin, are ready to carve their pumpkins for The Great Pumpkin Illumination October 30. Are you ready?
The Neolithic cave painter painted by the light of his torch. He told not only his story of the hunt; he told the story of his community. So too will the light of your pumpkin tell your story, and all the pumpkins together will tell the story of Water Valley.
Carve a pumpkin and bring it to the Pocket Park, on the corner of Main and Wagner Streets (between Rip it Up and the B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery), Friday, October 30, between 4 and 7 p.m. Battery-operated lights will be provided for each person.
At 7 p.m. spooky story-telling is scheduled followed by live music with local performers at 8 p.m.
Organizers urge participants to let your pumpkin reflect you. Carve faces, names, symbols, images, whatever you feel compelled to create, make it, and then bring it to the Pocket Park.
Imagine 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 or more individual glowing pumpkins all displayed together making one unique piece of art! The Great Pumpkin Illumination will not happen if you do not participate. Carve a pumpkin and be part of the show!
“Come on, Water Valley, let’s fill the Pocket Park with Pumpkin Art! Show us what you’ve got!” urged event coordinators Jamie and Linda Scott and Ramona Bernard.
The pumpkins will remain in the park Halloween night so everyone can admire what the community has created.
If you’d like to participate but you don’t have a pumpkin to carve (or if you’d like to donate pumpkins to this effort), please contact the Scotts at (713) 447-4364 or Bernard at (662) 473-9851.
