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Get the best reachGet at the be DRIVE-THROUGH PUMPKIN CARVE: The Amazing Pumpkin Carve will be viewed from vehicles this year, but the Hopewell Valley Arts Council is confident that the October 7-11 event at Woolsey Park will be as engaging as in previous years. (Photo by Michael Davies)
Annual Hopewell Pumpkin Carve Will Be a Drive-Through Event
For the Hopewell Valley Arts Council (HVAC), turning the Amazing Pumpkin Carve into a drive-through event was a challenge that had to be met. Now in its sixth year, the annual celebr at ion of ar t, m u s ic, food, dance, and all things Halloween, held at Wool-
sey Park in Titusville, has become the organization’s major fundraiser. Thanks to social distancing restrictions of the pandemic, holding the event in the usual manner was not a possibility this year. “It was a festival, where you’d come in, walk around, listen to live music, have food — more like coming to a fair,” said Carol Lipson, HVAC executive director. “We couldn’t do that. So we had to get creative. That’s how we got the idea for making the festival a drive-through event.”
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are just creative people. Every year, most of the same people come back. But we keep a certain number of spots for new people.” The 40 in this year’s competition will spend all day Wednesday, October 7, hard at work in their tents. “It’s so interesting to watch them,” said Lipson. “They put on their headsets and do their thing. They really don’t want us to bother them.” The festival begins October 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. On Thursday and Friday, October 8 and 9, viewing hours are 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11, hours are 3 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 per vehicle with
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From October 7 to 11, viewers will be able to cruise through the park in their cars. As in previous years, 40 pumpkins will be carved and electrified by local art BE SURE TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS! ists and displayed in illu minated tents. Participants 4 will drive up and receive an event program, listen to live or DJ’d music, and take Town Topics is the only weekly paper that reaches EVERY HOME IN PRINCETON, Town Topics making is theitonly a tremendously weekly papervaluable that pro quick, socially distanced reach photo ops. Visitors will re toWn toPIcs neWsPaPeR • 4438 Route 27 noRth • KInGston,toWn nJ 08528 toPIcs • tel: neWsPaPeR 609.924.2200 • 4438 • Fax: 609.9 2 ceive a free mini-pumpkin Route Princeton: 15427 Nassau Street (609) NJ 924-1353 while supplies last, and pop4438 Route North, Kingston, 08528-0125 corn and cider will be availWest Windsor: 64 Princeton-Hightstown Road (609) 799-0688 609-924-5400 able for purchase. Ewing: 938 Bear Tavern Road (609) 493-4495 “We’ll have music piped Robbinsville: 19 Main Street (609) 772-4755 into cars while people are Kingston: 4581 Route 27 (609) 921-2778 waiting in line to get in,” said Lipson. “We’ll also have live music Friday and Saturday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. On Sunday all day, a DJ has volunteered to be here.” The oversized pumpkins Princeton: 354 Nassau Street (609) 683-9700 the artists carve are from Lancaster, Pa. “They are huge,” said Lipson, “about three feet tall and three feet wide. It was a really good year for pumpkins, for some reason, and there was a Crosswicks: 2 Crosswicks Chesterfield Road (609) 291-5525 bumper crop.” Pennington: 7 Tree Farm Road (609) 303-0625 Participating artists were asked to consider decorating not just the pumpkins, but their individual tents. The pumpkins are mounted on hay bales, so all will be visible from the vehicles. Several corporations and Princeton: 3524 Route 1 North (609) 642-4770 individual sponsors have Lambertville: 13 Klines Court (609) 773-0072 help finance this year’s festival. As soon as word got out about the drive-through event, tickets started to sell. “The community is amazing,” said Lipson. “And the artists, too — we have a waiting list of carvers. So getforky.com many want to take part. Half professional artists, and half
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