An illuminating evening, with pumpkins as the stars, in Morristown

Scarlett, 6, of Morristown strikes a pose with her pumpkin, at Pumpkin Illumination 2024. Photo by Jeff Sovelove
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By Jeff Sovelove

If there was a theme to the 15th annual Morristown Pumpkin Illumination it would have to be imagination.

Sponsored by Morris Arts, the event featured carved pumpkins of every description, as well as kids and their parents decked out in their scariest Halloween duds. The Alex De Lazzari Quartet provided musical accompaniment for the huge crowd that turned out for this family fun near the Vail Mansion reflecting pool.

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The evening started with Kit’s Interactive Theater, where kids and adults got to be part of the story of the Headless Horseman, with a special graveyard dance to chase the bats away.  It must have worked since no bats were in evidence afterward.

Arts and crafts, including coloring a scarecrow and painting masks, were available for the younger set. Then everyone turned their pumpkins toward the pool, to display their true inventiveness.

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There were scary pumpkins, happy pumpkins, cannibal pumpkins, even a fish tank diorama pumpkin.  Participants didn’t disappoint with their Halloween costumes, either, in a luminary parade led by the Quartet and Morristown Mayor Tim Dougherty.

Happy Halloween!

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