October 8, 2022

ACTIVITIES

Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets. It’s going to be very chilly, so dress warmly!

Pumpkin Palooza Event Schedule

Costume Contest   Obstacle Course   Apple Launching & Pumpkin Chucking   

Witch Rides & Scarecrow Run   Kids Games   New Galilee Community Games & Prizes   Drone Flying   Food by Little Beaver Lions Club

1pm – Registration & Pumpkin Races

1:30pm – Ages 3-4-5 Race

2:00pm – Ages 6-7-8 Race

2:30pm – Ages 9-10-11 Race

3:00pm – Ages 12-13-14 Race

4:00pm – 3rd Place Runoff

4:15pm – 2nd Place Run Off

4:40pm – 1st Place Runoff

5:00pm – Everything Goes Run Off 

5:30pm – Awards for races/costumes/obstacle course

6:00pm Kids Movies in the Tent

Pig Lady Fall Folklore Festival

7:00pm – 8:00pm
Local Tales & Storytelling with Tony Lavorgne

The importance of folklore in our lives. The Tale of Barbara Davidson (origin of the the Pig Lady legend). The story of William Pitt’s historic witch trial. 

8:00pm – 9:00pm
Professor Thomas White

A fascinating conversation about “folk magic” in early Western Pennsylvania, hexing, and many other stories from  features from The Witch of the Monongahela. 

9:00pm
Community Movie: Hex Hollow: Witchcraft and Murder in Pennsylvania

A documentary film investigating the 1928 murder of a Pennsylvania farmer and the allegations of witchcraft that shocked the nation.