1/10/2024 0 Comments Jacko lantern festival![]() ![]() ![]() What's the most memorable reaction a visitor has had? We have folks who visit from all 50 states and other countries. In terms of execution, dealing with the weather is a huge challenge as we are entirely outdoors. We spend all year planning it, along with all the other work we do (we’re a non-profit educational organization). What's the biggest challenge involved in producing Blaze? This is a huge undertaking for Historic Hudson Valley. I think our creative director did a fantastic job on those though. Whose idea was it to carve the guys in Phish onto the pumpkins? Why? And how hard is that? Good eye! Phish collaborator Steve Pollak is a friend of Historic Hudson Valley, my organization that creates the Blaze, and we’re trying to get the full band to visit! Carving a portrait like that using the scraping method is very difficult because you can’t always capture the subtlety in a face like you can in more traditional mediums. But, we are good through the end of the run! Because of the weather, the pumpkins aren’t lasting as long and we’ve needed to scramble with our supplier to make sure we have enough to get us through. We have a bit of a military operation in place where we scoop on certain days, carve on others, and we are continuously replenishing throughout the event run. Heat is not a good thing for pumpkins, so they are not lasting as long as they usually do. Has the unseasonably warm weather been a challenge? Visitors love it. How much does it cost, approximately, for all the pumpkins? A lot! Okay be honest, how many pumpkins does it take to produce this? Believe it or not, we go through more than 200,000 pounds of pumpkin for the full run. Below, Rob Schweitzer, of the Historic Hudson Valley education organization, answers some of our questions about the production. (It's a little under an hour away from NYC via Metro North train to the Croton-Harmon stop.) Enjoy Tod Seelie's photos of this year's Blaze above. It's quite a spectacle, and this year Blaze will stay lit through much of November, which is a good thing if you missed it, because tickets are sold out through the end of this month. Now in its 13th year, Blaze is the big crowd-pleasing event for Van Cortlandt Manor, a historic estate where visitors can "experience the domestic life of a patriot family living in the years just after the American Revolution." And, every autumn around Halloween, visitors can also experience a truly extraordinary Halloween display, comprised of thousands and thousands of meticulously carved and arranged Jack O'Lanterns. Light 'em up, Jack-O, it's decorative gourd season, and Blaze is leaving everything on the field, burned and rotting and Instagrammed all to hell. Up in Cro TON-on-Hud SON, 10,000 Jack O'Lanterns is just what they call a regular weeknight. Oh, you think these are too many Jack O'Lanterns? Yeah, maybe for the amateurs living their quiet cuck lives down in Sleepytown, NYC, where it's lights out at 11. The annual Halloween Jack O'Lantern festival up in Westchester has everything under control. Wait, 100?! Say, don't you live in a one-bedroom apartment? OH GOD OVER 100 JACK O'LANTERNS?! Isn't anyone gonna call the cops? And damn, once you get into the thousands, you really have to start asking yourself, 'do I have a problem?'īlaze does not have a problem. Two dozen carved up pumpkins is impressive. Mark your calendar for this fun event you don’t want to miss! The event will be rain or shine until it doesn’t make sense…NOTE: The Trail is a separate event from our daytime petting farm and requires a separate, new admission to enter.A dozen Jack O'Lanterns is cool. Feel free to stay after the Trail ends to enjoy our bonfires (and our s’mores) until 10:00 p.m. Parents: Please limit your child’s trick or treating to once per night to allow every child to get some candy. Hayrides and Trail with trick or treating are 7 to 9:00 p.m. Wear a costume, bring your trick or treat bag! Available for purchase will be nighttime hayrides ($3), food, s’mores, pumpkin flashlights ($3), small Trick Or Treat bags ($1), glow necklaces ($1) and more! We will also have vendors in the Stables offering a variety of items to purchase. ![]() The price of admission is $14.00, credit only, ages 2 to 82 and includes our walking trail of lights, jack-o-lanterns of all shapes and sizes, trick or treating, fire pits, fun farm show and our Animal Barn (open 6 to 9:00 p.m.) to see your furry friends. Looking for something fun to do with the kids that won’t scare them and is appropriate for any age? Green Meadows Farm is the place for you! Come join us for our annual Trail of Jack-O-Lanterns. $14.00 (CREDIT) General Admission – NO CASH ACCEPTED ![]()
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