After an already busy few months, Greenfield is gearing up for another big event, the Oak Park Pumpkin Fest, Saturday, Oct. 22, from 4 to 8 p.m. (Rain date is Oct. 29.) This is a community- and family oriented event, with crafts, pumpkin-carving, a costume contest, a juggling display, food and drinks by Oak Park Committee for sale, and the wildly popular trunk or treat!
The costume contest starts at 4:45 p.m., and the trunk or treat starts at 5 pm. The Oak Park Committee is currently looking for more people to sign up for trunk or treat, since last year, so many people came to Pumpkin Fest that the trunks ran out of treats. Volunteers are invited to decorate their trunks and sign up for a certain treat. To sign up, please go to signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4aa8af2da6fe3-pumpkinfest, or check the community or Oak Park Committee Facebook pages for more information.
Holiday Tree Festival – The Friends of the Greenfield Meetinghouse are hosting the Holiday Tree Festival in the Meetinghouse from 2 to 4 p.m. on Dec. 3, before the Fire and Ice Parade. Last year, when the Fire and Ice Committee asked the Friends of the Meetinghouse if we would like to host an event during Fire and Ice, we immediately thought of a tree festival.
I always loved the Peterborough Holiday Tree Festival, so I contacted Lauren Martin from the Peterborough Recreation Department, who graciously shared the guidelines for their festival. People in Greenfield loved the idea!
Our very first tree festival had everything, from a very artistic bare-branch “Charlie Brown” tree to a ConVal-themed tree with pencils and crayons, and from the gorgeous first-place-winning “Under the Sea” tree to the food-themed Delay’s Harvester Market tree, which the Delay’s staff wheeled over in a shopping cart.
Our police department wrapped a tree in crime tape; we had an adorable package label tree from the post office, and Barbara C. Harris Center brought a summer-camp-themed tree. The festival was a delightful representation of our town, and we are hoping for even more this year. Please send email to greenfieldmeetinghouse@gmail.com if you would like to enter a tree (artificial trees only inside the building).
We are also hoping to organize a Cookie Walk during the event, so stay tuned.
Finally, another reminder about Fire and Ice on Dec., 3 – please register your floats by emailing gfdnhfireandice@gmail.com.
Town news – Being involved in different town events, I often hear people say “I didn’t know about this event/meeting/festival.” Getting the word out to everyone is a constant challenge for the different groups in town. If you live in Greenfield, or you’re new to town, be sure to go to the Town of Greenfield website, greenfield-nh.gov, and sign up for all-town emails. They don’t send very many, and it’s only for all-community events or town news.
The Greenfield Spirit, our excellent town newsletter edited by Karen Day, has information about pretty much everything that happens in Greenfield. (I’m not saying it’s true, but word around town is there is a high correlation between “People who never read the Spirit” and “People who call the Town Offices/Police Department/post office/library with questions.” It’s just what I’ve heard. ) The Greenfield NH Community Facebook page is also a good source of news, and people really do make an effort to be civil and kind; the moderators do a great job keeping an eye on it.
Please write me with ideas or Greenfield events at jesstimm17@gmail.com.