Carve your pumpkin, sew your costume, gather your goody bag and head toward downtown Fayetteville for the Great Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, Oct. 28 at the Old Courthouse Square and the Stonewall Village complex.

Begin the weekend with the long-standing tradition of the Main Street Pumpkin Walk on Fri., Oct. 27 and Sat., Oct. 28. Groups and schools are invited to participate in the contest by lining the Courthouse Square sidewalks with their decorated pumpkins by 12:00 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 27.

The group or school with the most pumpkins will receive cash prizes including $300 for first place, $150 for second and $75 for third. Also, individual pumpkins will be judged and receive ribbons in the following categories: Best All Around, Most Creative, Funniest and Scariest.

In conjunction with the Pumpkin Walk, expanded festivities on Sat., Oct. 28, include a costume contest for kids and pets, carnival games, pony rides, a bake sale, hayride, haunted house, moonwalk, a photographer, a caricature artist, face painting, GA/FL game tent and live entertainment from 2 to 9 p.m. at Stonewall Village. Proceeds from these events will benefit The Fayette Family YMCA, Fayette Youth Protection Homes, The Joseph Sams School and Fayetteville Main Street.

From 2 to 7 p.m. children, along with their families, are invited to Trick-or-Treat on Main Street around the Courthouse Square businesses and to the different business vendors around the gazebo. Main Street will provide the bags at the fountain in Stonewall Village. Oktoberfest food and music also will be available during this time. At 5 p.m., the YMCA will host a pet costume contest and at 6 p.m., Main Street will host a children’s costume contest at the fountain in Stonewall Village.

Also returning this year is the Run and Tot Trot 5K at the Villages Amphitheater from 5to 7 p.m. Race and event sponsor information is available by calling Pam Young, Fayette YMCA at 770-719-9622, Becky Davenport, Fayette Youth Protection Home at 770-461-7020 or Ashley Sams, The Joseph Sams School at 770-461-5894.

New this year is the resurrection of the Great Georgia Ghosts Storytelling Tours at the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum on Fri., Oct. 28 and Sat., Oct. 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Professional storytellers will recount true ghost tales every half hour to appropriate age groups. Meet real live ghost hunters from the West Georgia Paranormal Research Society as they share their results from studying the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum and see a recent photograph of a captured spirit. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under.

For information on the Pumpkin Walk or Trick-or-Treat on Main Street and vendor participation around the Square, call Main Street at 770-719-4174.

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