Carve your pumpkin, sew your costume, gather your goody bag and head toward downtown Fayetteville for the Great Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, Oct. 27 at the Old Courthouse Square and the Stonewall Village complex.

Begin the weekend with the long-standing tradition of viewing the Main Street Pumpkin Walk on Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27. Groups and schools are invited to participate in the contest by lining the Courthouse Square sidewalks with their decorated pumpkins by 12 p.m. on Oct. 26.

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.

On Oct. 27 from 3 to 6 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. New Vision Community Church will provide free hayrides and boiled peanuts. Other food and music will be provided throughout the day. At 5 p.m., Main Street will host a children’s costume contest at the fountain in Stonewall Village.

The resurrection of the Great Georgia Ghosts Storytelling Tours at the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum will take place again on Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 28 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 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 770-719-4173.

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