We look forward to next year’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular! Nothing tops being able to easily drive over to the Minnesota Zoo and wander through a maze of glowing pumpkins. Comedy Gaming Food Dance Beauty Animals Sports. Log in to follow creators, like videos, and view comments. Watch a sneak peek of the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular and all the glowing pumpkins we saw! And check out a few photos we took, too.Īt The Pillars of Prospect Park, we love being located so close to the surrounding Twin Cities metro and all the magical events they offer. TikTok video from user7445920379451 (maglvsracing): 'Jack O’Lantern spectacular Louisville 2021'. The Minnesota Zoo did such a great job showcasing nature as incredible and sometimes spooky pieces of art. We saw thousands of glowing carved pumpkins each with unique faces and designs. As they say, it’s the most magical experience! Presented by Citizens, this years spectacular takes you from Joplin to Jay-Z, as we celebrate the greatest music from the last 150. Its music to our ears as the nationally acclaimed walk-through Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at Roger Williams Park Zoo is back and better than ever.
This is the third year that they’ve hosted the limited-time Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular. Returns September 29 - OctoStay-tuned for more details. Ĭorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of people who attended last year’s event.In October, we traveled to the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley outside the Twin Cities to visit their special fall event. Celebrate Special Places while staying safe inside your car enjoying thousands. More information and tickets are on the event website here. Citizens presents a drive-through Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at Roger Williams Park Zoo October 1 November 1, 2020. There will also be a special night on November 2 designed for people with autism spectrum disorders and sensory processing differences. Tickets start at $14 for adults and $10 for children. Louisville’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular starts Tuesday and lasts through November 3. “You cherish those times like, ‘God, I used to get so mad at my dad when he would do it.’ I would give anything to have him do it one more time.”Īnd someday, maybe his kids will hassle him for talking about pumpkins on Christmas.
“Isn’t that amazing, how it is a cycle? History repeats itself,” Reckner said. Until then, Reckner plans to focus on each event and to carve pumpkins in his spare time like his dad does. Reckner now has four kids who he hopes will carve pumpkins with their grandpa someday. This event is held annually at Iroquois Park. “Then before long it went to a couple of thousand pumpkins for a week.”Īrtist carves for Louisville’s 7th Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular In this video we traveled back to Louisville, KY for the Jack O’Lantern Spectacular. Then a couple hundred pumpkins turned into 500, and one night turned into two nights,” Reckner said. “The carving would get more elaborate and we would add more pumpkins. When other cities noticed and asked the family to bring the fundraiser to them, their business grew. “‘We can turn it into a fundraiser for the school system.’”īack then, Reckner said his friends and family would work 120 hours a week carving pumpkins and organizing similar fundraisers in Oxford. “My dad was like, ‘God, we should do something like this in Oxford,’” Reckner said. Our method of producing intricate jackolantern carvings is a. The Jackolantern Spectacular is at the forefront of pumpkin art for the fall season. Begun as a small family run event used to raise funds for the Oxford School department in Massachusetts, the founders of the Jackolantern Spectacular. On a family trip to Vermont when Reckner was 15, the family found a local farm was using a jack-o’-lantern display to raise money. 1080 Amphitheater Rd Louisville, KY 40214. He said his dad even talks about pumpkins during Christmas. Reckner said his dad is obsessed with pumpkins, and would spend days vacationing from his job as a mailman to carve them. If you ask him how the family’s modest fundraiser expanded to three events that involve more than 15,000 pumpkins in total, he will tell you about a trip to Vermont. Reckner has carved pumpkins since his family’s first jack-o’-lantern fundraiser in 1988. Reckner, a 47-year-old Oxford, Massachusetts native, is the co-founder of what’s now a company that produces jack-o’-lantern fundraisers in three states - including the Jack-O’-Lantern Spectacular that kicks off in Louisville’s Iroquois Park on Tuesday. Travis Reckner loves to talk about pumpkins, and even dreams about them.
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