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Annual Pumpkin Walk

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Hardwick Elementary 6th graders Kevin Hayden (left) and Colton Daigneault carve pumpkins for the Hardwick Trails pumpkin walk held October 5, which featured almost 400 pumpkins carved by the kindergarten through sixth grade students.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Hardwick Elementary first graders from left include Ainsley LaRose, Jakobi Perry, Rowan Vincent and Igneous Paquin, hold pumpkins they just carved during art class with teacher Beth LeCours last week. Their pumpkins, along with roughly 350 more that grades K-6 carved, were placed along Hardwick Trails for their annual pumpkin walk, on October 5.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Pumpkin Walk visitors form West Woodbury, (from left) Kevin and his daughter Georgia Burke, with her carved pumpkin, are leaving with mom Toni Welllinghausen.
photo by Paul Fixx
Juniper Knapp stands in front of her mother Miranda, holding the pumpkin she carved in art class last week, before a two-day vacation, extending the weekend of the Hardwick Trails Pumpkin Walk Sunday, to four days.
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At Hardwick’s Pumpkin Walk Sunday, volunteers at the refreshment table are (from left) Wayne Renaud, Norma Spaulding serving apple cider and Lynn Angebrandt prepares donuts made by the Buffalo Mountain Market as Terry Tuthill passes them to waiting visitors.
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At the Hardwick Trails Pumpkin Walk, October 6, (from left) Deb Robarge stands with her son Ashton Chambers and daughter Myah Chambers, who has found the pumpkin she carved in Beth LeCours’ art class the week before.
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Lesa Cathcart has donned her traditional witch outfit for the Pumpkin Walk as she read no-so-scary stories to children and adults. Cathcart sat in the middle of the fire pit lit by an electric lantern this year because the drought prevented lit fires and candles.
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Children at the Pumpkin Walk leave the refreshment table to visit with parents, friends and neighbors Sunday at the Hardwick Trails.
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Dressed as a wizard, Hardwick Trails Committee member Helen Beattie stands at the entrance to the pumpkin walk, Sunday welcoming visitors next to Hazen Union Middle and High School Art Teacher James Lockhart’s now traditional, intricately carved pumpkin. Because of the drought electric lights illuminated all the pumpkins.
photo by Paul Fixx
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Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.

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