Most of you hear me talk about my little town enough… but another thing I dig about Franklin, TN is this day we call PumpkinFest. It’s the last Saturday of Oct. every year. Main Street is closed for the entire day into the evening. It was a perfect fall day.

TPC has the privilege of hosting the entire children’s street. This amazing lady named Dana Carter organizes this day, and a TON of helpers go into the set up, running, and tear down of that street. 

It’s one of the most practical things we are blessed to be a small part of in our historic community. 

Here are some random facts from this Saturday’s event…

There were-

  • Around 400 volunteers, many worked  all day!  
  • more then 2 cones of cotton candy served per minute of the day, around 750  
  • more then 50 paper boxes FULL of candy, all candy  given out by end of the day, donated candy from tpc members lasted exactly until 3, only one bag of dum dum suckers left   
  • more than 1000 hot dogs and hamburgers and lots of pizza   
  • around 15 Disney characters walked the street for children  
  • only one lost child, which found her Mom!

 

 

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