Top 10 Best Pumpkins Festivals in United States
Top 10 Best Pumpkins Festivals in United States
For some, the start of fall means that it's officially pumpkin spice latte season, but there are other ways to enjoy everyone's favorite gourd. This time of the year, you can find pumpkins for sale everywhere from city markets to roadside stands, but why not make a day of it?
Get ready to layer up, lace up your boots, and make a trip to one of Americas’ best pumpkin festivals.
New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival
The New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival, relocating from its historic roots in Keene to Laconia this year, is a festival known for its epic proportions. Having broken the world record nine times since 1992 for the most lit jack-o'lanterns in one place at one time (30,581 in 2013), 2015 is on target to break that record yet again.
Where: Laconia, New Hampshire
When: October 24
The Great Pumpkin Farm Fall Festival
About 30 minutes outside of Buffalo, the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence hosts an extraordinary daily festival. Anything and everything pumpkin-related goes on these family-friendly farm grounds.
Where: Clarence, New York
When: September 12–October 31
Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm Pumpkin Festival
This fall, explore the 40 acres of Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm, located about an hour outside of Chicago in Cresthill, IL. Take aim and fire at the one of the farm’s most popular attractions, the Sniper Zombie Paintball Ride, in which paintball guns are attached to a military-grade carrier, which cruises along a half-mile course of zombies and targets.
Where: Cresthill, Illinois
When: September 26–October 31
Underwood Family Farms Fall Harvest Festival
Just 45 minutes north of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, pumpkins, squash, and gourds are the main attraction at Underwood Family Farms. Featuring over a dozen varieties of pumpkins, the Fall Harvest Festival will lure you in with live music and the smell of chargrilled burgers permeating the air.
Where: California
When: October 3–October 31
Autumn at the Arboretum
Step into the colorful world of Pumpkin Village, where over 75,000 pumpkins, gourds, and squash make up this unique spectacle amidst the fall foliage. The Dallas Arboretum’s annual Autumn at the Arboretum features a wonderland of pumpkin-lined pathways, pumpkin-adorned huts, and gardens.
Where: Texas
When: September 19–November 25
Hiram House Pumpkin Festival
Now in its 43rd year, the Hiram House Pumpkin Festival brings the best of fall harvest culture to the Cleveland area on 172 acres of the Chagrin Valley. Baked apples and spicy nachos are highlights, in addition to burgers, pizza, and funnel cakes. Kids can make their own gooey slime, create their own candles, and try their arms at the archery range.
Where: Ohio
Whem: October 11
Walters’ PumpkinFest
Walters' Pumpkinfest, just outside of Wichita, is home to some of the most unique and playful autumn activities for outdoor enthusiasts. Start with the powerful PumpGun Cannon, a vintage-themed pick-up truck outfitted with a blaster cannon that gleefully sends pumpkins hundreds of feet in to the air.
Where: Kansas
When: September 19–October 31
Shady Brook Farm’s PumpkinFest
Near the New Jersey state line in Yardley, PA, Shady Brook Farm has been in operation for over 100 years, making it one of the oldest working farms in the area. Shady Brook’s annual PumpkinFest brings out the best of the farm during its traditional apple and pumpkin harvest.
Where:Pennsylvania
When: October 2–31
Craven Farm’s Fall Festival
Craven Farm, located in Snohomish, WA, goes all out for its fall festival each year, and 2015 is no exception. Kids’ demand has brought back the meet-and-greet experience with the princesses from Frozen.
Where: Washington
When: September 26–October 31
South Jersey Pumpkin Show
The motto at the South Jersey Pumpkin Show is the bigger, the better. As the highlight of the weekend-long festival in Woodstown, competitors in the Big Pumpkin Weigh-Off compete for $4,000 in prize money.
Where: New Jersey
When: October 9–11
Visit our Channel for Top Attractions:
Please Subscribe to our Channel:
Download this music for FREE:
This track's license, Creative Commons Attribution, requires attribution. If you use this song in a video, cite the creator using the info below:
Colossus (Original Mix) by Meizong is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.
Meizong Social Links:
More info about the license:
Visit Music For Monetize Channel:
Places to see in ( Plympton - UK )
Places to see in ( Plympton - UK )
Plympton, or Plympton Maurice or Plympton St Maurice or Plympton St Mary or Plympton Erle, in south-western Devon, is a populous, north-eastern suburb of the city of Plymouth of which it officially became part, along with Plymstock, in 1967. It was an ancient stannary town: an important trading centre in the past for locally mined tin, and a former seaport (before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down the river to Plymouth).
Plympton still has its own town centre (called the Ridgeway), and is itself an amalgamation of several villages, including St Mary's, St Maurice, Colebrook, Woodford, Newnham, Langage and Chaddlewood.
Plympton was the site of an important priory founded by William Warelwast in the early 12th century. The members were Augustinian canons and the priory soon became the second richest monastic house in Devon (after Tavistock). The gatehouse of the priory is still in existence. In 1872 it was recorded that the gatehouse, kitchen and refectory were still in good condition.
Richard de Redvers (d.1107) was granted the feudal barony of Plympton, with caput at Plympton Castle, by King Henry I (1100-1135), of which king he was a most trusted supporter. His family later became Earls of Devon. Their lands, including Plympton, and titles were later inherited by the Courtenay family, feudal barons of Okehampton. The ancient Stannary town remains dominated by its now ruined Norman motte-and-bailey castle and it still retains a cohesive medieval street pattern. A number of historic buildings in the local vernacular style of green Devon slate, limestone and lime-washed walls, with Dartmoor granite detailing, attest to all periods of its history.
Railway facilities were originally provided at Plympton—for goods traffic only—by the horse-drawn Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway, but their branch was closed and sold to the South Devon Railway to allow them to build a line from Exeter to Plymouth. A station was opened in the town on 15 June 1848. From 1 June 1904 it was the eastern terminus for enhanced Plymouth area suburban services but it was closed from 3 March 1959.
Between about 1990 and 2010 Plympton has seen considerable growth as the suburban population of Plymouth has doubled. To help manage this rapid growth more efficiently, Plympton has been separated into a series of separate districts: Yealmpstone, Plympton-St Maurice, Colebrook, Underwood, Woodford and Chaddlewood.
( Plympton - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Plympton . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Plympton - UK
Join us for more :
Best places to visit
Best places to visit - Abertridwr (United Kingdom) Best places to visit - Slideshows from all over the world - City trips, nature pictures, etc.
Oregon Coast Road Trip Highlights: 4 Days from Brookings, OR to Seattle, WA
Oregon Coast Road Trip Highlights: 4 Days from Brookings, OR to Seattle, WA
While the site typically focuses on California, I took a weekend off and went up the Oregon coast all the way to Seattle. This video shows you the highlights of that trip in order from South to North. Be sure to pause a particular section if you want to see where it is. I highly recommend you make this trip as the Oregon and Washington coastlines are absolutely amazing.
Here is the breakdown:
Day 1 - Brookings, OR to Newport, OR
Day 2 - Newport, OR to Astoria, OR
Day 3 - Astoria, OR to Forks, WA
Day 4 - Forks, WA to Seattle
Read more about this road trip at
Follow me:
Facebook:
Instagram:
Pinterest:
Twitter:
Weekly Newsletter:
Gear:
Camera for photos:
Camera for video:
Main Lens:
Gopro:
Mic:
Music:
Tobu - Roots -
Jim Yosef - Canary -
Tobu - Candyland -
Is this the most beautiful forest in England!? | Puzzle Wood, Forest of Dean, England
Watch our England Playlist here: Today (day 192) was Lauras birthday! We visited Puzzle Wood, where they filmed Doctor Who and Merlin. It’s also the wood that inspired J.K. Rowling and J. R. R. Tolkien! Enjoy! Click ‘Show more’ below for more information.
SUBSCRIBE:
For more info check out our blog:
This video is shot with the Canon G7X
And be sure to spam us on our social media:
SNAPCHAT: travelweasels
INSTAGRAM:
TWITTER:
FACEBOOK:
Also check out this amazing Instagram Photo Laura took:
Music Credits:
Scrapbook & Triangles - Silent Partner
Phillips Academy in Andover is the best high school in America
We visited Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts to see what makes it the best high school in America. The school is often confused with Phillips Exeter. There are 1,154 students on Andover's campus. Tuition for students living on campus is $53,900. Tuition for day students is $41,900. Andover has a need-blind admissions policy which means they accept students based on merit, not wealth. There are 44 states and 44 countries represented in the current student body. Following is a transcript of the video.
Jenny Elliott: Folks who are not so close to Andover or who haven’t experienced something like this will say, “you were sent to boarding school.” And, a sense of agency for kids to feel like, “I wasn’t sent anywhere. I wasn’t sent by my parents. I chose to go to boarding school.”
David Tsai: I’m a senior from Natick, Massachusetts. I have attended Andover for four years. And it is a distinct pleasure of mine to bring all of you around on what I believe is the best school in the world.
The most important thing you learn on this campus is how every single faculty member and every single student, when they are walking on, these are called the paths, they’re smiling. They’re clearly enjoying themselves at this school.
I believe that the boarding experience is so much more beneficial to the student because they get to live on their own and they get to experience high school as most people experience their college years.
John Palfrey: What we’re trying to accomplish here is to be absolutely excellent in the classic ways of academics, of sports, of arts, of community engagement — all of those things — while also really focusing on the young person in their wholeness and to make sure that we encourage kids to have wellness as central to their experience. To make sure they’re getting sleep, to make sure that they’re eating well, to make sure they’re exercising. All of those things I think go together with this idea of excellence. And I think that that combination of things is working really well right now.
Elliott: We don’t post grade point averages. We try to take some very specific steps not to elevate competition in those ways. We do a lot of collaborative work in classes, we do a lot of collaborative work on teams, we do a lot of collaborative work outside — and we do, in terms of our leadership positions for students, there are many positions where there’s actually co-presidents or there are co-leaders to send a clear message to our kids — collaboration is a skill that you’re going to need to develop well in order to be able to move forward here with success.
Tsai: Mental health here is one of the most important things on campus because the only way for you to show your affection for someone, to love someone else, to build connections and build bonds, is to firstly love yourself.
Palfrey: The most distinctive thing about Andover’s program is the need-blind admissions policy in our 11th year. How can you have a morally responsible high school with a $1 billion endowment? It’s when you actually do admit kids solely on the basis of their admission criteria that have nothing to do with wealth.
Tsai: I am so happy that I made the decision to come here because there is so clearly a universal commitment to being loved and to love that you don’t find at any other school.
--------------------------------------------------
Follow BI Video on Twitter:
Follow BI on Facebook:
Read more:
--------------------------------------------------
Business Insider is the fastest growing business news site in the US. Our mission: to tell you all you need to know about the big world around you. The BI Video team focuses on technology, strategy and science with an emphasis on unique storytelling and data that appeals to the next generation of leaders – the digital generation.
EXPLORING LONDON: Beautiful Easter Eggs decorate Covent Garden Markets
SUBSCRIBE: - Easter Eggs at Covent Garden, London, England. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. London is a leading global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism, and transport. It is one of the world's leading financial centres and has the fifth-or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world. London is a world cultural capital. It is the world's most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the world's largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic.
Switzerland, the Complete Tour
In Switzerland you will find historic towns, raging rivers, snowcapped mountains, scenic lakes, and you can easily get you all around this lovely country with efficient travels on the excellent Swiss train network.
Click to Subscribe
You'll see the very best of Switzerland in this practical travel guide, filled with some of Europe's most beautiful scenery, including wild majestic landscapes and charming historic cities, balancing urban adventures with natural wonders.
This tour could easily be done in two weeks or stretch it out to a more leisurely three weeks, with a carefully-planned itinerary, as we show in this video guide, presenting the best of Switzerland.
We’ll focus on the magnificent Alps mountains, covered in glaciers, easily reached by cable car and mountain trains, offering breathtaking vistas in all directions, especially three main groups of mountains in the region of Titlis, the Jungfrau and Matterhorn. You'll be immersed in that natural beauty, with a chance to do some walking on easy mountain trails and time for fun in town.
Coming up you'll see the great cities including Lucerne, Interlaken with Jungfrau and Shilthorn, Bern, Zermatt, Locarno, Lugano and Zurich. You'll learn how to navigate their pedestrian lanes while finding historic monuments, little shops, good restaurants and hotels.
Switzerland is a land of many scenic lakes, so we will enjoy numerous boat rides that give you a different perspective and provide a relaxing, useful way to reach picturesque waterfront villages.
The Ghost Hunters (clip 1) BBC documentary
A groundbreaking BBC documentary made in 1975. This first clip features Borley Rectory and Church, reputedly England's most haunted place. You see an interview with Peter Underwood, Chairman of the Ghost Club of Great Britain, and a fascinating account of the hauntings with a local investigator. Clip 2 contains the ghostly audio recordings.
Beautiful Western North Carolina, Beautiful
God has created an awesome wonder in western North Carolina. The Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains converge in this area. There are many scenic drives, such as the Cherohala Skyway, Tail of the Dragon, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and many others. There are many state and national parks that are a must-see. The back-road scenic drive from Colletsville to Blowing Rock is a great place to experience the wonders of a mountain stream called Wilson Creek. Cataloochee Valley is a great place to view wildlife such as the roaming elk. Maggie Valley is a great take-off point, as is Blowing Rock, Robbinsville, and Andrews. Fall is the best time to visit this area for the wonderful Fall Foliage experience. Grandfather Mountain and Mount Mitchell are two of the most scenic mountains in the eastern United States. Lake Lure, the site for the lake scenes of Dirty Dancing, is a great scenic walk with the lake and the mountains for a background. This area is truly one of the most beautiful in the United States. It is a great place to experience the beautiful handiwork of our Father who art in Heaven. God's not dead! He's still here! He's just hiding in the mountains waiting on true seekers.