"I have three kids so I really look forward to this work every year," he said. Thompson, who was finishing up his Burt Reynolds pumpkin in early October, was hired by Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular four years ago. We let people come in and push the ink around on the pumpkin and see if they like it and can adapt to working on a pumpkin and from there, it kind of weeds itself out." "We look for people who have a background in art and an eye for detail," Sciannameo said. "It's kind of a like a baseball team.
Once the hundreds of pumpkins start to arrive at the Iroquois warehouse in September, so do dozens of local artists. "We start with a theme - this year it's 'Night in the Library' - then we map out where the pumpkins are going to go, how the trail will be orchestrated, what music is going to play in each part of the trail and what props we are going to build," said Sciannameo. "It's all designed to transport you into that magical realm, which this year includes huge oversized books with the titles to each section you are entering written onto the cover." October event: Your ultimate guide to the St. 9.īesides Kentucky, they also produce shows in Rhode Island and Minnesota. Each is handpicked and hired by Paul Codieux and Travis Reckner, owners of the event company Passion for Pumpkins, and each is trained by Sciannameo.įriends since they were in grade school in Oxford, Massachusetts, Codieux, Reckner and Sciannameo start work on the pumpkin project five months in advance of opening night, which this year is set for Oct. To pull off a display of this magnitude, the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular requires the talent of dozens of local painters, printmakers, tattoo artists, sculptors and accomplished hobbyists. "It's why people come to Louisville from all over the country during the Halloween season." It's truly indescribable," said Brooke Pardue, Louisville Parks Foundation president. Luckily, none of us had to deal with all of that extra walking.If you haven't seen it, "you have to come out and walk through this experience. He also informed us that, if we did *not have our tickets yet, someone from our group could get out of line and walk on up to the ticket booth to get tickets, then come back and join us after doing so. Fortunately (we think), it was the latter. It seemed to go on forever! Soon, we found a staff member and asked if this was the ticket line or the line to go through the event. The scariest part of the night was when we got our first look at the waiting line. We decided to stick it out and, fortunately, we were able to get parked pretty quickly with the assistance of some fantastic flaggers. At the same time, we were passing “Additional Parking” signs that informed us of other places we could go if their native lots were full, or if we simply wanted to avoid the wait to get onto IP’s property. Look at all those pumpkins at Louisville Jack ‘O Lantern Spectacular!Īs we got close to Iroquois Park, we noticed that traffic was backing up well in advance of the park entrance.
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