It's time for The Pumpkin Show! Or, in local-eze, "The Pun'kin Show". This sounds rather unexciting, I must admit, but here in the coun'ry, we make fun where we can! And, in the fall, "Pun'kin Show" is fun. I am always amazed just how many people show up in the little town of Circleville for this fall festival. Where in the world do they all come from? Certainly not just from our little area, The Pumpkin Show is so big they come from all over. Maybe even New York City (the quintessential TBC). From what I understand, The Pumpkin Show (TBS) made an appearance on the front page of the WSJ (that's the Wall Street Journal for those of you not from NYC)!
The Crown in the Jewel that is TPS is worn by Miss Pumpkin Show- the Pumpkin Show Queen. This royal personage is crowned by the judges on Wednesday evening, marking the real start of TPS. The candidates are High School juniors and seniors, each elected by their class to represent them at TPS. There are six high schools in the county, and each school sends a junior and senior candidate, so there are 12 girls in all for consideration. This year's Queen is none other than Sarah Johnson, also one of my treasured 4-H kids. She is such a poised and accomplished young lady, I should not have been surprised that she was crowned, as she was the obvious and best choice. But, I have found myself all too often stymied by the choices of judges in this county for just about everything. How pleased I am for Sarah, that not only did she earn the crown, she actually is wearing the rhinestone tower on her head!
For each parade.
Now, here in the Coun'ry, we parade seriously. 4th of July would seem to earn a parade. But it gets 3. I have kids in every one. And TPS would also have a parade, but this is the Disney World of Ohio, and there are two every day. Rain, snow, darkness...twice a day. I have been to two parades personally, already and still have a few to go, with all kids marching at least once. Today is the pet parade. Should we march with a sheep? A chicken? The meaner-than- heck gander (we did have a misconceived notion to teach him to walk on a leash once. That didn't work. ) Middlest will march with her band, Youngest with the D.A.R.E. program. The kid parade is tomorrow, the parade of bands was last night (18 bands in all?) the Queens parade is tonight......I will spend hours on the side of the road, smelling deep fried pumpkin pie, and cheering on all the marchers.
I've already sat next to the 1436lb pumpkin, admired the pumpkin tower, and toured the arts and crafts building to wonder at the beautiful quilts and see my friend Lisa's meticulous and beautiful doll house.
Last night we watched the Parade of Bands in the company of dear friends who live too far away for my happiness, but they, too, had a child marching in a band, and so we got to huddle together in the wind, cold and rain and enjoy "Hang on Sloopy", "Thriller" and "The Hey! Song" over and over.
The 105th Circleville Pumpkin Show- The Greatest Free Show on Earth!
It might be true.
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