Proceeds from the event benefit the Parks Alliance of Louisville, and the 100+ public parks in Louisville.To reduce crowds and traffic, there will be timed ticketing for every night of the show.No refunds will be given but tickets purchased in advance may be exchanged for another day. The event will be open from 7:30-11 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, and until midnight on Friday and Saturday nights.“We are committed to creating both an enjoyable and safe environment for our guests, staff, and volunteers, and will have protocols in place throughout the show.” “The Parks Alliance of Louisville and our production company, Passion for Pumpkins, are thrilled to return to the walking path this year, however, everyone’s health and safety will continue to be a priority,” said Brooke Pardue, CEO of the Parks Alliance of Louisville.
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Attendees should be prepared to relive decades of TV history from Batman to Breaking Bad, the moon landing to MTV, and Get Smart to the Sopranos. Guests can weave their way through the woods, filled with familiar faces and scenes from the small screen, set to the iconic theme songs we’ve come to know and love. This year’s theme is “Changing the Channel: A Timeline of Television History,” and will feature your favorite shows from the 1950’s Golden Age of Television to what we stream today on our devices, and everything in between.
Ĭorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of people who attended last year’s event.In what has become the must-see event of the Halloween season, Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular, presented by Thorntons, is returning for the ninth consecutive year to South Louisville’s Iroquois Park from Sept.
More information and tickets are on the event website here. There will also be a special night on November 2 designed for people with autism spectrum disorders and sensory processing differences. Tickets start at $14 for adults and $10 for children.
Louisville’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular starts Tuesday and lasts through November 3. “You cherish those times like, ‘God, I used to get so mad at my dad when he would do it.’ I would give anything to have him do it one more time.”Īnd someday, maybe his kids will hassle him for talking about pumpkins on Christmas. “Isn’t that amazing, how it is a cycle? History repeats itself,” Reckner said. Until then, Reckner plans to focus on each event and to carve pumpkins in his spare time like his dad does. Reckner now has four kids who he hopes will carve pumpkins with their grandpa someday. “Then before long it went to a couple of thousand pumpkins for a week.”Īrtist carves for Louisville’s 7th Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular Then a couple hundred pumpkins turned into 500, and one night turned into two nights,” Reckner said. “The carving would get more elaborate and we would add more pumpkins. When other cities noticed and asked the family to bring the fundraiser to them, their business grew. “‘We can turn it into a fundraiser for the school system.’”īack then, Reckner said his friends and family would work 120 hours a week carving pumpkins and organizing similar fundraisers in Oxford. “My dad was like, ‘God, we should do something like this in Oxford,’” Reckner said. On a family trip to Vermont when Reckner was 15, the family found a local farm was using a jack-o’-lantern display to raise money. He said his dad even talks about pumpkins during Christmas. Reckner said his dad is obsessed with pumpkins, and would spend days vacationing from his job as a mailman to carve them. If you ask him how the family’s modest fundraiser expanded to three events that involve more than 15,000 pumpkins in total, he will tell you about a trip to Vermont. Reckner has carved pumpkins since his family’s first jack-o’-lantern fundraiser in 1988. Reckner, a 47-year-old Oxford, Massachusetts native, is the co-founder of what’s now a company that produces jack-o’-lantern fundraisers in three states - including the Jack-O’-Lantern Spectacular that kicks off in Louisville’s Iroquois Park on Tuesday. Travis Reckner loves to talk about pumpkins, and even dreams about them.