Committee Brings Pumpkin Market to Pumpkin Festival
The Barnesville Pumpkin Festival’s new Pumpkin Market is ready for visitors to explore vendors and children’s activities.
The Pumpkin Market will be found in the East Main Street parking lot between Avenues of Barnesville and Cheffy Drugs.
The market will feature outdoor vendors, including crafts, primitives and unique goods, handmade treasures and children’s activities for a fee. Activities include creating sand art, t-shirts, pens, face painting and hair tinseling.
The market will be open to the public Thursday through Sunday.
The Barnesville Pumpkin Festival committee decided this year to replace the stage area where bands performed in previous years with the market because it takes a lot of money to pay for sound systems and bands, committee president Tim Rockwell said.
He added people seem to like vendors, and more vendors always want to attend the Pumpkin Festival.
If successful, the committee would like to keep the Pumpkin Market as an attraction and expand it if it attracts visitors, Rockwell said.
“We’re trying something different,” he said. “We’re trying to shift our focus and and see what works.”
The committee is adding interactive experiences and activities for kids at the market, committee member Derek Deal said.
Deal said visitors will also be able to share in other new experiences at the West Main Street parking lot, including food, featuring Hudson’s Brick Oven Pizza and Backdraft Brews, and Bites with Bingsu (which is Korean shaved ice), lattes, teas and more where a percentage of profits support mental health programs for first responders.
Festival goers may also snap a photo with the Tin Lizzy Patrol Cars. The Osiris Shriners support Shriners Hospitals for Children, providing free specialty care for children in need.
Other organizations giving back to the community this year include Grim Reapers, Caricatures by Megz and Culligan Water. Buying a shirt from Grim Reapers helps fund projects from across the Ohio Valley, Deal added.
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