Pumpkin Town

The first, and last, time i went to Circleville's Pumpkin Festival was 1994. One of the things i remember was the pumpkin tower. It is a four day event, i thought Wednesday would not be so crowded. I tried to get a good foto, it was crowded all around the pumpkin and gourd displays.

Gus Smithhisler is the squashcarver of central Ohio. It is college football season, and many Ohioans are fanatics about the team from the largest school in the state. He was carving their mascot, Brutus Buckeye. I mentioned Cassius and me, have met many dogs named Brutus, but only one named Caesar.

I thought the pumpkin weigh in was Tuesday, well Wednesday around noon they were still lifting the pumpkins on to the scale.  The crowd was so thick at the main intersection by the Pickaway Courthouse, i could not see much. They had girls paint the pumpkins with weight, and grower. About an hour later, the pumpkins were displayed with the trophy. Steven Thornhille's pumpkin was the champion at 1,850½ pounds. I heard people talk about getting some seeds.

Eric Henn fooled me with this trompe l'oeil mural. I saw Eric Grohe's mural in Massillon, and thought this was done by Eric G, but no—it is by Eric H. People rested in the shade, on the stoop. Others had themselves photographed as to be part of the mural scene. He has painted many water towers, and petroleum tanks in realistic style, but unlike the eye fooling gigantic wall mural supra.

Near the courthouse intersection was a tent for the Democracy, at the corner of the courthouse there was a tent for the county's anti-Democracy party. One of theirs is the present governor, but they were advertising some yahoo with a cowboy hat and beard.

Stained glass window of the courthouse looks great from the outside, must be better from the inside.

I have seen county fairs smaller. The center of town was a carnival, full of rides, games, merchandise, food wagons, and other vendors. One idiot had a trump won flag attached above his booth like an idiot's antenna. There were a few trumpster tee shirts wearing clods walking among the crowd, but there were of those zombies, and they tended not to be obscene.