Keene Pumpkin Festival
Oct. 20

Downtown Keene, N.H., will host this festival dedicated to the pumpkin. It will include the Great Pumpkin Mile Race, as well as a “pumpkin promenade” in which artitically carved pumpkins will be on display in downtown windows and storefronts. Oh, and you can’t miss the pumpkin tower, featuring hundreds of lit jack-o’-lanterns – this year, there’s even a world record at stake, and Keene will be featured along with Illinois’ Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival on a HGTV special entitled “Pumpkin Wars.” Free admission, downtown Keene, N.H., www.pumpkinfest.org