Halloween is one of the most interesting holidays and one that brings people from every culture, religion, and background together. This year, the Maynard family is inviting the people of Kentucky to celebrate with them as they hold a Harvest Festival.
Everyone is invited to the Maynard Ranch and enjoy the festivities on October 23 from 4 pm to 1 am! Please bring a blanket and jacket as the weather permits!
Events
Kicking off at 4 pm, we still begin the pumpkin carving contest! please bring your own pumpkin or $4 to purchase one off the ranch. Tools will be provided and we ask that all children under the age of 10 be helped by a parent. We will have two age categories to be determined upon number of entries.
While the pumpkin carving contest is underway, we encourage you to try your luck in bobbing for apples. Anyone that successfully collects an apple will be awarded a prize!
After everyone has tried their luck in the pumpkin carving contest, we have a game for the smaller children. Two children will pair up and have to wrap their partner in toilet paper, the first team to have a complete mummy wins!
Starting at 8pm, we will be screening Hocus Pocus. Before the movie starts, we will be opening up the snack bar, it will include:
- Popcorn
- Pizza
- Mummies in a Blanket
- Witches Finger Pretzels
- Vampire Teeth Smores
- Witches Brew Punch
- Goulash
If you have any food allergies, please call in advanced so we can work out an accommodation
“A holiday can have many such components. A partial, and by no means exhaustive, list would include certain foods and beverages(Santino13)..” In many ways, Halloween is and is not a holiday. seeming from the traditional old Hallows eve, Halloween is nothing more than a time for children to play and explore the community while being given candy from their elders. The pumpkins that sit outside ones steps with faces carved into them were once radishes to ward away the monsters that were believed to cross over. Halloween has always been loved by my family, often marking the time that others would be home more often with the harvest being finished for the year.
All of the foods that are being made for the festival hold meaning with my family with a small twist on it. The basic snacks with a spooky twist on them are what we make for my niece’s birthday party every year. she was born on the 16th of October and is adored by the entire family. the goulash is something different than the Maynards have always made. Living deep in the mountains, food is made cheaply to feed as many as possible. The family goulash pot has fed many family and friends over the years.
Barbara Kaplan. 1988. “‘It’s all from One Big Pot’: Booya as an Expression of Community.” We Gather Together: Food and Festivals in American Life, Theodore and Lin C. Humphrey, eds., 169-189. Ann Arbor, MI: U. of Michigan Press.
Jack Santino. 1994. “Introduction,” “Holidays in America: Ritual, Festival, and Celebration,” and “Homemade Holidays: Making Symbols, Making Meaning.” All Around the Year, xiii-46. Urbana, IL: U. of Illinois Press.
Michael Twitty. 2017. Selections from The Cooking Gene. New York: Harper Collins.
