Ever since 2015 a group of Addison County parents have organized a fun Halloween activity for children that included the typical costumes and running around, but is quite different from traditional trick-or-treating. They call it Pumpkin Plunkin’! What happens is that families decorate pumpkins, don their costumes and gather under the Cross Street Bridge in down Middlebury on the afternoon of Halloween. After a short build up to heighten the excitement, everyone chucks their pumpkins into Otter Creek so the … (read more)
