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'Ghoulish Gathering' in Cooperstown

The Ghoulish Gathering Festival will be taking place in Glimmerglass State Park in Copperstown, New York on Friday, October 22nd and Saturday, October 23rd. The event is a fund raiser for Hyde Hall, Inc. and the Friends of Glimmerglass State Park.

The festival will feature the Haunted Hayride ($3), which will take you around Back Woods Road, available both Friday and Saturday. Tours through Hyde Hall ($10) will feature guides telling spooky tales, and a corn maze ($2) will be open both day and night. There will also be games (50 cents each), craft vendors, face painting, and pumpkin decorating, plus bon fires each evening.

Saturday will feature a number of special presentations, including the Creepy Crawly Creatures” nature presentations at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., with Tom Hughes, Natural Resource Steward Biologist; and the Monster Madness March Costume Parade at 3 p.m., with prizes awarded for scariest,funniest, and best look-a-like costumes.

Raffle tickets will be available for $5 each, with a grand prize of a pair of 2011 Festival Tickets for the Glimmerglass Opera.

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For complete details on the Ghoulish Gathering Festival, visit www.friendsofglimmerglass.com.

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