A soggy Saturday doesn't stop Rochester residents from carving pumpkins. (Share your wet photos here with Patch readers.)
This one might just go down in the history books as the wettest Stonewall Pumpkin Festival, but that didn't stop the fun. On Saturday at the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, over 1,000 people braved the rain to carve a pumpkin and place it on the stone wall that lines the museum property. Later on Saturday night, many of them returned to see their creation aglow despite the wet conditions. Were you one of the brave ones? Show off your creation in this photo gallery (click "add your photo and videos" above.)
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Fire & Ice Fest turns the town into a winter wonderland.
On the ground, they were skating, sledding and roasting marshmallows. Up above, it was all about the fireworks show. "The winter months can be kind of dreary so we try to come up with an idea to have some fun, and I think you'll agree this is getting better every year," Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson told a crowd of thousands at the opening ceremony for the Fire & Ice Fest on Friday night. The festival continues Saturday and Sunday. For an event guide, click here.
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Tiffany Dziurman Stozicki
9:36 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
My family came and made the best of it. It's a yearly tradition and a wonderful way to support the museum. In all the years the museum has put on this fabulous program, I remember one or two cold days. The rest have been sunny and warm. Sure it was damp and chilly, but it wasn't a pouring rain in the morning when we arrived and we dressed warmly. Having hot cider on hand at the concessions was a … more ›