From Sept. 20 through Oct. 31, downtown Lewisburg will be celebrating Harvest Chills in the Hills with beautiful decorations, a food festival, a street dance, serious and silly photo ops, creative classes, special events for kids and pets, cemetery and ghost tours, a culinary contest, and a variety of shows. Mums, pumpkins, haybales, corn shocks, gourds, and ribbons festoon the city’s east-west corridor. Your hosts have pulled out all of the stops for six weeks of Harvest Chills in the Hills.
Carnegie Hal’s Hallo-O-Ween events will run from Sept. 28 through Nov. 14, and includes the following classes and other events: Ceramic Pumpkins on Sept. 28, Autumn Cards and Tabletop Displays on Oct. 3, Skull Planters and Candle Lanterns on Oct. 5, the Second Annual All Things Pumpkin Culinary Contest – now at TOOT on Oct. 12 followed by the Davisson Brothers Band, The Harvest Home: Fire Cider on Oct. 19, Leather Halloween Masks on Oct. 19, Candlelit Cemetery Tours on Oct. 25, Harvest Season Paint Date on Oct. 26, Painted Barn Stars on Nov. 12 and Nov. 14, Bread and Soup Series on Nov. 9 and/or Nov. 16.
On Oct. 4, the Lewisburg Downtown Business Association and City of Lewisburg offer for the second year a Pet Costume Contest on Friday, Oct. 4, at 6 p.m. The sidewalk parade begins and ends at the piano beside City Hall, where cash prizes will be awarded for first place ($50) and second place ($25). All domestic pets are welcome. Allan Sizemore will play in the Green Space afterwards from 4 to 7 p.m.
Greenbrier Valley Theatre will hold performances of Sleepy Hollow from Oct. 17 through 19, as well as Oct. 25-26, Oct. 31, and Nov. 1-2.
Carnegie Hall will host Ghost Stories and Spookier Things on Oct. 18.
The merchants of downtown Lewisburg will host a Business Trick or Treat on Friday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. Afterwards, set up your lawn chairs up on Washington Street for a showing of the movie Hocus Focus, to be projected in Green Space at 7 p.m. Cozy blankets optional.
The LDBA and Greenbrier Historical Society will join forces to offer a downtown Lewisburg Ghost Tour on Oct. 24 through Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. Tour begins at the North House Museum. Bring your amulets, herbs and seasonings, haint bleu, crystals, and iron objects to hold the spirits at bay.
