Festivals in Ohio - Pumpkin Queen (Paperback)

Chapters: Pumpkin Queen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A pumpkin queen may be either a fictional character or a real person associated with a variety of beauty contests held in North America. A fictional pumpkin queen serves as the basis (and title character ) of a webisode (Episode #6: "Curse of the Pumpkin Queen") that can be seen online at 8Legged Entertainment. "The Great Queen Pumpkin" served as a major character in the film Curse of Halloween. In R. L. Stine's Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It, "Priscilla is crowned Pumpkin Queen." Recently, Marlane Kennedy published the book Me and the Pumpkin Queen. A longer-standing tradition of more than a half dozen pumpkin shows and festivals in various American states are pageants to determine the show or festival's Pumpkin Queen. While this tradition goes back to at least the 1930s, usage of the title "Pumpkin Queen" has increased dramatically after 2000. Many of these shows and festivals have attendance figures in at least the tens and in some cases hundreds of thousands, a number of who come to see the crowning of the show or festival's new "Queen." These ladies usually also participate in some kind of major parade associated with their respective festival or show. Pumpkin Queens from the more prominent shows and festivals also attend other food festivals and parades in their states while serving as representatives of their respective pumpkin festival or show. These ladies also receive a good deal of local and in some cases regional media attention and are representative of a well-established autumnal tradition in North America and possibly elsewhere. Information and products associated with the many pumpkin queens have appeared throughout the world wide web and even on such prominent sites...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=742580