Make your first stop the Milledge Avenue Baptist Church in Athens, Georgia to pick out your pumpkins!  Their front lawn is loaded with plenty to choose from.  We have family fun night planned with our kids - everyone picks out a pumpkin then we go home to decorate and eat pumpkiny things and celebrate fall!

Add a little culture to your Halloween, visit the Blue Bell Gallery in nearby Comer, Georgia for a "dark side" exhibit featuring spooky visions of 39 new artist in the Madison County area.  the exhibit continues hrough October 27th.  The Blue Bell is open Thursday through Saturdays from 10am until 5pm.

 Also in Comer, Georgia  this year, don't miss Tim Seymour's "Fright Night" Haunted House at the old Porterfield Homestead off Highway 98, which is open October 26th, 27th and 31st at dusk.  Tickets are $7.00 and food and drinks are available.  This is guaranteed to be a spooky visit!

Athens, Georgia also has a "Fright Night" experience at Perimeter Square (the old Wal-Mart shopping center) off the Atlanta Highway.

WUGA FM (91.7) will re-broadcast H.G. Wells' classic "War of the Worlds" at 8 p.m. on Halloween.

Interested in a cool day trip with the kids?  Take a trip to Boo Zoo at the Atlanta Zoo this weekend, October 26th & 27th:  "Atlanta's best Fun Family Halloween Festival as we move our traditional day event to the early evening witching hours after our animals have gone to bed. Kids and adults will enjoy an evening of magical fun as they travel through the enchanted Zoo Boo Town."

The Fire Department in Oconee County, Georgia (Watkinsville, GA area)  will be celebrating Halloween with open houses at Station 1 in Watkinsville and Station 8 near the Oconee Connector from 5 to 7pm Saturday, October 28th. Station 6 in North High Shoals will hold an open house from 6 to 8 pm on October 31st.  There will be balloons, games and refreshments include hot dogs, cotton candy, drinks and chips

The Sandy Creek Nature Center will host a Jack-O-Lantern Jog and Goblin Fun Run a"four-mile road race and one-mile fun run fundraiser for Sandy Creek Nature Center, Inc" on Sunday, October 28th, 2007.

For Adult Only fun this Saturday night, October 27th, the place to be in Athens, GA is Tasty World for Mr. Blanks Carnivale of Black Hearts - music, mayhem AND a pumpkin carving contest!

Please add a comment if you know of other cool Halloween Happenings!                        
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