2016 Pumpkin Festival Brochure

Vendor Information for the
Award-Winning
27 th Annual Milford Pumpkin Festival!
Friday- Sunday, October 7th- 9th, 2016
Presented By:
The Milford Improvement Team
on behalf of the
Town of Milford, New Hampshire
Welcome to the 26th
Milford Pumpkin
Festival!!
Annual
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Spectacular
Fireworks Show
each year!
Layout of the Milford Pumpkin Festival:
Milford
Pumpkin
Festival Map
NOTABLES:
Hippo’s Best Of NH Awards, Best Community
Event 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014; Souhegan
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2011, in “Fifty Fabulous Festivals”; Featured in Amazing Festivals, 100s of Hometown Celebrations, by
Donald Vaughn and Eric Peterson. Publications International Ltd., 2011
Festival Details –27 Years and Continuing to Grow!
Over the years, the Milford Pumpkin Festival has become a highly anticipated regional and statewide event. Attendance
in 2015 was estimated to be upwards of 35,000 over the three days of the event. Attendees come from the Souhegan
Valley, Monadnock Region, Nashua, and Manchester areas, also greater Boston and New England.
Traditionally, this 3-day Festival takes place on Columbus Day Weekend and occurs in Downtown Milford on the Oval,
the Community House Lawn, Emerson Park and South and Middle Street,the historic Milford Town Hall and the Amato
Family Performing Art Center on Mont Vernon Street.
Signature Festival events include: the Great Pumpkin Weigh-in, Pumpkin Painting, Pumpkin Sales, The Pumpkin Catapult,
an Arts & Crafts Show, Scarecrow Making, Great Food, The Haunted Trail, Face Painting, two stages of LIVE Music and
Entertainment all weekend, Food Vendors galore, the Talent Show, a Zombie Walk ,bounce houses, Carnival rides by
Fanelli Amusements, and a scholarship contest. Friday night of the Pumpkin Festival includes our opening ceremony, the
lighting of town hall, our very popular Beer Tasting Tent, and of course our exciting fireworks display put on by Atlas
Pyrotechnics!
The Milford Pumpkin Festival is organized on the Town's behalf by the Milford Improvement Team (MIT). All the
organization, publicity, public contact, and publications are handled through the MIT
office.
All monies raised by the Milford Improvement Team during the Milford Pumpkin Festival
are re-invested directly back into the community, allowing us to support the activities,
events and programs implemented by the organization that promote, revitalize and
enhance the historic, social, natural and economic vitality of the Town of Milford. The
Pumpkin Festival also provides the opportunity for forty+ other community groups and
non-profit organizations to run events during the weekend in order to raise funds for
their programs.
FESTIVAL PROMOTION
Media The Festival receives numerous feature articles, mentions, print and online calendar listings, blog/social posts, print,
radio, television and online media (partial list below). Here are some of the outlets where the Milford Pumpkin Festival is
promoted:
Sunday Boston Globe
Union Leader
Milford Cabinet
Merrimack Journal
Bedford Journal
The Hippo
Concord Monitor
The Broadcaster
Amherst Citizen
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Hollis Brookline Journal
Keene Sentinel
Neighborhood Publications
NH Magazine
NH To Do Magazine
Monadnock Living Magazine
Nashua Telegraph
92.5 The River
WQYK FM
nhevents.com
WHDH TV Boston
NECN TV
nhtodo.com
NH365.org
Amherst/Milford Patch
yankeemagazine.com Nashoba Valley Publications
nhpr.com (NH Public Radio) WBZ TV Boston Boston.com
Lowell Sun
WSMN AM / WHOB FM
nh.com
WMUR TV NH
Whofish.com
Rockingham Grapevine
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Yankee Magazine
WMUR TV
TV 13 Nashua
WCVB TV Boston
NH Business Review
Chefgeek.com
WZID 95.7 FM/ The Mill 96.5 FM
… And many more!
Collateral Material
Posters - distributed throughout the towns of Milford, Amherst, Mont Vernon, Wilton, Hollis and Brookline.
Flyers - are distributed to the Shaw, and Market Basket grocery stores in Milford and stuffed into the bags of shoppers the week
prior to the Festival.
Advertising
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NH To Do Magazine, circulation 35,000, distributed in tourist information areas in 11 states.
In NH Magazine – circulation 25,000, distributed in New Hampshire Rest Areas.
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The Festival Program –newspaper insert distributed in direct mailed publications Hollis-Brookline Journal, Merrimack
Journal, Bedford Journal as well as the subscriber/newsstand based Cabinet newspaper. Total circulation 31,000.
Electronic Media
Social Media:
Milford Pumpkin Festival Facebook page – 3000+ fans /Milford Improvement Team Facebook page - 1073 fans.
For complete details, please contact:
Wendy Hunt
Executive Director
Milford Improvement Team
One Union Square, PO Box 551
Milford NH 03055
603.249.0676
director@milfordimprovementteam.org
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