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Scarecrows, Pumpkins & Jazz

NEWS RELEASE from: Main Street Collierville
For immediate release.

For more information, contact Laura Todd or Linda Stamps at:

Main Street Collierville
125 N. Rowlett
Collierville, Tennessee 38017 		Office: (901) 853-1666
FAX: (901) 853-6777
E-mail: mnstreetcv@aol.com

Scarecrows, Pumpkins & Jazz

Rainy weather couldn’t stop the 7th Annual Out to Lunch held on Friday, October 26, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  The free afternoon concert, presented by Main Street Collierville along with Title Sponsor Southern Abode and Community Sponsor Pepsi America, offered the great Dixie Jazz of Old Man Johnson and the Cooter River Jass Band while many visitors enjoyed lunch prepared by The Tennessean Restaurant. 

The Square, donned with corn stalks, pumpkins and gourds, provided a beautiful fall backdrop as children gathered around the Collierville United Methodist Church’s Youth in Missions Pumpkin Patch area for games and tattoos.  Joining the event for the third year, the Pumpkin Patch offers activities for the children for free.

This year a new activity was added as Square merchants were asked to participate in a Scarecrow Contest.  Several businesses offered creative scarecrows for judging: the Silver Caboose and Side Car Market decorated theirs as a waitress; The Biblical Resource Museum offered a scarecrow with archeological interests, complete with binoculars; McGinnis Oil Company delivered their friendly scarecrow named “Mortimer” dressed and ready for fishing; and Main Street Collierville dressed “Billy Glen” in his best basketball slippers.  Curt Vaughn, owner of Southern Abode, the Title Sponsor, judged the event and named Mortimer overall winner. 

Main Street Collierville offers Out to Lunch each year on the last Friday of October.  If you would like to learn how you can become involved with this event or others, please visit the website at www.mainstreetcollierville.org or call 853-1666.





Megan & Cabe Vaughn take a break and pose at the Collierville United Methodist Church's mini pumpkin patch.




Mary Lou Caswell and Sharol Brown with McGinnis Oil Company pose with "Mortimer" and Curt Vaughn of Southern Abode.




Old Man Johnson & the Cooter River Jass Band offered great Dixie Jazz during Out to Lunch.