Friends of Fort Point Channel Fall event brings out crowds, kids and WIND!

	Our Fall Pumpkin Pageant and Taste of the Channel brought out thousands of people sampling hot chowder, crisp apples, and even pumpkin ice cream along the John J. Moakley Courthouse Harborwalk on Thursday Oct. 26. Despite brisk winds off the water, the flows of new and old visitors, residents and kids were constant.Happy faces best describe the reactions to free tasty treats from The Daily Catch, Lucky’s, Emack & Bolio’s, Sleeper Street Café, The Channel Café, Legal Seafood, the Boston Public Market, and The Barking Crab. Two hundred free pumpkins (large and small) were available to decorate.
Another highlight of the day was the InterContinental Hotel and Residence’s contribution of an elegantly carved 60 pound pumpkin. The party who most correctly counted the number of seeds from this glittering gourd wins a night at the InterContinental! This year’s event combined the traditional fall Pumpkin Pageant with the Taste, which had been rained out twice, in our unusually rainy early summer. The crowd that arrived seemed to take the gusts of wind lightly, and enjoy both the free food and water views. At 1:30 a fishing boat motored by the happy throng, providing a show of gulls! Later, about thirty youth arrived, courtesy of a special run of the Old Town Trolley from South Boston.
	The kids were from the South Boston Neighborhood House, South Boston Boys and Girls Club and the Young at Arts program at the South Boston Community Health Center. Many smiling faces and gleeful antics were evident!
The Friends of Fort Point Channel would like to thank our members who participated in this event:  Shawn Ford, Maureen Kelly and Sue Pye from the Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum; Matt Wolfe and Bruce Berman from Save the Harbor/Save the Bay; Sarah Kelly from the Boston Preservation Alliance; Neil Gordon and Megan Dickerson from the Boston Children's Museum;  Vivian Li and  Katie Mastriani from the Boston Harbor Association; Erin Tracy and Tim Kirwin from the InterContinental Hotel and Residences; Kevin Doody from Independence Wharf; Sarah Kline from the Boston Public Market; the Barking Crab Restaurant, and Bryan van Dorpe from the South Boston Neighborhood House.