Stone Mountain Pumpkin Festival - October 30, 2009 Katelin Wilber and her younger sister Katheryn play in the pumpkin patch at Stone Mountain Park’s seventh annual Pumpkin Festival. A large, plastic pumpkin welcomes visitors to the festival’s pumpkin patch, with Stone Mountain’s Confederate bas-relief in the background. Visitors wander about the pumpkin patch, featuring pumpkins for sale. Kids paint leaves at one of the stations in the festival’s main area. Josiah Vargas of Morrow likes the pumpkin in his stroller. Cayley McReynolds of Douglasville gets a balloon poodle. David Grube holds the pumpkin that he just painted. Macey Greer of Loganville smiles after getting a unicorn painted on her cheek. Dave Chinmay proudly points to his painted pumpkin. Families walk about the festival’s central area, exploring its various activity tents. Catherine Rippy of Conyers meticulously paints her pumpkin. Paraders walk through the park as the mountain’s Confederate carving looms above them. Paraders in all types of costume walk through the park, some carrying life-size pumpkin puppets. Paraders make the pumpkin puppets dance about. Children play in the park’s rustic jungle gym. One-year-old Quinn Barthlette of East Lake, dressed as Venom from the Spiderman comics and movies, pretends to spray a web. Festival-goers explore the many shops in the park. A family of pumpkins watches the festival around them. A storyteller explains the importance of work ethic in front of a gingerbread house, a pumpkin scarecrow, and an enrapt audience. A pumpkin family stands behind the engraved stone featuring the Our Georgia story, helping welcome patrons to the park’s festival.