New York’s Village Halloween Parade Begins in a Barn Upstate
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Volunteers constructing some of the fifteen-foot-tall puppets.
Wild things in formation.
Framework for the head of a puppet called, Schnappenviker.
Alex Khan at the table where he worked up designs for the theme of this year's parade: "Wild Thing!" It's a mash-up of the Maurice Sendak children's book and European pagan rites.
Volunteer Laurel Halter (right) has been coming to the barn for twelve years. Her friends, Brian and Myra Luna-Lucero, traveled up from Harlem.
Volunteer Elizabeth McSorley wields a glue gun.
Lucrecia Novoa, Pete Alomar and Rosa Velez have that Halloween spirit.
A volunteer who goes by Surge previews the look he has planned for the parade.
In formation: the next generation of Halloween Parade puppet masters.
Crowns for the character of Max from the Sendak story. Several 'Maxes' will periodically corral the the Wild Thing puppets as they march up Sixth Avenue, then release them. The performance portrays the tension between civilization and the need for release from its obligations.