Keeler Tavern Museum’s 2nd Annual Scarecrow Contest kicks off Monday, September 29, when scarecrow frames ($25 each) become available for sale at the Museum’s business office, 132 Main Street. Individuals, families, and businesses are invited to participate in the Scarecrow Contest by purchasing wooden frames and decorating and returning them to the Museum by Wednesday, October 15.
The Museum’s Scarecrow Contest team will distribute the decorated scarecrows along Main Street and at Copps Hill Commons so that during Fall in Love with Ridgefield Weekend (October 17-19), the general public can vote for their favorite scarecrow. Prizes will be awarded for the scarecrows that receive the most votes on Facebook and at street-side ballot boxes. Last year’s Scarecrow Contest featured 24 imaginatively decorated scarecrows.
“Merchants and families had great fun decorating the scarecrows last year,” says Hilary Micalizzi, the Museum’s Programs Chair, “We hope even more people will get involved this year to populate our streets with scarecrow characters for shoppers to enjoy.”
The Keeler Tavern Museum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, presents three centuries of the town’s history through the lives of the families that occupied the site starting in 1713. It offers docent-led tours of its period-furnished building on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons, February through December. Its Cass Gilbert-designed garden is open to the public year ‘round, except during private events.