Halloween is no longer one night, but for some it’s an entire season – perhaps you even noticed Halloween decorations going up in your neighbor’s yard in August! In the Upper Perkiomen Valley, the real kickoff seems to be the night of the Upper Perk Halloween Parade, when thousands of kids dress up and line up along the parade route with their candy buckets and strategies for getting as much as candy as they can from those in the parade.
The Upper Perk Halloween Parade steps onto Main Street in Red Hill at 6 p.m. on Sunday evening, October 25, 2026 – and after a long stroll down Main Street – ends in East Greenville at 4th and Main (East Greenville Post Office). Volunteers for Make Music Upper Perk will be putting the finishing touches (and blowing up a lot of balloons!) on this year’s parade float on Sunday afternoon, starting at 2 p.m. If you’d like to volunteer, show up around 2 p.m. at the parking lot by the Red Hill Park on W 4th Street (next to the former Red Hill Elementary School). If you have any balloon pumps (not helium) and/or balloon tie-ers that you can bring to help the cause, that would be greatly appreciated!
It’s not too late to decide to stroll down Main Street in the parade with MMUP! Throw on a cape, some wings, a pilot’s hat and goggles, some bug’s antennae, fairy wings, or anything that would help you fly (but keep it family friendly and NOT scary, please!) – if you don’t have time to put together a costume, but want to walk, wear your MMUP shirt and/or something warm and show up and we’ll lend you a broom to fly, a cape, or antennae to wear before the parade starts! (though if you could let us know in advance that you’ll need a costume, it would help!)
Walkers will be meeting up in Red Hill at the MMUP float, at the end of E 5th Street (near Plumbing Supply Store ) between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 26th so that we are all lined up and ready to go when the parade starts at 6 p.m.(If you can’t get there until 6 p.m. or shortly thereafter, you can still walk with us – just look for the hot air balloon MMUP float)
There will be a parade shuttle bus picking up parade participants at the East Greenville Firehouse and dropping them off at the Red Hill Firehouse, so you may park at the end of the parade route in East Greenville; either in the large parking lot across from the firehouse. Shuttle bus is scheduled to run from 4:30 – 5:30. The last drop off at Red Hill will be based on traffic and time allowed.
Just in time for Halloween week, the thriller play Wait Until Dark opens tonight, October 23rd at DCP on Barndt Road in Telford.
Other seasonal theater in the area includes Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express at Pennsylvania Playhouse in Bethlehem until the end of October, the musical Young Frankenstein at Playcrafters of Skippack, and Matilda the Musical at 19th Street Civic Theater in Allentown.
And don’t wait to get your tickets for Ghost Hunt – opening next week on Friday, October 30th – at Montgomery Theater in Souderton. The play runs through November 8th, 2026.
A group of seven high school friends decide to spend the night at an abandoned house that is supposedly haunted. A ghost hunt ensues as the teenagers do their best to capture the ghosts on film before the spirits get the best of them!
If you’d like a musical that less spooky, but still powerful, Dear Evan Hansen is still playing at the Steel River Playhouse in Pottstown.
Just a few weeks left to see the Quilt Exhibit: From Gifts of Love to Finding My Artistic Voice at the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA. The Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center is a hidden gem in the Upper Perkiomen Valley, and is free and open to the public.
Introducing Jamee Pemberton, who started quilting in November of 2008, just after completing her 2175-mile hike of the Appalachian Trail. Before re-entering the workforce, she had a couple of months off where she decided to spend her time making holiday gifts. As a lover of handmade gifts from the heart, she completed eight quilts to give as gifts and discovered a newfound passion! Jamee creates quilts of many styles that tend to have color punch, and she likes to include very personal touches drawing inspiration from her love of science, nature and traveling. She has won several awards in regional and local quilt shows. Jamee has turned to her artful side and started lecturing and teaching quilting workshops after a 35-year career as an engineer and project manager. Jamee’s current quilt designs are improvisational and modern. She lives with her husband, Jeff, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.
