If you’re planning on visiting the The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at historic Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y, make sure you take along your camcorder for a chance to enter this video contest. Historic Hudson Valley will be giving away one iPod Touch a week for four weeks. In order to enter, you need to capture the event on video and publish your work on YouTube. Your videos can’t be longer than three minutes and the winners will be those that “best capture the creativity and excitement of The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze experience”.

Each week’s contest ends on Tuesday at midnight, meaning videos must be posted on YouTube by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday to be eligible for that week’s prize. Winners will be announced on WHUD on the following Friday. The contest deadlines are Tuesday, Oct. 7, Tuesday, Oct. 14, Tuesday, Oct. 21, and Tuesday, Oct. 28. Winners will be notified by phone or e-mail. Each video may only be entered once and an individual can only win one prize, even if they enter more than one video. Limit one prize per household. Do not take your tripod along, they’re not allowed for safety reasons. After you upload your video, send email to blazevideo @ hudsonvalley.org with a link to the video and your full name and phone number.

I wonder what they do with all the leftover pumpkins? Also, do they keep the seeds and use them for next year? Come to think of it, does anyone know where they get all those pumpkins in the first place?