A scarecrow-building contest was among the highlights of the four-hourlong annual Autumn Harvest festival Saturday at North School Park in Arlington Heights. Kids and adults created dozens of ...

Writing about scarecrows in the New York Times recently, the author Geoff Dyer described them as "Silent beings in dilapidated attendance . . . devoid of ego, they are at one with the earth and the ...

That's because hundreds of scarecrows have cropped up in the town as part of its ninth annual Scarecrow Festival. On Saturday, some people scared up their own straw men in the middle of the festival ...

STEVENSVILLE – Certainly, the harvest scene and all of its abundance might have been enough to draw visitors from near and far. The fresh eggs in the basket, the bright orange pumpkin, the basket ...