The Bridgehampton Lions Carving Contest will be held on Monday, October 24th starting @5pm. If you’re not coming for the puppet show then definitely get there well before it’s dark and if your not familiar with the event, there’s no actual carving going on at the event, you have to spend the weekend doing that!
This is our 24th contest with 7 new themed categories – please see the current poster below.
12 and under freestyle is now 13 and under. We removed the all ages freestyle category and will award 3 prizes for Master Blade. Any entry qualifies for the Master Blade 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place awards – If you, enter in any of the themed categories, enter in the 13 and under freestyle, or set up on the event grounds but outside of a category, you will be considered for the Master Blade prizes.
We’ve noticed folks trying to use glow sticks to illuminate their pumpkins but they don’t give off enough light and the judging happens in the dark so if you are planning to use glow sticks plan to use a few candles too – glow matters.
Check out the poster below and links to the carving galleries on the left of this site if you need some motivation besides all the prize money… remember it’s FREE to enter and FREE to see but you can’t win unless you bring a carved pumpkin or squash-like life form. Also, many tend to forget about the categories… if you carve to fit a category you will be more likely to win… pick your favorite or if you can’t decide carve 3, you can enter in up to 3 categries! Sometimes a category has just a few entries so there may be a guaranteed win in your future if you make the effort.
If you are a sponsor looking to pay online or would like to make a general donation, see the link to the left or CLICK HERE.
Bridgehampton Lions Carving Contest will be held on Monday, October 25th starting @5pm! If you’re not coming for the puppet show then definitely get there well before it’s dark and if your not familiar with the event, there’s no actual carving going on, you have to spend the weekend doing that.
Coming off the heals of our 22nd event we are introducing a whopping 8 new themed categories – see poster below.
We also added an additional freestyle category for the professionals out there – Master Blade! This year we are, not only engraving the name of the winner we are handing them $500! Winner take all but you have to be in it to win it!
We’ve recently noticed folks trying to use glow sticks to illuminate their pumpkins but they don’t give off enough light and the judging happens in the dark so if you are planning to use glow sticks plan to use a few candles too.
Check out the poster below and links to the carving galleries on the left of this site if you need some motivation besides all the prize money… remember it’s FREE to enter and FREE to see but you can’t win the cash unless you bring a carved pumpkin or squash-like life form. Also, many tend to forget about the categories… if you carve to fit a category you will be more likely to win… pick your favorite or if you can’t decide carve 3, you can enter in up to 3 categries! Sometimes a category has just a few entries so there may be a guaranteed win in your future if you make the effort.
Well, it was very exciting to watch the Instagram hashtag feed Sunday night when all your entries started coming in. We did not expect all the interesting ideas and story telling in many of the entries. If you have not seen them please go to #icarvedfor_bhlions and look through all the images in each. It’s not the quantity of entries we are used to but the quality of the concepts reminds me of our very first contest 24 years ago. It was a similar cautious turnout with ideas no one had seen before in pumpkin carving – so thank you for braving this new territory with us!
That said, we still love our original community event, and hopefully next year, we will be back – with a few twists!
So you want to know who won but you probably already peaked below.
Congratulations to all the winners! Because all were so interesting we posted them below with the winners. These single images do not do them justice so I would recommend a look at #icarvedfor_bhlions if you haven’t already done so. Winners will be contacted shortly via direct messaging on instagram.
And, we can’t mention winners without mentioning all our dedicated sponsors who supported us, even in these strange times! Without them we would have no prizes or an event for that mater! Please see the list of award and event sponsors below.
2020 Award Sponsors
Allison Babcock Design Battle Iron & Bronze LLC Blue light Energy Dayton Ritz & Osborne Insurance Foster Farm Fowlers’s Garden Center Kolb Heating & Cooling Michael Davis Design & Construction Proper PH Pools Provisions Natural Foods Market & Cafe RJD Art Gallery Twin Forks Moving & Storage Wright & Co. Construction
2020 Event Sponsors
Aaron M Daniels Allison Babcock Design Barbara Trujillo Antiques Barylski Land Surveying and Engineering Battle Iron & Bronze LLC Bill Miller Associates Blaze Makoid Architecture Blue Light Energy LLC Bobby Van’s Brennan’s Bit and Bridle Bridgehampton Candy Kitchen Bridgehampton Community House Bridgehampton Fire Department Bridgehampton Inn Bridgehampton Steel & Welding Inc Broadview Gardens Buckskill Tennis Buckskill Winter Club Butter Lane Barn Chaleff Rogers Architects PC Churchill Wines and Spirits Citizens For Fred Thiele Comerford Collection Complete Fabrications Corrigans Country Garden Agway Craig Gibson Dave Hawk Strong Oil Company Dayton Ritz & Osborne Insurance Delamere Building Corp Dermot Dolan HRM Insurace Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects English Country Home Estia Fairview Farm at Mecox LLC Foster Farm Fowlers Garden Center Inc Geekhampton Gloria Jewel Goat On A Boat Theater Golden Pear Corporation Graphic Image Group Greg Peterson Construction Gregory Electric Hackers Hockey Club Halsey Farm & Nursery Inc Hampton Ballet Theater School Hampton Coffee Company Hampton Tank Gas Service Inc Hampton Tennis Hayground Properties Hobbs Inc Integrated Exercise Therapy Java Nation Jeffrey and Silvia Vogel John L. Nealon Joseph W Tyree, Landscape Design Inc Judy Musnicki Kate and Anne Quimby Kathrine McCoy Architect LLC Kathryn Fee Architects Kinnaman-Ramaekers Antiques Kolb Heating & Cooling Koral Bros. Inc Landplans Landscape Details Liberty Iron Lilee Fell Flowers Lyria and Avianna Manual & Sports Physical Therapy Marder’s Margaret McCoy Mecox Bay Dairy Mia Fonssagrives Solow Michael Davis Design & Construction Napa Auto Parts Bridgehampton One Ocean Yoga Center Personal Best Peter Creegan LTD Construction Peter Papademetriou Pike Farms Proper P H Pools Provisions Natural Foods Market Reilly Architectural Richard Hand: Micro Earth Moving RJD Gallery Robert E Otto Inc Rumrunner Home Sag Harbor Veterinary Clinic Saskas Surveying Company PC Saybrook Capital Shine Design + Distribution SperryTents Stelle, Lomont, Rouhani Architects Steve Miller Suffolk Environmental Consulting, Inc. Summerhill Landscapes Inc Thayers Hardware and Patio The Bridgehampton Florist The Drawing Room The Milk Pail The Seafood Shop The Suffield Battles TLT Restoration Triangle Tennis TRM Enterprises, Inc. Tucker Capital Twin Forks Moving & Storage Unlimited Earth Care Vital Habitats W.C. ESP Inc. Wesnofske Farms Witty and Gazda Construction Wolffer Estate Vineyard, Inc. World Pie Wright and Co. Construction
For the safety of the community, we have decided to go virtual for our annual carving contest – mostly because we cannot predict turnout or control the crowd sizes this year.
We will still hold the contest over the weekend of October 24th & 25th BUT via Instagram.
Cash awards will be the same as previously indicated – 10 – $100 awards and $200 extra for the Master Blade nominee.
There is no fee to enter and there are no age limits.
So, We are Still “Glowing On” but Virtually!
Here’s how to enter:
Post your carving as a separate Instagram post on your Instagram account and include the hashtag #icarvedfor_bhlions .
Your entry must be carved the week of the event ( 9/19/20 – 9/25/20 ) and by you. You will need to provide a second photo with the cover of a current local paper in front or with your carving to prove this. Details below.
One entry per post, enter up to 3x per Instagram account / person.
Remember, post your entry with the hashtag #icarvedfor_bhlions to be included with all the other entries.
IMPORTANT NOTE forPRIVATE ACCOUNTS: Tags ( #icarvedfor_bhlions ) from private accounts will not show up on the public results page unless you make your account public til Halloween or send from a public account. The posts must be public to be seen and qualify for the contest. If you cannot send publicly please DM @bhlions the images before the deadline and we will try and post them for you. If the images are not edited or in a proper format for posting on Instagram we will not be able to do this in time to qualify for the awards.
Posts should include the following.
– Image 1 should be of your carved pumpkin, gourd or squash-like life form lit at twilight or when dark/light enough so we can see both the carving and the glow. Most decisions will be based on your first image but judges will look at all additional images too.
– Image quality should be good and focused well to be considered.
– You may include any additional images you feel are necessary after the first image on your post.
– There must be, at least, 1 image that shows the cover of one of these local papers next to your carvingor something proving you are the carver and that it was carved recently. The issue should be from the week of the event ( circulating the weekend of October 24th & 25th, 2020 ). Qualifying Papers: East Hampton Star, Southampton Press & Sag Harbor Express. A photo of yourself with the carving may also be OK.
Entries must be posted between Thursday October 22nd and Sunday October 25th by Midnight.
Winners will be notified by Instagram Direct Messaging within 2 days following the Sunday, Midnight deadline. The message will come from the @bhlions account.
Winners will also be asked to provide their entry images ASAP and before collecting prize money so that we can repost them on our Instagram account by Halloween.
All winners will be posted @bhlions before Halloween night!
All ages freestyle 1 Lily Babcock 2 Luke Babcock 3 Alison Babcock
Master blade Julie Cummings Bosch
2019 Sponsors:
Aaron M Daniels Agri-Ornamentals Inc Babcock Design Barbara Trujilo Antiques Barylski Land Surveyor, PC Battle Iron & Bronze LLC Bill Miller Associates Blaze Makoid Architecture Blue Light Energy Bobby Van’s Brennan’s Bit & Bridle Bridgehampton Candy Kitchen Bridgehampton Community House Bridgehampton Fire Department Bridgehampton Inn Restaurant Bridgehampton National Bank Bridgehampton Steel & Welding Buckskill Tennis Buckskill Winter Club Butter Lane Barn Chaleff Rogers Architects PC Chase Edwards Contemporary Gallery Churchill Wines and Spirits Comerford Collection Complete Fabrications Corrigans Country Gardens Agway Craig Gibson David and Evelyne Battle Dayton Ritz & Osborne Insurance Delamere Building Corporation Dermot Dolan Hampton Risk Management Duckwalk Vineyards Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects English Country Home Estias Fairview Farm at Mecox Fairway Restaurant Foster Farm Fowlers Garden Center Geekhampton Gloria Jewel Goat On A Boat Theater Golden Pear Cafe Graphic Image Group Greg Petersen Construction Gregory Electric Hackers Hockey Club Halsey Farm & Nursery Inc. Hampton Ballet Theater School Hampton Float Hampton Tank Gas Service Hampton Tennis Integrated Exercise Therapy Java Nation JCP Landscaping Jeffrey and Silvia Vogel John L. Nealon E.A. Joseph W. Tyree, Landscape Design inc. Kate and Anne Quimby Kathrine McCoy Architect AIA Kathryn Fee, Architect Kinnaman-Ramaekers Antiques Kolb Heating & Cooling Koral Bros Inc. L&W Market La Capannina Land Plans Landscape Details Liberty Iron Lilee Fell Flowers Lin Restivo Manual & Sports Physical Therapy Marder’s Markowitz, Fenelon & Bank LLP Mecox Bay Dairy Mia Solow Michael Davis Design & Construction Micro Earth Moving Inc. Napa Auto Parts Bridgehampton NYS Assemblyman Fred Thiele O’Connell Family One Ocean Yoga Center Personal Best Peter Creegan LTD Construction Peter Papademetriou Peter Robinson Pike Farms Proper PH Pools Provisions Natural Foods Market Reilly Architectural RJD Gallery Robert Otto Glass Sabrosa Mexican Grill Sag Harbor Veterinary Clinic Saskas Surveying Company PC Saybrook Capital Shine Design + Distribution Sperry Tents Stelle, Lamont, Rouhani Architects
Steve Miller Strong Oil Suffolk Environmental Consulting Inc. Summerhill Landscapes Inc. Thayers Hardware The Bridgehampton Florist The Drawing Room The Milk Pail The Raynor Group The Seafood Shop
Timothy Godbold TLT Restoration Triangle Tennis TRM Enterprises Tucker Capital Tutto Bene Ltd. Twin Forks Moving & Storage Unlimited Earth Care Vital Habitats Inc. Water Mill Lumber W.C. ESP Inc. Wesnofske Farm Witty and Gazda Construction Wolffer Estate Vineyard Inc. World Pie Wright and Co. Construction
Bridgehampton Lions Carving Contest will be held on Monday, October 29th starting @5pm! If you’re not coming for the puppet show then definitely get there well before it’s dark and if your not familiar with the event, there’s no actual carving going on, you have to spend the weekend doing that.
Coming off the heals of our 20th event we are introducing 5 new themed categories – see poster below.
We also added an additional freestyle category for the professionals out there – Master Blade! This year we are, not only engraving the name of the winner we are handing them $500! Winner take all but you have to be in it to win it!
We’ve recently noticed folks trying to use glow sticks to illuminate their pumpkins but they don’t give off enough light and the judging happens in the dark so if you are planning to use glow sticks plan to use a few candles too.
Check out the poster below and links to the carving galleries on the left of this site if you need some motivation besides all the prize money… remember it’s FREE to enter and FREE to see but you can’t win the cash unless you bring a carved pumpkin or squash-like life form. Also, many tend to forget about the categories… if you carve to fit a category you will be more likely to win… pick your favorite or if you can’t decide carve 3, you can enter in up to 3 categries! Sometimes a category has just a few entries so there may be a guaranteed win in your future if you make the effort.
Presenting… the poster for the 20th Annual Bridgehampton Lions Carving Contest on Monday, October 29th starting @5pm! We’re not talking turkey carving, although I suppose you could carve a turkey too. If you’re not coming for the puppet show then definitely get there well before it’s dark and if your not familiar with the event, there’s no actual carving going on, you have to spend the weekend before doing that.
To commemorate the past 19 years we are bringing back many of our favorite retired categories. Do you remember Dentist’s Dream? It was a favorite from 2000-2005 and Classic Jack is the only category to make all 20 Events. Check out the poster below and links to the carving galleries on the left of this site if you need some motivation besides all the prize money… remember it’s FREE to enter and FREE to see but you can’t win the cash unless you bring a carved pumpkin or squash-like life form. Also, many tend to forget about the categories… if you carve to fit a category you will be more likely to win… pick your favorite or if you can’t decide go for 3! Sometimes a category has just a few entries so there may be a guaranteed win in your future if you make the effort.
2018 Mystery Category: Most Aerodynamic – This was actually a popular category on the on the original private pilot event but never made the big show, till now!
Another Great Night!
Thank you to all the carvers and sponsors. See below for a list of the 2017 winners, we will post a list of the sponsors here too shortly. Also, event photos were posted in the links to the left, take a look..
Master Blade: Bill Stewart
Freestyle:
1. Pamela Eldridge
2. David Rattray
3. Julie Cummings-Bosch
Aaron M. Daniels
Aman Custom Builders
A.P.Tuff Builder
Babcock Peffer Design
Barbara Trujillo Antiques
Battle Iron & Bronze LLC
Blaze Makoid Architecture
Blue Light Energy
Bobby Van’s
Bridgehampton Candy Kitchen
Bridgehampton Community House
Bridgehampton Fire Department
Bridgehampton Inn Restaurant
Bridgehampton Steel & Welding
Brown Harris Stevens
Buckskill Tennis Club
Buckskill Winter Club
Butter Lane Barn
Capelli Hair & Skin
Chaleff & Rogers Architects PC
Churchill Wines & Spirits
Coastal Home
Comerford Collection
Complete Fabrications
Country Gardens Agway
Country Garden Farm Stand
Craig Gibson
Dayton Ritz & Osborne Insurance
David And Evelyne Battle
Delamere Building Corp.
Dermot PJ Dolan
Hamptons Risk Management Agency
Despach Self Storage
Dorothy And Michael Reilly
Dortronics Systems Inc.
Duckwalk Vineyards
East End Blueprint
Edmund Hollander Landscape
English Country Home
Ethan Allen
Fairview Farm At Mecox
Fairway Restaurant
Farrell Building
Fowler’s Garden Center, Inc.
Gary Glanz for SH Town Trustee
Gay Lynch
General Roofing Co.
Goat On A Boat Theater
Golden Pear Café
Gotham Gym
Graphic Image Group
Gregory Electric
Greg and Eva Petersen
Hackers Hockey Club
Halsey Farm And Nursery
Hampton Ballet Theatre School
Hampton Coffee Co.
Hampton Tank Gas
Hamptons Tennis Company
Harmonia Inc.
Hayground Properties LLC
Hobbs Inc.
Home Sweet Home
Integrated Exercise Therapy
J. McLaughlin
Janice And Richard Delano
Java Nation
JCP Landscaping Inc.
Jeffrey and Sylvia Vogel
John Barylski PE LS
John L. Nealon
John Wiltshire Agency
Joseph Tyree Landscape Design
Judy Musnicki
Katherine McCoy Architect
Kathryn Fee Architect
Kathryn F. Reis
Kate and Anne Quimby
Keith Sonnier
Kinnaman-Ramaekers Antiques
Kiwi Construction
Kolb Heating & Cooling
Koral Bros. Inc.
La Capannina
Landplan
Landscape Details Inc.
Leonard Metal Art Works Inc.
Liberty Iron
Lilee Fell Flowers
Lyria Battle
Main Beach
Marder’s
Markowitz, Fenelon and Bank LLP
Mecox Bay Dairy
Meritage Financial Strategies
Mia Fonssagrives Solow
Michael Davis Construction
Napa Auto Parts Bridgewhampton
NYS Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr.
One Ocean Yoga
Peggy McCoy
Personal Best
Peter Creegan Ltd.
Pike Farms
Proper Ph Pools
Provisions Natural Foods Market
Richard Hand: Micro Earth Moving
RJD Gallery
Robert Otto Glass
Ruby Beets
Rumrunner Home
Sabrosa Mexican Grill
Sag Harbor Veterinary Clinic
Saskas Surveying Company PC
Saunders Real Estate
Saybrook Capital
Shine Design + Distribution
Southeby’s International
Sperry Tents
Stelle, Lamont, Rouhani Architects
Stephen L. Trokel, MD
Suffolk Environmental Consulting Inc
Summerhill Landscapes, Inc.
Tamara Magel Studio
Thayer’s Hardware & Patio
The Bridgehampton Florist
The Milk Pail
The Seafood Shop
T.L.T. Restoration
Tom O’Donoghue Associates
Town and Country Real Estate
Triangle Tennis Club
TRM Enterprises Inc.
Tucker Capital
Tutto Bene Ltd.
Twin Forks Moving & Storage Ltd.
Vital Habitats
Wainscott Dental
Wainscott Inn
Water Mill Building Supply
W.C. ESP Inc.
Wesnofske Farm
Witty & Gazda Construction
Wolffer Estate Vineyards
Yama-Q
So here is what you have all been waiting for… the 2017 carving contest poster with 4 new categories! We are ahead of schedule this year so I can also announce all the category sponsors and the Mystery Category all in one shot. Check out the links to the carving galleries on the left of this site too if you need some motivation besides all the prize money… remember it’s FREE to enter and FREE to see but you can’t win the cash unless you bring a carved pumpkin or squash-like life form. Also, many tend to forget about the categories… if you carve to fit a category you will be more likely to win… pick your favorite or if you can’t decide go for 3! Sometimes a category has just a few entries so there may be a guaranteed win in your future if you make the effort.
Mystery Category: Downside Up Jack ( you will only see that right here! )
