77-year-old Jeanne Fleming has been the artistic and producing director of the Village Halloween Parade for the past 42 years. She says planning this year's parade has been the hardest of all: 'Things are so out of balance in the world.'
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Since August, Jeanne Fleming, who is 77, has been working 17-hour days to prepare for the Village Halloween Parade.
Rebecca Makus carried a 14-foot tall, 40-pound, T-rex skeleton puppet in the parade for several years before moving to attend grad school. She described the night as “awesome.” “I made this theater piece and I understood what my life was supposed to be,” she said. “I understood what I was supposed to do on the earth, and I never thought about anything again, but I haven't been depressed since.”
“You literally could hear the crowds starting to breathe. And then they started to laugh and cheer,” she said. “You could feel the city coming to life.”Photo by Kerry Shaw/GothamistFleming said it has only rained once in her tenure: during the 1990 parade, when she was pregnant with her son. “I thought, this is the baptism. I'm just getting water thrown at me.”
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