Little Five Points Halloween Parade and Festival normally attracts upwards of 70,000 visitors to Atlanta’s most eclectic neighborhood. Just like last year, the festival organizers canceled this year’s in-person parade, but festivities are still continuing. The neighborhood has a full slate of celebratory events over the coming weeks. Melanie Rabb, one of the owners of the Corner Tavern and board member of the L5P Business Association, and contributing artist to Little Five Points’ Monster Fest, Sam Carter, joined “City Lights” Senior Producer Kim Drobes to talk about this year’s specially adapted festival events.
Rabb shared the Association’s hesitations about hosting the traditional parade, given the massive numbers the event usually draws from all over the Atlanta area and beyond. “We weren’t sure at the beginning of the year how things were going to go, and I’m glad we waited. We still don’t think it’s time to overwhelm the neighborhood, but definitely want to have some fun things going on and spread it out,” said Rabb.
“So we’ve got ghost tours Friday and Saturday through the first week of November,” continued Rabb. “We’re participating in the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival, so twenty winning photographs are going to be in storefronts all through Little Five for a self-guided tour. And then the cherry on the pumpkin sundae is Monster Fest.”
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