Brewing up some Halloween fun

LOOKING for scary good fun? The travel experts at The GO Group, LLC found these events brewing across the U.S.

The Ken's Korny Corn Maze is N. Carolina's first and longest operating corn maze. The Maze opens September 28 and runs every weekend until November 10.

In Philadelphia, test your nerves at Eastern State Penitentiary's Terror Behind the Walls, a spooky haunted house inside an abandoned prison. The event includes Hollywood-quality special effects and lighting, digital sound, animatronic creatures and custom props. Open until November 10.

Boo at the Zoo in St. Louis offers kid-friendly events with haystacks, pumpkins and souvenir T-shirts complete with a costumed grizzly bear dressed as Wonder Woman. 

On Halloween for two decades, Voodoo Authentica, New Orleans, has hosted Voodoo Fest in the French Quarter. On-site priests will speak and teach Voodoo, Louisiana's version of the faith, and the music and spirituality associated with the Lwa — the spirits of the Voodoo pantheon.

Get your frightening fill of creepy creatures and underwater Halloween happenings at SEA LIFE Grapevine Aquarium in Dallas. Watch trained costumed divers compete to see who can carve the best jack-o-lantern underwater surrounded by sea creatures on Wednesdays and Saturdays, October 17-31. Plus, trick-or-treat alongside sharks, crocodiles and other eerie creatures on October 31.

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Writing's on the wall

PHILADELPHIA is home to three of the greatest museums of art in America – the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation and Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts.

Mural Arts Philadelphia has just relaunched its programme of tours in time for the summer, so visitors can marvel at some of the city’s 4,000 murals between more traditional museum visits. 

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Wanted: lively city break . . . look no further than Philadelphia

HEAD to #Philadelphia this June if you're looking for a lively time with an entire week devoted to beer and local breweries during Philly Beer Week, to the Odunde Festival, the biggest African-American street fete in the U.S., to the week-long WAWA Welcome America! Festival.

Celebrate Philadelphia as America’s Best Beer-Drinking City with a ten-day festival beginning the Friday following Memorial Day June 1st - with its dramatic opening of a keg with a ceremonial sledgehammer. Now in its 10th year Philly Beer Week invites beer lovers to try special dinners and tastings, go on tours of Philadelphia’s best pubs and breweries, watch home-brewing technique demos, dance in a hoedown and more.

The ODUNDE festival June 11, attracts up to 500,000 attendees, covers 12-city blocks and has over 100 arts & craft/ food vendors and two stages of live entertainment. The festival is the largest African-American street festival in
the country and is known throughout the world as one of the original models for African-American festivals, hosting many internationally known African and Caribbean performers, dignitaries, folk artists and cultural leaders.

This year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the WAWA programme, which will once again include an extensive calendar of free and fun events, all coming to an unforgettable close with firework displays on 4 July 2017. Running from June 29 to July 4 celebrating America's birthday 

www.welcomeamerica.com/calendar-of-events

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Heritage status for Philly

#PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, has become the first #WorldHeritageCity in the United States. 

‘From its colonial history to the present day, Philadelphia has rightfully earned its place as one of the greatest cities in the world,’ said Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger.  

The city is the home of Independence Hall, where America's Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the US constitution in 1787.

‘As the birthplace of America, with its rich heritage of history, arts, and culture, Philadelphia has so much to offer the world,’ said Jack Ferguson, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau.  ‘The World Heritage City designation will help to attract even more tourists and conventions to Philadelphia.’

The city was founded in 1682 by William Penn as the capital of the Pennsylvania Colony.

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Picture Credit: Philadelphia-CityHall by Versatile Aure - originally posted to Flickr as City hall - 01. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 

Visitor numbers up for Philly

AS a result of efforts by the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, the city had 673,000 overseas visitors in 2013, marking a 13 percent increase over the previous year. 

The city has no sales tax on clothing and shoes.

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Travel facts...........

THE first zoo in America, the Philadelphia Zoo, was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1874.

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