If you're from Sycamore, then you know all about one of our dearest traditions -- the Pumpkin Festival. If you've never been to Sycamore in October... you're missing out. The Pumpkin Festival was started by Wally Thurow, when in 1956 he decided to decorate his front lawn with painted pumpkins to highlight the fun and creativity of Halloween. It wasn't until 1962 that the Pumpkin Festival became an official celebration! Now, every year, the front lawn of the courthouse is live

Our film community is growing every day! We wanted to take the opportunity to showcase some of our newest community partners, and share our thanks that they are supporting Other Almosts. Ollie's Frozen Custard You know it's a sure sign of spring when Ollie's opens every year (never mind that there may still be a couple inches of snow on the ground). Family friendly and with more flavors than you can count, Ollie's has been serving the Sycamore community since 1985. A tiny bui

We're nearly halfway through our crowdfunding campaign and it's been a crazy couple of weeks! With a campaign that started slow, we've been building a lot of steam. Last week we were at the Spartan football game on Friday (a Sycamore victory!) recruiting more followers, handing out passes to the Sycamore State Theater, and getting people excited about the film. We passed 300 followers that night -- way to show that Sycamore pride! On Monday, our writer/director made an appear

One of the reasons we were so excited when the Hometown Heroes rally was announced was because we wanted to show what a phenomenal town and community Sycamore is. Hometown Heroes gave us a chance to make our film, yes, but more importantly it gave us a chance to make the film where we wanted, with the people we wanted. It gave us a chance to have the community pull together behind us. We wanted to take today to highlight some of the incredible community partners we have in Sy

We're one week into our crowdfunding campaign and already we're more than 15% of the way to our goal! We couldn't have done it without you - and we've got so much more to do! We have just shy of 200 followers on our Seed&Spark page, but across all of our social media (that's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and right here on the website) we have more followers than that! While we love all of you following us on those platforms, remember - your follow only counts if it's on our S