Essex: Lia Sophia Numerosa, 3, of Gloucester, checks out the pumpkin her cousin Emily Palk, 7, of Gloucester, decorated at the Cox Reservation Fall Festival Saturday afternoon. The fall festival offered many activities for kids including pony rides, hay rides, face painting, farm animals, an interactive snake show and cider press demondtrations. Mary Muckenhoupt/Gloucester Daily Times

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