A scarecrow-building contest was among the highlights of the four-hourlong annual Autumn Harvest festival Saturday at North School Park in Arlington Heights. Kids and adults created dozens of ...

OXFORD — The Oxford Community Center hosted its first ever scarecrow building event on Wednesday. The scarecrows will be placed around town, and one fear-inducing, straw-filled figure will take home ...

Fall is a magical time. The leaves change color, the air turns brisk, hot apple cider and bonfires trend and scarecrows arrive. If you’ve never ventured beyond pumpkin carving and need scarecrow craft ...

Scarecrows do a much better job scaring humans than they do scaring birds. If scarecrows were used to ward off birds, adds James P. Leary, a historian and folklorist focused on rural Midwestern life, ...