Zombified candidates, cat ladies and kids take over Manchester – oh my!

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Autumn Chadbourne, 10, of Manchester, gets in full zombie mode.
Autumn Chadbourne, 10, of Manchester, makes a convincing zombie during Intown Manchester’s 2016 Zombie Walk.

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MANCHESTER, NH – Nothing says Halloween season quite like an annual gathering of zombies in the Queen City, which is why Saturday’s 5th Annual Zombie Walk 2016 added some seasonal color to an otherwise dreary October afternoon.

Of course, being New Hampshire during campaign season, meant that this year’s walk also doubled as a campaign stop for three zombified presidential hopefuls – Zombie Trump, Zombie Hillary and Zombie Hunter Gary Johnson.

The outcome was predictable.

“It was rigged,” said Moe Egan, tossing her Trumpish gravity-defying hair to one side and furrowing her bushy brows, after the trio failed to win the popular vote at Stark Brewing Company, where winners were determined by applause.

When Rock 101 on-air radio personality Adam Furious got to the “scary adult zombie” part of the competition, he introduced Egan, along with her sidekicks, Zombie Hillary Clinton, aka Ally Dube, and Zombie Hunter Gary Johnson, aka Dan Dube, as the frightening collective also known as “November 8, 2016, the End of the World.”

Cheers for the presidential zombies were notably subdued.

“Let it be known that, even as zombies, nobody likes politics,” Furious said.

Official group shot outside City Hall.
Official group shot outside City Hall.

In the end, a decaying Dorothy of Oz, aka Mekalia Mason-Rollins, 18, prevailed as Best Zombie of the Day, with her authentically gruesome portrayal of one of her favorite childhood movie characters.

Her inspiration?

“I watched ‘Sharknado,’ and then thought about what it would look like if something bad happened to Dorothy,” she said, with a decomposing smile.

Cayden Parker, 9, of Manchester, brought home the trophy for best young zombie for his rendition of Zombie Kurt Cobain, deceased front man of Nirvana, complete with tattered grungy flannel and disaffected big, blue, eyes.

The event drew about 150 living-dead revelers to downtown Manchester, said Intown Manchester’s Executive Director and lead zombie, Sara Beaudry. She gave big props to Felicia Whitney and Trixie Vasquez, the zombie make-up artists for the pre-walk zombie prep session.

“These two give Spooky World a run for their money,” said Beaudry, during the after-party at Stark – the city’s oldest brewery – where zombies and their families, in the spirit of all things zombie, enjoyed cooked animal offerings and micro-brews wrought from fermented plant life.

Manchester Police Officer Guy Kozowyk said although he’s witnessed zombie gatherings before, this was his first official zombie detail – no big deal, since Officer Kozowyk has some experience with the living dead, as a former lead singer with The Red Chord, a popular Boston-based death metal band.

“It’s a good crowd,” said Officer Kozowyk, of the festivities.


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Carol Robidoux

PublisherManchester Ink Link

Longtime NH journalist and publisher of ManchesterInkLink.com. Loves R&B, German beer, and the Queen City!