Westfield is a town in New Jersey.

Charles Addams was born there.

He created "The Addams Family."

Now the town has a festival every October.

It is called AddamsFest.

The town is about 25 miles from Manhattan.

The festival lasts one month.

Shop windows show the Addams family.

People can see Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley.

There is an art show and a music and beer festival.

There is a dance party and a contest for the best front lawn.

Kelly Heuschkel lives in the town.

She said people decorate more for Halloween than for Christmas.

Joy Fox is a visitor from Cleveland, Ohio.

She said she was surprised.

A nice town like this can inspire such dark art.

This is the ninth year of the festival.

A former mayor started it.

He wanted something special for Westfield.

Dawn Mackey helped start the festival.

She was a town councilor.

She said many people did not know Addams was from there.

One family visited for Halloween.

They went to Salem, Sleepy Hollow and Westfield.

Then she knew the idea worked.

Mackey called it "serendipity."

The festival started in 2018.

Later, a cartoon movie and the Netflix show "Wednesday" brought new fans.

Visitors can walk a trail by themselves.

The trail shows places that shaped Addams' art.

His childhood home is on the trail.

It is a Victorian house.

It helped inspire the family's big house.

An old cemetery is also on the trail.

He went there often.

A historic theater shows his art.

His family foundation lent the art.

Addams worked at The New Yorker for most of his career.

The magazine published his first Addams family cartoon in 1938.

He died in New York in 1988.

He was 76 years old.