Now in my little hometown the college would have big bonfire for October homecomings, and I mean BIG! The kids, (with the help of the city fathers), would install four 90 foot poles in a square and lattice them with boards then all the boys would play rapscallion and run from house to house gathering wooden items for the bonfire, (I hate to think how many now priceless chairs where included). I remember watching them perilously climbing that stack handing items up from hand to hand to the top of the pile. Unfortunately I never saw the actual fire since that happen well past my bedtime.