At the annual Camp Sunshine Pumpkin Festival, held this year on City Hall Plaza:

We haven't been keeping up with our Concord news, so we were shocked yesterday when we made our annual trek to Arena Farms to learn the place was closing forever on Oct. 31:

Boston set the new world record tonight for simultaneously lit jack o' lanterns, with more than 30,000 fired up on the Common (so take that, Keene, NH). We, of course, simply could not risk missing the record - gosh, it feels good to live in a world-class city again!

Many of the pumpkins sat on this tower that highlighted our pumpkin-carving might:

But there were pumpkins everywhere - along Common paths, in soggy fields and on long platforms: