pumpkins

Massgourd

adamg — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:21:14 -0400

Faegirl took plenty of photos at the annual pumpkin-lighting festival at City Hall Plaza.

David Kruta posted one good shot. Simpson391 has more. Ol' Mr. Boston was there.

Even the pumpkins are getting into the act

adamg — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:04:16 -0400

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

Gourdgeous day at the end of an era

adamg — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:16:46 -0400

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:

Smashing pumpkin record

adamg — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:18:43 -0400

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: