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Great Jack-O-Lantern Blaze

January 22nd, 2010 by John Wolfe

The Great Jack-O-Lantern Blaze is an incredible display in New York’s Hudson Valley, containing thousands of carved pumpkins and “Funkins” (synthetic carvable pumpkins).

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Man, they have some cool Halloween attractions throughout the Northeast! I used to live back there as a kid, but as an adult who’s lived in the Desert Southwest for almost twenty-years, I’ve forgotten just how gussied up that region gets for fall.

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Pumpkin Carving, 1967

January 17th, 2010 by John Wolfe

The more old Halloween home movies I watch on YT, the more I see families grow and change right before my eyes. Many of these movies include Halloween and Christmas together, and they cover several years in a matter of minutes, as is the case with today’s entry. The little boy helping his mom carve the pumpkin in 1967, appears to be the same boy (seven years older) during the additional 1974 Christmas footage.

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This particular film took me back to my own memories of carving one of my first jack-o-lanterns with my grandpa in 1977 or ‘78. Is it just me, or did pumpkins (the gourds themselves, not the style of carving) look different in the ’60s and ’70s? Something about them seems different than the typical pumpkins we find for sale today.

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