TO CARVE A PUMPKIN – JACK-O’-LANTERN HISTORY

“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.” Ray Bradbury With the arrival of October, we are surrounded by pumpkins. They fill shop windows and store fronts. Large bins of them are found in every supermarket. In some parts of the country, you see them afield, warm and orange in the sun. As Halloween nea...