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Pumpkins

With sweet, soft flesh, the Long Island cheese pumpkin makes a great pie.

This Obscure Heirloom Pumpkin Makes a Fantastic Pie

Never a commercial success, the Long Island cheese pumpkin deserves a place in your Thanksgiving dessert.

Sarah Lohman November 22, 2024

A Thanksgiving Plateful of Places

From a turkey tribute to a potato hotel, there's more than enough to go around here.

Roxanne Hoorn November 22, 2024

Angier, North Carolina

Gourd Museum at the Angier Public Library

A lovingly created and maintained collection of decorative gourd art.

Podcast: A Giant Spectacle in Goffstown

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

The Podcast Team January 25, 2024

Circleville, Ohio

World's Largest Pumpkin Water Tower

Circleville is seriously smitten with this giant gourd.

A woman loading <em>zucca violina</em> into a van.

This Italian City Is Obsessed With Squash

Ferrara is the place for all things pumpkin.

Elena Valeriote October 25, 2023

Every year, countless carved pumpkins turn out scarier than planned thanks to those meddling microbes.

Only You Can Prevent Sad Pumpkins

Keep your Halloween masterpiece looking ghoulishly good with a few easy steps.

Matt Kasson October 17, 2022

Okemo Fire Tower, looking north

10 Places to Fall in Love With Fall

Get into the spirit before winter closes its icy grip.

Jonathan Carey November 5, 2021

Racing a Giant Pumpkin Boat in Goffstown’s Regatta

Long Island Cheese Pumpkin

This recently revived New York heirloom doesn't contain cheese, but it does make an iconic pumpkin pie.

Brooklyn, New York

Kane Street Impaled Pumpkins

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

A little grumpy, but holding on.

Allow These 32 Slumping Pumpkins to Ease Your November Blues

Gravity and entropy are cruel, but sometimes hilarious, sculptors.

Eric Grundhauser November 9, 2018

The melancholy beauty of the aging pumpkin.

Show Us Your Sad, Sagging Halloween Pumpkins

November jack-o'-lanterns deserve love, too.

Eric Grundhauser October 31, 2018

Racers in their pumpkins.

Goffstown, New Hampshire

Goffstown Giant Pumpkin Regatta

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

A conkie with sweet raisins.

Conkies

It's not Bajan Independence Day without banana leaf–wrapped corn cakes.

The growing world has come far since circa 1901, when this giant pumpkin weighed a whopping 91 pounds.

The Massively Friendly World of Competitive Giant Pumpkin Growing

Big gourds, small egos.

Paula Mejia October 24, 2017

The pumpkin on the tower.

31 days of halloween

More Than 20 Years Later, Cornell's Great Pumpkin Mystery Remains Unsolved

Who put a gourd on top of this 173-foot bell tower?

Cara Giaimo October 11, 2017

A multi-sensory scare experience.

The Smell of Pumpkin Spice Forced a Baltimore School to Evacuate

The scourge of fall strikes again.

Cara Giaimo October 6, 2017