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In 1895, an article on Thanksgiving entertaining recommended giving a lit jack-o'-lantern as a child's prize in Thanksgiving games. [17] [18] The poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who was born in Massachusetts in 1807, wrote the poem "The Pumpkin" (1850), which mentions Thanksgiving but not Halloween: [19]
For the first decade of its existence, the Keene Pumpkin Festival regularly set the record for the most lit jack-o'-lanterns, culminating in the figure (as recognized by the Guinness World Records) of 28,952 lit jack-o'-lanterns on October 25, 2003, [10] but this was broken when Boston, Massachusetts, collected 30,128 on October 21, 2006. [11]
What is a jack-o-lantern? A jack-o-lantern is, as the name might suggest, a lantern—one made out of a root vegetable. (Nope, it doesn’t have to be a pumpkin—more on that later!)
In North America, “jack-o’-lantern” (or jack-ma-lantern among African Americans in the South) was another name for the will-o’-the-wisp—an unsettling and inexplicable light emanating ...
We went to opening night of the Great Jack-O'-Lantern Blaze 20th anniversary, and attendees gave it glowing reviews.
One of the most popular Halloween pumpkins, Connecticut field pumpkins are commonly used for autumn decorations and jack-o'-lanterns; a strain of Connecticut field pumpkins have been described as "the original commercial jack-o'-lantern pumpkin". Due to the variety's appearance and growth process, it is considered to be well-suited for ...
Halloween may be technically over, but you can still find spooky spirit at The Blaze this November.
In 1974, Bourne authored a Halloween-themed book [8] called From Seed to Jack-O'-Lantern. The New York Times Book Review described it as "a fascinating as well as strictly factual" book for children. [9] Bourne worked as a features writer and reporter for The Red Bank Register, a newspaper in Red Bank, New Jersey.