| The custom of decorating with apples, pumpkins, cornstalks, and autumn leaves has its origin in an ancient Druid autumn festival called Samhain. |
| Wooden, gray gravestones were sticking out of the ground accompanied by carved pumpkins and a scarecrow sitting on hay. |
| In the early part of the 1800s, the area was extensively planted with maize, potatoes, kumara, taro, calabashes, melons and pumpkins. |
| They now raise 30 acres of irrigated sweet corn, 10 acres of pumpkins, and 7 acres of vegetables, everything from acorn squash to zucchini. |
| These lanterns were mangel-wurzels or pumpkins hollowed out with a ghostly face cut into them, illuminated by a candle placed inside. |
| Well over 100 of the pumpkins are carved into veritable works of art, and presented in themed scenes with music. |
