Long before Linus was summarily chastised by Lucy for his involvement in the Great Pumpkin debable of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," the venerable pumpkin had a long and varied history. The ...

It’s not truly Halloween until you have a pumpkin sitting on your doorstep. Yet every year, you probably notice that after a day or two, your jack-o’-lantern’s face starts to sag—then collapses into ...

Every season, picking pumpkins is the thing to do. And while the pumpkin patches across the U.S. are a fall-must-do, what's next? Brainstorming jack-o'-lantern ideas, of course! If you're looking to ...

No one is saying that the seeds need to be dutifully dug out of their squashes just as October begins — there's no hurry at the start of the month — but gathering your gourds in a blithe and ...

Nearly anyone with a pumpkin, knife and tea candle can make their own jack-o'-lantern. But to make Jack O'Lantern World, the monthlong festival which kicks off at Lake Zurich's Paulus Park Friday, ...

The first day of fall is almost here! If you haven't made your way down to the local pumpkin patch, then it's about time you do. These colorful gourds show up in September and stay on prominent ...

Jack-o’-lanterns aren’t truly "alive" until they're lit up. Historically, this has been done using real candles, but these days, there are many more ways to set them aglow that don't involve an open ...

Instead of throwing last night’s Halloween jack-o’-lantern into the trash, some industrious people are turning old, burned-out carved pumpkins into compost. Composting not only helps your garden, it ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. What’s more classic than carving a ...

It wasn’t for a lack of effort that the organizers of the 13th-annual Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival were unable to set the world record for spontaneously lit jack-o’-lanterns over the weekend.