Toothy grin, triangle eyes, lighted candle. Meh. Sometime between the first pumpkin face, carved by the first mischievous child, and the 20 millionth Halloween pop-up store, the whole jack-o-lantern ...

The air is crisp, the leaves are crinkling and as Halloween approaches, fall nudges you toward a pumpkin patch. Pumpkins are a symbol of fall. Transforming the orange fruit into a light-up ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Plastic and painted pumpkins make for cute and low-maintenance Halloween décor, but there’s nothing like ...

Laughter was in the air at Grace A. Dow Memorial Library on Wednesday as Patrick Harrison, also known as the “Lord of the Gourd,” entertained families with his creative and cartoonish pumpkin carvings ...

Discover which country once used gourds as currency, which Japanese game is played with watermelons, and a wide variety of pumpkin facts.

Are you a pumpkin Picasso? A gourd Gaugin? If you love creating your carved or painted jack-o’-lantern every Halloween, a contest now underway, sponsored by the Pennsylvania agriculture department, ...

Like a lot of Ohioans, Gus Smithhisler gets the itch to carve a pumpkin each autumn. But, instead of going to a grocery store or a pumpkin patch, he brings in a forklift. “We haven’t had one this big ...

HAMILTON — The world’s most-talented pumpkin sculptures are working overtime. Since Monday, 14 artists have been carving designs into a total of 80 gourds in a garage in Hamilton. Each pumpkin weighs ...

The Lord of the Gourd, Patrick Harrison, will return to the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library next week to put on an entertaining watermelon carving demonstration for all ages. Harrison will be carving ...

Carving a pumpkin masterpiece is slightly tedious, but you don’t have to be an artist to do it. For beginners, kits like the ones created by Pumpkin Masters are a simple way to get the proper tools ...