In one of the earliest instances of the jack-o’-lantern as Halloween decor, the mayor’s wife had several pumpkins—lit from within and carved with faces—placed around the party, ending Jack ...

painters created a jack-o’-lantern face on both sides of the tank, he said. Community is in large part the focus of Smilin’ Jack. A part of the draw to the oversized pumpkin is that during one ...

Sure, you can just put some spooky eyes and teeth on your jack-o’-lantern and call it a day ... I would have to sculpt the moon out of the face of the pumpkin using wood etching tools.

In the passage below, Ott explores the origins of the carved jack-o’-lantern, especially as it ... and carving in it “the outline of three faces, with their eyes, and noses, and teeth.” ...

Hoberdy's Lanterns had carved-out faces in turnips and the stump of a candle within. Pumpkins eh? here's proper scary, a traditional Irish Jack-O-Lantern made from a turnip. It dates from 1903 and ...

Pumpkins! These round, orange vegetables are a familiar sight as Halloween approaches. But have you ever stopped to ask - why do people carve pumpkins for Halloween? And why are carved pumpkins ...

Sure, you may think jack-o'-lanterns have always been carved out ... the devil took pity on him and gave him a piece of coal for his turnip lantern to light his way as he roamed forever, which ...

I tend to choose strange and unconventional things to carve into my pumpkins, but every year I make sure to buy an extra perfectly rotund pumpkin to carve the classic Jack-o-lantern into.

Now that you have our pumpkin prepped, it’s time to design. You can freehand a spooky face or use a stencil. If you use a stencil, tape it to the pumpkin and trace the design with a marker or pen.

Unlike so many crops that have been bred, selected, and nutritionally improved over the millennia, the jack-o'-lantern pumpkin ... their tradition of carving faces in assorted starchy veggies.

“North Augusta’s Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee will take place as scheduled ... a sense of normalcy and put some smiles on people’s faces,” Meyer said. There are also talks about having ...