A published article on celebrating Thanksgiving recommends a lit jack-o'-lantern as part of the festivities. The writer also encourages kids and families to join together to make their own jack-o'-lanterns. (The U.S. did not fully embrace Halloween until the 1920s.)
Starbucks exec Peter Dukes, who arrived at the company with a BA in Economics and an MBA from Stanford, comes up with a new idea for a fall espresso flavor. As it happens, Dukes and his former Cardinal basketball teammates used to alternate sips of espresso with bites of pumpkin pie. Do you see where we're going here? Starbucks has now sold more than 350 million pumpkin spice lattes in 50 countries.
Heavy rain in Illinois devastates the pumpkin crop just one year after a relatively weak 2008 crop. The combination results in a shortage affecting the entire country during the Thanksgiving holiday season. Another shortage, somewhat less severe, affected the 2015 crop.
Per Boston television station WBZ, Connecticut resident Alex Noel sets a new record for the heaviest pumpkin at the annual Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts. The pumpkin, which weighed in at just over one ton, earned the grower a whopping $8,000. Now that’s scary.
