Friends of mine used to live in Vermont, just over the border from Keene, and every year they would invite us up north to hang with them and visit the pumpkin chaos as well. Nothing gets you in the Halloween spirit like a quaint New England town, with leaves in full autumn color schemes and 28,952 jack-o'-lanterns everywhere you look.
To give you an idea of how many pumpkins this is -- With 28,952 jack-o'-lanterns, you could fill every seat at a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden (19,763) + every seat at a Ani DiFranco concert at the Beacon Theatre (2,800) + every seat at a Long Island Ducks baseball game at Citibank Ballpark in Central Islip, NY (6,200). That still leaves you with a 189 pumpkins to make some pumpkin bread, some pumpkin pie or to just smash. That's a lot of fucking pumpkins! If Keene can up those numbers another 5,000 we could fill every seat in Fenway Park with jack-o'-lanterns and hence boost the intelligence level and reduce the annoyance level of Red Sox fans, which would be sweet.
Anyway, my point to this whole babble is that I just read that the asswipes at Six Flags New England in Springfield, MA are gunning for the record this year. They want to hit 30,000 jack-o'-lanterns. Well, I say, "fuck that!" Stupid corporate America doesn't have to own everything. Nobody needs the Six Flags/Looney Tunes/Warner Brothers name in the Guinness Book of World Records. I won't be able to fight the fight this year by contributing to Keene's pumpkin festival, but if you are heading that way, perhaps you could. If you are thinking of going to Six Flags keep in mind that Keene is only 77 miles from Six Flags.
Go to a real pumpkin festival not some bullshit, prefab, corporate pumpkin festival. It will certainly be more memorable and it will keep the little guy in the record books!
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