Last week I went to Pumpkinfest up the street from where I living. I went with my wife, her young niece, and her mother. I expected a quaint family-fun-filled afternoon with little to keep me entertained. What I encountered was a high-fueled world of motorized legumes and high speed orange destruction that left me begging a 3-year-old to let me watch just one more pumpkin get fired through the side of a demolished pick-up.
I’ll keep it brief and let the pictures and captions do the story telling, but a little history first. Pumpkinfest (and Regatta) started within the decade and has grown steadily year-by-year. The pictures are from the second Sunday of the 10 day festival. While Sunday is the climax of the event, it does not include the “Pumpkin Parade” where dozens of 300+ lbs pumpkins are carted through town before the big events, and it most certainly does not include the last day’s “Pumpkin Drop” where giant pumpkins are smashed by dropping them from a height onto a car. Sounds cool,I would have liked to have seen it… but someone has to work in this town.
Enjoy the pictures.
-James
P.S. Click on the thumbnails to see the full pictures.
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And the boats in the motorized division are off to race! All of these boats started with a pumpkin 48 hours before the race and ended up with these beasts.
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My favorite boater of them all came over for a post-race chat. What a character, he carpeted the inside of his 904 lbs pumpkin.
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One of my favorite painted pumpkins.
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Another huge pumpkin with at least 4 pieces of flare.
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…and afterwards, we can freeze the pumpkin and save it for future years…..
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Staring down the barrel of the “Big Ten Inch.” An awesome machine of parabolic pumpkin pandemonium.
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See the pumpkin half way between the canon and truck!?
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Impact of the pumpkin on the helpless truck. Every few pumpkin launches, they would move the truck to punch holes in a new place… cool.
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Another method for launching pumpkins.
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All good afternoons must come to an end. See the speck in the sky? Yup, that’s a pumpkin.
Let’s Break Some Stuff
Last week I went to Pumpkinfest up the street from where I living. I went with my wife, her young niece, and her mother. I expected a quaint family-fun-filled afternoon with little to keep me entertained. What I encountered was a high-fueled world of motorized legumes and high speed orange destruction that left me begging a 3-year-old to let me watch just one more pumpkin get fired through the side of a demolished pick-up.
I’ll keep it brief and let the pictures and captions do the story telling, but a little history first. Pumpkinfest (and Regatta) started within the decade and has grown steadily year-by-year. The pictures are from the second Sunday of the 10 day festival. While Sunday is the climax of the event, it does not include the “Pumpkin Parade” where dozens of 300+ lbs pumpkins are carted through town before the big events, and it most certainly does not include the last day’s “Pumpkin Drop” where giant pumpkins are smashed by dropping them from a height onto a car. Sounds cool,I would have liked to have seen it… but someone has to work in this town.
Enjoy the pictures.
-James
P.S. Click on the thumbnails to see the full pictures.