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re:history

> history
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>    * To: pumpkins@athenet.net
>    * Subject: history
>    * From: Andy <aje@penn.com> (by way of Dan Gardner)
>    * Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:37:10 -0500
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> Would you please enlighten me as to where and how the tradition of
> carving a pumpkin came to exist... Thanks
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Take alook on the archive under my name and look for jack-o-lantern.
I also heard the wifes used gourds as laterns and carved at this time.
They would use then to go to the market to collect their husbands at
night in the old days.  I would assume it was the taverns versus the
markets.
http://www.mallorn.com/lists/pumpkins/search.cgi
use jack-o-lantern as the word.
-- 
Duncan McAlpine, Federal Way, WA   m*@eskimo.com
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