Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays ... to use Marie Kondo’s term, spark joy. Buying pumpkins to carve with my brother, for example, sparks joy because in this case, a pumpkin’s worth extends ...

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