The annual tradition of picking out the perfect pumpkin and carving it transcends generations of Mainers. With Halloween getting close, it’s time to get a pumpkin and get to work.
Here are three photos from the 1930s to the ’50s that show some mighty fine Maine pumpkins.
Ann Donnolly, left, and Monson Douglas, chat with George A. Stuart of Scarborough, who was selling pumpkins at the farmers market on Federal Street in Portland, in a photo in the Portland Sunday Telegram on Oct. 29, 1939. (Photo courtesy of Portland Public Library Special Collections and Archives)In this photo in the Portland Press Herald on Oct. 15, 1946, Betty Small, left, stands with Grace J. Whitmore and a black cat sitting atop a 110-pound pumpkin grown on the farm of Thomas A. Schofield in Weld. Both women were students at Farmington State Teachers College. (Photo courtesy Portland Public Library Special Collections and Archives)In this photo in the Maine Sunday Telegram on Oct. 26, 1958, Sally Ferguson, left, and Linda Pellacani sit with seven beagle puppies and a huge pumpkin. (Photo courtesy Portland Public Library Special Collections and Archives)
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