all day, and he expected the usual evening rush of people shopping after work. Pumpkin purchasers weighed their choices by a variety of criteria, including size, color and shape. Steve and Sam ...

Long Island's "Halloween Wars" artists show how you can carve your own. ... At the end, thin strips of pumpkin "flesh" cover the seams so it looks like one big sculpture.

Native to New York, the Long Island cheese pumpkin nearly went the way of the dodo in the 1960s, despite being only a couple ...

You also want the pumpkin to be as long and symmetrical as possible, with a flat bottom and smooth skin. Kristensen grew the massive pumpkin in his yard (top), and it weighed more than 1,200 pounds.