Offering to help our neighbors
Also at our November meeting, we talked about the pumpkin shows now being held at at least a couple of other places in Vermont–the Settlement Farm in Middlesex on Rt. 2, and one in Williamstown. Most of us also have fond memories of the “original” pumpkin show, put on for many years by Karen Moynihan of Ellie’s Farm Market, just a little south of Riverton on Rt. 12–just 5 or 10 minutes south of the Grange Hall. Karen used to carve–literally–up to a thousand pumpkins, doing all the decorative carving herself, but getting help from volunteers to “de-gut” the pumpkin shells. She used the show to collect donations for various worthy causes, as the “successor” shows are also doing.
Karen from Ellie’s gave up doing the pumpkin show a few years ago when her husband was recovering from medical problems, but has been talking about doing “one more show for the grand-kids who never saw it”. So we voted to offer volunteer help for cleaning out pumpkins if and when she is ready to take it on again. We’ll keep you posted next fall if we need to collect some volunteers for this epic task!