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Be vewwy, vewwy quiet, we're hunting pumpkin
By adamg on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 10:29pm
A couple hundred people and several dozen pumpkins lined the banks of Davenport Creek in Dorchester's John Paul II Park late this afternoon for the annual pumpkin float. Two volunteers guarded the estuary to keep pumpkins from escaping into the Neponset.
Volunteers inserted candles into jack o'lanterns and put them on floats. Alas, the wind blew out many of the candles and overturned a number of the floats.
Kids watched the pumpkins race down the creek:
The kids weren't the only ones in costume:
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what are they afraid of? Do
what are they afraid of? Do they think the pumpkins will get into Boston Harbor and start breeding? I've never thought of pumpkins as an invasive aquatic species.
Oh, they're hell on stripers
Or maybe they really wanted to recover the floats.
I'm guessing it's the floats
More than the pumpkins. Pumpkins will rot. Styrofoam is forever.
Pumpkin float
The volunteers in the canoe are indeed there to make sure the pumpkins and the styrofoam floats they sit on do not float down the river. The floats will be reused next year and the pumpkins are composted.