25,644 lit jack-o’-lanterns

That was the final count at 8:30pm on Saturday night, October 20th, 2007.

Although Keene failed to beat the record, now held by Boston with 30,132 carved pumpkins, it was a big win for the city with people coming from all over the country to enjoy the festivities. You can read more at the Keene Sentinel’sPumpkin Festival Page.

Below are a few of my pictures:

Tower of Pumpkins

Some more pumpkins

Amber (Right), Alaxis (2nd from right) and friends

So. . .

Boston breaks Keene’s record for most lit jack-o-lanterns

So that sucked

As everyone knows, my little community of Keene, New Hampshire, is world famous for our yearly pumpkin festival!!

Pumpkin Festival website
Wikipedia Entry on the Pumpkin Fest

Keene set the world record for the most lit jack-o-lanterns in one place in 2003.

The pumpkin festival started in 1991 as a “harvest festival”, and steadily grew from there. In 1992 the pumpkin festival set the first world record for the number of lit jack-o-lanterns, and Keene has broken its own world record 7 times since then. Keene holds the current world record, with a whopping 28,952 lit jack-o-lanterns.

Woot! sing it with me!
(to the tune of “Proud to be an American”)

I’m proud to be a New Hampshirite
Where I can Die or else Live Free.
Where I can eat some pumpkin pie
and carve a jack-o-lantern in the street. . .

You can fill in the rest, i’m sure. (Just make up the words as you go along — you know, like when you’re in church).

The pumpkin festival will be held this Saturday, October 21th.