Here's a fun fall photo from my childhood. It features my brother and me, along with two of our cousins. We're sitting, as you can see, atop a picnic table, each holding a pumpkin. Alas, I have no memory of this event -- only the picture. The photo is undated, so I don't even know what year it was taken. From the ages of the children, I'm guessing maybe 1957, but that's only a guess.
I don't know if our family grew the pumpkins. Back then, one seldom saw the huge amounts of pumpkins for sale at farm stands as we see today. I can't really picture that my parents grew the pumpkins, though. I'm not sure if they even had a vegetable garden in that time frame. So my best guess is that the pumpkins were grown in my grandmother's vegetable garden at the farm next door. She had a hired man who grew and tended the garden, and I remember being in that garden in the fall when he was harvesting shell beans. So I am guessing he grew a few pumpkins also and that is how we acquired them. But I will probably never know for sure!
Yes I concur, I do not remember a lot of pumpkins from my childhood either. Now which little girl is you Mrs T???
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you have the same thoughts concerning pumpkins in your childhood, Arlene. It seems as if we did acquire them somehow, as we nearly always made jack'o'lanterns with real pumpkins as kids. But you didn't see the heaps of pumpkins everywhere like one does today.
DeleteI should be mean and make you guess which little girl is me! But I'll be gracious. I am the second child from the left, in between my brother and one of my cousins.
Thanks for telling me that one was you..that was my guess!!
ReplyDeleteHow fun that you guessed right, Arlene!
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