A far cry from the grinning pumpkins of Halloween today, the original folklore version of Jack-o-Lanterns, named for Jack O’Lantern of the Irish myth, were actually quite terrifying. They were ...

The term jack-o’-lantern was first applied to people, not pumpkins. As far back as 1663, the term meant a man with a lantern or a night watchman. Just a decade or so later, it began to be used ...

plus there's a craft beer tent featuring local pumpkin brews. RELATED: 30 Fall Day Trips from NYC for Families Jack-o'-lanterns stretch as far as the eye can see at the Great Jack-o'-Lantern Blaze ...

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Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-Lanterns sells out every year, making it one of the hottest Halloween events around town. Under the flickering lights of more than 1,000 hand-carved jack-o’-lanterns, families ...

Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...