Each fall, many people enjoy spending some time carving pumpkins to then display on their front stoop or porch in honor of Halloween. There are so many unique ways to customize a pumpkin depending on ...

Fall is here, which means it's time to find the perfect pumpkin to bring home. Once you pick that perfect pumpkin from the patch, it may be hard to come up with cool pumpkin carving ideas that are ...

For many of us, carving pumpkins is an essential Halloween tradition we engage in every year. But have you ever wondered how this custom started? The Halloween we celebrate today traces all the way ...

Toothy grin, triangle eyes, lighted candle. Meh. Sometime between the first pumpkin face, carved by the first mischievous child, and the 20 millionth Halloween pop-up store, the whole jack-o-lantern ...

You learn a lot about yourself when you become a parent. One unexpected passion I discovered in my first years of motherhood was that I loved pumpkin carving for Halloween. Now that they’re older, my ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. What’s more classic than carving a ...

Ken Clayton, aka Dr. Carvinstein, is a local pumpkin carving master who turns pumpkins into spooky works of art. I've missed my family tradition of carving pumpkins for Halloween. So Dr. Carvinstein ...

It's the time of year when Halloween decorations are out in full force, and, of course, that includes jack-o'-lanterns. We wanted to know more about the origins of this holiday tradition, so we carved ...

Jack-o’-lanterns aren’t truly "alive" until they're lit up. Historically, this has been done using real candles, but these days, there are many more ways to set them aglow that don't involve an open ...

For many, Halloween isn’t complete without jack-o’-lanterns. Although the tradition of carving pumpkins has been around for centuries, it wasn’t always pumpkins that were being carved. The carving's ...