For some people, getting a Hallow
eon pumpkin means making a
quick stop at a supermarket
For others, it means spending a Sat
urday with the tamily at a pumpkin
patch an event as traditional as choos
mg a Christmas tree
Kathryn Howard, who came to the
pumpkin patch a! Oetenng Orchards in
Harrisburg with her family, her Inonds
and a camera, has made the trip each
October for the pas! several years
I think :! r. a wondortul tradition,
Howard said while watching her two
year old son, Joshua playing in a pile ol
loaves They say in this day and age
when the family is deteriorating that
it's good to have traditions like this And
it's so beautiful out here
With its .tuns o< apple trees, pump
kins and brightly colored leaves scat
tered on the larm, Deteririg Orchard' is
a favorite place (or young and old Poo
pie come back no! just lor a pumpkin,
but to enjoy the atmosphere, eat < ara
mel apples and taste the homem.ide ap
pie cider that Roger Deleting provides
his customers
We do this every single year, said
Mitty Davis, watching her three children
trying to find the perfect pumpkin T his
is something my kids wore waiting for
!o get their pumpkins here
Davis' children weren't alone in their
anticipation to visit the pumpkin patch
So many schoolchildren want to get
their pumpkins at the orchard that
Detering had to turn some ol them
away
We have 4.000 kindergarteners who
come in October, said Detering. of the
kids who come tor tree tours of the
pumpkin patch Wo used to have for
upper grades, too. but there just get to
be too many of them
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so we kind of limi! .1 to kindergarteners
as much as possible • other thar the
handicapped or the elderly hr-said
Detering who plants the pumpk ■
May to prepare for the season, has giv
en tree tours of the pumpkin patch ‘or
almost 30 years Not only does o.n ’
child got to take home .1 tree pump- ■
but the tours are also educational ho
said
We take the kds out to pick an ap
pie and wo talk about the apple tree
how they need the sunshine and the
ram to grow he said
then, we go into the pumpkin patch
and talk about what the pumpkins are
good for. rather than |ust saying,
There's the pumpkin patch, or 'There's
PHolo by Kim Hguyen
Deleting Orchards in Harrisburg is a fa
vorite spot lor pumpkin picking people
the zipples
What Deleting cnpys most is seeing
the increment of young children he
said
Kids*enpy being ou! in the field and
pK k ng their own domg something
themselves he said A lot of them
don I even know it pumpkins grow on a
tree. or on the ground, or where it
comes from They're excited to learn
Watching the kids expressions is
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Two-year-old Ethan Abramonitz wades through a sea olpumpkins in search ot the perfect carving subject The occasion marked Ethan s first visit to a pumpkin patch
Origins of Halloween
nothing to celebrate
be crisp smalt ol autumn is in tha air, and with it comes
the scant of freshly carved pumpkins, long burning can
X dies and an evening where spirits rise lo partake in a fes
tival of fun and fright.
For centuries we have celebrated October under a hacked
up bed-sheet, a witch's hat and an attitude of mischief and mys
ticism that originated from ancient Druid ceremonies.
Halloween, meaning "holy eve" is so named because it was
the night before “All Hallows" or "All Saints Day” on Nov 1.
AN Saints Day began in the Seventh and Eighth century to
honor dead saints during the increased spread of Christianity
However the rites of the preceding evening, now known as Hal
loween, really stem from a pagan religion called Druidism
Long before Christianity spread to northern and western Eu
rope, a group of people known as Celts roamed the land Their
religion, Druidism, centered around nature and the great sun
god. However, the Druids also honored another, rei so fnwndly
god. who ventured out the last evening in October to wreak ter
ror in the hearts of these ancient people
This god called, fittingly enough. The Lord ol Death, allowed
the spirits ol those who had died during the past 17 months to
spend one last evening of placidity among mortal life
The Lord of Death allowed the spirits to finish of! anything
that had not been finished befotw then death because Oct. 31
was the Druid's New Year s Eve. This holiday signaled the end
of summer and the beginning of winter because it followed the
last harvest ol the year Thus their new year began on Nov t
similar to our Jan. 1
This special night was not at all like our light-hearted Hallow
een celebration, however For the Druids, Halloween was a
dangerous night of evil spirits, witches and goblins who's vie
Urns could weave a tale far more spooky than any of our con
temporary ghost stones
To ward off the evil spirits and appease the Lord ot Death
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