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Students get creative while carving
Getting creative with
pumpkins is a holiday
tradition on campus
By Nicole Garton
Oregon Daily Emerald
A trip to the patch can be an ad
venture, but picking the pumpkin
is only half the fun.
Carving the shell into a Hal
loween masterpiece is what the
tradition is all about.
The human penchant for creat
ing pumpkin art is reflected in the
myriad pumpkin-carving contests
that typically accompany the hol
iday, as well as in the diverse
jack-o’-lanterns that grin from
neighborhood porches. And
many students dive into the tradi
tion with relish.
Every year, senior Leslie Nico
las carves a traditional pumpkin,
with triangle eyes and nose.
"It’s supposed to look normal,”
the history major says — except
for the gore-laden knife sticking
out of it.
“I mix red dye with the guts,
and I hang it from the knife,” she
explains. Smearing the knife with
“blood” and lighting a candle in
side completes the effect.
“People look at it and go, ‘Oh
my God, what did you do to that
poor pumpkin?’” Nicolas says. “I
tell them it died."
Freshman Jennifer Toney also
approaches pumpkin carving
with zest, but she takes a less
gruesome approach.
“I’m more of a soft, friendly
evil-spirited person,” she says, al
though she did cut a pumpkin in
half once — “but that was by acci
dent.”
Toney experiments with a vari
ety of decorating techniques.
“The triangle face looks kind of
boring,” she says. Instead, she
uses circles and jagged lines to
carve her faces.
“Once I carved a design with
little waves and tiny lines all over
the pumpkin,” she recalls. “There
was just enough of the pumpkin
left to hold together.”
Toney likes to carve faceless
designs on her jack-o’-lanterns.
“Maybe because I’m a psychology
major, I want to get away from
faces," she said.
Senior history major James Cur
tis also likes to diverge from the
traditional triangular features. His
pumpkins sport representations
of modern characters and reli
gious themes.
“Some are more ornate,” he
says, “and sometimes they’re
more fanciful.”
His most interesting carving
featured representations of figures
from Japanese folklore.
“We looked through history
books, picked a picture and drew
it onto the pumpkin and carved it
out,” he explains.
While Curtis’ pumpkins typi
cally take about an hour to carve,
he and a friend spent six or seven
hours on that one.
But when it comes to carving
with his two kids, 2 1/2 and 3
years old, simpler faces usually
do the trick, although Curtis ad
mits his kids have more fun play
ing in the pumpkin seeds.
“I like to get a big pumpkin so
my son fits in it,” he says.
Matt Garton/Emerald
A horse-drawn buggy caiTies pumpkin pickers to the patch at Hetrick Farms Sunday morning.
Pumpkins
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pound giant purchased a few
years ago, required three men to
carry it out to her Nissan Sentra.
Too big to sit in back, the vast
vegetable rode home in the front
passenger seat.
“It wouldn’t fit in anyone’s
trunk, and I wasn’t going to leave
my pumpkin,” Brennan recalls.
“We had to seat belt it in.”
Brennan freely admits that
when it comes to pumpkins, size
does matter.
“I like great big pumpkins,” she
says as her 1-year-old son Chase
embraces this year’s pick, a
pumpkin bigger than he is.
Out in the patch, a hayride
away from the parking lot and
scales at Herrick Farms, Spring
field residents Marlon Kanafsky
and his family pore over the
plump selections, rejecting first
one, then another. At the shout of
his daughter, Coral, Kanafsky
huddles over a potential candi
date.
“We’ll probably get four — one
for each of us,” he explains. His
family prefers larger pumpkins,
although their taste isn’t quite as
extreme as Brennan’s. He esti
mates their record load at about
40 pounds.
On the other hand, Sandi Miles
of Springfield and her grand
daughter, Daija Farmer, prefer the
small pumpkins, and as they wait
for the hay wagon to carry them
back across the farm, Daija easily
grips a small, round pumpkin.
While size is important, it isn’t
the only standard by which
pumpkins are judged. Shape
plays an important part in the de
cision, and a desirable pumpkin
must present a proper face for
carving.
“I like one I can carve a really
nice face on, and I like to do etch
ing around the face,” Brennan
says.
The taller, more oblong pump
kins are the best for carving,
Kanafsky says.
Alisha Walker, a senior busi
ness major at the University,
agrees.
“I like ones with a long side so
you can carve it and a flat bottom
so it stands upright,” she ex
plains.
For some, like Brennan, comb
ing the patch for just the right fu
ture jack isn’t always easy.
“We’re looking for the Great
Pumpkin,” she says.
But Springfield resident Peter
Anctil’s choice is simple. He
points to his toddling son, who
has just taken off across the field.
“We pick whatever he likes —
usually the biggest ones.”
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