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Check your calendar now and take some time for Las Cruces’ third annual Fall Pumpkin Palooza event, which will be held on Saturday, October 2nd, from 4pm to 7pm at the Frank O’Brien Papen Community Center and Park, 304. takes place on W. Bell Avenue.
The city announced in a press release that the event will be an evening of arts and crafts, music, fun and games. A costume contest for pets and children will take place from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Participation in the Pumpkin Palooza is free and everyone is welcome.
The largest pumpkin producing states in the country are Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California. The Illinois Department of Agriculture says that 95 percent of the U.S. crop is grown in Illinois.
For more information, call the Frank O’Brien Papen Community Center at 575-541-2454.
About pumpkins
Most pumpkins are orange because they contain organic pigments called carotenoids. You can also find white, red, yellow, green, and blue pumpkins.
The name probably comes from a French explorer, Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), who called them pepons, a Greek word meaning “big melons” which became the word pumpkin. The fairy tale “Cinderella” made pumpkins popular, and there is even a variety of Cinderella pumpkin.
Americans apparently carved turnips before the Irish brought pumpkins to the United States.
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