This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

LIAOCHENG, China, Oct. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Oct. 18, the 17th Jiangbei Watertown • Pearl of Two Rivers (Liaocheng) Gourd Culture Art Festival opened in Liaocheng, Shandong, an ancient water ...

LIAOCHENG, China, Oct. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Oct. 18, the 17th Jiangbei Watertown. Pearl of Two Rivers (Liaocheng) Gourd Culture Art Festival opened in Liaocheng, Shandong, an ancient water ...

WEIGH OFF, TAKING PLACE IN HALF MOON BAY. IT’S AN ANNUAL EVENT. IT’S AN OCTOBER TRADITION IN THE CITY. THE WINNING PUMPKIN GROWN BY A SANTA ROSA MAN, WEIGHED MORE THAN 2,300 POUNDS. FOR COMPARISON, ...

John Gourd, beloved husband of Loni, passed away peacefully on September 18 with his wife Loni and family at his side. His last breath was at John Muir Medical Center in Concord, the same hospital ...

I am an accidental gardener. If anything I plant grows to maturity, and by some fluke of nature becomes edible, it is sheer accident. If we had to survive on what I grow, we would both be very, very ...

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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A California engineer and gardening enthusiast won the top prize at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – It was gourds aplenty as boaters dressed as Captain America, Guy Fieri, a hot dog and more made a big splash in Oregon’s Tualatin’s Lake of the Commons on Sunday afternoon.

More than one billion pounds of pumpkins are grown in the U.S. every year, and after they’ve been used for Halloween decorations, pies, and jack-o’-lanterns, millions of them—large, mini, orange, ...

The reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem, after seven years of construction, comes with dazzling alumni and collection shows. By Holland Cotter and Donavon Smallwood The most thematically ...