Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Cindy Ott
    • Publications
    • Acknowledgments
  • Online Exhibition
    • Just Another Squash: 12,000 BCE to 1600
    • From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie: 1600 to 1799
    • The Making of a Rural New England Icon: 1800 to 1860
    • The Pumpkin and the Nation: 1861 to 1899
    • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins: 1900 to 1945
    • The Changing Nature of Pumpkins: 1946 to the Present
    • The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies: 1946 to the Present
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Contact Cindy Ott to book an event.

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Cindy Ott selling books at Sugarloaf Mountain Winery in Dickerson, Maryland, October 2012.

Events

Abolition and Pumpkin Pie
Virtual lecture for the Indiana State Museum and Historice Sites
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 7pm to 8:30pm Central time
Link to Register: Abolition and Pumpkin Pie



PAST EVENTS
Just in Time for the Pumpkin Fete!

Book Reading and Signing at Keene, NH
Date: Saturday, October 12 @ 2 p.m. (Eastern time)
Location: Toadstool Bookshop, 222 West St, Keene, NH 03431



Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers Official Weigh-off
Date: September 28, 2013 @ 11:30 a.m. (Mountain time)
Location: Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, UT  84044

Click here for more info

Utah Humanities Book Festival
Date: September 29, 2013 @ 12:30 p.m. (Mountain time)
Location: 4th Floor, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Book Talk and Reading
Date: November 27, 2012 @ 6p.m. (Pacific time)
Location: 612 East Reserve Street, Vancouver, WA 98661

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Interview on the Judith Regan Show's Thanksgiving Special 
Date: Wednesday, November 21@ 8:00p.m. (Eastern time)
SiriusXM radio band 107


Left Bank Books Book Signing and Reading
Date: November 19 @ 7 p.m.
Location: Left Bank Books - Central West End 
399 North Euclid Avenue  St. Louis, MO 63108  (314) 367-6731

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Pumpkin Photo Contest
The University of Washington Press is holding a pumpkin photo contest! Submit the best snapshots you've taken of the orange squash for a chance to win a copy of the book. Post your photos on UW Press Facebook wall or tweet it @UWPress by November 15 and Ott will select the top two of the bunch.

Live Chat "Great Pumpkin Chat" 
Date: October 31, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
View chat at: Great Pumpkin Chat at Grist.org

Interview on the Judith Regan Show's Halloween Special 
Date: October 31, from 8:15 to 8:30 p.m. (Eastern time)
SiriusXM radio band 107
CANCELED DUE TO SANDY

Barnes & Noble Feature in New Nonfiction Hardcover Books
Date: October 16 to 29
Location: All Barnes and Noble locations


Book signing at Comus Market & Sugarloaf Mountain Winery
Date: October 18 & 20, 2012 
Location: Dickerson, MD 20842


Book signing at Barnes and Noble Campus Bookstore 
Date: October 10, 2012
Location: Busch Student Center, Saint Louis University

 

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