Circleville Pumpkin Show, Circleville, Ohio, October, 1999. Photo: Cindy Ott.
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Pumpkins Revive Small Towns
Since its reemergence after World War II, the Circleville Pumpkin Show in Ohio has grown to attracting over 300,000 visitors every third weekend in October. It is one of hundreds of pumpkin festivals across the country that has helped rural communities to survive and to hold on to a rural sense of place.
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