CW: Racism, Death
If you want an all-inclusive article about the legend of Stingy Jack and the origin of the Jack o’ Lantern as we use it for Halloween, this is a great one for you. It’s got a lot of links leading off it, it’s got pictures, it’s got both legend and real history. If you don’t look at the other links, this one has the most info in it.
This is a link directly to The Romance of Jack O’Lantern.
This link will take you to the book that I looked through and took a lot of quotes from detailed the political history of the pumpkin in the United States.
This link gives you the breakdown on the history of Thanksgiving, pumpkins, pumkins and as a symbol of abolitionists. And there are pictures.
This one is written from the African-American perspective and talks about sweet potato pie and how that became the replacement for the pumpkin here in the south.
And this one just links to the little story out of Ukraine talking about their pumpkin tradition over there.
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