Sixty-six pumpkins met their
ultimate artistic fate at the hands of 66 carvers last Thursday night during
the annual Great Pumpkin Carve, a fund-raiser for the Chadds Ford Historical
Society. An estimated 6,000 people watched the transformation of gourd to
artwork during a balmy October evening.
Perennial carver Chuck Feld was
on hand, as he has been since the beginning of the carve, and with his
signature call of “Pumpkin guts,” as he tossed seeds and fiber into the air,
reminding people to always wear a hat at the carve.
Feld earned an honorable mention
for an owl he carved. Christine Belton won best Overall for her Greek
Parthenon.
Other winners were: Mark Rutt,
People’s Choice Award and Best Carving; Kristie Primus for Most Original; Scott
DiIrio; for Most Halloween and Kelly Watson for Best use of Pumpkin.
As is every year, the big
winners were the Chadds Ford Historical Society for whom the Carve is one of
the two biggest fund-raisers of the year and the thousands of people who flock
to the event every year, to marvel at the creations carved from pumpkins
weighing hundreds of pounds.
The carve dates back to the
1970s when Andy and Jamie Wyeth, along with Jimmy Lynch would carve pumpkins on
the porch of the Chadds Ford Inn.
The event grew to a point where
it had to move because, as one former employee of the Historical Society said,
“The pumpkins got in the way of the drunks.”
From the porch of the inn the
carve went to the lawn of the Chadds Ford Gallery, then the parking lot of Hank’s,
then the Brandywine River Museum before the society began hosting the event in
1992.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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