Halloween is only days away! While it's really one day of fun at the end of October, lovers of the holiday have probably had their front porches decked out to the gills with cute Halloween decorations ...

There's no denying it: Every season, picking pumpkins is *the thing* to do. And while the pumpkin patches across the U.S. are a fall must, what's next? Brainstorming jack-o'-lantern ideas, of course!

Long before Linus was summarily chastised by Lucy for his involvement in the Great Pumpkin debable of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," the venerable pumpkin had a long and varied history. The ...

Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...

Carving jack-o'-lanterns started long before the legend of the Headless Horseman. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Cindy Ott, author of "Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon." It's the time of ...