Month: September 2014

WV Storytelling Festival at Pricketts Fort September 25-26. Can you beat this story? Have you heard about the Great Pumpkin Flood of 1811? The flood waters destroyed the bumper crop of pumpkins growing in the fields along the Ohio. Children became distraught believing there would be no pumpkins for Jack-o-lanterns. But farmers explained the pumpkins floating down the river were not for carving but for making pumpkin ale. The children felt comforted but the menfolk started crying!

September 19, 2014