Spent the weekend near Keene, NH with Karl’s family. We went to the Pumpkin Festival in downtown Keene, which last year won the Guinness record for the number of lit pumpkins at once. This year they were trying to beat their own record of 28,952, but they came a little short at 27,584. Still, you’d better believe that’s a lot of pumpkins. Below, this is just one of five or six large scaffolding rigs they had around the town square. Beyond that, there were many long rows and circles of 12 foot high scaffolding rigs wherever they would fit, plus pumpkins lining the streets, pumpkins in the medians, next to parking meters and in the gazebo, all of them lit at 8:30pm by a volunteer staff of about 1,000 people.