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| The Great Pumpkin spotted walking back to the pumpkin patch. |
One character surrounds Harvest Day more than any others, and
that character is no doubt the Great Pumpkin. Who’s the Great Pumpkin? Well for
those of you who don’t know who the Great Pumpkin is, I’ll tell you. The Great
Pumpkin supposedly a large pumpkin that spends most of his time sitting in the
pumpkin patch until Harvest Day night when he rises out of the pumpkin patch
and gives toys to all the good little children. There are a group of people
known as the Great Pumpkin Foundation (GPF) who are determined to prove that
the Great Pumpkin exists. The president of this group is none other than Linus
van Pelt. You know him well, remember that kid on Charlie Brown who’s always carrying
a blanket? Yep, that’s him. He has always been a strong believer in the Great
Pumpkin. Every Harvest Day night, he still waits by the pumpkin patch hoping
for his arrival. When asked how long he’d believe in something that supposedly
wasn’t true, his response was, “When you stop believing in a fat man with a
white beard in a red coat that says, ‘Ho, ho, ho!’” He also is famous for
saying, “There
are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion,
politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” The Great Pumpkin tale has been
around for a long time, but there has been no firm proof of the Great Pumpkin’s
existence . . . until now! Another advocate of the Great Pumpkin, Jack
Stevenson has got firm proof of the Great Pumpkin, so he says. Jack Stevenson
is the son of Dr. Steve Stevenson who appeared in our paper a few weeks ago. “I
was merely taking a walk by myself one day,” he recalls, “When suddenly I saw
something big and orange walking by. I almost didn’t believe my eyes, it must
have been the Great Pumpkin!” That is when he took the picture you see above. There are basically two views of
the Great Pumpkin, one of course is that of Linus and Jack, they firmly believe
in him (they even suggest singing pumpkin carols). But others, such as Lucy van
Pelt believes that the Great Pumpkin does not exist but instead, people such as
Linus and Jack are confusing the Great Pumpkin and Santa Claus. Anyway, to
continue the story of Jack and the Great Pumpkin, Jack says, “So I took the
picture and the Great Pumpkin dashed back over to the pumpkin patch. I followed
him but by the time he reached the patch, he was already camouflaged with the
other pumpkins.” This is the first actual recorded appearance of what could be
the Great Pumpkin. We also had a brief interview with Sarah Bus Stop Guy, a
13-year old that lives here in Riverville, near the Great Pumpkin sighting and
has the same point of view as Lucy. Sarah doesn’t believe in the Great Pumpkin
at all (even though a supposed picture of the Great Pumpkin was found), when
asked what her opinion on the Great Pumpkin was, she was quoted to saying, “I
think Jack and Linus . . . [have] got the Great Pumpkin mixed up with Santa
Claus, cause he’s a myth. Ok, that’s it. You said this was the last question,
goodbye!” (She then erupted from her chair and ran to her room) Unfortunately for
the GPF, many other people believe that the picture is counterfeit. However,
because of Jack’s picture, many scientists, called cryptozoologists, are
starting to have greater studies of the Great Pumpkin to see if this vegetable
really exists or if instead of a Great Pumpkin, it is really just a Great
Fairytale.
Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographed by: Jack Stevenson
Edited by: Christian Ryan
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