Chemistry club members put dry ice inside a carved pumpkin to create a spooky effect. Senior Grant Larson carved an H to represent the element hydrogen and included its molar mass of 1.01. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
Chemistry club members carve pumpkins Wednesday evening in the Owens Science Hall. Club social chair Andrea Westlie organized the pumpkin carving event for members to come together to celebrate the fall season. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
Andrea Westlie and Sydney Steger, chemistry club members, pose in pumpkin cutouts at an apple orchard. The club visited the Afton Apple Orchard in Hastings on Friday, Oct. 7. (Photo credit: Sydney Steger)
Bundles of corn stalks and broom corn are displayed and sold at Axdahl’s Garden Farm and Greenhouse during the months of September, October and November. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
Senior Julie Plutt buys hot apple cider at Axdahl’s Garden Farm and Greenhouse in Stillwater. Pumpkins, corn stalks, gourds, winter squashes and fall mums were just a small portion of the produce on sale. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
The pumpkin bug sits on display at Axdahl’s Garden Farm and Greenhouse. The car’s bright orange paint job resembles the colors of pumpkins on sale. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
Pumpkins soak up the sun as they wait to be picked from a patch. During the fall months, numerous pumpkin patches and apple orchards open up around the Twin Cities area for people to visit. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
Pumpkins line up along shelves and across the floor throughout the Axdahl’s Garden Farm greenhouse. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
Hundreds of pumpkins sit on display at Axdahl’s Garden Farm and Greenhouse, ready to be sold, carved and set on display. (Carlee Hackl/TommieMedia)
At one of the St. Paul’s Outreach women’s houses, Halloween is taken very seriously with a multitude of pumpkin decorations, including jack-o-lantern lights. “I really love decorating for Halloween because it’s kind of one of those weird holidays where it can go either like really spooky or like really cute,” household resident and senior Jayme Jones said. “I prefer the cute side, because spooky things really scare me.” (Natalie Hall/TommieMedia)
A scarecrow doll perches next to a pumpkin on the steps of a house on Summit. The tradition of carving pumpkins originates in Celtic tradition, though the Celts carved turnips with morbid faces to ward off evil spirits during their New Year’s celebration. (Natalie Hall/TommieMedia)
Jack-o-lanterns light pathway of a witch’s flight in the second-floor window boxes of this Summit home. “My favorite part of Halloween is actually carving out pumpkins,” Jones said. “I just love what other people can come up with. I’m not very creative myself but I love other people’s pumpkin designs.” (Natalie Hall/TommieMedia)
Ghosts seem to come alive in wind gusts. Celtic culture gave birth to modern Halloween costumes. The Celts dressed up as the dead during their New Year’s celebration to protect themselves from evil spirits that they believed roamed freely on the final night of the year. (Natalie Hall/TommieMedia)
A witch’s legs stick out of a flower pot, alluding to her ill fate. Many college students receive decorations from family members, and junior Mikayla Anderson said the decorations “remind us of our families.” (Natalie Hall/TommieMedia)
Gravestones eerily greet trick or treaters running up sidewalks. Halloween began as a Celtic celebration of the end of the harvest season, the Montgomery Advertiser said. (Natalie Hall/TommieMedia)
Cobwebs flutter in the breeze on the fence of the A.M.P. Cowley Cottage on Summit Avenue. The harvest celebration was All Hallows Eve, a night when spirits of the dead were released before the celebration of saints on the Celtic New Year on Nov. 1, according to Library of Congress American Folklife Center. (Natalie Hall/TommieMedia)
“Halloween began as a Celtic celebration of the end of the harvest season”
Don’t forget the fact it’s also based on the Catholic Holy Day of All Saints – the name Halloween comes from “All Hallow’s Eve”