Jerry’s giant pumpkins carved
Jerry Gibson grows some giant pumpkins on his property in Sturgeon Lake. And two of them are now carved and on display at Pier B in Duluth.
Gibson said his goal this growing season was to beat his personal best for heaviest weight, and he did that. The pumpkins at Pier B weigh 1,442 and 1,534 pounds.
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Mike Rudolph spent two days at the hotel carving them. He said to “let the pumpkin tell you what it wants to be.”
“This one here didn’t have a good three points of contact on either the stem or the blossom end to prop it upright like your traditional jack-o-lantern. So what we like to do with it then is figure out, well, what can we do with it as it sits?” Rudolph said. “So I thought maybe it would be nice to have a circular mouth like some sort of a big monster with fingers and stuff coming in towards it.”
The carved giants will be on display through Halloween at Pier B.
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