The New England Historical Society posted this today:
This article reminded me that I wrote about this in The Riddle of Penncroft Farm many years ago. When Lars first goes to school, it is Halloween,. The teacher, Mrs. Hettrick, is telling the kids about the history of carving jack o’lanterns and how originally people carved them out of turnips.
I opened my e-book of Riddle, and searched for pumpkin, turnip, carving, and jack o’lanterns but found nothing. Yet again I discovered that the original editors took something out without my noticing. (It’s only taken me 35 years to do so!)
