Pumpkin Racing in Goffstown’s Giant Pumpkin Regatta | Gastro Obscura 

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream. Every October, the people of Goffstown, New Hampshire, come prepared with supersized squash for the Goffstown Giant Pumpkin Regatta. Here, giant pumpkins are weighed, sliced, scooped, then transformed into boats, which participants ride in a pumpkin boat race down the river. How hard could it be? In this episode of Atlas Obscura Tries, we sent Gastro Obscura foods editor Sam O’Brien to find out.
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Special thanks to local artists Marcia Wood-Mertinooke and Andrew Mertinooke for desiging and constructing our awesome pumpkin boat! See more of Marcia's work here: www.mwmertinooke.com/
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