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  • A still from "It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" of two children in a pumpkin patch at night.

    How the Great Pumpkin Became Great

    The origins of Linus's pumpkin deity, who "rises out of the pumpkin patch and flies through the air and brings toys to all the children in the world."
    by Cindy Ott, Jacqueline Mansky via JSTOR Daily on October 21, 2019

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