Pumpkins have inspired the creation of other traditions of more recent vintage, from a "Punkin Chunkin" contest in Lewes, Delaware, to the crowning of King Pumpkin at the Ohio Pumpkin Festival in ...

The Christmas carol “We Three Kings” was written in 1857 by John Henry Hopkins, Jr., an Episcopalian rector, for a Christmas pageant in New York. Hopkins intended the song to be sung by a trio ...