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Great Pumpkins! It’s carving time.

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Pumpkins gathered for carving at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning for families.
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The Rifle Branch Library held a pumpkin carving event on Friday morning going into the afternoon for families to come and have some time together stabbing and digging the insides of pumpkins out to shape them into the scary image they want (which itself sounds terrifying). Pumpkin carving has been around for a long time, since people in Ireland carved them to scare away a lantern-bearing spirit named Jack and still continues to this day.

It takes a lot of people to help carve a pumpkin, trying to cut into something that rolls around needs a lot of stability at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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Pumpkin carving is a laughing family affair, the smell of freshly cut pumpkin in the air at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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Scooping out the pumpkins insides led to many people saving the seeds, probably to roast them with a little seasoning for an autumnal snack at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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A pumpkin spilling its guts (ew) all over the table as families dig them out at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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The pumpkin can see now as his face is brought into existence, knives bent from all the effort of making the pumpkin into its jack-o-lantern persona at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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Pumpkins were not only being carved, but painted on. Three children demonstrate their personal styles on their pumpkins at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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Two family members paint a pumpkin entirely in green and gray at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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A finished spooky pumpkin with handprints from a child at the Rifle Branch Library on Friday morning.
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Lots of families (some not pictured in the back) came to the Rifle Branch Library pumpkin carving event to participate and have some family time with each other on Friday morning.
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