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Tag: pumpkins
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Archive dive: A report from Morton, Illinois, the self-declared pumpkin capital of the world
In 2006, Linda Lutton and Catrin Einhorn explored the town’s busy season and spoke with the workers who pack the pumpkin, most of whom come from the tiny Mexican town of La Soledad.
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Ground Zero for the Pumpkin Shortage
The rainy weather that has caused a shortage of canned Libby’s pumpkin has an even more dire effect on the largely Mexican laborers of downstate Morton, Illinois, the “pumpkin capital of the world.”
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Punkin’ chunkin’ in the pumpkin capital of the world
Morton, Illinois: the Pumpkin Capital of the World.