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Pumpkin carving is one of the multiple opportunities we have to get crafty during the Halloween season. First, there's the DIY house party decorations (even if they're for no one but yourself), which ...

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Dear Mister Manners: In my family, my mother has always cooked the turkey and my father always carved it. I just can’t imagine it any other way. And yet, I wonder: Is the idea that the patriarch ...

It's no secret that we love Halloween, and a super-creative pumpkin is the king of fall porch decorations. So brush up on some pumpkin carving tips—as well as techniques using a linoleum carving ...

Master carver Eulogio Medina Sanabria, one of the few in Cochas Grande, inspects the gourds. Photographs by Joshua Eli Cogan, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archive Eulogio Medina Sanabria holds a gourd after ...