Smashing Pumpkins: ; Students Try to Prevent Messy Fate for Their Pumpkin Drop Entries

Charleston Gazette › October 31, 2005

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John Adams Middle School

WHen Halloween comes around, many traditional things like candy, costumes, scary stories, and jack-o-lanterns come to mind, but on the morning of Oct. 20, approximately 500 students from more than 20 elementary, middle and high schools around the state were thinking about something very untraditional: dropping a pumpkin from the roof of the State Capitol building.

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Smashing Pumpkins: ; Students Try to Prevent Messy Fate for Their Pumpkin Drop Entries

The reason? The eighth annual Capital City Pumpkin Drop, a festive event sponsored and judged by the West Virginia University College of Engineering and Mineral Resources...

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