Cindy OttPumpkin
The Curious History of an American Icon
Foreword Not by Bread Alone / William Cronon
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Corn, Beans, and Just Another Squash 10,000 B.C.E. to 1600
2. "The Times Wherein Old Pompion Was a Saint" From Pumpkin Beer to
Pumpkin Pie, 1600 to 1799
3. Thoreau Sits on a Pumpkin The Making of a Rural New England Icon, 1800
to 1860
4. "Wonderfully Grand and Colossal" The Pumpkin and the Nation, 1861 to
1899
5. Jack-o'-Lantern Smiles Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with
Pumpkins, 1900 to 1945
6. Atlantic Giants to Jack-Be-Littles The Changing Nature of Pumpkins,
1946 to the Present
7. Pulling Up a Pig Sty to Put in a Pumpkin Patch The Changing Nature of
American Rural Economies, 1946 to the Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index
