Featuring: Kids games and activities; demonstration classes; a gourd puppet show; crafted gourds, including home décor and jewelry; plain gourds and gourd supplies, the sale of pies, cookies and jams; ...

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...