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That is exactly what happens in Keene, New Hampshire, when the town stacks tens of thousands of carved, grinning jack-o'-lanterns on towers, scaffolds, and staircases downtown. At its biggest, the Keene Pumpkin Festival lit more than 30,000 jack-o'-lanterns at once, enough to set a Guinness World Record. Can you imagine walking down a street where every railing, roof, and lamppost wears a glowing pumpkin face? In Keene, that street is real.  \nThat wall of light did not appear by magic; it appeared because an entire  \ncommunity showed up with knives, spoons, and candles. The festival began in 1991 as a hometown celebration, and it grew fast as neighbors challenged one another to bring more pumpkins each year. Volunteers built tall metal scaffolds, sometimes several stories high, so that carved pumpkins could be stacked in glowing rows toward the sky. Kids, parents, and grandparents all pitched in, because reaching a record of 30,000 takes far more hands than any one family has.  \nReaching a number that large also takes a mountain of pumpkins, and cleaning them out is messier than you might think. Each jack-o'-lantern starts as a whole pumpkin that someone slices open, scoops hollow, and carves with a face before dropping in a light. Long ago, people used a real candle for the glow, but today many carvers switch to battery-powered tea lights that will not blow out or start a fire. That small change matters, because a candle might last an hour, while a little LED can shine steadily through the whole cold evening.  \nSteady light is important when the pumpkins have to survive a chilly New England night, and the carving tradition itself is older than the use of pumpkins for it. People in Ireland and Scotland once carved scary faces into turnips and potatoes, and they told a story about a trickster named Jack who wandered with a glowing coal in a hollowed vegetable. When immigrants brought that custom across the ocean, they found that North American pumpkins were bigger, softer, and far easier to carve. So a turnip tradition became a pumpkin tradition, simply because a new land offered a better vegetable for the job.  \nKeene is not the only place where that pumpkin tradition turns into a giant show of light.  \nCities and farms around the United States hold their own jack-o'-lantern trails, where carved pumpkins are arranged along paths through the woods or gardens. Some displays feature pumpkins carved into detailed pictures, from animals to famous faces, lit so cleverly that they look almost like paintings. Keene's claim to fame, though, was never the fanciest carving; it was the sheer, jaw-dropping number of pumpkins glowing together at one moment.  \nThat record for the most lit at once has bounced between Keene and other communities over the years, which is part of the fun. Breaking it means counting every single burning pumpkin, so officials walk the rowsand tally them one by one before the number can count. Think about the effort hidden in that total: thousands of people, thousands of spoons, and thousands of tiny flames all lined up for one night. When  \nthose 30,000 faces flickered together, the little city of Keene briefly held more grinning pumpkins than most people will see in a lifetime.  \nThe Night of 30,000 Jack-o'-Lanterns  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) According to the passage, about how many jack-o'-lanterns did Keene light at its record-setting peak?\u003Cbr>A. More than 50,000 at once B. More than 30,000 at once\u003Cbr>C. More than 13,000 at once D. More than 5,000 at once |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) How does the first sentence of paragraph 4 help connect the article's sections?\u003Cbr>A. It summarizes the whole article before adding a new fact\u003Cbr>B. 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