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New York’s Great Jack-o-Lantern Blaze

By Amy Hubbard
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

More than 4,000 pumpkins are intricately carved and composed into elaborate scenes, such as a “Dead Sea,” featuring skeletal fish and a full-size dinosaur skeleton, during the monthlong event at New York’s Van Cortlandt Manor. The former home of a prominent New York family is a historic site open for tours with costumed guides.

When, where: Oct. 5 to 7, 11 to 14, 18 to 21 and 24 to 31 at the house, 525 S. Riverside Ave., off New York 9 in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Cost: Tickets vary depending on night: $14 or $15 for adults; kids 5 to 17, $10 or $12; kids 4 and younger free.

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Info: (914) 631-8200, www.hudsonvalley.org.

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Amy Hubbard

Amy Hubbard is a deputy editor on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. She’s worked in a range of departments at The Times since 1993, including as copy chief for daily Calendar, Travel, Books and the AM Copy Desk; SEO chief; morning editor on the Metro desk; and assistant newsletters editor. In 2015, she began a four-year stint at personal finance website NerdWallet, where she was the Banking editor. Hubbard is a graduate of the University of Missouri, Columbia, School of Journalism.

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