Every two years we have a weekend of storytelling at Balmoral Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. This event started twenty-seven years ago when my good friend, Bill Jones, was pastor of this church. After Bill’s retirement the event has continued. We love the people in this church and the whole community that have there.
Arriving early this year, we were taken by our friends, Fran and Phil Shannon, to see the Pumpkin House at the Dixon Museum and Gardens in Memphis.
More than twelve hundred pumpkins and large gourds are used in building the Pumpkin House. As we approached, we could not believe what we were seeing!
The House is about sixteen feet square with plenty of room to go inside.
Even the chandelier is made of pumpkins and gourds. There are pumpkins in every imaginable shape and color.
The “thatch” roof is made of corn stalks! Our visit was the last weekend the House was open before taking it down. On the day we were there, it was so beautiful and warm that we wondered why it was not left standing until Thanksgiving. Three days later, when the temperature dropped to 29 degrees, we understood…if the pumpkins stayed until freezing weather, it would make a terrible rotten mess! We are glad we got to make this lovely visit.
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