The
Topsfield Fair, near Boston, Massachusetts, has an annual giant pumpkin
weigh-off and has for years offered a $10,000 bonus for the first
one-ton pumpkin. Ron Wallace of Greene, Rhode Island, has delivered that
pumpkin. His entry weighed 2,009 pounds!
A throng of
press and spectators gathered around as Wallace celebrated at the end of
Friday night’s weigh-off. All night, people posed with the behemoth
that sat at the far end of the fairground’s arena, with members of the
New England Pumpkin Growers Association and others saying measurements
were off the charts and foretold this could be the big one.
“It’s
a great world record,” said the general manager of America’s oldest
agricultural fair, James O’Brien. “Topsfield has had a lot of world
records, but this one is special. This is absolutely one of the top
sites in the country where you can come and weigh-off a pumpkin.” There
have been seven world record giant pumpkins weighed at Topsfield in the
last 15 years, O’Brien said.
The previous world
record pumpkin was 1,843.5 pounds, set just a day before Wallace's
weigh-in. Wallace won $5,500 for this year's competition and the $10,000
bonus, too.
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