A Punkin’ Chunkin’ Yankee Siege

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In Episode 323 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger get medieval in Greenfield, New Hampshire, where we go searching for Yankee Siege – a world record-holding roadside oddity trebuchet that left its mark launching pumpkins over a quarter of a mile.

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0:00.0	Not many leaves left on the trees here in southern New Hampshire.
0:06.6	No, right now that's November.
0:08.1	The season's changing.
0:09.5	Halloween's behind us.
0:10.7	Thanksgiving's coming up.
0:12.1	But there's still plenty of fall things to do.
0:13.9	Sure.
0:14.4	Yeah, pretty soon we'll be holiday baking.
0:16.8	Got a favorite pie?
0:18.2	Pumpkin, hands down.
0:19.5	Okay.
0:20.1	Then maybe boston cream pie and then cheesecake, if that counts as a pie, right?
0:25.3	Sure, I guess.
0:27.0	But I'm totally with you on the pumpkin pie.
0:29.2	For me, it's a tie between apple pie and pumpkin pie.
0:32.4	And pumpkins, that's the reason we're driving up Route 31 just south of Greenfield, New Hampshire, today.
0:38.4	Well, there's plenty of farm fields around us now.
0:40.7	Is there a pumpkin patch nearby?
0:42.6	Well, there could be, but that's not quite why we're here.
0:46.0	We're searching for a place where pumpkins came to die in a truly spectacular way.
0:51.9	We're searching for where large groups of people watched as some local farmers went
0:56.3	medieval on some helpless pumpkins.
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