A Punkin’ Chunkin’ Yankee Siege
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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. |
| 0:06.5 | No, right now that's November the season's changing. |
| 0:09.3 | Halloween's behind us, Thanksgiving's coming up, but there's still plenty of fall things to do. |
| 0:14.0 | Sure, yeah, pretty soon we'll be holiday baking. |
| 0:17.0 | Mmm, got a favorite pie? |
| 0:18.0 | Pumpkin, hands down. |
| 0:20.0 | Then maybe Boston Cream Pie and then Cheesecake, if that counts as a pie, right? then, |
| 0:22.8 | cheesecake, if that counts as a pie, right? |
| 0:25.0 | 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 |
| 0:36.7 | south of Greenfield, New Hampshire today. Well, there's plenty of farm fields around us now. |
| 0:40.9 | Is there a pumpkin patch nearby? Well there could be but that's not quite why |
| 0:45.0 | we're here. We're searching for a place where pumpkins came to die in a |
| 0:50.1 | truly spectacular way. We're searching for where large groups of people watched as some |
| 0:55.1 | local farmers went medieval on some helpless pumpkins. Grab your suit of armor, Ray. |
| 1:00.3 | We're in Greenfield, New Hampshire to go pumpkin chunkin. |
| 1:03.4 | Hi, I'm Jeff Bellanger and welcome to episode 323 of the New England Legends |
| 1:15.2 | podcast and I'm Ray Ojure. Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle |
| 1:18.6 | every legend in New England one story at a time. We love all things weird, haunted, monstrous, and out of this world. And we love |
| 1:26.0 | when you tell a friend or two about our show and when you post a review. That's how our audience |
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