Smashing Pumpkins-The Gourd That Changed A Town
Outside/In
NHPR
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🗓️ 3 February 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started, we want to let you know that there's some profanity in this segment. |
| 0:05.0 | So, heads up. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm from New Hampshire, and in New Hampshire everyone already knows this story, |
| 0:12.0 | or at least they think they know it. |
| 0:14.0 | And the story starts in a college town called Keene. |
| 0:17.0 | Keene is the quintessential New England college town. |
| 0:20.0 | It has coffee shops, a historic diner, killer fall foliage, a town square complete |
| 0:26.2 | with an 18th century church and a white gazebo. It's very quaint. And for years, every fall, tens of thousands of people flocked to Keene for their pumpkin festival. |
| 0:38.0 | And when I say festival, I'm talking Bonnaru level. This pumpkin fest was huge, and it was Keene's crowning jewel for 24 years |
| 0:46.2 | until one day when things took a turn. |
| 0:51.8 | There were rumors that people had been shot. |
| 0:54.7 | And like I just felt it in my hip. |
| 0:56.6 | I was like, ah, like. |
| 0:58.1 | There was rumors that someone had died. |
| 1:00.7 | Like shit, I just got shot. I'm just got shot. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Sam Evans Brown and today outside |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Sam Evans Brown and today outside in is going to find out just what happened there. |
| 1:14.7 | How a pumpkin brought a New Hampshire town together and then tore it apart. Here to tell the story is producer Megan Tan. |
| 1:33.0 | Hello, hello, hello. |
| 1:34.5 | So where do we begin? |
| 1:35.8 | In the early 90s. |
| 1:37.8 | This is not just a campaign for the presidency. |
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