A great pumpkin

October 18, 2019 2:30 pm
PHOTO COURTESY AMY FOWLER Vietnam veteran and retired millwright Larry Smith, here with his wife Michelle, shows off a 580-pound pumpkin he grew in his garden up the Wishkah. Smith’s stepdaughter, Amy Fowler, said Smith was challenged when his great-grandson was born 8 years ago to grow a pumpkin each year large enough for the child to fit in. The pumpkin is on display in front of Fowler’s home on Coolidge Road in South Aberdeen.
PHOTO COURTESY AMY FOWLER Vietnam veteran and retired millwright Larry Smith, here with his wife Michelle, shows off a 580-pound pumpkin he grew in his garden up the Wishkah. Smith’s stepdaughter, Amy Fowler, said Smith was challenged when his great-grandson was born 8 years ago to grow a pumpkin each year large enough for the child to fit in. The pumpkin is on display in front of Fowler’s home on Coolidge Road in South Aberdeen.

PHOTO COURTESY AMY FOWLER

Vietnam veteran and retired millwright Larry Smith, here with his wife Michelle, shows off a 580-pound pumpkin he grew in his garden up the Wishkah. Smith’s stepdaughter, Amy Fowler, said Smith was challenged when his great-grandson was born 8 years ago to grow a pumpkin each year large enough for the child to fit in. The pumpkin is on display in front of Fowler’s home on Coolidge Road in South Aberdeen.