For a long time, Keene, New Hampshire held the world record for most jack-o’-lanterns carved and lit in one place. Life is Good teamed up with Camp Sunshine, a camp for children with life threatening illnesses and their families, to break the record.

Bathed in the orange glow of illuminated “Jack-o’-lanterns,” Boston smashed a world record in 2006 when thousands of volunteers lit the largest number of Halloween pumpkins ever assembled in one place.

“We have just busted past 29,000 lit pumpkins, this is so wow,” shouted John Jacobs, whose Boston-based T-shirt company Life is good sponsored the extravaganza that turned Boston’s historic Common into fields of blazing orange orbs.

Parents hoisted children high on their shoulders to have a sweeping view while some youngsters knelt on the ground inspecting the glowing gourds individually.

“Isn’t this amazingly beautiful?” Jennifer Barragan asked her friend as she caught sight a multitiered structure that held thousands of pumpkins and anchored the exhibition.

The finished the night with a world record when a total of 30,128 jack-o’-lanterns were simultaneously lit.

After all the “oohs” and “ahhs,” many visitors had one more stop to make. “Pumpkin pie, pumpkin pie,” shouted toddlers Max and Barbara, dragging their mother to the tent that sold the seasonal pastries made with the pumpkins’ flesh.

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