When I was a kid, I wondered why the legend of The Great Pumpkin never caught on. ... Is the Candy Witch Coming to Your House? Published Oct 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM EDT Updated May 18, ...

Commack native Marc Evan, 40, of Maniac Pumpkin Carvers, creates a pumpkin witch using an etching technique. ... "My house is pretty empty because I’m too busy carving elsewhere." ...

In the fall it gets transformed into a pumpkin paradise that draws tens of thousands of visitors to its mid-October festival, capping a week that starts with a contest featuring 2,000-pound pumpkins.