Now that October is here, it’s time to procure your Halloween pumpkin. In this photo that ran in the Sunday Telegram on Oct. 29, 1939, Monson Douglas and Ann Donnolly, both 5, talk with vendor George A. Stuart at the farmers market in Portland’s Lincoln Park. Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

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