The Neighborhood's Best Halloween House

Mr. and Mrs. Lindqvist, the elderly Swedish couple on the corner, have the best Halloween house in town. Every October, they transform their yard into an elaborate, completely non-scary "pumpkin village."

There are hundreds of carved pumpkins, each one with a different face. There's a tiny pumpkin town with pumpkin houses, a pumpkin church and a pumpkin train that runs on a little track. There's a pumpkin Viking ship, in honor of their heritage.

Kids from all over come to see it. Mr. Lindqvist, in a pumpkin costume, hands out full-size chocolate bars. Mrs. Lindqvist serves warm apple cider from a big pot on the porch.

They start carving in August, they told me. They're in their eighties and carve more than three hundred pumpkins every year. "It keeps us young," Mrs. Lindqvist said. I believe her.