It’s the day after Halloween. What are you going to do with all those pumpkins on your porch? Blow them up using Civil War technology, of course, with the staff of Brunswick Town and Fort Anderson historic site in Winnabow.
The Great Pumpkin Blowout scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, is the “unique experience” of detonating a pumpkin with the same technology used to launch Civil War-era torpedoes, according to organizers.
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Visitors will be able to observe different types of torpedoes from the time period and learn the technology behind black powder and the torpedo itself.
Load up those jack-o’-lanterns and be prepared to pay $10 to detonate each pumpkin. Proceeds supports educational programming at the site. Pumpkins with minimal carving offer the best explosions, but all types will work, staff said.
Admission to the site and watching the fun is free.
The Brunswick Town and Fort Anderson State Historic Site was a major pre-Revolutionary port on the Cape Fear River, but was abandoned and burned during the American Revolution. During the Civil War, Fort Anderson was built on top of the old village site, and served as part of the Cape Fear River the Confederacy fell, according to North Carolina Historic Sites, a division of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
