Pumpkins of History – Pumpkins of Today

  • Post published:11/09/2019
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Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater Had a wife but couldn’t keep her Put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Children have learned this little rhyme for generations. Hard to know what we all made of it when we were small, but the rhythms are fun and so is the image of a little housewife in her pumpkin shell. Boston can take some credit for this rhyme. It first appeared in 1825 in a…