I guess I finally have to accept that summer is ending now that I've gotten the press release for MIT's 9th annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch. Oct. 2-3 the artists from MIT's Glass Lab will sell roughly 1500 of their amazing creations to benefit the lab, which is an art program connected with MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. (And if that previous item tells you anything, it's that we need to support the arts and humanities at MIT, eh?) Friday is actually a reception with no sales but plenty of time to ooh and aaah, 5-8 p.m. Sales run Saturday 10 a.m. at the Kresge Oval (48 Massachusetts Avenue, in front of MIT’s Kresge Auditorium). The MIT arts office informs that six glassblowers working in teams of three take anywhere from 7 to 60 minutes to pump out a single pumpkin; that the pumpkins sell for anywhere from $25 to $500, and that (only?) 12 were broken during last year's sale. Not bad. (Pic: Philip Bailey/MIT)
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