CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The Circleville Pumpkin Show has a new record for biggest pumpkin.
Bob and Jo Liggett brought a gourd tipping the scales at 1,964 pounds to the weigh-in Wednesday that marks the opening of the annual four-day festival.
That beat the old record — also held by the Liggetts — by more than 300 pounds. They have now won the crown for biggest pumpkin at the show 12 times.
The weigh-in ran nearly five hours with 38 pumpkins before a crowd of several thousand people downtown. The second-place pumpkin was 1,714 pounds.
The Pumpkin Show is one of Ohio’s oldest and largest festivals, drawing an estimated 400,000 people to the Pickaway County town of about 13,500 residents.