10/11/09: The 2nd Annual Giant Pumpkin Regatta transformed the Burlington Waterfront Sunday with crowds of cheering fans and a bevy of floating pumpkin vessels.  The money raised will go toward the Linking Learning to Life program called PILOT.

The pumpkins were provided by the Vermont Giant Vegetable Growers Association and Eva met them at their State Championship weigh off the day before the race.

Music:
The Jazz Guys, A Blessing in Disguise, “The Best Five Minutes of Your Life”

Locations: Sam Mazza’s Farm, Colchester, Burlington Waterfront, VT

This article appears in Oct 14-20, 2009.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...