00:04Yeah.
00:31Hi, I'm Charlie Piggott, and I'm grateful to present this year's 2026 Pumpkin, Park Slope
00:38native all my life. My family's been here for 150 years, and this is a labor of love and gratitude
00:44to give back to the community that has given so much to me, my family. I am the fourth generation,
00:51my children the fifth, and I'm grateful to have five grandchildren, six generations in Park Slope.
00:56I'm a local real estate broker within the community. This tradition started about 10 years ago when we
01:03brought home a small pumpkin, similar to the one at the top of the stairs here, and it got a
01:08lot of joy
01:08and a lot of attention. So each year we started to bring bigger pumpkins, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500,
01:16and we're at the 500 pound level, the pumpkin cracked. That was the year we actually wound up
01:24with a thousand pound pumpkin because we couldn't source anything at 500 pounds. But the greatest
01:29joy for me is how much joy it brings to the community.
