The pumpkin-launching air cannons and catapults have pulled out of Delaware for good. The annual competition Punkin Chunkin is leaving the First State for Illinois after more than 30 years, organizers ...

Delaware's Punkin Chunkin days may be over, but Big Chill Surf Cantina's homage to the event, Sling N' Squash, is in its seventh year in Rehoboth Beach. Sling N' Squash began "as a respectful way to ...

Punkin Chunkin — a Delaware tradition going back to 1986 — is looking to return to its roots, the Delaware State News reports. After a small but successful World Championship of Punkin Chunkin event ...

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP - The World Championship Punkin Chunkin contest may be months away, but South Jersey's own Team Gaulbuster has already begun its journey. The team has been working together almost ...

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) - The sounds of fall in Colorado are a little different than you might imagine. Fall in Aurora, CO brings the sound of frost-covered gourds being launched into the sky by ...

BRIDGEVILLE, Del. — A 39-year-old woman suffered critical injuries Sunday when an apparatus used to launch pumpkins into the air exploded at a large outdoor competition, Delaware State Police said. A ...

After decades in Delaware, and following several years of legal limbo, Punkin Chunkin is leaving the mid-Atlantic. Organizers of the World Punkin Chunkin Championship have announced that they will ...

This time last year the World Championship Punkin Chunkin’s Facebook page proclaimed: “Returning 2022.” Since then, the nonprofit organization’s Facebook page has been crickets. COVID-19, years of ...

DAGSBORO, Del.– Despite the cancellation of the official Punkin' Chunkin' event at the Dover International Speedway for 2014, families and other avid fans of the competition decided to continue the ...

Organizers of Delaware’s annual Punkin Chunkin contest say the competition will go on to help raise spirits after Superstorm Sandy. The competition involves inventors and tinkerers gathering to see ...

Todd Horton of Philo gets his trebuchet ready for competition Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, on the grounds of Rantoul National Aviation Center for Saturday and Sunday's World Championship Punkin Chunkin.

A team of RIT students and alumni claimed second place at the World Championship Punkin Chunkin contest in November. Matthew DiFrancesco ’10 (mechanical engineering), Jason Nichols ’10 (mechanical ...