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Shelbyville was the market town for Shelby County, and it drew on the surrounding farms that were its economic engine, smelling of corn dust from the grain elevators on late summer days and pumpkinlike sweetness from the canning factories on fall evenings.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Shelbyville was the market town for Shelby County, and it drew on the surrounding farms that were its economic engine, smelling of corn dust from the grain elevators on late summer days and pumpkinlike sweetness from the canning factories on fall evenings.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Shelbyville was the market town for Shelby County, and it drew on the surrounding farms that were its economic engine, smelling of corn dust from the grain elevators on late summer days and pumpkinlike sweetness from the canning factories on fall evenings.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Shelbyville was the market town for Shelby County, and it drew on the surrounding farms that were its economic engine, smelling of corn dust from the grain elevators on late summer days and pumpkinlike sweetness from the canning factories on fall evenings.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Shelbyville was the market town for Shelby County, and it drew on the surrounding farms that were its economic engine, smelling of corn dust from the grain elevators on late summer days and pumpkinlike sweetness from the canning factories on fall evenings.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Shelbyville was the market town for Shelby County, and it drew on the surrounding farms that were its economic engine, smelling of corn dust from the grain elevators on late summer days and pumpkinlike sweetness from the canning factories on fall evenings.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Alleta had a pumpkinlike face with crescent eyes and a thin, curved smile.

Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

Alleta had a pumpkinlike face with crescent eyes and a thin, curved smile.

Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

That day, the thirteenth, when Sobieski had expected to be in the midst of battle, he rode in triumph through the battered streets of Vienna, a flopping, misshapen man dressed in royal purple and wearing a large Russian-style fur shako that seemed on the point of falling off his pumpkinlike head.

Poland Michener, James 1983

For dessert there's calabaza y comote, a sugary blend of a pumpkinlike squash and a sweet-potato-like tuber, candied and served with a slice of orange, another example of a basic but delicious preparation of common ingredients.

Chicago Reader 2010