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Article: STU KNAPP: STILL PAINTING PUMPKINS AFTER 43 YEARS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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BOZEMAN, Mont., Oct. 30 -- Montana State University issued the following press release:
Stu Knapp has done everything you might imagine him doing as a retired administrator and professor at Montana State University, but this time of year he paints pumpkins.
Sometimes working all night, Knapp paints pumpkins that look like they were designed by coastal Indians in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes in the past, he shredded paper to look like hair, then attached the hair to the top of the painted pumpkin and stuck a hat on top. He used to make eyebrows that looked like bats.
It's a hobby he started 43 years ago when he worried about his two sons carving pumpkins with knives, Knapp said. It's a ...