Travelers descend on the Dam Site Inn in Pellston, Michigan, to not just dine on chicken dinners, but view incredible pumpkin designs in the fall.
On a visit to a pumpkin patch in 1989, East brought home 20 pumpkins instead of one, but didn’t want to leave them uncarved.“It took off from there,” she said.
It took off to the point where travelers descend on the Dam Site Inn in Pellston, Michigan, to not just dine on chicken dinners, but view incredible pumpkin designs in the fall.popular restaurant that some dub as the “Frankenmuth of the North”Each year, Pam East carves what she says is between 80 and 200 pumpkins for the restaurant, and the designs vary from celebrity faces to Halloween-themed carvings.
Examples of celebrity faces she has carved include: Eddie Murphy, Sylvester Stallone, Julia Roberts, Al Pacino, Alice Cooper, Scarlet Johannson and Daniel Craig. “I love creating the celebrity faces most of all because I never know if they will turn out until I’m done and light the pumpkin,” she said.East, who has carved professionally for Jagermeister and Country Living Magazines, said each pumpkin can take an hour or two to complete, depending on whether it’s shaved or carved right through.“I either find a pumpkin pattern I like, or a photograph of a person and print out two copies,” she said.
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