Alana Mattingly has a passion for carving, so much so that every Halloween, her front yard is filled with hundreds of intricately sliced faux pumpkins amassed over several decades.

Mattingly, 78, used to carve real pumpkins, but after spending hours creating handcrafted gourds that depict cats, Dolly Parton, Jesus Christ and even Abraham Lincoln — which would subsequently collapse and rot — she decided she wanted to keep her works of art.

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