by Bill Russo
The wonderful custom of pumpkin carving owes its popularity to mean spirited, 'Nasty Jack' who loved nothing better than tripping old ladies, pranking the police, and disrupting the lives of almost everyone within five miles of his rundown shack in Dublin in the 1800's. Jack was the meanest man in Ireland but so skilled in his pursuit of mayhem, he even outwitted the Devil Himself!