It all began during the stock market crash of 2008; Cal Russell had an idea. An idea that would take something that had been a detriment to much of society and do something to make it just a little more bearable. He and his staff built a cardboard replica of the New York Stock Exchange. They filled it with green balloons representing money, lifted the giant pumpkin upwards of 60 feet and dropped in onto the New York Stock Exchange smashing it to smithereens, releasing a plethora of green balloons into the sky.
People cheered as they watched the “money” fly into the air and out of sight. It brought the missing smiles and laughter back to the people of Boundary County even if just for a moment.
In 2009 when the H1N1, more commonly known as the Swine Flu, ravaged the world they created a cardboard piggy representing the ‘swine’ and filled it with balloons, representing the ‘H1N1’ virus. Again, the pumpkin was lifted high into the air and dropped on the ‘swine’ and the people of Boundary County watched at the ‘virus’ escaped into oblivion.
This began a tradition of The Pumpkin Drop brought to you by Boundary Tractor.
Join them this year as they surprise Boundary County with another brilliant replica. Can you guess what it could be?