Pumpkin Days started in 1906 in Orient, Iowa as a fall festival and has continued through the years. This is a short history of the event that later became the Pumpkin Festival
The time was 1915 and a young man, Rube Eatinger was making a call at the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Orient. The man in the center was J.F. Kingery, cashier and Ross Coffman, right, was bookkeeper.
