Autumn rituals include leaf peeping, apple picking, and pie making. And for 20 years, many members of the MIT community have made time for the MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, held annually on the Kresge Lawn. When Covid-19 forced classes and other activities to stop in March, the staff and students in the W. David Kingery Ceramics and Glass Lab had already made 450 pumpkins out of the planned 1,500 that would be the main fundraiser for lab operations. Over the past few months, Peter Houk, the Glass Lab’s artistic…
