Photo Of The Week: A Very Special Halloween Pumpkin

October 30, 2024
Larry Hurley
Behnke's Best
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Pumpkin face by Eva Cassidy for Larry Hurley in 1989

As many of you know, the late singer Eva Cassidy worked at Behnke Nurseries for a number of years before she left to devote herself to her full-time music career.

We worked together at Behnke’s Largo location.

In addition to her wonderful voice, she was also a talented artist. In 1989 she gave me this jack o’ lantern–a pumpkin upon which she drew this face. This is the first time this photo has ever been published.

We miss you, Eva.

Larry Hurley

Larry Hurley worked at Behnke Nurseries from 1984 until the business was composted in 2019, primarily with the perennial department in growing, buying and sales.

Before landing at Behnke’s, he worked as a technician in a tissue culture lab, a houseplant “expert” at a florist shop, and inventory controller at a wholesale nursery in Dallas. With this and that, ten years passed.

When his wife Carolyn accepted a position at Georgetown University, Larry was hired at Behnke’s for the perennial growing department and garden center at Behnke’s Largo location.

In 2021, Larry and Carolyn moved back to Wisconsin to be closer to family and further from traffic. After 37 years in a shaded yard in Maryland, he is happy to have a sunny lot where he can grow all sorts of new perennials, if only he can keep the rabbits at bay. He also enjoys cooking, traveling, and the snowblower.