The end of the pumpkin saga
Below, a series of screen captures assembled by Karen Walters of Cornell News Service from the live pumpkin-cam show the moments just before and after the fall.
At 10 a.m. Friday, March 13, 1998, Cornell University Provost Don Randel was scheduled to ascend to the top of the library tower to take a sample of the famous pumpkin. At 9:18 a.m. workmen testing the crane accidentally bumped the pumpkin and knocked it off the spire.
The pumpkin fell about 20 feet to a scaffold erected for workers performing renovations to the tower. It was intact and unbroken, having been frozen solid by the previous night's low temperatures in the teens.
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